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c-c-c-c-con The real cost of owning a home

This is not universally true, my lease is indefinite and we have stayed here through ownership changes. My neighbor has rented the same apartment for close to 50 years. Vote for a better government who cares about you and provides you with proper rights.

c-c-c-c-con Getting arrested in Japan

There’s loads of drugs in tokyo and ample opportunities to get robbed or beaten up every day of the week and the police doesn’t give one crap as long as they only target foreigners.

Fucked up country I wish for the people to be free one day from their current fascist leaders.

c-c-c-c-con Talking to strangers at the gym

Nice! I have been struggling to make friends at my current gym after moving to a new country, people seem way less friendly at just this gym which feels weird. Debating switching gyms because of it.

For socializing i usually go out dancing, long raves are usually good and gay guys are often very happy to talk, probably helps that I take my shirt off. Just need to keep out from the dark room from now on.

c-c-c-c-con GameStop Preparing Offer for eBay

Similar to when koenigsegg attempted to purchase saab, it can be a great way to get publicity.

c-c-c-c-con The FCC is about to ban 21% of its test labs today. I mapped them all

Yes thats evidently clear but you usually don’t need external accreditation if you do in house testing and keep a compliance file for the product, this applies for both the US and EU.

In-house emc testing is quite fun and you dont need much more than a spectrum analyzer, antenna and E/H-field probes.

c-c-c-c-con The FCC is about to ban 21% of its test labs today. I mapped them all

This article completely omits a section on when external accreditation. For many products you can get CE marking or similar with in-house testing.

c-c-c-c-con PS5 Linux loader goes public, turning console into full Linux gaming PC

> Users who want to downgrade or sideload a specific firmware version can do so using Sony's official reinstall process with the correct PUP file.

this is not true, you can only upgrade using a PUP not downgrade.

Super excited for this, havent been involved since the bd-jb exploit and finally i can use my ps5 the way i want to.

c-c-c-c-con Case study: recovery of a corrupted 12 TB multi-device pool

Added to my list of reasons to never use btrfs in production.

c-c-c-c-con Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold

that part really didn’t make sense to me. This is true for all desktop platforms.

c-c-c-c-con Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs

You should see his ferrari.

c-c-c-c-con The Document Foundation ejects its core developers

seems like a lot of drama in the open source document space, this seems unrelated to the OnlyOffice fork [1]. Interesting future ahead!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47601168

c-c-c-c-con IPv6 address, as a sentence you can remember

seems like they’re quite against it going by what i found on reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/searchandrescue/comments/1d63v94/wh...

c-c-c-c-con Show HN: Dull – Instagram Without Reels, YouTube Without Shorts (iOS)

i will never pay to not access apps on my phone. On iOS i use ublock origin and userscripts to block all shorts and ads.

c-c-c-c-con Teenage Engineering's PO-32 acoustic modem and synth implementation

> A user you’ve blocked has previously contributed to this repository.

I see that claude’s been in here as well.

c-c-c-c-con Sylve – Proxmox Alternative by FreeBSD

svelte is very new, it’s supported by the foundation not by. also the foundation is not freebsd they are two separate entities. freebsd is the developers, the foundation is a bunch of canadians supporting said developers.

c-c-c-c-con VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS

But Vitruvian is running its own graphics stack so no X11 or wayland applications will run afaict.

c-c-c-c-con Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story

you have angered the russian bots, be careful.

c-c-c-c-con Why I love FreeBSD

it’s exceedingly rare that programs dont work with linuxulator, i use vivado daily and you can play games through linux steam and proton that way.

c-c-c-c-con Why I love FreeBSD

that makes no sense, youtube hasn’t used flash in ages. If you use any modern browser on freebsd you’d be able to play the video.

c-c-c-c-con Building a TB-303 from Scratch

I'd love to see a deep dive into the 303 CPU and their replicas like https://www.sonic-potions.com/re303 and https://socialentropy.com/pages/product_qs303

sonic potions has an analysis of the cpu timings here https://sonic-potions.com/Documentation/Analysis_of_the_D650...

Theres also some nice articles about the diode ladder filter in the 303, similar to the one in the vcs3 https://www.timstinchcombe.co.uk/index.php?pge=diode2

c-c-c-c-con 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips

Why would a 6T cell (SRAM) be more fragile than a 1T1C (DRAM) cell?

c-c-c-c-con New information extracted from Snowden PDFs through metadata version analysis

> We contacted Ryan Gallagher, the journalist who led both investigations, to ask about the editorial decision to remove these sections. After more than a week, we have not received a response.

Hopefully we'll hear something now that the Christmas holidays are over.

c-c-c-c-con HPV vaccination reduces oncogenic HPV16/18 prevalence from 16% to <1% in Denmark

A Danish postal company, they wont stop receiving mail lol.

c-c-c-c-con Nvidia's $20B antitrust loophole

this entire article is seemingly written by an LLM

c-c-c-c-con Oliver Sacks put himself into his case studies – what was the cost?

It is a great article.

c-c-c-c-con Teenage Engineering's free computer case

Yes because this is just a case, if you build a product in it and sell it then you need to meet EMC regulations (EC marking in europe).

c-c-c-c-con The Chrome VRP Panel has decided to award $250k for this report

Thats what trusted middle men are for, instead of gaining rep among infosec posers on twitter you build rep under your anonymous alias. This is nothing new.

Or just sell it to the israelis.

c-c-c-c-con TPU Deep Dive

fpga's are not expensive when ordered in bulk, the volume prices you see on mouser are way higher than the going rates.

c-c-c-c-con First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV

No he wasn't.

c-c-c-c-con Algol-for-Linux: Reimagining Memory Safety for Linux

ALGOL68 has much of the memorysafety that rust "invents" yet remains largely unmentioned in the discussion. There is a point to be had in terms of language design but rust has the community backing and momentum required, time will tell if ALGOL-FOR-LINUX will gather enough interest to pull this off.