echelon_musk

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echelon_musk··on Microsoft Can Track Users via a Windows Device ID

Worse than just domains as TFA shows full URLs are recorded.

Reminds me of Google Safebrowsing.

echelon_musk··on Is sunscreen the new margarine? (2019)

> something in buddhism about not trying to put too much tension in a bow or it'll break

Perhaps you are referencing AN 6.55 Sona Sutta.

https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an06/an06.055.th...

echelon_musk··on Never Give Them Your Face

It took me 30s to Google this guy's name and find his latest book on Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anxious_Generation

echelon_musk··on Pondering routing more of my traffic via nodes outside the UK

> consider the internet dead and move on. It's nothing like it was 20 years ago anyway. There are other things to do. Many books to read and places to go. We had something really cool and we were lucky to experience it while it lasted, but it's gone now.

I'm pretty much at this stage too. The web/internet was a frontier like the Wild West. But those wild days are gone and are never coming back. Cyberspace has been settled.

echelon_musk··on Spotify Killed the Thrill of the Hunt

So don't use Spotify. Go to a record store. Hardly needs a blog post.

echelon_musk··on Notes from tired Egyptian whose job is explaining that humans built the pyramids

Extraterrestrial parallel construction.

echelon_musk··on Notes from tired Egyptian whose job is explaining that humans built the pyramids

The Testament of Solomon indulges this craziness.

> the text describes how Solomon was enabled to build his temple by commanding demons by means of a magical ring that was entrusted to him by the archangel Michael.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testament_of_Solomon

echelon_musk··on Apple Intelligence may become mandatory in iOS and macOS 27

Another reason not to upgrade from 18.

echelon_musk··on Improvement in advanced Alzheimer’s disease following high-dose psilocybin

> MAHA

Make America Hallucinogenic Again?

echelon_musk··on UK police officer under criminal investigation over alleged use of AI

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48520807

echelon_musk··on Making Claude a Chemist

Why wouldn't the US gov. outlaw the open source models?

echelon_musk··on Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Packages

I'd be surprised if you did it as a Debian user!

echelon_musk··on Using the Epson Perfection V39 II Scanner on Ubuntu

The product name is mildly amusing. After 39 iterations and 2 revisions, I wonder if every previous version bore the Perfect moniker.

echelon_musk··on Keygen.music

Simpler times.

echelon_musk··on Keygen.music

This is a nice collection from the ReclusiveLemming YouTube channel [0] . The video description contains download links to the original tracker modules and an MP3 mix.

I used to listen to these modules with Xmp Mod Player [1] from F-Droid on my commute to work with my Nexus 4.

Many of the modules contain "hidden" messages that the Android app made easy to read.

[0] https://youtube.com/watch?v=GH7eUlri4yM

[1] https://f-droid.org/packages/org.helllabs.android.xmp/

echelon_musk··on All 9,300 Japanese train station, animated by the year it opened (1872–2026)

Stations, surely?!

echelon_musk··on Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use

There's no dialect of English in which this is correct.

echelon_musk··on Stop the Apple Music app from launching

Same. noTunes works perfectly. There's no need to reinvent the wheel.

echelon_musk··on Police in England and Wales told to halt AI use in court statements

At nearly £500 a year is an FT subscription worth it? Am I going to get invaluable stock tips that will cover the sub?!

echelon_musk··on UK media fails to disclose defence sector links in nearly 60% of cases

> How the UK Security Services neutralised ‘The Guardian’ newspaper (2019) (dailymaverick.co.za)

> 3 points by indigodaddy on June 2, 2023 | past | 1 comment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36170406

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-09-11-how-the-u...

echelon_musk··on Morningstar values SpaceX at $780B, half its IPO target

> I’m 59 now (but still feel as smart as a 21 year old)

Any tips?

echelon_musk··on Three Ways to Get Paid

Fruit picker.

echelon_musk··on The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid

If they're shouting at neighbours through a wall I'd be willing to bet that the dialogue is happening because of loud copyrighted music being played at the same time. They probably just did some automated music detection and cut the whole audio track in those sections.

Edit: I lost the bet and there's no notable music involved: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Pu8-dxRkoTI

echelon_musk··on You weren't meant to have a boss (2008)

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the bosses ever done for us?

echelon_musk··on Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers

On the road again

echelon_musk··on Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers

You're not the first.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45247396

echelon_musk··on Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing