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echelon_musk··on 'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth
I wonder where else the oldest land animal could be, if not on Earth?
echelon_musk··on macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess
macOS 15 is the last usable release.

I switched from Linux to macOS but the lack of QA is going to force me back to Linux once security updates stop for Sequoia.

echelon_musk··on 500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive
> foul swoop

It's "fell swoop".

echelon_musk··on I am done with this shit
Nice. A Claude bot summarises the comments of people complaining about Claude so you don't have to read them!
echelon_musk··on There's a high chance of devices being sold with GrapheneOS preinstalled in 2027
Sadly there are no more iPhone SE models so this strategy won't work forever. Eventually iOS 18 will stop getting security updates and you'll have to use the increasingly worse newer versions of iOS.
echelon_musk··on DJ Shadow looks back at "Entroducing" and other early work
For production, I believe only as far as Psyence Fiction. He was signed to James Lavelle's Mo Wax label.
echelon_musk··on Vibe Coding is the new Internet Dating?
> all human-written code in the future will be 100% human written

?

echelon_musk··on Part-human part-mouse brain developed in science breakthrough
Terrifying.
echelon_musk··on Part-human part-mouse brain developed in science breakthrough
The mice can walk, it's not like they're vegetables.
echelon_musk··on UAE-based Falcon AI NSFW classifier among top global open-source models (2025)
Afghanistan.
echelon_musk··on 9th Circuit sides with states in Kalshi gambling fight
Seems like something there could be a prediction market for on Kalshi.
echelon_musk··on Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new GLM-series model and will release its weights
Nit pick; cutting (adulterating) cocaine doesn't produce crack cocaine.
echelon_musk··on Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
With no third party apps you can set an iPhone to wipe itself after 10 failed passcode attempts.
echelon_musk··on Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
> ...making an encrypted image of the phone on said drive... refuse to unlock the drive

How is this any different than refusing to unlock the phone? It just seems you've added unnecessary extra steps.

echelon_musk··on The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick by R. Crumb (1986)
> A genuine mystic revelation would mean, in my opinion, something that cannot be explained by the laws of physics

Exactly this can happen, whilst also being labelled schizophrenia.

echelon_musk··on The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick by R. Crumb (1986)
The insight is not into either state but toward the relation of the states.
echelon_musk··on The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick by R. Crumb (1986)
> it's weird how many stories of mental hallucinations are tied to the music of the Beatles

I think Lennon once made the claim that he had taken acid 1000 times. So it lines up.

echelon_musk··on AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint
OP please submit the filter to an upstream uBlock filter list.
echelon_musk··on Every exterior shot in The Taking of Pelham 123
> The guy who's talking's got a heavy English accent. He could be a fruitcake

Always amuses me. Great film.

echelon_musk··on London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces
> anonymous travel... died when they made bank cards and contactless the primary way to get through the barriers.

You can buy an Oyster card with cash and top it up with cash from machines at almost every station.

It's still possible to travel somewhat anonymously this way.

You can still use paper tickets if you're worried about your Oyster card being de-anonymised. But as you say, that is not the primary way of travel anymore.

Edit: Points already stated by windowliker: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49256399

echelon_musk··on Nvidia's Risky Business
Is this just an ad for a new book about trains?

Disappointed by the lack of Tom Cruise.

echelon_musk··on Instrumenting my espresso machine with OpenTelemetry
Makes me think the world has gone mad, even as an on-off coffee drinker myself.

Far too much technology is encroaching into our lives. I know this is for the sake of an advert, but it feels absurd.

Your espresso is sour? Add some milk and get on with your life!

echelon_musk··on AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions
Sounds great!
echelon_musk··on Google has abandoned Google News?
No country for old men.
echelon_musk··on Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 crossings
> Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

John 2:15

echelon_musk··on Man convicted of child sex crime by added _ char "Fus Ro Dah" Skyrim username
It has to be satire.
echelon_musk··on So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe
I look forward to New HN.
echelon_musk··on Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude
I suspect chairs have been public domain since the advent of man.
echelon_musk··on British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply
The PM M1910 is used by Ukraine to shoot down drones.
echelon_musk··on I Built the Only 2026 WWII Jeep
My late great uncle was in the RAF during WW2 and was at the liberation of Belson.

I remember him saying that the RAF buried Spitfire engines, so it's definitely a real practice.

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