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eleitl··on Lost Soviet Moon Lander May Have Been Found
The 1990s happened. And a lot happened in the last quarter century, so you should update yor world model (preferably without resorting to MSM propaganda).

As to why why Russia, China, Iran and North Korea are sticking together, it is because they they don't want to hang separately.

As to why the West has lost its proxy war against a petty regional player, that is something for the history books.

eleitl··on Graphene OS: a security-enhanced Android build
I've been rocking it on mobile for a while, and went for a tablet (LineageOS there previously) this month.

The only real option for privacy and security which isn't swiss cheese.

eleitl··on I believe 6502 instruction set is a good first assembly language
I would like to mention stack machines, particularly of Chuck's MISC type. I still have my Novix board somewhere.
eleitl··on Goldene: A single atom layer of gold
Thin gold layers are green, this looks red if you look at the beaker.

There are spectral data available in the original publication https://www.nature.com/articles/s44160-024-00518-4

eleitl··on Ryzen 8000G review: An integrated GPU that can beat a graphics card, for a price
It would be interesting to revisit this review for the forthcoming Strix Halo. Particularly, for ML tasks on relative large memory sizes which are prohibitively expensive for GPUs.
eleitl··on Zero ASIC is out of stealth
As one of the early Epiphany owners, thanks for keeping things exciting.
eleitl··on It happened to me today: $80/hr writer replaced with ChatGPT
Hospitality and healthcare occupations are doing badly in much of the Western World. Construction is highly seasonal, and arguably much of it is currently driven by an investment bubble rather than organic demand which could pop, ending in a long winter. Skilled trades, maybe, but you need a healthy job market so that people can afford these.

While these occupations are safe from AI, for time being, they're not safe per se.

eleitl··on A token-smuggling jailbreak for ChatGPT-4
It isn't as if capricious bans from whole platforms with no means of recourse were a problem already...
eleitl··on Revisiting Vernor Vinge’s “predictions” for 2025
My gold standard for Vinge is https://frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/book98/com.ch1/vinge.singularity... with the key statement "I'll be surprised if this event occurs before 2005 or after 2030.".
eleitl··on Revisiting Vernor Vinge’s “predictions” for 2025
You might find this textbook interesting https://escholarship.org/uc/energy_ambitions
eleitl··on Google cracks down on VPN based adblockers
Not to forget LineageOS et al.
eleitl··on uBlock Origin works best on Firefox
This is why I'm still runnung 68.11.0 on Android. The last usable Firefox version.
eleitl··on Russian gas flows via Yamal pipeline to Germany halt, bids remain
It's not Russia, so far. However, if Russia stops all fossil flow it would implement the Morgenthau plan. Not just for Germany.

It is good news for USD vs EUR.

eleitl··on Russian firms rush to open Chinese bank accounts
Dedollarization in global settlements is empirically a historic trend though. At least until 2020.
eleitl··on Nearly 1k mysterious strands revealed in Milky Way’s center
These can't be cosmic strings, right?
eleitl··on Study: Omicron 40-45% less likely than Delta to lead to 1+ day hospitalisation
The much shorter doubling time makes sure it will overwhelm the much taxed intensivists. Death rates are much higher in triage.
eleitl··on Germany is closing half of its reactors before the end of the year
Don't forget heat pumps. EV sales have also increased recently.
eleitl··on Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure a ‘Pirate Bay of Science’ Never Goes Down (2019)
See http://freeread.org
eleitl··on Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure a ‘Pirate Bay of Science’ Never Goes Down (2019)
IPFS is quite resilient, and work well with VPN as well.
eleitl··on Be in a field where tech is the limit
AI and simulation are absolutely HPC-bottlenecked.
eleitl··on WhatsApp will progressively kill features until users accept new privacy policy
Is the mobile device issued by your employer? Seems like a pointy-hair layer problem otherwise.
eleitl··on Ask HN: I hate coding, but it's all that's on my resume. What do I do?
Have you considered transitioning to DevOps? Assuming you like operations, of course.
eleitl··on Discovering How the Brain Works Through Computation
> “So, we have finally articulated our theory about the nature of the “logic” sought by Axel, and its supporting evidence,” says Papadimitriou, who is also a member of the Data Science Institute. “Now comes the hard part, will neuroscientists take our theory seriously and try to find evidence that something like it takes place in the brain, or that it does not?”

So don't get too excited yet.

eleitl··on WireGuard Gives Linux a Faster, More Secure VPN
They've backported Wireguard to the next LTS (20.04 aka Focal Fossa) kernel, so wait a bit. Officially, it's due 23rd April.
eleitl··on WireGuard Gives Linux a Faster, More Secure VPN
k8s already uses Wireguard for the service mesh internally.

For a globally routed overlay mesh, have a look at https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/

The latest version actually uses the Wireguard TUN library https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/2020/02/21/release-v0-3-...

eleitl··on The Night Sky Will Never Be the Same
SpaceX is trialing a new absorbent coating on the new launches https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-satellites-astronomy-p...
eleitl··on Bocker – Docker implemented in around 100 lines of Bash (2015)
I've been using Linux vserver patch since times immemorial.
eleitl··on Go memory ballast: How I learnt to stop worrying and love the heap
Can you name a few examples?
eleitl··on Are We Wayland Yet?
Way ahead of you here.

And regardless of how https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm pans out, at least you're not sinking skills into a proprietary jail.

eleitl··on Are We Wayland Yet?
It's easier to switch to Radeon, and ROCm instead of CUDA.
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