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jkhanlaron Things that aren't doing the thing

The thing about that kind of writing is that the thing is a uniquely characterizable thing that is distinguishable from other things that are not the thing, thereby enabling the realization of the thing to be a thing, rather than not a thing.

jkhanlaron Things that aren't doing the thing

Today I learned that I know what the thing is, not because I know what the thing is, but because I was informed that I know what the thing is, and that to know what the thing is merely requires to be informed that I know by any person willing to allege such possession of knowledge, thereby eliminating any effort on my part to know the thing and appropriating such effort imposed on other persons whom are able and willing to indicate to me that I know the thing.

jkhanlaron My first contribution to Linux

Does `usbhid-dump` show anything when pressing the buttons?

jkhanlaron Show HN: ASCII Drawing Board

It appears a little buggy handling fixed width improperly, noticeably when using a mouse to write out a word, with uneven drawing, the fixed width spacing does not consistently properly match the cursor movement for some lines.

jkhanlaron Ask HN: Why is there no P2P streaming protocol like BitTorrent?

yep, I was surprised nobody mentioned Bram Cohen's name yet. It was the first thing I thought of. Also see https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/BitTorrent_Live

jkhanlaron Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AI

I was sharing this story and responding to various comments (here) in my conversations elsewhere on the Internet, and as part of my statements I questioned about quoting/paraphrasing the "word gets around" to determine if this is best way to reference the point, and thought I may as well share it here too. https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5_c0378709-b716-48af-8996-a0e4...

jkhanlaron No reasonable expectation of privacy in one's Google location data

> "so whatever feature google is withholding must not be that important to most people."

correction: to most institutional investors that take precedent over the end user people

jkhanlaron Why I'm Writing a Book on Cryptography (2020)

haha yep! https://i.imgur.com/mtGggJq.png

jkhanlaron WebVM is a server-less virtual Linux environment running client-side

> "Answer to the second question is that no one uses IRC."

I agree! I am a nobody and forever will be a proud nobody!

jkhanlaron WebVM is a server-less virtual Linux environment running client-side

bash: man: command not found

jkhanlaron Reddit's Robots.txt Changed

Also it seems that since 2018 it has not actually changed, lol http://web.archive.org/web/20180501000000*/https://old.reddi...

jkhanlaron Reddit's Robots.txt Changed

lol what? Just 20-30 minutes ago I saw this at #52, and tried to find it again now and see it #468 https://archive.ph/ReTR5 but I wonder if that is algorithmically natural or whatnot, lol

jkhanlaron HyperCard Simulator

[Using Dark Reader extension darkreader.org] In Death Mall 3000, the inventory text color is almost white on white, can't see unless adding css rule div[id="-6"] > div { color: black; }, but I just realized it was because of DarkReader and disabling that fixes everything

jkhanlaron SSH as a Sudo Replacement

Has anyone prepared a list of distributions indicating the default sudo setup comparing to each other? I'd be interested to see the defaults for each distro as a factor to consider.

jkhanlaron Linux China, which supported the Chinese open source community, has ended

Google Translate shows me "Now there are 1263 issues, and it has never stopped." if I copy the whole paragraph, but it changes if I remove far away sentences at the opposite end of the paragraph, but I think the grammar in your quote interpretation might be wrong.

Basically, it seems like they're burnt out, overwhelmed, and giving up.

jkhanlaron What You Need to Know About Real Time Settlement

https://dtcc.com/-/media/Files/Downloads/issues/Unscheduled_...

jkhanlaron Hypocritical Move: E*Trade Reportedly Considers Shutting Down Roaring Kitty

lol I see so many posts about this on this website:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40566821

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40567028

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40567951

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40569826

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40570525

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40573281

Anyway, in the morning, I and several others started seeing trend headline article for the day appear as:

> "couldn't be verified"

I referenced a bit about it here: https://old.reddit.com/r/PROGME/comments/1d72zp0/bloomberg_u...

but then later E*trade Morgan Stanley headlines took over. I commented a bunch of links to lots of posts that I saw first on r/Superstonk regarding things mentioned here: https://old.reddit.com/r/PROGME/comments/1d7fmia/etrade_cons...

jkhanlaron ETrade is considering banning meme-stock influencer Keith Gill off its platform

lol I see so many posts about this on this website:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40566821

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40567028

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40567951

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40569826

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40570525

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40573281

Anyway, in the morning, I and several others started seeing trend headline article for the day appear as:

> "couldn't be verified"

I referenced a bit about it here: https://old.reddit.com/r/PROGME/comments/1d72zp0/bloomberg_u...

jkhanlaron E*Trade considering kicking Keith Gill off its platform, WSJ reports

lol I see so many posts about this on this website:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40566821

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40567028

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40567951

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40569826

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40570525

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40573281

Anyway, in the morning, I and several others started seeing trend headline article for the day appear as:

> "couldn't be verified"

I referenced a bit about it here: https://old.reddit.com/r/PROGME/comments/1d72zp0/bloomberg_u...

jkhanlaron E*Trade Considers Kicking Meme-Stock Leader Keith Gill Off Platform

lol I see so many posts about this on this website:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40566821

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40567028

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40567951

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40569826

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40570525

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40573281

Anyway, in the morning, I and several others started seeing trend headline article for the day appear as:

> "couldn't be verified"

I referenced a bit about it here: https://old.reddit.com/r/PROGME/comments/1d72zp0/bloomberg_u...

jkhanlaron E*Trade Considers Kicking Meme-Stock Leader Keith Gill Off Platform

lol I see so many posts about this on this website:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40566821

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40567028

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40567951

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40569826

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40570525

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40573281

Anyway, in the morning, I and several others started seeing trend headline article for the day appear as:

> "couldn't be verified"

I referenced a bit about it here: https://old.reddit.com/r/PROGME/comments/1d72zp0/bloomberg_u...

jkhanlaron E*Trade considering kicking Keith Gill off its platform

lol I see so many posts about this on this website:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40566821

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40567028

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40567951

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40569826

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40570525

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40573281

Anyway, in the morning, I and several others started seeing trend headline article for the day appear as:

> "couldn't be verified"

I referenced a bit about it here: https://old.reddit.com/r/PROGME/comments/1d72zp0/bloomberg_u...

jkhanlaron GRC SpinRite

"I feel" are the first two words, therefore it is opinion article, the kind of opinion that does not stick to the facts, and rewards opinionated hivemind consent manufacturing. I stopped reading after those two words cuz it's dangerous signaling of ideologies in my nonfactual nonobjective opinion.

jkhanlaron Amazon grows to over 750k robots, replacing 100k humans

I think it was from a video I watched a day or two ago, describing how with those uber and lyft and other order delivery services that consumers apparently are placing those orders wtih the services, picking up the items themselves and walking out, and then when the actual delivery person arrives, order is gone, reported as missing, the consumer also reports similarly, even though they picked up the orders themselves, that this is apparently happening more widespread commonly that still is vulnerable with business infrastructures to not prevent the exploit from taking place, I am curious how this may affect industry standards with regards to this concept because I never witnessed it but I wouldn't be surprised if it is not even that widely realized about the issue yet thereby enabling more theft and loss and damages and whatnot.

jkhanlaron Amazon grows to over 750k robots, replacing 100k humans

I noticed NVIDIA skyrocket from billions to trillions market cap, so wouldn't NVIDIA be able to help deploy some a.i. simulatedly autonomous homo borg genesis to engage in scripted automated consumer lives to replace traditional homosapiens/humans consumers and takeover what otherwise was economy and market for human people but now they are replaced by redefining human and people to be displaced by the automated scripted a.i. controlled ones? This is already happening, right? Or did I just give them idea to make this a reality? lol, wait, why am I getting raided by the FBI right now? What's going on? HALP!

jkhanlaron Amazon grows to over 750k robots, replacing 100k humans

https://youtu.be/FID0BLkZXuY?t=2058s

> 34:24 "Markets are efficient because of active managers setting the prices of securities, firms like Citadel, firms like Fidel.....lity (Fidelity) [...] trying to drive the value of companies towards where we think they should be valued." - Kenneth Cordelle Griffin, Citadel Securities, November 2023

I thought Amazon was a public company, not private, and since supply and demand is dead and real price discovery is gone, that unless it becomes a private company it likely will not survive, unless there are enough retail investors to DRS directly register shares in their name so that DTCC (Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation) and Cede & Co do not hold all the assets for retail in street name to then bankrupt and collect all the assets leaving retail investors holding worthless securities, but I don't see that Amazon is private? Maybe I missed something that happened and it's a private company now?

jkhanlaron Mysterious Drones Swarmed Langley AFB for Weeks

or using hedgefunds infinte ftd failure to deliver assets as collateral to deploy such an operation that is not as traceable/trackable. where's Jonathan Frakes? https://youtu.be/GM-e46xdcUo

jkhanlaron Debloat non-rooted Android devices

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

> "Base system is open source, but many devices use proprietary drivers for hardware support, and most Android operating systems include Proprietary apps (such as Google Play and other Google apps)."

Okay, so, look at history of AMD GPus and NVIDIA GPUs for proprietary linux drivers and open source/free software alternative drivers that even without the AMD/NVIDIA companies to help at all (regardless of if they did, especially NVIDIA blatantly refusing to help and intentionally making it difficult and whatnot), still there are open source drivers for practically every single AMD and NVIDIA graphics processing unit hardwares to make them work. So, why not the same possibility outcome for mobile computers running Android operating system or other Linux AArch64 or ARM64 architecture o/ses. How is it that barely any signs of strong brave developer programmer humans remain able to dedicate their attention to these efforts that decade ago such skilled programmer developer humans existed but no longer

> "Google Pixel 5a... The last Google product before they went full Apple." - resource_waste https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39733518

lol

jkhanlaron Debloat non-rooted Android devices

For example

https://androidauthority.com/grapheneos-3287030/

> "Even if you stomach the Pixel-only requirement"

I have not and will not stomach that at all. Nope!

https://grapheneos.org/faq#supported-devices

Nope! I wasn't paying attention, but if I remember, Alphabet/Google was funded to deploy/release Android operating system, and they also were financed to deploy some hardware phones before disappearing to let other companies continue the things and then reappear somehow taking advantage of all the othre companies to outperform all of their manufacturings and whatnot, and then operating systems exist only for the Google phones and none of the others, and this is normal? What? I say F to that coward hijacking others efforts stuff!

I see https://calyxos.org/#Devices Devices section is showing a little bit more than I remember not too long ago http://web.archive.org/web/20230605161332/https://calyxos.or... but still not comparable to what I remember with the likes of OpenWRT, HyperWRT, DD-WRT, Tomato, etcetera. Therefore I do not and will not trust anything GrapheneOS or CalyxOS. Whatever the efforts were that led to wifi routers having lots of open source firmware developments to be supporting lots of different devices, I'd like to see similarly for mobile phones, and whatever concentration there is to finance only developments for Google made phones only, this is red flag hostage coward impression to me, and I will not submit or acquiesce or capitulate to invest in any of that at all, even if nothing else exists.

edited for grammar

jkhanlaron Debloat non-rooted Android devices

Kind of related, a few weeks ago I've been thinking to myself what happened to the open source free software operating system developments for mobile devices? Specifically, how are operating system environments such as GrapheneOS and CalyxOS, etctera, only able to be used on a single company's (Alphabet Inc) manufactured phone devices and not any other devices and where are the operating systems that work on as many to practically all of the devices that exist and the general idea of linux-style developments that represent collectively compiling all the hardware variations to have drivers and support for practically everything for everyone to get mostly the same experience regardless of which hardware they use

Is the mobile computer hardware industry that hostagedly cowardly locked down that this is no longer possible as it used to be, where people don't even own their own computer devices and instead have to use devices that are owned by other entities? Or what other explanation is there for no such multi-device operating systems? Or did I just miss something that I am blind to?