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kencausey··on US airspace closures, lack of answers deepen East Coast drone mystery
https://www.404media.co/the-no-win-mystery-drone-clusterfuck...
kencausey··on Wherein we drown in a sea of "one-time expenses"
Sorry, I just realized my test was bad, you are correct. Unfortunately it is too late for me to delete this submission.
kencausey··on Wherein we drown in a sea of "one-time expenses"
Did you actually click it and get the classic result or are you just speculating? I tried to test it as soon as I posted it and did not see the objectionable but went directly to the post.
kencausey··on US Senate to Revive Software Patents with PERA Bill Vote on Thursday
edit: my mistake, this is not the senate

More recent: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/9474

kencausey··on US Senate to Revive Software Patents with PERA Bill Vote on Thursday
edit: my mistake, this is not the senate

Perhaps this one: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/9474

kencausey··on Turns out the Twit Export was garbage
I initially posted a link directly to JWZ's blog with the expectation that an objectionable replacement would appear when clicking the link. I clicked the link myself and had it open in a private window and I was taken directly to the expected blog entry with no stop for troubling visuals.

However, not entirely unexpectedly, it appears that JWZ is in a list and discussion was disabled, so not expecting it to be a working submission I just deleted it and submitted this Mastodon entry instead.

kencausey··on Hackers now use ZIP file concatenation to evade detection
Related:

https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/zipdump+Evasive+ZIP+Concat...

https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/zipdump+PKZIP+Records/3142...

kencausey··on Windows 2022 Servers Unexpectedly Upgrading to 2025
An offer to update to Server 2025 is showing up in Windows Update for a Server 2019 system to which I have access but it is not auto-installing.
kencausey··on Cheap Thrills, an album cover by Robert Crumb (2020)
I got as far as finding this: https://tenwatts.blogspot.com/2011/01/crumb-and-blues.html
kencausey··on Emit
I'm not claiming that this is an answer, but it is something:

https://docs.factorcode.org/content/vocab-typed.html

kencausey··on Idiomatic Awk (2010)
Thanks. I'm not sure it is going to be necessary. I checked the ISC diary site again yesterday and I think they have corrected their 'link rel="canonical"' header. I will try to submit one again when I see an interesting one.
kencausey··on Idiomatic Awk (2010)
I think that it is this in the head:

  <link rel="canonical" href="index.html">
I had to stop submitting ISC SANS posts because they similarly have a canonical link in their head which HN, for reasons I'm not sure about, use to 'correct' the URL, errantly.
kencausey··on PostScript 1.0 – A Code Study
Thanks, but I saw that much, I should have been clearer. I'm hoping for something on the scale of a survey if not a paper.

Honestly, my first curiosity regards whether Chuck Moore and Forth get any mention or whether this is a true parallel development, possibly necessitated by the hardware at hand. My perception, based on zero evidence, was that Forth had some influence on the design of Postscript.

kencausey··on PostScript 1.0 – A Code Study
I'm curious about the history of the base language reportedly designed at Evans & Sutherland 1971ish. I couldn't turn up much in the few minutes of searching I did. If anyone can provide links to papers or anything on this subject I would appreciate it.
kencausey··on A hidden microphone on a SF street pole is spotting 'bops' in the wild
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41694044

Previous discussion with 389 comments as of moment of this posting.

kencausey··on Explore Music Non-Linearly
They have a demo on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1727420/Midinous/
kencausey··on NetWare NFS Gateway 1.1
I guess Michal hid this entry after I posted it a few days ago. See Rygian's (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41578808) link if you are curious.

I would delete this if I still could.

kencausey··on The Beginnings of FM Radio Broadcasting (2018)
https://archive.org/details/manofhighfidelit00less/

Borrowable, for now.

kencausey··on Common English Lexicon: Common Words for Word Games
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_Scrabble_Players_Dict...

I didn't bother to look further but my memory suggests that over the decades multiple limiting Scrabble dictionaries have been published.

kencausey··on Harder Drive: hard drives we didn't want, or need (2022) [video]
http://tom7.org/papers/murphy2022harder.pdf
kencausey··on Another Look at the Voynich Manuscript
Here is an online folio browser:

https://www.voynich.ninja/browser/default.cfm

kencausey··on Mozilla defies Kremlin, restores banned Firefox add-ons in Russia
If they have any contributors within the territory I think there is reason to be concerned for their long term safety. The original capitulation may have to been to have time to check.
kencausey··on How Not to Release Historic Source Code
See this related story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40163405

The author of that story is participating in the comments on this blog entry and has offered to exchange email with Michal Necasek.

kencausey··on Bing Copilot seemingly leaks state between user sessions
I just tested this in Edge with Copilot chat and got a similar answer to that in the posted article. However, it was clearly labeled as the result of a web search which I translate as it searched Bing for

  "What was the previous question that I asked you?"
and it processed the result it found into

  The previous question you asked was about the height of Mount Everest in terms of bananas. I provided a whimsical comparison, estimating that Mount Everest’s height is roughly equivalent to 46,449 bananas stacked on top of one another.
kencausey··on Building and using a 29-year-old compiler on a modern system (2017)
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39901290

kencausey··on Cups vs. grams: why can't American and British cooks agree on food measurements?
I have to push back a bit on using volume to measure compressible solids like flour. If the actual mass matters, as it can in baking, measure the mass not the volume.
kencausey··on How the XZ Backdoor Works
No. I'm sure it is being looked into by multiple parties.
kencausey··on [dead]
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39903345

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39909845

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39912226

kencausey··on HP Disables Printer Functionality Until You Install the HP Smart App
Unfortunately they do not market to the US anymore.

"OKI Data Americas has discontinued the sales of all OKI-branded printer hardware in the United States, Canada, and Latin America." (https://www.oki.com/us/printing/index.html)

kencausey··on Micron Samples 256 GB DDR5-8800 MCR DIMMs: Modules for Servers
It is little better than speculation but the photo shown suggests 9 bits.
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