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koo6on Ask HN: Found a leak of US citizens personal data. Should I report it?

These comments are doom and gloom from people who have read articles but haven't been there. I've crossed the local railway tracks, blindfolded and earmuffed, for over a dozen times, and not once has a train hit me. If you're worried, contact a random australian dude working for one of the biggest cybersecurity threats on the planet, who also seems to pass time by counting cars that pass over a nearby bridge, and have him be an intermediary for you, as others have suggested. It will be great!

koo6on Why I will never buy another Samsung device

samsung TVs have the worst behavior when connected to a computer. Every once in a while, you get a screen that appears as if there's no signal, but instead it's asking you to "configure". But there's nothing to "configure", except to select that the HDMI is connected to a "PC". If you don't do that, there's no way to have a stable, full picture. If you do it, it deliberately limits you to two picture settings presets. The settings details menu often doesn't come up - you have to perform about 12 navigational actions to be able to control brightness etc. And this kind of crap goes on and on and on and on and on

koo6on A database of broken things to identify common failure modes and how to fix them

| I just don't trust online reviews from random internet people.

What we need is to be able to give extra weigth to reviews we can (somewhat) trust. This means that we need to start keeping "files" on each other, and we need a tool for looking up authors of messages and traversing chains of trust ... Right?

koo6on Things I wish Git had: Commit groups

right, and then git log --first-parent

koo6on Yggdrasil – Early-stage implementation of an end-to-end encrypted IPv6 network

how do you know all that?

koo6on I know the secret to the quiet mind but wish I’d never learned it

I can confirm your non-existence.

koo6on Viewpoints Research Institute concluded its operations at the beginning of 2018

you pay or they pay?

koo6on 50 Years of Pascal and Delphi Is in Power

yes/and the superb GUI designer .. Now look at QtCreator or how we build web apps .. it's all a joke, in comparison. That said ... the other product with similar GUI design system was/is ... VB :)

koo6on How To Get Your First 1,000 Users (2011)

it's way way way behind

koo6on Antioxidants prevent health-promoting effects of physical exercise (2009) [pdf]

likely in a subset of cases of reactive hypoglicemia

koo6on Antioxidants prevent health-promoting effects of physical exercise (2009) [pdf]

this study mentions "healthy young men" and the title states "health-promoting effects". So, do healthy young men need to have their health promoted by increasing their insulin sensitivity?

koo6on Antioxidants prevent health-promoting effects of physical exercise (2009) [pdf]

Strange notion, that more insulin sensitivity is always better