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landgenooton Kv4p HT – A homebrew 1W radio (VHF or UHF) that plugs into an Android phone

> 1 watt transmit can go miles yet sips your phone’s battery

How far can such a device reach in a typical urban environment with the longer antenna?

landgenooton Ploopy Bean: a trackpoint for every computer

Isn't the point that it's integrated in the keyboard, so that you don't have to move your hands away to use it?

landgenooton Drunk post: Things I've learned as a senior engineer (2021)

Until you have a real life scenario and are dependent on 3 external services that spit out enormous JSON's.

It's nice for writing libraries though

landgenooton Your Smart TV is taking screenshots of your screen every 15 seconds (2024)

What is the framework of the TV's these days? I still have a 2011 high end Samsung that has no Wifi, but this thing is not going to last forever.

landgenooton IPv6 is the only way forward

> The INET6 data type is intended for storage of IPv6 addresses, as well as IPv4 addresses assuming conventional mapping of IPv4 addresses into IPv6 addresses.

landgenooton First lab-grown T-Rex leather handbag unveiled in Amsterdam could fetch €575,000

> "He's got all the money in the world but there's one thing he can't buy." "What's that?" ... "A dinosaur."

This is getting close

landgenooton CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements

The lightning network supports transactions starting from 1 Satoshi.

One Satoshi is currently worth $0.000713.

landgenooton We installed a single turnstile to feel secure

I think it's the coffee machine at the office

landgenooton GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple

You need an active internet connection to pay via QR.

NFC (EMV) works offline.

landgenooton IKEA for Software

Reminds me of some frameworks that did the top to bottom approach.

Yii (PHP) had a code generator that created all the CRUD logic for you. After generation, you could remove the code that you didn't need.

landgenooton Uber is turning data about trips and takeout into insights for marketers

So, don't do targeted advertising then?

landgenooton Uber is turning data about trips and takeout into insights for marketers

I don't think the problem is these kind of suggestions.

Are people suddenly moving more between corp A and corp B? Must be something going on, let's buy the stock.

Suddenly multiple Ubers are dropping off people at a residential building during the night? They probably know each other. Let's flag that as a potential risk.

landgenooton Uber is turning data about trips and takeout into insights for marketers

This is very insightful

landgenooton Show HN: CoThou – Control what AI search engines say about your business

I'm worried some bad actors are reverse engineering this as well.

landgenooton Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up – Goal 1k

You are thinking to much in emoji's and emdashes.

landgenooton Find Bitcoin-Friendly Coffee Shops – We Need Submissions

Basically you split your bitcoin and send one part to the recipient and one part back to yourself.

landgenooton The cryptography behind electronic passports

Depends on the country. In Belgium: hospitals, pubic libraries, prescription medication,

landgenooton What if tariffs?

I like that it's priced at 139

landgenooton Modern Linux tools

This is how I feel as well. Spend some time "optimizing" my CLI with oh my zshell etc. when I was young.

Only to feel totally handicapped when logging in into a busybox environment.

I'm glad I learned how to use vi, grep, sed..

My only change to an environment is the keyboard layout. I learned Colemak when I was young. Still enjoying it every day.

landgenooton Why use mailing lists?

Think twice

landgenooton A vibrator helped me debug a motorcycle brake light system

> Interestingly, adaptive brake light technology already exists in high-end vehicles.

Isn't this mandatory in the EU?

Edit. No. Only for passenger cars

landgenooton TV Time Machine: A Raspberry Pi That Plays Random 90s TV

> Nowadays you yourself are in control

Think twice

landgenooton Ultrasonic Chef's Knife

Isn't this extremely dangerous? This will keep cutting without force through body parts untill it reaches the bone.

landgenooton Microsoft has urged its employees on H-1B and H-4 visas to return immediately

So, their next vacation will have a 100k fee?

landgenooton Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it

I think it also depends on the response time of the display and even the temperature.

landgenooton Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it

I'm wondering. Can we also come up with something the other way around? Text you cannot read, unless you take a screenshot?

landgenooton Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it

I think there are usecases for this.

Some countries switched to identity apps instead of plastic identity cards. You could make sensitive data non-screenshottable and non-photographable.

A modern variant to the passport anti identity fraud cover: https://merk.anwb.nl/transform/a9b4e52a-9ba1-414b-b199-29085...

The hotel you are checking in doesn't need to know your DOB, length, SSN, birth place, validity and document number. But they will demand a photo of the ID anyway.

landgenooton Turn legit URL's in something phishy

https://cheap-bitcoin.online/payload-dropper/trojan-controll...

No script addon catches it as an XSS attempt.

landgenooton "Null" breaks Swift bank transfer

It's good to see that Bobby Tables is doing well and started a business.

landgenooton Website is hosted on a disposable vape

Big promises, but no working website. I call it vaporware