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luz666··on Meta puts its AI assistant on a keychain
Is it local only? Well, when it is connected to the internet, it actually forwards your secret questions directly to their database. For me this sounds more like they sneaked you - assuming you use it - to be in their world, not the other way around.
luz666··on Data collected by cars and sold to third parties
Interesting info/link, thanks for sharing.

Generally I read your comment that a dropped phone only hits the floor once, therefore there is only one vector and the car always overturns/flips/turns and therefore there are multiple vectors measurable in the car?

I am not convinced yet, it might be possible without GPS, at least to some degree of error (false positives and false negatives). The info in the link requires GPS to be switched on. hmm

luz666··on Transfer files over an Ethernet patch cable
yes

(, except if you lack an additional power slot or have no switch available)

luz666··on Transfer files over an Ethernet patch cable
it was the red one, right?
luz666··on Rewriting in Rust
I think he forgot to praise cargo.

(Imho, having cargo available is often already worth a RIIR.)

luz666··on Stop sending me your errors
I skip these websites too. And also skipping websites that ask for cookie permissions in a malicious way. It is just not the kind of people/content I want to be around and therefore not worth my time. I am wondering myself, if I am the only one doing this.
luz666··on Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?
You should not enforce the people to identify themself, you should force the websites to label the content (e.g. 12+, 16+ or 18+).
luz666··on Pigeons navigate using magnetic sensors in their livers
The pictures in the article show the difference of sunny vs cloudy days of pidgeons without macrophages.

I would have prefered to see the comparison of pidgeons with vs without macrophages on cloudy days.

That might have required the removal of pidgeon's body parts, the liver?

luz666··on RaTeX: KaTeX-compatible LaTeX rendering engine in pure Rust
Two hours ago a coworker told me that he let an llm port his latex template to typst. According to him, it was perfect.
luz666··on Arch Linux Now Has a Bit-for-Bit Reproducible Docker Image
I am even so stress-free, that I once rebuilt my kernel (including simple patches) under the hood of my daily production/home pc.

edit: Using nixos ofc, otherwise I would never do this.

luz666··on SomeWM: AwesomeWM Replacement for Wayland
desparately and with little hope to find anything, i seached for exactly this. thanks for sharing!
luz666··on Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decryption failure
In Switzerland, it is only done in few cantons and only up to 30% of the population.[1] I have no idea how it is intended, but I personally interpret it like this: - It is mostly an experiment so far. - If it fails (thinking about exploitation), Switzerland does not lose a lot and just goes back to 100% paper-voting. - It is a free service to other countries to show what e-voting can be in best-case. - It does not show what could happen in worst-case. - The riskiest part of this experiment is the interpretation.

[1] https://www.news.admin.ch/en/newnsb/ZLw6w1GV_UdJKDocuT0sX

luz666··on You Just Reveived
xkcd 10000 :)
luz666··on Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective
what if they removed only 33% of the stops? so per 3 stops, one is removed and the remaining were rearranged. it might even happen that the new bus stop is closer to your house. i agree, for the average person, the distance to the stop increases though.
luz666··on Keep Android Open
I am seriously unaware of the risks and also flashing brand new phones :)
luz666··on LibrePCB 2.0 with new slint.rs based UI
LibrePCB is absolutely awesome, I made quite a few PCBs during the last years with it. Imo this tool flies under the radar of many folks.
luz666··on From Nevada to Kansas by Glider
Interesting. Do they also use condom catheter?
luz666··on Electronic nose for indoor mold detection and identification
The machine smells correctly, when the same numbers (or similar when using some norm, e.g. the L2) appear for the same smell (reproducibility) and therefore a mapping (numbers -> smell) can be created. When this starts to exist (practically usable), there can be a database to store the mappings, allowing classification. E.g., the machine says "this tastes like banana". The machines/algorithms/products could itself be rated for precision.

I dont say such machines don't exist, but for my taste (pun intended) the solutions all lack something, either long term stability or having a second source supplier or being able to classify a reasonable amount of tastes or being able to distinguish between two tastes (or lacking all those things together).

luz666··on Show HN: An easy way of broadcasting radio around you (looking for feedback)
Beside the already mentioned and imo highly valid concerns, no concern regarding the curl some url and pipe to sudo?
luz666··on 2026 Apple introducing more ads to increase opportunity in search results
Maybe just reduce production amount an increase prices? Profit probably continues, but on a lower level, I guess.
luz666··on Using Python for Scripting
Or install direnv and put your dependencies into a shell.nix, setup the bash hook according the manual, create the .envrc with the content "use nix". Then type "direnv allow".

Then you can do e.g. use other persons python scripts without modifying their shebang.

luz666··on Damn Small Linux
I thought the same. Probably his boss first had to realize that OPs teammates needed more help.
luz666··on After Windows Update, Password icon invisible, click where it used to be
Since I switched to nixos some years ago, yes. My fear level dropped from 80% to 1%.
luz666··on Show HN: Jabcode Studio, high-density QR-like 2D barcodes for sharing files
No idea what I did wrong, but I get:

{"error":"Error decoding file: "}

luz666··on Microsoft-backed Veir is bringing superconductors to data centers
The technology is widespread, you can buy spools of wires and wind your own coils. A spool might still be in the range of 3k$+, probably due to the manufacturing costs of all those single wire strands.

However, as we already know, the superconductivity currently starts only at low temps and I think the wires are limited by a maximum current (max field density?)

If you handle the spool, NEVER lose the beginning of the wire, always fixate it, otherwise there might be a knots after some unspooling, then you might need to buy a new one.