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lysp··on 1 bug, $50k in bounties, a Zendesk backdoor
Exactly.

It's possible that some chains could have credentials or other sensitive information in ticket chains.

lysp··on Ryzen 9000X3D performance according to MSI
I believe also that the 9000x3D series (from my memory of rumours) also has the 3D cache on both CCXs, meaning no latency with cross-CCX communication.
lysp··on Gold Apollo says it did not make pagers used in Lebanon explosions
It's a fake shell company
lysp··on Indiana police are seizing FedEx packages containing cash
"The practice allows law enforcement to confiscate property from people suspected of criminal activity, even if they haven’t been charged with an offense."

Suspected of criminal activity due to "money existing".

It should be a very simple procedure.

I have no issue with the seizure itself. What should come next is the police ask the person or business to explain it. They show an invoice / receipt, and the money is logged and returned promptly.

lysp··on Unlocking the Pixel 9 bootloader breaks some Pixel AI apps
Is this the same model?

Someone looks like they extracted it and uploaded to HF.

https://huggingface.co/wave-on-discord/gemini-nano/tree/main

lysp··on Australian employees now have the right to ignore work emails, calls after hours
> This law reduces the extent to which flexible employees can add (and extract, via hight salary!) value, and the extent to which customers receive timely service.

If you're paying someone to be on-call, this is not an issue.

This is about unpaid out-of-hours work.

lysp··on Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine
Different user logins
lysp··on WD announces enterprise 128TB SSD
I believe there is also a gen-2 just around the corner.
lysp··on Trump shooter used Android phone from Samsung; cracked by Cellebrite in 40 min
I read this story many years ago where researchers were able to re-identify people using open travel datasets.

https://www.unimelb.edu.au/newsroom/news/2019/august/myki-pr...

lysp··on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
Or lose IT/security insurance for not installing or disabling it.
lysp··on Optimizing a bignum library for fun
Twice as bad being a timeout and 2nd call?
lysp··on Show HN: I made a drag and drop CSS grid generator
> Older programmer too, tables for layout is very retro though! Hopefully you're not still adding a spacer.gif here and there.

new-old school is to do spacer.base64.

lysp··on Ente Auth: open-source Authy alternative for 2FA
That is exactly why I do it.
lysp··on Show HN: SmokeScanner – Using cigarette price arbitrage to find free flights
Former government sabotaged it by making national build-out with a random mix of technologies focusing on copper instead of fibre.
lysp··on How babies and young children learn to understand language
I remember reading that for young children if you always speak the non-local language at home, they'll pick up the second language very quickly at daycare/school.
lysp··on The Twitch DJ Program
The other thing is DJs already have to pay their local record industry organisation licences to be able to perform music publicly.

This seems like double-dipping.

lysp··on Show HN: PaperTube – Turn YouTube Videos into Kindle-Ready Articles
Instead of downloading the video, another option is to get a low quality audio only track.

The open source ytdlp tool has some parameters to list all audio tracks and their quality, and you can make a choice from there.

lysp··on ICJ orders Israel to stop military operation in Rafah
You need to look offshore.
lysp··on Bento3D
https://youtu.be/qBfD-cQYJxc

> If you want the best surface finish possible, follow the proper print orientation guidelines outlined in the docs. It might not be mentioned here, but I had to repair the model. The outer box showed problems with the geometry in PrusaSlicer, so I used PrusaSlicer on Windows to fix that. I'm not sure if the repair feature is available in the Mac version, but you can also use NP Faab Services or Meshmixer for geometry repair. Just be aware that the box will print as a solid object unless it's repaired well.

Saw a video reviewing this yesterday - above is a quote from it.

lysp··on ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrants against Sinwar and Netanyahu for war crimes
They also get $3.8 billion in military aid from the US each year.
lysp··on Most to least common 4-digit PIN numbers from an analysis of 3.4M
That's why you need an odd number. ie 5. Or 7 for higher security.
lysp··on You receive a call on your phone. The caller says they're from your bank
I had a similar cold call years ago. It may have been my bank or possibly a utility, and the call was related to fraud of some sort.

When I asked to call them back to verify, they said (from memory):

- Call us back on the main line, you can find it on website.

- Press option 9

- Enter the five-digit code: 51762

And got transferred straight back to the caller.

I thought this was a fantastic idea.

lysp··on Tiny World Map
I'm not sure the 10,000 most populated cities is the best filter.

This will prioritise cities in large countries with smaller countries likely to have most if not all cities unavailable.

Should be a secondary filter that has the top X cities in each individual country, this should capture all major cities in smaller countries.

lysp··on A near 100pct renewable grid for Australia is feasible and affordable
Don't need to convert it back. Hydrogen is used for example in steel making. Green steel eliminates most of the emissions from the steel making process.

While a lot of these processes may not be efficient for electricity generation, using them to clean up very emission intensive industries is a process that needs to be undertaken to reduce emissions worldwide.

The steel industry consumes 5.9% of global energy and emits 6-9% of global CO2 emissions.

lysp··on Nuclear's role in a net-zero world
A study was undertaken for the Australian grid.

https://reneweconomy.com.au/a-near-100pct-renewable-grid-for...

It basically found that you can get close to 100% relatively easily with minimal storage (5 hours average demand).

The issue with getting over the mid-90s and to handle 100% is that you need to cater for the edge-cases (conditions that may occur 1-2 times per year max).

Either way from memory, LCOE (in $/MWH) for grid-scale solar is around 50-60, adding storage brings costs up to 80-120. Nuclear is in the range of 200-300+, so even with storage the economics of renewables are better with costs trending downward. Especially when you can build them and scale them up quickly (compared to 10-15 years of nuclear builds).

lysp··on YouTube now requires to label their realistic-looking videos made using AI
I think it also gives them a legal / business remedy if people fail to label their content.

If someone for example makes a political video and fails to label it, they can delete the video/terminate the account for a breach of service.

lysp··on Uber to pay $272M to Australian taxi operators
Further to that, taxi licences were limited in number and sought after.

So it became less of driving a taxi and more about financial investment. People bought dozens of licences and leased them out.

It no longer became about driving taxis and was more an investment.

As soon as Uber came, those who invested heavily were left holding a useless (or heavily reduced) investment.

lysp··on Debloat non-rooted Android devices
Magisk (the main rooting method) allows you to hide root from such apps.

Most apps I use (ie. banking) are bypassed simply by adding them to a hide-list.

The only apps that require a bit more work / expertise are apps that require integrity checks (ie. google wallet).

lysp··on TextSnatcher: Copy text from images, for the Linux Desktop
Inbuilt snip tool does that too.

WIN+SHIFT+S

If it doesn't have the "Text actions" icon (dashed square with paragraph lines in it), you can update it via windows store to get the latest version.

lysp··on New 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with M3 chip
Do you know if one kept it plugged in vs the other only recharging when needed?

I wonder if that explains the battery difference.

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