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nom··on Tetris issues legal warning after White House releases arcade of parody games
i miss satire
nom··on Statichost.eu – European static site hosting
wtf is a build minute and why is it metered
nom··on A PCB business card with a batteryless LED, powered by the phone that taps it
6eah you can make the chip tiny but not the coil, it needs to capture enough energy from the field.

There are 3x3mm NFC chips but their read range is 2mm..

nom··on Cheap GPS jammers are filling the world with navigation dead zones
jamming on 2.4ghz will in no way impact the core function of a pacemaker

yes, the new ones come with BT LE so you can monitor it via your smartphone (yeah really..) but I would not call that 'severely affected'

nom··on A Selection of Los Alamos Rolodex Business Cards
yeah they do it to make it look more appetizing in the photos

Quite the opposite of what is happening here.. they are going the cheap route and use AI instead of a human who knows how to make an appetizing menu.

nom··on A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video]
wtf are you talking about
nom··on Apple Is Suddenly an AI Infra Stock as OpenAI Buys 10k+ Macs
10000 realistic encironments
nom··on I built a hardware-bound local password vault hidden in a photo
i bet they stuff the data into a PNG chunk next to the image data, so they aren't even doing steganography
nom··on “I just chose words carefully”
click?
nom··on Are we SIXEL yet?
displaying images in PuTTY is of vital importance to the survival of humanity, obviously
nom··on Transfer files over an Ethernet patch cable
Yeah it died out because the hardware advanced and could just switch automatically.

With 1gig Ethernet it became a requirement, the definite end of existence for crossover cables.

nom··on I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked
it's not AI generated so it must be true
nom··on The world may have less time than it thinks on climate change
This worked so well because we had suitable replacement gases and the industry had little financial incentives to push against it.

It's a very different situation with fossil fuels.

nom··on Racter (1984)
fun fact, there was a shareware clone of Racter released in 1991, called Claude

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/areas...

nom··on ICE eyes spending up to $2M on Boston Dynamics robot dogs to up 'officer safety'
if they could pay extra for a version that bites, they would order them with extra sharp teeth
nom··on ICE officers with electric-shock gloves
It's worse. So many people have died that Taser invented a medical diagnosis to explain them away: Excited Delirium

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excited_delirium

As we all know, people get so excited when they interact with the police that sometimes it's just too much and they die. It just happens. Very normal.

nom··on Chinese robot runs 100M sprint quicker than Usain Bolt's world record
it is of humanoid shape
nom··on Olo (Color)
color is two-dimensional

it's easy to see: RGB somehow contains brightness information but that's not part of color, so one dimension less

nom··on Germany Just Banned Windows to Save €15M
AI channel
nom··on Geek Fighter – 2d fighter game
it's really not though
nom··on The TEMU-Fication of Software, Digital Goods and Services
I'm sure they can't automate shirts because the super cheap ones somehow always are Made in Bangladesh. If they could use less human labor they would make them somewhere else.

I believe socks can be fully automated and are mostly made in china.

nom··on How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024)
It is worse than that. It fills up your accounts cloud storage, where your Google docs, sheets, drive files etc are stored.

Once full you are caught in their trap: pay a monthly fee to the mafia or delete your data!

This flow is intentional and they have set up everything to bring you there. The Photo-Backup popup (and arguably the whole photo feature) helps to shovel users more quickly to the end of the monetization funnel.

nom··on Trump has amassed staggering wealth in 'most openly corrupt' presidency
living the American dream
nom··on Ask HN:Why do websites today refuse to work on EDGE/2G?
probably overwhelmed by other background services making network requests
nom··on Caring for Rubber in Vintage Devices, the Curators' Way
It's not reversible, unfortunately. The polyurethane breaks down through hydrolysis. Keeping it in a dry environment is the best you can do.

Apparently you can slow it down by driving the water out with heat, but that won't fix the already broken down PU.

nom··on TV Pickup
1. it is a cultural thing, many are doing it 2. they have very powerful kettles
nom··on Claude shared chats and Artifacts may have ended up on Google
The operator of the links has to do this. Not the person sharing the link. It's the job of the companies to make sure their pages don't get publicly indexed. It's basic web dev stuff that has worked like that for decades now.
nom··on Claude shared chats and Artifacts may have ended up on Google
you can also do it via http response header, feels cleaner to me
nom··on Claude shared chats and Artifacts may have ended up on Google
It's up to them to tell Google to not index those pages, either via <meta> or X-Robots-Tag http header. Once accidentally indexed they have to tell Google via search console to reindex them to actually get it out of the index.

Somehow this keeps happening, followed by a rediscovery of this ancient old knowledge.

nom··on Switzerland turned its train tracks into solar power plants
it is less stupid solar roadways, but it is still very stupid
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