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nszceta··on Nanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids' IDs before booting
There is no limit to the power grab. The only acceptable thing to do is to dig the trenches before it gets worse.
nszceta··on Google closes deal to acquire Wiz
https://killedbygoogle.com/
nszceta··on The dead Internet is not a theory anymore
This is the founding thesis of the dead internet theory: https://forum.agoraroad.com/index.php?threads/dead-internet-...
nszceta··on Hisense TVs add unskippable startup ads before live TV
For 5G enabled devices the medicine is to cut the antenna off
nszceta··on Intel's make-or-break 18A process node debuts for data center with 288-core Xeon
Managing AWS is a ton of work anyway
nszceta··on Show HN: Vibe Code your 3D Models
I have been trying to force LLMs to work with geometries for over a month and it's so hard. Even the best LLMs have an extremely poor sense of geometric relationships in my testing. I would also stay away from mesh based CAD like OpenSCAD and go straight for build123d which operates on real solid models (BREP): https://build123d.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
nszceta··on OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation
*tranche
nszceta··on Intel will start making GPUs
Intel people would point at SYCL if you told them this
nszceta··on Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking
It took me too long to understand the difference between the two so I'll leave it here for others. Octelium operates on OSI Layer 7 and Tailscale operates on OSI Layer 3 and 4.
nszceta··on Europe’s next-generation weather satellite sends back first images
Google partnered with European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) to build weather models. Which begs the question: why didn't it partner with NOAA on its home turf?

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/google-reveals-new...

nszceta··on 3D-Printed Mathematical Lampshades
I am learning build123 and skipping OpenSCAD altogether
nszceta··on 3D-Printed Mathematical Lampshades
Author should consider going straight to G-CODE (skip the STL)
nszceta··on Show HN: Streaming gigabyte medical images from S3 without downloading them
The original JPEG supports a lossless mode.

JPEG-LL refers to the lossless mode of the original JPEG standard (ISO/IEC 10918-1 or ITU-T T.81), also known as JPEG Lossless, and not to be confused with JPEG-LS (ISO/IEC 14495-1, Transfer Syntax 1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.80), which offers better ratios and speed via LOCO-I algorithm. JPEG-LL is older and less efficient yet more widely implemented in legacy systems.

The lossless mode in JPEG-XL is superior to all of those.

nszceta··on We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon
This is also my experience with attempting to use Claude and GLM-4.7 with OpenSCAD. Horrible spatial reasoning abilities.
nszceta··on Systemd v259
I wrote a blog post about using nspawn from an Arch Linux host. The Arch Wiki shows more information about how to get a Debian base if you want that instead. Link to the wiki is at the bottom of the blog post along with more references.

https://adamgradzki.com/lightweight-development-sandboxes-wi...

nszceta··on Please stop asking me to provide feedback #8036
There is already ~/.claude/settings.json

What is going on over there at Anthropic?

nszceta··on Indian startup 3D prints rocket engine in 72 hours
Your dream will evaporate when the newcomers self organize and disenfranchise you. This foolishness and lack of critical thinking will be ultimately resolved by nature itself.
nszceta··on Gene-Engineered Mouth Bacteria
Don't use bleach when you can easily make hypochlorous acid. Hypochlorous acid is bleach but acidified and much safer to the human body than bleach. Bleach is thousands of times more toxic to humans at the same HOCl concentration. You suggest using an OCl- concentration of 2500 ppm which would be extremely high for an equivalent therapeutic use of hypochlorous acid. You can easily use a 10 times lower concentration of hypochlorous acid for the same purpose, and it would still be total overkill. You can easily make hypochlorous acid with electrolysis safely or by mixing highly dilute bleach with highly dilute acid (vinegar) with a target pH range of 4-6. If your solution pH falls below about 4 there may be chlorine gas evolution which is generally undesirable. Above pH 4 it is not significant. Given the desired HOCl dilution hardly any chlorine gas will be emitted even if working in a confined space and using an excessively low pH. I recommend the electrolysis route for use in and around the body because the route is generally free from potentially harmful contaminants which may be in your bleach products. The bleach and acid method is useful to make a general purpose deodorant and disinfectant or if you trust your bleach to be free from harmful contaminants. https://www.dstec.com.my/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/pH-for-H...

Hypochlorous acid is hundreds of times more effective than bleach as a biocide because it is uncharged and can far more readily diffuse past the lipid bilayer of microbes to wreak havoc. Somehow, humans are generally much more immune to these effects. Whereas 0.1 ppm HOCl can kill most bacteria it takes approximately 10,000 ppm to damage most human cells. It is not recommended to use much over a handful of ppm in the nose and eyes.

nszceta··on Gene-Engineered Mouth Bacteria
Yeah, hydrogen peroxide is more toxic than hypochlorous acid.
nszceta··on Gene-Engineered Mouth Bacteria
If you want to more or less permanently stop gum bleeding pre-brush with a dilute (50 to 200 ppm) solution of hypochlorous acid generated from vinegar acidified salt water (0.8-2%) with salt concentration (saline is 0.8-0.9%) then hit it with a $5 Aliexpress USB electrolyzer for about 30 seconds. The biofilms come right off, your toothbrush ceases to accumulate biological matter, and hypochlorous acid does not begin to show toxicity in keratinocytes until 10,000 ppm. It is extremely unpleasant in the mouth above 200 ppm so it is relatively easy to guesstimate.
nszceta··on Deteriorating mitochondria linked to major depression in older adults
Look no further than a basic hormone - leptin - to see how you can't give people more of it to lose weight while in fact leptin is the main mediator of obesity. Modern medicine hasn't produced a magic leptin pill to stop obesity because the biology is very complicated. You can't just inject leptin and lose weight (unless you don't produce leptin if you were severely damaged in an accident).
nszceta··on U.S. FAA closes some airspace in Montana for Defense Department activities
> can be tracked back to source

Not sure I believe that it can be done beyond a reasonable doubt. I still don't see what evidence there is that these things are Chinese. It's probably speculation and nothing more. It might still be true, but the attribution is likely highly speculative.

nszceta··on U.S. FAA closes some airspace in Montana for Defense Department activities
It does make sense to completely cripple critical infrastructure initially with plausible deniability.

Combine this with the Ohio derailment and the uncaught substation snipers which knew an awful lot about what equipment to take out.

Derailment is a powerful sabotage tool. Americans were caught attempting it in Russia years ago. https://tass.com/politics/1313063

They are trying to weaken infrastructure by making taxpayers bleed time, money, and effort.

nszceta··on U.S. FAA closes some airspace in Montana for Defense Department activities
How would they know who launched it quickly if it was detected so late?
nszceta··on U.S. FAA closes some airspace in Montana for Defense Department activities
What if this balloon is carrying a small yield nuclear payload or dirty bomb?
nszceta··on U.S. FAA closes some airspace in Montana for Defense Department activities
Don't forget the Ohio derailment. Few days ago a train carrying hazardous materials derailed in East Palestine, Ohio. Crews have since been burning off the toxic chemicals. Claims that air/water quality are safe are turning out to be false. Evacuation orders are even being lifted as people return to the area.

This may also be an asymmetric attack on critical infrastructure by foreign agents in country.

nszceta··on Trove of spices from around the world on sunken fifteenth-century Norse ship
Read post #2

https://bluelight.org/xf/threads/scopolamine.765088/

nszceta··on The Samsung Galaxy S23’s bloated Android build somehow uses 60GB of storage
You can uninstall for all users using the adb helper tool I don't know the command line to do it manually.

Yes it's not removed but at least the guarantee it won't run is quite strong.

nszceta··on After Callous Layoffs, Workers Are Done with the Full-Time Work
But they aren't done with the $4000 a month mortgage with dropping equity value that's holding them hostage.
nszceta··on Of regrets
Much more explicit legal language outlining terms and conditions reviewed by better lawyers
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