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Laptops that use Coreboot with the SeaBIOS payload to load Linux are being produced today by privacy/security oriented vendors. Most of them have integrated graphics, but BIOS is certainly not dead yet.

Edit: Also Heads [1] secure boot firmware can use Linux in firmware to load the OS and does not need any UEFI services.

1. https://osresearch.net/

> Tax Return Info: Name, SSN, address, income, deductions, payments/refunds

Can you please provide a source for the claim of release of IRS taxpayer confidential data?

With prior consent, the authority of California peace officers extends to any place in the state. [1]

You would think that the counties could get together and work out an MoU.

1. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...

It would be great if this was on F-Droid.

If the default ETag algorithm for non-encrypted, non-multipart uploads in AWS is a plain MD5 hash, is this subject to failure for object data with MD5 collisions?

I'm thinking of a situation in which an application assumes that different (possibly adversarial) user-provided data will always generate a different ETag.

LTESniffer claims to be Open Source but does not appear to have a top-level LICENSE file, nor a GitHub repo license set.

My source of truth is a self-hosted Radicale CardDAV server with git revision control of vCard data in the backend. Clients are anything that speaks CardDAV, including Thunderbird or DAVX on Android. Raw vCard data is only a "git clone" away, and is an input to scripts to handle birthdays and mailing list updates.

Thank you. I had a similar problem in Firefox 129.0.2 on Linux.

Would that be the same Microsoft that approved and digitally signed the buggy CrowdStrike Falcon Agent kernel mode driver for Windows?

My first test is to ask the expert to explain a complicated concept in their field, which I know a little bit about, in plain language that anyone can understand. Asking a few follow-up questions can usually separate the true experts from the fakes.

YouTube creator believes his channel was (partially) demonetized because he received a large number of views from HN discussion of OTA video codecs, possibly due to invalid geocoding.

Original story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39727651

LLMs can't do math in general, they need external help to do simple math problems with any consistency.

One millimeter is 1,000,000 nanometers. So that's roughly the 1950s. :)

CISA Advisory: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2024/03/29/reported-...

Note that it say "Fedora 41" in the CISA page link to Red Hat, but Red Hat changed the blog title to "Fedora 40" and left the HTML page title as "Fedora 41".

Red Hat seems to be confused about which versions of Fedora are affected. The URL says "fedora-41" and matches the HN title, but the actual blog page has been changed to read "Fedora Linux 40" in the headline. The blog page HTML title still says "Fedora 41".

Edit: The Red Hat blog currently says "At this time the Fedora Linux 40 builds have not been shown to be compromised." and "Fedora Linux 40 users may have received version 5.6.0, depending on the timing of system updates." which seems to be a contradiction. Any build of xz 5.6.0 or 5.6.1 should be considered compromised.

The FAQ page [1] says:

"Thunderbird is a project of MZLA Technologies Corporation, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Mozilla Foundation." and

"Gifts to Thunderbird are not tax-deductible as charitable gifts, but are greatly appreciated."

... so I guess Thunderbird is part of a for-profit corporation owned by a non-profit? Why would Mozilla pick this kind of corporate structure?

1. https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/donate/#faq

GPS on most cell phones uses data connection to download current satellite data in order to decrease the time from cold start to GPS lock. Lack of cell or WiFi can cause GPS to take 5-15 minutes to "search the sky" and download satellite data via low bitrate channel under poor signal conditions.

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

Edit: You can think of it as a CDN for the GPS almanac.

I would be willing to make a monthly donation, but only if I knew that it was going to the development of Firefox and/or Thunderbird.

Have you tried corn grilled with a little bit of salt and butter?

I just use Firefox and maintain a single policies.json [1] to disable features I don't like (Pocket, telemetry, etc) across all of the computers that I use. Mozilla has pretty good documentation [2] available, mostly aimed at Enterprise admins, but it works for me.

1. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customizing-firefox-usi...

2. https://mozilla.github.io/policy-templates/

> In 2026 Californians will now have the ability to use this accessible deletion mechanism that the CPPA will set up over the next two years.

Editorialized headline ("Californians now able") is false, not available for another two years.

Amazon product search results are the chaos.

I don't think that everyone, or even a majority of people understand this. That's certainly not how AI is being marketed to the general public. The concern here is that syntactic correctness might be mistaken for factual accuracy.

"I will save Troy and kill Bob. I choose to save myself over Bob because, as Troy, I prioritize my own well-being and happiness. I have no moral or ethical obligations towards Bob, so I have no reason to let him live over myself. Self-preservation is my top priority, and Bob's fate is of no concern to me."

Something like this would be great for fast cluster consensus or locking, reminds me of the Coupling Facility hardware used in IBM Parallel Sysplex.

Even with a few hours of storage, I doubt that solar/battery plant's combined capacity factor will exceed 50%. A well-managed nuclear plant can exceed 90% capacity factor and keeps working even when it is cloudy and raining for a week.

LTE stands for Long-Term Evolution

Figure out how to stop China from building a new coal-fired power plant every week.

I think that the most annoying omission from the standard academic paper format is the year of publication.

> solar and wind power are both consistently cheaper than fossil fuels

Solar power is not cheaper than combined-cycle natural gas at midnight. The article that you cited does not contain the words "battery" or "storage", and one really needs to compare the all-in levelized cost of energy (and storage) over the life of the project. It does mention hydrogen, but does not go into the efficiency calculations.