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Super Intelligence Force? Sounds like something you'd need to get Japan-import DVDs to see, with volunteer-created subtitles on an otaku web site. Will there be a con for cosplayers?

It's not just the radios, it's the antennas as well, a ~1MHz antenna is very different to a ~100MHz antenna.

Gosh if only there was some sort of widely distributed network with transmitters all over the place that could get information to portable devices that people carried with them at all times and which can be woken up remotely even if they're otherwise asleep/turned off, we wouldn't need to push this obsolete century-old technology with a vague justification of "emergencies".

I wouldn't be so sure: https://xkcd.com/970/

More seriously though, there's no direct API, but playing a recording of a massive $enemy attack, AI-faked broadcasts, cutting off comms as cities in the broadcasts get "nuked", and deepfaked AI calls authorising launches, and you don't need a REST API.

Of course it would.

It does work if you take the "distributed" part seriously. If you've got a giant field of panels then it's just another target for the orcs to take out, but if every single house is feeding in a few kw, which some countries are already doing as a result of which power prices there go negative during the day, the orcs can't take out every single house and shed in the country. "Solar on every structure" means literally that, not just in one or two locations.

And it takes quite a bit to knock out a solar panel, they're designed to resist hail and storm damage (and careless shipping/installers) and will continue to function with reduced efficiency in the presence of quite a bit of damage, you'd need to systematically demolish every single panel in an entire city to take it offline.

There's also a pile of odd things about the article:

> OpenBSD 7.6 shipped in October 2024; 7.7 is expected in April 2025.

> As of 2024, it passes the majority of GNU coreutils test suites

This is for an article dated September 2026. It's not obviously AI-written but the dates are completely out of sync, it's like a lot of it was written in 2024 and then other bits were added a week ago. A quick Google of the author's name also doesn't turn up anything that could be her, so possibly it is just AI slop.

Flat minimal-contrast UI is one of those things that's nearly universally loathed by everyone except UI designers but that has bafflingly persisted in the marketplace for over a decade now. I'm sure there's a nice psychology-study article waiting to be written on the reason for this.

Compare with the equivalent in architecture, https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/do-people-prefer-traditio..., in particular the two photos halfway down where non-architects overwhelmingly preferred the reasonably-pleasant design in the first photo while architects preferred Cell Block D in the second.

And to hear it in action, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjdyQpEUYzI

The response to virtually every Firefox release it the last ten years or so: "That's an interesting feature! How do I disable it?".

Actually it's not just Firefox, that's a ton of other stuff like that as well. In the Firefox case though, about:config and set browser.nova.enabled to false.

So "Swedes", in other words.

Also, QR codes are a bar code.

What I found amusing is that the article claiming bar codes are dead is being displayed on devices with dozens if not hundreds of components with bar codes (matrix codes) on them.

Obligatory link to https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations.

What the story completely omits to mention is that the entire field was seen as "Jewish science" and therefore verboten for any kind of real funding or support. It never had a chance from the get-go.

Just goes to show what happens when a world-leading science power lets political superstition overrule the science.

> A thermic vehicle sounds delightfully whimsical to my ear, like some sort of victorian steam car.

For me it's something involving aluminum and iron oxide powder. Probably where the term hot-rod came from.

This is the Taliban we're talking about, "vice" is a woman with part of her face uncovered or the concept of education for girls, not Anal Angels 2.

In the case of Trump's toadies I think the term lickspittle is more appropriate.

Was going to say the same thing. OTOH that would have diminished this week's Two Minutes Hate against China.

That's pretty neat! A bit like the language that Richard Coyle speaks in an episode of Coupling where it seems to be Portuguese, and then Romanian... and eventually after trying to comprehend it in both you realize he's ad-libbed an entire coherent language. So not just random noises but something that sounds like a complete, coherent language which drives you nuts trying to understand it.

That's what a lot of the responses are missing, which is why the response to them in turn is both no and yes. There's no published threat model that I know of for the properties that the hashes are supposed to be providing for git, which means anyone can make up any required property they like and then confidently state that SHA-1 provides or does not provide it, see this discussion for examples. The result is, to use another Linus quote as the OP has already quoted him in the writeup, "people wanking around with their opinions".

We use SHA-1 in our storage mechanism, which predates git. There is a (quite long) written threat model. Someone being able to generate collisions with an enormous amount of effort under just the right conditions is not a threat under that model.

Same here, no interaction with border control people apart from them directing you to the passport reader if you look confused, although I did once have a nice chat with an older border control lady who was wondering whether it was worth getting back into IT work because they were desperate for people who still knew COBOL. Time taken to exit the aircraft and clear immigration and get to the luggage carousel is about 5 minutes, most of which is spent walking.

+1 for the US border comment, and I've been into East Germany, Russia, and similar countries. And that's not an exaggeration, the US border experience is by far the worst of any country I've ever been to.

Didn't one of the US fighters used in the Pacific have its cockpit controls redesigned in the middle of the war? Something is telling me it was the P-40, but I'm pretty hazy on it.

If it was done with computers there'd be a skinnable interface, and buttons would change from round to square corners and back again every six months, the messages would be light-purple-on-slightly-darker-purple, and the control panel would be at the top, then the bottom, then the left, then the right, and eventually dockable, as time went by.

Also one day you'd walk in and none of the displays or controls would be the same any more and you'd have experienced your first UI refresh of many more to come.

Ah, that explains it. I was wondering what the Luftwaffe had to do with running trains.

(Rotte was a formation of fighters, making up a Schwarm, and then a Staffel, the standard unit of fighters during WWII).

No, he meant to link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_dirhombios... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_dirhombicosicahed... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_dirhombicosidodidoc... argh, fsck it, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_tetrahedron.

Or just laziness. Trump doesn't want to regulate AI, as this whitewash document so ably demonstrates, so he passed the job off to some flunky with an implied "a job not worth doing isn't worth doing well".

"Come to Copenhagen and help carry a drunk Swede to the ferry". This was before the Øresund bridge.

For anyone reading this there's roughly one theory for what caused the bronze age collapse per historian, so it's an explanation, but just one of many.

> photographs from inside the factory show why production is so time-consuming and expensive. Rows of partially assembled missiles line the floor, their half-open interiors exposing a maze of tubes, circuits, wires, and sensors. Employees sit on wheeled chairs alongside the missiles and painstakingly connect new components. If one connection is faulty, or one circuit board is bad, the result is worse than useless

This is why you use JLPCB or PCBWay for your defense needs rather than pocket-lining government trough-feeders.

That's not just some random guy, zx2c4 is the author of WireGuard and I'd trust him to get things right more than, oh, about 99.9% of people doing crypto out there. And the problem isn't so much the code size, it's the huge amount of unnecessary complexity and attack surface that this all this stuff adds.

Having said that, I'm not sure there's much chance of it being adopted. Crypto people really want to have all the complexity all the time, which this is the exact opposite of. I mean, do you really need a custom AVX2-accelerated SHA256 implementation so you can generate a 128-bit random value? Or all of SHA256 and SHA3 and cSHAKE and SHA512? This is what makes WireGuard so secure, there's only one mode and that's secure-by-default.

Israel has a universal get-out-of-jail-free card for everything called "shout 'antisemitism'". Say anything even mildly critical of anything the Israeli government does and you get 'antisemitism' shouted at you. There are even antisemitic Israelis, meaning ones who have dared to criticize what their government is doing. It's so depressingly predictable, it's the automatic response every single time.