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runarb

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Software developer living in Norway. Former founder and CTO of open source search engine Searchdaimon ( http://www.searchdaimon.com/ ). Now CTO at Bolig.ai ( https://www.bolig.ai/en/ ).

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runarb··on New EU data blockage as German court would ban many cookie management providers
> This consideration is key, even when Akamai servers are hosted in the EU.

Is the fix as easy as that Akamai creating a subsidiary in the EU?

I am in the EU and use AWS a lot, but I am not a customer of Amazon Inc. Instead, it sees this on the bill as who is the seller: "Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL, 38 avenue John F. Kennedy, L-1855 Luxembourg".

runarb··on Almost all of the top subreddits are moderated by the same people
For some more context: https://www.protocol.com/reddit-powermods-war

This list is at best deeply misleading; those subreddits often have dozens of moderators.

runarb··on Robots could take place of pupils who cannot attend school in person
Thus robots are not meant as a replacement for virtual learning, but as a way for students to follow the normal education when they are temporarily away.

For the last two years, I have been taking an MBA, and my school had thus robots. When students could not come to class, they could still attend by using a AV1. It is not so easy for the teachers to also have to do a virtual meeting simultaneously as teaching the regular class, so the alternative is often that the teachers just send out their slide deck to those that were not present, so the student can self-study. The robot also has batteries, so we took it with us to group work, lunches, and parties. Here is a picture of my group during the second covid surge, hammering away on our digital business model assignment: https://www.instagram.com/p/CCGS2lxhgcU/ .

runarb··on Robots could take place of pupils who cannot attend school in person
> What significant benefit is gained over using a small robot called a “video camera” in the classroom to film the lecture?

The robot in the picture is a No Isolation AV1. It allows the pupil at to do a little more than a video camera. For example, to look around in the classroom and raise its hand by turning the robots head blue.

More information on their website: https://www.noisolation.com/uk/av1/?

runarb··on Do Aliens Exist? Scientists Wonder If Extraterrestrial Life Has Visited Earth
> The opening question remains unanswered.

>

It have been argued that "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

runarb··on US soldiers accidentally leak nuclear secrets via study apps – report
Use a bicycle lock: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7097101.stm
runarb··on Fullerton settles lawsuit against bloggers for publishing City Hall documents
That website blocks European visitors for legal reasons. Archive.org link to get around it: https://web.archive.org/web/20210516204113/https://ktla.com/...
runarb··on Google showing animated ships when searching “ever given”
Looks like it only work on desktop. (“Request desktop site” in Chrome mobile works).
runarb··on Hyper-realistic masks to go on sale in Japan
Another example: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2192115/Robbers-dis...
runarb··on Saudi Arabia applied for diplomatic immunity for ten security guards in Norway
> This sounds like they're amateurs, sending 10 at once.

> Other nations do that probably one by one to stay under the radar.

It depends. For example Mossad allegedly used 26 persons when assassinating Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Mahmoud_Al-Ma...

runarb··on Trump to be hospitalized at Walter Reed medical center after Covid-19 diagnosis
> Apparently he was given an experimental antibody treatment earlier today? Anyone have any more info on that?

According to my local newspaper it is REGN-COV2: https://www.regeneron.com/covid19 . It appears to be a synthetic replication ment to mimic antibodies from humans covid survivors.

runarb··on E-6B Mercury airborne command just went active on east/west coasts
There are some scenes in the movie The Day After showing the mission I believe these plans flyes: https://youtu.be/jlPEBROvR9w?list=FLrpVP7xy6WjESfTl1-XV-hw&t... The US used to have one or two airborne at all times during the cold war.

Quits scary.

runarb··on ‘George Eliot’ joins 24 female authors making debuts under their real names
> I imagine it's to protect children from the Elon Musks of the world.

Hade to look that up. He apparently named his son "X Æ A-12": https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52557291 . Will probably create some issues with future IT-systems. I know a "Jo Å" and he have trouble registering for services from time to time.

runarb··on You may finally use JSHint for evil
I have found it funny that Douglas Crockford apparently gave IBM this exception: "I give permission for IBM, its customers, partners, and minions, to use JSLint for evil." (for JSLint, which JSHints was forked from): https://web.archive.org/web/20170722132351/https://dev.hasen...
runarb··on Don't bet on the most likely winner
One way to quickly find out what underlying provider a metasearch engine uses is to search for "my user agent". You will then normally see the user agent of the crawler in the result snippet.

Doing this on DuckDuckGo: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=my+user+agent&t=hk&ia=answer , reviles http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm in the snippet for whatsmyuseragent.org .

runarb··on Inside eBay’s bizarre campaign against a blog critic
I use Googles dns 8.8.8.8, so this must be something else.
runarb··on Inside eBay’s bizarre campaign against a blog critic
Same for me. I do get an DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN in Chrome, but other archive domains like https://archive.vn/f7HSw works.
runarb··on The US Army's earth-shaking, off-road land trains
> 500 tons seems WAY low.

Yes, it sees "460,000 tons of materials were moved from the US and southern Canada to the Arctic by air, land, and sea" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distant_Early_Warning_Line#Con...

runarb··on Norway: Soldiers' location history found in data sold by Tamoco
Russian intelligence was also able to counterfeit an app used by Ukrainian artillery forces to track them: https://www.google.com/amp/s/fortune.com/2016/12/22/russia-u...
runarb··on Ask HN: Best sleep trackers?
Probably using SleepyHead or OSCR: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xwjd4w/im-possibly-alive-...
runarb··on Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?
I am giving Portable-VirtualBox some love. It is an open source software tool that lets you run any operating system from a USB stick without separate installation. A lot of issues with Windows 10 is unresolved: https://github.com/vboxme/Portable-VirtualBox/issues (Any help would be greatly appreciated).

Website: https://www.vbox.me/

runarb··on Volkswagen exec admits full self-driving cars 'may never happen'
> When the AI malfunctions, are we going to shut down

> entire classes of vehicles until the problem is confirmed fixed?

Yes, a malfunction AI would have to be grounded, just like for example the Boeing 737 MAX is now.

runarb··on Electrical Ground Current Event Detected in Norway
> This kind of event can cause transmission power outages.

We did have a power outage in the middle of Norway at 17.26 CET (UT +1 hour) yesterday: https://www.nidaros.no/trondheim/bakklandet/strombrudd/flere...

Power outages in Norway are very rare. I think it if the first one I have experienced in 10-15 years. Could it be related?

runarb··on Amazon EC2 Issues in Frankfurt AZ
My managed ElasticSearch cluster did go down despite being multi az.
runarb··on Protester shot in chest by live police round during Hong Kong protests
Fun fact, in my language "Texas" means crazy: https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-daily-post/yall-norwegians-...
runarb··on New federal rules limit police searches of family tree DNA databases
The Unabomber retrieved pubic hair from a public restroom to plant as a false clue in one of his bombs[0].

0: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1998-05-05-980505...

runarb··on The Priest of Abu Ghraib
That he was able to get such good results from his interrogation using kindness and dialog instead of violence is interesting. This is apparently a known effect. Was a very interesting article posted here some time ago describing similar techniques that I found fascinating: https://psmag.com/social-justice/nazi-interrogator-revealed-...
runarb··on Norsk Hydro ASA Suffers Extensive Cyber Attack
Thankfully the smelting can apparently be controlled manually. According to this article[0] all Hydro plants are still running 24/7, but now using paper, pencils, and calculators.

0: (In norwegian) https://e24.no/boers-og-finans/norsk-hydro/dataangrepet-lamm...

runarb··on Notepad++ drops code signing for its releases
I am in a similar situation myself with Portable-VirtualBox. Does anyone know where one can get a reasonably priced code signing certificate?

Preferably one that does not require a USB dongle. Did order one from Comodo, but was not able to get the USB dongle to work.

runarb··on When London’s Dragons Ruled Before Skyscrapers
I also thought so. No pictures and it was not clear from the article if thus sculptures were still standing.

A quick search turned up an article with pictures: https://www.aperturetours.com/blog/dragons

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