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russianGuy83829on European Commission Designates Apple's iPadOS Under the Digital Markets Act

Finally sideloading and real firefox on iPads! Hopefully virtualization and JIT will follow, making it a bit closer to a real laptop replacement.

russianGuy83829on Unraveling Havana syndrome: New evidence implicates the GRU's assassination unit

This doesn't address the coincidences that the GRU unit is consistently at the place where the "headaches" happen, get identified by the victims, and work with one of the only people (Russian professor) researching the rare disease that was diagnosed for one of the victims. There are documents in the article that link the group with the researcher, which explicitly mentions acoustic non-lethal attacks.

russianGuy83829on Unraveling Havana syndrome: New evidence implicates the GRU's assassination unit

The aim seems not to kill, but to severely damage. The article makes a point that American diplomats feel betrayed that noone takes the attacks seriously, and are intimidated to work on Russian affairs.

russianGuy83829on First Month of Nothin' but PostmarketOS

funny that the emojis are shown inverted (blue), probably because of dark mode

russianGuy83829on Tapping Morse code on a wall

Is Morse code encoded in the lengths of the beeps or the pauses between the beeps?

russianGuy83829on Show HN: Crack this cipher and get $100

I don’t have twitter, so you can donate that money to charity.

russianGuy83829on Show HN: Crack this cipher and get $100

EDIT: [removed solution]

russianGuy83829on Ask HN: What to Do with a Gifted Laptop?

home server for plex, nextcloud, pihole etc?

russianGuy83829on The GitHub 1000 year archive may be the last code dataset uncontaminated by AI

The code dataset I’m talking about is the “Arctic Code Vault” [0].

[0] https://archiveprogram.github.com/arctic-vault/

russianGuy83829on KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store for the Linux desktop

while I like and use flatpaks, each time I try to use gnome software, I need to kill it and restart just too that it loads

russianGuy83829on Control D vs. Pi-hole

can you self-host this control d?

russianGuy83829on Most young men are single. Most young women are not

> Or are younger women primarily dating older men?

yes and each other

russianGuy83829on React's Instance Identity Model

not quite clear from the article: With the fungible input, will the child input still re-render if the frame is toggled and the cursor position reset?

russianGuy83829on IKEA launches VINDSTYRKA – a smart sensor to measure indoor air quality

measuring CO2 is more expensive than CO, a decent sensor alone would cost more than $20

russianGuy83829on Swiss to vote on preventing cashless society, pressure group says

The logic behind the vote is that even while business have to accept cash, that wouldn't matter if there would be no cash physically available.

russianGuy83829on Elon Musk donates almost $2B of Tesla shares to charity

> The filing did not name the recipient, or recipients, of the donation.

So tax evasion

russianGuy83829on War and subsidies have turbocharged the green transition

Great, we don’t have to change anything then! Thanks, capitalism!

russianGuy83829on This domain is 8 minutes old

you could’ve made that self-updating like those youtube videos that had the current view count in their title

russianGuy83829on The entire prompt of Microsoft Bing Chat?

check the last tweets, it reproduced the rules again without the 5 sentences prompt

russianGuy83829on The entire prompt of Microsoft Bing Chat?

check the last tweets in the thread, it reproduced the same rules again in full.

russianGuy83829on U-Bahn station in Berlin is decorated with radioactive uranium glazed tiles

Didn't know they had so many Ubahn lines in Berlin, though it went from U1 to U9 ;)

russianGuy83829on ESP32 Buyer’s Guide: Different Chips, Firmware, Sensors

yeah, also the wroom wrover confusion

russianGuy83829on VALL-E: Microsoft’s new zero-shot text-to-speech model

Sigh.. Now we'll need voice changers when calling people/institutions we don't trust

russianGuy83829on The Frontier computer, which broke the exascale barrier in 2022

China had two exascale supercomputers back then already. I wonder what the three-letter agencies are deliberately not publishing.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/two-chinese-exascale-super...

russianGuy83829on Russia-Ukraine-bucha-massacre-takeaways

link is broken. Do you have an archived version?

russianGuy83829on LineageOS 20

working backups.

russianGuy83829on The 5GHz “Problem” for Wi-Fi Networks: DFS (2018)

I’m not: it’s called AFC. https://www.extremenetworks.com/extreme-networks-blog/wi-fi-... https://documentation.meraki.com/MR/Other_Topics/Wi-Fi_6E_Fr... (Point 4)

It has been approved in November: https://www.rcrwireless.com/20221103/network-infrastructure/...

russianGuy83829on The 5GHz “Problem” for Wi-Fi Networks: DFS (2018)

to use full power on 6GHz, the router needs to upload its GPS location to a central server to get the available frequencies. Worse than 5GHz in my opinion

russianGuy83829on UnifiedPush: A decentralized, open-source push notification protocol

could the 15 minute limit be circumvented with multiple identical apps (different package names) installed?