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"What can my homemade quantum computer do?" by Looking Glass Universe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHfGucHtLqo via https://www.youtube.com/@LookingGlassUniverse/videos

sipofwateron Got a full Windows XP desktop working inside Termux on Android

"Motorola moto g play 2024 Smartphone, Android 14 Operating System, Termux, And cryptsetup: Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) Encryption/Decryption And The ext4 Filesystem Without Using root Access, Without Using proot-distro, And Without Using QEMU": https://old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1jkl0f8/motorola_mot... (old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1jkl0f8/motorola_moto_g_play_2024_smartphone_android_14/)

sipofwateron Got a full Windows XP desktop working inside Termux on Android

"Motorola moto g play 2024 smartphone, Termux application, and QEMU running under Termux: Booting "Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)" with debian-12-nocloud-amd64.qcow2": https://old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1mkyers/motorola_mot... (old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1mkyers/motorola_moto_g_play_2024_smartphone_termux/)

sipofwateron Got a full Windows XP desktop working inside Termux on Android

"How to Install Windows XP on Android Using Termux (complete commands guide)" by Saad Maqsood: https://www.learntermux.tech/2025/11/how-to-install-windows-... (www.learntermux.tech/2025/11/how-to-install-windows-xp-on-android.html), https://archive.ph/US56l

sipofwateron Inside a Wild Bitcoin Heist: Five-Star Hotels, Cash, and Vanishing Funds

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sipofwateron DFS Guam closing in March 2026, ending an era of luxury shopping

* Mirror: https://archive.ph/PRxKr

* "My 1st Time In Guam, USA’s Most Isolated Territory [video]": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45731295

sipofwateron Alabama man returns 'forbidden' antique Bible to Indiana church

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sipofwateron Rats, flies and maggots: A community plagued by 25,000 tonnes of illegal waste

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sipofwateron BC's Tales of the Pacific – Nan Madol of Pohnpei

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sipofwateron USDA head says 'everyone' on SNAP will now have to reapply

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sipofwateron BC's Tales of the Pacific ǀ The awful tuna tragedy

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sipofwateron Android developer verification: Early access starts

Android Debug Bridge (https://developer.android.com/tools/adb) using two Android smartphones and Termux (https://github.com/termux/termux-app):

* Search for "Smartphone-1 to Smartphone-2" "adb tcpip 5555" in "Motorola moto g play 2024 smartphone, Termux, termux-usb, usbredirect, QEMU running under Termux, and Alpine Linux: Disks with Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) Partition Table (GPT) partitioning": https://old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1j2g5gz/motorola_mot... (old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1j2g5gz/motorola_moto_g_play_2024_smartphone_termux/)

* Search for "termux-adb" in "Motorola moto g play 2024 Smartphone, Android 14 Operating System, Termux, And cryptsetup: Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) Encryption/Decryption And The ext4 Filesystem Without Using root Access, Without Using proot-distro, And Without Using QEMU": https://old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1jkl0f8/motorola_mot... (old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1jkl0f8/motorola_moto_g_play_2024_smartphone_android_14/)

sipofwateron Android developer verification: Early access starts

* "Android Developer Verification Discourse" by agnostic-apollo (https://github.com/agnostic-apollo), Termux app (https://github.com/termux/termux-app) developer: https://gist.github.com/agnostic-apollo/b8d8daa24cbdd216687a... (gist.github.com/agnostic-apollo/b8d8daa24cbdd216687a6bef53d417a6) and https://old.reddit.com/r/termux/comments/1ourtxj/android_dev... (old.reddit.com/r/termux/comments/1ourtxj/android_developer_verification_discourse/)

* "Android Developer Verification Proposed Changes" by agnostic-apollo (https://github.com/agnostic-apollo), Termux app (https://github.com/termux/termux-app) developer: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/459832198 via https://old.reddit.com/r/termux/comments/1ourtxj/android_dev... (old.reddit.com/r/termux/comments/1ourtxj/android_developer_verification_discourse/)

sipofwateron "Android Developer Verification Discourse" by agnostic-apollo, Termux developer

Android Debug Bridge (https://developer.android.com/tools/adb) using two Android smartphones and Termux (https://github.com/termux/termux-app):

* Search for "Smartphone-1 to Smartphone-2" "adb tcpip 5555" in "Motorola moto g play 2024 smartphone, Termux, termux-usb, usbredirect, QEMU running under Termux, and Alpine Linux: Disks with Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) Partition Table (GPT) partitioning": https://old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1j2g5gz/motorola_mot... (old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1j2g5gz/motorola_moto_g_play_2024_smartphone_termux/)

* Search for "termux-adb" in "Motorola moto g play 2024 Smartphone, Android 14 Operating System, Termux, And cryptsetup: Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) Encryption/Decryption And The ext4 Filesystem Without Using root Access, Without Using proot-distro, And Without Using QEMU": https://old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1jkl0f8/motorola_mot... (old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1jkl0f8/motorola_moto_g_play_2024_smartphone_android_14/)

sipofwateron Why Screaming Is All the Rage

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sipofwateron 'Tremendous chaos': Northern Calif. politician wants to split state in two

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sipofwateron Dating trends reached new lows this year. ‘throning,’ ‘Shrekking,’ 'Banksying’?

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sipofwateron 40,000+ US troops have been lost at sea, tracking invisible clues to find them

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sipofwateron Debunking "When Prophecy Fails"

"Debunking "When Prophecy Fails"" preprint: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/9j7qc_v2

sipofwateron Wolfgang Wendt: "I like to describe IBM as an 'older startup'"

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sipofwateron Rocket Software Expert on Modernizing and Securing COBOL Systems

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sipofwateron Lenovo puts the 'cloud' in cloud computing, proposes mid-air datacenters

"Traditional Data Centers ‘Not Fit for Purpose,’ Say Half of EMEA IT Leaders, as AI and Energy Pressures Collide" "New research from Lenovo inspires concept designs showing how data centers must evolve to meet tomorrow’s compute and climate demands": https://news.lenovo.com/pressroom/press-releases/datacenter-... (news.lenovo.com/pressroom/press-releases/datacenter-of-the-future-emea-research/)

sipofwateron $40M 3D printing factory open for business on Guam, will produce parts for Navy

* Mirror: https://archive.ph/uGSpl

* "Guam's first advanced manufacturing hub breaks ground in Dededo" by kuamnews: https://www.youtube.com/@kuamnews): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3s8Mi7LOTU

* "My 1st Time In Guam, USA’s Most Isolated Territory [video]": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45731295

sipofwateron Consensus on Android System Safety Core?

"jack: "You remember #Apple scanning a…" - Mastodon @ SDF": https://mastodon.sdf.org/@jack/113952225452466068

sipofwateron DHS proposes biometrics expansion for immigrants, dropping age restrictions

Mirror: https://archive.ph/K8lXS

sipofwateron Inside the billionaire network shaping MAGA’s post-Trump future

"The world without hegemony" in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45774476 (2025, Hacker News, "Another European agency shifts off US Tech as digital sovereignty gains steam")

sipofwateron Inside the billionaire network shaping MAGA’s post-Trump future

Mirror: https://archive.ph/4KtFU

sipofwateron Experience with SimpleX Chat: Ultimate Open Source Private Messaging App? (2024)

"Frequently Asked Questions": https://simplex.chat/faq/

sipofwateron Another European agency shifts off US Tech as digital sovereignty gains steam

* "The Histomap. Four Thousand Years Of World History. Relative Power Of Contemporary States, Nations And Empires." by John B. Sparks: https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~2... (www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~200375~3001080:The-Histomap--Four-Thousand-Years-O), https://web.archive.org/web/20130813230833if_/alanbernstein.... (4194 x 19108 pixels, web.archive.org/web/20130813230833if_/alanbernstein.net/images/large/histomap.jpg) via https://web.archive.org/web/20130813230833/alanbernstein.net... (web.archive.org/web/20130813230833/alanbernstein.net/images/large/histomap.jpg); https://archive.ph/1wEk8/332f1c70b1ffd9854847dbfa7ad77b4915c... (4194 x 19108 pixels, archive.ph/1wEk8/332f1c70b1ffd9854847dbfa7ad77b4915cbd50a.jpg) via https://archive.ph/1wEk8

* "(Covers to) The Histomap. Four Thousand Years Of World History. Relative Power Of Contemporary States, Nations And Empires.": https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~2... (www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~200374~3000299:-Covers-to--The-Histomap--Four-Thou)