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taneliv··on Accepting US car standards would risk European lives
Maybe the legislation allowing their import should take their special status in to account.

I would suggest mandatory semi (or full) trailer truck drivers' license required for anyone who operates these. In addition, they should be indicated as a new category of "recreational trucks", with harsh penalties specific to them especially regarding road accidents.

For example, if found guilty of reckless driving, or causing accidents, the vehicle would be permanently confiscated. (On top of personal fines, loss of license etc as already sentenced by law.) Perhaps the law enforcement could then be given access to such confiscated vehicles, creating also some incentive to enforce the law.

taneliv··on The scariest "user support" email I've received
Old Androids do reportedly, and from experience, get slower over time. Maybe that's just bloat in the user installed apps when they are updated. But I would not be terribly surprised if it wasn't also malware consuming resources.
taneliv··on The scariest "user support" email I've received
Maybe an effort to foil anti-malware / endpoint security products?
taneliv··on CISA warns of critical Linux Sudo flaw exploited in attacks
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-32463
taneliv··on Flagship mobile phone with hardware kill switches for privacy
Hey, I learned something. I knew of Fairphone, but I didn't know they had kill switches. The device might be out of my budget, but it seems promising.
taneliv··on TernFS – An exabyte scale, multi-region distributed filesystem
I would imagine to lesser extent government policy changes and news articles, and to larger extent online discussions on topics relevant to these instruments. Models then attempt to extract signals with predictive value from all the noise. Probably contains non-trivial amount of history to correlate words to market performance in the past, say 20 years or more.

But it's really just a guess, I haven't worked in this domain.

taneliv··on Trevor Milton's Nikola case dropped by SEC following Trump pardon
Did you just describe LLMs?
taneliv··on Orange Pi RV2 $40 RISC-V SBC: Friendly Gateway to IoT and AI Projects
Ah, cool. I'd like the same, but with ECC RAM, so the options are even fewer.

Have you looked into what someone suggested here, splitting the NVMe to some SATA ports? It didn't sound like a horrible solution, but I have no experience.

taneliv··on Orange Pi RV2 $40 RISC-V SBC: Friendly Gateway to IoT and AI Projects
What is your project where 2 x NVMe is not suitable for storage?
taneliv··on Linux phones are more important now than ever
Ah, yeah, that actually makes sense: now that the USA no longer shares intelligence information with some countries it previously did (or can't be trusted to do so), they have to implement alternatives.
taneliv··on Linux phones are more important now than ever
LOL, what? My (teenage) kids use my phone all the time, especially in the car, when I'm driving, but also at home. It's not like I have porn or banking apps on it, but what is the age verification going to help there? If the kids would install an app or used browser to see naked people, then my face would be available to these services, right? Better mine than the kids', I suppose!

(We're not in Denmark, but I wonder how it is going in our jurisdiction ...)

taneliv··on Removing yellow stains from fabric with blue light
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45209124 mentions that simply putting the stained cloth under the sun works.
taneliv··on All clickwheel iPod games have now been preserved for posterity
"Buy now" button goes to a 404 page? Or maybe I need to be on a Chinese VPN, who knows these days.

(Anyway, I was merely interested in the price range, and probably not actually buying.)

Sony Walkman series also has nifty looking devices, but way over my budget (even the entry level model).

taneliv··on E-paper display reaches the realm of LCD screens
If you're happy with grayscale, biggest from Good-Display[1] offers 25" x 33". If you want bigger, you'll probably have to wait until Samsung's new 75" EMDX panel[2] becomes available for purchase.

[1] https://www.good-display.com/product/452.html

[2] https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-showcases-color-e-pa...

taneliv··on Clankers Die on Christmas
LOL, what I did just read? I did not understand the concrete nouns in your comment, except for "girl". The "spider eggs" you mention do not seem to be the ones I thought.

Without searching on the internet, I wouldn't even know the context on the level of which decade or country. Fascinating!

taneliv··on Like Intel before it, AMD blames motherboard makers for burnt-out CPUs
You can surely buy integrated non-Apple systems like laptops, desktops and servers where the vendor fully bears the responsibility for correct system function.

DIY systems are perhaps the ones most affected by this, but I don't think Apple caters at all to that segment.

taneliv··on Is an Intel N100 or N150 a better value than a Raspberry Pi?
N150 by itself doesn't generate any noise, but the cooling fans probably will. There are some fanless N150 solutions that are perhaps of interest? Though they are likely at a higher price point. I'm too lazy to copy and paste a link here, but search for "fanless N150" for some references.
taneliv··on The $25k car is going extinct?
I don't think there's any incentive for them to scam like that. The inspection shop I took it to was not a repair shop. Also further inspections for the repairs can be performed in any qualified shop.
taneliv··on Many ransomware strains will abort if they detect a Russian keyboard installed (2021)
It's perfect. Just claim it is "your mom's computer" that needs help. Continue pretending to be a 12 year old.

... unless they still get a whiff you might be an impostor and ask, say, something about school. Good luck getting LLM to answer in a believable way.

taneliv··on The $25k car is going extinct?
A word of warning. Usually these things are simple, but not always. Either way, you'll get your hands dirty, and mind off other things.

The YT video for changing my cars' front light bulbs was less than two minutes. After half an hour and a lot of scratches / bruises, I thought I got it done. Started the car, checked the light goes on and off. Scrub hands from dust and dirt, be happy.

Mandatory inspection two months later found out that it was pointing so badly off that their targeting device could not even get a reading. In other words, I had been blinding oncoming traffic. Car didn't pass inspection, I was defeated, and took it to the mechanic.

He also spent twenty to thirty minutes on readjusting the bulb, before it was done and up to spec. It costed only 15 euro, though, as they also expected it to be a 30 second operation.

I guess my point is, don't get discouraged when things don't work immediately, or don't work exactly like a manual / video makes you think. Often it's a learning experience, and while those can be fun, they also sometimes are very much not.

(I'm also a complete novice, and not particularly enjoying the experience, just not affluent enough to pay for all of the maintenance work.)

taneliv··on Denmark Switches from Microsoft to LibreOffice and Linux
Ho hum. Does this create demand for integrations/distributions/new software geared towards government and state/municipal employees across Europe?

I suppose this space is already well catered by large multinational consultancies?

taneliv··on Administering immunotherapy in the morning seems to matter. Why?
Isn't it also quite understandable? Otherwise we risk the new way working well for half the patients and killing the other half, to exaggerate.
taneliv··on Meta buys a nuclear power plant (more or less)
Didn't they try that in Chernobyl in 1986?
taneliv··on The curious tale of Bhutan's playable record postage stamps (2015)
IIRC one of the other articles mentioned that many turntables could not actually play these record, or perhaps only the larger ones.
taneliv··on The curious tale of Bhutan's playable record postage stamps (2015)
I don't own any, but https://www.megaministore.com/stamps/asia/bhutan-stamps/bhut... lists the sizes as 69mm and 100mm. I suppose that would be the diameter, not radius. Either way, pretty big, I'd say.
taneliv··on Airbnb is in midlife crisis mode
Yes, yes, yes, and yes. If the kids are not toddlers any more, booking a place where you share the apartment/house with the host (or maybe other travelers) can also be a great experience.

I mean, it's an adventure, and those can also go poorly, but our experiences have been just excellent. And at those bottom-of-the-barrel prices mentioned earlier.

Definitely not something that hotels offer.

taneliv··on My sourdough starter has twins
Oh, I didn't know this about starters. And my mom used to make her own sourdough bread ... although it was of oat, so perhaps the starter was oatmeal as well. I'll have to ask her!
taneliv··on My sourdough starter has twins
Ah, that would make more sense. But even so, wheat seems to be three times more popular than rye: https://ruokatieto.fi/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Tietohaaruk...
taneliv··on My sourdough starter has twins
This caught my eye:

> reverse is true for that twin in Finland where rye is more predominant than wheat

Calling yield of 26 mtons predominant over 869 mtons[1] seems like an exaggeration and maybe barley was meant instead of rye? Or I'm misinterpreting something.

[1] https://vyr.fi/app/uploads/2024/01/inengl_1ca381b_Production...

taneliv··on [dead]
> This combination of evil and embarrassment is a unique horror, one that science fiction has failed to prepare us for.

I find that hard to believe. Shouldn't such cringe overlords be quite prevalent in science fiction?

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