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testTEDon Ask HN: Has one symptom affected your life adversely?

Strengthening this comment because to those who haven't used them they look useless.

testTEDon Nokia launches DIY repairable budget Android phone

Whose "latest updates"?

testTEDon Portable Django

https://pocketbase.io/ ?

testTEDon Twitter has been sued by at least 6 companies for failing to pay bills

They did not even do a quick dump of the Slack contents anywhere?

testTEDon U-2 pilot's selfie above China's balloon taken over Missouri

Radio waves.

testTEDon U-2 pilot's selfie above China's balloon taken over Missouri

How?

testTEDon You’re Not a Girlboss – You’re Just Trapped in an MLM Scheme (2020)

It wasn't always defined that way.

Honest effort and intent was at least somewhat common on both sides of paid service at one point.

Honor is a dead concept.

testTEDon Hackers are reportedly getting laid off by organized crime groups

There's a difference between pressing "update" in a known-compromised device's webUI, and flashing it from the outside.

testTEDon How to specialize after a career as a generalist?

That is not most devops roles.

testTEDon When Dark Mode for HN?

Similarly, most modern smartphones have an easily toggled Invert Colors filter near or adjacent to Accessibility.

On Android, one can set this as a pulldown chip.

testTEDon Hackers are reportedly getting laid off by organized crime groups

You kept the router?

Did you at least flash it?

testTEDon I saw RealPage's crappy rent-jacking-up software so you don't have to

Doesn't that drop investor and institutional demand for housing investment leading to more affordable prices for "actual" homeowners?

testTEDon North Korean hackers stole a record $1.7B of crypto last year

Ethereum is not a company.

testTEDon Hackers are reportedly getting laid off by organized crime groups

For anyone reading: what would your top dollar be for a phone number that hasn't received spam calls for 3, 5, or maybe 8 years?

testTEDon Konsta UI – Mobile UI Components Built with TailwindCSS

Please elaborate.

testTEDon Security audit of account and payment services

Provide more information here or in a search box if you expect to achieve this rather ubiquitous functionality.

testTEDon Diabetes drug Mounjaro was available at $25/month, then increased to $1k/month

Came here to ask the important stuff: ate their certs up to date?

testTEDon U.S. on Track to Add $19T in New Debt over 10 Years

80% of currency printed very recently, plus effectively never existing in a surplus status, doesn't invoke huge confidence.

testTEDon PFAS can suppress white blood cells’ ability to destroy invaders

This explains the state of the general public very well.

testTEDon Physicists Use Quantum Mechanics to Pull Energy Out of Nothing

Is this a quantum physics joke?

testTEDon 35% of the wealthiest people in the US attended one of just 8 elite universities

They didn't have a house or four to sell to pay for those irreplaceable connections?

testTEDon The dystopian underworld of South Africa’s illegal gold mines

Seems like a good place to mention South Africa is running joint exercises with China and Russia.

testTEDon Gmail spam is out of control

Nowhere near as problematic as the titled problem which has recently included emails (sometimes outgoing!) in known good ongoing threads being sent to Spam!

testTEDon Spotify launches a new feature offering personalized music with AI commentary

They don't want beta testers who are superfans and super technical.

They (possibly) want beta testers who represent their userbase as a whole.

testTEDon Pentagon warns poppy seeds might cause troops to fail drug tests

Likely that they're setting cookies or using fingerprinting scripts.

testTEDon Social media is a cause, not a correlate, of mental illness in teen girls

Your daughter might do something that matters (to her, even!) instead of aspiring to be a TikTok influencer.

testTEDon Social media is a cause, not a correlate, of mental illness in teen girls

Getting back to why we're all here: at least "make" them jailbreak or root the device to get around some of these apparently arbitrary limits!

testTEDon Mexico's former public security head convicted by U.S. of taking cartel bribes

Nobody seemed to be playing the blame game, that just devolves into emotional appeals.

Most important to highlight the systemic structure of these problems.

testTEDon Mexico's former public security head convicted by U.S. of taking cartel bribes

Previous Mexican Presidents have been outed as CIA assets.

testTEDon Ask HN: So what IS the end game for any WW3 scenario?

> They are working on laser firing drones but don't have any prototypes after years.

Sure.