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A similar (unofficial) map, but for The Netherlands: https://spoorkaart.mwnn.nl/

It doesn't fit into the list as a revolution (or even 'evolution') as it's just a high-density, compact and cheap battery [1] that turns out to be quite unsafe [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45322135

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46071317

> Looking at it now, German TFR has been well below replacement for nearly 60 years, so I suppose it makes sense.

That's really dumb. It's not that hard to look up population statistics [1]. Without having to say anything on the validity of your last paragraph (I'd have to apply Hanlon's razor before I would be able to argue in good faith), it really has nothing to do with your random tourist observation. There are very much 'white' children (which you probably meant to say, but didn't for some reason) running around in Nuremberg (not "Nuremburg").

[1] https://www.nuernberg.de/imperia/md/statistik/dokumente/vero...

I think the suggestion of pinning the public key and keeping the same private key across certs is the best option. But if you don't want that, perhaps this is a (high complexity, high fragility) alternative:

- Make sure your app checks that enough trusted embedded Signed Certificate Timestamps are present in the certificate (web browsers and the iOS and Android frameworks already do this by default).

- Disallow your app to trust certificates that are more recently requested than N hours. This might be hard to do.

- Set up monitoring to the certificate transparency logs to verify that no bad actor has obtained a certificate (and make sure you are always able to revoke them within N hours).

- Make sure you always have fresh keys with certificates in cold storage older than N hours, because you can't immediately use newly obtained certificates

If you're asking about "negotiating mandate" here: it's a step in the EU legislative process, which is initiated by the Commission by proposing legislation. The Council of the European Union (which consists of member state government representatives) discusses the proposal and adopts a "negotiating mandate" (or not), which is the allowed negotiation space the Council's presidency has to negotiate with Parliament about the proposal.

If such a mandate is given, a trilogue between Commission, Council and EU Parliament usually starts.

Meta sees your entire social graph by design, and stores the name and participants of groups you create. You (meaning: experts) can independently audit and through reproducible builds verify that Signal does not do this by design, while nothing about WhatsApp can be audited in the same way. Meta is also a plainly for-profit company with bad track record, while Signal often gets flak from (IMO mistaken) radical nerds but otherwise has a very good reputation.

The privacy fatalism in your comment here and in other comments is plainly incorrect.

I'm not sure you are replying knowing what "mechanically separated meat is", as it isn't just cutting / separating pieces of regular meat using machinery. It's the sieving of a ground up bone/flesh mix into a meat paste. The result product is not something you would normally call meat, and called 'white slime' by some.

I bought an Oculus Go last year for € 30. Its support has been dropped for quite some time, and you can only activate developer mode and sideloading through an old version of the Meta Horizons app [1]. But if you do that, there are 71 GiBs of games to explore on the Internet Archive [2]. Some need patching to remove an online check to a server that no longer exists, but that is easy enough to do with a (regrettably Windows) tool someone published.

The Go is not the best headset of course, but the games are a different style because of the 3DoF tracking without camera's. Somewhat slower paced and sitting down. A style I personally like more.

You can also unlock the device to get root on it [3], which is quite neat, although there doesn't seem to be any homebrew scene at all. Not even the most bare-bones launcher that doesn't require a Meta login.

[1] That doesn't even seem intentional, but it does mean that once the old version of the app can't communicate with Meta servers anymore, any uninitialized Go turns into a brick.

[2] https://archive.org/details/gear-vr-oculus-go

[3] https://developers.meta.com/horizon/blog/unlocking-oculus-go...

No, I merely called you out on the enormous discrepancy between your first (false, unproven) statement and your second statement, and did some work clarifying the details where you only made lazy statements.

You could have said that there's limited evidence from a single mouse study that suggests that NAC might promote tumor growth in humans as well. That's fair. But you didn't. You (falsely) stated that "NAC causes cancer in humans".

You first say that 1) NAC, 2) "causes cancer", 3) "in humans".

You then back that up with a study doesn't provide evidence for all three claims. The study is about mice that are genetically altered to develop lung tumors after virus inhalation. The study doesn't indicate that cancer is caused, but that tumors develop faster. The study is not about NAC, but about supplementation of both NAC and Vitamin E.

The study is also unclear about how much NAC and Vitamin E the mice were fed through water and chow, but they seem to have been fed quite large dose. If I do some napkin calculations based on average eating, drinking and mouse weight, it would be 133 mg of NAC per kg of body weight. While a normal dose of NAC for a human would be 600 to 1800 mg per day, which for a 65 kg human comes down to 28 mg per kg of body weight.

It's a relevant study, but a far cry from your initial statement. Your initial statement was also very short, low-effort and required clarification from someone else.

You can also opt to take a small amount of N-acetyl cysteine (NAC) together with the paracetamol. It seems to be safe overall and safe during pregnancy, and will prevent any potential depletion of glutathione stores which counteract the toxic metabolites of paracetamol.

In fact, if NAC was added to paracetamol by default (which seems to be safe), it would make it nigh impossible to overdose on it, where paracetamol accounts for the most drug overdoses in Western countries and is the leading cause of acute liver failure.

I'm not sure that non-medically indicated CT scans are a great idea, as you're at least doubling your yearly dose of radiation in the year of the CT scan. Perhaps it's warranted, but the article doesn't seem to balance that at all against doing a CT scan "every 1-5 years".

> How many embedded devices transmit sensitive information?

Every Zigbee device uses AES keys to secure the network, although the security of the protocol is pretty weak in most deployments, especially when new devices join the network. Leaking the network key would provide access to the entire network. The ARM Cortex-M4 is often used, which the side-channel attack in the article is about.

In theory, you can add some more complexity/fragility and have 'time notaries' sign the current time together with a challenge from the passport, verifiable against embedded public keys.

My blood pressure just went up.

> I'd have to download Steam, buy individual games like Counterstrike, and the wackiest thing would be the "surf" gamemode.

It's interesting that you chose Counter-Strike as an example, as that is a Half Life mod itself, and by 2006 there was a large ecosystem [1] of Half Life modifications using Metamod and AMX Mod (X). The last one in a weird C-like language called Small or Pawn, which was my first programming language that I made serious programs with.

Especially the War3FT mod where users gained server-bound XP in combination with a reserved slots plugins which allowed top-XP users to join a full server really created a tight community of players on my tiny DSL home-hosted server.

[1] https://www.amxmodx.org/compiler.php?mod=1&cat=0&plugin=&aut...

> Don’t we already just use the certificates to just negotiate the final encryption keys?

No, since forward secret key agreement the certificate private key isn't involved at all in the secrecy of the session keys; the private key only proves the authenticity of the connection / the session keys.

The herpes zoster vaccine given to the elderly in Wales born after September 1933 [1], which is a live-attenuated vaccine (Zostavax). Recently, a new herpes zoster recombinant subunit vaccine was introduced (Shingrix).

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08800-x

Nit: it's `wget -c` or `curl -C -`

> Russia has long had a mining presence on Svalbard

Not only a mining presence [1]: "After the war, the Soviet Union proposed common Norwegian and Soviet administration and military defence of Svalbard. This was rejected in 1947 by Norway, which two years later joined NATO. The Soviet Union retained high civilian activity on Svalbard, in part to ensure that the archipelago was not used by NATO."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard#Second_World_War

In other democratic countries, reform is mostly proposed in parliament. Experts and other government institutions are publicly consulted. Reform is seldomly passed under emergency grounds, and H1B rules are an unlikely area for emergency executive action that has a transition period of not more than 2 days.

> This is actually smart.

The policy topic is irrelevant. This is not normal reform. Looking from the outside, the United States is clearly democratically backsliding and is imposing decree upon decree of emergency measures, without a functioning parliament, with a sand-in-wheels judiciary, along with an enormous cult of personality, without any empathy towards the victims of sudden policy changes and black-bag jobs.

It seems to be more complicated than Kal-toh.

> I wonder if a judge would even see the difference.

A judge can't actually apply the constitution, as article 120 of the constitution forbids that, and The Netherlands doesn't have a constitutional court. In any case, most articles contain the phrase "except in cases determined by law". This means that the constitution is mostly a set of guidelines for politicians that practice civic hygiene, and not a tool to oppose bad laws. It's especially useless to delay and oppose fascists, as they'll just pass laws and/or state of emergencies without basis or changing the constitution.

Judges can apply the European Convention on Human Rights, specifically the right to privacy, but of course lawful exceptions can be made there as well as long as they are proportional and subsidiary. There's a good case to be made that Chat Control is neither.

Both of your posts contain very little self-doubt and curiosity. Many points don't seem convincing, and you're consistently not steelmanning the arguments you are replying to.

> it's a machine which is slightly radioactive because it was in the presence of a radiation source

This isn't how radiation works. Material doesn't get radioactive from being in the presence of a radioactive source. Contamination refers to radioactive emitters being somewhere they don't belong.

The training sets of most LLMs contain a copious amount of content from Libgen (or now: Anna's Archive), where em dashes are frequently used in literary writing.

Member states will implement this into national law. So in the case they will need to implement a maximum of one year or more (but not less). The final law as applied by a judge will just read "punishable by a maximum of [i.e.] fourteen months".

Please also fight mandatory age verification with prison sentences. The European Parliament has already voted in favor of a law that mandates age verification for pornography with a one year prison sentence. It was included as a last minute amendment into this bill [1]. See "Amendment 186". It has been completely missed by news organizations and even interest groups.

The full accepted article reads: "Disseminating pornographic content online without putting in place robust and effective age verification tools to effectively prevent children from accessing pornographic content online shall be punishable by a maximum term of imprisonment of at least 1 year."

It's not law yet, as the first reading is now sent back to the Council of the European Union, but I don't think it's very likely it will get a second reading.

[1] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-10-2025-011...

It seems enormously underreported that the European Parliament has already voted in favor of a law that mandates age verification for pornography with a one year prison sentence. It was included as a last minute amendment into this bill [1]. See "Amendment 186".

The full accepted article reads: "Disseminating pornographic content online without putting in place robust and effective age verification tools to effectively prevent children from accessing pornographic content online shall be punishable by a maximum term of imprisonment of at least 1 year."

It's not law yet, as the first reading is now sent back to the Council of the European Union, but I don't think it's very likely it will get a second reading.

[1] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-10-2025-011...

On a slightly different subject (and it seems to be massively under reported): the European Parliament has already voted in favor of a law that mandates age verification for pornography with a one year prison sentence. It was included at the last minute as an amendment into this bill [1]. Search for "Amendment 186".

The full accepted amendment reads: "Disseminating pornographic content online without putting in place robust and effective age verification tools to effectively prevent children from accessing pornographic content online shall be punishable by a maximum term of imprisonment of at least 1 year."

[1] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-10-2025-011...