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upon_drumhead··on Intel: New Core Ultra Processors Deliver Breakthrough Performance
Maybe they shouldn't be using "Breakthrough Performance" in their ad copy...
upon_drumhead··on [dead]
This is 100% a scam site, please flag

I put in test/test as the creds and it claimed to query and start collecting the data

> Please wait while your report is being generated... > Parsing account information > Querying for transaction information > Parsing transaction information > Loading charge batch

Then I gave up waiting as my tracking blocking went crazy.

upon_drumhead··on [dead]
Woah woah woah, this reads as a major scam...

> If you have an American Express or Discover card you can enter your online credentials we'll load your charge names directly to check them for fraud. Your credentials are transmitted securely and then cleared after querying. No personal information will be collected. Your card will never be charged.

Never ever ever ever do this. This is a terrible idea and if this is a legit site, they should never offer this as an option

upon_drumhead··on Show HN: Shehzadi in Peril – My first ever game
Fun game! Resizing the browser window after it starts breaks the game though. If you you resize it so the princess is off the screen, you can't lose :)
upon_drumhead··on How to sort your library in exactly 51,271 steps
In Magic parlance, you play the game with a deck, but all your cards that you can build decks out of is called your library.
upon_drumhead··on Build Your Own Z80 Computer: Design Guidelines and Application (1981)
From the comments on the archive.org details, that archive is missing years, the original source of the scans is http://vintageapple.org/byte , and it has all of them
upon_drumhead··on Shufflecake: Plausible deniability for hidden filesystems on Linux (2023)
Thank you for that clarification.

Another question about this, presume #1 10 gb, #2 20 gb, #3 35 gb

We have #1 and #2 open, #3 is taking 50% of the 'free space' shown. Is writing data in #1 or #2 have a roughly 50% chance of destroying data in #3 or does it known mapped blocks and the overwrite only happens once the actual free amount is used up?

upon_drumhead··on Shufflecake: Plausible deniability for hidden filesystems on Linux (2023)
Can you describe what you mean by plausible deniability if in your example you can prove from any of the individual Shufflecake volumes that there's X amount of data in the others?

3-volume Shufflecake setup with on a 100 gb device. I put 10 gigabytes into #1, 20 gigabytes in #2 and so in #3, I can only store 70 gb of data before I get I/O errors, which leaks that there's 30 gigabytes of data in the other volumes.

upon_drumhead··on Resilient Anonymous Communication for Everyone (RACE)
p2p leaks the 'metadata' of the network connections. It makes it trivial for someone to know that these two nodes are talking to each other. A goal of this, and other similar protocols, attempt to prevent that sort of metadata analysis.
upon_drumhead··on Resilient Anonymous Communication for Everyone (RACE)
there are news articles (I admit, of questionable origin) the claim he visited Russia yearly for the past decade. I do wonder if it the situation is a little more complex then he was a fugitive of the Russian Government
upon_drumhead··on Resilient Anonymous Communication for Everyone (RACE)
From https://github.com/tst-race/race-docs/blob/main/what-is-race... it sounds pretty similar to how TOR works
upon_drumhead··on Black Myth: Wukong Devs Told Streamers to Avoid Politics in Their Playthroughs
Valve just announced that games existence a few days ago and it's still deep in development. I'm not sure what point you are trying to make based upon its count of early play-testers?
upon_drumhead··on Show HN: I made a game to show how bad the NYC rental market is
It's unclear, but they do link the postings after you're done, unfortunately it's been rented today https://streeteasy.com/building/62-west-48-street-new_york/5...
upon_drumhead··on Launch HN: Parity (YC S24) – AI for on-call engineers working with Kubernetes
If an issue can be automatically detected and remediated, do you really need a runbook? That space has to be huge. I don't see a purpose for documenting it.

That said, a tool that runs through existing runbooks and improves them or suggests new ones would be extremely useful IMHO.

upon_drumhead··on NASA announces Boeing Starliner crew will return on SpaceX Crew-9
Manager's entire job is to provide the organizational support and navigate the organizational challenges to allow the non-manager employees the space to do their job. When we talk about systemic organizational failures, managers are the ones that own that problem and are accountable for the failures.

Sure, on an individual basis, you have pockets of amazing managers that can't overcome organizational inertia. I feel for them as well, but when organizational failures come into play, I'm certainly taking more pity on the employees then the managers.

upon_drumhead··on NASA announces Boeing Starliner crew will return on SpaceX Crew-9
Because while the issues are serious and many, Boeing is still making extremely safe and working airplanes. It's impressive and shows that in general, things are going right. It doesn't excuse the decay and issues, but this isn't a case where everything they do is faulty. they're just held to an extremely high bar.
upon_drumhead··on NASA announces Boeing Starliner crew will return on SpaceX Crew-9
Boeing is made up of a lot of people, some who have done their absolute best. They don't deserve the failure that their leadership caused. I feel bad for Boeing employees, but I don't feel bad for their management.
upon_drumhead··on Is your website Secure!
They only give themselves 85/100.

https://inspect.new/inspect.new

upon_drumhead··on Starlink Now Being Deployed on U.S. Navy Warships
Curious as to the timing given 9 days ago it looks like Russian Navy might be planning to use starlink on their naval drones. Would StarLink eventually be able to control nation state conflicts by disabling connectivity to the side they don't like? They've previously done this to Ukrainian drones.

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2024/08/new-russian-nav...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/musk-stopped-ukraine-atta...

upon_drumhead··on Webtoon Targets 170 Pirate Domains Through DMCA Subpoena
It's also user generated content. So it's akin to the OnlyFans "mirrors" or Pateron "mirrors". It's absolutely taking money away from creators and I'm totally okay with the action against the operators.
upon_drumhead··on Hurricane season has flatlined. When will it roar back to life?
> Oceanic Heat Content (OHC) is the measure of the integrated vertical temperature from the sea surface to the depth of the 26°C isotherm and computed from the altimeter-derived isotherm depths in the upper ocean relative to 20°C.

https://coastwatch.noaa.gov/cwn/products/oceanic-heat-conten...

They calculate based upon the depth of a specific temperature rather then temperature at a specific depth.

upon_drumhead··on GM to Cut More Than 1k Software Engineers, Mostly in US
> The moves come two months after former Apple Inc. executives David Richardson and Baris Cetinok were promoted to senior vice president roles in the group

I wonder if they're doing this to just move the jobs to the Bay Area.

upon_drumhead··on Artificial intelligence is losing hype
I'm not sure that is realistic anymore. The run of free money is over and I expected that markets are going to be very picky compared to a few years ago
upon_drumhead··on Boeing Halts 777X Flight Tests over Damage Found in Engine Mount
we're still making huge leaps forward in the quality of the base materials, until we stop making progress there, I don't think we're able to say that we're at the practical limit.
upon_drumhead··on Parents outraged at Snoo after smart bassinet company charges fee to rock crib
No, I think this is greedier than that.

> The company's founder, Harvey Karp, said the pricing change was necessary to "bring in revenue," noting that the company was not underwritten by a university or the government, and must survive on its sales alone. He said his ultimate goal would be to see the Snoo paid for by the government or by insurance companies, but it's unclear if there has been any substantive movement toward achieving that end.

They want the government/insurance to buy them in bulk and then rent seek for everyone using them. There's zero reason why for the price this couldn't be done completely local and not cost Snoo a cent to run. They just don't want to because the long term strategy is to collect revenue forever.

upon_drumhead··on Why toilet paper keeps getting smaller and smaller
just wait until they realize they can perforate down the middle and double the sheet count!
upon_drumhead··on You don't see many USB-C ports on the market [video]
[2019] should be added to the title
upon_drumhead··on Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player
> But excuses about not being possible for absolutely every possible codec in a completely generic way is just denying that the world is just a chaotic and dirty place where things are not ideal nor perfect.

It's also not consistently applied. VLC will happily let you jump around in the videos, so his claim that the only way to do it is to play the video as fast as possible from the start of the video just doesn't jive with what is already there.

upon_drumhead··on Elon Musk is the Star of Project 2025
War. War never changes.
upon_drumhead··on AI Seinfeld was the peak of AI-generated content. It will never happen again
That's this thread id?
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