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whynotmaybe··on 'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees
How soon till someone hack into a system to implant fake proofs so that a trial can be canceled because the system was hacked Ferris-Bueller style?
whynotmaybe··on 'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees
> data totalled between two and three terabytes.

That's lot of data for a list of employees.

whynotmaybe··on ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026
And we mustn't compare it with the ecological impact of using gas in a democracy instead of nuclear under a communist regime
whynotmaybe··on The Machine Behind Michael Jackson's "Undeniable" Genius
I understood the machine = the Quincy Jones–Michael Jackson–Rod Temperton triangle
whynotmaybe··on If You Knew God Exists, Wouldn't You Become a Priest?
Why even call it "god" if it was created by humans?

Should I call my kids "god" because they're smarter than me?

whynotmaybe··on Disney+ changes subscriber agreement to allow ads on every plan
A few days ago I watched a few music clips on YouTube to remind me of my MTV youth. There was an ad between every song, sometimes 60 seconds ad for pickup trucks or makeup, each promising happiness with their products. I felt like I was in this scene in idiocracy https://youtu.be/hj7c0J_V1L8. It's now clear that ads are legal brain malware.
whynotmaybe··on Global shortage has led to motor oil rationing at Costco
Wouldn't panic buying increase the problem for everyone else? Just like toilet paper in 2020?
whynotmaybe··on I'm being cyberattacked by Tesla, Inc
TIL. I'll modify my firmware tonight.
whynotmaybe··on If a Tesla Cybercab fleet were profitable, Tesla wouldn't sell you one
So capitalism is also your enemy?
whynotmaybe··on Flock used >100 times to track veteran who recorded traffic stop
Maybe have something on the plate that prevents reading from certain angles? There was a ticket dismissed in Quebec a few years ago for an "unreadable plate" because the car had a bike rack hiding the plate but the ticket had the plate number on it so it was not unreadable
whynotmaybe··on PPWR lands another blow to an precarious tabletop industry
I should search for similar articles when lead was banned in paint or CFC in aerosol cans.
whynotmaybe··on Boot a Virtual iPhone via Apple's Virtualization.framework
The simulator doesn't have a camera. The android emulator allows to configure the camera and use a picture, it's very handy to test your qr/barcode reader without needing to use a physical device. Maybe this also allows to use an image as camera?
whynotmaybe··on Incident with Github.com
That's the reason why my build agent is self-hosted
whynotmaybe··on Grok Bot
It should be studied how we reached a point where we trust more a Chinese company, that's well know for being state controlled, vs an American company because it seems they could do worse. Still no idea what "worse" it could do because we've reached the threshold where plague and cholera are intertwined and every possible outcome seems abusive.
whynotmaybe··on Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo
You can rent a car without buying it
whynotmaybe··on France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls
The book Traction has identified 19 different channels to promote your products, they are explained many places, one example : https://growthmethod.com/traction-channels/
whynotmaybe··on Study links GLP-1 drugs to bigger jump in women's employment than a degree
Fuck. Good thing I'm self employed.
whynotmaybe··on Force-Fed by ICE
Just remember that most soldiers who worked in concentration camps in WW2 were never punished until very recently : https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33533264
whynotmaybe··on Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's
I guess you're not aware of the story about a guy that found a fly in his coffee at Tim Horton's
whynotmaybe··on Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
No, because you have to manage communication between different teams on "how" and "what" about the single browser, much easier to let every team do their "best" without any external interference
whynotmaybe··on Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
Back in my days, I had to remove the mouse driver from autoexec so that microprose grand pirx had 600kb of ram to start
whynotmaybe··on A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website
> Revenue settles in $CLAW tokens

Yes, but no.

whynotmaybe··on Gpiozero Flow
Should we call this luciana1u's law?

If BizTalk has it, why shouldn't my visual programming tool have it?

whynotmaybe··on Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly
Cue to younger me that discovered the difference between water resistant and water proof when I found out that my "7 melodies electronic watch" didn't survive after a few minutes in the swimming pool.

Will the UNA hint us with a little bit of fog on the window?

whynotmaybe··on The Strongest El Niño Ever
Yes for temperature but what about CO2 ppm?
whynotmaybe··on Stolen Buttons
https://jdan.github.io/98.css/
whynotmaybe··on Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team
Maybe it's a Linux thing?

I've been using it on Windows for years with multiple devices and it's been working flawlessly.

whynotmaybe··on Qwen 3.8
They use it in Babylon5 (supposedly) in 2260!
whynotmaybe··on How did Windows 95 decide that a setup program ran?
I sometimes feel like Hal changing a lightbulb[1] when I'm trying to install an app on Linux, either I don't have the correct distro, I need to enter km long command line to add some repository to apt, I need to download 346 packages from I don't know where to the build the app, and finally find out that it's not what I wanted.

Yes, I know that's how Linux works and I know all the advantages of that, but when you see now that many install are just 'curl mywebsite.com/install.sh | bash', you start to wonder which is a "good" solution.

1. https://youtu.be/AbSehcT19u0

whynotmaybe··on Canada's only watchmaking school still ticking after 80 years
I discovered this school right after discovering the Richard Mille clock in Quebec City [1] because the school is responsible for maintaining the clock.

1. https://www.ville.quebec.qc.ca/en/apropos/portrait/attraits/...

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