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Climate Town has an entertaining and informative video on this topic from last month: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEFBn0r53uQ

Here is a great video showcasing what can and cannot be sent with Australia Post, plus so much more: https://youtu.be/FNdkTWiXaQM

The Norwegian Consumer Council published a report last week on commercial exploitation of children and adolescents online which included a warning against technical blocking of dig…

It is fine to be sceptical, but I think you should have taken a few minutes to read the method chapter in the study, seeing as that possibly could have eased your doubts. The first…

Seeing as this is a topic where the discussion often derails into a flame war, I thought I'd leave a comment to clarify some things. Please try to avoid interpreting other comments…

I find that explaining errors and factual mistakes in LLMs or AI in general as hallucinations to be counter-productive. I don't know if the field has landed on a specific definitio…

BitTorrent's BEP regarding DHT also explains how it works quite clearly. The implementation is based on Kademlia and can be found here: https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0005.htm…

Ohne Makler sponsored the project with 10k USD to make their website render correctly in Ladybird, it was covered in one of the browser update videos last year[0]. [0]: https://you…

I can also recommend getting Consent-o-matic[0]. It automatically completes consent forms on most sites and denies all by default, although this is configurable. It is developed an…

I recently rented at a place where the owner used Google Nest Wifi to get coverage of the whole property. One of those devices was placed in the window sill in my bedroom and didn'…

ArchiveTeam is also currently archiving Skyblog! https://tracker.archiveteam.org/skyblog/

My version is "I have nothing to hide, but I still lock the door when going to the toilet". While I get the point of your retort, I find it can make people defensive and often dera…

To put the hack into perspective, there are 16 ministries in Norway, and 12 were affected by this hack. The article specifies that the only ministries not affected were: the Prime …

Vox made a video about these photographs in 2019. For those who are interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddiOJLuu2mo

This video presents an idea which I find to be mind-boggling and beautiful, in which circuit complexity, a concept taken from computer science, is used in an attempt to better unde…

As photochemsyn previously mentioned, a meta-analysis looks at previous research in order to see if there are any interesting conclusions to draw the combined data. As an example, …

No, only about 3% of the yield is used in the state budget yearly. The oil fund does not invest any of its money in Norway in order to avoid dutch disease. It is not earmarked for …

Bergen municipality released a 25 minute video[0] of the bike ride through the tunnel and into the downtown area of Bergen. If 'sakte TV' or slow TV is something you like, I could …

You left out the specific reason as to why they re-opened coal plants at the end of 2022: "Germany is deploying about 3 gigawatts of coal-fired generation to ensure there are enoug…

Abel was a hugely gifted and influential mathematician who died from tuberculosis at only age 26, only days before he was supposed to receive a letter offering him a position as a …

To those who have not had the joy of playing this game before, it's an evening or two of an interesting incremental game, give it a try! HN could as well have been the target audie…

As a Norwegian I might be biased, but the viking era contains so many weird and interesting facts and happenings. I would strongly recommend checking out more on one of the followi…

Does HN have any recommendations for offline voice assistants? I just want a voice assistant which can do basic things for me locally without connecting to the internet for simple …

According to the Danish Data Protection Agency Denmark has outlawed the use of Google Analytics[0]. Austria, France, and Italy have also done so. [0]: https://www.datatilsynet.dk/e…