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I meant more in terms of leaking PII ;) Thanks for caring though, and hang in there :)

You are correct @idontknow.... I did omit some ellipses; My Bad. Thank you for pointing it out (Unfortunately the edit window has closed otherwise I would add them :) )

Disclaimer: I'm about to disclose some personal information so will probably burn this nick shortly. I am slowly going blind (long, boring story; only relevance to the topic is dur…

Alternate link for those hitting the WSJ PayWall https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/24/22994332/uber-yellow-taxi... (link submitted by pseudolus https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…

Kudos to them - ya gotta give Credit where credit is due. It's good to see them take a second bite of the Apple. (all extremely bad puns - its been a long day with an early start)

If the raw material for the smoke signal was cannabis bushes - would that qualify as a High frequency transmission?

“If it’s made out of electrical components then you should be able to scale it down to a microchip,” he says. “I think that’s where they’re going with this.” Mind.Blown. This could…

A quick DDG brought up this list https://itsfoss.com/lightweight-linux-beginners/ Out of all of them on the list I would go for antiX ( https://download.tuxfamily.org/antix/docs-an…

Really? Then your experience differs greatly from mine (EU based). My usual mix of 'fastest anycast' upstreams’ are reliably black-holing a lot of .ru domains right now (Rightly or…

Thanks for that, appreciated. I'll be honest- I'm just a 'little guy' in the food chain so I always figured that doing something like that was for the ISP level folks One quick que…

Hi HN - Here’s a question that I hope will generate some useful comments, suggestions and links. Background for question: I normally run an internal DNS resolver with an upstream p…

I believe that every new account is shown a banner to https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html (The answer to that question is FAQ #5)

In this case the vendor engineers were from Boeing - Ya know, the same company that brought us the 737MAX MCAS fiasco. I mean sure, hindsight is a wonderful thing but given the his…

" The reports were inaccurate, based on misinterpretations of the documents, which were real. " (TFA, 4th Paragraph). So does that mean the article's title is clickbaitish? I think…

I usually use a 'what are either side saying about it' and then apply a 'there are always three sides to things ' heuristic transform filter. Unfortunately with all the censorship,…

Dumb Question here but my thoughts were - why not push the corrupted update to the sats? AKA hack the sat firmware? I'm fairly certain that they aren't wide open doors but still - …

Why is it something that you feel needs fixing? Caring deeply about something you care about is a good thing, it shows pride in your work/craft. Sure, nothing and nobody is ever 10…