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Broadly-defined "hostile acts" in UK national security law Reasoning: * Original report behind the article: "State Threats Legislation in 2024" [0], i.e., UK national security law …

The Casio CMD-40 https://old.reddit.com/r/casio/comments/15n9anq/did_we_all_f... I am wearing one right now - it has been my daily driver for literally decades (While it has VCR co…

Supercronic: https://github.com/aptible/supercronic Designed to run in a container, but should equally well work on a single host. However, no option for "high availability" runnin…

I agree on both points, and with the earlier comment: > I would love to know what processes MS is considering to prevent this in the future as well as what kind of auditing might b…

There are other possibilities, for example, the person may have thought that they were complying with the MIT licence by releasing the new project under the MIT licence too + inclu…

Previously: Can't Unsee - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27188989 - May 2021 (126 comments) Related: Find the Odd Disk - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43745868 - April…

> I'd like to see a similar study about which text was perfectly kerned, or by how many pixels an element was off-center or misaligned. > Swear on me mum I saw a game about kerning…

YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RST_ylwVrUw&t=1m27s

- https://portal.whois.ax/register - https://whois.ax/en/for-registrars/ "Apply as ax-registrar" - seems like .ax makes it especially easy. (This is news to me!)

Related game Velocity Raptor (2012): https://www.testtubegames.com/velocityraptor.html Previously discussed: - "Velocity Raptor – an adventure in 2+1 dimensions" (Mar 2015, 39 comm…

2038, you say? If your calendar is based on Unix epoch time, then ensure that you have upgraded to 64-bit timestamps before then.

JavaScript has been about since 1995, and certainly by no later than the early 2000s was used for these animations.

One of the other examples [0] features a "random number" which might not be entirely random [1]. [0] https://voussoir.net/writing/css_for_printing/#media_print [1] https://en.wikip…

Related: - Today - "Alaska Airlines grounds Boeing 737 Max 9 planes after mid-air window blowout" (47 comments, so far): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38889774

Previous related(?): - Yesterday (Friday 2024-01-05): "Boeing wants FAA to exempt MAX 7 from safety rules to get it in the air" (417 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id…

This is the problem that 'venv' (virtual environments) was designed to solve. You can run pip in an isolated virtual environment, in user mode (not as root) - see https://gist.gith…

The binary was compiled with Cosmopolitan Libc [0], and therefore the binary will execute natively on Linux, Mac, Windows, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and bare metal (BIOS boot). I w…

Counterexample: https://gandalf.lakera.ai/ Discussed at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35905876 "Gandalf – Game to make an LLM reveal a secret password" (May 2023, 351 comme…

This is a very good point, and why I would argue that a human-in-the-loop is essential to pre-review customer-facing output.

A cautionary tale for why not to put unfiltered ChatGPT output directly to customers. Nitter mirror: https://nitter.net/ChrisJBakke/status/1736533308849443121 Related - "New kind o…

Ironically, ChromeOS is likely the most security-conscious OS available for developers. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37783081 However, it is definitely not the most pr…

Context: "click" - "Command Line Interface Creation Kit" - easily create CLIs from Python code, via adding decorators: https://github.com/pallets/click "click-web" in turn turns th…