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GPON sniffing made easy, but that is only the first step: nowhere does this project mention AES, churning keys, or any decryption routine. Nowadays most GPON traffic is encrypted (…

They are relevant to me, because I often look for documents rather than answers. I think the market segmentation is: - Seeking documents: search engine - Seeking answers: LLM

Save yourself the blogspam, go directly to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave-dissipating_concrete_bloc... and enjoy the whole collection !

> I ditched osmand because the interface is so convoluted. Ridiculously so OSMand is a cartographer's friend - it does everything and more... With all the drawbacks of doing that. …

> Are there any side effects of leaving Immich public ? Yes: it is necessary to share selected albums through public URL.

> Euro English I call it Eurospeak, for extra outrage - though that word currently has European Union civil service connotations (cf. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Eurospeak ) Eur…

This French person has taken to writing in en-GB, as a token of protest against current USAian politics. I thank the USA for this step in French-British rapprochement ! Also, in th…

... And that is the straw that broke the camel's back - and convinced my elderly father to accept my offer to migrate to KDE. Also, I can now shield him from most of the incomprehe…

kha-euh-ro - including the "euh" impronounceable by non-French.

In French project management parlance, we use k€ all the time.

> HN is an online community. Same as forums, and BBSs were. That is the very definition of social media. "Social media I like" vs. "Social media I don't like" isn't valid categoriz…

Sorry, and thank you for noticing. I tried posting the correct URL at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48386203 - but HN mangled the it again... So, I had actually posted it ri…

I entered the MANGO rabbit hole... Lots of 5:7211 lore from 1994 at https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Comp_Articles/Health_Net_Zimb.h... - satellite groundstation too !

Programming sequencers visually and with tons of help from the tooling pushes the ear sharpening later in the learning process - and I'm only now starting to realize that maybe mak…

I suppose one's ear gets sharpened fast, out of necessity - but I recoil at imagining what the other band members have to get through meanwhile. The process for violin is the same …

> But, how can a trombone ever be better than the piano when there’s so many variables? Well, unlike a piano, where each key produces a fixed pitch, a trombone lets me subtly adjus…

In Harare in 1998, I remember the pleasant surprise of finding a good "internet café" in some downtown office building... Was Fidonet still active in Zimbabwe at that time, or had …

Early KDE made no sense for me - I went Gnome, then migrated to xfce in disgust... I saw myself using an increasing number of KDE applications (I was impressed by Dolphin and Kate)…

> I use KDE now as a bog standard boring Linux desktop that just works "bog standard boring Linux desktop that just works" is a low key major achievement - I love it !