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That's going to be a hard test. Have you ever heard Danish?

For the age of the Internet, running a website metered is a pretty new phenomenon. Or at least this directly metered. 20 years ago maybe you would pay for your monthly 95th percent…

Oh, that's what "Anthropic's search crawler, had requested 420,680 pages in one week. That same week, Claude sent me 12 human visitors" meant? Yeah, googling it does seem like "Cla…

Something suspiciously absent from this article is addressing whether some of these are in fact human visitors, but humans issuing chatgpt or similar queries instead of going direc…

In a "realtime system", sure. But for almost all workloads programs have to deal with overshooting. Like, maybe CPU overloaded or swap intensity caused that second to "disappear". …

That's exactly what I see happening when a leap second is ADDED. A leap second is added. The system goes "oh shit, I'm a second ahead", and subtracts a second. And that's how you g…

While it doesn't produce an image, not having 2D data, KrakenSDR has some cool direction finding too.

The topic was energy expense of wideband vs narrowband jamming. Both can be used for targeting.

As per my linked blog post…

Which is a completely unrelated to what we were talking about.

Which is a completely unrelated to what we were talking about.

It can still be in scope: > Direction finding equipment for determining bearings to specific electromagnetic sources or terrain characteristics specially designed for defense artic…

> huge incentive to resell the free service Not all mobile data APNs go to the Internet. You can't resell an IP service that lands on an RFC1918 network with exactly one IP:port av…

Homing in on sources of electromagnetic transmissions has been a thing since at least the BV246 in 1943. The first phased array systems date back to 1905. We have had some time to …

But the jammer can be plugged in to the grid or a diesel generator. Being on the ground without flight requirements grants access to such resources.

If you own your home I'd say you need a thermal imager. Just the ability to diagnose clogged pipes is priceless. https://x.com/ThermoInstagram/status/909356506059026432 Also for ch…

I'd say yes we are ready. gettimeofday() should never be used to measure time[1], but at least with a negative leap second it's monotonic. We'll just get some poorly coded stuff cl…

Personally, I hate split horizon DNS. I prefer the "BeyondCorp" model. I MUCH prefer putting an mTLS cert in my trusted devices over relying on VPNs in same devices. I've yet to se…

I got reminded every week that my static site generator "Jekyll" is insecure. Ok. Hacking me by changing the input to my Jekyll rather involves being on the other side of the airti…

Hate to break it to you, but anything can legally be taken away from you by the justice system. And fighting the government can put you in prison, too. It's just LARPing.

1. A looong skim before it's revealed which type of "crypto" this is about. Because quantum computers, real crypto is also having a challenging year. 2. 2026? Cryptocurrency was al…

> One pattern I saw repeatedly was a contractor being let go, only to return via a large outsourcing provider. The provider must have added a substantial markup despite supplying t…

Oops, I actually replied to the wrong comment. I replied here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48617774 But it's a relevant reply to both comments, so copied here: Yes, my und…

Yes, my understanding is that I should be able to emulate sendfile via splice. The problem with that is that splice requires one end to be a pipe. So I think this means two extra f…