dragoncrab

Myspace and early Facebook were already a downgrade to classic chatrooms. I met with so many interesting people on chat in the early 2000s and have met with many offline as well. Multiple times I've travelled 6+ hours to participate in chat meetups with 20-50 others from the same chatroom.

Those were different times: Over 4 years, I've never received a d*ckpic or was target of stalking, harassment, abuse or scam. People were genuinely interested in each other, chat was not about building a personal brand and anonymity didn't make commenters psychos.

I'm not sure if ignorance was bliss, or times changed so much, but as an adult, I feel online communication has became a battlefield where I need to protect my sanity every time I interact with it. Rage bait, fake news, ads, bot farms, lies in a never ending flood. I wouldn't let my children to even try to live the same, uncontrolled online life I had.

I think the heat dissipation relative to volume of the ISS is way lower than these satellites, yet that already needs sizable thermal radiators to cool: https://physics.stackexchange.com/q/150004

GPUs are also very power hungry, I need about 2 square meter of solar panels on my room to feed a single RTX 5090 during summer. How many do you want to send up in a single satellite?

What about the data link? Real world Starlink speeds are capping around 300 Mbps. I understand that is a shared link with plenty of peers but what is a realistic bandwidth between these satellites and some fixed, earth receiving stations?

Google just got hacked in June:

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/voi...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2025/08/09/google-c...

How do LLMs calculate statistic metrics like average or standard deviation accurately in such experiments?

The background of the multiple hacks that led to the demise of Mt. Gox got a nice coverage on Darknet Diaries in 2017: https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/9/

Since Monday numerous customers in Hungary are getting charged by Apple Pay without any reason. It looks that settled past trnsactions are booked again by error. Even blocking your debit card does not prevent the transactions. More coverage in Hungarian: https://telex.hu/techtud/2024/06/28/apple-bank-mnb-bankszove...

Totally agree.

I always cry on the inside when I see those beautifully designed, symmetrical, detailed sets taken apart and tossed together to form the next ninja castle or whatever, but after all Lego is to be taken apart and my 6-8-9 year olds have no remorse in doing so.

And this means a 10x increase in the thermistor price compared to the toaster. It cold be even as high as $2 for a piece!

I don't want to be rude, but given the average quality of material produced by big consulting companies I have encountered over my career, I'm not that surprised that GPT4 beats them.

All the big corps I ever worked for had their devices configured to go through the central VPN and proxy even for browsing.

But I guess blocking $$$ corporate visitors should be fine by you as well.

Have visited the site through my self hosted OpenVPN tunnel and got 0 for both the VPN and proxy score.

The title is misleading. Only the fairly new and surprisingly expensive SMRs were taken into account, the much cheaper traditional nuclear power plants weren't. Which could be fine, but then don't generalise your findings across the entire nuclear landscape.

Given how easy it would be to turn in an AI generated patent claiming that you were the inventor I think this is some legal activism and the guy doesn't actually care about these patents.

I can't tell the goal, but is likely about clarifying the legal framework or even influence it by creating precedents in these clear scenarios.

Being target of an investigation can have enormous costs.

I've been there several times.

I needed to provide ample of documents that took time to assemble and I needed to take part on in person hearings, once in a town 200 km away from my residence.

Yes, they pay for the travel and by law my employer needs to provide me extra vacation for those days, but being the guy who needs to take 2 more days again doesn't necessarily boost your career and I'm sure my family would had appreciated if I spend the weekends with them instead of reading up legalisation.

Neither case I've done anything wrong and I was always very cooperative.

I broke, when I was fined for tax evasion, presented evidence on 3 hearings that they were wrong and after they revoked the fine, I still needed to pay interest as according to law I should had paid the fine while the appeal was in progress and since I didn't, I need to pay a surcharge for the delay. Given the entire case was a huge government error I could had appeal against the surcharge, but I didn't want to go through 3 more hearings.

You can absolutely bankrupt entire families both financially and emotionally with this shit.

Not reflecting to this particular theory, but in general history is full of theories which were not testable at their birth, but both engineering and the evolution of the theory eventually found a way to do so, even if it took a century.

Black holes, Higgs bozon and neutrinos are a few popular examples.

Not in the US or EU. However, they can still sue you in the US and due to the broken legal system there, it will cost you decent money even if they are bound to lose from day 1.

And there are 100 times more potentially fraudulent transactions than climate contributions.

Humanity at scale...

Antigua. Shame on me, but the first time I hear about this country...

The article claims this is a common problem in the developed countries, not just in the USA.

Happy you.

All the 3 ISPs I dealt with in Hungary in the last 10 years provided 0 firewall capability for IPv6 in their integrated router/modem.

Once you start assigning the addresses, every compatible IoT gadget you have is reachable from the public web.

In this state, IPv6 is a pure security stepback for average residential users with 0 upside.

I can't take any comment seriously who is speaking of configuring a stateful firewall in a residential environment.

Is there anything similar in other European countries as well?

Even when I'm at home with a mouse, I tend to fall back to the trackpoint to adjust sliders or pick colours precisely in Lightroom. Trackpoints on my Thinkpad give superior position control to everything tried from Mac trackpad to digital tables.

The only drawback is that moving the cursor across 3 screens is way too slow using the trackpoint.

I have measured this while being away for a week during winter.

While there is ventilation in the building, it's off while noone is at home.

Although the scenario in question was for a complete blackout where the ventillation would be off as anyway, your are right that people inside would need to open windows every now and then which would increase heat loss.

Heat is less likely to kill you directly if you aren't forced to do physical work without any protection. However, tens of thousands of square kilometers of agricultural land is turned to desert in Central Europe with every single degree the yearly average temperature rises. Droughts are decimating crops made for prices skyrocket even before the war in Ukraine. That has some harder to attribute but none of the less serious killer potential.

On your other thoughts: I live in a well insulated home (30 cm brick wall with 18 cm graphite insulation). With a 30 celsius difference in internal and external temperature and no heating, my living room drops about 1,5 - 2 Celsius a day. Starting from 21, that gives a week before situation starts to become serrious during a complete blackout.

I've spent some time to deploy shared ccache for our Azure Devops PR builds as well as locally. The 1 hour build time went down to 5 minutes for release, about 9 for debug. It took another 2-3 minutes to download/upload the shared ccache, so it's still a good 6 time speedup, not to mention that it takes much less CPU.

The trick is to set --fdebug-prefix-map and -fprofile-dir to proper relative paths and then with some extra scripting caches will be reusable across build nodes even if the workspace directory is different for each build.

This and distcc (or IncrediBuild) are a game changer for every serious C++ workshop.

In Hungary, you can digitally sign documents using your ID card or your online account at the local equivalent of gov.uk. Certificates are signed and managed by the government. Quite handy for everyday contracts like an apartment renovation.