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Open for scammers, rug pulls, and money laundering

Yes, audience size is key. If there was only 50-100 listers (say late at night), does it make sense to run a 1kw microwave for each listener so they each can hear Nickelback?

I know it's more complicated than that, if they shut off the transmitter at night, they would lose listeners in total. I just think it's wasteful compared to other forms of communication.

My concern with radio is energy consumption. Transmitters are only about 50% efficient. So a 50kw transmitter is likely slurping down 100kw of power, 24/7. That can be incredibly wasteful, depending on how many people are listening at any given time.

Compound that with heavy advertising (for some stations) , and the "duty cycle" is even lower. It reminds me of those billboard trucks that drive up and down las Vegas, just burning gasoline, creating traffic, so you can see their ads.

If they were there this whole time but only discovered now, were they really a threat? The reflexive response to this is "those could be exploited for years and we'd never know", but if it was discovered, it obviously wasn't impacting you personally. If they were under lock and key at the NSA and only judiciously used for secret spy BS, that's effectively the same as not existing. Clearly they weren't discovered by all the white hats for this whole time.

Also, if Microsoft hypothetically open sourced their code, do you think there would be more, less, or the same number of CVEs? I would guess more.

I don't want to go too far to defend Linux. I want to make the case that it has been the more secure OS this whole time.

radio.garden has been great for me.

Think of those poor billionaires, I feel terrible for their awful plight!

Maybe that's the true cost of these devices, and the discounts we enjoy on other platforms reflect just how much they make selling our data and apps?

You will get fewer of them because they all must pay a cost for each message sent. Spam works now because it's free.

What is the cheapest transaction fee crypto coin that is still redeemable for Fiat or other crypto?

I think this concept would work if taken a step further, with a new protocol that requires encryption, but only with a key provided by a block chain that cost some nonzero amount. the email server would drop message payloads whose hash wasn't on the chain, limiting DoS attacks.

When the recipient reads the mail, it starts a process of refunding that micro payment that is a 4h cycle that can be interrupted. So if you click "spam", it blocks the refund and you keep the micro payment. Anyone sending bulk emails would go bankrupt.

Anyone using email for normal purposes would only have to buy once to have enough tokens to send a few emails. Most of the time tokens would only be used inside the system, but they would need some monetary value to do their job, so they could be pegged at say $0.10.

There are people doing it today, in the US.

https://youtube.com/@batteryguyz7203

I agree with you that it's a low effort, repetitive drone when people say "that cable job irritates my OCD" or "I still have PTSD from dealing with that annoying person". I don't like hearing it because it makes me think that person is a parrot that repeats common phrases instead of developing their own voice. So at least we agree partially.

I disagree that it's insensitive to those or have the illness. If it hurts you when people use PTSD as a literary special effect, I invite you to articulate why exactly it makes you feel (however it makes you feel - I don't want to put words in your mouth). I get the sense that some people take offense the same way a religious fundamentalist doesn't want to hear their Prophet or Messiah used disrespectfully. The source of the anger is built on faith and dogma.

PTSD sucks on its own. Trying to blame other people for its symptoms is a deflection. It would be like someone with ADHD blaming his inability to concentrate on everyone else in the room making noise or moving around. People with OCD tried this, acting like it's a Monopoly property that you have to pay rent for if you land on it / say its name.

If anything, it's a net positive people are talking about mental health and recognize different ailments such as OCD, PTSD, and others.

My employer has a QA team

Dang (and the other dude) do great work, but still I disagree. The GP comment was extremely low-effort. and while "complaining that HN is turning into reddit" is against site guidelines, I still agree with the critical comment. It's not the profanity alone, but the reddit-ism of the OP using the site as a complaint board (that's a large portion of reddit, especially local subreddits), and then making a 0-effort comment that any reasonable person will automatically agree with. The whole equation taken together is the formula for Reddit's echo chamber. The only people who tolerate that here are the noobs that are stepping outside their reddit coccoon and bringing the stink with them.

That's like saying "the fall doesn't kill you, it's the sudden stop".

I think you should detect the commercial using audio fingerprinting or perhaps video and then mute the commercial for its duration. There aren't that many active commercials, so it shouldn't take long to cover most of them. Bonus if you had intra-commercial finger printing so it knew to say, mute for only a few seconds.

I'd also like to see a visual mute that puts a black box over 85% of the screen, so you could unmute it once you recognize the background is from your show.

Brand logo remover would be nice. So you could watch sports and have it blur the company logos on the sports areas

So you're saying spamming works? He made it to #2, and now the post has been yanked. Clearly it got enough votes to make it to the front page.

There are stories where the air ambulance sues patients who are still in ICU because getting paid depends on being first in line to file the lawsuit.

I've never met him just can't stand how bitterly angry he is / appears to be. He has the anger of someone who is recovering from a beating and plotting his revenge. I don't know if that's how he is normally, or a result of getting thrust into this right to repair. But I'm not going to spend my time watching a jaded, pissed off guy.

Posting here for anyone who might not know this: you can click and hold on most YouTube videos and they will play at 2x. I find that to be a good test at whether the host is communicating effectively. If I can understand them perfectly clear at 2X they are talking too slowly.

My English teachers told me to get to the point, don't start sentences with "and", and every sentence should support the central theme. Apparently authors think they can make their book thicker and more authoritative by wasting time describing the color of something I wouldn't even look at in real life. But I notice and don't fall for it. Sorry you don't value your time.

I gave up on reading because the authors want to spend a considerable number of pages telling me the color of the buttons on an imaginary character's outfit. They have no such right to waste my time with (or even worse, charge me money for) that.

People play games, not firmware. The claim is not to revoke sonys ability to update the hardware.

That's not relevant though. What is being demanded is that a new term that means "less than purchase" be used, making it overtly clear that you are only renting. A pointer indirection to the real word doesn't count.

Hey, we cannot be patriotic here. The only fighting we support is the genocide in Gaza and helping Ukraine because "russia bad".

It's funny that CAs own "environmental" laws actually created the tinder box conditions in the forest. So their solution is more laws, of course.

I would love to contribute towards getting Bluetooth keyboards working on freebsd. They have the drivers and most of the core working, even BT mice work, but keyboards aren't there yet.

the drawback for me was the startup time. it really seemed to hang out on the splash screen for quite a while (just as NT4 did, and ofc they were from the same core)

Yts for movies

A simple solution would be to make licensing deals only apply to new purchases.