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cf100clunk

6,406 karmajoined 9년 전
A look in the mirror confirms I'm a greybeard:

career SunOS, Solaris, HP-UX, Apollo Domain, Linux system administrator, network administrator, instructor, dabbler in BSDs

Submissions

Your Kids' School Bus Is About to Become a Roaming Surveillance Vehicle

thedrive.com
92 points·by cf100clunk·10일 전·92 comments

The Vespa at 80

cbc.ca
172 points·by cf100clunk·10일 전·175 comments

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1 points·by cf100clunk·20일 전·0 comments

Smokey Yunick's Hot Vapor Engine Was Equally Genius and Horribly Unsafe

jalopnik.com
3 points·by cf100clunk·21일 전·1 comments

Marathon Petroleum Company Is Making Diesel from Soybeans

jalopnik.com
2 points·by cf100clunk·21일 전·1 comments

Tell HN: Raspberry Pi Connect Terms of Service Go Full GDPR

raspberrypi.com
2 points·by cf100clunk·23일 전·1 comments

Leaked Alleged Text of Trump-Iran Deal

mediaite.com
4 points·by cf100clunk·24일 전·1 comments

Starbucks Korea to shut stores for history lesson after bungled coffee promotion

theguardian.com
4 points·by cf100clunk·25일 전·2 comments

Over the Hill Preview: Virtual Off-Roading That Will Lower Your Blood Pressure

thedrive.com
3 points·by cf100clunk·25일 전·0 comments

Most Beautiful Will Ever Made (1936)

paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
86 points·by cf100clunk·28일 전·17 comments

Sources: Gordie Howe Bridge ribbon-cutting to take place Friday

freep.com
1 points·by cf100clunk·29일 전·1 comments

Dealership revoked offer to buy back customer's BMW, blaming wayward AI chatbot

cbc.ca
16 points·by cf100clunk·30일 전·5 comments

The Last Evolution, by John W Campbell Jr. (1932)

gutenberg.org
32 points·by cf100clunk·지난달·6 comments

There's a 137-Inch Bugatti TV Now, and It Folds

thedrive.com
2 points·by cf100clunk·지난달·0 comments

One NFS Most Wanted Feature Was So Controversial, It Drove Developers to Quit

thedrive.com
1 points·by cf100clunk·지난달·1 comments

Plan to declare Dominion Voting Systems machines national security risks fails

twitter.com
4 points·by cf100clunk·2개월 전·1 comments

Yearslong fight over users' right to tweak smart TV software heads to trial

arstechnica.com
27 points·by cf100clunk·2개월 전·0 comments

Trump Plans to Sign Executive Order Granting Oversight of A.I. Models

nytimes.com
10 points·by cf100clunk·2개월 전·2 comments

Trump Mobile Phone Is Finally Released–With a Major Blunder

thedailybeast.com
6 points·by cf100clunk·2개월 전·2 comments

Canada's RCAF Snowbirds to be grounded after 2026 until new aircraft arrive

cbc.ca
3 points·by cf100clunk·2개월 전·0 comments

comments

cf100clunk
·3일 전·discuss
SFU's Burnaby campus was hugely present in the X-Files years shot in Canada. The brutalist architecture of Arthur Erickson and Geoffrey Massey lent itself perfectly to the scifi-noir vibe.
cf100clunk
·3일 전·discuss
I recall a character on an X-Files episode who called himself "Lord Kinbasket". Fun for anyone who knows of Kinbasket Lake in BC.
cf100clunk
·10일 전·discuss
That point-of-view doesn't soothe anyone alarmed by expansion of warrantless law enforcement surveillance.
cf100clunk
·10일 전·discuss
The concern is the sharing of such surveillance with law enforcement and other government agencies.
cf100clunk
·10일 전·discuss
There are ways to gently inform the person(s) of your discomfort. If communicated well, it can be settled. In one case I dealt with, body odour of someone on my team was causing another person distress, but some gentle, kind advice (yes, it was embarrassing as hell so we did it in private) and a quick trip by him to the shops for some deodorant resolved the problem almost instantly. Here's hoping.
cf100clunk
·20일 전·discuss
Ya, but it still uses systemd, and the version is now 7.9.
cf100clunk
·21일 전·discuss
HEVC is provided by the official, licensed h265 standard. The open source ~HEVC-compliant codec library is x265 created by VideoLAN but was apparently not an option for Microsoft.
cf100clunk
·21일 전·discuss
> twosopbts.com

I'm not getting DNS NX results.
cf100clunk
·21일 전·discuss
I believe his engine was considered to have thermodynamically adiabatic design goals.
cf100clunk
·21일 전·discuss
Perhaps they meant "The" as in "The one and only" Doctor Who Treats Patients With A Gaming Mouse?
cf100clunk
·21일 전·discuss
Similarly, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48608732
cf100clunk
·21일 전·discuss
The water source is also a factor if you're using a portable drum mixer. One batch from a well can be quite different from another batch from a treated water system or a running creek.

EDIT: kids, don't pour fuel into a generator right along a creekside without a funnel or care for the enviroment (~25 minute mark of that video)
cf100clunk
·21일 전·discuss
Similarly, I've lived in low-lying, high moisture land areas where local authorities were extremely strict about people needing to use only approved footing plans. I've also lived in forested areas with strict codes and rules on fire mitigation and prevention, so tree and scrub proximity was a very serious concern.
cf100clunk
·21일 전·discuss
In places like North America where strict building codes are enforced, there are three important factors that should concern everyone who is thinking of not properly consulting and building to those specifications:

1. Inspectors and authorities will act against your non-codeworthy plans and builds; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe after a few years. Perhaps they'll level a fine, perhaps they'll order the complete demolition of it by their own appointed workers or contractors, at your own expense.

2. Insurers will never pay out for damages caused to or by your non-codeworthy builds. It is the perfect excuse for them to not pay out. It doesn't matter whether your design has qualities that you can demonstrate are equal or superior to officially recognized standards, you lose.

3. If someone is injured or dies on your non-codeworthy project, you'll fail a ton of personal injury and other legal challenges at your own expense.
cf100clunk
·23일 전·discuss
Canada's shipping ports have had rat infestations for hundreds of years, even up the Great Lakes. DNA studies show that once a local population became established long ago, it defended itself repeatedly from incursions, and carries on. Alberta has no sea ports, so rats hitch rides there on trains, trucks, and in packaging. The scale is much, much smaller, so Alberta is somewhat able to eradicate them.
cf100clunk
·23일 전·discuss
Registrees and users of Raspberry Pi Connect have been emailed a notice of changes to the Terms Of Service that include these troubling UK GDPR-based updates:

  -   Schedule 1 (Acceptable Use Policy):
  Introduces guardrails in respect of acceptable
  use. It also defines what constitutes a
  Security Event—such as introducing
  vulnerabilities, network scanning, etc. It also
  prohibits using the service to view or stream
  high-risk data.
  
  -   Schedule 2 (Data Processing Schedule):
  Codifies our respective privacy roles under the
  UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018.
  Raspberry Pi acts as a “mere conduit” for
  encrypted session data, guarantees that visual
  feeds are never stored or inspected in a
  decrypted format, and locks down metadata log
  retention to a strict 90-day deletion cap.
  
  Additionally, the new terms reinforce that they
  apply in addition to the Raspberry Pi General
  Terms and Conditions and shall prevail
  regarding your use of Connect in the event of
  any conflict.
cf100clunk
·24일 전·discuss
Like it says on the tin, alleged.
cf100clunk
·25일 전·discuss
This really jumped out:

''Marketers chose the “thwack” slogan after consulting an AI tool for suggestions, Shinsegae Group said. It turned out some managers who approved the campaign never opened the email attachments showing the marketing material.

The company pulled the campaign within hours, but the fallout was swift and the chief executive was sacked the same day.''
cf100clunk
·26일 전·discuss
Replace ''dupe'' with ''related'' as you've done in the past.
cf100clunk
·26일 전·discuss
The topic is the same, but the links are not dupes. Check this out:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=last24h&page=0&prefix=true...