My speculation on this is that China/Russia/whoever targets ISP's in order to identify people by IP that have come to their attention somehow.
Your credentials aren't the only point of interest, your credentials gives up subscriber information name/email/address/etc. That's pretty valuable from an intelligence standpoint.
Readit News> from an environmental standpoint
From an environmental standpoint all banknotes should be shredded and burned and everyone should use contactless means of payment.
Sure. And we should do nothing but subsistence farming as well. But that's not really practical.
Plastic doesn't seem like a good solution, considering that notes are moved, stretched, flexed a lot and endure a lot of friction. Seems like a needless source for more plastic particles shedding into the environment.
You might be surprised to learn that a lot of the world uses polymer banknotes which are siignificantly more durable and last a lot longer than traditional 'paper' based currencies. The are incredibly hard to tear/break and they do not wear out or stretch. We've been using these in Australia since 1996.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymer_banknote
Having handled a fair amount of US currency I can say it _feels_ disgusting to handle after a certain amount of wear and often reminds me of a moist tissue. It also doesn't help that visually the notes all look very similar (as opposed to on polymer notes which have significantly different appearances and colours)
a5withtrrs commented on Let the internet be grimy tedium.co/2023/07/08/thre... · Posted by u/ecliptik
The Old Internet was mostly populated by English-speakers who could afford Internet access and had the attention span to work through the process of getting online. The ratio of legit hackers to Septemberites was a lot higher. Corporations had only the vaguest impression of how to exploit Internet users for profit. Foreign nation-states didn't yet have gigabit pipelines pumping out propaganda and misinformation. Cyberspace hadn't been industrialized yet.
Most of the junk you had to clear out of your forum beyond the usual dick pill spam was Serdar Argic[0] bot posts, Time Cube[1] style schizoposting, or trolling from the likes of GNAA[2]. You didn't really even know what they were on about, most of the time. You never felt like you were censoring a legitimate opinion, deleting stuff like that, and anyways, nobody complained. We were there to talk about Star Wars Episode I, make "all your base" jokes, or try to get our Linux drivers working because Bill Gates was the devil.
If you got banned from a popular website, it didn't affect your life outside the Internet at all. (Nowadays, if you die on the Internet, you die in real life.)
Google had no trouble keeping spam blogs out of the page 1 results, but gave you some interesting links if you looked up "santorum". Half the Internet seemed to think 9/11 was an inside job, and there were some frothy arguments about it, but believing either way usually didn't affect the rest of your identity.
It was a wonderful and crazy place, but it was the product of a particular time. And even though I'm angry that the Internet is now just bland junk posted inside digital gated communities, I doubt lightning is going to strike twice. Look to the future, not to the past.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serdar_Argic
What is a 'Septemberite'?
a5withtrrs commented on Civic honesty around the globe (2019) science.org/doi/10.1126/s... · Posted by u/denysonique
I wish they had done this in Japan, Korea and Taiwan as well.
Japan especially as they are particularly well known for their civic honesty.
I'm working on the world's brightest lamp: https://presale.getbrighter.co/
There has been a lot of writing about the benefits of bright light in your house and how to set up your own rig (e.g. https://www.benkuhn.net/lux/), but nobody has built a mass market consumer product (one that's easy to set up, has all the right features (dimmable, adjustable color temp, high CRI), and looks aesthetic).
Feel free to contact me at team@getbrighter.co
Uh. 50,000 Lumens?
That's a lotta lumens.
Which is awesome. But that's also gonna be running at
Imalent MS18 flashlights (which to be fair peak at 100,000 lumens) get well over 120 degrees C in temperature.
Your design seems to have cooling fins. But If it's radiating noticeable amount of heat, I'll only be running it in winter.
Hand-blown titanium crystal glassware for whisk(e)y and spirits.
Produced in Europe by a glass factory that has been operating since the late 1700's.
PG's mantra "do things that don't scale" has been a great inspiration.
I wanted something comparable to high-end wine stemware and it shockingly did not exist, so I designed it during COVID. This is my first physical goods venture and my goodness, it comes with a lot of challenges (as an American I've intimately learned the difficulties of Brexit, for example) but I wouldn't change anything for the world. It's so satisfying to see people use a shining piece of glassware made by real human craftsmen.
The speed at which the glassware been welcomed in the community is overwhelming (both emotionally and from a pure business logistics perspective) and I couldn't be more grateful. Now, just 18 months post-launch, it's used in distilleries ranging from Scotland to Jamaica and Michelin starred restaurants.
For the HN friends, use the code HACKER for 10% off glassware :)
Hello. These look great. But a few things that I'd like:
1) The glass does not specify a volume.
2) I'd love a wine-glass, highball and old fashioned style as well.\
3) The Whisky & Spirits Tumbler does say 'lead free crystal' but doesn't specify it's titanium glassware. Is that correct?
Cheers!
a5withtrrs commented on Hacking root EPP servers to take control of zones hackcompute.com/hacking-e... · Posted by u/iancarroll
I've read through this article several times, and I am failing to see how this could possibly be used to form an attack.
Sure - taking the provider down is bad - but that happens due to unscheduled downtime every other day?
From the article:
>> Speaking with Vince (the administrator of the .ai zone) over WhatsApp, we confirmed that compromising this server would give us full control over any .ai domain:
>> Once administrative access is gained to the CoCCA application, it is possible to control the nameservers for every domain for that ccTLD.
The point is to control domains in a ccTLD. Arbitrary domain hijacking is bad...
a5withtrrs commented on Hacking root EPP servers to take control of zones hackcompute.com/hacking-e... · Posted by u/iancarroll
This is huge! You could control entire ccTLDs?
Just because your reddit or hn had non tiny amount of posts about blockchain or nft, then it does not mean that there was real and significant push towards those in real world
There is huge world outside your twitters and reddits
The amount of internal hype across all areas of the business (especially in the tech areas of the business) with regards to AI has been frankly stunning to witness.