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ductsurprise commented on RISC-V single-board computer for less than 40 euros heise.de/en/news/RISC-V-s... · Posted by u/doener

mrweasel · 19 days ago

Is PCI like really expensive? I always wonder why these types of boards are so reluctant to add a PCI-Express slot.

ductsurprise · 19 days ago

Friendly FYI: Some M.2 slots offer up to 4 PCIe lanes.

Though, it looks like on the lite version mentioned here, there is but one PCIe lave available on the slot.

Edit: Adding the size is likely the reason and full regular PCIe is not there. The PCIe card would likely be as big as the board it self. :)

ductsurprise commented on We identified a North Korean hacker who tried to get a job blog.kraken.com/news/how-... · Posted by u/2bluesc

ta1243 · 4 months ago

They're getting interviews left and right

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/29/north_korea_worker_in...

According to Crowdstrike (the company that wiped out most of global technology last year) at least

> My favorite interview question, because we've interviewed quite a few of these folks, is something to the effect of 'How fat is Kim Jong Un?' They terminate the call instantly

ductsurprise · 4 months ago

> My favorite interview question, because we've interviewed quite a few of these folks, is something to the effect of 'How fat is Kim Jong Un?' They terminate the call instantly

I'm sure there were a lot of false positives with that question.

If I was not reading HN and a few other sources I would likely hang up the phone too.

Thinking that it couldn't be a real job,... some phishing scam or hoax, asking ridiculous questions like that.

Depending on the job, it is quite likely the real talent would not be able to take the interview seriously after hearing suck a question.

Seriously weird times...

ductsurprise commented on Nginx: try_files Is Evil Too (2024) getpagespeed.com/server-s... · Posted by u/dextercd

technion · 6 months ago

I agree. But on that final point, I have to say i hate setups where bots hitting thousands of non-existent addresses have every one of them going to a dynamic backed to produce a 404. A while back I made a rails setup that dumped routes to an nginx map of valid first level paths, but I haven't seen anyone else do that sort of thing.

ductsurprise · 6 months ago

See Varnish Cache others... Or use a third party CDN that offers feature.

Lots of ways to configure them with route based behavior-in/validation.

ductsurprise commented on How de-Googled is Lineage OS? kevinboone.me/lineageos-d... · Posted by u/ingve

elric · a year ago

I've given up on Lineage, mostly because updates are a pain. Switched to GrapheneOS and am pretty happy so far. I think their approach of sandboxing the Google-foo is pretty sensible, as it strikes a balance between usability and privacy.

It's a shame that the mobile phone market is such a complete and utter shitshow. Can't root your device because a boatload of apps will stop working. Can't have an unlocked bootloader because other apps will stop working. You effectively have a choice between two walled gardens (and never the twain shall meet!), with varying degrees of privacy violations.

How did we let it come to this? For a brief moment we had the glorious N900 and Maemo ecosystem, but that's all gone now. Open phones seem impossible now.

ductsurprise · a year ago

Maemo really was impressive, and to think how far it could be with more than a decade development and refinements had Nokia managed keep that team on it.

Sailfish OS still seems to be going, and latest and installable on Sony Xperia 10 V. Though that is based on Meego which was what replaced Maemo and ended up on the Nokia N9 and was no longer Debian based IIRC.

Tizen OS was the other offshoot of Meego and Samsung was working with it, but they appear be abandoning it.

I never had the chance to pick up a compatible device try them out.

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jboogie77 · a year ago

Mass produced food is toxic . Anything like this is a win imo

ductsurprise · a year ago

When corporate 'profit-is-the-product' becomes the business, I tend to agree.

But mass production is the only feasible way to feed large cites.

Just work on make sure it's being done reasonably.

ductsurprise commented on Leaked Docs Show Nvidia Scraping a Human Lifetime of Videos per Day to Train AI 404media.co/nvidia-ai-scr... · Posted by u/depingus

samstave · a year ago

Such a weird space, talking about the morals of AI scraping/learnings etc...

There is likely very few people in tech who have never pirated software/game/music.

(BBS, phreaking, warez - all got me started in the 80s 90s etc)

The thing is that the scraping by large capable MegaCorpo results in massive profits for them, though those took massive resources.

My only opinion on anything AI WRT data/scraping etc -- is I need a [DELETE_ME] button.

Personally, I think there should be an AIDIDIA

A.I. Digital Identity Data Independence Act.

The ability to remove my data from any company that may profit from it. - Not the hand-waving BS that is the current "opt out" -- Since AI can scrape me so easily, I should be able to wipe my-vectors just as easily.

Surely everyone just say "oh but is anon/normalized etc." Nope. Its not. Never has been.

I should be able to ask any model/system/service that I am interacting with and paying for exactly what it knows about me. How much its profited from me. Give me my full file. I ask AIs all the time "Give me a detailed dossier on company X include ceo, tenure, salary, spouse, (Asking for spouse is important in high profile folks because power couples often have different last names and you get surprised to see whomever else's ear/interests they carry)

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If we are arguing that AIs cannot scrape massive public data sets - then we am I not allowed to make my self a private dataset.

I actually wrote a white paper about this back in the early 2000s - but it was large centered around portable gaming avatar/personal data... never pursued anything about it - but this is a serious issue.

EDIT: everyone got flagged while I was writing this... why?

ductsurprise · a year ago

It's a weird problem.

It seems to me, it would REQUIRE Megacorps datasets to store the information you don't want them to store in order for them to confirm to such a request.

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GenerocUsername · a year ago

so what I am hearing is that short-haul flights are ~24% as far as long-haul flights.

Weird use of segmented flight lengths as a comparator

ductsurprise · a year ago

Take off, climb and circles before landng time use considerably more fuel than that of cruising time, so that needs to be considered. Also, as short haul fights generally don't climb as high, they lose the benefits of high altitude cruising.

ductsurprise commented on What the damaged Svalbard cable looked like nrk.no/tromsogfinnmark/th... · Posted by u/ingve

varenc · a year ago

> I wonder how much data per unit of time this is capable of transporting.

The max throughput of fiber optic cables isn't exactly constant. As fiber optic modem and DSP technology improves you can get much higher speeds on 15+ year-old cables than were ever possible when they were laid.

Recently I saw an article about researchers getting 300,000 Gbit/s over existing fiber optic cables (though I'm sure that's a long way from being a deployable technology): https://www.aston.ac.uk/latest-news/aston-university-researc...

ductsurprise · a year ago

Reminds me of the early dialup to DSL communication over standard telephone lines evolution.

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UberFly · a year ago

I always wonder just how much like this gets thrown away through the generations.

ductsurprise · a year ago

... and the lost MicroSD cards grandma has been holding onto for you.

We will leave next to nothing.