liversage (u/liversage)

liversage commented on Hunting for North Korean Fiber Optic Cables nkinternet.com/2025/12/08... · Posted by u/Bezod

liversage · 3 months ago

My understanding is that there are three mobile networks in North Korea: the normal one used by the citizens (they have smartphones made specifically for North Korea), one used by the government/military and one for tourists (requires a local SIM card only available in a specific hotel in Pyongyang).

The last one is connected to the internet and this is why you can see (or at least before the pandemic could see) Instagram posts from North Korea.

I have no idea if this information is still or ever was completely true though.

There's a somewhat dated but very interesting AMA on Reddit by an American teaching computer science in Pyongyang:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1ucl11/iama_american_...

Reading about the internet knowledge possessed by North Korean students, I'm always surprised how they supposedly also manage to be some of the most cunning and evil actors when it comes to hacking.

liversage commented on Europe needs digital sovereignty – and Microsoft has just proven why tuta.com/blog/digital-sov... · Posted by u/01-_-

seydor · 9 months ago

BYD and VW are outselling tesla in europe. Just like DJI drones, robots will probably be chinese because they build them faster. Any country that wants sovereignity must control the software , but europe does very little to grow a software ecosystem, other than continuously building obstacles for it.

liversage · 9 months ago

I get the impression that you think VW is Chinese, or am I misunderstanding your comment?

VW is the world's largest auto maker and it's German.

liversage commented on Gamma radiation is produced in large tropical thunderstorms phys.org/news/2024-10-amo... · Posted by u/wglb

cperciva · a year ago

Positively charged particles end up at the top of the storm while negatively charged particles drop to the bottom, creating an enormous electric field that can be as strong as 100 million AA batteries stacked end-to-end.

Or put another way, 150 MV. What's with this media obsession with using obscure non-SI units?

liversage · a year ago

In my neck of the woods it's called "journalist units": three soccer fields, five blue whales etc.

Somebody even created a website to facilitate conversion but unfortunately the TLS certificate has expired and Cloudflare now blocks access.

Article in Danish: https://ing.dk/artikel/lynch-nu-kan-ogsaa-journalister-faa-s...

liversage commented on 10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023 miamiherald.com/news/nati... · Posted by u/apsec112

hnpolicestate · 2 years ago

What if *some* highly intelligent immigrants oppose American values? Sounds like a recipe for disaster. They may use their capital and ability to politically undermine our civil liberties.

Most people globally aren't used to the American interpretation of free speech or gun rights. I don't want people coming here using their talents to politically remove my rights. I think this is a fair point to make.

liversage · 2 years ago

This is a very controversial topic in Europe where Florence Bergeaud-Blackler's book about how the Muslim Brotherhood is trying to infiltrate European institutions is seen either as a conspiracy theory fueling Islamophobia or a dangerous problem that has to be dealt with to protect society.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-french-academic-payi...

liversage commented on LINQPad – The .NET Programmer's Playground linqpad.net/... · Posted by u/wofo

ed_elliott_asc · 2 years ago

I’ve never got used to linqpad over just creating a console app and writing code, it may be because I’ve never been one for keeping a collection of snippets?

I’m not against it, I just don’t need it

liversage · 2 years ago

One of many useful features of LINQPad is the output visualizer ("Dump"). Granted, there are now NuGet packages (very likely inspired by LINQPad) that can do something similar in a console app but LINQPad is interactive, allows drill-down and can export to formats like Excel. It's such a productivity boost.

The database integration is also great and allows me to write ad-hoc SQL queries using LINQ.

liversage commented on Neofetch developer archives all his repositories: "Have taken up farming" github.com/dylanaraps... · Posted by u/Y444

liversage · 2 years ago

Brian Harry did something similar in 2018 when he was a corporate vice president at Microsoft: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brharry

liversage commented on Voyager 1 is back online: NASA spacecraft returns data from all 4 instruments space.com/voyager-1-fully... · Posted by u/dev_tty01

cancerboi · 2 years ago

How did the Voyagers avoid hitting asteroids when exiting the solar system? I thought there was a huge cloud of asteroids surrounding our solar system.

liversage · 2 years ago

The asteroid belt is between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter so the Voyagers traveled through this before reaching their first mission goal, Jupiter.

liversage commented on Password may not contain: select, insert, update, delete, drop id.uni-lj.si/DigitalnaIde... · Posted by u/jesprenj

d-z-m · 2 years ago

can you elaborate on this? Or link something that does? My intuition is that whatever gets sent over the wire is effectively the password. Not sure how the server could validate some rolling hash of the password (based on like a timestamp or something) without having to store the pre-image(i.e. the raw password).

liversage · 2 years ago

The SRP Authentication and Key Exchange System does not send the password from the client to the server. This scheme is supposedly used by Blizzard when authenticating users in some of their online games.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2945

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/18461/how-secur...

liversage commented on Three American climbers solve the 'last great problem in the Himalayas' nytimes.com/2023/12/01/us... · Posted by u/carabiner

lukasb · 2 years ago

North face of Jannu wearing North Face, no less

liversage · 2 years ago

The brand name 'The North Face' is inspired by mountaineering where the north face of a mountain often is the most interesting but also difficult side as it's always in the shade (in the northern hemisphere). E.g., the Alps have the famous classical north faces of Eiger, Matterhorn and Grandes Jorasses which are climbed by only the most accomplished mountaineers.

liversage commented on Three American climbers solve the 'last great problem in the Himalayas' nytimes.com/2023/12/01/us... · Posted by u/carabiner

glaucon · 2 years ago

"Mount Jannu" and "The Jannu" ... neither heard of these phrases used to describe Jannu before - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumbhakarna_Mountain.

liversage · 2 years ago

It always irks me when 'Mount' is added as a prefix to a proper mountain name like 'Mount Annapurna', 'Mount Ama Dablam'. Should it then be 'Mount Mt. Everest'?

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