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- The Casio CMD-40
https://old.reddit.com/r/casio/comments/15n9anq/did_we_all_f...
I am wearing one right now - it has been my daily driver for literally decades
(While it has VCR controls built-in, it can "learn" infrared frequencies for "new" inventions like DVD players - copying from an existing IR remote control. Surprisingly, still compatible with modern TVs - at least for basic functions like volume control.)
It was once "futuristic"; collectors now sell them as "retro" and "vintage"
- Supercronic: https://github.com/aptible/supercronic
Designed to run in a container, but should equally well work on a single host. However, no option for "high availability" running, where multiple hosts coordinate.
- I agree on both points, and with the earlier comment:
> I would love to know what processes MS is considering to prevent this in the future as well as what kind of auditing might be done to look at other projects that started as forks.
In response to:
> ... going to make sure we improve our processes to help us be better stewards in the open-source community.
- There are other possibilities, for example, the person may have thought that they were complying with the MIT licence by releasing the new project under the MIT licence too + including a mention of the original project in the README.
This, of course, is incorrect, and a cursory read of the very short licence text would show it to be incorrect.
But I, too, am strongly favouring Hanlon's razor.
- Previously:
Can't Unsee - https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=27188989 - May 2021 (126 comments)
Related:
Find the Odd Disk - https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=43745868 - April 2025 (101 comments)
- > I'd like to see a similar study about which text was perfectly kerned, or by how many pixels an element was off-center or misaligned.
> Swear on me mum I saw a game about kerning and alignment years ago on HN
Can't Unsee - https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=27188989 - May 2021 (126 comments)
- YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RST_ylwVrUw&t=1m27s
- - https://portal.whois.ax/register
- https://whois.ax/en/for-registrars/
"Apply as ax-registrar" - seems like .ax makes it especially easy. (This is news to me!)
- Related game
Velocity Raptor (2012): https://www.testtubegames.com/velocityraptor.html
Previously discussed:
- "Velocity Raptor – an adventure in 2+1 dimensions" (Mar 2015, 39 comments): https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=9247460
I am pleasantly surprised to see this still online (ported from Flash to HTML5).
- 2038, you say? If your calendar is based on Unix epoch time, then ensure that you have upgraded to 64-bit timestamps before then.
- JavaScript has been about since 1995, and certainly by no later than the early 2000s was used for these animations.
- One of the other examples [0] features a "random number" which might not be entirely random [1].
[0] https://voussoir.net/writing/css_for_printing/#media_print
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controvers...
- Related:
- Today - "Alaska Airlines grounds Boeing 737 Max 9 planes after mid-air window blowout" (47 comments, so far): https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=38889774
- Previous related(?):
- Yesterday (Friday 2024-01-05): "Boeing wants FAA to exempt MAX 7 from safety rules to get it in the air" (417 comments): https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=38882358
- This is the problem that 'venv' (virtual environments) was designed to solve.
You can run pip in an isolated virtual environment, in user mode (not as root) - see https://gist.github.com/saurabhshri/46e4069164b87a708b39d947...
- The binary was compiled with Cosmopolitan Libc [0], and therefore the binary will execute natively on Linux, Mac, Windows, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and bare metal (BIOS boot).
I would call that portable.
- Counterexample: https://gandalf.lakera.ai/
Discussed at: https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=35905876 "Gandalf – Game to make an LLM reveal a secret password" (May 2023, 351 comments)
Reasoning:
* Original report behind the article: "State Threats Legislation in 2024" [0], i.e., UK national security law
* Article focuses on an example from section 6.17 where developing an encrypted messenger app is given to show how broad the definition of "hostile act" is
* Snippets from the article:
> In his independent review of the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act and the newly implemented National Security Act, Hall KC highlights the incredibly broad scope of powers granted to authorities. > > He warns that developers of apps like Signal and WhatsApp could technically fall within the legal definition of "hostile activity" simply because their technology "make[s] it more difficult for UK security and intelligence agencies to monitor communications."
[0] Original report: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69411a3eadb57...