nine_k

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721.
by nine_k 8mo ago
Not just that you are transmitting any data, but that there's some "you", or your device. "All clear, nothing to see here".
722.
by nine_k 8mo ago
Exactly; it's a limited and very expensive capability. Nobody would want to spend it on a $100k stratospheric flying vehicle, if the latter existed. It does not exist though, if you do not count weather balloons.
723.
by nine_k 8mo ago
But once you've located the device, you can use a number of electronic warfare approaches to crack into it, not necessarily through its main radio interface. For instance, electromagnetic interference, heating, etc, all can inject a su
724.
by nine_k 8mo ago
To shoot something down at 70,000 ft (21 km) all you need is a conventional military jet fighter, and a long-range rocket, or even a MiG-31 with a conventional cannon. At best you can make these birds cheaper than the rocket + flight time.
725.
by nine_k 8mo ago
The cypher may be prefectly impenetrable, but the software running on the transmitter or receiver may be more brittle. You cannot attack what you don't even know exists nearby.
726.
by nine_k 8mo ago
Agreed. Another thing that gives the TUI concept an edge is the lack of formatting options: no way to make a font too tiny or too huge, very little leeway in implementing common controls, any excessive whitespace looks jarring, etc. Icons
727.
by nine_k 8mo ago
An X server also normally renders things locally, as does a VT-compatible terminal. If you want no local rendering at all, there's VNC. With a web app, you can slice and dice processing between local and remote by running JS locally. M
728.
by nine_k 8mo ago
Mac Studio Ultra, my bad. The 512 GB option existed up until March 2026: https://macdailynews.com/2026/03/06/apple-drops-512gb-m3-ult...
729.
by nine_k 8mo ago
A kid looking for the best bang for the carefully saved buck would buy a used machine off eBay, for less than $599, and more capable. An M1 MBP 2021 with 16GB would cost about this much; an M1 Macbook Air, or an M1 Mac Mini with 16 GB would
730.
by nine_k 8mo ago
What kind of hardware did you use? I suppose that a 8GB gaming GPU and a Mac Pro with 512 GB unified RAM give quite different results, both formally being local.
731.
by nine_k 8mo ago
A remote GUI application now runs in a special client called a web browser ; it's a recent development, barely 35 years old.
732.
by nine_k 8mo ago
But will it render in a terminal over ssh? (I know, I know, port forwarding should work for a web app.)
733.
by nine_k 8mo ago
Well, it's truth but not the whole truth. An IBM AT was capable of consuming nearly 200W [1]. Of course a typical machine would not consume as much, because it did not have its RAM and disk slots maxed out. The CPU indeed consumed arou
734.
by nine_k 8mo ago
The best backup is a proper 3-2-1, with regular testing of integrity, and regular restoration from a backup as an exercise. But most people cannot be bothered to care quite so much. So, keeping a half-assed backup copy on a spouse's ma
735.
by nine_k 8mo ago
Not the poster, but: use ZFS or LVM + XFS on your machine, do a snapshot, use restic or kopia to back it up to cheap object storage in the cloud, such as R2. If it's too technical, run syncthing and mirror it to a USB-connected externa
736.
by nine_k 8mo ago
12 MB is not large; it's like 3 minutes of watching YouTube. Actual RAM consumption is only very weakly correlated to the binary size, and that's what matters.
737.
by nine_k 8mo ago
Can a robot write a medicine prescription? A medical procedure prescription? If yes, that would be a game-changer. But the medical insurance providers would be very cautious about honoring these. Then, if things go wrong, what entity woul
738.
by nine_k 8mo ago
IOW, less paid demand than a willing supply.
739.
by nine_k 8mo ago
The efficiency of being able to do something at a moment's notice, on the go, anywhere and anytime may outweigh the conveniences of a larger screen. BTW newer mobile phones offer "desktop mode" (the Samsung Dex, and what came
740.
by nine_k 8mo ago
> fetch items in a store. Why? Because the presence of a human likely prevents shoplifting and / or vandalism. It must make economic sense for the gas station owner to employ a human, and I suppose this is the sense. What actual u
741.
by nine_k 8mo ago
Routing of this additional /16 is more tricky and non-uniform though. NAT, hole-punching, all that.
742.
by nine_k 8mo ago
These are good, useful jobs. But how many welders does the industry need? How many restaurant servers? The demand for nurses will, of course, grow and grow, but I'm not certain that their pay will be, mmm, middle-class.
743.
by nine_k 8mo ago
This should not, too! If it does, it's a mistake.
744.
by nine_k 8mo ago
The content key is common, like the PGP session key is common. But to obtain the content key, you need to first decrypt it by your private key. The content key is encrypted by the public keys of every intended reader, so each can have a sec
745.
by nine_k 8mo ago
Your app picks up a bunch of feeds and composes them into a nice page for you, much like an RSS feed reader. The twist is that each feed is encrypted in a way that only you can decrypt, so the cryptography also gives strong identity guarant
746.
by nine_k 8mo ago
The cost of doing something wrong still is high. Even if bad code is produced instantaneously, its detrimental effect on production remains the same. Yes, yes, what fell on the floor and was picked up in five seconds is still considered f
747.
by nine_k 8mo ago
Welders? Car mechanics? Nurses? Cooks? Cleaners?..
748.
by nine_k 8mo ago
If you do not partake in a war when a war is waged against you, you lose, and you either get subdued, or perish altogether. This is why pacifism for some part of a society is only possible when another part of the society is willing and cap
749.
by nine_k 8mo ago
Does any fashion thing always offer a lot of gain? But it's selling well because it's hot fashion, a talking piece, a sign of belonging to a particular social circle, etc. Perplexity caught the moment very reasonably: a fad should
750.
by nine_k 8mo ago
The choice is really simple: it's a Thinkpad series T, with an AMD APU, the most powerful configuration you can afford :)

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