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Comment · 10 months ago
Broadly-defined "hostile acts" in UK national security law
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...
Comment · 11 months ago
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"
Comment · 1 year ago
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.
Comment · 1 year ago
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.
Comment · 1 year ago
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.
Comment · 1 year ago
Previously:
Can't Unsee - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27188989 - May 2021 (126 comments)
Related:
Find the Odd Disk - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43745868 - April 2025 (101 comments)
Comment · 1 year ago
> 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://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27188989 - May 2021 (126 comments)
Comment · 2 years ago
YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RST_ylwVrUw&t=1m27s
Comment · 2 years ago
- 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!)
Comment · 2 years ago
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://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9247460
I am pleasantly surprised to see this still online (ported from Flash to HTML5).
Comment · 2 years ago
2038, you say? If your calendar is based on Unix epoch time, then ensure that you have upgraded to 64-bit timestamps before then.
Comment · 2 years ago
JavaScript has been about since 1995, and certainly by no later than the early 2000s was used for these animations.
> If no wake word is detected, the audio is processed locally, promptly deleted, and is not transmitted to LG servers.
This statement could still be true when:
* The audio transmission is to non-LG servers (e.g., Alphonso).
* The audio isn't transmitted, but the text transcription is.