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Comment · 17 days ago
Explanation is in the README:

> The intention behind this repository is to make source code of the Estonian online voting system available for public review.

> The repository is not used for active development, but will be kept up to date, so the code that can be found here is the code that is used for election.

Comment · 24 days ago
Is Kagi search still (partially?) relying on Yandex?
Comment · 24 days ago
Is Kagi search still relying on Yandex?

A second data centre has been attacked and I've seen reports of Yandex crawlers stopping their work.

Comment · 6 months ago
Wait until China invades Taiwan.. (ok, it's not too likely, but what if?)
Comment · 1 year ago
Isn't the main showstopper issue to solve for brain implants is scarring response or something similar? That is when body responds to the implant and surrounds electrodes with some sort of tissue reducing its effectiveness. Has Neuralink made any advancements in that area?
Comment · 1 year ago
When most of services nowadays seem like a hostile subscription, this brings joy.

edit: use of Yandex on the other hand.. yeah that's a no go for paid subscription.

Comment · 1 year ago
Tried going all out at ~45deg angle until fuel is finished hoping to go into orbit, but no luck.
Comment · 1 year ago
I've done something similar but it was only a 7 segment display showing how much I ran. It sat on a shelf and it was pretty fun to watch number go up every time I came back to my apartment after a run.

To make everything really simple I scraped my public profile directly from esp8266 controller (so there's no need for extra steps of setting up Strava app to gain access to the API). Worked relatively well.

Comment · 1 year ago
Yup. And the other (green/teal?) typewriter has a spacebar on the edge, same colour as the typewriter body. Ends of it sometimes visible between fingers, it's also used.
Comment · 1 year ago
My father got it after an injured looking/unusually behaving cat scratched him up. Cat ran away - so it was impossible to test for rabies. 4 shoulder injections - no drama, no noticeable side effects other than maybe sore shoulder.
Comment · 2 years ago
Not from Russia, but nearby.. It was very common - kinda wild east and nobody cared. As soon our telecom started providing DSL - we (neighbourhood kids) got a commercial DSL into my apartment and shared it between 2 five story apartment buildings. Our set up was tiny and not very reliable. Some local networks like this grew and became almost proper internet providers. But they continued this gray practice of pulling cables in the air, between buildings. They'd also do other sketchy stuff like installing hubs/switches into electrical boxes and tapping supply from the building. We learned about it when a technician from a provider like this dropped a screwdriver on live wires and knocked out power for half of the building.
Comment · 2 years ago
English Wikipedia and some Linux distribution which can be downloaded as a full set of packages + sources.
Comment · 2 years ago
Basic flight instruments almost always have a backup. In case of F-35 there's a small square screen in centre console which shows attitude indicator and flight parameters. Needless to say, if main screens are out you are turning around and looking for the nearest airport.
Comment · 2 years ago
Somewhat related: https://x.com/id_aa_carmack/status/569658695832829952

> Teaching my kids programming on an Apple //c is like kung fu training in the primitive wilderness.

Comment · 2 years ago
Reminds this current slightly comedic (IMO) situation in my office: a few months ago developers were given access to GitHub's "Copilot Enterprise". Then, a month or so later, organisation also adopted another "AI" product checking pull requests for risks associated with "use of generative AI". And needless to say it does occasionally fail code written without any "generative AI"..

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