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Comment · 6 months ago
Perhaps Signal should force the notification settings to "don't show the content" when disappearing messages are enabled in a particular chat?
Comment · 1 year ago
No, they are correct, because the deciders themselves are just a cog in the proof of the overall theorem. The specification of the deciders is not part of the TCB, so to speak.
Comment · 1 year ago
The discord link will die soon. The attachment links started expiring at some point last year IIRC.
Comment · 1 year ago
I'm pretty sure this is a feature that's available at least to big creators – I remember a Tom Scott video doing a bit involving scheduling an ad at a particularly fitting moment.

You might have to be a YouTube partner or something like that to make use of this stuff, though.

Comment · 1 year ago
I must admit, this is the kind of description that's enough to make me want to maybe get into ham radio someday.
Comment · 2 years ago
I have heard of at least one instance of an exam a while ago, where some questions – ones that need diagrams in their statement – would be written onto the blackboard in the exam room, due to limitations of the duplication techniques used for the exam paper.
Comment · 2 years ago
Exactly, the comment in question is basically a noisy upvote.
Comment · 2 years ago
Probably trimmed due to HN's length limit
Comment · 2 years ago
You're talking about industrial PLCs. They're programmed using a-bit-more-fancy Scratch snappy blocks. There is no version control. The firmware contained paths embedded as strings, so we know that firmware for each model and customer was developed in a separate folder on disk. I wouldn't be surprised if they also had .zip files with backups of previous versions.
Comment · 2 years ago
As explained by the linked article in Polish, the workshop reached out to them and asked of they could figure out why the train isn't working.
Comment · 3 years ago
I've seen a lot of discussion about YouTube banning adblockers, but as a user of Firefox + uBO, I have never seen it happen for me. Perhaps the Firefox extension ecosystem makes it easier to push blocklist updates or something. Or YouTube's detection is browser-specific and they bothered with the largest first.

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