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New comment by 4gotunameagain in "Kalshi and its co-founders face felony charges for violating Utah gambling laws"

4gotunameagain — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 07:39:33 +0000

Guys forget gambling. The implications of people in power being able to profit by their every decision are massive.

We shouldn't be able to bet on bombings and wars, even without considering insider trading

New comment by 4gotunameagain in "Barcelona unrest: how to fabricate a protest in the age of TikTok"

4gotunameagain — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 11:57:47 +0000

Solid sign of foreign interference.

New comment by 4gotunameagain in "Barcelona unrest: how to fabricate a protest in the age of TikTok"

4gotunameagain — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 11:57:19 +0000

Pro Israel media: "Analysis: Riots Show the Price France Has Paid for Turning Against Israel" [0]

[0] https://combatantisemitism.org/special-features/analysis-rio...

yde_java pointed it out on a comment below

New comment by 4gotunameagain in "Barcelona unrest: how to fabricate a protest in the age of TikTok"

4gotunameagain — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 11:16:45 +0000

Isn't it suspicious that EU nation most vocal about Israel's atrocities gets targeted by campaigns like these, when Israel has the most advanced propaganda machines globally ?

New comment by 4gotunameagain in "Software may be getting worse, but it used to be horrible"

4gotunameagain — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 12:48:04 +0000

Commander Keen would be on steroids when I pressed the TURBO button on my friend's computer !!

New comment by 4gotunameagain in "How to grow a cacao tree at home (2024)"

4gotunameagain — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 09:04:28 +0000

Ah yes, just like every battery is from Congo because of the cobalt ?

New comment by 4gotunameagain in "IBM CEO says open weight models are now good and cheap on-prem"

4gotunameagain — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 09:07:38 +0000

You can estimate the amount of time by the domains he's been squatting all these years.

New comment by 4gotunameagain in "Lula wins election after final votes tallied"

4gotunameagain — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 07:54:51 +0000

Are there any sources of the methodology ?

The github link in the article does not work

New comment by 4gotunameagain in "How I got over 300 Tor exit nodes removed"

4gotunameagain — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 22:02:03 +0000

A bit of a tangential question but are there any guardrails around the capability that exitmap uses to perform its function ?

Could someone DDoS Tor by abusing exitmap ?

New comment by 4gotunameagain in "Tesla Roadster"

4gotunameagain — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 07:12:17 +0000

A jet pack that flies for 10 seconds and then needs 6 hours of recharging ?

New comment by 4gotunameagain in "I designed a nose guard for my dog and gave it away. Now 500 dogs wear one"

4gotunameagain — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 07:27:39 +0000

It is not even a wound. This is just western internet people being hypersensitive

New comment by 4gotunameagain in "I designed a nose guard for my dog and gave it away. Now 500 dogs wear one"

4gotunameagain — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:29:53 +0000

Did they really have to sensor the photos of a few stitches on a snout ?

Like, why ?

New comment by 4gotunameagain in "Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts"

4gotunameagain — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 11:43:28 +0000

It's germany, everything is insured.

look up german angst

New comment by 4gotunameagain in "Denmark set to allow return of 'physical force' in school"

4gotunameagain — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:53:00 +0000

Read the other top comment before making stupid remarks:

> Starting in August 2027, they will be allowed to 'hold a student, keep them in place, or take them to another room' if the student disrupts the class.

New comment by 4gotunameagain in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"

4gotunameagain — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:57:22 +0000

Russia cannot invade Europe, that is nonsense peddled by the EU establishment to support their idiotic military Keynesianism as part of a plan to reboot EU manufacturing.

They are struggling to take a couple of villages in Ukraine, why would they invade the EU.

New comment by 4gotunameagain in "ESP32-C3 Adblock"

4gotunameagain — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 07:31:59 +0000

Makes sense why their numbers were wrong then, thanks ! Nice dive nevertheless x)

New comment by 4gotunameagain in "ESP32-C3 Adblock"

4gotunameagain — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:17:05 +0000

You don't need to simulate, it is a well studied problem [1]

It seems that the average number of expected collisions for 537k would be 0.13 and not 1:

the average value of pairs of individuals with the same birthday (or hash collisions) is E[X] = k*(k-1)/(2*n). Plugging in k=2^40 for 40 bits and n=537e3 I get their result of 0.1311

Thanks for the nerdsnipe, I ran out of my daily LLM mistake fixing quota !

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem#Average_numbe...

New comment by 4gotunameagain in "ESP32-C3 Adblock"

4gotunameagain — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:41:38 +0000

No, it is for the right (second) question.

If we assume uniform sampling for both the blocklist (size N) and the domain to be visited (not in the block list), the collision probability we care about is Pcol(N+1).

The number of existing domains does not matter, only the size of the block list.

Of course when we consider all 401 million domains there will be many more collisions, but in each case we only care about a collision in N+1

New comment by 4gotunameagain in "ESP32-C3 Adblock"

4gotunameagain — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 10:29:12 +0000

I think they have it right.

If you have N entries where N >> 1, the probability of an arbitrary value colliding with the existing ones is Pcol(N+1) which is approx Pcol(N).

New comment by 4gotunameagain in "CIA Report Warns Israel Could Head Toward Civil War, Total Collapse"

4gotunameagain — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:37:12 +0000

Let me explain this so that you can understand.

If you read it again you will see that I did not say that ultra orthodox jews are nazis, but a subset of those (the settlers) behave like nazis. Perpetuating the circle of violence.

Hope you had fun going through 5 months of my comments to find something you can complain about.