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New comment by aritmo in "SQLite WASM: Something subtle in the browser"

aritmo — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 15:14:42 +0000

>If you were really competent with dev tools, and dedicated enough to pour over the uncompressed JavaScript, you’d notice..

That hurt.

New comment by aritmo in "Humans May Be Shockingly Close to Decoding the Language of Animals"

aritmo — Sat, 28 Jan 2023 09:00:49 +0000

They used to believe there was a Language of Humans. If you did not teach any language to a baby, somehow he would start talking in an ancient old language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_deprivation_experimen...

Now it is the same but with animals.

New comment by aritmo in "Biotech CEO pays $2 million a year to decrease age by 5 years"

aritmo — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 10:08:40 +0000

If my math is right, in 14 years he will be an infant.

New comment by aritmo in "Loneliness is a measure of self-understanding"

aritmo — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 03:33:45 +0000

It was a typo, indeed I meant "addiction".

New comment by aritmo in "Loneliness is a measure of self-understanding"

aritmo — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 21:34:20 +0000

This style of reason has very shaky foundations.

Watch some videos by Gabor Maté. He links addition in adult life to childhood traumas. You can fit loneliness in there as well.

New comment by aritmo in "The Russian missile that was designed to sink aircraft carriers"

aritmo — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 16:04:08 +0000

An advisor resigned because he said that the missile was intercepted and then fell on the building.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64304310

New comment by aritmo in "The Russian missile that was designed to sink aircraft carriers"

aritmo — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 15:55:36 +0000

The Wikipedia article for the missile has this recent addition:

>On 14 January 2023, a possible strike a Kh-22 on a 9 story residential apartment building in Dnipro, demolished most of the building and started a large fire. At least 44 civilians were killed, and 73 were wounded in the attack.[24] [25] It was fired by the 52nd Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment. [26] It is a missile that Ukraine can’t intercept, only a PAC-3 Patriot missile or SAMP-T could shoot it down. Nothing in the Ukrainian Air Force’s current arsenal can stop it. [27]

The last two sentences are out of place for a Wikipedia article.

New comment by aritmo in "Two Cyberattacks on the Extranet of Booking.com"

aritmo — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 07:48:03 +0000

This has been published a few days ago but you cannot find any article at all in English. Only in French.

Two Cyberattacks on the Extranet of Booking.com

aritmo — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 07:48:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gni-hcr.fr/europe-numerique/informatique/cybersecurite/alerte-deux-cyberattaques-sur-vos-extranets-booking-com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34398013

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by aritmo in "Endemic pathogens are causing psychiatric illnesses and shortening lives"

aritmo — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 14:57:21 +0000

The author is Riva Tez (https://twitter.com/rivatez). She first posted this on her blog, hosted on ghost.io, but she abandoned that personal blog. She then contributed her article on this new website that collects such articles. The new website does not show the author's name when you read an article. You have to look into the article index to view the her name as the author of the article.

The author name appears here https://return.life/category/views/page/5/

New comment by aritmo in "T95 Allwinner T616 Malware Analysis"

aritmo — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 00:57:43 +0000

"work a little". How is that relevant here?

The "T95" is likely an unbranded TV box and some people that bought it, got pre-installed malware in it. Is that the case with all T95 TV boxes? We don't know. Likely but we don't know.

Did the seller infect the TV boxes with the malware before selling? Probably.

Is this some malware that is implemented in the hardware of the TV box? Hell, no.

New comment by aritmo in "T95 Allwinner T616 Malware Analysis"

aritmo — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 00:49:18 +0000

It's the same title of your post on github. The mods did not change anything.

New comment by aritmo in "T95 Allwinner T616 Malware Analysis"

aritmo — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 20:09:48 +0000

It's an "Android TV Box", model name "T95". Where is that information in the title?

New comment by aritmo in "Honey consumption improves blood sugar and cholesterol levels, study suggests"

aritmo — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 15:45:20 +0000

"Honey, especially robinia, clover, and unprocessed raw honey, may improve.."

Scientific papers on the benefits of honey tend to be infomercials for the honey industry.

How do you figure it out? If the suggested "good" honey is limited to a specific geographic region. The local honey industry can benefit from the positive exposure. They don't do these informecials if the honey can be obtained from all over the world.

Where does the Robinia tree grow natively?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinia_pseudoacacia

New comment by aritmo in "Istanbul mayor jailed for 'insulting' officials ahead of 2023 election"

aritmo — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 09:21:57 +0000

1. Presidential candidate, threat to Erdogan's chances for the Turkish elections next year.

2. Conveniently just jailed for two years.

New comment by aritmo in "Ask HN: Eliminating those annoying “Accept / Reject” banners on websites"

aritmo — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 10:27:44 +0000

That extension was bought by Avast and it is not good anymore.

Use instead "I still don't care about cookies".

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/i-still-dont-care-...

New comment by aritmo in "The Face-Off Between Russia and a Small Internet Access Firm"

aritmo — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 09:37:14 +0000

https://archive.ph/mQVTp

A mistake in the title. A VPN service, aimed to circumvent restrictions.

New comment by aritmo in "Experimentally Inventing a Programming Language Using Chat GPT"

aritmo — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 15:25:08 +0000

This is very scary human-like. I was a teaching assistant and asked students to fix issues in their code. They acknowledged these issues but submitted again the same erroneous code.

New comment by aritmo in "Anker’s Eufy lied to us about the security of its security cameras"

aritmo — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 21:12:42 +0000

The media transfers are encrypted. But he uses the Developer Tools of the browser, so he sees the content of the encrypted packets.

It is obvious that any cloud-based security camera has to send the media to the cloud! There is no other way.

The marketing people at Eufy made a long series of mistakes. It is a marketing problem.

New comment by aritmo in "Individuals prefer to harm their own group rather than help an opposing group"

aritmo — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 14:38:35 +0000

It took me some time to understand the title.

Better summary: Individuals that are dissatisfied with their own group, prefer to harm it directly than join some other opposing group.