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New comment by bouncycastle in "Live: Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

bouncycastle — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 22:51:30 +0000

This is a new space race. From a geopolitical level, a nation that has a better presence on the moon will have a better strategic advantage.

New comment by bouncycastle in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

bouncycastle — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:14:20 +0000

It has profound foundational influence that continues to this day.

Also, England doesn't need to do anything to ensure that influence of English culture is maintained in the US either.

For as long as we still speak the English language, English culture will continue to live "rent free" in our heads, and that's not going away anytime soon.

This is often cited as a "soft power".

New comment by bouncycastle in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

bouncycastle — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 06:07:24 +0000

it's ironic though, that you wrote your comment in English.

New comment by bouncycastle in "Show HN: Han – A Korean programming language written in Rust"

bouncycastle — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:32:57 +0000

I'd imagine that a transpiler for Perl with this idea would make one-liners even more potent.

New comment by bouncycastle in "Tony Hoare has died"

bouncycastle — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 23:22:27 +0000

ACEEE IN PRST

New comment by bouncycastle in "Iron Beam: Israel's first operational anti drone laser system"

bouncycastle — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 12:01:07 +0000

drones with mirrors?

New comment by bouncycastle in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

bouncycastle — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 23:14:40 +0000

Look at books: You can go to your local public library and borrow any book for free, yet new books are still made under that system.

New comment by bouncycastle in "India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app"

bouncycastle — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 07:24:21 +0000

For now you may need a warrant. However, after just a simple law change, it will all be available without a warrant. I'm not saying there will be a law change, only saying that it brings us one step closer to data.

New comment by bouncycastle in "Datacenters in space aren't going to work"

bouncycastle — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 05:22:25 +0000

Recently the USA blew out some some boats in international waters and came back to finish off the survivors, despite thin evidence and no due process, while maintaining that it was legal. If those data centers on ships ever become declared as a 'threat to national security' then they might get the same treatment.

New comment by bouncycastle in "Don't Download Apps"

bouncycastle — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 23:01:53 +0000

Why wouldn't this physical sign be the same? "If you step your foot over this stone, you agree to the following terms:"

New comment by bouncycastle in "Jakarta is now the biggest city in the world"

bouncycastle — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 22:12:12 +0000

Also, the Indonesia that most Australians only ever visit is Bali, which is mostly Hindu.

New comment by bouncycastle in "Original Superman comic becomes the highest-priced comic book ever sold"

bouncycastle — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 07:16:37 +0000

back in my day, we had these buildings called 'libraries' which were filled wall-to-wall with many different types of copyright material. Mainly books, but also comics, newspapers and magazines, that you could legally read and also borrow and take home for a few days, for FREE!!

New comment by bouncycastle in "How to Get a North Korea / Antarctica VPS"

bouncycastle — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 08:39:47 +0000

different provinces have different demographics and therefore slightly different sentiment?

New comment by bouncycastle in "Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server"

bouncycastle — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 08:47:34 +0000

sometimes swap seems to accumulate even though there is plenty of ram. It is too "greedy" by default, probably set for desktops not servers in mind.

Therefore it is better to always tune "vm.swappiness" to 1 in /etc/sysctl.conf

You can also configure your web server / TCP stack buffers / file limits so they never allocate memory over the physical ram available. (eg. in nginx you can setup worker/connection limits and buffer sizes.)

New comment by bouncycastle in "FSF announces Librephone project"

bouncycastle — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 03:28:20 +0000

this is the same thing with wifi. There are different channels and transmission power rules depending on country. Something you cannot change even if you are root or build your own kernel, as it's built in to the wifi hardware (eg. raspberry pi)

New comment by bouncycastle in "China's New Rare Earth and Magnet Restrictions Threaten US Defense Supply Chains"

bouncycastle — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 13:37:08 +0000

The US is not defending Taiwan for the sake of "supporting its people" it or because of TSMC. It's actually because Taiwan is part of the "First island chain", and it's crucial in keeping China away from taking the Pacific Ocean and threatening the US west coast. The US will throw everything it has to defend it. It is absolutely vital to US territorial security. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_island_chain

New comment by bouncycastle in "Pixel 10 Phones"

bouncycastle — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:54:58 +0000

my pixel 2 is still rocking too, what an amazing device! (although it now I only use it for flappy bird..) Highly disappointed that Google stopped updates a long time ago.

New comment by bouncycastle in "Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act"

bouncycastle — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 23:50:15 +0000

were you one of those believers at the start?

New comment by bouncycastle in "Why does a fire truck cost $2m"

bouncycastle — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 04:23:57 +0000

another perspective is that WW1 hasn't ended, and ww2 was actually WW1. Even now, if you look at the Ukrainian conflict from an economic perspective, it's a continuation of the same conflicts of ww1

New comment by bouncycastle in "Destination: Jupiter"

bouncycastle — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 23:21:54 +0000

Jupiter and Saturn moons always make inspiring hostnames. Right now, I have Callisto, Europa, and Ganymede. Ganymede has the most powerful setup. Yesterday, I decommissioned Io.