<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: eagleal</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=eagleal</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:47:32 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=eagleal" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eagleal in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I don't think Iran can take a sustained air campaign for that long<p>Most probably, but Israel and US are now being more conservative with interceptor targets though so that seems to go both ways.</p>
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<p>Russia _recruited_, not mobilized as usually in popular conception that would equate with conscripted.<p>Conscription is enforced with martial law only in ukranian territories, by both the official ukrianian government, and by the russia's occuption forces in donbas.</p>
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<p>There's also the theory of the attacks starting at a certain time because the talks for the nuclear were under way. They probably knew the iranian leaders would group together to discuss the details.<p>For example it is now common knowledge that IAEA shared reserved data with Israel INT agencies, and this info was used for the previous strikes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 11:59:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47273902</link><dc:creator>eagleal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47273902</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47273902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eagleal in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is a valid tool for intelligence and propaganda operations, for both USA and Israel (since they have access to whatever.<p>In this age this is akin to funding and arming a militia in a foreign country, or what would've been on old times preemptive land operations.</p>
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<p>It's a per country thing as the EU is not 1 country.<p>In Italy for example RT website is blocked.</p>
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<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37681554">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37681554</a></p>
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<p>In Italy there's a politician named Gasparri who has made a career (30+ years) of barring himself behind Parlamentary immunity and insulting on citizens/journalists. When they respond he sues them for libel or similar asking moral damages.</p>
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<p>Not long ago there was the story of an orangutan in the wild using a paste it made from plants to heal itself, like some sort of anti-bacterial/anti-inflammatory.<p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68942123" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68942123</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 20:50:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46684331</link><dc:creator>eagleal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46684331</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46684331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eagleal in "The <Geolocation> HTML Element"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Google is not using exclusively DBs like MaxMind for geolocation though. They fuse a lot of data together and probably can even discern which building you're on from the other local network devices without the precise geolocation sharing.<p>Like the Meta/Yandex apps were doing, just not strictly for position tracking, but more centered toward pinpointing your unique id.</p>
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<p>> And you create music without ever having heard music before? Or are you also extracting other artist’s work and using it as inspiration for what you do?<p>The volumes of production are really scales of magnitude of difference between a human producing music, and a computer.<p>With a script and generator 1 individual could oversaturate the whole marketplace overnight rendering it impossible for other individuals to be <i>found</i> let alone extract any value.<p>Also, I don't know if you've ever done music production for fun but you don't really just setup only a prompt. It takes a significant amount of time to actually produce something. Time setting up a DAW system and export an empty track, and submitting it. An <i>empty</i> track.<p>Let alone actually doing all the microoptimizations by ear and trial to produce any catchy tune. Meanwhile a statistical approach doesn't even have to understand what's it's doing, could as well be white noise for all it matters.</p>
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<p>Immigration laws and memos (aka office procedures) are usually opaque and ambigous by design. Be it for exploitable loopholes that benefit internal production, or whatever.<p>Speaking of the EU, in Italy specifically for example the naturalization is really opaque and there's no clear process deadlines. While you can submit after 10 years of residence in Italy, with additional documentation from your country of origin, the process of actually getting a reply (denied or approved) may take usualy 5+ years, for some people even a decade because the people that should work on the papers forget them above a desk under a pile of dust for years.<p>Immagine having only third-world-like country citizenship. It's a travel nightmare.</p>
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<p>You're never heard of biased or militant journalists have you?<p>In fact the most common form of journalism you will find is what's akin to a Propaganda channel of a Sponsoring Party (Defense, Media Company, Political party, Rich Individual with an agenda, etc). Essentialy a PR employee.<p>But this is true since always.<p>The kind of journalism we usually think of though is Investigative journalism, but that's a different beast and usually doesn't really pay.</p>
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<p>In Italy such devices are known as Pezzotto, because they are like a patch to connect to different streaming, IPTV, etc channels. Of course illegaly.<p>There was a huge crackdown of both such services providers and their users in the EU (ties between politicians and sports broadcasting lobbies), which was immediately followed with increased pricing from every service, from Sky, DAZN, Mediaset Premium etc to on-demand platforms like Prime, Netflix, Disney Plus, etc.<p>In addition it seems a cartel has followed up: almost every service has added Ads on top of their lower tier, even though users already paid the increased price in service.</p>
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<p>Usually it's not allowed for people involved in an ongoing investigation to talk about said investigation. Maybe the US is different.</p>
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<p>I don't know about US laws, but in most countries agencies/PMs/experts or whoever has access and is involved in the investigation, cannot make a comment if the investigation is ongoing.<p>Breaching of this, especially as you're making a case, in most cases at best would invalidate the whole case + bring disciplinary actions upon the individual(s) that committed the breach.<p>Judging by the other comments, looks similar for the US too.<p>If you're ever partecipated as expert in any investigation or news article you'd know you'd get usually biased hypothesis, if otherwise it meant you wouldn't have the same impact for the news story. Or if you've ever heard of the Gell-Mann amnesia effect.</p>
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<p>> prospects for the working class disappeared when you moved manufacturing to China<p>I think the prospects of the working class died with the crisis signaling the end of the USSR and by extension communist/socialist circles. After all it was the only counter-balance that instilled a baseline fear of violent uprising from the workers class in the heart of the wealthy class.<p>And in a way the final nail came with the free reign liberal policies that followed with Thatcher e Reagan, not so much about offshoring in itself.</p>
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<p>Most probably because they are not in power or leading the coalition at the moment. Similar positions were held by the once similar parties in Italy before they rose to prominence, and from once bigger parties trying to not vanquish.<p>Power consolidation is a shared trait of every leading individual or group of people.</p>
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<p>The exception means legally, that category of people, can't be prosecuted even if incriminating stuff were collected through such channels.<p>The next logical step, after a prosecutor or political push, would be for the Highest Order Courts of Member countries to invalidate evidence collected through such channels for those categories of people.</p>
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<p>Indeed. But in my case it’s quite easy as it was a typo. Deemed is the correct one</p>
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<p>But then simply don't install or buy "Shockz" if that's your concern.<p>Apple might be doing the same thing, but you wouldn’t necessarily know it, since their ecosystem is a closed gate.</p>
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