<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: posterboy</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=posterboy</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 10:52:11 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=posterboy" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by posterboy in "NotebookLM's automatically generated podcasts are surprisingly effective"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>on firefox</p>
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<p>assuming the guard node connects to the host when the host communicates with the client, this makes a little more sense. If I understand correctly you are saying that they did not seize a boat load of unrelated nodes and have rather fluxcompensated it with "timing correlation" and infinite funds.<p>Ad hominem: your username spells out MIB, Men in Black, surely you are joking.</p>
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<p>technicly this is the only comment in this chain that is relevant to the featured article, but it's technicly so incomplete that it's almost wrong, I can tell from having read the thread and knowing next to nothing else about how TOR works.<p>They don't have plausible evidence to subpoena the guard node if a middle node only sees encrypted traffic. They would also need to control the exit nodes which communicate with the target's host or they simply control the host as a honeypot.</p>
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<p>you forgot to mention it should fit under a thumbnail, probably</p>
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<p>sounds like a spherical cow on a frictionless plane.</p>
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<p>You are missing that to drive one-self home is a metaphor, possibly a visual metaphor in this case, for DIY self-service in the private domain, as it were.</p>
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<p>there are no good examples. The basic premise in Linguistics these days seems tl be that all languages are potentially equally expressive. Trade-offs in one domain (grammar, lexicon, phonology etc.) afford advantages in another. Which means, there is no need to refer to Japanese at all.<p>You could equally refer to some slur in a lower register to then claim that this doesn't exist in your language and how it can't be translated either. So when Joe Biden said "SoB" on tape once, that was code switching; likewise, when Trump says anything it's all made up and coded and means something entirely different. However, these are bad examples if your target is a monolingual Japanese, obv.</p>
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<p>However, Tsundoku hasn't caught on, at least not in English, except as a vain example of language fun facts. If there was a need, it would be borrowed eventually, perhaps as a semantic loan (calque). We call it <i>hording</i> already. Japanese simply adds a work related to reading. I don't read Japanese but I can recognize the "speech" radical at least.</p>
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<p>The characters aren't connected so the brush is lifted and a space left behind. Of course this also goes for the space between signs of a compound word, but this also holds for "compound word", which is itself a compound word. Also they had \n = EoL alright.<p>Negative spaces are so important in *-graphy</p>
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<p>we are opperating in a "breadboard"?</p>
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<p>Related to what, <i>Frikandel</i>?</p>
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<p><i>gnash (one's teeth)</i> and German <i>knusen</i> ("to chew") ought to be related with <i>nosh</i> and German <i>naschen</i>, seeing that <i>snack</i> in the same sense may be derived from some onomatopoeia meaning "bite". It's a non-trivial problem since these onmnomnom forms are thought to escape regular sound change. However, you may be right that silent g is inserted by mistake, but an archaic g-prefix which may be realized as /k/ is productive in Swabian, which might indicate a western Yiddish variety rather than the more eastern Ashkenaz.</p>
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<p>the invisible microbes of the appendix are shaping the reservoir effects for a reason</p>
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<p>what is "this"?</p>
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<p>Oh the frequency illusion. I read just today about a possible value of one sign. That's in Adams and Mallory's Encyclopedia from 1997!</p>
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<p>You misunderstand the problem. There's an 80 page article concerned with the spelling of one word and its inflections.<p>The typical solution would be to squint at it and write down the classical Greek form. That would be roughly equivalent to me talking English in Holland because I'm shy of Dutch, as a German native.</p>
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<p>Title could be read as exposing by means of an app dedicated to exposing said credentials. Hackernews suggests something else, but hasn't really outlined the expose-action.<p>The text of the decision should be paramount.</p>
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<p>This deserves further commentary.<p>In my humble opinion, what really grinds my gears is the abuse of the letter of the law, “circumventing the access protection”. If your fence has gaping holes, it's not a functional fence.<p>Since this is hackernews, graffiti "vandalism" is still a good example. The only protection of public facing walls is law enforcement, which is spotty. Private property such as trains may employ fences and security, which can be circumvented. Train stations and trains in service have to open anyhow. Terms of Service may explicitly forbid pollution, defacement, however you want to call it (this holds by analogy if you leave logs on the server, my point being, as it were, that <i>security is a process</i>).<p>The law makes a practical difference for each of these cases, but the spirit of the law is the same in each case and the baseline is that the law is whatever is deemed appropriate by the powers that be, the finder of facts, population as represented by select individuals, the common joe. This, in turn, is supposed to be enshrined in constitutions of sorts. In sum, “unlawful" (“widerrechtlich” or “unbefugt”) derives in different ways from constitutional rights.<p>In the given case, subsection 202a is based on confidentiality (Art. 10 GG "privacy of correspondance"), but in my example (guilty as charged) the laws against vandalism are based on property (Art. 14 GG). In result, your comparison is a type error for me (as is <i>circumvent</i> if access control is a <i>process</i>).<p><a href="https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_gg/index.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_gg/index.html</a><p>Comparative Law is a real thing, by the way, that is most foreign to me, but I make due.</p>
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<p>It's rather different. Some time I saw my neighbour left the key sticking outside. Doesn't feel like an invitation to me. Also, garden doors aren't necessarily locked and I think this is difficult to legislate.<p>German law applies to TFA so compare <i>Hausfriedensbruch</i> (criminal code): the adverbs of choice are "widerrechtlich" like <i>undefined behaviour</i>; "ohne Befugnis", essentially <i>without permission</i>, e.g. in case of not a lawful entry of police. Official translation actually distinguishes "unlawful" and later "without permission". I always feel it says, like, <i>illegal entry is illegal</i>. Vandalism uses the same words, section 303a applied to computer sabotage as "Data manipulation".<p><a href="https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_stgb/englisch_stgb.html#p1274" rel="nofollow">https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_stgb/englisch_st...</a><p><a href="https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_stgb/englisch_stgb.html#p2817" rel="nofollow">https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_stgb/englisch_st...</a><p>PS: the relevant section is 202a "Data espionage", following another comment.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39047283">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39047283</a><p><a href="https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_stgb/englisch_stgb.html#p1957" rel="nofollow">https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_stgb/englisch_st...</a></p>
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<p>I don't see how that would be any different from unprotected "high" voltage lines, or preferably protected ones for that matter. In house installations around 500V count as Low Voltage in power engineering, by the way.</p>
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