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New comment by rntksi in "Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland"

rntksi — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:40:38 +0000

I think Naval is right when he was making the observation that history has alternated by being determined by either individuals (think Genghis Khan, Napoleon) or larger forces at play (think socio-economic reasoning to many historical events). In this, I would say Trump is Trump (the individual) making his moves that very much go against the larger forces at play that was "business as usual". So equating him to a symptom of America is true in the sense that sooner or later America was bound to have someone like him deviate the course of history, and I also believe post-Trump America is not going to reverse course.

New comment by rntksi in "Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland"

rntksi — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:33:22 +0000

It's not the only country with that doctrine. See [1]. I think only China and India is no first use.

[1]: https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/nuclear-declaratory-p...

New comment by rntksi in "Suno v4.5"

rntksi — Mon, 05 May 2025 09:31:02 +0000

If you have some time, could you write a short post about your process to make the thousand-credits outcome ? It sounds awesome and I want to learn

New comment by rntksi in "Samsung CEO Jong-hee Han has died"

rntksi — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:28:48 +0000

Just a week or so ago, Samsung chairman Lee Jae-yong told everyone in Samsung that there's only a "do or die" attitude.

https://www.kedglobal.com/leadership-management/newsView/ked...

New comment by rntksi in "Telegram get remote IP"

rntksi — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 04:32:40 +0000

This issue has been known since 2018 https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/telegram-leak...

The default is calls are P2P enabled

New comment by rntksi in "Telegram get remote IP"

rntksi — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 04:26:25 +0000

Telegram actually handles this well (better than some other similar chat apps like LINE, Viber, ...)

It has an option inside Security and Privacy, in the subsection on "Calls", where you can limit who can contact you using P2P calls and who will have the call routed through a central server of Telegram.

So usually you can restrict P2P only to your contacts for example, and everyone else will have calls routed to Telegram central server (or just disable calling altogether for everyone else)

New comment by rntksi in "On the cheap, like a local, and without a lot of luggage"

rntksi — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 17:43:54 +0000

Using google maps to spot out a non-touristy area was ingenious.

I live near the spot you showed in the example that you picked.

I would suggest next time trying out another method, not based on restaurants, but on using Historical Map: look at the city and go back 100 years, then look at the city in the present, and either choose a place that has not changed at all, or a place that was a slum and now is housing.

New comment by rntksi in "Microsoft bakes a VPN into Edge and turns it on"

rntksi — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 17:37:08 +0000

I remember this being done back when Opera 7 was used. I think it had a feature for mobile OS, where it would route requests to Opera's servers and serve clients a minified, smaller version of the page, so people on 2G at the time could still use the web. I don't remember people being outraged at the time at the prospect of a browser having a baked-in VPN option though.

New comment by rntksi in "Google Broke Image Search for Creative Commons"

rntksi — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 15:48:33 +0000

Guessing "ur" in sur means Usage Rights, and M means Modification, C means Commercial, F means Free (to reuse)?

New comment by rntksi in "The image in this post displays its own MD5 hash"

rntksi — Sat, 24 Sep 2022 04:54:23 +0000

If it took you a lot of time to notice it like I did: it's the paragraph justification

New comment by rntksi in "Blocking Kiwifarms"

rntksi — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 04:11:42 +0000

All of the above countries, including countries not mentioned in your example, have the right to order the content to be taken down, following their own country's regulations.

"Taking down content" can range from blocking the site from being accessible from inside the country, to organising measures together with other countries where the site is actually hosted to take down the site at its roots, should the country allow it.

North Korea, China, Russia are prime examples of blocking being heavily used to control the Internet.

A government's model will never be "inadequate" as long as people live there and abide by the country's law because of various incentives (economical, sociological, familial, ...).

New comment by rntksi in "Remote scan of student’s room before test violated his privacy, judge rules"

rntksi — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 12:31:22 +0000

The way I used to write/set-up tests when I was teaching is that you could use a limited set of online resources to answer, but if you have to search every question you won't have enough time to do it. So it also tested your ability to quickly locate the information you need should you not know it right away.

New comment by rntksi in "The GNU Name System"

rntksi — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 12:39:26 +0000

I hate that I had to double check when you said "GNS uses crypto" and realised you meant crypto as in cryptography, not the other meaning commonly associated with blockchain coins.

New comment by rntksi in "I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome"

rntksi — Sun, 17 Jul 2022 15:26:05 +0000

I used to do this too, then I got a bookmark save service (Pocket). Now whenever I see something that I have the reaction of keeping the tab around, I just save it and close it instead. Makes browsing lighter. I do still have around 20 tabs open normally, mostly things that don't fit in the "bookmark save" workflow, but definitely better than the 100+ tabs it used to be before.

New comment by rntksi in "GoDaddy locks out derivatives of Chrome"

rntksi — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 13:04:17 +0000

I use hexonet. Can't complain. They do everything right.

The website's homepage is deceiving. The control panel they offer is really for power users. They expose literally everything, and have APIs for most things that you'd want to automate. For people who have to manage multiple domains, it's helpful.

New comment by rntksi in "Guest WiFi using a QR code"

rntksi — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 20:01:10 +0000

Agreed. Where I used to work, IT started replacing the guest wifi (password changes monthly) with QR code instead of printing out the password on a piece of paper. It's really cumbersome when I want to join on my laptop.

New comment by rntksi in "The world needs a non-profit search engine"

rntksi — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 12:22:53 +0000

Thanks, currency conversion was an example off the top of my head only. I am active on orionfeedback and kagifeedback, I find that they're really prompt and effective in answering to feedback.

The other examples are a bit harder to describe and I can't quite describe how Google gets it right. I think I might need more time to describe it out, as it involves search in another language.

New comment by rntksi in "The world needs a non-profit search engine"

rntksi — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 14:04:17 +0000

Here's a search engine that I'm subscribed to: https://kagi.com

In the 20-30 searches that I do in a day, I still have to google about half of them. Either because it's stuff Google does well (currency conversion, for example), or Kagi just doesn't get what I'm trying to search.

I remember starting out with the Internet searching on Altavista and Yahoo and Lycos. The information that was present was nowhere near as now, and it was more "exploratory". Nowadays people just kind of know what they want and just wants to quickly get there.

New comment by rntksi in "Netflix lays off 300 more people – almost 3% of its staff"

rntksi — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 07:23:43 +0000

I registered for Apple TV just for Foundation. I did the same for Amazon Prime Video because of The Expanse.

Once I saw those two ended for the season, I also ended my subscription.

New comment by rntksi in "$3B in Bitcoin was sold in a last-ditch attempt to save UST from collapse"

rntksi — Tue, 17 May 2022 01:37:57 +0000

GP is probably referring to this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday