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  • 21% of the people using Prism Launcher use Linux*

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  • Mojang accounts were sold as a perpetual license, and the account changeover was a completely transparent strategy to terminate existing but dormant licenses so people have to rebuy the game.

    Macrosimp detected.

  • 21% of the people using Prism Launcher use Linux*

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  • Microshaft set a deadline for migrating accounts, which has now long passed. GP had their account permanently stolen.

  • The Lioness does not...

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  • The lioness’ joke was kinda butchered by the typos though.

  • [SUPPORT] iptables - rules for OUTPUT chain

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  • PSA for those who haven’t read the docker docs in detail: If you run docker with UFW or any other iptables based firewall, it will often overwrite and break your firewall rules.

    Many people running containers on public hosts get burned by this, because they’re expecting their firewall to block outside traffic from hitting the container.

    Firewalld is a solid alternative that does not suffer from the same failure model; highly recommend.

  • [SUPPORT] iptables - rules for OUTPUT chain

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  • Been a minute since I touched iptables, but IIRC, not quite that simple.

    You’d want to allow outbound connections to destination ports of 80/443/22 and then also allow responses from any established connection (because the server replies won’t likely be going back to your port 80/443/22 as their dest). Unless you’re running dns over https across your whole system, you’ll need to allow that too.

    Nothing against doing things the hard way, but you might like OpenStitch if you’re looking to control traffic in a practical manner.

  • Dan Carlin’s Mania for Subjugation III Released (Alexander the Great series)

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  • Not my place to tell you what kinda soup you like.

    ¯(ツ)/¯

    He spent decades as a talk radio host, and records in a professional sound studio. I get how the vocal range can be offputting, but it’s a deliberate artistic choice.

    That being said, I have run his releases through a compressor (i.e. a software program that normalizes the volume level) in the past for car listening to good effect. YMMV, but might be worth a shot if that’s your main hangup.

  • Dan Carlin’s Mania for Subjugation III Released (Alexander the Great series)

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  • For the unfamiliar, Dan Carlin is the biggest history podcaster bar-none. His work tends to be extremely long-form, with this episode clocking in at 4:15 and taking 11 months of development time.

    Happy early Xmas, folks!

  • The FDA Often Doesn’t Test Generic Drugs for Quality Concerns, So ProPublica Did

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  • I’ve talked about it before on here, but I’ll say it again because it hasn’t seen much press coverage:

    I work on safety-critical biotech software regulated by the FDA. As of this year, the FDA started using LLMs to automatically review our submissions.

    The FDA has been totally public about it, but it doesn’t take a genius to see how this scheme might land sideways.

    *Adding some quality references:

    https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-expands-artificial-intelligence-capabilities-agentic-ai-deployment

    https://www.pharmaceuticalonline.com/doc/a-look-at-elsa-the-fda-s-new-ai-digital-assistant-0001

    https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/06/fda-rushed-out-agency-wide-ai-tool-its-not-going-well/

  • Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves

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  • Yeah. They’re probably hardened to some degree, but a green laser with at least a watt of power will still cook ‘em pretty good.

    E: Obligatory warning that a 1+ W laser will also cook your eyes pretty good.

  • Waco man yelling racial slurs accidentally set himself on fire while trying to burn down victim’s home: affidavit

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  • Gotta be the most quintessential McLennan County moment since 1916.

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  • Did I miss something? They didn’t post any real evidence at all unless there was a link I didn’t find.

    What the post is describing sounds exactly like the post getting flagged by users, then uncensored by the mod team later on.

    I’m both an HN user of more than a decade, AND a massive HN hater. I’m predisposed to assume the worst, but there’s very little meat to this allegation.

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  • To spare anyone else the click, this is about one blogger malding that his flamebait posts got flagged.

    First post cited was about leaving Element/Matrix because they’re bad, second was an Omarchy showcase.

  • Does each country have a book/library of the laws of the land that a commoner can consult to check if they're about to do something illegal?

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  • You’re not wrong that most statutory legislation is freely and readily available, but determining if an act is illegal in a practical sense requires looking at case law too.

    Depending on what domain we’re talking about, technical legislation also often references paywalled documents. E.g., I work in biomed R&D, and the FDA regulations for medical devices are tied to pay-to-play ISO standards.

  • Tf is a ternary diagram

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  • How did Albert Munsell figure out the color of the soil everywhere we go? Is he the mastermind who put it there?

  • MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies

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  • If it weren’t for fucking Gödel, we’d be there already.

    Just write the standard model as a few lines of lambda calculus and leave the rest as an exercise for the reader.

  • Is audiophile bullshit cheating?

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  • I know you’re playing devil’s advocate, but to play devil:

    In a theoretical world where you can manage to perfectly beamform the entire 20-20k Hz frequency range into a single node (or pair of nodes around the ears)… you’re still just re-condensing the original reference signal at the site of your beam target.

    And if your idea of peak quality is to hear the reference signal loud and clear, it might be marginally easier to set up some well-tuned speakers in an arrangement relatively free of resonance hotspots and then crank up the volume.

    So, how do you “crank up the volume” for that? Glad you asked; simple really: we need to apply a gain filter. To do this, we set up an array of batteries, and then connect only the positive side of the batteries to our audio cable. Positive electricity is bigger than negative electricity, so adding positive electricity to the cable means the speaker sound gets bigger.

    In short, all you need to match the quality of a hi-fi beamforming speaker system can be replaced with a few 9V batteries connected to your tuner with a paperclip. Thanks for coming to my audio engineering TED talk.

  • More information will be revealed at a later date

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  • …is this a Shaft III announcement?

  • what's the coolest thing you have ever programmed?

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  • In high school, we used to play a game colloquially called Spoons/Assassins/Spoon Assassin/Marker tag. Long story short, everyone playing gets assigned another player as a target. You tag your target on the back of the neck with a spoon or marker to “kill” them + take over their assignment. Rinse and repeat until only the winner is standing.

    Major catch here is that for the game to work properly, the targets have to be chained in a loop, so there usually has to be a trusted individual running the game who can validate the assignment list.

    So I scraped the online school directory to pull names, emails, and school photos of everyone. Then I built a Java Swing app to track a list of who was playing, and the app would shuffle a random list and email everyone their assignments blindly, photos included. Flash forward a few months, and eventually we had a full roster of ~80 people playing across grades, which was ~10% of the student body.

    Unfortunately, a group of freshmen started their own take on the game, which devolved into mauling one another with Crayola markers and Sharpies. The principal catches word that I’ve been running a ring, and brings me into his office to tell me to shut it down.

    Uncharacteristically for my teenage years, I went all-in on diplomacy. I plead my case, tell him I’m not involved with the freshmen, hear out his concerns, volunteer to modify the game rules, and point out that our group been playing for months without issues. No dice; the dude was a jackass with a chip on his shoulder. So we come to an impasse, staring at one another in silence.

    Eventually, to break the silence, he asks about a stray bandage I have sticking out the top of my shirt. I’d had a small melanoma removed from my collarbone that week, which was caught as early as possible and removed without issue. Seizing the opportunity, I tell the principal “I have cancer”, and immediately walk out before he could formulate a response. Poor dude went white as a sheet. Good times.

    Bit of a lame ending for the app, but building it taught me the skills I used to jump-start my career, and drove home the point that software isn’t an end unto itself — it’s the way people use it to come together that makes things great.