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zvr · 2026-10-31T18:29:23 1793471363

People interested in such instruments could look up the Scientific Instrument Commission https://scientific-instrument-commission.org/

Their latest annual event was https://www.sic2026.ch/

zvr · 2026-10-30T15:55:54 1793375754

Ah! memories... When I typed that program in and RUN it to show it around, my aunt asked "Did the machine think of the joke itself?"

zvr · 2026-10-21T14:25:17 1792592717

> (TeX is written in pascal and typically translated to C before building.)

Actually, TeX is written in WEB and can be "tangled" into different programming languages. It used to be tangled to Pascal originally, but nowadays ctangle produces C directly.

zvr · 2026-10-11T06:31:10 1791700270

Repeating a comment I belatedly made in another thread about sanctioned people:

Looking at it from the reverse side, I am not sure many people are aware of the underlying business risk: if you do business with this individual (or others in a similar situation), you risk being associated with them and suffer similar consequences.

Question to the HN crowd that sells services online: do you check/vet every one of your customers against the Entity List?

zvr · 2026-10-03T08:50:29 1791017429

Looking at it from the reverse side, I am not sure many people are aware of the underlying business risk: if you do business with this individual (or others in a similar situation), you risk being associated with them and suffer similar consequences.

Question to the HN crowd that sells services online: do you check/vet every one of your customers against the Entity List?

zvr · 2026-09-29T17:32:56 1790703176

Ehmm... MongoDB is not open source.

zvr · 2026-09-22T20:14:56 1790108096

XKCD Tasks (from 12 years ago, to the day!) https://xkcd.com/1425/

zvr · 2026-09-13T07:35:34 1789284934

Well, you don't know me, but I can assure there exists at least one person (me), who bought a Nissan Micra CVT in 1993 and still uses it, and they had never had any issue with the CVT. The rest of the car obviously shows its age, but CVT has never been a problem.

zvr · 2026-09-10T22:09:47 1789078187

People may be interested in the work of the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) https://c2pa.org/

throwaway356565 · 2026-09-10T22:40:00 1789080000

https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/android-c2pa.html

is a post about Google Pixel C2PA cameras experiencing contact with reality

Retr0id · 2026-09-10T23:38:21 1789083501

Hi, I'm the author of the above. I also got a Sony A7 IV camera a few days ago. I already have a root shell on it. Although that wasn't even required to break Sony's C2PA implementation...

I'll write more about this in the future.

zvr · 2026-09-03T21:35:38 1788471338

Oh, uk.co definitely existed for companies. The other 2nd-level domain (besides the academic uk.ac and uk.co) was uk.mod (Ministry of Defence), equivalent to the US .mil. And then, because life is never this simple, things appeared that were neither universities nor companies nor military, so uk.bl was given to the British Library. There might have been others as well, I don't remember.

Back then the code in various pieces of software had hand-written exceptions for domain processing. The joke was that all Computer Science departments in the UK (uk.ac.university-name.cs) ended up in Czechoslovakia.