Articles by laktak
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The Great Giana Sisters (wikipedia.org)

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New Jolla phone and Sailfish 5 offer a break from iOS-Android monotony (theregister.com)

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Clippy rises from the dead in major update to Copilot and its voice interface (theregister.com)

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Show HN: Nofan Framework 16 Fan Controller (github.com/laktak)

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Amazon Smart Displays Are Now Being Bombarded with Ads (slashdot.org)

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Physicists capture rare illusion of an object moving at 99.9% the speed of light (livescience.com)

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Ask HN: Undeleteable GitHub Notification

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Craftgpt: Small language model built in Minecraft (github.com/sammyuri)

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CCTV footage of Sam Altman stealing GPUs at Target for Sora inference [video] (twitter.com/gabrielpeterss4)

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First Ever World Tram Driver Championships [video] (youtube.com)

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TIL: Mastodon Has Lists (fedi.tips)

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Tech that could turn Zigbee light bulbs into motion sensors (theverge.com)

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Fennec 142 fails to load sites after first restart (gitlab.com/relan)

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Robot Odyssey (robotodyssey.online)

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A smarter, simpler Firefox address bar (blog.mozilla.org)

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Firefox maker Mozilla prepares Gmail-like Thundermail (theregister.com)

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Coca-Cola's new hydrogen-powered vending machine doesn't need a power outlet (theverge.com)

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EU accuses Google and Apple of breaking its rules, risking Trump clash (theguardian.com)

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Lightning over Shipping Lanes Suddenly Halved Following New Regulations (sciencealert.com)

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Modding the Gulf of Mexico Back [video] (youtube.com)

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Framework Desktop with AMD Ryzen AI Max 300 (frame.work)

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HP adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support calls (theregister.com)

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Big 8 (Usenet) (wikipedia.org)

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The crux of finding a HID proxy-capable USB Bluetooth adapter (2014, still true) (0xf8.org)

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Goodbye Commercial Social Media (coryd.dev)

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Migrating Away from Bcachefs (sesse.net)

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How to turn off Apple Intelligence on your iPhone (theverge.com)

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Show HN: Chkbit, Protect Your Data (laktak.github.io)

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Wayland Protocols 1.39 Released with Data Control and Workspace Additions (phoronix.com)

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Physicists find particle that only has mass when moving in one direction (sciencealert.com)

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Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Crash Helps Us Learn About the Red Planet (sciencealert.com)

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NASA Rocket Engine Fireplace [video] (youtube.com)

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Fwupd 2.0.2 Allows Updating Firmware on Many More Devices (phoronix.com)

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Phoronix Premium Cyber Week Sale to Better Enjoy Our Linux Reviews and News (phoronix.com)

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Linux CoC Announces Decision Following Recent Bcachefs Drama (phoronix.com)

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M4 Macs can't run virtual machines with older versions of macOS (9to5mac.com)

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The Stars and Scale of Sci-fi [video] (youtube.com)

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Systemd 257-Rc1 Released with a Ton of New Features and Changes (phoronix.com)

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Fake job postings proliferate in layoff-hit tech industry (theregister.com)

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Apple claims its maxed M4 chips 4x faster than rival AI PCs (theregister.com)

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Scientists Confirm Monkeys Do Not Have the Time to Write Shakespeare (sciencealert.com)

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Skyscraper-high sewage plume erupts in Moscow (theregister.com)

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Chinese engineers use Raspberry Pi to test tunnels (theregister.com)

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Sway 1.10 Released with GPU Reset Recovery and Other Wayland Enhancements (phoronix.com)

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Are Boeing's problems beyond fixable? (arstechnica.com)

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A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the Fediverse (theverge.com)

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Intel, AMD are gluing their latest CPUs together (theregister.com)

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After Trump's 'unhackable' phone, O'Dowd is after Tesla (theregister.com)

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A Physicist Reveals Why You Should Run in the Rain (sciencealert.com)

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3D Graph of Podcasts Like Fun Fact (rephonic.com)

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VCL: VirtIO-GPU OpenCL Driver for Hardware Acceleration (qualcomm.com)

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The Cousins Running Rival Tech Empires [video] (youtube.com)

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Gnome Foundation Announces Cost Cutting Measures Due to Budget Woes (phoronix.com)

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Cloudflare beats patent troll so badly it basically gives up (theregister.com)

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NetworkManager 1.50 Now Ensures "Offensive" Terms Don't Appear in Settings (phoronix.com)

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notcurses Release v3.0.10–panda panda panda panda panda (github.com/dankamongmen)

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Organic Maps: The Open-Source Offline Map You Need to Ditch Google Maps (itsfoss.com)

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Systemd Looking at a Future with More Varlink and Less D-Bus for IPC (phoronix.com)

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Valve Helping Arch Linux with Build Service Infrastructure and Secure Signing (phoronix.com)

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Tmux 3.5 (github.com/tmux)

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California Bans All Plastic Bags After Its First Effort Backfired (nytimes.com)

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Google Issues Microsoft Antitrust Complaint in the EU (thurrott.com)

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We Know What Creates Static Electricity (sciencealert.com)

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Cloudflare moves to end free, endless AI scraping with one-click blocking (arstechnica.com)

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Kaspersky customers receive surprise forced-update to new antivirus software (techcrunch.com)

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Tmux in 100 Seconds [video] (youtube.com)

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AWS claims its cloud faces competition from on-premises IT (theregister.com)

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European leadership change means new adversaries for Big Tech (wired.com)

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Updated XZ Code Lands in Linux 6.12 (phoronix.com)

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EU Commission demands Apple to align interoperability with competition rules (euractiv.com)

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Torvalds weighs in on 'nasty' Rust vs. C for Linux debate (theregister.com)

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Brexit is 'stifling' exports and imports, report finds (ft.com)

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Four major desktop hypervisor upgrades arrived at once (theregister.com)

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iOS 18 is here, and it's Apple's most personal iPhone update yet (9to5mac.com)

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QEMU 9.1 Released with AMD SEV-SNP Support and Intel IAA Acceleration (phoronix.com)

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Intel's 120 TOPS Lunar Lake AI PC chips have landed (theregister.com)

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Surging Belief in Alien Visitors Is Becoming a Serious Problem for Our Society (sciencealert.com)

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Microsoft Backtracks on Deprecating the 39-Year-Old Windows Control Panel (slashdot.org)

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Windows Control Panel set for deprecation (theregister.com)

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Apple is shaking up how it manages the App Store (theverge.com)

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South Korea's plan for AI textbooks hit by backlash from parents (ft.com)

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Astroscale begins contract for space junk harvest satellite (theregister.com)

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Fortnite is back on the iPhone – with a whole app store in tow (theverge.com)

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TikTok creator showing that opting out of TSA face scans isn't easy (fastcompany.com)

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AltStore PAL now free, thanks to grant from Epic Games (9to5mac.com)

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Ask HN: Is it possible to buy a ANSI US Laptop in Europe?

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We're still in the 1970s with cement': plant to blaze carbon-free concrete trail (theguardian.com)

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There's Just One Problem: AI Isn't Intelligent (charleshughsmith.blogspot.com)

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Apple adds nearly endless 20 percent fee for developers in latest EU update (theverge.com)

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'Dark oxygen' discovered on the seafloor raises stakes for deep-sea mining (theverge.com)

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Design Flaw Has Microsoft Authenticator Overwriting MFA Accounts (slashdot.org)

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Venting Doesn't Reduce Anger, but Something Else Does, Study Says (sciencealert.com)

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Netflix Codes: find hidden categories on Netflix (netflix-codes.com)

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Linux updates with an undo function? Some distros have that (theregister.com)

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Meta to pay $1.4B settlement with Texas over facial recognition and photo tags (theverge.com)

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TSMC digs into Dresden for company's first European chip fab (theregister.com)

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Meta to pay $1.4B to end facial biometrics lawsuit in US (theregister.com)

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Figma explains how its AI tool ripped off Apple's design (theverge.com)

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Wlroots 0.18 Brings New Wayland Protocols and Support for GPU Reset Recovery (phoronix.com)

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Privacy-Preserving Attribution – Auto Opt In (support.mozilla.org)