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Avon was a hell of an anti-hero and Paul Darrow nailed the role. All my friends at school wanted to be Avon. And don't get me started on Servalan...

Media companies spend untold millions on new content, and yet the acting and writing on a comparatively obscure and low budget British TV series still occupy a place in my psyche many decades later.

RIP Mr Keating.


Red Dwarf had a tiny budget initially, you just need good writers and actors

I can’t imagine Yes Minister’s budget was particular high either.

And it’s not just confined to the 70s and 80s. The IT crowd budget was pretty low, gave us some classic relatable episodes.

You don’t need a big budget. Even the “big budgets revival of Doctor Who with Edleston in 2005 paled in comparison to the budget of the most recent series, but the quality was so much better.


I wish this thing looked more generic so the TSA won't confiscate it.

I'm as anti-TSA as the next guy, but I don't think they confiscate Flipper Zeros.

"Steal" is more likely. That's what happened to me. Luckily it was paired and I was able to find it on the agent's person. "It fell."

There's been several reports of people getting referred to secondary screening because of them.

Uk border control has confiscated them in the past

Wasn't it designed that way so you can pass it off as a toy in situations like that? It even comes with games and a dummy mode that hides everything except the tamagotchi screen.

I wish more clone devices existed, with a variety of looks.

I fly with a flipper zero often. What are you talking about?

They are confiscated when they notice.

I need evidence. I've been through TSA lots of times with mine and taking it on transcontinental flights. No one's ever cared. Last year I flew to Def Con with a Mesthtastic radio and a Raspberry Pi server strapped to my backpack, complete with cabling, and no one batted an eye.

There's no regulation against carrying one around with you, including on flights.


Likewise, I've flown more in the last year than in the decade prior and every single leg my Flipper has been in the side pocket of my backpack. Never once has it received even a second look from the TSA, including also DEF CON.

It looks like a handheld gaming thing; not very interesting to people that see many similar devices every day.

I agree, but it's also a rather distinct device so if it were being intentionally confiscated by TSA as some of the upstream posters claim it'd be really easy for them to identify. If it were policy in any way, even the most basic object recognition systems attached to even a simple x-ray scanner could identify one with ease.

That's of course not to say some rogue agents haven't confiscated a few Flippers, especially after seeing hyperbolic media reports about them being magical evil hacker devices, but I have high confidence that there's no official policy to do so.


That was over 20 years ago? And there were half a dozen Qwest executives who were profiting from insider trading on inflated revenues that started in 1999, long before the NSA incident in 2001. I remember it clearly because I had the misfortune of being a shareholder in that dog.


Pickleball has a disproportionately high injury rate for people over 40. You'd be far better off taking up the gym or yoga.


China's problems with PFAS are substantially worse than the US.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/398603137_Global_in...


I'm sure they are, as I imagine they produce magnitudes more of it. Doesn't change anything about the balance of powers though.


The difference is that when China actually cracks down things change relatively quickly. In 10 years this group [1] will be lower than in the US

[1] https://www.bmj.com/content/393/bmj.s771


Yea, when the communist party thinks an industry should change it changes in the way the communist party says. Of course it is often not without side-effects.


China is tightening regulations and trying to clean up their country.

Trump is waging war on the EPA.


Seeing all of the archived documents from the 50s and 60s is very cool. But unfortunately everything else I looked at was a giant nothingburger.

Some of the new videos were already identified as imaging artifacts a while ago.


Last time this was discussed the consensus was Brave does not block it. Brave's fingerprinting protection does not include extensions.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46904361


Well, just because LinkedIn still tries to send the requests on Brave doesn't mean the blocking doesn't work. The question is whether any request will give a valid response.

That said, I can't find conclusive info on whether this is blocked exactly. Brave does block "plugins" (which is why I assumed this includes this specific kind of fingerprinting), and the getExtension() call (which is probably unrelated), according to this page: https://brave.com/privacy-updates/4-fingerprinting-defenses-...

But since they don't explicitly mention the chrome-extension URL, you might be right.


My first job at college was wrangling campus email, both X.400 and SMTP. As the article points out, SMTP won out because it was simple and developed in the open, not buried in standards committees, and SMTP code was widely available. It was the Cathedral and the Bazaar hypothesis playing out in real time.

Just seeing that X.400 notation is giving me bad memories!


This is a nice idea. I don't remember the last time I walked through an airport without noise cancelling earbuds and my own music playing. The noise level definitely adds to the stress if you are a frequent traveler.

This is my current favorite airport album. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orph%C3%A9e_(album)


I thought you were going to link Brian Eno’s Music for Airports

> intent of defusing the anxious atmosphere of an airport terminal as an alternative to "canned" Muzak and easy listening styles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambient_1:_Music_for_Airports


Thank you for this! Such a sad demise for the composer. Amazing music, added to my playlist.


Absolutely, Johan is one of my all time favorite composers and as prolific and talented as he was, it's terrible that we will never hear new music from him again. :(


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