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For those near the SF Bay Area, the De Young Museum in Golden Gate Park, with its copper-cladded exterior, is an excellent instance of this.

I suspect that the effect was unintentional, but (at least until internal WiFi access was provided) the consequences were delightful.

Any metallic grid should attenuate signals effectively. Old-school lathe-and-plaster construction (which often incorporates a wire mesh) is well-known WiFi / cellular poison:

<https://www.techwalla.com/articles/how-to-get-a-wifi-signal-...>


What are your concerns / objections to Termux?

People are holding it wrong.

Instead of embracing the Java/Kotlin userspace alongside C and C++ on the NDK, with the official APIs, they try to subvert into GNU/Linux.

First of all bionic isn't glibc, secondly the Linux kernel is only a matter of convenience for Google, which they could in theory replace by something else, while keeping the Java/Kotlin and the NDK C/C++ APIs.

Which is exactly termux isn't without issues on modern Android versions, not much different than using cygwin/mingw on Windows.


This is exactly Termux's point, to subvert Android into linux cheaply. Same for MinGW or MSYS2. I want to invest as few as possible on Andriod or Windows, while still able to use them in the way that I prefer.

I don't see cloning UNIX every piece of hardware with a CPU as positive, so it isn't a valid point for me.

As computer nerd I favour diversity just like I had the pleasure to enjoy during the 8 and 16 bit home computing days.

Vertical integration of computers with a soul, full stack experience.

“Using UNIX is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy.”

— Rob Pike


Termux itself is a red-headed step-child on Android, with current releases installable only from F-Droid, and quite possibly subject to further restrictions in future.

Mind: Termux is the only thing on Android which has not precisely sucked in my own 15+ years' experience with the platform. It remains both crippled and emperiled by the OS and Google.

<https://web.archive.org/web/20210103151837/https://wiki.term...>

There's ... some Google Play availability as of June 2024: <https://github.com/termux/termux-app/discussions/4000>.

F-Droid's own future viability is at risk given Google's recent Android directions:

<https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/07/googles-requirement-for-...>.

My own interests lie more in the ability to run Android emulated under Linux, and switching from phone / tablet devices to a small form-factor laptop (Framework 12 or 13 most likely) for on-the-go computing.


Given that 8 hours after your comment mainstream news sites are still reporting on ongoing SAR ops for the 2nd F-15 crewmember, it's likely those stories were false or confounded recovery of an A-10 pilot (also downed, separate incident) today.

<https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/apr/04/middle-ea...> (Live updates at The Guardian, as of 15 minutes prior to my own comment.)


Yeah i was wrong on that one, I think the X noise at the time as about the A-10 pilot that had been rescued.

Several have (Deluzio, Slotkin, Kelly, Crow, Goodlander, and Houlahan), Nov 2025:

<https://deluzio.house.gov/media/press-releases/joint-stateme...>



Assigned-cabbie-at-birth...

What specifically about that scene? Video won't load for many HN readers.

Apparently it's "The Wind Rises: The Looming War", a Japanese anime film.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wind_Rises>


Ah, it's a scene set in the late 1930s where a German stays at a mountain retreat in Japan, and bonds with the Japanese protagonist who also visited Germany (to learn how to make warplanes). It becomes clear that the German man is fleeing the Nazi government.

https://www.cornel1801.com/animated/Wind-Rises-2013/video-qu...

- It is a nice night. Hier ist Der Zauberberg.

- "The Magic Mountain" Thomas Mann.

- Yes. A good place for forgetting. Make a war in China. Forget it. Make a puppet state in Manchuria. Forget it. Quit the League of Nations. Forget it. Make the world your enemy. Forget it. Japan will blow up. Germany will blow up too.

This recklessness is a theme I keep seeing when reading about preludes to major war. There is always a side who wants diplomacy to fail and war to break out. It seems to me like the American administration is champing at the bit for a war of aggression.


It also deprives your competition of their product, and/or bids up their cost.



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