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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
but I played D:OS
D:OS2 is even better and now that BG3 is done I believe they are going to work on D:OS3, which I am super excited for.
Or maybe they’ll do a Valve and start work on, I don’t know, Divinity: Original Sin 2: Holy Retribution 1 & 2.
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https://youtu.be/WkLvpxImRGw?si=u7FggR9eRqBhn9lK
$90 million fine
If I did that, I’d get 90 million years in prison.
Also, it’s always been my assumption that all VPNs do this. No idea why everybody is running ads for them and praising MITM-as-a-service as a security tool.
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Is classical music too complicated for you? No problem, there are many pop songs available. Still too complicated? Don't worry they get much simpler over time.
https://www.science.org/content/article/popular-songs-are-simpler-and-more-repetitive-they-used-be
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@DogsB Embracer, Extend, Extinguish
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
Also, it’s always been my assumption that all VPNs do this.
Pretty sure my work VPN doesn't, mostly because they don't have the staff time to review the list of links any MITM system should spit out.
OTOH, I'm not going to use that for anything that would be embarrassing to me or them.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
I'm not going to use that for anything that would be embarrassing to me or them.
you say that making this face:
that completely changes the meaning, doesn't it?
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@sockpuppet7 I couldn't possibly comment (while on the Company VPN).
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I don't think it's an April 1st joke. I know Lena has been against the continued use of her image for a while now.
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@Zecc it sounds pretty fucking stupid at first glance. But when both Lena and Playboy are against it, it basically becomes a copyright issue. So what else are they supposed to do.
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@Mason_Wheeler Hacking News thread.
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Disney+ announces next MCU entry:
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Yikes!
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edit: moved to in-other-news-today-the-garage-edition
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I was sure this was vaporware.
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One of them said it was of great significance to him as an atheist, due to its celebration of celebration of science and reason.
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It wasn’t just a negotiation ploy.
Currently, there are a few Microsoft products for which the local government cannot find an open-source alternative such as Microsoft Active Directory,
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@DogsB I hope they asked Munich for advice.
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The new path is basically the same but slightly narrower. The path is about 115 miles (185 km) wide, and the new prediction narrows it by about 600 yards (0.55 km), meaning areas previously predicted to be right on the edge, in which totality might be visible for a few seconds, might not see totality at all. The change is due to disagreement on the exact diameter of the sun (bigger sun == smaller shadow) and precision of the measurement of Earth's rotation. In any case, if you're that close to the edge, the recommendation would be to drive even just a mile or two toward the center of the path for a much better viewing experience. The difference might be between totality that is so brief you don't even have time to take off your eclipse glasses (not needed during totality; in fact, you won't be able to see the corona at all with them on) before it's over, and totality that lasts a few tens of seconds.
See this post for the highest-rated comment.
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Btw,
Yes, 2017, so not news. Sue me.
MYTH: If you are pregnant you should not watch an eclipse because it can harm your baby.
MYTH: Eclipses will poison any food that is prepared during the event.
Seriously?
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@Zecc The first one goes into more detail than necessary:
MYTH: Total solar eclipses produce harmful rays that can cause blindness.
Most of these can be summed up with "there's nothing from the Sun reaching Earth during an eclipse that isn't reaching it at any other time".
MYTH: Solar eclipses are a sign of an exceptional celestial event taking place in time and space.
Well, it is pretty exceptional considering how unlikely it is that a planet's sun and one of its moons will just happen to have the almost exactly the same angular diameter in its sky.
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@Watson said in In other news today...:
Well, it is pretty exceptional considering how unlikely it is that a planet's sun and one of its moons will just happen to have the almost exactly the same angular diameter in its sky.
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@Watson sure there’s nothing coming from the sun that isn’t usually coming from the sun, but people are distinctly more inclined to stare at it during an eclipse.
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@DogsB 504 OK
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@DogsB That links to, among other entertaining 404 pages, https://www.ft.com/404, which describes the reason the missing page doesn't exist, according to various economic theories. My favorite is
but
and
are pretty good, too.
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@Zecc I could have sworn that happened forever ago. Or maybe I'm thinking of another image used for testing image compression algorythms?
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Dentists comprise a majority on the Dental Council – 12 out of 19 members.
Who makes up the rest? Plumbers?
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@DogsB orthodontists? Surgeons?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@Zecc I could have sworn that happened forever ago. Or maybe I'm thinking of another image used for testing image compression algorythms?
Might have been another entity? Or perhaps they've decided to announce it again because people kept using "Lenna" anyway? to investigate.
Edit: "Lenna" with two 'n's. Lena is the woman's name.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@DogsB orthodontists? Surgeons?
It's actually civilians. Apparently it was too much of a circlejerk with dentists, so the government forced people on the board to call out bullshit.
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Didn’t see that one coming and I was just thonking of getting a retro handheld.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Every VPN overwrites the DNS settings. In fact, every connection does.
If you use a VPN to get to a private network, you have to use the VPN's DNS to be able to resolve the resources in that private network. And if you use a VPN to get around restrictions in your current network, you also have to use the VPN's DNS, because your network's DNS is probably also restricted. Using a VPN and not wanting to also use the DNS configuration it provides is … I don't know if it ever makes sense for a normal user.
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@Bulb There is not even a global windows DNS settings to override. DNS settings are exclusively associated with network adapters.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@Bulb There is not even a global windows DNS settings to override. DNS settings are exclusively associated with network adapters.
Google VPN changes the DNS settings on all adapters when you connect and then doesn't set them back when you disconnect.
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@loopback0 Yeah that's wrong.
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If I knew ye would get technical I would have put it in the headline thread.
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@DogsB You must be new here.
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@DogsB You must be new here.
Better new than not welcome.
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
One VPN to rule them all, and in the data mining bind them!
software in general has a serious problem with consent
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@sockpuppet7 said in In other news today...:
@izzion said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
One VPN to rule them all, and in the data mining bind them!
software in general has a serious problem with consent
That's what happens when software is written primarily by nerdy guys
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Bonus s:
San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency's director of transportation Jeffrey Tumlin told ABC that the city's automatic light-rail control system is running on outdated tech and "relies on three five-inch floppy disks" to boot up. The reporter was holding a 3.5-inch disk in the broadcast, so may have just skipped the word "point".
The agency noted that its system was installed in 1998, when floppies were still in common use and, er, "computers didn't have hard drives."
And before folks start panicking, it's worth remembering that use of floppy disks is not uncommon in embedded systems.
But what good is even a floppy without a filesystem??!
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
But what good is even a floppy without a filesystem??!
Is it really a filesystem if it does not support directories?