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At long last we've created Wintermute from William Gibson's classic 1984 novel Don't Create Wintermute

Definitely justifying this by helping my nephew with his Pinewood Derby car next year

I don't think that's correct. Their 2022 annual report shows them as profitable. https://defector.com/defector-annual-report-year-two Maybe took a major downturn in the past year, …

India (among other countries) have passed so called "hostage-taking laws" that require large social media companies to have in-country employees that can be strong-armed from ways …

Payroll is one of the very few (only?) things that "pierces the corporate veil" - that is, the principals / board members are personally liable even in the event of corporate bankr…

The America First Party was most definitely NOT a fictional brand - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Party_(1943)

This exactly. For most small non-profs, basic IT upkeep - i.e. cleaning adware, patching vulns, getting backups set up and tested - is going to be so much useful than occasional ai…

What an absolute incineration of time, effort and skill

The loss just on the lasers is 100x (i.e. delivered power is 1% of the input energy). Add in a combined cycle effeciency of only 50%, you're looking at needing a 200x improvement t…

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S23527... tl;dr - for the core phone/laptop F.lux use case, no, it isn't substantiated

You need an MDM to manage it remotely. Something like Jamf Now is $2/device/month. Not sure how much the shipping costs, but might be break-even

I was taught basically this same method as the "Princess Bride" plan: Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya (who I am) You killed my father (why I'm reaching out) Prepare to die (my ask …

This paper references consistently mischaracterizes AWS Lambda as a "Container as a Service" technology, when in fact it is exactly the sort of lightweight VM that they are describ…

For those unfamiliar, the rumor is that Ferrari was somehow detecting the sample rate of the fuel flow sensor (which is a black-box provided by FIA and standard across all the cars…

EFS allows you to connect to the filesystem from multiple web front-end machines. Doing the same with EBS would require you to manage some sort of clustered filesystem, or run a se…

https://www.avsforum.com/

OPNSense (the pfSense fork) is using the userland version. pfSense 2.5 is using this kernel code - https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/releases/2-5-0.ht... "pfSense® Plus so…

Yes. The code you're running is described as having "random sleeps added to “fix” race conditions, validation functions that just returned true, catastrophic cryptographic vulnerab…

Or just some annoyed passengers with a roll of toilet paper? https://imgur.com/gallery/0b4wF3V

You mean this thing they just introduced yesterday? https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-predictive-scaling-for-...

“There’s a reason you separate the military and the police. One fights the enemy of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the en…

Harder by orders of magnitude: https://jacquesmattheij.com/sorting-two-metric-tons-of-lego/

There are other ways, but why are they better? He says it out loud, other people can chime in and improve the idea, the Thai gov't sees it without him having to work his way up thr…

So Intel tried to shut *BSD out of the process again (like they did for the original Spectre/Meltdown) so they didn't feel they had to respect any embargo?

https://twitter.com/en/tos : "You understand and agree that the Services are provided to you on an “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE” basis." and "The Twitter Entities make no warranty or …