It still amazes me they took the worst feature from Humankind and somehow made it worse.

PLA is not one of those. It’s used in biodegradable implants. Even fairly large bone screws will dissolve within a couple years.

$229? Fuck me, you’re not kidding. That’s over half way to owning a Steam deck.

I have to work with some of these machines. When they fail, it’s an ever increasing gamble if we’ll even be able to repair them. I already have to resort to buying parts off eBay “as is” and hoping they work. At some point, there’s not going to be any left and we’ll be utterly fucked.

A judge did, not the FTC.

Wait 3 weeks before applying updates and let other people be the guinea pigs. It’s usually enough time for things like this to be caught and withdrawn by MS.

Much like Matt Taibi, Brand got outted as a sex pest and then took a hard right turn.

Flash memory stores data as a voltage level, with different values being a tiny distance apart. The voltage slowly leaks out of the cells and has to be periodically topped off.

FAT12, and no it doesn’t work natively. I know this because I had to replace a floppy to fix a 40 year old computer earlier this year.

You can get a USB 3.5" floppy drive working with just some special software, but a 5.25" FDD was a huge pain involving open source hardware (greaseweazle) that reads the raw magnetic flux values that then have to be run through another janky piece of software to interpret it.

The total eclipse. I was lucky enough to live in the path of last year’s. I now understand why people are willing to travel across the world just to experience something that only lasts a few minutes.

And China is by far the biggest source of it.

Apple’s entire software design philosophy is god-awful. There’s only one way to do things and if you don’t like “The Apple Way”, fuck you. “It just works” only works for very basic normie stuff. If you try to do anything advanced, it most likely won’t work and it’ll give zero feedback as to why.

Lemmy has 100k users and, more importantly, almost zero countermeasures against botting and influence ops. It would not be some huge undertaking to target this place.

Azure is a very close second behind AWS and has nearly twice the market share of GCP in 3rd place.

Modern facial recognition cameras project a grid of infrared dots on your face and use the distortion of them to sense the depth and contours of your face. You’d have to 3d print a head to defeat it.

That said, Reddit is probably doing the bare minimum to comply with the law and will probably just use an uploaded 2d image.

They can force you to use your phone’s camera. Due to faceID, modern phones have fairly sophisticated cameras that can tell the difference between a static image and a 3d physical face.

It’ll almost certainly be an AI model doing it.

When a remote code execution exploit is run, you often have a very limited payload you can deliver. Usually that means delivering a small downloader that then downloads and installs a backdoor from somewhere on the Internet

The standard counter-measure to protect your servers is to block all outbound traffic unless it’s to a known safe destination. Downloading the secondary payload over DNS gets around that since you can’t just block DNS. Tools to protect against this or DNS tunneling are still relatively new, so a lot of people haven’t implemented them yet.

Hopefully Kitten Space Agency ends up being a true spiritual sequel.

The devs would probably prefer if their work for several years wasn’t thrown in the trash. It’s the publishers and suits killing games.