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Oppa oppa

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No no no.

In school in higher education we had to interpret poems.

I am definitely sure, that neither the author's opinion or my opinion are relevant. It is only the teacher's opinion that is relevant.

(Do I need the /s?)

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When your father is clueless

My ex-wife and me divorced amicably, so we still talk.

One day, about two years after separtion she called me whether I still had my credit card.

(Typically we pay by payment cards called ec or giro card - but they don't habe a credit card number, so not usable for ordering something from overseas)

So I said, yes, why. "Uhm, I want to buy something from the US" she answerf with skirting around the topic.

A certain assumption forms in my mind, as she speaks on I'm getting more sure every moment.

I answer: Look, , don't try to order the Hitachi Magic Wand from the US. It can't be imported due to the no-lead-in-electric-devices law. And even if it arrived you 'd need a transformer for plugging it into our 230V system. Just buy one of the knockoffs available on Amazon in Europe

She : "Um (pause), OK"

Some years later my teenage kids found it when they were at her place. They asked her what it was and she said "a microphone". I swear by my kids, the "it is a microphone" meme happened once in my family in real life. (And of course these teenagers knew what it was).

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All Windows users should immediately update their computers. An exploit rated 9.8/10 (CVE-2024-38063) compromises all devices running Windows with an IPv6 address.

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IPV6 is already rolled out in parts of the world. My provider has a Dual Stack lite architecture, the home connection is over IPV6, IPV4 is normally being tunneled via V6 through a provider grade NAT.

As I AM a network nerd, I pay for a dedicated IPV4 address every month, so I can reach my stuff from outside from old IPV4 only networks.

So when I plug in my router, connect a windows machine and just google stuff then all this traffic will be IPV6 without me configuring anything.

It's so great fun having the attack surface being doubled by dual stack setups.

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Top Meta executive said the company's name change was a success because it beat out coverage of the 'Facebook Papers' revelations

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Of course he knows, don't think these people are stupid. Still it limited the amount of news about the Facebook Papers by giving the press something else to write about. This post proves it even more.

And yet in the long run, they can make the name Meta stick, just by behaving like the renaming was a huge success and just ignoring everyone who calls the whole company Facebook.

If you like it or not over time Facebook will be just one of their brands, also probably not even the most attractive one.

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Can we simulate sound?

Not specifically for a rock, but that's "roughly" how physical modeling synthesiers work for instruments.

Also there's a youtube channel of a guy who builds an engine simulator to reproduce the sounds of 4-stroke and 2-stroke engines by applying fluid dynamic simulation of the gas flows in an engine.

It COULD conceivably be built for rock dropping as well, but I assume that's not a thing people have yet put effort in.

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https://youtu.be/oUrYlZQVHvo?si=NPNYeKqr-MWkn7B8