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finally some good paint jobs! :D
don't know if FDev knows that they made the Lynx available in enby and trans colors, but i sure as hell won't complain :P
and as last construction effort for the year: a fresh dodec!
new dodec, orbiting Col 285 Sector FA-W a45-1 A 5 a. decided to call it Karne for... reasons
Construction team did a great job. Buildings are perfectly level!
hope i can get the excavators in next week to take care of that... slope
Actually, it is possible to dock large ships on M-pads!
getting a Type 9 docked on an M-pad is easier than i thought. if you dock at a planetary construction size, finish construction and then relog without undocking, you'll spawn in docked at the newly built settlement. even if they don't have any L-pads! now i have to try to dock a T9 on an S-pad...
System colonization is now live!
In short: Putting down a claim needs 25mil and 5 mins to shoot out a beacon. Then you have 4 weeks to collect a massive amount of materials to build your first port.
I've set out to colonize Paradiso. Anyone else going to claim systems?
https://www.elitedangerous.com/update-notes/4-1-0-0Open linkView original on pawb.socialThe GIMPS has discovered a new prime: M136279841
It has been about six years since M82589933 was proven to be prime. Hope it won't take another six years to find the next one. This also marks the beginning of a new era of GPU supported prime discovery in favor of using Prime95.
The newly found prime has 41024320 digits, all of which you may download here: https://www.mersenne.org/primes/
Intel has finally tracked down the problem making 13th- and 14th-gen CPUs crash
apparently intel has finally figured out why 13th and 14th gen CPU are failing. the issue is mainly caused by a faulty microcode algorithm, which causes the CPU requesting more voltage than it needs and results in oxidation issues within the chip itself.
CPU's that do not show any symptoms yet could be saved by a microcode update, but there is no real hope for those that already started to rust away
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/07/intel-has-finally-tracked-down-the-problem-making-13th-and-14th-gen-cpus-crash/Open linkView original on pawb.socialFake CrowdStrike fixes target companies with malware, data wipers
raise your paw if youre surprised that bad actors now distribute malware disguised as "crowdstrike fix / update"
Google Chrome has an API accessible only from *.google.com
So apparently Chrome ships with an extension that is invisible to the user, can not be disabled and allows any *.google.com page to get detailed information about CPU and memory usage.
It is apparently at least 10 years old, was originally developed to debug Hangouts and people do claim that it is also shipped in Brave and Edge.
Who knows what else might be hidden in there!
Original Tweet: https://xcancel.com/lcasdev/status/1810696257137959018
Chrome Source: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:chrome/browser/resources/hangout_services/
Commit from October, 2013: https://github.com/chromium/chromium/commit/422c736b82e7ee763c67109cde700db81ca7b443
Archie has been resurrected
Some people have apparently not only gone through the trouble of digging out the latest available version of Archie (old FTP indexer / search engine from the mid 80's / 90's before Google was a thing), but they even set up a fresh install and made a web interface available. Even better: The entire source code apparently also still exists.
Video about said resurrection: https://piped.video/watch?v=CUwR9xdEuZI
Wizz UH-U c16-1 7 d: One of the greenest moons ive ever seen
Almost everything looked green on there. The ice, the ship, the thin methane atmosphere and even the fonticulua. Absolutely breathtaking.
Recent picture of me standing on / inside of my exploration liner
Taken on Eocs Aip JC-D d12-1 3. May or may not be the start of a ~700kLy trip. Star distribution resembles more of a thin mist out here...
WTF DJI, UAV CTF?!
If you don't like flying drones, treat them as hardware CTF's instead!
https://media.ccc.de/v/camp2023-57063-wtf_dji_uav_ctfOpen linkView original on pawb.socialChrome now ships with a user-tracking ad platform baked in
Google's browser not only got new chrome, it now also uses keeps track of all websites you visit to generate a topic list for ads that is shared with websites directly. Nobody asked for that.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/googles-widely-opposed-ad-platform-the-privacy-sandbox-launches-in-chrome/Open linkView original on pawb.socialDemystifying eSIM Technology
a very interesting talk by Harald Welte about the complex mechanisms and architecture that keep eSIM working. prepare for a lot of acronyms
https://media.ccc.de/v/camp2023-57190-demystifying_esim_technologyOpen linkView original on pawb.social