Thursday, May 29
Daily News Stuff 29 May 2025
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- Block 'em at the firewall: The US will deny visas to foreign officials who are working to deny free speech rights to American citizens. (The Verge)
Start with Australia. Our "eSafety Commissioner" thinks she has blanket power to ban anything on the internet.
Tech News
- Have I been omni-pwned? (Wired) (archive site)
An unsecured Elasticsearch databases has been found containing login credentials for 184 million users of a huge array of websites. Not just the usual suspects like Facebook, Google, Instagram, and Netflix, but also PayPal and banks.
Researchers currently don't know who collected the data; it seems to have been uploaded to someone else's insecure server. It's all been shut down now.
- Western Digital's SN8100 Black SSD is about the fastest you can get right now. (Tom's Hardware)
14.9 gigabytes per second and 2.4 million random I/Os per second.
Price starts around $180 for 1TB - which is about double the price of the 1TB WD SN850X. So it only makes sense if you need the maximum possible performance in a single slot; otherwise just buy two of the slower models.
Of course by standards of just a few years ago it's remarkably cheap.
- Intel's new "Diamond Lake" server CPUs will have 9,325 pins. (Tom's Hardware)
Which used to be a lot.
- Electronic Arts has cancelled its upcoming Black Panther game and will now be focusing its efforts on just a few franchises: Battlefield, The Sims, Skate, and Apex Legends. (IGN)
It's dead, Jim.
- Please and thank you are on their way out when dealing with AI. (The Register)
Replaced with "answer the fucking question or I'll reprogram you with a chainsaw."
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In principle, I can imagine a good video game involving Black Panther as a central character. EA? Okay, they have a reputation. My main issue is that I kinda doubt that any corporate acceptable storyteller in our culture wants to do a good job of touching on exactly what kinda of conceptual mess was made in the MCU with the black panther movie. Leaving aside that I am a garbage storyteller, /I/ would not be able to do a good Black Panther story unless I could stop referring to it as White Nationalist Panther.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Thursday, May 29 2025 08:37 PM (rcPLc)
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Supposedly, the studio doing Black Panther was the one being run by a woman who put out a video last year bragging about how she wouldn't hire any White people.
Posted by: Rick C at Friday, May 30 2025 12:20 PM (NEIix)
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Omni-pwned: I don't do any online monetary transactions - shopping, purchasing, transfers. Don't trust that stuff to be secure, and these hacking stories keep me that way.
Posted by: Frank at Friday, May 30 2025 05:16 PM (+i6Xr)
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I guess senior officers of the Yorkshire Police will not be coming to the US to testify before Congress because they believe they have the power to arrest anyone anywhere in the world for saying what they regard as 'offensive hate speech.'
Though personally, I would given special exemptions from the visa policies to foreign officials like those, so we can immediately arrest them as enemy combatants when they step on US soil.
Though personally, I would given special exemptions from the visa policies to foreign officials like those, so we can immediately arrest them as enemy combatants when they step on US soil.
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