Wednesday, February 07
Daily News Stuff 7 February 2024
Pirate Waifu Edition
Pirate Waifu Edition
Top Story
- Three million infected toothbrushes have just invaded Switzerland. (Tom's Hardware)
Allegedly - details are sparse - the wifi-enabled electric toothbrushes (why?) were hacked, assembled into a botnet, and used for DDOS attacks.
Tech News
- You can hack Bitlocker encryption in 43 seconds with nothing more than a Raspberry Pi Pico. (Tom's Hardware)
If you laptop is ten years old, terribly misdesigned, and you can open it up and solder wires in places you shouldn't.
- The absolute minimum every programmer should know about Unicode. (Tonsky)
1. It encodes every known human language.
2. Badly.
- Suzuki has announced a new model of the Omnichord. (Notebook Check)
The last model was introduced in 1999 and is getting hard to find.
- Adam Neumann is looking to buy WeWork out of bankruptcy. (Tech Crunch)
This after cratering the company and burning tens of billions of dollars.
- Hyte recently announced three Nijisanji-themed PC cases for fans of Elira, Enna, and Rosemi. (Hyte)
If they'd had a Pomu case, I might have put that on my shopping list - though there is eventually a limit to the number of PC cases I need.
Anyway... They're gone, as much as Pomu and Selen and Kyo and Nina and Zaion and Yugo and...
Hyte was lucky enough not to produce a case design for a Nijisanji talent who left the company before the product could ship - yet.
Disclaimer: Ahoy.
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Should we take it that Alfred changed his first name to Adam, and then added an extra 'n' to the end of his last name?
Posted by: Frank at Wednesday, February 07 2024 06:42 PM (cARBX)
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ASCII was predicated on the silly notion that computers and roman-alphabet humans could have an interchange standard. Unicode is the even sillier notion that bureaucrats and humans can have an interchange standard.
Posted by: normal at Thursday, February 08 2024 08:15 AM (bg2DR)
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Lemme see if I have this straight. I'm supposed to have a unicode library for each language, availability is not very high, and they update the standard every year? Option one would be a tool for writing unicode libraries. Option two is a library maker that also produces variant standards, and put out competing versions just to screw with people. Option three, try to avoid using unicode. Option four seems to be find everyone 'updating' the standard, and kill them
Posted by: PatBuckman at Thursday, February 08 2024 02:02 PM (r9O5h)
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Reject Unicode, return to SIXBIT.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, February 08 2024 05:44 PM (PiXy!)
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