Wednesday, December 17
Daily News Stuff 17 December 2025
Ni Edition
Ni Edition
Top Story
- Coupang - South Korea's equivalent to Amazon - got hacked. (WSJ) (archive site)
Initial disclosure indicated that 4500 customers were affected.
This number has since been updated to 34 million.
- Speaking of which, Midjourney is alemwjsl. (Aadill Pickle)
Me: That's someone typing the local name for Midjourney on a CJKV keyboard with the language accidentally set to English.
Article: Uh... Yes. Korean.
Tech News
- Is the Commodore 64 Ultimate any good? Yes. (Tom's Hardware)
It's an FPGA emulator rather than just software, so it's more precise, and it supports existing hardware like ROM cartridges and disk drives if you still have one in working order.
And it includes not a mere 64K of RAM but 128MB. (Of which you can attach 16MB as an expansion cartridge.)
And you can dial the speed up from 1MHz to 64MHz.
And it has modern niceties like HDMI, USB, Ethernet, and wifi.
And it has a high-quality mechanical keyboard.
$299, or $349 for the translucent Starlight edition, but that's about what a second-hand C64 will set you back these days once you get it working.
- The US government has signed a deal with Korea Zinc to build a rare earth processing facility in Tennessee. (Tom's Hardware)
The company will be building a $6.6 billion facility to produce 540,000 tons of material per year, including gallium, germanium, and indium, none of which are rare earth elements.
Also, 540,000 tons of these metals would be a lot. Hundreds of times more than current global output. So someone is leaving something out somewhere.
- Canada's postmaster-general or whatever he is Mark Carney has been criticised over his choice of British spellings in official documents as opposed to American ones. (The Guardian)
Canada is not a real country.
- Texas has sued a bevy of TV makers including Sony, LG, Samsung, TCL, and Hisense for taking screenshots of what you are watching without your consent. (Bleeping Computer)
Good.
- Set up Frieren, the first of my two Minisforum AI X1-255 systems. Second unit looks likely to arrive tomorrow, and will be named Tanya.
Works. Fast. Quiet, though not silent. Plan to reinstall Windows, but so far, works, fast.
It's in stock on Minisforum's US store right now... For $1126, discounted from $1406.
I paid A$989 including 10% sales tax, so just under US$600 before tax. I don't know if that's tariffs or Minisforum AU just hasn't kept up with the pricing - it's still available here at very close to that price - but either way I got a steal.
Musical Interlude
Disclaimer: Agawhat?
Posted by: Pixy Misa at
05:56 PM
| Comments (3)
| Add Comment
| Trackbacks (Suck)
Post contains 433 words, total size 4 kb.
1
Have maybe figured something out about the 'fleeb' bug. (default values in Name, Mail, and Web boxes). I use win 10 with local accounts (workflow separation), and a bunch of janky browsers in each account. Various mixes of JS on/off, and credentials stored or not.
Typical use case is to check the updates on from an account or browser that I have never posted here from, or has JS currently off. Then I come to a browser that puts in the name/email, and it shows the 'fleeb' messages. I've been lazily assuming that I can't store those outside the browser (which I should be doing), and that I could not predict the wait for whatever status to be refreshed. This time the steps were Pale Moon, Pale Moon(fleeb), Midori (fleeb), watch video in Midori, and then Pale Moon refreshed once like after five minutes has the three (name, mail, and blank) values I use.
Canada's sovereignty is interesting. Charles Ilrede who 'should know', seemingly renounced it in his purchase of the Kamloops fraud.
The Jacksonians in America are actually pretty sane and forgiving, in context. They generally do not want to do anything, and figure they can wait things out if the rumint only showed up five minutes ago. They estimate the fight with Mexico, or the fight with Canada, and go 'now is not the time to invade'. Those nations are close enough that we would expect other parties to reciprocate with a long hard fight, if we do anything carelessly and without need.
Typical use case is to check the updates on from an account or browser that I have never posted here from, or has JS currently off. Then I come to a browser that puts in the name/email, and it shows the 'fleeb' messages. I've been lazily assuming that I can't store those outside the browser (which I should be doing), and that I could not predict the wait for whatever status to be refreshed. This time the steps were Pale Moon, Pale Moon(fleeb), Midori (fleeb), watch video in Midori, and then Pale Moon refreshed once like after five minutes has the three (name, mail, and blank) values I use.
Canada's sovereignty is interesting. Charles Ilrede who 'should know', seemingly renounced it in his purchase of the Kamloops fraud.
The Jacksonians in America are actually pretty sane and forgiving, in context. They generally do not want to do anything, and figure they can wait things out if the rumint only showed up five minutes ago. They estimate the fight with Mexico, or the fight with Canada, and go 'now is not the time to invade'. Those nations are close enough that we would expect other parties to reciprocate with a long hard fight, if we do anything carelessly and without need.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Thursday, December 18 2025 03:24 AM (rcPLc)
2
I've got one of those Commodore 64 things (the beige version) being delivered any-day-now. Fingers crossed, but it should be a blast.
Posted by: K Duncan at Thursday, December 18 2025 05:14 AM (6zKZf)
3
I'm afraid the Texas lawsuit is just going to encourage better lying.
Posted by: normal at Thursday, December 18 2025 05:17 AM (LADmw)
54kb generated in CPU 0.0149, elapsed 0.1186 seconds.
58 queries taking 0.1081 seconds, 362 records returned.
Powered by Minx 1.1.6c-pink.
58 queries taking 0.1081 seconds, 362 records returned.
Powered by Minx 1.1.6c-pink.
