Saturday, August 12
Daily News Stuff 12 August 2023
Apple Pieless Edition
Setting Things on Fire and Ranting about Australia's Hapless Recycling Efforts with a Brief Discursion into the Secret History of the Unfortunate Thermonuclear Aftermath of the Grovers Mill Incident Video of the Day
We choose to set titanium on fire, and talk about the other things, not because it is easy, but because it is fun.
Apple Pieless Edition
Top Story
- Sam Bankman-Fried, disgraced head of failed crypto Ponzi scheme FTX, has had his $250 million bail revoked and been sent to jail to await trial, under new charges of witness tampering. (CNBC)
Because he spoke to the press.
Bankman-Fried is a fool and a phony and I'm almost starting to believe he's innocent of the specific charges. Not that I would ever let him within a dozen firewalls of my digital funds.
Tech News
- Google wants content scraping by AI tools to be considered fair use. (Tom's Hardware)
Of course they do.
But... Why shouldn't it be?
I can read whatever I like on the internet, and express my opinions here. Well, not if Prime Minister Albonazi manages to shove his godforsaken misinformation bill through Parliament but until then we have the tacit assumption of freedom of speech down here, even if it is not specifically protected under our Constitution because nothing else is either.
And not that those specific protections are worth much in the US anymore.
Anyway.
Why shouldn't training AIs on public material be fair use under the First Amendment? How can we have free speech if we don't have free listening?
- Disabling the Efficiency cores on Intel CPUs nets a 50% performance boost on new game Atlas Fallen. (WCCFTech)
Which is apparently not an unauthorised sequel to Shrugged.
I'm not sure who exactly screwed this up, but the article points the finger at the game developer and not Microsoft.
- Use text-to-speech to instantly create your own podcast. (Hacker News)
No.
- The You Can't Just Say That S25-0801 offers eight 2.5Gb ports and one 10Gb port, but the 10Gb port is SFP so it goes straight onto the trash pile. (Serve the Home)
Around $100. Shame about, uh, that.The bottom of the switch has two mounting points. It also has a You Can't Just Say That product label. We will just quickly note that the "You Can't Just Say That" name was one of the most frequent points that commenters focused on in the YouTube video.
You don't say.
Probably because you can't.
- Austria's telecommunications regulator has ruled that courts can order DNS blocks for various nefarious activities, but cannot require ISPs to block IP addresses. (TorrentFreak)
Which is a sport our own authorities in Australia are a little too keen on as well.
The problem in this case is that a single IP address can host, say, 96,530 individual websites.
Setting Things on Fire and Ranting about Australia's Hapless Recycling Efforts with a Brief Discursion into the Secret History of the Unfortunate Thermonuclear Aftermath of the Grovers Mill Incident Video of the Day
We choose to set titanium on fire, and talk about the other things, not because it is easy, but because it is fun.
Disclaimer: What other things, Mr. President? WHAT OTHER THINGS? Is that when we nuked Mars?
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What's wrong with SFP+? The little I've seen it mentioned, people seem to like it.
Posted by: Rick C at Sunday, August 13 2023 04:29 AM (BMUHC)
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So...I went to Reasearch-Gate and I downloaded that paper he mentions in the titanium pyrotechnic video. The video he mentions...that...exists.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Sunday, August 13 2023 08:25 AM (liVFZ)
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Well, I can't speak for Pixy, but for me SPF+ has the singular disadvantage of not being copper wire and RJ45 connectors.
Posted by: normal at Sunday, August 13 2023 09:06 AM (obo9H)
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I find that the witness tampering claim sounds a bit credible to me.
Scope of the media contacts, the possible involvement of those specific organizations in criminal activity, and the accused's potential connections inside government.
Accused has connections to an alleged criminal conspiracy that potentially has significant ability to arrange murders of witnesses.
Epstein may have killed himself, but it is inherently suspicious that he was able to do so.
Also, that other 'suicide', where the sheriff purported to believe that a fatal shotgun wound to the chest would not bleed significantly.
The most persuasive counter argument to the possibility that this is a legitimate response to suspicious activity, is that the Biden junta might quash anything that could be seriously incriminating. Counter counter argument is that a senile man with grifter deputies and a fragmented committee of minions might possibly not be aware enough for self preservation. Or some minions may want to get other minions out of the way.
Scope of the media contacts, the possible involvement of those specific organizations in criminal activity, and the accused's potential connections inside government.
Accused has connections to an alleged criminal conspiracy that potentially has significant ability to arrange murders of witnesses.
Epstein may have killed himself, but it is inherently suspicious that he was able to do so.
Also, that other 'suicide', where the sheriff purported to believe that a fatal shotgun wound to the chest would not bleed significantly.
The most persuasive counter argument to the possibility that this is a legitimate response to suspicious activity, is that the Biden junta might quash anything that could be seriously incriminating. Counter counter argument is that a senile man with grifter deputies and a fragmented committee of minions might possibly not be aware enough for self preservation. Or some minions may want to get other minions out of the way.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Sunday, August 13 2023 02:26 PM (r9O5h)
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Rick C - SFP was originally intended for fiber, so the media controller is actually in each cable instead of the switch, since you might be using single mode, multi mode, or copper cables.
And if you opt for copper cables, they're five times the price of even Cat 8 RJ45 cables, which are rated for 40GbE.
And if you opt for copper cables, they're five times the price of even Cat 8 RJ45 cables, which are rated for 40GbE.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, August 13 2023 04:23 PM (PiXy!)
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I normally like Explosions and Ire, but the way he was using that O/A torch made me cringe. Using a cutting head for one thing, but not setting enough oxygen on the base flame, and then using the cutting jet (pure O2) to try to balance the flame...
As for acetylene cylinders, they CAN be refilled. I don't know why that's such a problem in AU. Probably just laws made by people who don't know how shit works, as usual.
As for acetylene cylinders, they CAN be refilled. I don't know why that's such a problem in AU. Probably just laws made by people who don't know how shit works, as usual.
Posted by: Mauser at Sunday, August 13 2023 09:56 PM (BzEjn)
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They can be refilled, but once the cylinders reach their end of life we don't have a facility here to recycle them, and laws apparently forbid sending them overseas for processing.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, August 14 2023 03:39 PM (PiXy!)
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