This wouldn't have happened with Gainsborough or one of those proper painters.

Wednesday, October 23

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Daily News Stuff 23 October 2024

Floppy Edition

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  • The San Francisco MTA is spending $212 million to move its train control system off floppy disks.  (GovTech)

    The system was installed in 1998, which is rather late to be using floppy disks that were (assuming it uses 3.5" disks) introduced in 1982.  But Compact Flash, the only real alternative at the time that is still supported today, was only introduced in 1994 and was likely not readily available when the project started.

    And given that it's been working for 26 years so far, we can't really blame the designers for being short-sighted.


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Disclaimer: Chicken wings are trash.  The only reason to eat them is if some bastard stole the rest of the chicken.

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Tuesday, October 22

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Daily News Stuff 22 October 2024

I Am Not Making This Up Edition

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  • The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post are suing AI startup Perplexity over copyright infringement.  (Variety)

    To be fair, that seems to be Perplexity's entire business model: Index copyrighted content, summarise it, file off the serial numbers, and then provide it to users to answer their questions.
    News Corp CEO Robert Thomson, in a statement about the lawsuit, said: "Perplexity perpetrates an abuse of intellectual property that harms journalists, writers, publishers and News Corp. The perplexing Perplexity has willfully copied copious amounts of copyrighted material without compensation, and shamelessly presents repurposed material as a direct substitute for the original source. Perplexity proudly states that users can 'skip the links'  - apparently, Perplexity wants to skip the check."
    From my understanding of Perplexity, this is actually pretty accurate.

    This bit less so:
    We applaud principled companies like OpenAI, which understands that integrity and creativity are essential if we are to realize the potential of artificial intelligence
    OpenAI is as unprincipled as any company in the industry, but with billions of dollars of investors money to burn, they can pay off at least some of their victims.


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Disclaimer: Do not click on the thing.

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Monday, October 21

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Daily News Stuff 21 October 2024

False Lies Edition

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Disclaimer: Bzz.

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Sunday, October 20

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Daily News Stuff 20 October 2024

Foofenator Edition

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How Is This Hundred Year Old Website So Fast Video of the Day




When ClF3 Is Just Not Dangerous Enough Video of the Day




Musical Interlude Video of the Day



Klangphonics.  Love these guys.

They do a sort of organic techno.  They use electronic instruments and effects, but they also use anything they can get their hands on that sounds interesting.  Sewing machines, empty buckets, alpine horns, cats, wine glasses, lawnmowers...



Doobenated Video of the Day


Clocks reset, D-6.


Disclaimer: Any similarity between Dooby3d and a recently semi-graduated Hololive English Myth member such as the fact that they sound exactly alike is purely a function of your imagination and you probably also lack object permanence so there.

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Saturday, October 19

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Daily News Stuff 19 October 2024

Monotreme Arc Edition

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Disclaimer: That is not dead which can eternal lie, nor indie vtubers who "graduated".  D-2.

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Friday, October 18

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Daily News Stuff 18 October 2024

Crocodile Rock And Roll Edition

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  • WordPress looks to be entering a doom spiral as Mad King Matt Mullenweg tightens his grip.  (404 Media)  (archive site)
    After an exodus of employees at Automattic who disagreed with CEO Matt Mullenweg's recently divisive legal battle with WP Engine, he's upped the ante with another buyout offer - and a threat that employees speaking to the press should "exit gracefully, or be fired tomorrow with no severance."
    This divides the company neatly into three factions:

    1. Those with principles who will quit - and take advantage of the severance package on offer because principles don't pay the rent.
    2. Those who see the writing on the wall and get while the going is good.
    3. True believers.

    True believers can be good if you're tackling a difficult problem under an experienced leader, like catching an office building falling from space.

    It can also produce Jonestown.

    This is looking more like the latter.

    WordPress itself will survive, since it's open source, but the company and foundation behind it won't.


  • Sad to say I was today years old when I realised why the company is called Automattic.

    One of those things that's cute in a toddler but diagnostic of malignant narcissism in a CEO.


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Disclaimer: My Calliope Mori Limited Edition Hyte Y40 PC case is currently enjoying a layover in Honolulu.  D-3.

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Thursday, October 17

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Daily News Stuff 17 October 2024

Frosty Inugami Edition

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Disclaimer: Sled dog Shiki for the win!  D-4.

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Wednesday, October 16

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Daily News Stuff 16 October 2024

Unblank Canvas Edition

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Disclaimer: It do be like that sometimes.  D-5, unless you count X, in which case D-0.

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Tuesday, October 15

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Daily News Stuff 15 October 2024

Unfazed Invaders Edition

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Disclaimer: I didn't order that.  Did I?  D-6.

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Monday, October 14

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Daily News Stuff 14 October 2024

Requiem For A Butterfly Edition

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  • Turns out 23andMe is a genetic robot vacuum cleaner.  (SFGate)

    If you used the service - or if anyone in your family did - you should probably log in and delete your data.

    This won't do anything but it might work in your favour in the resulting class action lawsuits.

    CEO Anne Wojcicki says she's open to takeover offers.  Or people who want to buy the company.  Either one.


  • Unidentified drones swarmed Langley Air Force Base, and the Pentagon is "stumped".  (MSN)

    The drones circled the base for seventeen days.


  • The average LLM (AI) jailbreak attempt takes 42 seconds.  (SC World)

    20% of attacks succeed, and of those, 90% leak confidential information.


  • A detailed review of the Terramaster F8 Plus.  (Liliputing)

    This is an 8 bay M.2 NAS with 10Gb Ethernet and an 8 core CPU.  It's only slightly larger than an external 3.5" hard drive, and can store up to 64TB of data and hold up to 32GB of RAM for running applications (it ships with 16GB as standard, but it uses a regular SO-DIMM slot.)

    There's also cheaper F8 Nonplus, with a 4 core CPU and shipping with 8GB of RAM.  That should be fine if you just need the server functions and don't want to run apps on it.


  • Gotta catch 'em all, but I'm out of disk space: A Game Freak leak has dumped company info and a terabyte of Pokemons.  (Notebook Check)

    Game Freak is the company developing the Pokemon games, though the franchise is owned by the Pokemon Company and Nintendo.  Anyway, the Skitty is definitely out of the bag now.


  • The Beelink SER9 is the fastest mini-PC you can get right now.  (WCCFTech)

    It has more than twice the CPU performance and three to four times the graphics performance of my Beelink SER5.  But I have three of those and the SER9 costs more than three times as much if you already have memory and SSDs you can reuse.

    The Ryzen 370 used in the SER9 only supports LPDDR5X memory, not regular SO-DIMMS, so you can't install your own unless you have a desoldering station and a very steady hand. It does have two M.2 slots though.

    But if you don't need three computers and just want something small and quiet that gets the job done, it does.


Bling Bang Bang Videos of the Day



Bae and Ina.

Ina famously sent Bae the music for this at 2AM and Bae never managed to get back to sleep.



Disclaimer: Corpsman, address your camel!  D-7.

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