Tuesday, July 06
Daily News Stuff 6 July 2021
Faster Than The Bear Edition
Anime of the day is Keroro Gunso, a.k.a Sgt. Frog, which ran for 358 episodes and five movies from 2004 to 2011. The manga for it in fact is still running today.
It tells the story of an alien invasion that doesn't go entirely as the conquerors had planned, when the invasion force turns out to be five small frogs who are bullied into submission by a teenage girl.
Faster Than The Bear Edition
Top Story
- REvil has asked for $70 million to decrypt all the victims of their latest attack. (Bleeping Computer)
I can't be the only one wondering what would come out of comparison shopping that price against contracting the Russian mob to remove the problem entirely.
REvil themselves appear to have been doing some calculations because they quickly lowered the price to $50 million.
It tells the story of an alien invasion that doesn't go entirely as the conquerors had planned, when the invasion force turns out to be five small frogs who are bullied into submission by a teenage girl.
Tech News
- News you can use: How to uninstall Windows 11 and roll back to Windows 10. (Tom's Hardware)
Well, if you followed yesterday's news, step one is to delete your virtual machine.
- Don't buy a GPU! (WCCFTech)
They're actually in stock consistently right now, and prices are starting to trend downwards, but indications are this is going to accelerate in the next few weeks as Chinese crypto miners dump their cards onto eBay.
- QNAP has fixed a critical vulnerability in their backup and disaster recovery software. (Bleeping Computer)
No, not that one, a new one.
- Is Audacity suddenly spyware? (PC Magazine)
If you have to ban children from using your product because it forcibly collects personal data, that's a pretty clear signal you're doing something you shouldn't.
And it's proof that there are worse hosts for open-source projects than Oracle, who, amazingly, still haven't ruined MySQL. I mean, it has some - quirks, shall we say - but it's still free.
- Facebook, Twitter, and Google have threatened to drop services to Hong Kong. (WSJ)
I mean.... Fuck everyone in this situation except for the citizens of Hong Kong.
Disclaimer: Fuck Google in particular, twice. After I secure supplies of amoxicillin.
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Buying a GPU used by a Chinese farm for crypto-mining seems like a bad idea. (You could remove the words "by a Chinese farm", too.)
Posted by: Rick C at Tuesday, July 06 2021 11:06 PM (eqaFC)
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Got something weird going on.
Link to 7 july points to main page.
Like to 8 july points to the actual 7 july page, and the Guu video doesn't display.
Link to 7 july points to main page.
Like to 8 july points to the actual 7 july page, and the Guu video doesn't display.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Wednesday, July 07 2021 07:50 PM (6y7dz)
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Hang on, I screwed something up when posting. Poke poke....
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, July 07 2021 08:29 PM (PiXy!)
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Link for the latest post should be fixed now. Not sure about the video, it works for me and it doesn't seem to be region-blocked.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, July 07 2021 08:31 PM (PiXy!)
Posted by: PatBuckman at Thursday, July 08 2021 12:36 AM (6y7dz)
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