Yeah, pick any random video and you can already tell the gameplay won’t be great. For the warrior, it’s mostly spamming, the priestess has some AoE magic that basically is all identical but dressed up differently.

Good on the guy to wrap his project up, but other than that… meh.

People often believe they are hearing ultrasound, but instead are hearing clicking noise or sub-frequencies emitted from the capsule that are not actually part of the ultrasound.

Pixel 6 Pro worked marvelous for me all the time. I have the 8 Pro now, and now the fingerprint reader is a real mess.

But yeah, the reader on the back was perfect.

That girl’s face on the bottom right is a rectangle.

https://streamable.com/emqc0v

Hey, much appreciated!

Is anyone speaking Chinese able to tell me what the guy in the first scene of the video is crying out? The one where the rocket falls horizontally. I mean, I have a general idea what is being said there conceptually, but I’d love to get an actual, accurate translation.

Yes, targeted attacks like that definitely exist, most famously maybe the most recent social pressure to merge a vulnerability to the xz library by actor “Jia Tan”:

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/04/what-we-know-about-the-xz-utils-backdoor-that-almost-infected-the-world/

This started a whole discussion about relying on (often unpaid) volunteer work for critical systems and the pressure and negativity these people face, which is a discussion that was absolutely needed, and which we are still lightyears away from fixing.

Currently, open source is still treated like this: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/10341

(I can only recommend reading the whole story around this issue, which boils down to Microsoft admitting they rely on an open source project for something they consider critical to their customers, but not willing to pay the maintainer a bounty for fixing the issue)

That’s why there is a huge market for 0-day exploits.

Surely not. But also many employees won’t even ask for it, and change will only happen if people care about it.

So first, raise awareness, and naturally, implement those things at any companies you manage or own.

I’m not saying quit your job and become homeless if your employer won’t corporate with you on the issue. Everyone should think about how this could potentially affect them and what they can do within the constraints they operate in, though.

As someone else in this thread said, a separate (VLAN, guest) network for work devices, reasonable access rules etc. can go a long way. Eventually, I would like this to become unacceptable though.

I think with a lot of import products you need to be aware that you’ll be doing the QA and will in fact be working on the parts / product to get it to where you need it to be.

If you have the skills and the tools $280 + $3 for an unfinished pulley plus some time on the lathe or mill can still be worth it. I know this is asking a lot from a customer and maybe this particular example of a printer is not the best, i. e. it would totally be possible to manufacture this part within specs at cost, but I think the general notion still holds true.

Some context:

After Elmo’s venture into posting anime stuff on Twitter, this feels rather tame I guess. Or I’m just too jaded to care about this timeline any longer.

No, have the company buy a laptop, and if necessary, also have them buy the hardware that allows for proper network separation, if not already available.

Just another thing to be aware of.

I know it is somewhat of an accepted practice, and a lot of people lack the means or the knowledge to handle it any other way, but I’d still like to raise awareness that you’re basically inviting a foreign actor into your network.

The days were people would trust corporations, including their employers, to be generally benevolent and to do the right thing are long over.

This is absolutely correct. Heck, you’re free to deny that based on any reasoning, maybe the shoddy icon of the work app doesn’t match your phone wallpaper.

The phone is your private property, if an employer requires an app to be installed to do your job, they can provide a phone.

I would also never let corporate IT manage a device, e. g. a laptop connected to my private network at home.

May I ask what your process for the linocut was?

Preliminary evidence for one-trial social learning of vervet monkey alarm calling

I was in Georgia (the country) a few years back and visited a flea market, where, to my delight, several guys were selling a lot of Russian made tubes. I was inclined to buy a few, but didn’t have an opportunity to research the models on the spot, plus the hassle of taking back glass tubes in my luggage was eventually not worth it.

Still, it’s endearing to know that they’re still around, apart from maker projects and overpriced retro hardware.

Genuine question: what is the overlap between math and anarchism? I mean, what is your group set out to research?

I watched a few videos before I realized Bobby Fingers is Mr. Chrome, and it made me unreasonably happy.