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Wednesday September 25, 2024. 04:02 PM
A few years ago I wrote about a fun paper, dice, and pencil solo game called Paper Apps Dungeon. The creator just announced a new game. In Paper Apps Galaxy players navigate a spaceship through deep space. The goal is to complete missions, such as destroying enemy ships,...
The other day a friend asked me a pretty interesting question: what happened to all those companies who made those Japanese computer platforms that were never released outside Japan? I thought it’d be worth expanding that answer into a full-size post. ↫ Misty De Meo...
Our favorite operating system is now changing the default shell (ksh) to enforce not allowing invalid NUL characters in input that will be parsed as parts of the script. ↫ Undeadly.org As someone who doesn’t deal with stuff like this – I rarely actively use shell script...
The 'Linus and Dirk show' has been a fixture at Open Source Summit for as long as the conference has existed; it started back when the conference was called LinuxCon. Since Linus Torvalds famously does not like to give talks, as he said during this year's edition at Open...
Twitter, latterly known as X, is limiting the effect of blocking. Blocking people will no longer stop them from seeing tweets, though it will continue to hide them from the blocker and prevent interaction. Musk has been vocal about his dislike of the block button. — Read t...
Cybercriminals are increasingly adopting a 'mobile-first' attack strategy to infiltrate enterprise systems by targeting weak, unsecured, and unmanaged mobile endpoints, recognizing mobile as a major entry point to corporate networks and sensitive data. A new report from...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (booth), Gentoo (Xpdf), Oracle (go-toolset:ol8, golang, grafana, grafana-pcp, kernel, libnbd, openssl, pcp, and ruby:3.3), Red Hat (container-tools:rhel8, go-toolset:rhel8, golang, kernel, and kernel-rt), SUSE (apr, cargo-audit,...
Notion AI is getting several updates, including the ability to connect the AI assistant to third-party apps such as Slack and Google Drive. Notion was among the first productivity software vendors to add generative AI (genAI) features to its all-in-one document app,...
In the time-honored tradition of things being both bad for you and good for you, depending on variables, we learn today that coffee is good for you. You should be necking three servings a day of it and shimmering along on 200-300 mg of caffeine. — Read the rest The post...
A Montana grizzly bear reminds us why it's never a good idea to get too close to wild creatures for the sake of a good Instagram post. After the folks at Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks transported the 22-year-old male bear from a neighborhood filled with tempting chicken...
Harvard medical student Nick Norwitz ate 720 eggs in a month as an experiment to study the effects on his cholesterol levels. 'I hypothesized that eating 720 eggs in one month, which alone amounts to 133,200 milligrams of cholesterol would not increase my cholesterol,'...
Here's another reminder to avoid self-checkout scanners at Walmart and other stores. Meaggan Pettipiece, a former Olympic athlete, was arrested for failing to scan ham and asparagus at a Walmart self-checkout machine in Indiana on March 28, 2024. She paid $176 for the other...
It's a grainy, blurry, black-and-white image so low in quality it could be anything you like. But what it is is a scan of a photocopy of a printout of an email containing a photo, released in the spirit of malicious compliance as the state's response to a Freedom of...
Former Trump fixer Michael Cohen is fixing to scram if Donald Trump takes over the White House in January. In other words, Cohen plans to grab his passport, hop on a plane, and run for dear life. 'I'd have no choice,' he told Deadline host Nicolle Wallace via Daily Beast. —...
Mitt Romney holds the distinction of being the only Republican Senator who voted to convict Trump in both of his impeachment trials. And with Trump increasingly threatening to wage a revenge vendetta against anyone who doesn't show total loyalty to him, Romney fears what...
A man smashed Ai Weiwei's sculpture Porcelain Cube, leaving it in pieces on the floor of Bologna's Palazzo Fava in what the show's curator described as a 'reckless and senseless act.' A 57-year-old Czech man was arrested; he is 'known' to have targeted artworks in the past,...
Alex Jones's InfoWars empire is going on the auction block to pay the $1.5 billion he owes to the Sandy Hook parents for claiming they were actors hired by the deep state to gut the Second Amendment. 'FSS [Free Speech Systems, InfoWars' parent company] will now be sold at...
Caroline Ellison, former CEO of a hedge fund tied to crooked crypto exchange FTX and former girlfriend of Sam Bankman-Fried (himself already sentenced to 25 years), is off to jail for her part in it all. Ellison will serve two years, having served as his prosecution's star...
A third house collapsed on the shore of Rodanthe, North Carolina yesterday after two others fell apart on Friday. And it is the ninth home to collapse in the area since 2020. Footage shows a pair of beach houses perched above the water when one suddenly loses its stilts and...
Stewart Rosenwasser, a former county court judge in Orange County, New York, shot and killed himself as FBI agents came to arrest him on a corruption and extortion indictment Tuesday. His death followed an exchange of gunfire with the approaching agents, according to WABC...
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