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Kent Sharkey wrote: Flickr's still around?
Yes it is. Did you mix it up with Panoramio? That has gone, thanks to Google.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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My brain associated it with Yahoo, so it assumed it was dead like the rest of it. 
And Google killing services? That's like a day of the week ending in 'y'. /sigh
TTFN - Kent
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Tetris players can achieve a state of blissful distraction known as "flow." Off to do some research. Newsletter may be delayed.
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A new side-channel vulnerability has been discovered called PortSmash that uses a timing attack that to steal information from other processes running in the same CPU core with SMT/hyper-threading enabled. Another week, another Intel vulnerability
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An experimental breakthrough by Australian researchers could prove highly valuable in building the supercomputers of the future. The get the quanta working down under?
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It's a Quantas leap. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Last week, Anker debuted a tiny new power brick, crediting its small size with the component it uses instead of silicon: gallium nitride (GaN). It’s the latest example of the growing popularity of this transparent, glass-like material that could one day unseat silicon and cut energy use worldwide. I'd make a joke about having to rename the Valley, but they already did.
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FWIW, in the 1970s, my father did research for GE on Gallium arsenide (GaAs) and radiation hardening. My memory is that it was promising, but not cost effective, especially since you could achieve enough of the desired goals with silicon with far higher yield rates. (For example, GaAs is radiation resistant to a degree far beyond the needed requirements, at least at the time.)
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Low latencies and easy deployment make underwater servers convenient and effective. Put on your scuba gear, you need to reboot that server
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I am awaiting for the outcry from conservationists and the climate chance crowds you know; due to the warming of the oceans from all the servers.
If it were so ( I am not picking any sides )- could some next-gen terrorist attack be just breaching the security of one of these underwater clouds and causing all the machines to go into endless loops? Causing hurricanes, typhoons, el-ninos, la-ninas and so on?
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Probably - I did even see a study complaining about heating from wind farms recently.
It did make me curious though, so I just wasted a few minutes searching (so my numbers are probably way off - love it if a 'real engineer' takes a swing. Maybe even a physicist.)
Amazon is using a server farms waste heat[^]. 34 story building, "70% data centers" generates 11MW waste heat.
Drop that building in the North Sea (54,000 km^3) and it should warm it (using this formula inverted[^] means it should raise the temperature about 1.7*10^-10 per year.
I'm not worried. ![Java | [Coffee]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
TTFN - Kent
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One of the hurdles to the adoption of smart speakers is the worry that the digital assistants they carry and their accompanying hardware are prone to invasion. I'm not
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One hacker; the rest are 'shocked' that it has any security at all.
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Although the backend git services were up and running during the outage, multiple internal systems were affected. The joy of automating everything
You should leave these things to the hamsters.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: GitHub is now officially a part of Microsoft[^]
I'm sure these two stories are completely unrelated. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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The investigators determined that a bent separation contact sensor pin, damaged during the assembly of the strap-on boosters, prevented a nozzle lid from opening and separating one of the boosters. I'm going to use that excuse for my next failure
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Two vulnerabilities in the Bluetooth chips typically found in access points that provide WiFi service in enterprises allow attackers to take control of the devices without authentication or to breach the network. Why should the CPUs have all the fun (and vulnerabilities)?
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Governments are reining in liberty for the eighth consecutive year, Freedom House reports "People walking around everyday. Playing games, taking scores, trying to make other people lose their minds"
The connection between the story and that blurb is pretty much entirely for one chorus. But that's how this brain "works".
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From the article: the internet ~~ is increasingly being used to disrupt democracies as opposed to destabilizing dictatorships
The underlying train of thought behind this is absolutely abhorrent:
The Internet should be used to promote OUR form of government and destabilise others -- but no-one else is allowed to use it like that!
If that isn't an arrogant assumption of ownership of the Internet, I don't know what is.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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"In the United States, internet freedom declined in 2018 due to the Federal Communications Commission’s repeal of net neutrality rules."
Nonsense.
Any declines in internet freedom in the US are mostly due the actions by Facebook, Google and Twitter, who censor ideas they don't like. (What those ideas are is very predictable, but this isn't the Soapbox.)
The FCC fiasco was about its attempt to illegally reclassify the internet as under its control, whereupon it would become the censor.
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Thank you.
<sandbox>IMHO net-neutrality was more about govt controlling business. Everything I heard from simple users was that their ISPs could spy on them and extort them for more money based on usage. The goal is to have equal costs for everyone regardless of usage. It is perfectly fine for Grandma (who checks email once a week) to subsidize my household of 50 with 200 devices streaming all their movies and games etc etc etc.</sandbox>
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Silicon Valley technology giants such as Facebook and Google have grown so dominant they may need to be broken up, unless challengers or changes in taste reduce their clout, the inventor of the World Wide Web told Reuters. Didn't we see this movie already?
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From the series: Absolute power Corrupts -- Maybe we should Finally get around to doing Something about That
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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As we have recently witnessed with the demise of Gab.com, we have seen first hand how Silicon Valley deals with any sort of challenger. They all gang up together and blow the challenger out of the water.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Gab.com is back online
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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