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Why does CD ripping take so long. I wouldn't bother with CD's if Amazon would let me buy FLAC. It annoys me that my PS3 could rip far faster than any PC I've ever owned. Sadly, I think the CD database the PS3 uses went down, and the PS3 can't rip to FLAC.

Also I think my PS5 has limits on the number of files it can acess on my external music storage drive, it never shows all the directories.
You can always buy FLAC elsewhere, but sometimes its more than just a CD.

I use Bandcamp a lot. Others I have used are 7digital and HDtracks.

HD Tracks is when its on sale though.
 

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A mysterious Chinese spacecraft returned to Earth. The unmanned object is a closely guarded secret. During its 279 day long mission it supposedly launched a satellite, captured it later and re-launched it again.

People now think that China experimented with unmanned in space satellite repair. The glider should be similar to that X-37B of NASA design.

Odd that the picture they use are claiming to be the uncrewed spacecraft that returned to the Jiuquan launch centre in northwest China on Monday as scheduled, is a manned capsule. Well it may not have had any crew onboard but it has vision ports and some odd burn marks. Also that capsule looks nothing like the X-37B which is a "spaceplane" and glides back to Earth like the shuttle did and requires a runway.

In fact, that pic is from April 16th 2022 back when Zhai Zhigang, Ye Guangfu and a female crew member Wang Yaping after spending 183 days in space returned to Earth.

Chinese astronauts land on Earth after China's longest crewed space mission
Hell even Al Jazeera has the same pic
Chinese astronauts return to Earth after six months in space

Not sure WTF is up with WIONEWS but maybe they just expect no one to really care/keep track of space news. I don't doubt China has their version of the X-37 but for WION to lead the story with a deliberately mislabeled pic makes me doubt the accuracy of their article and the "facts" within.
 
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Voice is easier than visual by far. Still you have to have access to samples but with people in the public eye, it is far easier than a regular citizen. As for spoofing caller ID, that takes no skill at all really. Softphone software allows you to do that on the fly. We had it on our laptops as part of our tools. Heck outbound call centers have started using it to try and bypass blocks but it tends to be quickly flagged as spam in caller id and when you reverse look it up you often find many rsults with no address associated but names that are essentially from one ethnicity.

Still, the moral applies, be very cautious and never give out personal info over the phone.
Ask questions that they may not know the answer to unless they really were your family member/friend. Or get a call back number. Or just answer the phone by hello and when they ask for you/your dad/some random name tell them they aren't available right now, would you like to leave a message? Not shocking how many just hang up instantly.
 
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Not sure WTF is up with WIONEWS but maybe they just expect no one to really care/keep track of space news. I don't doubt China has their version of the X-37 but for WION to lead the story with a deliberately mislabeled pic makes me doubt the accuracy of their article and the "facts" within.
I've gotten to where if I do not recognize the name of the news source, I don't even look at the article because most of the time it's bs.
 
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SURPRISE!
Who would have thought that BIGCORP sees its customers not just as customers but also data sets to be harvested and monetized. Just like Alexa, Siri, your smart tv that "requires" a internet connection to "work" / get firmware updates. (They work fine without a connection.) Back when I worked for a global telecom company, we had a handful of network switches to test as replacements for Cisco equipment. A few of asked about reliability and how complicated it would be to replace parts. The manufacturer told us there was nothing inside that was user servicable and that we would just get a whole new unit instead. With Cisco, if we had a part inside die, they'd send us the part. So we pulled one into the test lab, never powered it on but took it apart. It was pretty much a copy of Ciscoin layout and chips except it had a daughter board installed but was not mentioned in the documentation. One of the senior techs dug thru it and it was essentially a data sniffer and using tools above my skillset by far, figured out it would store the data but then transmit it out late at night to minimize network impact. Kind of goes without saying that we kept with Cisco.
 

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The Slate doesn't really know what to make with Apple's new VR headset. The do consider it as bulky, imperfect and not an obvious game changer, so in short a product Steve Jobs would have never launched in that condition.

The original design goals are unmet, so this is just a stepping stone to the real goal. Furthermore not so far ahead the competition as usual, and Apple also doesn't need a new product category that desperate.

 

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It's also still a year away from full release. Wired got a demo.


It's all about potentials.
 

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Audience reaction to the price is not a good one.

 

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Aside the new hardware reveals at WWDC23 Apple also introduced more as a side note an interesting piece of software, which is available now: the Apple game porting toolkit.

This thing runs Windows game without any porting or modification on MacOS. More importantly the toolkit supports DirectX 12, which was one of the main obstacles why MacOS didn't get many new state of the art games.

The idea though is that developers will be able to port the game then to MacOS, to make it even faster.


While the GPU part of Apple Silicon is not as quick as normal desktop GPUs, for most stuff it does the job and is around somewhere 107xish or so, while consuming much less energy though.

So it seems that Apple is serious to bring more gaming back to the Mac.
 
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Isreali security experts found a way to recover secret encryption keys from consumer devices by video recording its power LED. This really is a very interesting side attack. The recording can be done with off the shelf internet security cameras or iPhones.

 

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Thats pretty crazy and impressive.
 

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Nothing is secure.
 
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The web is 30 years old this year. The number is arguable. The idea of hyperlinks goes back to the 80s. Mosaic, The first browser with inline graphics and available for Windows and Mac was created that year though. The year before we are talking about something that only ran on Next Computers, displayed any graphics in a separate window, and only accessed two or three dozen servers in the world.

Pdfs were also created 30 years ago. 30 years of change, 30 years of PDF
 
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Gosh the memory of the breathing N in the corner of the Netscape browser has washed through my brainpan.
 
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