Nobody Cares: Technology-only Edition

[Free]

DuckDuckGo's Windows browser now in public beta

Declutter the Internet with the DuckDuckGo Browser.

spreadprivacy.com

I always wanted a web browser that ducks and covers well.

 

[Noodles]

MSN

www.msn.com

Everyone is caught up in Twitter and Reddit drama, but didn't notice that Gfycat is shutting down.

Edit: Man the auto format on that link sucks.

 

[WolfEyes]

MSN

www.msn.com

Everyone is caught up in Twitter and Reddit drama, but didn't notice that Gfycat is shutting down.

Edit: Man the auto format on that link sucks.

Never heard of it.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

This link takes you to a random Web 1.0 website:

https://wiby.me/surprise/

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Tri-ang model railways!

 

[Essence Lumin]

Convicted felon gets DC contract to install car battery tech called impossible by experts

Lawrence Hardge, sentenced to 26 years in prison in 2001, claims his invention can double the battery range of electric vehicles.

www.wusa9.com

 

[Casey Pelous]

Convicted felon gets DC contract to install car battery tech called impossible by experts

Lawrence Hardge, sentenced to 26 years in prison in 2001, claims his invention can double the battery range of electric vehicles.

www.wusa9.com

 

[Noodles]

Kevin Mitnick Obituary - Las Vegas, NV

Celebrate the life of Kevin Mitnick, leave a kind word or memory and get funeral service information care of King David Memorial Chapel & Cemetery.

www.dignitymemorial.com

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Mitnick

Kevin David Mitnick (August 6, 1963 – July 16, 2023) was an American computer security consultant, author, and convicted hacker. He is best known for his high-profile 1995 arrest and five years in prison for various computer and communications-related crimes.

 

[Erich Templar]

I'm not quite sure where this belongs, but this seems as good as any. Prepare to have your mind blown.

Environmental Discs of Tron Roadside Pickup!

We’ve spoken about arcade Tron a few times here on the blog over the years. Specifically, I shared some development documents a few months back here. For those of you that don’t know, T…

arcadeblogger.com

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

I read about this cabinet but the story I read didn't mention that it was in working condition. Holy mother of Disney, that's insane!

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

I'm not quite sure where this belongs, but this seems as good as any. Prepare to have your mind blown.

Environmental Discs of Tron Roadside Pickup!

We’ve spoken about arcade Tron a few times here on the blog over the years. Specifically, I shared some development documents a few months back here. For those of you that don’t know, T…

arcadeblogger.com

I read about this cabinet but the story I read didn't mention that it was in working condition. Holy mother of Disney, that's insane!

Saw the story on Kotaku where they mentioned it was WORKING! and I was like OMG that's awesome. I LOVED that game. IIRC the one I played in an arcade in Downtown Normal in 85/86 had David Warner's voice when you started it up. "Greetings, Master Control Program has chosen you to serve on the game grid."
I got pretty good at it and could play for a while on a quarter.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

I was never any good at that but I got pretty good at light cycles because I used to play the game it was based on (SNAFU on the Intellivision) all the time.

 

[Free]

Technology history: A TV remote that didn't need a battery!

The buttons on Zenith’s original “clicker” remote were a mechanical marvel

The Space Command fixed problems we still live with today.

www.theverge.com

 

[WolfEyes]

the high-pitch frequencies from the remote were discernible by pets.

Not just pets, unfortunately for me.

It never occurred to me that the one my parents had was one of the contributors to my hearing loss, until now.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Oh how civilization has fallen since this point.

 

[Free]

Going to soon need a "I am not...not...not a bot" tests.

Bots are better than humans at cracking ‘Are you a robot?’ Captcha tests, study finds

New study suggests effort users put in cracking these puzzles every day may be more trouble than its worth

www.independent.co.uk

Bots are better and significantly faster than humans at cracking Captcha tests, according to a comprehensive new study that inspected the security system deployed in over 100 popular websites.

Automated bots pose a significant threat to the internet because they can masquerade as legitimate human users and perform harmful operations like scraping content, creating accounts and posting fake comments or reviews, as well as consuming scarce resources.

 

[Noodles]

Going to soon need a "I am not...not...not a bot" tests.

Bots are better than humans at cracking ‘Are you a robot?’ Captcha tests, study finds

New study suggests effort users put in cracking these puzzles every day may be more trouble than its worth

www.independent.co.uk

Honestly, I question almost everything about this. Mostly because as far as I can tell, they always think I am a bot because I always get like 10 in a row before it takes.

I even started using more "human looking" methods as suggested, like "select one, then unselect it, like a mistake."

Anyway, if bots were better than humans, why am I still getting hit with so many rounds, I should be breezing through on one. Beep boop.

 

[Essence Lumin]

A 256 terabyte SSD is now available. Yow! No price listed.

Samsung shows off 256TB SSD for data centers, petabyte-scale storage

In addition to announcing the 256TB drives, Samsung also unveiled the PBSSD architecture, a petabyte-scale ultra-high capacity solution that it claims "provides scalability through capacity variation depending...

www.techspot.com

 

[Noodles]

Imagine throwing all the data you have accumulated in your entire life, and downloading hundreds of steam games etc on your computer and windows still shows C:/ 1% full.

 

[WolfEyes]

Imagine the cost of having to replace the damned thing when it finally gives up the ghost.