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mckinley
Reply to #4uamtsq
@prologic No pain here. There's no important data on them, and the first portion of the drives work reliably enough that there weren't any issues before I had to shelf it. This is just for fun. I don't even think I'd consider it a war game.
1 hour ago
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prologic
Reply to #4uamtsq
@mckinley Ouch sounds painful 😢 Any data loss so far, or still trying to recover any data at all? 🤔
1 hour ago
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mckinley
Reply to #4uamtsq
@mckinley It booted. I was going to do more but I had actual work to do so I shelved it. Maybe I'll come back to it another time. These drives are in really bad shape, though. They hold up udev by 30-60 seconds on every boot, even when booting the Arch install ISO, covering the console with lots of SATA errors and timeouts I don't really understand.

Badblocks via `mkfs.ext4 -cc` was taking too long on the full 1+1 TB array so I made new 250 GB partitions and neither drive had bad blocks in that range so it was just a waste of time. Maybe if I come back to it I'll do the full array and have the EFI system partition in RAID 1 just for fun. I didn't know that worked with software RAID.

> The key part is to use --metadata 1.0 in order to keep the RAID metadata at the end of the partition, otherwise the firmware will not be able to access it.

I had the ESP on a USB stick for simplicity's sake.
2 hours ago
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**Scientists Develop New Technique To Thaw Frozen Brain Tissue Without Harm**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Medical Xpress: A team of medical researchers at the National Children's Medical Center, Children's Hospital, Fudan University, in China, has developed a technique to freeze and thaw brain tissue without causing damage. In their study, published in the journal Cell Reports Methods, the ... ⌘ Read more
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**Vitalik Buterin Addresses Threats To Ethereum's Decentralization In New Blog Post**
In a new blog post, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has shared his thoughts on three issues core to Ethereum's decentralization: MEV, liquid staking, and the hardware requirements of nodes. The Block reports: In his post, published on May 17, Buterin first addresses the issue of MEV, or the financial gain that soph ... ⌘ Read more
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**Apple Slashes iPhone Prices In China Amid Fierce Huawei Competition**
Apple is offering discounts of up to $318 on select iPhone models in China, hoping to "defend its position in the high-end smartphone market, where it faces increasing competition from local rivals such as Huawei," reports Reuters. From the report: The increased competitive pressure on Apple comes after Huawei last month introduced its new ... ⌘ Read more
8 hours ago
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**HP Resurrects '90s OmniBook Branding, Kills Spectre and Dragonfly**
HP announced today that it will resurrect the "Omni" branding it first coined for its business-oriented laptops introduced in 1993. The vintage branding will now be used for the company's new consumer-facing laptops, with HP retiring the Spectre and Dragonfly brands in the process. Furthermore, computers under consumer PC series names like Pa ... ⌘ Read more
8 hours ago
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**Return-To-Office Mandate Is Backfiring On a Key Federal Agency**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Hill: In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the dynamics of the workplace have undergone a seismic shift. While some heralded the return to the office as a sign of normalcy, evidence suggests that for many, this transition has been far from smooth sailing. Nowhere is this struggle more evident than in the ... ⌘ Read more
9 hours ago
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**Microsoft Paint Is Getting an AI-Powered Image Generator**
Microsoft Paint is getting a new image generator tool called Cocreator that can generate images based on text prompts and doodles. Engadget reports: During a demo at its Surface event, the company showed off how Cocreator combines your own drawings with text prompts to create an image. There's also a "creativity slider" that allows you to control how much you wa ... ⌘ Read more
10 hours ago
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**JPMorgan, Mastercard Embrace Biometric Payment Options**
With JPMorgan and Mastercard piloting biometric payment options, a future where consumers can pay with their face is rapidly approaching. "Our focus on biometrics as a secure way to verify identity, replacing the password with the person, is at the heart of our efforts in this area," said Dennis Gamiello, executive vice president of identity products and innovation a ... ⌘ Read more
10 hours ago
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**'Prism' Translation Layer Does For Arm PCs What Rosetta Did For Macs**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Microsoft is going all-in on Arm-powered Windows PCs today with the introduction of a Snapdragon X Elite-powered Surface Pro convertible and Surface Laptop, and there are inevitable comparisons to draw with another big company that recently shifted from Intel's processors to Arm-based d ... ⌘ Read more
11 hours ago
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**Microsoft Launches Arm-Powered Surface Laptop**
Microsoft today launched its new Surface Laptop, featuring Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite or Plus chips, aiming to compete with Apple's powerful and efficient MacBook laptops. The Surface Laptop, available for preorder starting at $999.99, boasts up to 22 hours of battery life, a haptic touchpad, and support for three external 4K monitors. Microsoft claims the device is 80% faster ... ⌘ Read more
12 hours ago
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**Google Thinks the Public Sector Can Do Better Than Microsoft's 'Security Failures'**
An anonymous reader shares a report: Google is pouncing on Microsoft's weathered enterprise security reputation by pitching its services to government institutions. Pointing to a recent report from the US Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) that found that Microsoft's security woes are the result of the company "depr ... ⌘ Read more
13 hours ago
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**With Recall, Microsoft is Using AI To Fix Windows' Eternally Broken Search**
Microsoft today unveiled Recall, a new AI-powered feature for Windows 11 PCs, at its Build 2024 conference. Recall aims to improve local searches by making them as efficient as web searches, allowing users to quickly retrieve anything they've seen on their PC. Using voice commands and contextual clues, Recall can find specific em ... ⌘ Read more
13 hours ago
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**Another Online Pharmacy Bypasses the FDA To Offer Cut-Rate Weight Loss Drugs**
An anonymous reader shares a report: Hims & Hers Health, one of the online pharmacies that got its start prescribing dick pills, is now offering knockoff versions of GLP-1 weight loss drugs. Hims & Hers says it will offer drugs that mimic Ozempic and Wegovy, the active ingredient of which is semaglutide. The copycat ver ... ⌘ Read more
14 hours ago
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**Microplastics Found in Every Human Testicle in Study**
Microplastics have been found in human testicles, with researchers saying the discovery might be linked to declining sperm counts in men. From a report: The scientists tested 23 human testes, as well as 47 testes from pet dogs. They found microplastic pollution in every sample. The human testicles had been preserved and so their sperm count could not be measured. How ... ⌘ Read more
15 hours ago
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**Self-Proclaimed Bitcoin Inventor Lied 'Repeatedly' To Support Claim, Says UK Judge**
An Australian computer scientist who claimed he invented bitcoin lied "extensively and repeatedly" and forged documents "on a grand scale" to support his false claim, a judge at London's High Court ruled on Monday. From a report: [...] Judge James Mellor ruled in March that the evidence Craig Wright was not Satoshi was ... ⌘ Read more
15 hours ago
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**OpenAI Says Sky Voice in ChatGPT Will Be Paused After Concerns It Sounds Too Much Like Scarlett Johansson**
OpenAI is pausing the use of the popular Sky voice in ChatGPT over concerns it sounds too much like the "Her" actress Scarlett Johansson. From a report: The company says the voices in ChatGPT were from paid voice actors. A final five were selected from an initial po ... ⌘ Read more
16 hours ago
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**38% of Webpages That Existed in 2013 Are No Longer Accessible a Decade Later**
A new Pew Research Center analysis shows just how fleeting online content actually is: 1. A quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible, as of October 2023. In most cases, this is because an individual page was deleted or removed on an otherwise functional website.
2\. For ... ⌘ Read more
17 hours ago
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**Julian Assange Wins High Court Victory in Case Against Extradition To US**
Julian Assange has won a victory in his ongoing battle against extradition from the UK after judges at the high court in London granted him leave to appeal. From a report: Two judges deferred a decision in March on whether Assange, who is trying to avoid being prosecuted in the US on espionage charges relating to the publication o ... ⌘ Read more
17 hours ago
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**Julian Assange Wins High Court Victory in Case Against Extradition To US**
Julian Assange has won a victory in his ongoing battle against extradition from the UK after judges at the high court in London granted him leave to appeal. From a report: Two judges deferred a decision in March on whether Assange, who is trying to avoid being prosecuted in the US on espionage charges relating to the publication o ... ⌘ Read more
19 hours ago
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**Police Found Ways to Use Facial Recognition Tech After Their Cities Banned It**
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post:

As cities and states push to restrict the use of facial recognition technologies, some police departments have quietly found a way to keep using the controversial tools: asking for help from other law enforcement agencies that still have access. Officers in ... ⌘ Read more
20 hours ago
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jcolag
On my blog: Developer Diary, World Metrology Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/05/20/metrology.html #programming #project #devjournal
20 hours ago
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**Some People Who Rented a Tesla from Hertz Were Still Charged for Gas**
"Last week, we reported on a customer who was charged $277 for gasoline his rented Tesla couldn't have possibly used," writes the automotive blog The Drive.

"And now, we've heard from other Hertz customers who say they've been charged even more."

Hertz caught attention last week for how it handled a customer whom it had charged a "Skip t ... ⌘ Read more
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movq
Reply to #4eun2aq
@lyse

> O_o Software problem, it can't be helped.

https://movq.de/v/961aef2366/nsfw068-willkommen-im-kapitalismus.ogg (This was originally about an iPhone, IIRC, but it fits many situations. 🥴)
1 day ago
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movq
Reply to #7q54cuq
@stigatle Nice indeed. 👍 (That is a lot of houses in a rather small area. I somehow expected there to be way more space between you and your neighbors. 😅)
1 day ago
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movq
Reply to #fqdfnyq
@lyse What can you do against spam on jabber? 🤔
1 day ago
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movq
Reply to #b3b5eyq
@lyse Yep, this was pre-“everything comes from China/Asia”. My keyboard was made in the UK: https://movq.de/v/ac83b493f6/model-m.ff.jpg
1 day ago
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prologic
Reply to #sutk7ea
@aelaraji Good idea to follow @Yarns 🤣
1 day ago
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prologic
Reply to #sutk7ea
@aelaraji Ahh yes 👌
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**What Happened After a Reporter Tracked Down The Identity Thief Who Stole $5,000**
"$5,000 in cash had been withdrawn from my checking account — but not by me," writes journalist Linda Matchan in the Boston Globe. A police station manager reviewed footage from the bank — which was 200 miles away — and deduced that "someone had actually come into the bank and spoken to a teller, presented a driver's li ... ⌘ Read more
1 day ago
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**Ubuntu 24.10 to Default to Wayland for NVIDIA Users**
An anonymous reader shared this report from the blog OMG Ubuntu:

Ubuntu first switched to using Wayland as its default display server in 2017 before reverting the following year. It tried again in 2021 and has stuck with it since. But while Wayland is what most of us now log into after installing Ubuntu, anyone doing so on a PC or laptop with an NVIDIA graphics card presen ... ⌘ Read more
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prologic
Reply to #sutk7ea
@aelaraji Which are? 🤔
1 day ago
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**Linux Foundation Announces Launch of 'High Performance Software Foundation'**
This week the nonprofit Linux Foundation announced the launch of the High Performance Software Foundation, which "aims to build, promote, and advance a portable core software stack for high performance computing" (or HPC) by "increasing adoption, lowering barriers to contribution, and supporting development efforts."

It promi ... ⌘ Read more
1 day ago
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**FORTRAN and COBOL Re-enter TIOBE's Ranking of Programming Language Popularity**
"The TIOBE Index sets out to reflect the relative popularity of computer languages," writes i-Programmer, "so it comes as something of a surprise to see two languages dating from the 1950's in this month's Top 20.

Having broken into the the Top 20 in April 2021 Fortran has continued to rise and has now risen to it' ... ⌘ Read more
1 day ago
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**Blue Origin Successfully Launches Six Passengers to the Edge of Space**
"Blue Origin's tourism rocket has launched passengers to the edge of space for the first time in nearly two years," reports CNN, "ending a hiatus prompted by a failed uncrewed test flight."

The New Shepard rocket and capsule lifted off at 9:36 a.m. CT (10:36 a.m. ET) from Blue Origin's facilities on a private ranch in West Texas.

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1 day ago
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**China Uses Giant Rail Gun to Shoot a Smart Bomb Nine Miles Into the Sky**
"China's navy has apparently tested out a hypersonic rail gun," reports Futurism, describing it as "basically a device that uses a series of electromagnets to accelerate a projectile to incredible speeds."

But "during a demonstration of its power, things didn't go quite as planned."
As the South China Morning Post reports, the rail ... ⌘ Read more
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**AI 'Godfather' Geoffrey Hinton: If AI Takes Jobs We'll Need Universal Basic Income**
"The computer scientist regarded as the 'godfather of artificial intelligence' says the government will have to establish a universal basic income to deal with the impact of AI on inequality," reports the BBC:

Professor Geoffrey Hinton told BBC Newsnight that a benefits reform giving fixed amounts of cash to every cit ... ⌘ Read more
1 day ago
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prologic
Reply to #34v2gjq
@slashdot

> They're upset that they don't get to spy on private information because they used an ephemeral channel to send it?
> Are they upset because they erased the white boards too?
1 day ago
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prologic
Reply to #fcghsma
@mckinley No worries 👍
1 day ago
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**US Defense Department 'Concerned' About ULA's Slow Progress on Satellite Launches**
Earlier this week the Washington Post reported that America's Defense department "is growing concerned that the United Launch Alliance, one of its key partners in launching national security satellites to space, will not be able to meet its needs to counter China and build its arsenal in orbit with a new rocket t ... ⌘ Read more
1 day ago
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mckinley
Reply to #fcghsma
@prologic I can't really commit to that. Don't plan anything around me.
1 day ago
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**Amazon Defends Its Use of Signal Messages in Court**
America's Federal Trade Commission and 17 states filed an antitrust suit against Amazon in September. This week Amazon responded in court about its usage of Signal's "disappearing messages" feature.

Long-time Slashdot reader theodp shares GeekWire's report:

At a company known for putting its most important ideas and strategies into comprehensive six-page memos, quick messa ... ⌘ Read more
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**Deep Fake Scams Growing in Global Frequency and Sophistication, Victim Warns**
In an elaborate scam in January, "a finance worker, was duped into attending a video call with people he believed were the chief financial officer and other members of staff," remembers CNN. But Hong Kong police later said that all of them turned out to be deepfake re-creations which duped the employee into transferring $25 ... ⌘ Read more
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**Are Car Companies Sabotaging the Transition to Electric Vehicles?**
The thinktank InfluenceMap produces "data-driven analysis on how business and finance are impacting the climate crisis." Their web site says their newest report documents "How automaker lobbying threatens the global transition to electric vehicles."

This report analyses the climate policy engagement strategies of fifteen of the largest global a ... ⌘ Read more
1 day ago
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prologic
Reply to #nhdmfna
@thecanine Ok 👌
1 day ago
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prologic
Reply to #4eun2aq
@lyse I wondered that too but I'm not sure now hmmm🤔
1 day ago
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prologic
Reply to #sqt36nq
@lyse That is bloody lovely👌
1 day ago
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prologic
💡 Does anyone have any ideas for how to combat SPAM submissions to feeds.twtxt.net -- An RSS/Atom -> Twtxt feed conversation service. Hmm? 🧐
1 day ago
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prologic
@thecanine Btw... Do you have a web (_ideally_) based gallery view of your pixel art work here somewhere? 🤔
1 day ago
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