digastricus @digastricus@qoto.org
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@RestlessLipSyndrome @davidho I very much dislike the spin of mapping the stupid decisions of Bob the CEO of giving Linda an IT environment where simply opening up #email attachments or URLs - which is part if her job - may cause the whole company get hacked.
We #IT #security professionals need to fix that spin that clearly supports the megacorps selling insecure crap instead of investing in real-world security.
#Malware #Ransomware #Microsoft #Exchange #Outlook #Sharepoint #ActiveDirectory
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The year is 2030.
Computers boot directly into the browser. IDEs are just a web app now, running in the GPU. No one knows why. Or how.
All programs run in 4 nested containers on top of a hypervisor abstracting over the 5 major computational clouds. The last time a branch was predicted correctly, in any CPU anywhere, was 4 years ago.
Cloud costs are withdrawn directly from your retirement fund.
Ext7 just came out, it's written in Javascript and uses AI to guess what the file may contain.
Diese Pein, im Jahre 2023 in Deutschland eine Prepaid-SIM zu aktivieren!
Nicht auszudenken, was man sonst anonym im Netz anrichten könnte...
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This is interesting.
A published paper suggests that our ancestors almost went extinct between 930 000 and 813 000 years ago. During this 117 000 years the population size is estimated at less than 1300 individuals.
Ice age, unfavourable hunting, and generally tough times are assumed the cause.
I'm not qualified to judge the techniques used to arrive at this estimate, but I find that very interesting.
Some details. Text on this diagram in the paper which is, DOI: 10.1126/science.abq7487.
Fig. 5. Schematic diagram of human population size history. Both African (light green) and nonAfrican (light blue) populations are presented. The width of the boxes represents the effective population size (i.e., the number of breeding individuals) with naturally occurred fluctuations. The occurrence time of the out-of-Africa dispersal and the divergence between African and non-African populations are indicated. The gray-shaded time duration indicates the Early to Middle Pleistocene transition between 1250 and 700 kyr BP. The red arrow indicates the peak of glaciation during the transition (i.e., the 0.9 Ma event). The ancient severe bottleneck inferred in this study is highlighted. The gap in the available African hominin fossil record and an indicative chronology for H. erectus, the LCA, and H. sapiens are shown. The estimated time period in which two ancestral chromosomes (chromosome, Chr.) fused to become one is also shown on the right.
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"I use emacs because it's small and fast and starts quickly" was not something I ever expected to be able to say with a straight face.
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Just seen a new favourite response to AI text. "Why should I bother to read something nobody could be bothered to write?"
@freemo @kithop This sounds like an MRI indeed! A contrast agent can be used with both, CT and MRI. You can also look at the original images: With CT (which is x-ray), the bones appear white (as are calcifications, the contrast agent and metal). With MRI, it depends on the sequence used. T2: more water content ~ more white. T1: more fat ~ more white, roughly. But there are many more.
@freemo @kithop I'm not a radiologist or physicist, so not an expert either. But due to being a doctor in internal medicine a see these images every day.
The difference is easy to spot: CT is relatively quiet and has a spinning part. MRI makes funny noises and has a rather small tunnel you have to lay in. Normally, you'd get an extra coil on the body part being scanned.
@freemo @kithop On the contrary! Volumetric rendering is normally done with CT imaging, not MRI (and I suspect, yours is a CT as well). MRI has good resolution in the scanning plane, but needs to aquire each plane separately, so has not enough data in the z direction. Since CT is aquired as a high res spiral, you have all the voxels you need; the CT images you would get to see are already reconstructions from the original volumetric data. And soft tissue is no problem either, you clearly see liver, kidneys, spleen, pancreas, adrenal glands etc ona native CT image.
The MRI on contrast does not show bones that well (depending on the sequence used, they do show the fatty bone marrow). And it is not that usual to do a full imaging of chest and abdomen using MRI (you would need different positions in the device and at least two extra coils, not talking about the long image aquiring time).
"Accused if building secret microchip factories"
Kann man sich nicht ausdenken!
Huawei accused of building secret microchip factories to beat US sanctions | Huawei | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/23/huawei-accused-building-secret-microchip-semiconductor-factories-us-sanctions
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-> yassie_j@labyrinth.zone
Great news! Humans are now slower and perform worse at solving Captchas than machine-learning bots!
Article here:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12108
Article here:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12108
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Once upon a time... the TV remote was simple, mechanical, didn't need a battery, and had great #haptics
The original "clicker" remote.
https://www.theverge.com/23810061/zenith-space-command-remote-control-button-of-the-month
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Google launching Chrome in 2008: "IT'S JUST A MOON"
2012 "REALLY…"
2014 "…IT'S…"
2016 "…JUST…"
2019 "…A…"
2023: (POWERS UP DEATH STAR)
https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/issues/28
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This is a credible proposal for DRM for websites in general. It would enable unbeatable adblock-blocking. It would prevent user customization for not just convenience but also accessibility.
I do not say this lightly: Enabling the forfeiture of control over the browsing experience is a fundamentally evil idea that must be rejected now, as it has been in the past, and we must remain vigilant against its reemergence in the future.
https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/blob/main/explainer.md
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