Vector

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[–] Vector 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I’m really enjoying trying to read the first paragraph of this article.

a screenshot of the linked article, plastered with ads. only a very small fraction of the screen shows the content of the article, with only four lines of text visible.

[–] Vector 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

For comparison, Voyager 1 is almost 24.8 billion km away from Earth right now and has been traveling since 1977 (near on 50 years).

Haven’t read the article yet, but if the headline is anything to go by, very cool if it can be done.

Edit:

Just read the article. Disappointingly but unsurprisingly:

The paper defined an ideal power plan that can output 1 kW per kg of weight.

This is currently well outside the realm of possibility, with the best ion thruster power sources coming at something like 10 W per kg and even nuclear electric propulsion systems outputting 100 W per kg. Some potentially better technologies are on the horizon, but nothing tested in the literature would meet this requirement yet.

[–] Vector 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You may need to log out and log back in for the addition of the sudo group to take effect.

The default config sudo should be fine, but if the above doesn’t work then you may also want to look up “visudo” to check/modify the sudo config.

[–] Vector 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

In case you just want to know what the product was, to save you a click:

During COVID lockdowns I had an idea for a product that I named The Touch Tool — it was a brass keychain hook, specifically for the new COVID world we lived in.

It allowed you to pull open doors, press buttons at the gas station, etc without touching those things with your hands… ultimately to avoid germs.

[–] Vector 1 points 2 months ago
[–] Vector 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Save you a click:

However, if you’ve been following Android platform development news lately, you may have heard of something called the trunk stable project. Without getting too technical, the way that Google develops Android has significantly changed. The first Android version to be released as part of the trunk stable project was Android 14 QPR2 back in March, which is why that release used a very different build ID naming scheme. Instead of having build IDs that started with the letter “U” for Upside Down Cake, Android 14 QPR2 had build IDs that started with the letter “A.”

[–] Vector 43 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Save you a click:

Robinson was making an appearance at the Mayberry truck show in Mount Airy when he was injured, campaign spokesperson Mike Lonergan said in a statement.

Robinson was treated at Northern regional hospital in Mount Airy for second-degree burns, he added.

The rest of the article is fluff.

[–] Vector 2 points 3 months ago

Specifically, watchTowr researchers were able to receive a verification link for any domain ending in .mobi, including ones they didn’t own. The researchers did this by deploying a fake WHOIS server and populating it with fake records. Creation of the fake server was possible because dotmobiregistry.net—the previous domain hosting the WHOIS server for .mobi domains—was allowed to expire after the server was relocated to a new domain. watchTowr researchers registered the domain, set up the imposter WHOIS server, and found that CAs continued to rely on it to verify ownership of .mobi domains.

So, it was a takeover attack for a TLD registry that wasn’t properly retired…

[–] Vector 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Looks a bit like the house from Stranger Things.

[–] Vector 44 points 3 months ago (6 children)

The Matrix and Jurassic Park come to mind.

[–] Vector 8 points 3 months ago

I wonder what will happen to the four sealed bags. If the crown maintains possession of the three sealed bags, the couple will surely be pretty upset that they won’t get access to the cash in the two sealed bags. Not that they would be able to do much with one sealed bag of cash anyway.

[–] Vector 24 points 3 months ago

Must be a problem with floating point precision.

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