I can eject USB drives in Linux! You click the button to unmount it, and it unmounts. This is some crazy technology right here, maybe one day Microsoft will catch up

BOOK SPOILERS

The entire story is different. For starters there’s no t-rex loose in LA or whatever. Hammond is dead in the book (he gets eaten by compys at the end of the first book). There’s a few details that are the same, like the fancy research lab on wheels, but in the movie the child that stows away on it is Malcolm’s daughter. She’s not in the book. Instead in the book two research assistants to another character are the stowaways. Small things, lots of them.

The trex getting loose is probably adapted from the first chapter in the book that predicates the entire adventure - there are reports of raptors on the mainland snatching babies out of open windows at night. I can see why Hollywood might have left that part out

The movie did him dirty.

Wait till you read the lost world.

I just found a directory of Hollywood movies yesterday that were all 100GB each and I can’t decide if blu-ray rips are out of control or someone’s wasting an AIs time with bait

To be fair there’s no article, just a video of a guy off camera talking about his Xbox, not exactly engaging.

I dug through the start of some guide on github, and nothing jumped out at me that the stuff remains configured. Maybe there are pieces stored on the jump drive afterward, but if it does they aren’t saying it very loudly. That’d definitely help convince me to try it.

Who am I kidding, I’m trying it the first time I come across a 360. I just don’t see myself using it regularly

I’ve seen estimates between 30-70% failure rate for the race condition, even on this updated 1.2 version.

And then ok, the exploit is successful. Now you have to install the custom launcher. Hope you like the default theme otherwise you’re now configuring that each and every time too. I didn’t get this far in the guide but now I imagine you also need to install the ISO manager that launches the games. Whoops, there’s always some weird collection of dependencies that you’ll probably have to tweak. Remember wii ios’s? God, what the heck was that. Then you lose power and have to do all of this over again?

Have you ever modded a console? The exploit is only step one.

Its a shame it doesn’t persist through a reboot. I thought I was finally going to have a hacked 360, but I’m not reapplying this thing every time it turns on…

Well will it run Winamp because I inadvertently read the title as Winamp and now I need it again

It’s worth it to include a couple extra points on the current ‘meta’ of seed boxes. A lot of these servers that people set up to serve as an inbetween to torrent then watch via jellyfin etc - they are being set up with weak security. Usually read access is left wide open to get all these services working on the same directory where the movies are. They assume there’s a little security through obscurity, but Google WILL manage to index this folder, and now when someone searches for that obscure 90s movie you torrented (with a few fun search arguments like intitle:), they’re now able to access all your downloads.

Sometimes these seed boxes have bandwidth use limits, where they might charge you if you suddenly use a few dozen TB, which will happen if you’re showing up on Google!

If they don’t have bandwidth limits, you still might land in hot water with your hosting co because you’re being a little loud with copyright infringement. You’re showing up on Google.

If you’re not too worried about either of these things, go ahead and be a hero, leave that shit wide open because…

If hosting a seedbox is way over your head or budget, just know a lot of them are left wide open for you to grab bits and pieces with near zero risk.

The last step in the process is being glossed over, where they mention the final ingredient is glycerol. Google says the primary ways we get glycerol is from plants, animals, or good ol oil. They specifically say this doesn’t use plant or animal products, so I’m left assuming this entire process hinges on ‘drill baby drill’

It also has a microphone for listening out for “aggression,” gunshots, and keywords such as someone calling for help, a feature that to Vasquez-Garcia immediately raised concerns of more intrusive surveillance.

It’s in the article. I’d cause so many false positives for ‘aggression’ when taking a shit. My God this is terrible

Have you ever tried listening to music in another language? I find myself in a similar situation where electronic gets too busy and pulls me out of focus. Listening to lyrics I can understand also breaks focus because some amount of brain cycles are trying to comprehend them. But when I put on like some russian indie rock, I can zone out to sounds I like without that dialogue interpreter running in the back of my brain.

You probably already have a U lock on you. Had a buddy ride around with his always in his left hand, would make turn signals holding it out like a dare to get too close to him.

You’re right, it is worth a mention because I forgot. That man in cave video was pretty egregious. I’m editing my link to a YouTube mirror 😡

I heard the cartels have a sale this weekend on NVIDIA cards

This seems like a good place to mention Internet Historian just dropped a hour and a half long video on the Ever Given. It starts slow but it’s goddamn hilarious

Imagine all the empty bowls

Well that’s a bit of confusion cleared up, thanks! I did actually notice I’d get some information and then a little later the name would show up too. I figured it was just bad reception missing the full message, but you’re saying they’re sent separately? I guess I’ll stop fiddling with my antenna

The fact they just put their contact info for destination is hilarious to me. I should get a radio license.

I just got a hackrf and it has an AIS tool built in. It’s real neat, I’ve got to play with it a while. It plots them on a map, but it’s extremely low res. My city is like 4 pixels. I’d really like to be able to fix that somehow.

I’ve also noticed a lot of the information it reports seems wrong. Like the same boat can be reporting anchor down and 5 knots. And even more are under way with engine but 0.0 knots. I’m not a boat captain but that doesn’t seem right.

It’s still endless fun just reading the names of the boats as they pass