Miscellaneous Tech News

@adamf said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Looks like they will also offer dedicated servers with ESXi on them.

Ah, pre-built with log4j access enabled then?

Yes, it's included for free! No extra cost to you.

gjacobse

Indestructible 'Black Box' will record our planet's demise in minute detail

By Cameron Duke
The disaster recorder aims to set us on a better path by watching our every move.
...
The solar-powered vault will be roughly the length of a school bus and the shape of an upside-down curb stop, and the entire thing will be encased in 3-inch-thick (7.5 centimeters) steel designed to withstand catastrophe, just as an airplane's black box is built to withstand an impact. And just like a black box is tucked away in the safest part of a plane, Earth's Black Box will be placed in the most secure location on Earth, which is Tasmania, apparently. When it goes online, Earth's Black Box will be filled with hard drives recording and storing climate-related information, ABC News Australia reported.
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scottalanmiller

@gjacobse said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Indestructible 'Black Box' will record our planet's demise in minute detail

By Cameron Duke
The disaster recorder aims to set us on a better path by watching our every move.
...
The solar-powered vault will be roughly the length of a school bus and the shape of an upside-down curb stop, and the entire thing will be encased in 3-inch-thick (7.5 centimeters) steel designed to withstand catastrophe, just as an airplane's black box is built to withstand an impact. And just like a black box is tucked away in the safest part of a plane, Earth's Black Box will be placed in the most secure location on Earth, which is Tasmania, apparently. When it goes online, Earth's Black Box will be filled with hard drives recording and storing climate-related information, ABC News Australia reported.
...

But.... why?

Dashrender

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@gjacobse said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Indestructible 'Black Box' will record our planet's demise in minute detail

By Cameron Duke
The disaster recorder aims to set us on a better path by watching our every move.
...
The solar-powered vault will be roughly the length of a school bus and the shape of an upside-down curb stop, and the entire thing will be encased in 3-inch-thick (7.5 centimeters) steel designed to withstand catastrophe, just as an airplane's black box is built to withstand an impact. And just like a black box is tucked away in the safest part of a plane, Earth's Black Box will be placed in the most secure location on Earth, which is Tasmania, apparently. When it goes online, Earth's Black Box will be filled with hard drives recording and storing climate-related information, ABC News Australia reported.
...

But.... why?

Aliens... that's why

gjacobse

@dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@gjacobse said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Indestructible 'Black Box' will record our planet's demise in minute detail

By Cameron Duke
The disaster recorder aims to set us on a better path by watching our every move.
...
The solar-powered vault will be roughly the length of a school bus and the shape of an upside-down curb stop, and the entire thing will be encased in 3-inch-thick (7.5 centimeters) steel designed to withstand catastrophe, just as an airplane's black box is built to withstand an impact. And just like a black box is tucked away in the safest part of a plane, Earth's Black Box will be placed in the most secure location on Earth, which is Tasmania, apparently. When it goes online, Earth's Black Box will be filled with hard drives recording and storing climate-related information, ABC News Australia reported.
...

But.... why?

Aliens... that's why

No no no,… it’s like this:

gjacobse

I challenge you-

Just another surprising TikTok Challenge with a possible shocking outcome.

-to do better.

nadnerB

@gjacobse said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

I challenge you-

Just another surprising TikTok Challenge with a possible shocking outcome.

-to do better.

Well, people did tide pods... it's just a natural progression really.

DustinB3403

@gjacobse said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

I challenge you-

Just another surprising TikTok Challenge with a possible shocking outcome.

-to do better.

Electric Shiffle Challenge.

Climb a high power transfer tower, and connect all 3 wires together using a copper wire AND SURVIVE the climb down.

DustinB3403

University loses 77TB of research data due to backup error

notverypunny

@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

University loses 77TB of research data due to backup error

Just saw it on slashdot.... talk about a bad way to end the year.

gjacobse

Microsoft fixes harebrained Y2K22 Exchange bug that disrupted email worldwide
A rookie programming error crashed servers because they couldn't process the year 2022.
DAN GOODIN - 1/3/2022, 4:47 PM

Microsoft has released a fix for a harebrained Exchange Server bug that shut down on-premises mail delivery around the world just as clocks were chiming in the new year.

The mass disruption stemmed from a date check failure in Exchange Server 2016 and 2019 that made it impossible for servers to accommodate the year 2022, prompting some to call it the Y2K22 bug. The mail programs stored dates and times as signed integers, which max out at 2147483647, or 231 - 1. Microsoft uses the first two numbers of an update version to denote the year it was released. As long as the year was 2021 or earlier, everything worked fine.

gjacobse

Backwards capacitor causes fiery failure for some high-end Asus motherboards
Asus has issued a statement and recall for affected Z690 boards.
ANDREW CUNNINGHAM - 1/3/2022, 3:44 PM

Intel's high-end 12th-generation Core processors use a lot of power and generate a lot of heat, but Asus' ROG Maximus Z690 Hero motherboard takes things to the next level. A "potential reversed memory capacitor" in some boards can cause them to catch on fire.

The problem was initially hunted down by the Actually Hardware Overclocking YouTube channel, which diagnosed the issue using images from Reddit users and posters on Asus' support forums whose boards had failed. The reversed capacitor causes increased current leakage, which generates heat that subsequently burns out the neighboring MOSFET transistors. Users with the flipped capacitors noted that they noticed a burning smell or even fire before their systems shut down. Once the MOSFETs have burned out, the motherboard's built-in status display will show error code 53, indicating that the motherboard doesn't detect any installed RAM.

gjacobse

OH MY GOD, JUST PAY THEM —
Google loses Sonos patent case, starts stripping functionality from speakers

Rather than pay royalty fees to Sonos, Google is sending downgrades to customers.
RON AMADEO - 1/7/2022, 11:43 AM

Following a preliminary ruling in August, the US International Trade Commission has issued a final decision saying that Google infringed five Sonos smart speaker patents. It would be possible for this ruling to result in some products like the Nest Audio, Chromecast, and Pixel line being banned in the US, but Google has prepared ITC-approved software downgrades, which remove the infringing features from users' products.

Sonos essentially invented the connected speaker category for streaming music, but the advent of voice assistants has led to Big Tech stomping all over Sonos' territory. Sonos says that while it was pitching Google for support of Google Play Music, Google got a behind-the-scenes look at Sonos' operations in 2013. Sonos says Google used that access to "blatantly and knowingly" copy Sonos' features for the Google Home speaker, which launched in 2016. Sonos sued Google in early 2020.

Dashrender

@gjacobse said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

OH MY GOD, JUST PAY THEM —
Google loses Sonos patent case, starts stripping functionality from speakers

Rather than pay royalty fees to Sonos, Google is sending downgrades to customers.
RON AMADEO - 1/7/2022, 11:43 AM

Following a preliminary ruling in August, the US International Trade Commission has issued a final decision saying that Google infringed five Sonos smart speaker patents. It would be possible for this ruling to result in some products like the Nest Audio, Chromecast, and Pixel line being banned in the US, but Google has prepared ITC-approved software downgrades, which remove the infringing features from users' products.

Sonos essentially invented the connected speaker category for streaming music, but the advent of voice assistants has led to Big Tech stomping all over Sonos' territory. Sonos says that while it was pitching Google for support of Google Play Music, Google got a behind-the-scenes look at Sonos' operations in 2013. Sonos says Google used that access to "blatantly and knowingly" copy Sonos' features for the Google Home speaker, which launched in 2016. Sonos sued Google in early 2020.

I wonder if customers will now have a class action against Google because they bought the speakers with the expectation of those features. Now google should have to refund all of those people.