The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread
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@Tazz can’t remember if I read it here or elsewhere but a week ago there was a story about new legislation in Japan that stopped requiring companies to submit data to government agencies on floppy disk. I didn’t even know you could still buy floppy disks.
I used to have this image of Japan being super technologically advanced but in recent years I’ve been learning that, in a lot of respects, they haven’t really progressed much since the 90’s.
Edit:
Japan government accepts it’s no longer the ’90s, stops requiring floppy disks
Government amends 34 ordinances to no longer require diskettes.
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@Hog I want to know more, but the video just cut off. WTF is that shit?
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@Gators1 yeah me too. That it flies at all is impressive but it seemed super maneuverable too.
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I don’t condone it of course but I still kind of admire this:
According to a grand jury indictment unsealed in December 2022, cab drivers Daniel Abayev and Peter Leyman conspired with Russian cybercriminals to hack into the electronic taxi dispatch system at the John F. Kennedy International Airport so they could charge cabbies $10 to skip the line of taxis waiting to pick up passengers.
“I know that the Pentagon is being hacked,” Abayev texted one of the Russian hackers, according to the indictment. “So, can’t we hack the taxi industry?”Edit: this part is a bit fucking draconian. Remember, they got 4 year prison sentences:
In a sentencing memo, Myers argued that the amount of restitution ordered as punishment — including $7 million to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs JFK airport, to entirely replace its outdated dispatching system — wasn’t consistent with the roughly $80,000 Abayev and Leyman each made from the scheme.
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Fuck em.
BTW, TNN told me NY only locks up patriots that accidentally misgendered someone? WTF?
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@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Fuck em.
Really? His kids have to live in poverty because his victims had to watch people cut in line?
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The DOJ apparently hacked over a 1000 retail routers to remove Russian malware and disable remote admin to prevent reinfection. I’m sure none of the affected people would mind even if they knew but it’s interesting nonetheless.
DOJ quietly removed Russian malware from routers in US homes and businesses
Feds once again fix up compromised retail routers under court order.
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Fuck em.
Really? His kids have to live in poverty because his victims had to watch people cut in line?
Deterrence.
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@Kilemall You can cut people’s hands off for shop lifting too and that might dissuade a few more offenders but I wouldn’t admire that either.
Anyway, we’re arguing values which is profitless.
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Kilemall You can cut people’s hands off for shop lifting too and that might dissuade a few more offenders but I wouldn’t admire that either.
Anyway, we’re arguing values which is profitless.
The problem is not that these guys got a harsh sentence for screwing up civilization, it’s that people in power don’t get held to the same standard for the same or greater levels of damage.
The auditing firms that rubber stamped loan bonds on junk mortgage feeding the 2008 crisis come to mind.
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Been hearing about these for years, but so far nothing. Will be cool if they finally can produce the reactors as they have a lot of potential.
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@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Been hearing about these for years, but so far nothing. Will be cool if they finally can produce the reactors as they have a lot of potential.
Germany has a new design as well. Nuclear bad though so sayeth the ‘green revolutionaries’.
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@madrebel nice. There are a ton of benefits if they can get it working. I think they were having issues with the materials science several years ago as the salt bath is corrosive or something like that. It’s nice we can get rid of all the nuclear waste in the process and the residual waste from these plants basically is safe in a few hundred years instead of tens of thousands. I was surprised to learn that the existing fuel rods in traditional plants only spend < 10% of the fuel before they are removed and become waste.
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New Data Storage in 3D Using Light Could Hold a Million Movies On a Single Disc
Smaller, greener data centers?
The approach is based on the same light-based optical data storage (ODS) approach used to write DVDs, but the twist is that it works in three dimensions. That means hundreds of layers instead of one, resulting in a massive jump in capacity.
According to the research team, we’re talking petabits on a single disc: that’s a thousand trillion bits, the equivalent of fitting around a million standard definition movies on something the size of a DVD. Stack them together, and we’re getting into the realm of exabits (a million trillion or a quintillion bits).
GTFO
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@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@madrebel nice. There are a ton of benefits if they can get it working. I think they were having issues with the materials science several years ago as the salt bath is corrosive or something like that. It’s nice we can get rid of all the nuclear waste in the process and the residual waste from these plants basically is safe in a few hundred years instead of tens of thousands. I was surprised to learn that the existing fuel rods in traditional plants only spend < 10% of the fuel before they are removed and become waste.
Fast Breeders have been a thing for awhile now too. As i recall Russia had one or two pilot plants running and France had this - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superphénix
Technical issues as you’d expect from first of its kind tech, including sodium corrosion problems, but they were ultimately resolved. Cost overruns and of course lots of protests, including an RPG attack … this part is the best though
On May 8, 2003, Chaïm Nissim, who in 1985 was elected to the Geneva cantonal legislature for the Swiss Green Party,[17] admitted carrying out the attack. He claimed that the weapons were obtained from Carlos the Jackal via the Belgian terrorist organisation Cellules Communistes Combattantes (Communist Combatant Cells).[18][19]
Yes, a terrorist was elected to government position. isn’t that swell.
Also Japan is doing some interesting stuff with Nuclear as part of their Hydrogen efforts.
They’re betting big on hydrogen and for a relatively small island nation that can relatively easily run a pipe network for hydrogen the length of their island it has a decent chance to work. Creating power in the process could be genius. For the US market going hydrogen has larger challenges. However I’d be curious what say 50% of cars exhausting water vapor may do for rain fall patterns, specifically for the American Southwest. I’ve looked around and haven’t seen anyone mention or consider this possibility.
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@Tazz and if the latency is that of optical media doesn’t matter how much data you can hold, it is useless except maybe for deep cold archive.
also this from the article - ‘“Data centers based on major storage technologies such as semiconductor flash devices and hard disk drives have high energy burdens, high operation costs and short lifespans,” write the researchers.’
is bullshit. flash media sips power. a 60TB QLC drive will have a ~25W draw on writes and 5W on read/idle all with latency numbers in the millisecond range on writes and sub MS on reads. I know of a few EB high perf clusters that run into the 20TB/s throughput range all day and night for years with no issues. solid state drives don’t just ‘fail’ and almost nobody gets anywhere near the cell life within the 5 year useful life of the drive.
these guys are fishing for capital with tech that isn’t likely to work for the largest consumers of storage atm.
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@madrebel said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@madrebel nice. There are a ton of benefits if they can get it working. I think they were having issues with the materials science several years ago as the salt bath is corrosive or something like that. It’s nice we can get rid of all the nuclear waste in the process and the residual waste from these plants basically is safe in a few hundred years instead of tens of thousands. I was surprised to learn that the existing fuel rods in traditional plants only spend < 10% of the fuel before they are removed and become waste.
Fast Breeders have been a thing for awhile now too. As i recall Russia had one or two pilot plants running and France had this - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superphénix
Technical issues as you’d expect from first of its kind tech, including sodium corrosion problems, but they were ultimately resolved. Cost overruns and of course lots of protests, including an RPG attack … this part is the best though
On May 8, 2003, Chaïm Nissim, who in 1985 was elected to the Geneva cantonal legislature for the Swiss Green Party,[17] admitted carrying out the attack. He claimed that the weapons were obtained from Carlos the Jackal via the Belgian terrorist organisation Cellules Communistes Combattantes (Communist Combatant Cells).[18][19]
Yes, a terrorist was elected to government position. isn’t that swell.
Also Japan is doing some interesting stuff with Nuclear as part of their Hydrogen efforts.
They’re betting big on hydrogen and for a relatively small island nation that can relatively easily run a pipe network for hydrogen the length of their island it has a decent chance to work. Creating power in the process could be genius. For the US market going hydrogen has larger challenges. However I’d be curious what say 50% of cars exhausting water vapor may do for rain fall patterns, specifically for the American Southwest. I’ve looked around and haven’t seen anyone mention or consider this possibility.
Fun fact, Pakoon used to be Carlos the Jackal’s KGB handler. Also this is why I don’t trust the Swiss.
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@Tazz said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
New Data Storage in 3D Using Light Could Hold a Million Movies On a Single Disc
Smaller, greener data centers?
The approach is based on the same light-based optical data storage (ODS) approach used to write DVDs, but the twist is that it works in three dimensions. That means hundreds of layers instead of one, resulting in a massive jump in capacity.
According to the research team, we’re talking petabits on a single disc: that’s a thousand trillion bits, the equivalent of fitting around a million standard definition movies on something the size of a DVD. Stack them together, and we’re getting into the realm of exabits (a million trillion or a quintillion bits).
Basically your array ends up looking like HAL boards.
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I missed the gmail one. Google is so bad about that shit that I actually believed it.
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