The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread
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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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@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
I missed the gmail one. Google is so bad about that shit that I actually believed it.
I’m dreading the day they sunset their MS Office competitor (I don’t know what they call it now… workspaces?) First, I’ll have to migrate 8 years of documents and pray they still work. Second, MS will double the cost of an Office subscription the next day.
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Avast ordered to stop selling browsing data from its browsing privacy apps
Identifiable data included job searches, map directions, “cosplay erotica.”…
Cunts. I mean, you’ve got to expect that behavior these days but to sell a tool as protecting your privacy while making money from selling out your privacy is a scumbag move. Avast used to be reputable back when I used their anti virus in the 2000’s.
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Pretty common these days I think. Company gets bought along the way or management turns over and they look to monetize everything they do with no fucks given. I figured it out though. Occasionally I look at stuff so disgusting that not even they want to track it. Do that a few times and your trackers look away when you go online.
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Corporate money grab and greed will end us all
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@Zeppelin said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Corporate money grab and greed will end us all
The fun part is when ultra socialists and corporate scum collude and use each other to eliminate all other competition then fight it out for final dominance.
It’s coming.
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@Kyle How does that work?
Good News: Small Nuclear Thorium Reactors are Coming to Europe
