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Wednesday, 14 May 2025

Direct Color

quote [ It?s not unheard of to discover a new color, but we?re coming up with new ways to do so?including with frickin? laser beams. ]

Slap some fresh new colors on the walls
[SFW] [science & technology] [+1 Insightful]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:20amGMT] [0 comments]

Tuesday, 6 May 2025

End Of 10

quote [ If you bought your computer after 2010, there's most likely no reason to throw it out. By just installing an up-to-date Linux operating system you can keep using it for years to come. ]

Not the first initiative, but still an easy thing to forward to people looking for local support. This came up in the feed of a community repair shop as well.
[SFW] [science & technology] [+1 Good]
[by Paracetamol@7:17amGMT] [6 comments]

Sunday, 4 May 2025

Windows 7 took ages to load if you had a solid background.

quote [ The code for the message that the background image is ready was located within the background image bitmap code, which means that the message never appeared if you did not have a real background image bitmap. And a single color is not such a bitmap. ]

The article notes that they eventually fixed it after months. At least it's not intential sabotage .
[SFW] [science & technology] [+1 Funsightful]
[by Paracetamol@2:00pmGMT] [1 comment]

Friday, 25 April 2025

Spammers are more consistent at making SPF, DKIM, and DMARC correct than are legitimate senders.

quote [ DMARC in particular has no discernible benefit for most senders, so it is a useless signal.

Rejecting mail based solely on authentication failures of those deeply flawed authentication methods does more harm than good. ]

On the mail auth hoop you need to jump to get your mails to Google. This is federated comments from a jwz post. It gives insight into how useless these complicated mail domain setups are ? other than to lock in people into big platforms.

thumb via New Old Stock
[SFW] [science & technology] [+2]
[by Paracetamol@8:33pmGMT] [0 comments]

Thursday, 24 April 2025

When Smart Goes Dumb

quote [ We now have a lot of examples of cloud-enabled smart devices that don?t work anymore. What we don?t have are ways to prevent old gadgets from becoming garbage. ]

I'm smart with out smart devices
[SFW] [science & technology] [+3]
[by ScoobySnacks@2:09pmGMT] [3 comments]



Saturday, 19 April 2025

Kiwix

quote [ Kiwix brings internet contents to people without internet access. [?] As an offline reader, it is especially thought to make Wikipedia available offline, but technically any kind of web content can be stored into [a highly compressed open format] and then read by the app: there are currently several hundred different contents available in more than 100 languages, from Wikipedia, Wikiquote, the Wiktionary to TED conferences, Gutenberg library, Stackexchange and many others. ]

This exists for a long time and it seems to be a simple server you can hook up to a local net with some added compression.
An interesting usecase was applying this on airgapped systems or jails that otherwise don't allow net access.
[SFW] [science & technology] [+3]
[by Paracetamol@6:07pmGMT] [1 comment]

Friday, 18 April 2025

A Surprising New Tail From Jurassic China

quote [ The discovery of a fossil species suggests that the story of birds started about 20 million years earlier than we thought. ]

Scholastic, geographic, stay Jurassic
[SFW] [science & technology] [+1 Original]
[by ScoobySnacks@10:14amGMT] [0 comments]

Thursday, 17 April 2025

Omnom

quote [ Create self-contained snapshots for every bookmark you save.
Access & share previously visited pages without worrying about modifications or availability. ]

A Go service you can host yourself ? or probably run locally ? to maintain snapshots of bookmarks yourself with a browser extension. Looks snappy and rather simple. I like how they don't store credentials.

Main link is read-only demo instance.
[SFW] [science & technology] [+2]
[by Paracetamol@7:00pmGMT] [0 comments]

Wednesday, 9 April 2025

Scientists help birth Dire Wolves 12,500 years after they became extinct

quote [ American biotech company Colossal Biosciences ?produced three Dire Wolves, Romulus, Remus and Khaleesi, usi... ]

So asking for a friend, anyone know the going price for some Dire Wolf sperm and if any connections?

[SFW] [science & technology] [+1 Informative]
[by R1Xhard@2:18amGMT] [2 comments]

Sunday, 6 April 2025

Ancient 11.7-Billion-Year-Old Spiral Galaxy Is Five Times More Massive Than the Milky Way

quote [ How did this spiral galaxy five times more massive than the Milky Way get so big so fast so long ago? ]

This spiral Galaxy, it gravitates it's arms 'round me
[SFW] [science & technology] [+1 Informative]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:00amGMT] [1 comment]



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