Odd Stuff (Part 1)

It should be noted that liberal application of frequency grease can cut the break in time in half

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(Not clumsily with a meat cleaver, in case you were worried, but wielding her sword with well practised elegance. Turns out swords have just the right length for proper social distancing.)

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From ‘Queen of the Skies’ to Queen of the Scrapheap: British Airways chops 747 fleet as folk stay at home

British Airways has revealed that it probably won’t be flying the Boeing 747 anymore.

The only flights its remaining fleet of 747-400 plane will be making will likely be to the dismantlers.

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Incredible artifact – or vital component after civilization ends? Rare Nazi Enigma M4 box sells for £350,000

This box is a particularly interesting one as it is one of the later, and more complex, bits of German Enigma kit. The four-rotor design generated ciphertext that was trickier for Allied boffins to crack. Nazi U-Boats used the machines to encrypt their Morse-coded communications, and Britain and its friends sought to break the cryptography to track Germany’s submarines.

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Here’s why your Samsung Blu-ray player bricked itself: It downloaded an XML config file that broke the firmware

Analysis Since the middle of last month, thousands of Samsung customers found their older internet-connected Blu-ray players had stopped working.

In the days that followed, complaints about devices caught in an endless startup boot loop began to appear on various internet discussion boards, and videos documenting the device failure appeared on YouTube.

To fix the issue, Samsung eventually advised customers to return their inoperable video players for repairs. There is no software fix.

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Didn’t see a place posting for this.

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I don’t know what to make of this, but a thread titled “Odd Stuff” seemed appropriate:

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51 years after humans first set foot on the Moon, a deepfaked Nixon mourns how Armstrong and Aldrin never made it home

On the 51st anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing, MIT boffins have given an insight into an alternative history, one where US president Richard Nixon paid tribute to the astronauts who would not be returning from the Moon.

Not to be confused with the Apple TV series For All Mankind , which presented its own alternate timeline, the MIT “In Event Of Moon Disaster” project attempts to portray events as though Armstrong and Aldrin were to be left on the Moon, and features a deepfake version of Nixon delivering the infamous contingency speech.

 

Didn’t they record, or at least write the speech for, the alternate situation if things hadn’t come out OK?

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They did, and that’s what the video uses.

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Hey there, want to break into computers like an Iranian hacker crew? IBM finds 40GB of videos that include how-tos

Here’s something you don’t see everyday. The crew at IBM X-Force has uncovered a massive cache of files, including about five hours of training videos intended for a select crew of hackers in Iran known as ITG18.

Big Blue said the videos range from two minutes to two hours and mainly cover techniques for compromising popular webmail services. They also include videos of hackers combing through data in a compromised email accounts from Google, AOL Hotmail, and Yahoo ! , including those of member of the United States Navy, as well as an officer in the Hellenic naval forces.

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if I’m left-handed and left-footed, does that mean I need to pour cold water in my right ear?

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BTW terms like “hellenic” are usually translated as “greek” in english, for some reason

Baby Tiktok Witches is my new favorite indie rock Band.

Artemis may even be upset, but I’m sure Jacy or Aracy is fine with these shopping mall food court witches.

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It’s been done before.

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Witches, wizards astronauts… What do they have against the poor satellite?

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