We clearly need a market solution. Competitive passports from private vendors fix will this problem.
The good companies will correctly recognise that paying for a passport is difficult, so they'll respect us by providing passport-as-a-service instead. Small monthly payments are easier for the average Aussie to approach and many are so used to them that upfront payment might seem like a scam anyway.
To protect your privacy and security your passport may include third party pages from trusted organisations.
The government should provide a website to compare all of the passport providers, to make sure that Australians are finding the best deal that suits their particular needs. And don't forget that every Australian does have different travel needs, shorter length passports would increase affordability to help the average joe. Of course if limits are breached it will inconvenience the vendor, so reasonable provisions will need to be made to assist them if this occurs.
I wouldn't attack via USB, that path has already been too well thought out. I'd go for an interface with some sort of way to get DMA, such as:
PCIE slots including M.2 and external thunderbolt. Some systems might support hotplug and there will surely be some autoloading device drivers that can be abused for DMA (such as a PCIE firewire card?)
Laptop docking connectors (I can't find a public pinout for the one on my Thinkpad, but I assume it'll have something vulnerable/trusted like PCIE)
Firewire (if you're lucky, way too old to be found now)
If you have enough funding: possibly even ones no-one has thought about like displayport + GPU + driver stack. I believe there have been some ethernet interface vulnerabilities previously (or were those just crash/DOS bugs?)
Thankyou muchly :) Looking now. They have unaltered originals too!
There are 3 separate glass slides for the different colour channels. Ooh. (is it healthy to get excited about this?)
EDIT: This collage of the 3 coloured slides is itself an edited version, but it shows answers to my questions:
They edited the left side with a clone tool to hide the fact some of the coloured slides/layers are a bit faded at the edges. This also explains why the left of the image is yellowish and the bottom reddish. Perhaps those slides were like that their entire life, uneven due to manufacture or developing issues?
Across the entire image are tiny coloured blips and scratches. Most of them were edited out.
The rounded shape of the chroma on the flowers isn't as evident in this version, but it still looks blurry. It's plausible that the super-round shape in OP's version of the image is an artefact from multiple lossy image encodings POSSIBLY combined with the red channel (glass slide) having worse resolution than the other colours in these areas (?).
I recommend using a different set of flags so you can avoid the buffering problem @thenumbersmason@yiffit.net mentions.
This next example prevents all of your ram getting uselessly filled up during the wipe (which causes other programs to run slower whenever they need more mem, I notice my web browser lags as a result), allows the progress to actually be accurate (disk write speed instead of RAM write speed) and prevents the horrible hang at the end.
"oflag" means output flag (to do with of=/dev/somedisk). "sync" means sync after every block. I've chosen 128M blocks as an arbitrary number, below a certain amount it gets slower (and potentially causes more write cycles on the individual flash cells) but 128MB should be massively more than that and perfectly safe. Bigger numbers will hog more ram to no advantage (and may return the problems we're trying to avoid).
If it's an SSD then I issue TRIM commands after this ("blkdiscard" command), this makes the drive look like zeroes without actually having to write the whole drive again with another dd command.
@PugJesus@lemmy.world do you have the source for this image? I'd love to find out more.
This version has been noticeably digitally altered, someone has used a clone or heal tool in the corners:
I assume the original photo or film must have holes or marks on it, they would be interesting to see.
I also have an (unconfirmed) suspicion that this image may have been a black and white photo that has been digitally colourised. It can't have been fully AI colourised as the flowers on the lady's dress are too perfectly coloured (even where they are hidden in folds or shadow). Alas the chroma of the flowers is shaped in perfect circles of pink, even overlapping black areas of the dress (where it's otherwise coloured slightly blue), making me suspect a round brush tool in an image editor:
I can't be 100% certain, there might be some other explanation for this chroma patterning. It's not JPEG (that quantises in square blocks, not circles). Might be some weird optical effects or multiple layers of JPEG on top of each other causing gaussian filtering (if you apply box filters repetitively at different offsets then you eventually approximate a gaussian). Not to mention that the version I downloaded is a .webp (and I have no experience with that format), I suspect Lemmy might have converted it upon upload.
Why did the CT fail? Is it only 2WD? Bad power distribution algorithm to wheels? Stranded on belly (low clearance)?
EDIT: Yes possibly bad power distribution, but I don't necessarily trust the source.
He said on Instagram that the Tesla didn't have locking differentials — a mechanism that can help improve traction on difficult terrain— "due to software issues." He also said the tires had not been "aired down" to improve traction.
I wish they'd use the common names for the drugs alongside the technical ones, that would allow people to remember the message more clearly and have generally better benefits overall. In fact I'd expect links to Wikipedia or Healthdirect at a minimum -- amongst other things that lets non-english speakers discover what these drugs are called in their native language. Stating things like “Consumers are advised that sibutramine is a prescription-only substance in Australia” is like trying to explain a car loan with a latin copy of the old testament; all people will remember is that there were complex words that they've never heard before.
Public advice with links:
sildenafil = Viagra (also see Healthdirect). Do not take if you are on nitroglycerin AKA glyceryl trinitrate (commonly Rectogesic bum cream for piles/haemorrhoids/anal fissures, also used as a heart medication), your blood pressure might go extremely low and kill you. It interacts with some other medications badly too, hopefully you doctor will warn you before prescribing but if you are unsure then you need to ask them.
4.5PB holy shit. You need to stop using UTF2e32 for your text files.
I'd be paranoid about file integrity. Even a 0.000000000022% (sic) chance of a single bitflip somewhere along the chain, like a gentle muon tickling the server's drive bus during the read, could affect you. Did you have a way of checking integrity? Or were tiny errors tolerable (eg video files)?
I've put my lemmy instance url into the addon, but now it's asking for my lemmy username and password. Is that mandatory? I have not seen any lemmy comments on youtube videos yet so possibly?
N.B. Porcelain is a silicate. Clay dust exposure is one of the traditional causes of silicosis, potters are (mostly) taught to clean their workplaces with hoses not brooms.
I presume that laminated/coated MDF isn't the same market segment as heavy, dense engineered stones. Perhaps they'll go solid epoxy with no silica filler? That would be more expensive but probably work. I suspect they'll still want cheap fillers however, so non-silica stones might be chosen (but surely most stone dusts are bad?).
I'm torn between the written article (yay I don't have to watch a video) and the fact it's a cheap writeup of someone else's story. My ethics are melting. I miss written form stories, less people do them these days.
These things are really big and wide. The connector itself is huge. I hope this means the electrical connection is reliable (less mem errors), but maybe that will be offset by the higher speeds (tighter impedance tolerances).
Looking forward to seeing (eventually) blog posts about people trying to use these with SoCs in their projects. I wonder if they'll hit annoying issues or if it will be as easy as routing to to bare DRAM chips.
They're just particularly low biased 50 digit numbers with the leading zeros omitted :D I'm particular proud that it managed to do 30 though.
It's interesting that none of the the numbers start with zero. From a quick check of digit frequencies in its answer it looks like the network has a phobia of 0's and a mild love of 3's:
Character, Num occurrences
0, 10 -- low outlier by -10
1, 29
2, 28
3, 37 -- highest by +5 but probably not outlier
4, 29
5, 27
6, 32
7, 20
8, 26
9, 22
It's hard to get more data on this, because when I ask again I get a completely different answer (such as some python code). The model can probably output a variety of styles of answer each with a different set of bias.
I've been using a shared hosting provider for my email. I'd love to hear how your self host goes. I know there are some loud opinions on the web about how hosting your own email is hard, but also some quieter ones that say it's working fine for them and isn't any harder than deploying something like MailInABox.
We clearly need a market solution. Competitive passports from private vendors fix will this problem.
The good companies will correctly recognise that paying for a passport is difficult, so they'll respect us by providing passport-as-a-service instead. Small monthly payments are easier for the average Aussie to approach and many are so used to them that upfront payment might seem like a scam anyway.
To protect your privacy and security your passport may include third party pages from trusted organisations.
The government should provide a website to compare all of the passport providers, to make sure that Australians are finding the best deal that suits their particular needs. And don't forget that every Australian does have different travel needs, shorter length passports would increase affordability to help the average joe. Of course if limits are breached it will inconvenience the vendor, so reasonable provisions will need to be made to assist them if this occurs.