ConductiveInsulation

@conductiveinsulation
8 Followers
17 Following
198 Posts

Today I learned that the banana plug is 100 years old. And I thought we use rj45 and BNC for a long time...

https://uk.rs-online.com/web/content/discovery/ideas-and-advice/banana-plugs-guide

A Complete Guide to Banana Plugs

An expert guide on banana plugs, explaining what they are, their uses, the different types, how they work, how to use them and the best options for you.

Now I know where people felt like 3 decades ago when they compiled something just to see after a week that something caused everything to abort.
Aww Great. I lost a tiny transparent O-Ring from the fuel cell I'm currently playing with. :( I was so happy to get a ~80W oxygen generator for just 50€ to play with. Guess it wasn't a good idea to disassemble even the fuel cell...

Friendly reminder that if I paid you $1'000 *every day*, it would take you 2.74 years to become a millionaire. It would take you 2739 *years* to become a billionaire.

Meaning, if someone had started to give you $1000 in 715 BC (680 years before the Roman Empire even started), you would *now* have 1 billion dollars.

For comparison, Elon Musk's net worth is 251.3 billion dollars. Bezos' net worth is 168.4 billion dollars.

There are no good billionaires. They're all criminals and oppressors.

So this is why I have a beef with pods/tablets/what have you.

They're more expensive for a product that only kind of respects how dishwashers work. A product that explicitly prevents you from experimenting to see how far you can stretch your detergent. A product which encourages mindless consumption with extra packaging, to boot.

Or you could just get a paper box with some powder in it for $5 and it'll last you months.

Fin

First I hear about EU's intention to force all browsers to accept state-mandated certificate authorities which would enable those same states to subvert TLS encryption at will. This is super dangerous and must not pass. Thanks @mozilla for the heads up!
https://last-chance-for-eidas.org/
Last Chance for eIDAS

13 days before the first eIDAS vote, still no public text

Who you callin' pinhead?

(it's a new video!)

https://youtu.be/ue-1JoJQaEg

Old pinball machines are amazingly complex

YouTube

https://youtu.be/VZm6wOisgPw?si=-qh4wtkZMfXRpNfM

@joshbressers when you made your NPM analytics, did you analyse the packages from John? How much of them get used on average in a project, how often the same package appears in projects because multiple required packages require it?

IsOdd And IsEven Are Real NPM Packages?!?

YouTube

I am *SO* sick of joining #Discord Servers for everything and anything.

I do NOT want to join your server of 400+ people I *do not know* and have no desire to talk to because you wouldn't link me your GitHub or site directly or put necessary information in your README for a thing I just want to download and use.

Please, for the love of Celestia STOP doing this. IF your server gets deleted, that information is GONE. If Discord shuts down, that information is GONE. If someone doesn't want to join a 400+ person chat room, they're SCREWED. PLEASE STOP.

You people know that there are limits to the number of servers people can JOIN right?!

Sweet Luna's Moon! Seriously, just make an RSS Feed..! Put up an info page on GitHub Pages, it's FREE.

I miss forums you could browse without an account  

Please... please... #StopDiscordCentralization

/rant

Despite at least two government investigations that I'm aware of, I didn't get caught hacking in my youth. Partially it was because I never revealed details or even hints about certain tactics, not even to friends. Here are the details of one such tactic:

https://www.markloveless.net/blog/2023/8/18/fun-friday-not-getting-caught-part-1

#HackerLife #hacker #infosec

Tales from the Past: Not Getting Caught Part 1 — Mark Loveless

Sometimes, when one is quite paranoid, they will go to extremes to cover their tracks. This is a tale of one branch of a twisted underground lair of a rabbit hole.

Mark Loveless