Off-and-on trying out an account over at @[email protected] due to scraping bots bogging down lemmy.today to the point of near-unusability.
Magewell Pro Capture card
I’ve been kind of shifting towards use of USB devices over internal cards.
All of the USB devices that I have still can be connected to computers. Ditto for DE-9 serial ports, though I might need a USB adapter.
But I’ve seen ISA->PCI/AGP->PCIe obsolete a lot of old hardware that I’ve had sitting around, and that’s just on the PC. That includes my video capture hardware.
but definitely don’t come across as murderers
Well, I mean, the charge is manslaughter, not murder.
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https://www.humaneworld.org/en/campaign/ending-chinas-dog-and-cat-meat-trades
Globally, an estimated 20 million dogs and 6 million cats are slaughtered annually for human consumption. Of these, approximately 10 million dogs and 4 million cats are killed each year in China alone.
Sounds like it.
The article title and body don’t match in the amount of the sale:
sold for US$25
He was later told that Chutou had been sold to a dog meat restaurant for 180 yuan (US$27) and the pet had been eaten.
I mean, not that it’s that far off, but seems odd to have an article where the two don’t match.
I’d have some real questions about rollover risk on these. Three-wheel ATVs have a bad history and were banned in the US back in the 1980s — they’re less stable than quads and heavy enough to incur severe crush injuries in a rollover — and I’d expect that the batteries make these even heavier.
And these aren’t just personal vehicles, like the ATVs, but being used to run a commercial service. The government probably has a heightened interest in safety of passengers of commercial service.
Lives are cheaper in some places in the world, and maybe that’s not a luxury that that Zimbabwe can afford, if it needs inexpensive transport. But if there is one kind of vehicle that I’d be dubious about, it’d be something like these.
The attack targeted a wide range of sensitive credentials typically found in developer and CI/CD environments. Aikido’s analysis shows the malware attempted to collect GitHub Actions tokens, AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure credentials, HashiCorp Vault tokens, Kubernetes service account tokens and kubeconfig files, npm and PyPI publishing tokens, SSH private keys, Docker registry credentials, GPG keys, and .env files.
This doesn’t solve the problem of people storing credentials where credential-stealers can steal them, but it’s not a bad idea to periodically invalidate your credentials and generate new ones, even if you don’t know that they’ve been compromised, just on the off change that someone has grabbed yours and has them stored up, ready to use them at some point in the future.
That’s especially true if you develop or package software (and thus users of your software trust you to keep their systems secure) or have administrator access to any networks or multiuser systems (and thus your users trust you to keep their data secure).
I’d personally rather like to see external hardware keystores used where possible. YubiKey-type things aren’t perfect — they don’t have a display, so you can’t use trusted hardware to visually validate whatever you’re signing — but at least they’re relatively cheap and keep someone who compromises a computer from grabbing credentials.
FIFA tripled the price of its best available tickets to the FIFA World Cup final, making $32,970 seats available Thursday for the July 19 match at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
Soccer’s governing body listed those seats as front category 1 on its sales site on a day that saw members of Congress question the pricing structure for World Cup tickets and ask FIFA for more transparency on asking prices.
FIFA previously had a high price of $10,990 for category 1 at the final. However, that ticket was now available Thursday night only as wheelchair and easy access amenity category 1.
Tickets for the July 14 semifinal at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, were listed at $11,130, $4,330, $3,710 and $2,705. Seats for the following day’s semifinal at Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium were at $10,635, $3,545 and $2,725.
More expensive than for NFL tickets!
Face value for tickets to Super Bowl 60 range from $950 to $8,500, according to Friedman, who provided USA TODAY Sports a screenshot of a seating chart with ticket prices.
“They really know what they need,” and are putting “serious effort” into acquiring advanced machine tools, factory equipment, research and dual-use technology, said Christoffer Wedelin, deputy head of operations at the Swedish Security Service.
Russia also needs sanctioned computer technology and software updates for machine tools, Martelius said.
Even more important to the KGB was obtaining research data about Western technology, including integrated circuit design, computer-aided manufacturing, and, especially, operating system software that was under U.S. export control. They offered 250,000 Deutschmarks for copies of Digital Equipment’s VMS operating system.
Peter Carl and Dirk Brezinski apparently met with the KGB a dozen times, filling many of their requests: source code to the Unix operating system, designs for high-speed gallium-arsenide integrated circuits, and computer programs used to engineer computer memory chips.
Alone, the source code to Unix isn’t worth $130,000. Chip designs? Perhaps. But a sophisticated computer design program . . . well, maybe the KGB did get its money’s worth.
— The Cuckoo’s Egg, discussing the situation in 1986
That was 40 years back and when the Soviet Union was still around. Some things haven’t changed all that much.
Yeah, they mention it in the article, but I figure that whatever this guy wants, it’s more than whatever they’re generating.
For passionate enthusiasts, Ferraris are not merely cars but works of art…the sound of the engine revving evokes a sensation comparable to listening to the music of Giuseppe Verdi or Giacomo Puccini.
“I agree with him – the horse needs to be removed,” said Barone, adding that his main gripe was its lack of sound. “How can you have a Ferrari without any vroom?”
I suppose that someone could make a device that polls OBD-II for the current RPM and feeds more synthetic ICE engine sound into the sound system.
EDIT: Hell, if you’re freed from the constraints of an actual ICE engine, there’s probably some sort of sound that’s more psychologically-optimized to make the guy happy than whatever an actual engine puts out.
Since then, World Cup host countries have invested heavily in getting fans to and from matches, especially in Russia in 2018, where even long-distance trains between host cities were free, and Qatar in 2022, where free metro access helped turn stadium-hopping into part of the tournament experience.
The World Cup Is Great For FIFA—And A Bad Bet For Cities
The best available estimate suggested a $14 million shortfall on a $22 million public investment. That’s not a rounding error, but a warning for all cities looking to host a large-scale sporting event.
If you’re willing to wait until 2028 when memory prices are expected to drop, and if you’re willing to get new hardware if memory prices drop, I’d give real consideration to waiting until then. There’ll also probably be better hardware and better models then.
If you can constrain yourself to MoE-based LLMs, they’ll generally deal better from a performance standpoint with not entirely fitting in VRAM better than non-MoE LLMs, as experts may not get loaded into VRAM at all.
Rule 3… Image must be a photograph, no AI or digital art.
If it were a screenshot, I don’t believe that it’d be permissible as a post.
At a Cabinet meeting Wednesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, “We cannot and will not allow any cases of Ebola to enter the United States.”
If they want to enter the US and if they hold citizenship, I think that that may violate case law that a US citizen may not be denied entry to the US.
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Some random law firm, but:
https://www.rnlawgroup.com/the-rights-of-a-u-s-citizen-upon-reentry-into-the-country/
Central to these protections is the absolute right of a U.S. citizen to return to their country. This right is unequivocal. No matter where an individual has traveled, the duration of their absence, or their personal or legal background, a U.S. citizen cannot be denied entry into the United States. This principle is supported by both statutory and constitutional law. A landmark Supreme Court case, United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898), established that citizenship includes the right to reenter the nation. Unlike lawful permanent residents or visa holders, U.S. citizens are exempt from admissibility criteria. Consequently, even if a U.S. citizen lacks proper documentation or is subject to further questioning, the government is obligated to permit their entry once their citizenship is verified.
The federal government can hold US citizens in quarantine upon reentry, in the US. There’s certainly precedent there. But I don’t think that it can constitutionally say “you may not enter the US” to a citizen.
Just as a warning, this post is liable to be deleted due to Rule 3. I had an earlier hardware post that I commented on deleted for this reason earlier today.
It was called the “Moaning Minnie” by American troops due to the sound its cluster of rockets made in flight.
goes looking for a recording
I don’t have a dog in this race, but I would point out that styles do change.
A Ferrari from 1947:
1960:
1980:
Why am I not surprised to hear APC is crap compared to Eaton?
Keep in mind that this isn’t my personal experience talking here. I also don’t know if the user in question is correct, or if it might be specific to some portion of the respective brands — both make a wide range of UPSes, from inexpensive to pretty pricey. But I did remember reading that, and it did seem potentially germane to OPs problem, so…shrug
Someone with a multitester or oscilloscope or something and some of those units could probably examine further, see what the actual behavior is for a given model.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/us/ai-lawyers-sanctioned-mississippi.html
I think one concerning thing is that this is the easiest thing to check. I mean, at some point, I assume that someone is going to rig something up to LexisNexis to actually validate the existence of cited cases, because that’s pretty simple and mechanical. Heck, even those lawyers, even if they don’t have any tech people at their fingertips, could have had a paralegal check citations or something. It really shouldn’t be that fundamentally hard for a lawyer to avoid getting in trouble for this specific issue, even if they generated the text with an LLM.
My bigger concern is that if lawyers are willing to put stuff like this out, they’re presumably also willing to put out information that hasn’t been checked where the errors are subtler and it’s harder to find erroneous material. In the case of citing nonexistent cases, it’s really easy to say “the lawyer clearly didn’t even look at this”, because it’s hard to make that kind of error if you have read over it. This is, once highlighted, flagrant and obvious. But…there’s potential for subtler errors, where it’s harder to tell whether the lawyer did at least try to review the material and just made a basic error, and thus it’s harder to impose punishments for it.