searches Tineye

https://www.deviantart.com/fu-reiji/art/get-on-all-fours-bitch-586490896

…has a reference to “Shido”.

Searches for “shido” and “dog girl”.

This video looks like it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A68WEdTNbQ

Based on that, and the 2015 dates that Tineye finds for this image, it looks like it’s from the 2013 anime TV series based on the Date A Live manga.

End-to-end encryption for DMs

I mean, you can use GPG.

Britannica’s print edition bit the dust in 2010:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopædia_Britannica

The Encyclopædia Britannica (Latin for ‘British Encyclopaedia’) is a general-knowledge English-language encyclopaedia. It has been published since 1768, and after several ownership changes is currently owned by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. The 2010 version of the 15th edition, which spans 32 volumes and 32,640 pages, was the last printed edition.[1] Since 2016, it has been published exclusively as an online encyclopaedia at the website Britannica.com.

Printed for 245 years, the Britannica was the longest-running in-print encyclopaedia in the English language.

…but the World Book Encyclopedia is still doing printed editions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Book_Encyclopedia

The World Book Encyclopedia is an American encyclopedia.[1] World Book was first published in 1917. Since 1925, a new edition of the encyclopedia has been published annually.[1] Although published online in digital form for a number of years, World Book is currently the only American encyclopedia which also still provides a print edition.[2] The encyclopedia is designed to cover major areas of knowledge uniformly, but it shows particular strength in scientific, technical, historical and medical subjects.[3]

World Book, Inc. is based in Chicago, Illinois.[1] According to the company, the latest edition, World Book Encyclopedia 2024, contains more than 14,000 pages distributed along 22 volumes and also contains over 25,000 photographs.[4]

I have to admit that I’ve never bought a print copy of the World Book myself, though I did grow up with one.

I don’t know if east Asia (which I assume is what you’re referring to) has an analog to rice pudding, but…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_pudding

Rice pudding is a dish made from rice and milk, and commonly other ingredients such as sweeteners, spices, flavourings and sometimes eggs.

Variants are used for either desserts or dinners. When used as a dessert, it is commonly combined with a sweetener such as sugar. Such desserts are found on many continents, especially Asia, where rice is a staple. Some variants are thickened only with the rice starch, while others include eggs, making them a kind of custard.[1]

The article does mention a couple of similar east Asian dishes:

East Asia

Ba bao fan (Chinese) with glutinous rice, red bean paste, lard, sugar syrup, and eight kinds of fruits or nuts; traditionally eaten at the Chinese New Year

Put chai ko (Hong Kong) made with white or brown sugar, long-grain rice flour, red beans, and a little cornstarch. It can be commonly found as street food and has a gelatinous consistency.

Tarak-juk (Korea): juk (rice porridge) made with milk.

I mean, I can run down to my local 7-11 and get cups of the stuff 24/7.

Tokyo and London are confirmed as the company’s first international markets

Apparently their software is capable of driving on the left.

they don’t do any first-hand investigation of basic info that is clearly shared or copied from other USG agencies.

Specifically the World Factbook people probably don’t, but I’m sure that least some of the estimates will come from the CIA, because they’re going to be the ones who are going to be responsible for same.

But what I’m saying is that they aren’t going to be closing the analysis guys down, just the public publication of that information. And the analysis part is going to be the bulk of the budget.

The thing is that it’s a reference work; a major part of the value is that it’s current. Old versions are going to decline in usefulness.

The White House has moved to cut staffing at the CIA and the National Security Agency early in Trump’s second term, forcing the agency to do more with less.

Dammit, I liked using the World Factbook.

I seriously doubt that they’re saving all that much money. They have to gather the data anyway for CIA use; this just meant that the public got to benefit from some of it too.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=voice+recorder

Amazon turns up the hardware devices for “voice recorder”.

I don’t know if “GPUs” is the right term, but the only area where we’re seeing large gains in computational capacity now is in parallel compute, so I’d imagine that if Intel intends to be doing high performance computation stuff moving forward, they probably want to be doing parallel compute too.

Amazon’s Fallout countdown delivers possibly the only thing more pointless than a New Vegas or Fallout 3 remaster

I’d buy a remaster.

There was something of a to-do a couple years ago when some researchers were trying to see how strong encryption satellites were using and whether they could break it and discovered that a number of of satellite operators weren’t bothering to encrypt things at all.

EDIT:

This might be more recent than that:

https://www.kratosspace.com/constellations/articles/the-state-of-satellite-encryption

A new study from the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and the University of Maryland has performed the most comprehensive public exploration into geostationary (GEO) satellite security yet, logging large amounts of unencrypted data being broadcast across 411 transponders on 39 GEO satellites, which were intercepted with a simple commercial-off-the-shelf satellite dish costing a few hundred dollars.

The problem with kinetic kill anti-satellite weapons is that they create debris clouds. Unless the satellite is at a low altitude and about to de-orbit, that’s generally bad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_debris_producing_events

Top debris creation events, August 2024

#1: Fengyun-1C 2007 3,549 fragments Intentional collision (ASAT)

EDIT: And apparently that debris cloud from that anti-satellite weapon test is believed to have taken out a Russian satellite:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Chinese_anti-satellite_missile_test

In early 2013, the Russian concept satellite BLITS collided with what is believed to be a piece of debris from Fengyun-1C, was knocked out of its orbit and soon afterwards data retrieval from the satellite ceased.

Mix and match login managers and desktop environments

So, I was wondering if it would be possible to use just the GDM login prompt, but have it feed into KDE desktop and if so what I’d need to tinker with to configure it.

I imagine that it’d depend on the login manager.

I use emptty, which allows me to log in on a text console.

For that login manager, I:

Add a ~/.config/emptty-custom-sessions/sway-wrapped.desktop file:

Name=Wrapped Sway
Exec=/home/tal/bin/my-wrapped-sway.sh
Environment=wayland

And add ~/bin/my-wrapped-sway.sh:

#!/bin/bash

. ~/.bash_profile

export XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland

exec dbus-run-session sway "$@"

I mark my-wrapped-sway.sh executable (chmod +x ~/bin/my-wrapped-sway.sh), and done.

searches

https://blog.boristerzic.com/posts/2023-09-17-build-your-own-desktop-environment/

Adding a New Custom Desktop Environment in Arch Linux

Your desktop environment is typically started right after your login to the system using your display manager (or login manager). In graphical display managers like gdm you can select one of several session types from a list. This is where we want to add a new entry for our labwc based desktop environment.

On Arch linux these sessions are stored in /usr/share/xsessions in separate .desktop files. A /usr/share/xsessions/labwc.desktop file could look like this:

[Desktop Entry]  
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=labwc
Comment=labwc
Exec=labwc
Type=Application

I’d probably give that a try.

The official expressed concern that sensitive information — notably command data for European satellites — is unencrypted, because many were launched years ago without advanced onboard computers or encryption capabilities.

According to the article the satellites that were shadowed were:

That wasn’t that long ago relative to encryption being done on computers.

It sounds like it’s intentional at this point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Gaytime

The company appears to embrace the camp name by retaining the tagline from the 1980s, “It’s hard to have a Gaytime on your own”. Footage from the 1980s commercials were reused in 2015 to celebrate the launch of the new flavours. The in-home boxes feature the words “4 delicious chances to have a gay time”.[15] Ads featuring the slogan also occasionally featured men who would accidentally get into risqué positions whilst trying to get a Gaytime.

I don’t think I’d call Dark City really cyberpunk. I don’t know what you’d call it. Retro-1940s but in a sci-fi environment?

checks Wikipedia

Wikipedia calls it “neo-noir”.

Depends on your definition of “early days”.

If you go to the 1990s, when it really started to enter public awareness:

• IPv6 wasn’t a thing.

• HTTP wasn’t as dominant a protocol as it is today. Use of FTP, telnet, gopher, NNTP, IRC, and so forth were more-common relative to the Web compared to today.

• A lot of protocols weren’t encrypted.

• If you were accessing the Internet via a dial-up modem (which was probably what you were doing in the 1990s if you were coming from home), you could download maybe 7 kB per second. You had maybe 100 milliseconds of latency — quite substantial compared to most modern network connections — on the first hop. This had a real impact on, say, real-time multiplayer video games.

• Email spam was an increasing problem.

• Personal computers were considerably more costly in real terms than they are today. Additionally, computer speed doubled about every 18 months, which meant that computers became obsolete very quickly. Tended to be wealthier people using it relative to today.

• A higher proportion of technical or academic people due to universities and technical companies being connected.

• Internationalization wasn’t great. Today, one can just generally use Unicode and write whatever language one wants wherever. Seeing Web pages displayed using the wrong text encoding wasn’t that uncommon. No emojis, either.

• On the Web, lots of small, independent sites. If you want to look at some of them, the Wayback Machine at Archive.org is handy. Animated GIFs and patterened backgrounds weren’t uncommon.

• Universities were more prominent as places to obtain free software or the like.

• In the late '90s, for the Web, it wasn’t quite worked out how people would actually use the thing. One school of thought is that people would adopt “portal sites” that they’d always go to when opening their Web browser. In practice, this didn’t really turn out to be what happened, but trying to win “portal marketshare”

• The '90s had computers that couldn’t display 24-bit color. Computers displaying 8-bit color chose a “palette” of colors, and could only show that many at one time. If you had an image on a Web page that contained a color that wasn’t on that palette, a “close” color was used. Eventually, the world converged on 216 “safe” colors that one could expect a computer to display, so many images didn’t contain all that many colors. Photographic images were often dithered.

• Due in part to bandwidth limitations as well as computational limitations, video over the network was more of a novelty than a practical thing. No YouTube or equivalent. RealPlayer, a browser plugin, was one of the more-prominent ways to stream video.

• Major personal computer OSes — MacOS and Windows 9X — were quite unstable compared to where personal computer OSes were in maybe the mid-2000s on. Web browsers were also quite unstable. Crashes were a thing.

• Much higher expectations for data privacy. I remember when it was considered outright scandalous for software to “phone home” to just indicate, say, a version number. Today, vast amounts of software are harvesting all kinds of data, and there is software whose entire business model is based on doing so.

• Search engines were a lot worse. Google today uses some kind of heuristics to rapidly index things like major news sites. Getting outdated links or limited coverage of the Web was a lot more common (though we didn’t have to worry about the current glut of AI-generated spam Websites).

• Many top-level-domains have come into use. One saw far fewer in the 1990s. I’d say mostly .com, .net, and .org, plus the country codes.

• Consumer broadband routers with built-in, enabled firewalls weren’t really much of a thing. It was far more common to be able to talk to arbitrary machines. A lot more stuff is firewalled off today.

• Probably not something that the typical person would have noticed, but lots of institutions ran public SNMP on routers and made it accessible to the Internet at large. I remember mapping out entire networks for many different organizations. You could sit there, watch the traffic flow, see the size of all the network links, etc. Places started to tamp down on that, saw exposing that information as being a security risk.

• In the US, some users accessed the Internet via gatewayed access from commercial dial-up services that were essentially giant BBSes, places like Compuserve or American Online. These had originally been aimed more at being stand-alone services and essentially died out as people just became interested in Internet access.

• Some large technology-oriented companies and institutions controlled huge amounts of the IPv4 address space. Apple still has a Class A network (about 1/256ths of the IPv4 Internet’s addresses). Ford still does as well. But MIT and Stanford used to have their own as well.

• Websites where one went to interact with other users, like forums, were around, but early, and far fewer people were using them.

• Java was originally intended to be used in Web browsers in applets, something along the way that Javascript is today. It didn’t succeed.

• It wasn’t yet clear in the late 1990s that Microsoft wouldn’t “take over” the Web by providing a dominant Web browser and managing to institutionalize use of proprietary Microsoft technologies like ActiveX.

Someone almost managed to inject a vulnerability into the source code for sshd.

You’re probably thinking of the Jia Tan attack on xz; because of a distro patch in Debian, code in xz had the ability to affect sshd. The changes weren’t actually to the sshd source, but trying to use an obscure route to affect sshd.