A while back I tried posting an image with a hidden steganographic message in it to Twitter and to my surprise the hidden message was preserved and not lost due to recompression. Also, the recent Banksy-style shreded image I posted to climagic that was basically a corrupted jpg file was preserved pretty well. In other words the corrupted part looks identical to what I see with the original on my own computer. However posting it to Mastodon.social resulted in a reprocessed image with compression artifacts
Maybe they just rolled it out with the street maps view, but it's been doing that with the satellite view for a while now. Another interesting feature of satellite view is that it shows the current cloud coverage, not just an old photo of the clouds. I just noticed that recently, but maybe it's been there for a while.
Since we've been stuck just below 4GHz on production consumer CPUs for like 15 years now, getting above that would be a pretty significant achievement worthy of a Nobel Prize or something (exaggerating), omitting saying it's over clocked is pure marketing trickery. Fucking marketers, I hate em.
Or perhaps not everything on Slashdot is meant as a joke. Maybe azcoyote really was trying to make a point, but misunderstanding the origin of man pages. It's not condescending if you're just providing accurate unfiltered facts, regardless of any gender difference. It would be condescending if I said "they called them man pages because woman pages would be too big" or something like that. Obviously man splaining should mean having to explain something to a man, because this is what I'm having to do now.
I think you're all just trying to justify the joke of man splaining and are annoyed that I'm somehow ruining it.
He's not insane, people value and buy/sell archived data. Here is one of my own stories. Back in 2010 I did a complete reverse DNS scan on the Internet just for fun/curiosity. It came out to about 1TB of uncompressed data. A few years later someone found out that I had done that and wanted to buy a copy of the historical data from me for several hundred dollars. In hindsight, I probably could have charged more, but who knew what the market was on historical DNS data. The point is, data has value and the guy in Nova Scotia knows that. Like most things, the interest in the data and it's rarity and the longer you can preserve it, the more it could be worth. archive.org is in the business of archiving data. Sure, they rely on donations, but money is coming in.
I agree, but man pages have nothing to do with gender. It's called a man page because it's short for manual. The command was called man most likely because so many commands were shortened back then to 2 or 3 letters. There were a few women working on Unix at Bell labs in the 70s, one was Lorinda Cherry and among other things she helped write programs like the 'bc' and 'dc' commands.
Having used wine since the 90s, it was still quite a milestone for me at least that I was able to buy Diablo 3 on release day, install and play it in wine without problems, I played that game all the way to the end. Platinum. Bravo Wine devs, Bravo.
Exactly, a similar situation for me. On the morning of from Bloomington, IN I took IN 37 south instead of I-69. It was nearly empty the whole way down to Hopkinsville, KY. The way back was busier, but not crowded at all. It may have taken 4 hours and 15 minutes, but I had no chance of getting stuck on an interstate with no way off. I had a feeling that everyone would take I-69 and get stuck in Evansville, which is exactly what happened.
Google maps has a "avoid highways" feature that is great for finding a fast non-interstate path.
Heresy! This is Slashdot and every bit of Amiga news must be published to the front page until the slashdot.org domain finally expires. Its in the contract.
I recently went to a local RadioShack going out of business "sale" and heard one of the employees yell at the customers "I don't have a job, stop buying stuff at Amazon people!". I can certainly agree that people have been buying too much toilet paper from Amazon to the demise of local business, but in RadioShack's case, its much deeper.
The start of RadioShack's demise predates online shopping by at least a decade. I'm sure many long time readers here will attest to this that RadioShack for many years has lost its way. I found one of my own blog posts from 2002 in which I complained about RadioShack. There was an episode of Seinfeld in the 90s where they made fun of RadioShack for asking for your phone number when you buy batteries. Hiring people who had no idea what they are doing and little interest in working or helping customers. A product selection that was out of date with what was available on the market and prices that were unreasonably high. Even with their 90% discount on component electronics and maker stuff, I still wasn't interested in buying what they had left because it was still no better than online pricing.
Now i'm hopeful that the vacancy left by RatShack (Its pet names go way back) can be filled by people who may wish to cater more to the Maker market, but have not wanted to risk trying to compete with RadioShack still around.
Also, you jokingly suggested I was a psycho paranoid for saving this data, but obviously the data was already useful in discrediting a news story major enough to be on Slashdot's front page. So maybe not so paranoid?
Historical conservation. I expected that this might be a watershed event in American history and thought it was worth preserving as many tweets as possible to preserve the attitudes and thoughts (and perhaps misconceptions) of the public. Besides, its easy enough to do.
I've been saving the stream of "united" tweets since Apr 10 15:32. At this point I have close to 4 million tweets saved and over 700MB of data. I may have the deleted tweets, but definitely not if they don't have the word united in them.
I think some users may be confused. I can see in the data that @Jay_Beecher's earliest tweet about united was April 10th 18:12, which seems to be the one he is thinking was deleted. But that tweet is here. If he thinks its gone because he is looking at his normal tweet timeline, then he doesn't understand how Twitter's interface works. It doesn't show tweets that start with an @. Other people I checked (TalkIBC, iknowimbitter, seem to be equally confused.
Based on the data I have, I don't think Twitter deleted any tweets.
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Maybe I'm misremembering, but I thought this was already possible to do?
A while back I tried posting an image with a hidden steganographic message in it to Twitter and to my surprise the hidden message was preserved and not lost due to recompression. Also, the recent Banksy-style shreded image I posted to climagic that was basically a corrupted jpg file was preserved pretty well. In other words the corrupted part looks identical to what I see with the original on my own computer. However posting it to Mastodon.social resulted in a reprocessed image with compression artifacts
*Green screen/chroma keying
*camera tracking
*Fluid simulation
*3D modelling and rendering
All this can be done in Blender
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
So the solution is to destroy the world.
No, maybe just slowing down the speed of lieght.
Maybe they just rolled it out with the street maps view, but it's been doing that with the satellite view for a while now. Another interesting feature of satellite view is that it shows the current cloud coverage, not just an old photo of the clouds. I just noticed that recently, but maybe it's been there for a while.
Since we've been stuck just below 4GHz on production consumer CPUs for like 15 years now, getting above that would be a pretty significant achievement worthy of a Nobel Prize or something (exaggerating), omitting saying it's over clocked is pure marketing trickery. Fucking marketers, I hate em.
Jokes on you:
https://www.thelocal.at/201501...
A kangaroo in Austria (Europe) in winter. Ok, I've seen everything, time to shut it down.
I'd say that anytime there is a duality of opinion, no matter how much evidence there is, you'll always find people on both sides.
I think we should be more concerned with the People Against Washing Hands Society.
Or perhaps not everything on Slashdot is meant as a joke. Maybe azcoyote really was trying to make a point, but misunderstanding the origin of man pages. It's not condescending if you're just providing accurate unfiltered facts, regardless of any gender difference. It would be condescending if I said "they called them man pages because woman pages would be too big" or something like that. Obviously man splaining should mean having to explain something to a man, because this is what I'm having to do now.
I think you're all just trying to justify the joke of man splaining and are annoyed that I'm somehow ruining it.
He's not insane, people value and buy/sell archived data. Here is one of my own stories. Back in 2010 I did a complete reverse DNS scan on the Internet just for fun/curiosity. It came out to about 1TB of uncompressed data. A few years later someone found out that I had done that and wanted to buy a copy of the historical data from me for several hundred dollars. In hindsight, I probably could have charged more, but who knew what the market was on historical DNS data. The point is, data has value and the guy in Nova Scotia knows that. Like most things, the interest in the data and it's rarity and the longer you can preserve it, the more it could be worth. archive.org is in the business of archiving data. Sure, they rely on donations, but money is coming in.
WHOOSH!
Perhaps it was a whoosh, but you never know. I err on the side of ignorance.
I agree, but man pages have nothing to do with gender. It's called a man page because it's short for manual. The command was called man most likely because so many commands were shortened back then to 2 or 3 letters. There were a few women working on Unix at Bell labs in the 70s, one was Lorinda Cherry and among other things she helped write programs like the 'bc' and 'dc' commands.
That's great, but you can also just do this with curl
curl example.com/[1-1000000].html
The range functionality is built right into curl. In fact it's even in the opening examples of the man page.
Having used wine since the 90s, it was still quite a milestone for me at least that I was able to buy Diablo 3 on release day, install and play it in wine without problems, I played that game all the way to the end. Platinum. Bravo Wine devs, Bravo.
Unlike 1971, in 2017 most people actually live in cities and they get high quality 1080p HDTV over the air signals.
Unlike in 1971, most people think that everyone else is in the same situation they are.
You can choose an option called "avoid highways" under route options to choose a non-interstate route.
Exactly, a similar situation for me. On the morning of from Bloomington, IN I took IN 37 south instead of I-69. It was nearly empty the whole way down to Hopkinsville, KY. The way back was busier, but not crowded at all. It may have taken 4 hours and 15 minutes, but I had no chance of getting stuck on an interstate with no way off. I had a feeling that everyone would take I-69 and get stuck in Evansville, which is exactly what happened.
Google maps has a "avoid highways" feature that is great for finding a fast non-interstate path.
If you buy a 20GB hard drive, you might only get one with 19GB of free space.
...I say let it die already!
Heresy! This is Slashdot and every bit of Amiga news must be published to the front page until the slashdot.org domain finally expires. Its in the contract.
I recently went to a local RadioShack going out of business "sale" and heard one of the employees yell at the customers "I don't have a job, stop buying stuff at Amazon people!". I can certainly agree that people have been buying too much toilet paper from Amazon to the demise of local business, but in RadioShack's case, its much deeper.
The start of RadioShack's demise predates online shopping by at least a decade. I'm sure many long time readers here will attest to this that RadioShack for many years has lost its way. I found one of my own blog posts from 2002 in which I complained about RadioShack. There was an episode of Seinfeld in the 90s where they made fun of RadioShack for asking for your phone number when you buy batteries. Hiring people who had no idea what they are doing and little interest in working or helping customers. A product selection that was out of date with what was available on the market and prices that were unreasonably high. Even with their 90% discount on component electronics and maker stuff, I still wasn't interested in buying what they had left because it was still no better than online pricing.
Now i'm hopeful that the vacancy left by RatShack (Its pet names go way back) can be filled by people who may wish to cater more to the Maker market, but have not wanted to risk trying to compete with RadioShack still around.
How many of those fools will start using free VPN providers that make their privacy and security even worse: Proxy Services Are Not Safe. Try These Alternatives
What kind of psycho paranoid are you? :)
Also, you jokingly suggested I was a psycho paranoid for saving this data, but obviously the data was already useful in discrediting a news story major enough to be on Slashdot's front page. So maybe not so paranoid?
Historical conservation. I expected that this might be a watershed event in American history and thought it was worth preserving as many tweets as possible to preserve the attitudes and thoughts (and perhaps misconceptions) of the public. Besides, its easy enough to do.
I've been saving the stream of "united" tweets since Apr 10 15:32. At this point I have close to 4 million tweets saved and over 700MB of data. I may have the deleted tweets, but definitely not if they don't have the word united in them.
I think some users may be confused. I can see in the data that @Jay_Beecher's earliest tweet about united was April 10th 18:12, which seems to be the one he is thinking was deleted. But that tweet is here. If he thinks its gone because he is looking at his normal tweet timeline, then he doesn't understand how Twitter's interface works. It doesn't show tweets that start with an @. Other people I checked (TalkIBC, iknowimbitter, seem to be equally confused.
Based on the data I have, I don't think Twitter deleted any tweets.
You are aware March has got 31 days, not 30?
There is a bill going through Congress right now to change that.