What's your favourite Windows 'feature'? Mine is when you wait 15 minutes for search results to finally appear when searching in Explorer, then when you open a folder and hit back it has apparently forgotten everything it just found.
...welp. Flashgun's been like this for a while, but it gets worse with each use. Just the nature of the beast.
(not the smaller flashgun that I just got for my FZ1000, but the big, high-output one I've used with my Pentax DSLR for several years)
Not broken, but between this, a flashtube that appears quite badly cracked from close examination, and a broken battery door that needs to be held shut with gaffer tape, I might need to replace it soon.
When you have to fire this thing at full power 300+ times in a three-hour period, this is pretty much inevitable.
Flashguns with guide number 50 meters or higher (most pro-grade models are rated at about 58) are prone to doing this. Smaller units, typically with GN ~36, are less likely to scorch up their lenses like this.
The BBC News article Huawei says willing to sign 'no-spy' agreements says:
Huawei has also said it is independent from the Chinese government, but some countries have blocked it from their 5G networks on national security grounds.
A recent report suggested the UK could allow Huawei's tel...
@bertieb I saw on your message on the suggestion edits queue and took the time to review it
1- indeed there is already a inline image, probably didn't render on my end, feel free to reject it :D 2- yeah, I noticed that but I forgot to put that because of the autocomplete of chrome, inline image in on the list xD
I know I'm late to this... but yet another speculative execution vulnerability affecting Intel processors with Hyper-Threading Technology. The AMD Zen architecture is, yet again, unaffected.
Lets revisit this in 6 years and see if AMD don't have the same issues (which, you'd hope they don't anyway as they should of made sure they don't by then).
By now, processor designers have an idea of what to do and what not to do to maintain security during speculative execution, to the extent possible without degrading performance.
How in the interests of saving "american" lives, they completely disregard that no one else on the planet is any less human
And how it's completely 100% a-ok to do all sort of unethical and f-ed up stuff to save "American lives"
gimme a break
I don't mean to be offensive here
But it's astonishing just how often people from the "developed" countries lack the perspective to see what's going on beyond their borders
Yeah you guys figure out all sorts of vulnerabilities but then they always get leaked and exploited and then the victims are innocent people around the world
Not to mention just how often when your three letter agencies come up with these vulns they actually end up targeting the press and journalists. And why? Because they're exposing the unethical crap such orgs do. The media is an important institution to keep the democracy in check but fuck yeh let's undermine it who needs that shit
@bwDraco I'm not talking about politics here. I'm talking about the general welfare of people around the world
Those in power believe that they need these tools to keep the people safe. It's a combination of 1) a desire to gain and maintain power, and 2) a fear that if they did not use this power and something happens, people will protest against them for failure to do their job.
When something does happen, the scaremongers come out and use the event as justification for radical measures, without proper examination of the consequences of said measures.
Like it or not, it's human nature. And much as we want to work around the less desirable parts of ourselves, it will most likely never be possible to gain complete control over our behavior and desires.
They say absolute power corrupts absolutely... the more I see this, the less I believe that we can fully solve the problems with human nature.
Yup. People shift from idealistic from cynical as they age, and therefore from liberal to conservative. I guess I'm not an exception.
And as much as I've worked to improve my behavior, I'm starting to feel that there are some parts of my personality and personal conduct that are completely immutable, that are set in stone.
Will our understanding of human psychology and sociology ever advance enough to let us fully suppress the baser aspects of ourselves? Only time will tell, and I'm starting to seriously doubt it.
@bwDraco maybe, maybe not. Since you are in USA, if you think that you have shifted from left to right, it might not actually be true. The "larger left" seem to be moving further left in your country ... and thus leaving the behind people, who are tiny bit less susceptible to wild claims (which happen to be older people ... and by older I mean "over 25")
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
I should really start calling it GNU/Linux. We all should.
but calling it just "Linux" really undermines the efforts that thousands of devs put into developing all the GNU utilities that make the OS in context what it is.
I'm planning on using it to automate setting up all the new computers this summer. I got the elite, so multiple scripts. I plan on getting into the default BIOS, then plugging it in, and setting it all up to boot into our imaging system (FOG)
I've got 1,500 computers to image this summer, so I want to automate as much as I can
My goal is to just automate the crap out of it... I don't mind waiting to open the BIOS, since each computer is going to be slightly different for how long to press the F12 key for
The BBC News article Huawei says willing to sign 'no-spy' agreements says:
Huawei has also said it is independent from the Chinese government, but some countries have blocked it from their 5G networks on national security grounds.
A recent report suggested the UK could allow Huawei's tel...
