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Post by joedf » 25 Jan 2021, 14:39

@BoBo very neat! :+1:
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Re: « What's on your mind? »

Post by jballi » 26 Jan 2021, 05:26

I had to find and select pictures of boats before I could read this silly topic. Man, that's strict!

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Post by garry » 26 Jan 2021, 10:18

20210120
https://olhardigital.com.br/en/2021/01/20/safety/database-leak-exposes-cpf-of-almost-the-entire-population-of-brazil/
Leak exposes CPF of 220 million Brazilians
The dfndr lab, a research laboratory for security of PSafe, identified on Tuesday (19) a leak in a database that exposed personal information 220 million people - practically the entire population of Brazil.
Authorities are among those affected.
According to the company, full names, dates of birth, CPF, as well as data of 104 million vehicles and 40 million companies.

https://link.estadao.com.br/noticias/cultura-digital,vazamento-pode-ter-exposto-cpf-de-220-milhoes-de-brasileiros,70003588485
Vazamento pode ter exposto CPF de 220 milhões de brasileiros
Alerta foi feito pela startup de segurança digital PSafe



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2021-01-28 / Swiss Transportation Safety Investigation Board (STSB) /Schweizerische Sicherheitsuntersuchungsstelle SUST
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9szlRVPu7H5YdTPES3Od4Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGF4ovuSrK0
2021-01-28 Explanatory video concerning the accident of a Ju 52 on 4 August 2018
On 4 August 2018, a historic Junkers Ju 52 commercial aircraft, operated by Ju-Air, crashed near Flims in the Swiss Alps. All 20 people on board lost their lives.
The Swiss Transportation Safety Investigation Board (STSB) investigated the accident in order to identify its causes and the underlying reasons for the crash.
To improve aviation safety, the STSB has issued eight safety recommendations and seven points of safety advice.
The investigation does not establish blame or determine liability.
The purpose of this video is to illustrate certain elements contained in final report number 2370 by the Swiss Transportation Safety Investigation Board.
It is not a summary of the final report, which sets out the detailed procedures, and systemic aspects of the accident.

Final report no. 2370 on the accident involving the Ju 52/3m g4e HB-HOT
Publications (EN) on the investigation of the accident involving the Junkers Ju 52 HB-HOT aircraft on 4 August 2018
https://www.sust.admin.ch/inhalte/AV-berichte/HB-HOT_EN.pdf

Swiss Transportation Safety Investigation Board (STSB)
https://www.sust.admin.ch
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https://tosdr.org/
“Terms of Service Didn't Read” (short:ToS;DR) is a project started in June 2012 to help fix the “biggest lie on the web”:
almost no one really reads the terms of service we agree to all the time.
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Re: « What's on your mind? »

Post by pallabibaruah18 » 27 Jan 2021, 12:42

Off topic page should have some opptopic chat

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Post by gregster » 27 Jan 2021, 13:03

pallabibaruah18 wrote:
27 Jan 2021, 12:42
Off topic page should have some opptopic chat
Or AHK Discord server (see link at the top of the page) has an active offtopic general chat channel (and also programming and gaming offtopic (non-AHK) channels) - if that's what you are asking for.



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Post by lmstearn » 15 Feb 2021, 23:34

Bad command line args never used to do this, so what? New files are time's flies!
Faulting application name: notepad.exe, version: 10.0.18362.1316, time stamp: 0xa3e22dbb
Faulting module name: notepad.exe, version: 10.0.18362.1316, time stamp: 0xa3e22dbb
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0001064f
Faulting process ID: 0x6b54
Faulting application start time: 0x01d7037ab920cd93
Faulting application path: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\notepad.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\notepad.exe
Report ID: 70b3a7a4-9bed-43c3-9163-4d6c2f3f648c
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:
:arrow: itros "ylbbub eht tuO kaerB" a ni kcuts m'I pleH

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Post by garry » 18 Feb 2021, 07:25

winter in TEXAS 2021 February
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https://poweroutage.us/
-- PowerOutage.US
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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/70-car-pileup-icy-texas-interstate-leaves-least-five-dead-n1257454
-- At least six dead, dozens injured in 130-car pileup on icy Texas interstate
At least six people are dead and dozens more were injured in a massive pileup on an icy Texas interstate that involved more than 130 vehicles Thursday morning, officials said.
"This is a major catastrophe in our city," Fort Worth fire spokesman Mike Drivdahl said of the ice-related crash.
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https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/16/natural-gas-power-storm/
-- Texas power outage: Why natural gas went down during the winter storm | The Texas Tribune
Texas largely relies on natural gas — especially during times of high demand — to power the state.
Experts say natural gas infrastructure, from pumping it out of the ground to the plants in city centers, was unprepared for the plunging temperatures brought by the winter storm.
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https://www.texastribune.org/2011/02/08/texplainer-why-does-texas-have-its-own-power-grid/
-- Why does Texas have its own power grid? | The Texas Tribune
Basically, Texas has its own grid to avoid dealing with — you guessed it — the feds.
But grid independence has been violated a few times over the years — not even counting Mexico's help during blackouts in 2011.
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https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/17/texas-food-supply-power-outage/
-- Texans running out of food during power outage, weather crisis | The Texas Tribune
Texans running low on food are finding empty grocery store shelves.
Food pantries are running out of supplies.
And the freeze has wiped out substantial portions of the state's citrus and vegetable crops.
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-power-winter-weather-death-toll-climbs/
-- Frigid temperatures devastate Texas power grid as death toll climbs - CBS News
Houston — The winter weather emergency in Texas and much of the South is getting worse, with millions facing yet another night in the dark with no heat and no clean water.
This relentless winter blast is blamed for at least 24 deaths this week.
One-third of Americans are in the path of a second winter storm, with the snow and ice headed to the East Coast.
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2021-02-24 FRY's ELECTRONICS announced plans to close all remaining stores, effective immediately
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fry%27s_Electronics
-- Fry's Electronics

On February 24, 2021, Fry's announced plans to close all remaining stores, effective immediately.

Fry's Electronics was an American big-box store and retailer of software, consumer electronics, household appliances, cosmetics, tools, toys, gift accessories, magazines,
books on specialized areas of electronics, and computer hardware.
Fry's had in-store computer repair and custom computer building services.
The company had a chain of superstores headquartered in Silicon Valley.
Starting with one store located in Sunnyvale, California, the chain operated 34 stores in nine states by 2019, and as of January 2021 operated 28 stores.
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Post by BoBo » 26 Feb 2021, 10:31

Just in case you're still traumatized and wished JFK (or your creepy uncle Bob!) would be back alive & kicking (well, grab a photo beforehand): https://www.myheritage.de/deep-nostalgia :thumbup: Yep, scroll down to see/use its gallery!

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Post by jballi » 26 Feb 2021, 17:52

garry wrote:
18 Feb 2021, 07:25
2021-02-24 FRY's ELECTRONICS announced plans to close all remaining stores, effective immediately
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fry%27s_Electronics
-- Fry's Electronics

On February 24, 2021, Fry's announced plans to close all remaining stores, effective immediately.
This was a long time coming. Fry's started shutting down stores in August 2019. At the same time (and before), they stopped restocking inventory in some of the stores in order to save money. I remember going to one of the stores in August 2019. The store was open but the shelves were almost bare. I asked one of the few people there if they were having a "going out of business" sale? He said no. He tried to assure me that they were going to restock but I don't think that he believed it. The little that was left on the shelves was still at full price so there was no incentive to do any bargain shopping. I never went back. At the time, the message boards used by Fry's employees were full of speculation. Management was telling them little or nothing. I think COVID killed Fry's but they were dying already.

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Post by burque505 » 26 Feb 2021, 19:01

jballi wrote:
26 Feb 2021, 17:52
This was a long time coming. Fry's started shutting down stores in August 2019. At the same time (and before), they stopped restocking inventory in some of the stores in order to save money. I remember going to one of the stores in August 2019. The store was open but the shelves were almost bare. I asked one of the few people there if they were having a "going out of business" sale? He said no. He tried to assure me that they were going to restock but I don't think that he believed it. The little that was left on the shelves was still at full price so there was no incentive to do any bargain shopping. I never went back. At the time, the message boards used by Fry's employees were full of speculation. Management was telling them little or nothing. I think COVID killed Fry's but they were dying already.
For me, Fry's demise (as was Radio Shack's) is another symptom of America's apparent mission to "Stop Making Things" (with companies like Boeing being on a sub-mission, "Stop Making Things that Don't Go Bump in the Night").

Where does the budding tinkerer sans internet access and a bank account physically go to buy resistors, capacitors, inductors, ICs, breadboards, soldering irons and the like? (Granted there are a few places scattered around the larger metro areas. There is a Grainger's where I live, for example.) What effect does the lack of readily available parts have on a young inventor's willingness to experiment?

When I was a kid I didn't need an online search (good thing too, since the TVs still had vacuum tubes) to know where to go to find parts for a project. Radio Shack was the Port of Last Resort since the parts were so expensive, and even my little town (pop. under 30,000) had a few places where you could shop for electronic parts, but everybody still spent time and money at Radio Shack anyway. Tubes for the TV? I could buy them - and even test them - in the grocery store!

Where would a kid right now in Anywhere, USA, pop. 50,000, go to buy an op-amp? A 555 timer? Say the kid wanted to clone a Vox AC-30 - schematics, online, no problem! But parts - what - order and pray? By the time the parts arrive (likely a while since many would have to originate in China) the kid might have decided cloning a Marshall would be more fun.
:evil: :evil: :evil:

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Post by garry » 02 Mar 2021, 11:14

I made a sleep timer with IC NE 555 longtime ago which I use to switch off the receiver when I go to sleep
have some basic parts left , resistor sorted , capacitor, diode , switches, some IC ...

Vox AC-30 for £ 666 with tubes
https://www.thomann.de/gb/vox_ac30_c2_gitarrencombo.htm
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China Firewall Test :
http://www.chinafirewalltest.com/?siteurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2F

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Microsoft introduces five bins to sort files for recycling .... :)
... five differently coloured containers are visible on the desktop instead of that one notorious recycle bin.
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https://www.the-postillon.com/2017/06/windows-finally-going-green.html
Redmond (dpo) - Windows is finally going green:
there is now an update available for Microsoft’s Windows 10 which will introduce waste separation to domestic computers for the first time.
Environmentalists have long criticised the fact that all computer files are disposed of in the same recycle bin regardless of format.
In the updated version, five differently coloured containers are visible on the desktop instead of that one notorious recycle bin.
There is one each for photographs, videos, sound files, text files and general waste.
....
However, some especially toxic files cannot be recycled.
These include computer viruses, GILF porn videos and Justin Bieber music.
Users can no longer dispose of these via a click on the desktop.
Instead, they must be saved to a USB stick and sent on by post to Microsoft’s hazardous waste management centre.
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Post by burque505 » 02 Mar 2021, 11:20

garry wrote:
02 Mar 2021, 11:14
I made a sleep timer with IC NE 555 longtime ago which I use to switch off the receiver when I go to sleep
have some basic parts left , resistor sorted , capacitor, diode , switches, some IC ...

Vox AC-30 for £ 666 with tubes
https://www.thomann.de/gb/vox_ac30_c2_gitarrencombo.htm
:thumbup:

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Post by BoBo » 12 Mar 2021, 12:34

So scientists have to clarify now what happened to ancient AutoHotkey, right? Right. :)
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/mar/12/scientists-move-closer-to-solving-mystery-of-antikythera-mechanism

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Post by guest3456 » 13 Mar 2021, 09:19

WIN + SHIFT + S

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Post by joedf » 13 Mar 2021, 11:20

Huh... Neat! :+1:
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Post by jballi » 18 Mar 2021, 21:13

In last week's episode of New Amsterdam, one of the doctors breaks down in the middle of shooting a hospital promo to express the same fears that many people are experiencing during the pandemic. I thought it was worth watching.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu_4xALj32Y

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Post by jballi » 20 Mar 2021, 18:07

This video does a good job of explaining what efficacy rates really mean.

Why you can't compare COVID-19 vaccines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3odScka55A

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Post by jballi » 22 Mar 2021, 02:07

John Oliver discusses the plastic catastrophe that this planet is experiencing. Language.

Plastics: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fiu9GSOmt8E

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