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WediBlino··on A glob of 99M-year-old amber trapped a zombie fungus erupting from a fly
https://youtu.be/3hRYHX8bLVA?si=Jz03JZO1gTyjAQuH
WediBlino··on A glob of 99M-year-old amber trapped a zombie fungus erupting from a fly
"Bomb the city and everything in it"
WediBlino··on US Space Force reveals first look at secretive X-37B space plane in orbit
*Financially secure.
WediBlino··on Right to Repair laws have now been introduced in all 50 us states
Wait a bit and you'll see what Tim Cook's donation to the inauguration fund bought him.
WediBlino··on Why is my CPU usage always 100%?
An old manager of mine once spent the day trying to kill a process that was running at 99% on Windows box.

When I finally got round to see what he was doing I was disappointed to find he was attempting to kill the 'system idle' process.

WediBlino··on Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intelligence so far
Chatting with Gemini is very good. I notice Google have realised this and are advertising it a lot.

It seemed to be buried before.

WediBlino··on Disposable vapes to be banned in England and Wales
*vapist
WediBlino··on PhotoDNA and Limitations (2021)
Magnet Axiom is very poor for images. The interface is way to slow and a poor advert for .Net.

Xways for extraction, Griffeye for image processing and grading. Axiom for browser history and OS artefacts.

I just hope now Magnet bought Griffeye that the don't integrate it into a Axiom style clunky interface and render it unusable like the CCTV software they bought.

WediBlino··on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
2024!!! The year of Linux on the desktop!
WediBlino··on Brexit has failed for UK, say clear majority of Britons – poll
I recommend watching a BBC documentary called 'the thick of it'.
WediBlino··on Brexit has failed for UK, say clear majority of Britons – poll
How elected is David Cameron again?
WediBlino··on Brexit has failed for UK, say clear majority of Britons – poll
Slightly smaller wine bottles of course!
WediBlino··on Is Twitter/X Down
All I did was tweet ";drop table tweets;"
WediBlino··on User read the manual, followed instructions, still couldn't make 'Excel' work
Infact Sysinternals used to have a screen saver scr file with a selection of BSODs from various operating systems
WediBlino··on User read the manual, followed instructions, still couldn't make 'Excel' work
I used to enjoy having the screensaver show a picture of a BSOD
WediBlino··on I accidentally saved my company half a million dollars
My company paid a consultant £25K to increase efficiency. He recovered about 5 minutes a job.

I wrote a tool that saved about two hours a case, in total this saved about £500k. I got a free case off beer.

WediBlino··on UK Parliament undermined the privacy, security, freedom of all internet users
The CSAM scan has been going on for years, at the server.

The Apple issue was Apple doing it on the handset.

WediBlino··on Human Shader
Post Butlerian Mentat GPU v0.1
WediBlino··on Argos Catalogue Kettle Pages, 1976/1985 (2017)
The laminated book of dreams.
WediBlino··on Google I/O 2023
Can they use that AI to drive an anti-aircraft system?
WediBlino··on UK Threatens End-to-End Encryption
Cambell was Blair's Tucker.
WediBlino··on Medicare Advantage plans use algorithms to cut off care
algorithm /ˈalɡərɪð(ə)m/ noun plural noun: algorithms a process or set of rules to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving operations, especially by a computer. "a basic algorithm for division"
WediBlino··on ZX Spectrum BASIC programming (1983)
Forty years later the NEW on on last line of the sample program on page 210 (line 170) still stings.

I typed in the program, it ran and then the NEW caused the interpreter to reset itself.

I think of it every time I save a file.

WediBlino··on Will low and no code tools ever truly disrupt tech development?
So counter intuitive Scratch ?
WediBlino··on Nearly 1k mysterious strands revealed in Milky Way’s center
Petrova Lines?
WediBlino··on 3D Printing Sex Toys
If you're planning to make figurines you're better off with a resin printer (as opposed to filament).
WediBlino··on Researchers fear a scenario in which smart speakers feed sleepers subliminal ads
John Carpenter was a prophet. They Live and Prince of Darkness have merged.
WediBlino··on Few people know that Google voluntarily removes some search results
The music and movie industry do this on an industrial scale, removing hundreds of thousand hits a day.

https://www.bpi.co.uk/news-analysis/bpi-sends-500-millionth-...

https://transparencyreport.google.com/copyright/reporters/18...;

It raises the question of how they can find that many hits to be removed, they must be spamming the hell out of the index, and Google must be allowing it/providing an API.