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solariston Physicists rewrite a quantum rule that clashes with our universe

Quantum mechanics has been already falsified. Good explanation here: http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2022/05/chaos-real-problem-...

solariston As unrest grows, Iran restricts access to Instagram, WhatsApp

Thanks!

solariston As unrest grows, Iran restricts access to Instagram, WhatsApp

https://twitter.com/roozbehp/status/1572841090910388225?s=46...

| As a former WhatsApp engineer, I don't think WhatsApp even has any mechanism to do such a thing. It's probably an unintended artifact of its infrastructure that the Iranian government has exploited, and knowing the WhatsApp team, they are probably already working on a fix.

solariston As unrest grows, Iran restricts access to Instagram, WhatsApp

I’ve seen many tweets from people in Germany, USA, Turkey etc. that they can’t access their WhatsApp account. Seems to be both Iranian government and Meta.

Edit: can be a compromised CDN. See https://twitter.com/roozbehp/status/1572841090910388225?s=46...

Edit 2: Videos are being removed too https://twitter.com/youranonstory/status/1572747450368290816...

Edit 3: from Cloudflare: https://blog.cloudflare.com/protests-internet-disruption-ir/

solariston WebSDR: Software-Defined Radio receiver connected to the internet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWV_(radio_station)

solariston Albania expelled Iran’s embassy staff over July cyberattack

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

solariston Google Hacking Challenge

From Google bug hunters Twitter: https://twitter.com/googlevrp/status/1557033969257955328?s=2...

solariston “Burning Ship” fractal

I was hoping that a random Mandelbrot shows up at the end.

(Spoiler: it doesn’t)

solariston Hiding malware in Docker Desktop's virtual machine

The author is the hacker known as "Alex". Link to their presentation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hBLf2vQc8k&t=32437s

solariston Challenge: Pixel perfect design

Apple glass maybe?

solariston Wc2 – optimizing wc with asynchronous state machine parsing

Related tweet from the author: https://twitter.com/ErrataRob/status/1494009849427992576

PoC||GTFO article: https://pocorgtfo.hacke.rs/pocorgtfo21.pdf#page=71

solariston DNS over Dedicated QUIC Connections

I’m a naive person and believe any form of advertisement is intrusive. So by definition anything that wants to show me and my kids ads will eventually try to circumvent any filters in place.

solariston DNS over Dedicated QUIC Connections

So am I supposed now to do DPI in my home router? Will it ever be enough to block unwanted content in my network?

solariston Astronomers reveal first image of the black hole at the heart of our galaxy

Math actually checks out:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=diameter+of+moon+%2F+0....

~= 9 cm object on the moon

Google says donuts are 12-14 cm in length on average…

solariston Why are some egg yolks so orange?

That’s a perfect example of Goodhart's law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

solariston Can we survive technology? (1955) [pdf]

That’s the essence of both Parkinson‘s and Gustafson's laws, but apparently even earlier than both.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustafson%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law

solariston Dorking: the use of search engines to find very specific data

In my experience it depends on the number of results, and the results are more accurate with verbatim.

solariston Dorking: the use of search engines to find very specific data

As a workaround and under search tools one can enable the “verbatim” option.

solariston Docker Releases Plugin for Simplified Deployments into AWS

well then my bad.

solariston Docker Releases Plugin for Simplified Deployments into AWS

(attempt to) being sarcastic ain't necessarily condescending. my take from the unedited parent comment was that it was patronizing towards the grandparent ("in english it is" so and so), but anyway thanks for clarification.

solariston Simple Rules ‘Bootstrap’ the Laws of Physics

if you mean you can prove 2+2==4, it's actually tautology: | | + | | == | | | |

solariston What's Coming in Python 3.8

An alternative you may want is Dask.

solariston Unsupervised word embeddings capture latent knowledge from scientific literature

An article about the paper by the first author https://towardsdatascience.com/using-unsupervised-machine-le...