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Anything but metric 🤣🤣🤣

Some 40 core ribbon cable and some 34 core ribbon cable.  Not sure if it's the right pitch yet i guess i'll find out. Got a metre (about a baby alligator) of each. gonna be making two IDE cables and a floppy cable out of them.

 
and a new screen protector for my Pixel 6a

PCMag story looks at the layoffs at ExpressVPN's parent, Kape Technologies, and how it'll affect quality. Story also mentions this interesting point about Koby Menachemi, a guy who used to work at Israel's Unit 8200 before running Crossrider, which was known for spreading adware:
 
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 https://www.pcmag.com/news/inside-the-expressvpn-layoffs-taking-a-page-out-of-elon-musks-playbook

Summary
While in the another corner FOSS projects are complaining about EU putting sanctions over companies not taking software security seriously, Canon proves why that is absolutely needed. Canon inkjets may leak your WiFi passwords when discarded because Canons factory reset doesn't empty the WiFi password memory.
 
Canons official press release includes PDF-file with the affected printers which is a bit over 5 pages of home and office printer model families and about 2 pages of large-format printers, so we can probably generalize that it's all WiFi enabled Canon Inkjets (according to Bleeping Computer 196 models, so it's probably simple the generalize it to all).
 
The solution seems to be to factory reset the thing, perform first time setup until enabling WiFi without giving any credentials and factory reset immediately again.
 
My thoughts
 
Really not something to loose your good nights sleep over.
When the "first time setup" wipes the WiFi password on default it pretty much means someone REALLY needs to want that WiFi password and needs to have more advanced skills and tools than your average stalking ex.
If your company has WiFi printers in the main network and doesn't have secondary credentials to access stuff and all the pretty much basic stuff that should be, then you might want to loose couple eyefuls of good nights sleep, not over this but generally your company's cybersecurity is kind of bad. Like at least put coffee machines, printers and all that similar stuff into it's own separated network so they can't access the mission critical stuff.
 
But this is a good example why we need governments to enforce basic cybersecurity. Factory reset should wipe any and every data there is on default and pretty much checking that the factory reset does what it should do should be one standard device software test. But more this is just shame on Canon for not noticing this for quite a good time, that amount of affected printers seems like an amount of printers released within 5-10 years and no one didn't think to test the factory reset well during that time.
There's just too much these pretty basic problems that shouldn't be even a thing today. Like this is same kind of stuff as using the "admin:admin" or "admin:root" as default login for router and if someone doesn't want to spend the few coins it takes to make that well, they should deserve sanctions for being that greedy.
 
Sources
Canon's official press release
Bleeping computer
Ars Technica

Bass 305 - digital bass
sadly the front page is torn


this is after a new jewel case as well
 
And the N100m finally arrived

this is a 6 watt soc commonly found in $100 tiny PCs, I’m going to be doing this with it:

GuliKit Electromagnetic Joystick replacement kit for the Steamdeck:

GuliKit Electromagnetic Joystick replacement kit for the Steamdeck:

Why in the world did I buy this?

Summary
In a post published on Nintendo's social media accounts, online services for the Wii U games Splatoon 1 and Mario Kart 8 will return on the 3rd of August at 1am UTC. This follows a 5 month downtime for both games, and the fact that some legacy Nintendo WFC logon servers for some CoD games have gone down 9 years after WFC's discontinuation.
 
The updated version numbers are 2.12.1 and 4.2.0 respectively.
 
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My thoughts
I really find this story interesting with the fact that Nintendo took practically 8 months to sort this out, when other affected games on the Nintendo Switch and Nintendo 3DS were fixed last year. I feel like this update may be bigger than we think though, I've encountered people hacking in Mario Kart 8 before and there's a few YouTube channels (not sure if I'm allowed to mention them) that have a quite a few short clips of hackers in Splatoon 1, perhaps those issues could be patched?
 
Sources
https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Support/Wii-U/Wii-U-Splatoon-and-Mario-Kart-8-Notice-regarding-the-ending-of-the-current-maintenance-2425435.html
 
Regarding the CoD logon issues:
https://mas.to/@oatmealdome/110818633809844844
https://wetdry.world/@ipg/110816441417309196

I'm shocked they're still fixing shit on the WiiU.... 

Keep in mind the wii u has a minimal userbase. Like they didnt even get 1/10th the sales compared to what the switch is at right now AND the switch was a direct wii u replacement leaving very littl incentive for people to stick on the wii u especially for the games you mentioned as these have superior version on the switch

Custom IDE and Floppy cables incoming

2x8gb 2666mhz ram so 32gb total now oc'ed to 3200 $43 now compared to $100 first time I bought it lol

Does it count as Nontech if I had to help my sister (who is barely older than me and is a nurse) figure out why her switch was never working
She..never had the dock plugged in, so it just...didn't charge at all

Too many USB sticks.

deciding between mexico or canada for my family vacation. 
 

The speed is not the real question:
Does it take longer to write the entire disk? yes.
 

Summary
Western Digital is set to begin sampling its 28TB nearline hard drive (HDD) designed for hyperscale datacenters in the coming weeks, the company revealed at its earnings call.
 
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SSD manufactures past HDD manufactures in drive capacity a while ago but large capacity SSDs continue to be around 10x as much per TB
HDD manufactures continue to find ways to increase drive capacity and decrease the cost of bulk data storage.
HDDs may not be something that you have in your PC anymore but for bulk storage in a NAS or data center they dont seem to be going anywhere anytime soon.
 
Sources
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/western-digital-readies-28tb-hdd

PSU go boom boom:

I bought the Starfield Premium Upgrade. So stupid, I know. I'm just so excited for the game it's pathetic. 

I got a fox squishmellow

MIXX Charge Self coiling USB Type C 12W charging cable and a 32 CD Wallet
 

another phone again . this time being the Sharp SH-06D Nerv Edition .its pretty old though , dates back to 2012 , but in pretty good condition when i got it .. standard 23/3g phone though also , its locked .but that is not too much of an issue .has 2d/3d screen like the 3ds 
 
 
 

Summary

The BBC has launched their own Mastodon Server to try it out for 6 months to decide whether and how to continue.

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My thoughts
Looks like major news outlets are looking for ways to interact with the public, start a community, attract more viewers and they want to have some control of the platform they do it on.

I imagine other major news outlets and media companies will be watching what happens with the BBCs "experiment" or going ahead giving their own Mastodon servers a try.

A lot of people go to social media for news, more news outlets using Mastodon/ the Fediverse could be a factor in driving more people away from Twitter and making Mastodon more mainstream.

Sources
https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/31/23814556/bbc-experimental-mastodon-server-twitter

Summary
 
AMD has launched the Radeon RX 7900 GRE (Golden Rabbit Edition) GPU previously rumoured to be called RX 7900. This GPU features a Navi 31 die on Navi 32's packaging process with a 256 Bit memory bus and 16GB of G6 VRAM. This card has an MSRP of $649.
 
Key specs are as follows:
80 RDNA3 CUs - 5120 Stream Processors 16GB 18Gbps G6 Memory on a 256 bit bus with 4x MCDs along with 2x Dummy MCDs that are there for other reasons. 64MB Infinity Cache 260W TBP  
The die layout and packaging uses Navi 32's layout with 4 MCDs and the additional memory controllers required to support additional MCDs have been physically fused off at the die level.
 
This GPU features 4 Billion fewer transistors than Navi 31's normal die. (54 Billion vs 58 Billion).
 
It is presently launching in China and seems to also be coming to at least some prebuilts. There is no word yet whether a launch outside of China is to be expected.
 
This is also expected to be the same packaging used on the leaked RX 7900M XT, assuming that laptop OEMs choose to bid on that GPU.
 
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I'm not super surprised that this is China exclusive for now however it would be interesting to see if it is launched globally however the limited number of the reject N31 dies may mean this aren't enough for a global launch. The pricing seems to be a bit high tbh though AMD could always correct this later if the RX 7900XT and 7900XTX get prices cuts at the launch of the leaked upcoming RX 7700 and RX 7800 cards.
 
Sources
https://www.amd.com/en/products/graphics/amd-radeon-rx-7900-gre
https://www.techpowerup.com/311822/amd-radeon-rx-7900-gre-asic-smaller-than-navi-31-slightly-larger-than-navi-21