SATA= Slow (Max 6 Gbps) PCIe = Fast (Max > 100 Gbps in theory)

This is the maximum rate from the drive to the motherboard. Many drives are fast enough that SATA works become the bottleneck. With PCIe, the drive can run at its full speed, whatever that may be.

Those fish know what they did.

But do they have a video about Deus Ex?

The monologue is a quote from Deus Ex, talking about one of these electronic gizmos.

You have until May 15. The announcement just went out today; if they tried to make it retroactive, it wouldn’t hold up in court.

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That would be nice. Our admins don’t bother with anything like this, but they also block me from fixing things.

Pro tip: Use molten lava. Lava is a liquid, but I don’t think anyone describes it as “wet”.

IRL Raven from Snow Crash.

Never ever ever store passwords in the database. Salted hash only. It’s fixed length even if the password is a gigabyte long.

Cowsay should be installed by default on every distro.

“My human doesn’t like it when I do this. Too bad human isn’t around.” -😼

Plot twist: The founder of this pyramid-shaped scheme is Jeff Bezos, since he’ll profit from every book sold regardless of where it ends up.

[Citation needed]

Every reverse-engineering study I’ve read has been about the apps built in top of the Google API, not the Google binaries. Here’s one, and here’s another, and neither paints a flattering picture.

Maybe it’s possible to build a perfect implementation, but that is not what we got.

You know what does work? Masks and vaccines. Phone-based tracking was a dangerous waste of time.

The Google system allegedly shares hashes of a ID-number salted with a rotating timestamp over BLE. But it’s also a closed-source binary. Can you or anyone else actually inspect its implementation? Can you really guarantee it doesn’t have even the smallest design flaws?

This technology is exceptionally dangerous. There is very little difference between these two scenarios:

• A doctor has identified a COVID patient. Let’s notify everyone who’s spent time with them recently.
• Secret police have identified a “dissident”. Let’s round up all their close associates.

It’s voluntary (for now). It’s allegedly secure (for now). But did anyone actually benefit from this complicated system? All I see are downsides.

Good riddance. It’s a totalitarian privacy nightmare that never functioned as advertised.

Similar systems were widely deployed in Singapore, on the premise it would only be used to fight COVID. Then to no one’s surprise, law enforcement started it using for criminal investigations.

Once they’re built, governments cannot resist abusing such systems.

My cat insists on it. With almost any new thing, she will meow until she gets to sniff it.

Why does the fake skeleton have little bone ears?

I don’t want to get out of futon.

Cowsay is a vital program. I’ve never understood why it isn’t installed by default in every distro.

Nothing compares to the original casefancasefancase.