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If you’re reading about the Delta flight WiFi incident and wondering what a pineapple is, it’s a fruit. They used Mythos to get a fruit to hack the WiFi. That’s how scary AI is.
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These two images were taken by @astro_reid only minutes apart. The stark difference is the result of camera settings. In the first, a longer shutter speed let in much more light from Earth, while the shorter shutter speed in the second emphasizes our planet's nighttime glow.
ALT A full disk image of Earth, as seen from the Orion capsule. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. From about 8 to 9 o'clock, a large brown landmass is Africa, with the Iberian peninsula twinkling with lights just where the planet curves. At the 1 o'clock spot, aurora glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
ALT A full disk image of Earth at night, as seen from the Orion capsule. The planet is a dark midnight blue. Swirling white clouds are visible against the darker surface. From about 8 to 9 o'clock, a large, very brown landmass is Africa, with the Iberian peninsula twinkling with lights just where the planet curves. Other tiny yellow dots of electric lights are sprinkled across the planet's surface. From the 3 to the 6 o'clock spot, a very thin crescent of blue light hugs the edge of the planet. Earth is set against the black of space. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
More job security for security engineers
Really great job security for security engineers :)
Microsoft has set a goal to “eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030.”
What are they going to try to replace that C & C++ code with?
You guessed it. Rust.
And they’re going to use AI to do the “Rust re-write” at an insane speed.
“Our strategy is to combine AI *and* Algorithms to rewrite Microsoft’s largest codebases. Our North Star is “1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code”.
You read that right.
One million lines of code, per engineer, per month.
Pure insanity. This kind of decision making is common among those with a deeply held, delusional faith in the Cult of Rust.
Take battle tested code, and re-write it (without a clear benefit to the end user) at a recklessly rapid rate. Then force others to adopt that rewritten code before it is ready or properly tested.
All while holding a delusional belief that your new Rust code is superior in all ways, and is inherently bug free thanks to the divine nature of Rust.
We learned this from a post by Galen Hunt, Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft Research.
linkedin.com/posts/galenh_pr…
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Ngl I completely agree with this take, I don’t even think it’s an opinion anymore. It’s just a fact that the GDKP ban was an experiment to appease to the casual forum posters / redditors, and it’s been a massive hit to the actual classic playerbase. I love the game, and the dev teams puts so much love into the game, but this decision was genuinely a large part of why I’ve taken a break.
Since Blizzard is admitting their last patch wasn’t up to performance par.
Let’s now admit that banning GDKPs and isolating a massive part of the community was not only erroneous from an economic perspective in conjunction, a lot of people stopped playing this fresh due to hyper inflation introduced by banning GDKPs.
There’s a reason why consumables on Whitemane (2019) are cheaper than on Nightslayer (2025). GDKPs, like any normal and healthy economy, allow the redistribution of wealth.
Banning GDKPs has disabled that redistribution apparatus and led to basic commodities being hyperinflated.
We pay the same subscription, if not more than, people who hate gdkps.
Make a server that allows GDKPs. Stop ruining everyone else’s classic experience just because of failed socioeconomic views.
I genuinely @Blizzard_Ent launches an internal investigation because the behaviors the classic devs have been engaging In, is not only losing YOU money, but ruining the players experience as well.
@AggrendWoW @N_Tys26 @Blizzard_Ent @BlizzardCS @BlizzardCSEU_EN @BlizzardCS_KR @payowow @Asmongold
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Since Blizzard is admitting their last patch wasn’t up to performance par.
Let’s now admit that banning GDKPs and isolating a massive part of the community was not only erroneous from an economic perspective in conjunction, a lot of people stopped playing this fresh due to hyper inflation introduced by banning GDKPs.
There’s a reason why consumables on Whitemane (2019) are cheaper than on Nightslayer (2025). GDKPs, like any normal and healthy economy, allow the redistribution of wealth.
Banning GDKPs has disabled that redistribution apparatus and led to basic commodities being hyperinflated.
We pay the same subscription, if not more than, people who hate gdkps.
Make a server that allows GDKPs. Stop ruining everyone else’s classic experience just because of failed socioeconomic views.
I genuinely @Blizzard_Ent launches an internal investigation because the behaviors the classic devs have been engaging In, is not only losing YOU money, but ruining the players experience as well.
@AggrendWoW @N_Tys26 @Blizzard_Ent @BlizzardCS @BlizzardCSEU_EN @BlizzardCS_KR @payowow @Asmongold
TCAS does not alert lower than 1000 feet above ground.
CNN aviation correspondent and private pilot @PeteMunteen: "I'm stumbling over my words here b/c this is just so staggering that there is a midair collision involving a commercial airliner. Commercial flights are equipped for ages with a system called TCAS -- Traffic collision Avoidance System. It tells the pilots in the cockpit how to avoid other airplanes nearby. It is a system that came about because of mid-air collisions with commercial airliners and small general aviation aircraft, commercial airliners and helicopters. It tells the pilots, there's traffic ahead of you -- climb, climb, now descend, descend now. This would be an incredible lining up of the holes in the Swiss cheese, the -- the which is the saying in aviation, the gaps in the -- in the safety chain in aviation, that this happened and now investigators have an incredible amount of work cut out for them to figure out how a commercial airliner in the United States in 2025, when the pilots are incredibly trained, the technology is is incredibly sharp, collided with what is apparently a military or government helicopter. Nobody else uses the blackhawk. Yeah, it is -- it is really something else. I -- I -- I'm just stunned."
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Traffic Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) generates aural and visual alerts to separate aircraft that are getting too close together. However, most of these alerts are disabled when the aircraft is below 1000 ft altitude to prevent false alerts near airports, etc.
faa.gov/documentlibrar…
Sometimes (most of the time) the basic shit works. No need for fancy tools to find the backdoor. Just strings | grep backdoor.
I’m really looking forward to this boomer mentality going away someday. Remote work is superior to in office work in nearly every metric except micromanager control.
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@AggrendWoW Do you have any plans to remove the 4 hour cd from dmf? I’m usually a pretty big no changes guy but it seems the SoD team wants dmf to be easier to obtain by coming more often, I just don’t see a reason for the four hour CD.
Looks like someone read my mind. As a Sunday raider who doesn’t get DMF next raid because of the CD, please remove it. reddit.com/r/classicwow/comm…
