h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

Inspired by the Dada movement, from Marcel Duchamp’s L.H.O.O.Q. to Hannah Höch’s collages, Portrait Robot is a parody of current “generative AI” programs.

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0.0.0.0 Day: Exploiting Localhost APIs From the Browser (Oligo Security)

https://lwn.net/Articles/984838/ #LWN

Follow up blog post: Matrix multiplication doesn’t work like that

https://aperiodical.com/2024/08/matrix-multiplication-doesnt-work-like-that/

Game Review - World of Goo 2 for Linux
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/08/game-review-world-of-goo-2-for-linux/

Remember World of Goo? The hit game that you loved on the Nintendo Wii? It was all the rage in 2009:

Fifteen years later... and I spent all night playing the sequel!

Yup! World of Goo is back, baby! And it is just as good as you remember it.

In truth, there's nothing much which has changed. There are a few new Goo types, but the puzzles are all ostensibly the same - build a structure using limited resources. Use lots of triangles.

The art is gorgeous, the story is snarky, the puzzles are all solvable with various degrees of frustration. If you haven't played the original, you probably should - it's only an extra $10 in a bundle.

There are various challenges for every level - which does give it some replayability.

The soundtrack is delightful, the Goo are a silly mix of Lemmings and Minions, and the graphics are gorgeous. Chapter 4 is... different. I liked it - but I didn't think the voice acting was particularly good.

Perhaps it is a little short, and perhaps it isn't much more than an expansion pack of the original. But, you know what? I was just happy to be transported back to 2009.

There's no microtransaction or lootboxes. No online gameplay - so no tweens screaming obscenities at you. Just pure gaming fun.

It isn't the longest game in the world. It took me about 13 hours - which included about an hour getting stuck on one (optional) level before caving and looking for a walkthrough..

Linux Instructions

World of Goo 2 is provided as a DRM-free AppImage file. Getting it working on Pop_OS was quite tricky:

Double click the file to launch it.
Play the game.

Oh.

If you're running something more esoteric, you'll probably need to sacrifice a chicken on the command line.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/08/game-review-world-of-goo-2-for-linux/

#GameReview #linux

I'm bringing the whole band for my DEF CON mainstage show on Friday night! Do not miss it.

@augieray 20 lb Sounds: "Jimmy Carter" (acoustic live)

freemusicarchive.org/music/20l…

/by @methoddan and friends

Hard to believe it’s a decade since @esa’s @ESA_Rosetta arrived at its comet. The trilogy of films we made for #skyatnight are my favourite - amazing access to a team who trusted us, & a very hard working BBC team who finished the show about an hour before broadcast. #astrodon

*** NEW BLOG POST *** In which I take a look at two roundabouts in London - Old Street and Lea Bridge Road.

https://therantyhighwayman.blogspot.com/2024/08/a-tale-of-two-roundabouts.html

New, by me: More than a million domain names — including many registered by Fortune 100 firms and brand protection companies — are vulnerable to takeover by cybercriminals thanks to authentication weaknesses at a number of large web hosting providers and domain registrars, new research finds.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/07/dont-let-your-domain-name-become-a-sitting-duck/

Tax tech companies to build nuclear and wind generation in Ireland time. https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/23/ireland-datacentres-overtake-electricity-use-of-all-homes-combined-figures-show

I shared the stage with Ian Wagdin at Radio TechCon, speaking about the private standalone 5G network made by the @BBCRD and Neutral Wireless, and how I helped CBS News use it to broadcast the Kings Coronation last year!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGeY5U9Nk_8

Technologies we’re glad are dead
by me, 2007. I'm still glad they're dead.
https://www.networkworld.com/article/815734/infrastructure-management-technologies-we-re-glad-are-dead.html

At last something useful said about the Crowdstrike thing.

"If your company is paying for commercial software that includes kernel drivers or kernel modules, you can make eBPF a requirement." – Brendan Gregg

http://www.brendangregg.com/blog//2024-07-22/no-more-blue-fridays.html

#Crowdstrike

⚠️ Update: Network data show #Bangladesh has now been offline for four days with a nationwide internet shutdown remaining in place amidst student protests ⏲

Protesters are calling for the restoration of telecoms, the release of detainees, and accountability for over 150 deaths.

@corbet

Archive.org is up for helping...

The original URL shorteners thought about this, and archived their links with archive.org .

https://archive.org/details/301works?tab=about

I hope google joins now, and gives us the host domain so we can make them continue to work (redirect into the wayback machine that would archive the redirect).

please.

We've signed the @ps open letter urging the European Commission to continue funding @NGIZero, which has helped Manyfold and many other (much more important) Open Source projects so much.

https://manyfold.app/news/2024/07/17/eu-funding-free-software.html

Credit to @ow2 for the English translation.

How to Save Wet Books After A Flood

I wish I knew this in 1980 when my basement apartment flooded. My high school yearbook might have been saved.

https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/preservation-matters-disasters-saving-wet-books-after-a-flood.htm