You know those parasitic fishes that stick themselves onto sharks and eat their leftovers? They are called the remora fish and the relationship between the sharks and these fishes are called a symbiotic relationship.
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PreambleYesterday, I thought I should add a new 1TB drive to my home server as a backup for the photos stored within Immich. Since I have a couple users there, I'd like to at least have backup of the photos in case my docker SSD dies.After plugging in the new disk and rebooting.…
This excerpt from Governor J.B. Pritzker's commencement address at Northwestern University deeply resonates with me. As I grow older, my thoughts align increasingly with this perspective. While I recommend watching the entire speech, here's the essence of it that particularly stands out to me:The best way to spot an idiot? Look for the person…
A Reddit user named 'Educational-Map-8145' published a PoC exploit on Reddit that abuses the Atlas VPN Linux API to reveal a user's real IP addresses.This PoC creates a hidden form that is automatically submitted by JavaScript to connect to the http://127.0.0.1:8076/connection/stop API endpoint URL.When this API endpoint is accessed, it automatically terminates any active Atlas VPN sessions that…
A few days ago BIS Records turned 50 years old and I am immensely proud of what our small team of people has accomplished during this half-century. BIS’s specialty, while paying our dues to the core repertoire, has been to nurture young classical artists and interesting living composers and to safeguard the musical treasure that…
Ever thought about getting down and dirty in a robotaxi? Want to light up a cig or a joint on the drive home from the club? You’re not alone.As autonomous vehicles become increasingly popular in San Francisco, some riders are wondering just how far they can push the vehicles’ limits — especially with no…
My favorite segment was on the three different ways — all utterly different — ILM made lava for the Anakin/Obi-Wan duel on Mustafar in Revenge of the Sith.The next was how to get the lightsaber's brightness to translate on the screen against the bright lava.Watch the video before reading Vaziri’s notes. (Nice socks…
Rolled out earlier this week, but by yesterday, I believe it's now available to everyone. Missing some features from the native iPhone/Android apps (no access to the chronological “following” feed yet), but quite solid overall — and there are some very nice touches on the features that are present.MG Siegler has a post comparing…
Twitter has seen a dramatic decrease in its Top Downloaded chart position across both platforms since the app was renamed to X. Why? The situation presents a fascinating case study at the intersection of brand equity and mobile platform dynamics.The case is somewhat unprecedented: Twitter built a ubiquitous, household-name brand over the course…
Meta Executives Threaten to Piss Their Pants LaughingOn Wednesday, Instagram parent company Meta introduced Threads, a text-based companion to Instagram that resembles Twitter and other text-based social platforms. Just hours later, a lawyer for Twitter, Alex Spiro, sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg accusing the company of engaging in “systematic, willful, and…
Christian Selig, developer of the splendid Reddit client Apollo:I’ll cut to the chase: 50 million requests costs $12,000, a figure far more than I ever could have imagined.Apollo made 7 billion requests last month, which would put it at about 1.7 million dollars per month, or 20 million US dollars per year. Even if…
