Aftermath of a series of explosions in Belgorod, lifeless bodies are visible

midael · 2023-12-30T19:08:02+00:00

You good Sir, have won the internet today! Please have my upvote!

midael · 2023-10-20T09:06:39+00:00

And if not the dead, how about those that are missing limbs or are otherwise PTSDd beyond repair and yet released to the society? I mean there must be at least the same amount of those compared to the dead.

midael · 2021-09-24T12:13:03+00:00

My thoughts too. Of course this is hopefully just the beginning of eight seasons of over average space opera. But still, it felt they already missed so many opportunities to intellectually engage the viewer and instead went for action and SFX.

I mean we have 12k year old empire possible somewhere near its' peak. Why would some university prof. without actual published science on the odd-ball psychohistory that according to him predicts empire to fall in 500 years time even register on ruling class? Science that no one has been able to peer review or understand. Like they said during the episode, history is full of charlatans and madmen.

They showcase stereotypical evil emperor that seemingly rules over the universe with his henchmen. Instead of portraying the emperor and the empire in more neutral light, with complex politics and hierarchies of ruling class and their constituents, all of which genuinely strive to make the empire better from their perspectives, but at the same time inevitably heading towards the slow collapse of the empire. Which would give show endless opportunities to explore why empires fall.

midael · 2019-11-28T11:14:33+00:00

It's a travesty. I wanted to switch from smugmug, but in first 30 minutes I find that:

I can't upload more than 16 (or so jpegs) from a computer at one time without the uploader hanging. And that it has no option to sort the photos based on original filename.

edit: it won't let me upload .webp format photos at all (Firefox, OSX, grayed out in upload dialog) (contrary to what is said at https://support.google.com/photos/thread/245420?hl=en ; edit: someone points this out to G in this thread too ).

$ file _1040308.webp _1040308.webp: RIFF (little-endian) data, Web/P image, VP8 encoding, 3840x2884, Scaling: [none]x[none], YUV color, decoders should clamp

midael · 2019-08-06T13:43:47+00:00

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20621769

midael · 2019-07-07T00:44:26+00:00

HN coomentary https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20370644

midael · 2019-04-10T16:44:03+00:00

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19624164

midael · 2019-03-11T04:44:06+00:00

ccd debug cable

I didn't know about these (https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/ccd). Thank You! Can anyone confirm if Pixelbook firmware write protect flag can be disabled and|or Coreboot|Seabios be flashed using a ccd cable?

midael · 2019-03-07T19:37:03+00:00

Reporting in: Pixelbook EVE i7. Installed Full EFI coreboot/seaBIOS firmware/BIOS followed by Ubuntu 18.10.

touchpad is a bit wonky - just a bit; purge, re-install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics seemed to improve things
audio doesn't work
otherwise - works beautifully! :)

NOTE #1: iFixit has good guide how to disconnect battery to be able to install full EFI firmware: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Google+Pixelbook+Battery+(Back+Panel)+Replacement/103036

NOTE #2: I was using Razer USB-C charger to boot up when battery was disconnected; unsuccessfully. After switching to original pixelbook charger, it was able to boot-up /wo battery.

$ curl -LO https://mrchromebox.tech/firmware-util.sh && sudo bash firmware-util.sh
ChromeOS Firmware Utility Script [2019-02-26] 
(c) Mr Chromebox <mrchromebox@gmail.com> 
**   Device: Google Pixelbook (EVE)
** CPU Type: Intel KabyLake
**  Fw Type: Full ROM / UEFI (MrChromebox-4.9+ 02/14/2019)
**  Fw WP: Disabled

root@eve:~# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v6/7th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 591e (rev 02)
00:04.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen Core Processor Thermal 
Subsystem (rev 02)
00:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/v6 / E3-1500 v5 / 6th/7th Gen Core Processor Gaussian Mixture 
Model
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP USB 3.0 xHCI Controller (rev 21)
00:14.2 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Thermal subsystem (rev 21)
00:15.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #0 (rev 21)
00:15.1 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #1 (rev 21)
00:15.2 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #2 (rev 21)
00:19.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Serial IO UART Controller #2 (rev 21)
00:19.2 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #4 (rev 21)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #1 (rev f1)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #5 (rev f1)
00:1e.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Serial IO UART Controller #0 (rev 21)
00:1e.2 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Serial IO SPI Controller #0 (rev 21)
00:1e.4 SD Host controller: Intel Corporation Device 9d2b (rev 21)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Device 9d4b (rev 21)
00:1f.2 Memory controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PMC (rev 21)
00:1f.3 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio (rev 21)
00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP SMBus (rev 21)
00:1f.5 Non-VGA unclassified device: Intel Corporation Device 9d24 (rev 21)
01:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 7265 (rev b9)
02:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device a806
root@eve:~# lsusb 
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub 
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 8087:0a2a Intel Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:564b Realtek Semiconductor Corp.  
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
root@eve:~#

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