Chinese electronics company has developed the first ever “ejecting batteries.”
Every car having a battery cannon seems like not a great idea.
I mean, my car should. But not every car.
Author: Chill
When You Lose
The Israelis killed more children under 5 than there were children under 5. That’s quite a trick. They must’ve been resurrecting then killing them again.
The true death toll in the Gaza is around 30,000-50,000, most fighting-age males. That’s still a lot, to be clear. But not any form of genocide. That’s just what it looks like when you badly lose a war you stupidly started.
No Input
People like the below just should not be able to write about anything technical. If you don’t have an active CCNP (I do) or equivalent, just shut up about networking.
Your input is not needed.
NAT Not
IPv6 is not insecure because it lacks a NAT.
Not this asinine shit again. I hate this idiot and idiots like this in general. That is, the “Well, ackshually” shitheels who ignore how anything is in the real world, standard practices, and how things actually work. And also do not really understand the tech, either.
First of all, you stupid motherfucker, a device can (and most consumer crap does) implement NAPT/PAT with dynamic state but often has1 no explicit packet-filter policy engine (what most people would term a “firewall”), yet will still refuse unsolicited inbound flows simply because these flows don’t match any mapping/state. That is in fact de facto protection via reachability restriction. And that behavior is explicitly defined in NAT RFCs. The NAT RFCs in fact directly discuss filtering behavior associated with NAT operations (not just a separate firewall). Check out RFC 4787 (BCP 127), RFC 5382 (BCP 142), RFC 5508 (BCP 148) and RFC 7857 for how NAT really works. I’ve read those documents in toto several times over the years. I can guarantee that doofus has not.
Miraculously, he is right that “NAT isn’t designed as security,” but the clown-ass shitstain then uses that to imply “NAT adds no security value,” which is false in actual practice. Nearly every existing IPv4 NAT (NAPT/PAT) gateway2 enforces stateful inbound blocking out of the box. This NAT — independent of the router’s firewall function — does provide decent default-on security for home users.
On the other hand, his core premise (“modern routers default-deny inbound IPv6 anyway”) is absolutely not a sure thing. Standards and real deployments often have non-optimal defaults, including configs that default-forward unsolicited inbound IPv6 traffic. This is because unlike IPv4, IPv6 expects end-to-end connectivity. So that means many router vendors ship equipment that way. Thus, having NAT adds quite hardy extra protection in practice. That is to say, with any IPv4 home NAT you need both a firewall hole and a port-forward/mapping mistake to expose a device. With IPv6 global addressing, exposure can occur with only one minor screw-up. Then boom, your whole network is out there on the wide-open internet.
This disphit’s NAT explanation is also crazy sloppy (he frames it as mainly destination-rewrite based on static port forwards), just glossing over or ignoring that the real “default deny” effect largely comes from dynamically created state. He overstates a conditional truth (“IPv6 is fine if you keep equivalent edge filtering”) into an unsupported and often-wrong universal claim, using cherry-picked vendor defaults as if they were always the case. Also, he deliberately handwaves away as irrelevant the safety margin NAT provides in reality every damn day.
NAT wasn’t designed for security, wah wah. Carbon steel wasn’t designed for armor, either, but we use it for that in the real world.
My conclusion: Fuck this fucking clown who doesn’t know a damn thing, and what he thinks he knows is wrong. Read the RFCs, motherfucker. I’ll wait. You won’t understand them anyway, but I’ll still wait.
Whatever is causing this, it's not American. The machine is global.
These Gravitationally Lensed Supernovae Could Resolve The Hubble Tension.
The Brazilianization of the World.
The reality of trying to make US manufacturing great again.
The first commercial space station, Haven-1, is now undergoing assembly for launch.
Blood test can identify cancer in patients with non-specific symptoms.
Learing Center
It would have been disappeared for sure. I wonder how many more cases like that got suppressed when the left held nearly-complete cultural dominance? Probably a lot.
And makes me wonder what stories the right will suppress now. Because you know they will — just different ones.
Soar
All y’all gonna cry like little babies but trust me, it’s AI. And economists can lie all they like, but it’s still AI.
It’s just possible to do more with fewer people now. Just the other day I had AI write a PowerShell script in 20 seconds that would’ve taken me a few hours myself. And I’m pretty good at PowerShell. The end result was also better than what I would’ve produced.
This is happening all over the economy now and is only going to increase.
Get used to it, get using it, or be content with your Maytag box beside the road.
One Solution
If anyone starts tracking my location, I will find them and I will kill them.
Simple.
Formation
Amazing how beautiful nearly anyone can be if they do not treat themselves like a living dumpster. What a transformation, goddamn.
I love how angry that type of thing makes the dying FA movement.
Van Halen – Eruption (Violin Cover) – Unlucky Morpheus
How fun. A song played on guitar as if you were on a violin actually performed on violin.
Not Super
Nope. That’s not supersonic. Based on distance and relative motion, that F-35 is moving at about 650 knots. Close (it’s transonic) but not supersonic. They wouldn’t do a super pass that close — it’d blow out everyone’s eardrums.
Expulsion
That’s about what I expected to see. Time for remigration. A whole lot of it, if Europe wants a chance.
Sub T
Netflix’s official subtitles are terrible. Wondering if it’s AI? I suspect not, because I think with AI it’d actually be better.
Where I know both languages, they are often not even vaguely correct. Very annoying.
Europe Is Bracing for a New Trade Fight With Trump. Here Are Its Options.
Morally judging famous and semi-famous people.
Jay Powell, the Prepster Banker Who Is Standing Up to Trump.
Glaciers are melting. It may reawaken the world’s most dangerous volcanoes.
When did humanity take its first step? Scientists say they now know.
Matt Damon says Netflix asks creators to repeat the plot "three or four times" for people on their phones. The modern world pretty much sucks and smartphones are 100% evil.
Capturing the Moment a White Dwarf Exploded.
Trump has rolled out many of the Project 2025 policies he once claimed ignorance about.
Air Safety Already Had Gaps. Then the Shutdown Came.
First direct evidence of Migdal effect opens new path for dark matter search.
‘Soak the Rich’ Battle Cry is Rising From London to California.
Economists Are Studying the Slowing Job Market—and Feeling It Themselves.
S-VHS
What’s your white whale – something you’ve been looking for for years but never found?
Not quite what the OP is asking, but I had a lot of music videos recorded on Super-VHS from MTV and other sources, some of which are not available on YouTube or any other service. I had a couple dozen of these tapes back in the 1990s, all two hours long.
Those tapes were thrown away or sold for drugs, not sure which.
Some of those videos will probably never be seen by anyone again. I doubt there are any master copies extant at the studios, and if no one can unearth a copy on VHS, they are gone forever.