There is also the manga "As the Gods Will" which is not only a similar concept but has the exact same first game. Strange that this is never mentioned as an influence.
Yeah, I really don‘t understand why companies on one side try everything in their power to teach people to be vigilant of phishing and then do stuff like this. Azure does it too with www.microsoftazuresponsorships.com I always feel like one of these days I will get phished if those are the domains they force me to use :(
Just be careful if you ever need to search for the URL again in the future. Last week a colleague of mine did and the first result on DDG linked to a very sketchy, ad-filled cyberchef instance. It seems like it already got removed again though.
There's a lot of CyberChef hosted domains that aren't hosted by GCHQ. It's open source, so they're doing nothing wrong, but we can't provide assurances about the code on those sites. The official URL is https://github.com/gchq/CyberChef.
I am very confused by Apple TV shows quality. I can‘t really say they are all bad but all in all apart from Severance and maybe Silo all of their SciFi offerings didn‘t really hit for me. Especially Foundation has been such a disappointment that it kind of tainted my feelings towards the whole service. Apart from that it‘s just so strange what kind of technical issues some of the episodes have that they stream (strange audio or brightness issues)
Foundation the TV show was so interesting to me that it pushed me to read the book series.
I'm currently up to Foundation and Earth. The show is different, but I like the changes they made for the show, especially to the emperor's lineage. The show would be painfully boring if it was filmed in the style of the books with characters talking about what happened instead of showing.
I personally find the mentalics aspect of the books kind of lame, unscientific, and God like. I hope the show does not lean so heavily into them as it continues like the books have, but seems inevitable as I read through the book series.
Severance and For All Mankind get all the hype but See, Silo, and Invasion have all been great. The only true miss in their sci-fi shows for me has been Constellation. The only more boring sci-fi show I can think of is Beacon 23.
I have to admit the Emperor parts were a bright side of Foundation, and Lee Pace acts the fuck out of that role. Sadly, even though he was magnificent in The Expanse (and Chernobyl), it seems like there isn't much Jared Harris can do with Professor Hologram.
Beacon 23 was my least favorite sci-fi show in a while. Ugh.
Foundation is why I don't think they'll do Gibson justice.
To me, William Gibson is rare among sci-fi writers in that he never spends a paragraph explaining some whiz-bang future tech like a kid with a new toy. He just throws it all at you as part of the background. The world of Neuromancer goes by in a haze of analog static. It's a trip, and one that might be going bad. As the instigating work of the cyberpunk genre, it got people to stop and consider that maybe the future wasn't just going to be things getting better. The characters don't dwell on how we got here, and the narrator doesn't waste time explaining. The blunt poetry of the text tells you what you really need to know and what you need to feel. He doesn't waste words painting a picture of neon and microchips for you to ogle at in your mind's eye; Gibson is up to something else. This future isn't one you really want to live in.
The Foundation TV show ignored most of Asimov's writing and gave us fifty million dollars worth of planetscapes, and spaceships, and holograms, and don't forget the giant explosions.
And I'll bet they'll do the same to Gibson. They'll comb through it looking for things to spend their CGI budget on, and throw out the rest.
I have an „older“ model of the outdoor module without the CO2 measurement (from June '23, the one with two PM2 modules) is it possible to upgrade it easily? I think mine also has a slot for a TVOC/NOx sensor but as far as I remember the sensor available on the store was not compatible due to size. Has that changed?
I got one of the soft, ball-like chumbys when they came out. Really, really amazing design and packaging :) I tried to love it as much as it radiated good vibes but sadly from the very beginning it was kind of janky and at the time the usefulness was not that clear to me. Too bad the cheerfulness of such hardware got lost along the way.
I think the Chumby came out just a little too late. Great idea, but like so many things the post-iPhone-smartphone began to fill all the roles that those things filled
I was thinking about the brief life of the dedicated flash video cameras. They were more capable than phones of the era, but they couldn’t share on their own.
The Chumby also came out early enough that it had to rely on Flash Lite [1] for authoring content. This severely limited the audience that could build content for it; if it had came out a bit later, with better hardware, it could have potentially been used to display HTML content, and things might have gone differently.
I was thinking about the brief life of the dedicated flash video cameras. They were more capable than phones of the era, but they couldn’t share on their own.
Those are still used in environments where that is a feature, not a bug.
Last year I tried very hard to get some rate-limiting in our lambda to work against an upstream target (so that our jobs don't trigger the rate limit of the upstream API). Sadly I could not find much literature on it specifically focusing on rate-limiting on NodeJS. No matter what I tried it would just not work on AWS Lambdas (would constantly overshoot the target, leading to the guess that something is wonky with timing), while passing the tests locally. I still don't know if it's because the timers on Lambda are behaving strangely (as token buckets need to be refilled) or if every rate limiting library out there for NodeJS is just broken. But also my own try wasn't any more reliable so... who knows.
