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Runaway1956 writes:"You'll get to know the difference when you either die or you pass through":

Fnord666 writes:Active in dozens of advanced hacks since 2009, Billbug is still going strong:

mrpg writes:Conservation efforts and fishery management have allowed tuna and billfish to recover:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.wired.com/story/ftx-hack-theft-crypto-tracing/

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/15/amazon-antitrust-german-fco-special-abuse-controls/

Runaway1956 writes:

fliptop writes:The tiny animated duck is a replica of a toy created by the company's founders:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.infoworld.com/article/3678178/beyond-c-the-promise-of-rust-carbon-and-cppfront.html#tk.rss_all

Fnord666 writes:Researchers break security guarantees of TTE networking used in spacecraft

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.wired.com/story/the-man-behind-mastodon-eugen-rochko-built-it-for-this-moment/

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/14/india-lifts-download-ban-on-vlc/

Poland Missile: False Alarmtakyon writes:Ukraine war: Russia denies responsibility for Poland blast

An Anonymous Coward writes:It's a bad month for layoffs in tech

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takyon writes:Hungry for AI? New supercomputer contains 16 dinner-plate-size chips

acid andy writes:Researchers for the Human Brain Project have published a theory about how we become conscious of a sensory stimulus, which has been likened to a surfer timing when to catch a wave.

The launch of Artemis 1 has been successful - the next burn (trans lunar injection - TLI) is in about 20 minutes away to take Artemis on its way to the Moon.

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63634557

hubie writes:The Selfish Herd Hypothesis posits that zebras zigzagging for the middle of a herd should be safest from the lion, but a recent study suggests otherwise:

Air Force's Mysterious Spaceplane Finally Lands After Spending 2.5 Years in OrbitAn Anonymous Coward writes:https://gizmodo.com/air-force-spaceplane-lands-after-nearly-3-years-1849779297

janrinok writes:A new way to make stretchy wiring uses ultrasound and microscopic spheres of liquid metal

An Anonymous Coward writes:Covid lockdowns prompted a surge of new cyclists. But the trend has faltered in places that didn't build bike-friendly infrastructure.

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://mashable.com/article/space-solar-system-white-dwarf-discovery

mrpg writes:https://www.sciencenews.org/article/canaanite-comb-lice-israel-alphabetEngraved into the side of a nearly 4,000-year-old ivory comb is a simple wish: Get these lice out of my hair.

An Anonymous Coward writes:The iPhone maker knows a lot about what a user does on their phone

acid andy writes:Researchers for the Human Brain Project have trained a large-scale computer model of the mouse primary visual cortex to accurately solve five visual tasks.

hubie writes:Want to fire up the dance floor? Play low-frequency bass:

owl writes:https://www.righto.com/2022/11/the-unusual-bootstrap-drivers-inside.html

mrpg writes:A spacecraft no bigger than a microwave oven will become the first CubeSat to orbit the Moon:

hubie writes:Beer hops compounds could help protect against Alzheimer's disease:

hubie writes:Smelling in VR environment possible with new gaming technology:

janrinok writes:The hacking group Microsoft ID'd is among the world's most cutthroat and skilled

Runaway1956 writes:Apple's recent privacy changes leveled the digital advertising field

hubie writes:How many bees can you fit in an X-ray machine? That's not a joke:

takyon writes:Tesla open-sources its connector to take on CCS with 'half the size twice the power' North American Charging Standard

janrinok writes:Satellite monitors found 2 vessels with their trackers turned off in area of explosions

janrinok writes:"If we didn't design it to be out there in harsh weather we picked the wrong launch spot":

fab23 writes:Today the xkcd: Y2K and 2038 comic was published and this reminded me of the recent very good technical blog post Time is an illusion, Unix time doubly so... from Jan Schaumann where he explains how time is handled on different operating systems including some historical background.A famous scientist and adventurer once said: 'time is not linear but something like "Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey"'. He has since been proven more correct than he ever imagined.

Runaway1956 writes:https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/11/eff-files-amicus-brief-challenging-orange-county-cas-controversial-dna-collection

canopic jug writes:Distributed computing researcher, Murat Demirbas, has written a blog post about what he sees as the past, present, and future of SQLite.

janrinok writes:https://arstechnica.com/?p=1897185

Alright, I've literally been at it for seven hours. Here's what done, here's what needs to done, and if you find something broken, let me know.

Runaway1956 writes:Divers for a History Channel documentary have found a large section of the destroyed space shuttle Challenger:

janrinok writes:https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/11/southeast-us-has-hit-the-roof-of-cdcs-respiratory-illness-level-scale/

Well, the time is coming, I'm going to be livestreaming on YouTube starting at 2PM ET to try to re-habitate the infrastructure, and get ready for steps going forward. I'm going to be streaming this as part of an ongoing charity stream, and VTubing, as show of solidary with others who get harassed because they choose to use an avatar than not. I'll talk more about this at the start, and then we're going to do what we can to try and at least make the situation "less bad". Current goals is to try and at least get the machines to more up-to-date software, rebuild the nginx web frontend, and determine a long term plan for handling emailHope to see you all there,~ NRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

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So, quick update here. The site was down for most of the night because the database cluster shot itself in the head. I had restarted a machine to install updates, and this caused the backend cluster to entire to entirely loose its mind. Unfortunately, I didn't have a manual dump of the database made, just a VM snapshot, since, well, I wasn't tinkering with it directly. I've mostly been trying to patch things to the point that I can sleep, and leaving things down like IRC and email which need to be seriously overhauled before they can go back up.As far as damages go, it looks like we lost 10 or so days of messages, which uh, sucks for multiple reasons. We're currently on ##soylentnews on Libera.Chat while I pull bits of the site out of the flames, but I'm at the point that if I don't sleep, I will make things worse. Corruption in the production database is very much not what I wanted, and we're very much in limp mode for the moment. I'm going to let staff handle IRC and comments while I sleep, and then I'll post another update when I'm awake.See you in a few hours~ NCommanderRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

I've been going through all the backend boxes to determine the state of things, and found more than a few servers that needed to be immediately shutdown simply due to their state. This includes the IRC and mailservers at the moment. I'm going to be using this weekend to rebuild things as I go, but for the moment, I'm only keeping the web frontends online as necessary. For the time being, we'll be using ##soylentnews on Libera.Chat until I can rebuild all services. Email for account registeration/password reset/etc. will be down until Saturday or Sunday at the earliestI'll keep you all up to date as I work on this ...~ NCommanderRead more of this story at SoylentNews.