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A New Reality Show Will Pay Cash if Players Can Convince Experts the Earth Is Flat
  • Didn't the kinda do that in Behind The Curve?
    They used a long body of water as a flat reference, set up 3 columns with a hole through them at the same height above the water reference.
    A torch shone through 1 end should be visible at the other end if all of the holes are on the same plane.
    Because of the curvature, they had to lift the last column to be able to see the light.
    They didn't manage to explain that one

  • Eat shit Spotify.
  • The 1 or 2 kB of lyrics are a few orders of magnitude smaller than the song being streamed.
    The album art probably takes up more space than the lyrics.
    So, album art should also be a paid feature?

  • ‘The Movement to Convince Biden to Not Run Is Real’
  • I always figured the role of president was more of a figure head.
    I get the buck stops with them, they can do their veto and special powers thing, and I'm sure there are other "ultimately this is your decision" type things.
    But it's the administration you are voting on.

    I'm sure it feels amazing to have "that one guy" steering your country. But, I'm sure they mostly do what their advisors tell them to

  • Mac users served info-stealer malware through Google ads | Full-service Poseidon info stealer pushed by "advertiser identity verified by Google."
  • Larger sites cater towards scriptless web for accessibility requirements.
    Smaller sites don't need SPA, so will most likely work to some degree.
    The better (not necessarily bigger) blog systems will use scripting for fancy things, but will have fallbacks and will still work.

    It's the middle tier web-app (and sites that want to be a web app but have no reason to be) that will run SPA without any fallback. You know, the ones that want to send notifications and know your location and all that fun stuff.

  • Tax the rich, say a majority of adults across 17 G20 countries surveyed
  • Because "trickle down" economy was somehow thought to be legit.
    Like, the rich get loads of money, so they do big things to make jobs.

    Except they don't.

    Rich people hoarde wealth, and pay people to ensure they don't have to pay taxes.

    Rich companies increase profits, which is about the sole metric of a successful company (and when a metric becomes a target, it fails to be a metric). Then they try to keep increasing profits by cutting costs.

    Oh, and wealth hoarders then bet on companies ability to constantly increase profits.

  • I put my number in a secure form for a trusted bank and immediately got spammed
  • Are you 100% sure it was a form from a bank?
    Everything stinks of a scammers phishing form, leading to scammer calls.

    I expect the only time a bank is going to want your phone number is when you initially sign up with them. After that, they should know who you are and your contact details.

    I almost got caught out by a "sorry we missed you" delivery message, until it was asking for my date of birth.
    Some of these random emails and SMS can catch you off-guard and seem legit

  • What's the software they use for their livestreams?
  • VMix popularity exploded during the pandemic. A lot of conferences became a blend of teams/zoom/Google and VMix.

    Might be hardware based like a multi-m/e video mixer (blackmagic make cheap ones), or maybe more of a screen manager (like barco e2, analog way livecore). But, unless there are production requirements, vmix is much more likely. It's (now) proven, and much cheaper!

    OBS can absolutely do it. There are other open source softwares that can do it.
    I've seen people bastardise Resolume into something that looks decent.
    There are some online studio systems so everything you do is virtualized. Streamyard used to be like this, till it was bought by hopin (I think it was hopin)

  • Cloudflare is bad. Youre right.
  • You can do reverse proxy on the VPS and use SNI routing (because the requested domain is in clear text over HTTPS), then use Proxy Protocol to attach the real source IP to the TCP packets.
    This way, you don't have to terminate HTTPS on the VPS, and you can load balance between a couple wireguard peers so you have redundancy (or direct them to different reverse proxies or whatever).
    On your home servers, you will need an additional frontend(s) that accepts Proxy Protocol from the VPS (as Proxy Protocol packets aren't standard HTTP/S packets, so standard HTTPS reverse proxies will drop them as unknown/broken/etc).
    This way, your home reverse proxy knows the original IP and can attach it to the decrypted http requests as x-forward-for. Or you can do ACLs based on original client IP. Or whatever.

    I haven't found a way to get a firewall that pays attention to Proxy Protocol TCP headers, but I haven't found that to really be an issue. I don't really have a use case

  • Two US astronauts stuck in space onboard Boeing’s Starliner capsule
  • Even spacex had delays for return on their first crew dragon. I'm pretty sure shuttles have had delays as well.
    Granted, Boeing seems to have had more trouble overall.

    Anyway, seems like these things happen.

  • Remove Polyfill.io code from your website immediately • The Register
  • People complain about the web build tool chain, bundlers, rollups etc.
    And it has been and probably still is pretty stupid.
    But at least you can pin and deploy all your dependencies before deploying.

    This highlights why pulling in scripts at runtime from sources you don't control is a worse idea

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