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@craigmaloney There is, for similar reasons, a fixation on the new, with no evaluation as to whether it is a good thing or not. All progress involves change, but not all change is progress.
Taylor Swift features very prominently on my #SpotifyWrapped, as well as Sepultura. My eight year old (loves him some TayTay) has a lot to answer for.
@craigmaloney FOSS needs to reckon more with the hard fact that it can be steered, that might is all too often right.
@craigmaloney That and big-tech interests dragging ecosystems in directions that aren't positive, and doing so under the guise of progress.
@Juju Julia you do make me laugh.
@craigmaloney A couple of years back I saw a reddit thread (I know, I know) denigrating XFCE development for supporting non-systemd deps. The argument this was wasting man hours on deprecated tech and was holding back the environment. Complete and utter bollocks.
Charlie Higson absolutely losing his shit as Johnny Nice Painter while Arabella Weir tries not to corpse is just fantastic. #black
https://youtu.be/phnUHcP6oXk
@HebrideanHecate "...And you knew running her over was wrong" Right?....Right?
@HebrideanHecate I don't want to live in interesting times anymore
19F? This weather can kiss my arse.
@dangoodin Oh these are the worst.
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Security researchers are tracking what they say is the “mass exploitation” of a security vulnerability that makes it possible to take full control of servers running ownCloud, a widely used open-source filesharing server app.
The vulnerability, which carries the maximum severity rating of 10, makes it possible to obtain passwords and cryptographic keys allowing administrative control of a vulnerable server by sending a simple Web request to a static URL, ownCloud officials warned last week. Within four days of the November 21 disclosure, researchers at security firm Greynoise said, they began observing “mass exploitation” in their honeypot servers, which masqueraded as vulnerable ownCloud servers to track attempts to exploit the vulnerability. The number of IP addresses sending the web requests has slowly risen since then. At the time this post went live on Ars, it had reached 13.
“We're seeing hits to the specific endpoint that exposes sensitive information, which would be considered exploitation,” Glenn Thorpe, senior director of security research & detection engineering at Greynoise, said in an interview on Mastodon. “At the moment, we've seen 13 IPs that are hitting our unadvertised sensors, which indicates that they are pretty much spraying it across the internet to see what hits.”
There's a thing at Ferrari's site about it here: https://www.ferrari.com/en-EN/magazine/articles/great-ferrari-innovations-the-f1-semi-automatic-gearbox
@tk Motorcycles with the non synchromesh gears move a very small amount, it's such a great and simple design that allows all these things.
@tk I think you need a gearbox with a fairly short throw, so many cars with H-pattern I think it would be too difficult to time. So many of them with semi-auto or DCT now anyway.
@tk Yeah, most of the kits you can get do exactly that. I helped a friend sort out the timing on his Kawi (you had to manually adjust the cut).
Here's Fernando Alonso having a go in a Supercar in 2022 at Albert Park, like he's never known anything else. I don't think he even blinks.
https://youtu.be/1f5QlfrODu8
Since around 2007 they pioneered 'seamless shifting' in F1, wherein - using some very trick arithmetic - two gears momentarily engage at the same time, so the next gear is 'queued' in milliseconds and the driveline simply keeps going with no interruption.
Since pioneered in the 1989 Ferrari this is usually done by computer now; the transmission forks and throttle are moved by an actuator, the whole thing is coordinated by a computer. The driver changes gear via paddles behind the steering wheel.
Fascinating footwell video of a V8 Supercar lap. The car has an ignition cutout on the upshift so the foot stays flat on the accelerator during the gear change. The heel and toe (clutch in and engine blip) is something you will not see in pretty much any racing series now, but they wanted it to stay in Supercars.
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