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Older photos in my drive have started becoming corrupted. Issue looks like a water stain with massive discoloration and data loss. Is there any way to revert this?

This seems to be a more general issue. Cases found today:

https://support.google.com/photos/thread/180787712/corrupted-photos

https://support.google.com/photos/thread/180820121/transcoding-artifacts-in-old-images

https://support.google.com/photos/thread/180774361/google-auto-editing-old-pictures

https://support.google.com/photos/thread/180816597/photos-corruption-occured-on-my-google-photos

https://support.google.com/photos/thread/180809368/many-ruined-or-blurred-photos-that-were-stored-in-google-be-restored

https://support.google.com/photos/thread/180808395/old-photos-with-white-dots-corruption-now

https://support.google.com/photos/thread/180780138/pictures-have-weird-watermark-stains-on-them-that-s-spreading

https://support.google.com/photos/thread/180769822/photo-damaged

https://support.google.com/photos/thread/180767454/photos-error

https://support.google.com/photos/thread/180764911/corrupted-images-from-8-years-ago

https://support.google.com/photos/thread/180718432/my-photos-damage

https://support.google.com/photos/thread/180745017/photos-getting-corrupted

https://support.google.com/photos/thread/180741456/why-or-old-photo-damage

https://support.google.com/photos/thread/180739551/old-saved-images-damaged-for-good?

Might be the coolest shit I've seen all day, holy frick.

Tested and confirmed, who would lie on the internet anyway?

I have been using this tool for quite some time and only recently came up with the idea to use it to write essays, answer questions about movies and books for school projects, and much more. I feel a little guilty about it, but I don't really care that much anymore. For a couple of weeks, I have made $100 profit by "doing" homework for other classmates and now I am looked at as a genius. What are your thoughts on this? Have you done it yourself?

Yes, this post was rephrased by the AI.

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Orange site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32963549

It‘s not a phase. I am turning 30 soon. I have had this feeling ever since i can remember. I know, often times i am subconsciously aligning my actions to end up alone. Sometimes it seems like i do that to create something like a melancholic void, that i must feel, because otherwise, i would feel empty…

I can‘t summarize it better right now. I have learned the portuguese word „saudade“. That feeling, i believe i know. It seems somehow related, to what I am trying to describe.

I truly can not handle it anymore…

How do you deal with it?

Also I have recently read about „intellectual loneliness“ on here, which i resonated deeply with. It is not what i am describing, but rather a part of it. But the totality is too much for me.

I don‘t even know what to expect from posting here. I just have nowhere else to turn to…

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Some churches across the United States are using invasive phone-monitoring technology in efforts to discourage “sinful” behavior, a WIRED investigation revealed this week.

Iran’s latest internet shutdowns are significant as the government continues to tighten its grip on citizens’ ability to connect, and the roots of Nigeria’s cybersecurity problem shed light on digital challenges in the country, including how data collection remains largely unmonitored despite strong data protection laws.

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We know that online platforms can be used to cause harm to children, and we have made extensive investments over the last two years to better stay ahead of bad actors and prevent any users who may be under 13 from accessing Twitch,” the company said in a statement to Bloomberg.

It’s unclear whether the attack came from criminal or state-sponsored actors, but Australian officials warned that affected customers will face the threat of identity theft because of the breach. “

We’re so deeply disappointed because we spend so much time and we invest so much in preventing this from occurring,” she said. "

I have pi-hole set up, just wondering if it's worth it to set up aggressive blacklists. Pls no bully

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Introduction This report has two purposes: first, to present Mozzarella's research (both recent surveys and years of knowledge) into consumer interaction with browsers.

O P E R AT I N G S Y S T E M S M I S U S E T H E I R P R I V I L E G E D P O S I T I O N Deceptive pattern practices targeted at consumers Inhibiting Independent App Discovery -All five major platforms today (Google, Apple, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft) bundle their respective browsers with their operating systems and set them as the operating system default in the prime home screen or dock position.

Yet, this theoretical confidence does not mean people consciously choose their software, nor does it translate to action: a large number of people report never thinking about the browser or search engine they use.

In the following scenario, a Bing user is displayed an advert at the top of their search engine results page to dissuade them from downloading Firef*x and prompted to use the browser which is already pre-installed on their Windows operating system (Microsoft Edge).

Operating system providers, particularly Google, have an extensive range of marketing and advertising resources which can be deployed to promote their brand and products; this effectively serves as constant priming for their browser.

However, very few have recognized the connection between these issues and the importance of browser competition, or studied the role of OCA practices as a way to implement (or thwart) consumer choice and welfare.

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Even though I hate Windows for many reasons, especially privacy, I still make my software work there for a simple reason: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

First, once Windows booted, which took the expected two minutes, it hung and refused to boot Visual Studio for 15 minutes.

That means that the platform now has a viable alternative to the Windows software.

However, the best news is that we, as programmers, can speed up the process.

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Speaking recently at the National Conservatism Conference in Miami, Peter Thiel, an investor and intellectual, made a provocative argument.

Mr Thiel made the Equatorial Guinea comparison with tongue firmly in cheek, but he was deadly serious about the tech-curse theory.

Mr Thiel thinks that California’s poverty and prosperity are two sides of the same coin, with state and local governments providing the link.

But there are two big problems with his theory.

San Francisco’s politics today is tame in comparison with the 1970s.

The ratio of California’s average house price to America’s is much lower than in the mid-2000s.

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Graphics firm 3dfx was a pioneer in PC 3D acceleration and ploughed a deep furrow in the PC industry from about 1996, until it went insolvent in 2000.

At the aforementioned Comdex event, 3dfx showcased the VSA-100 processor including the products Voodoo 4 4500, Voodoo 5 5000/5500 and Voodoo 5 6000.

The finished full working sample is pictured above.

Original box art - click to zoom The components Anthony used to build his Voodoo 5 6000 sound pretty cheap; each VSA-100 was under US$20, and the sixteen 8MB 166MHz SDRAM modules are cheap or salvageable from old equipment, as were heatsinks, small fans and so on.

Meanwhile, a hard-to-find original could set you back $1,500 or more, as an iconic piece of computer history.

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The legislation comes after a hearing convened by Peters and Portman on the Log4j incident earlier this year, and would direct the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to help ensure that open source software is used safely and securely by the federal government, critical infrastructure, and others.

“As we saw with the log4shell vulnerability, the computers, phones, and websites we all use every day contain open source software that is vulnerable to cyberattack,” said Senator Portman. “

I am encouraged by the leadership of Senators Peters and Portman on this issue.”

It is maintained by a community of individuals and organizations.

The senators’ legislation to bolster cybersecurity for state and local governments has also been signed into law.

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The Swiss company behind well-known virtual-private-network service Proton VPN is pulling its servers from India, the latest provider to do so in response to new government rules that companies and rights groups say threaten users’ privacy.

The companies must maintain the data for at least five years and furnish it to authorities when asked.

On paper India is supposedly taking a different path from China and Russia,” where similar rules are in place, he said.

It didn’t respond to a request for comment Thursday on Proton’s withdrawal.

New Delhi has in recent years moved to contain online dissent on platforms such as Twitter Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook.

>deciding how to inform users they could be about to deliver a lethal dose of radiation to their patient

>"MALFUNCTION 54"

>refuses to elaborate

>leaves company

Rly tho this is horrifying and a good reminder of why QA and code reviews are important. Imagine trusting your life to a program written solo by some random neurodivergent "code hobbyist."

What could possibly go wrong ? This will TOTALLY save the company from it's demise

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Since bankrupt crypto lender Celsius froze withdrawals in June, customers' funds have been in limbo.

However, CNBC spoke with former employees who verified that the recording is authentic.

In the audio, Chief Technology Officer Guillermo Bodnar says the plan is in "early stages."

What's laid out may have changed in the weeks since the call.

In the recording, Celsius co-founder Nuke Goldstein outlines a compensation plan for customers who deposited assets in Celsius' "Earn" account, for which Celsius had promised yields as high as 17%.

He said if customers wait to redeem their tokens, there's a better chance that the gap between what Celsius has and what it owes will be smaller.

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In brief Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko tells Decrypt that he believes a major, long-lasting franchise IP could come out of the current NFT space.

Could the next major entertainment franchise come out of the NFT market?

That’s what Solana co-founder and Solana Labs CEO Anatoly Yakovenko believes, telling Decrypt at this week’s Mainnet conference that NFT projects could lead to significant IP in the decades to come.

He described NFTs as the “dominant, breakout use case” right now for Web3 technology, and said that tokenized assets can be used as the backbone for all sorts of creations.

The Bored Ape Yacht Club, for example, allows each NFT holder to create and sell derivative artwork and projects based on their owned images.

Like, OK—some of these are going to be Friendster, MySpace, or Facebook, but it's really, really hard to predict.”

psyop?

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As Google tries to navigate an unfamiliar environment of slowing growth, cost-cutting and employee dissent over cultural changes, CEO Sundar Pichai is finding himself on the defensive.

At a companywide all-hands meeting this week, Pichai was faced with tough questions from employees related to cuts to travel and entertainment budgets, managing productivity, and potential layoffs, according to audio obtained by CNBC.

Pichai was asked, in a question that was highly rated by staffers on Google's internal Dory system, why the company is "nickel-and-diming employees" by slashing travel and swag budgets at a time when "Google has record profits and huge cash reserves," as it did coming out of the Covid pandemic.

"How do I say it?" Pichai began his measured response. "Look, I hope all of you are reading the news, externally. The fact that you know, we are being a bit more responsible through one of the toughest macroeconomic conditions underway in the past decade, I think it's important that as a company, we pull together to get through moments like this."

The most recent all-hands meeting comes as Google parent Alphabet, Meta and other tech companies are staring into a slew of economic challenges, including a potential recession, soaring inflation, rising interest rates and tempered ad spending. Companies that, for the past decade-plus, have been known for high growth and an abundance of fun perks, are seeing what it's like on the other side.

In July, Alphabet reported its second consecutive quarter of weaker-than-expected earnings and revenue, and third-quarter sales growth is expected to dip into the single digits, down from more than 40% a year earlier. Pichai admitted that it's not just the economy that's caused challenges at Google but also an expanding bureaucracy at Google.

Still, he at times sounded annoyed in the meeting, and reminded staffers that, "We don't get to choose the macroeconomic conditions always."

After the company's head count ballooned during the pandemic, CFO Ruth Porat said earlier this year that she expects some economic issues to persist in the near term. Google has canceled the next generation of its Pixelbook laptop and cut funding to its Area 120 in-house incubator.

Google launched an effort in July called "Simplicity Sprint," which aimed to solicit ideas from its more than 174,000 employees on how to "get to better results faster" and "eliminate waste." Earlier this month, Pichai said he hoped to make the company 20% more productive while slowing hiring and investments.

How to be more productive

One of the top-rated questions posed by employees at this week's meeting asked Pichai to elaborate on his commentary regarding improved productivity and the 20% goal.

"I think you could be a 20-person team or a 100-person team, we are going to be constrained in our growth in a looking-ahead basis," Pichai said. "Maybe you were planning on hiring six more people but maybe you are going to have to do with four and how are you going to make that happen? The answers are going to be different with different teams."

Pichai said leadership is combing through more than 7,000 responses it's received from employees regarding suggestions from the Simplicity Sprint effort.

"Sometimes we have a product launch process, which has probably, over many years, grown more complicated than maybe it needs to be," Pichai said. "Can we look at that process and maybe remove two steps and that'll be an example of making something 20% more efficient? I think all of us chipping in and doing that across all levels, I think can help the company. At our scale, there is no way we can solve that unless units of teams of all sizes do better."

Pichai also briefly acknowledged the recent employee survey, in which employees criticized the company's growing bureaucracy.

Another employee question concerned how the company will share its plans for potential job cuts, after news leaked about the Pixelbook pullback and the cuts at Area 120, which affected workers' "ability to focus on work."

Pichai responded by saying that telling the entire workforce of cuts is "not a scaleable way to do it," but he said he will "try and notify the company of the more important updates."

The all-hands, known as TGIF (Thank God It's Friday) was in New York, where Pichai took questions in front of a live audience of employees.

"It's an interesting choice for Sundar to be in New York for TGIF the week after travel for employees is cut to only the most business critical," an employee wrote on Dory. "I'm sure Sundar has business-critical meetings in New York."

Pichai responded: "I think so. I think it qualified." Some in the audience erupted in laughter.

Pichai dodged employee questions asking about cost-cutting executive compensation. Pichai brought in total pay last year of $6.3 million, while other top executives made more than $28 million.

'We shouldn't always equate fun with money'

He did address the bigger theme of cost cuts, and indicated Google's culture can still be enjoyable even if some things, like certain swag items, are getting taken away.

"I remember when Google was small and scrappy," he said. "Fun didn't always --- we shouldn't always equate fun with money. I think you can walk into a hard-working startup and people may be having fun and it shouldn't always equate to money."

Employees wanted to know why management is asking employees to adhere to the return-to-office policy "while also saying no need to travel/connect in-person."

"I do understand some of the travel restrictions at a time like this and RTO and people wanting to see each other, definitely is not ideal," Pichai responded. "If you haven't seen your team in a while and it'll help your work by getting together in person, I think you can do that. I think that's why we are not saying no to travel, we are giving discretion to teams."

Kristin Reinke, head of Google finance, said at the meeting that sales teams will have more leeway to travel since their jobs require meeting with customers.

"We know there's a lot of value in being next to your team but we're just asking simply to be thoughtful and limit your travel and expenses where you can," Reinke said. For example, she asked that employees temper their expectations for holiday parties.

"Where you have summits and big meetings, please try to do them in the office," she said. "We definitely want people to still have fun. We know there's holiday parties coming up, there's year-end celebrations, we still want people to do that. But we're just asking them to keep them small, keep them informal --- try not to go over the top."

Towards the end of the meeting, Pichai addressed a question about why the company has shifted from "rapidly hiring and spending to equally aggressive cost saving."

Pichai disagreed with the characterization.

"I'm a bit concerned that you think what we've done is what you would define as aggressive cost saving," he said. "I think it's important we don't get disconnected. You need to take a long-term view through conditions like this."

He added that the company is "still investing in long-term projects like quantum computing," and said that at times of uncertainty, it's important "to be smart, to be frugal, to be scrappy, to be more efficient."

Bret Hill, Google's vice president of "total rewards," fielded a question about raises, equity and bonuses and how they will be affected by the changes. He said the company doesn't plan to deviate from paying workers "at the top end of the market so we can be competitive."

Pichai reiterated that sentiment.

"We're committed to taking care of our employees," he said. "I think we're just working through a tough moment macroeconomically and I think it's important we as a company align and work together."

A Google spokesperson said, "Sundar has been speaking to the company consistently over the last few months about ways we can be more focused." The spokesperson added Pichai reinforced that company "leaders are working to be responsible and efficient in all that their teams do" in a moment of uncertainty, and that they're "ensuring that our people are working on the highest impact / highest priority work."

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/23/google-ceo-pichai-fields-questions-on-cost-cuts-at-all-hands-meeting-.html

We took action today to advance Internet freedom and the free flow of information for the Iranian people, issuing a General License to provide them greater access to digital communications to counter the Iranian government’s censorship.

— Secretary Antony Blinken (@SecBlinken) September 23, 2022

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I really wanted the name of this article does not sound dramatically but I was not able to invent any other title … none the less the wireless/WiFi topic can be problematic on the FreeBSD land.

Smartphone USB Tethering One of the alternative possibilities is to use your smartphone with USB cable to provide the Internet connection.

The first and obvious way is to just use that smartphone with USB cable attached to your FreeBSD to provide Internet connection no matter if that smartphone provides that connection using LTE/4G connection or WiFi connection to some WiFi hotspot.

% ping -c 1 e.pl PING e.pl (195.46.43.240): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 195.46.43.240: icmp_seq=0 ttl=53 time=65.638 ms --- e.pl ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 65.638/65.638/65.638/0.000 ms You can now see that you got the needed IP address on your ue0 interface.

You will just have to add wifibox package with pkg(8) – the FreeBSD package manager.

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