basically hacker news went down yesterday and in this screenshot someone chimes in talking about it saying that they had a batch of SSDs manufactured by SanDisk all get bricked after exactly 40,000 hours (4.5 years) uptime because it overflowed an internal counter and corrupted the SSD's internal state.

someone from hackernews replies and says that the SSDs HN was hosted on were in fact SanDisk Optimus Lightning IIs and almost exactly 4.5 years old.

never trust a firmware

• get file from https://xanthophyll.xyz/files/rdrama.py (bravo admins for not allowing text uploads)

• get API token from https://rdrama.net/settings/apps

• add token to your environment as RDRAMA_API_TOKEN (or add it to your rdrama.py directly)

• run the file (it's legit I promise)

• enjoy the company of your favourite online intellectuals

Update:

• can now reply within the app, uses whatever your $EDITOR is set to

• reply API still not working

• replies aren't formatted correctly, will fix ASAP

• replies working

After many years of remaining static, HN's IP address changed.^1

Old: 209.216.230.240

New: 50.112.136.166

Perhaps this is temporary.

Little known fact: HN is also available through Cloudflare. Unlike CF, AWS does not support TLS1.3.^2 This is not working while HN uses the AWS IP.

1. Years ago someone on HN tried to argue with me that IP addresses will never stay the same for very long. I used HN as an example of an address that does not change very often. I have been waiting for years. I collect historical DNS data. When I remind HN readers that most site addresses are more static than dynamic, I am basing that statement on evidence i have collected.

2. Across the board, so to speak. Every CF-hosted site I have encountered supports TLS1.3. Not true for AWS. Many (most?^3) only offer TLS1.2.

3. Perhaps a survey is in order.

> dang: It's temporary.

> > Maybe you should pin this comment? I almost lost it in the shuffle.

> > > dang: I thought about it, but it's fun to leave rewards for people who read entire threads.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32031136

The algo is more concerned with engagement than who you're subscribed to, but you can sidestep this effect by deleting your viewing history.

Orangesite: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32031591

Features

• Lots of combinators!

• Generic across input, output, error, and span types

• Powerful error recovery strategies

• Inline mapping to your AST

• Text-specific parsers for both u8s and chars

• Recursive parsers

• Backtracking is fully supported, allowing the parsing of all known context-free grammars

• Parsing of nesting inputs, allowing you to move delimiter parsing to the lexical stage (as Rust does!)

• Built-in parser debugging

https://neal.fun/deep-sea/

https://neal.fun/absurd-trolley-problems/

https://neal.fun/universe-forecast/

This is pretty neat.

https://ten-years-ago.neal.fun/youtube.com/

SS: Rogers network down nationwide, many people reporting they cannot use cibc, rbc debit, visa, internet, or even call 911. Other services that use Rogers also appear to be affected.

Is this normal or planned cyber attack?

A major network outage at one of Canada's biggest telecom operators shut banking, transport and government access for millions on Friday, drawing outrage from customers and adding to criticism over Rogers Telecommunications' (RCIb.TO) industry dominance.

Nearly every facet of life was disrupted. Canadians who typically work from home crowded into cafes and public libraries that still offered internet access and hovered outside hotels to catch a signal. Canada's border services agency said its mobile app for incoming travelers was affected. Retailers' cashless pay systems went down, while banks reported issues with ATM services.

The interruption, which began around 4:30 a.m. ET (0830 GMT), was Rogers' second in 15 months. A quarter of Canada's observable internet connectivity has been knocked out, said the NetBlocks monitoring group. Rogers has not identified a cause.

"Today we have let you down. We are working to make this right as quickly as we can," Rogers said in a statement. "Our technical teams are working to restore our services alongside our global technology partners, and are making progress."

Rogers did not say when service might be restored. The company's shares closed down 73 cents at $61.54 on the Toronto Stock Exchange on Friday.

With about 10 million wireless subscribers and 2.25 million retail internet subscribers, Rogers is the top provider in Ontario. Along with BCE Inc (BCE.TO) and Telus Corp (T.TO), Rogers controls 90% of the market share in Canada.

Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources, showed reports of outages starting from 4:30 a.m. ET, topping off at more than 20,000 users by 7 a.m. ET (1100 GMT). The reports dropped to around 7,700 by 2:30 p.m. ET (1830 GMT).

Downdetector said BCE's Bell Canada services were also having problems on Friday afternoon.

Canadian financial institutions and banks including Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD.TO) and Bank Of Montreal (BMO.TO) said the outage had disrupted its services. Royal Bank of Canada (RY.TO) said its ATM and online banking services were affected.

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Starlink Maritime allows you to connect from some of the most remote waters in the world → https://t.co/Qa48wiYN5f pic.twitter.com/Vd3Bli6id2

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) July 7, 2022

Piracy

I was installing helix-term and I noticed that my WSL2 Ubuntu 22.04 distro compiled it faster (41 seconds, in the native Linux partition) than on bare-metal Windows (64 seconds). Has anyone noticed this as well?

Recently I got a feedback from a user, who has suffered from Notepad++ for several years:

Feeling sorry and guilty, I replied him with all my compassion:

My bad conscience has been relieved for Tom. But then I think of other Notepad++ users in pain.

Unhappy Users' Edition is dedicated to these users. All dissatisfied users of Notepad++ will get a refund, just print and fill out the following refund request form:

Notepad++ refund request form

Product price: 0 USD

Name:  _______________________
Email: _______________________
Purchase Date: _______________________

As soon as the form is filled up, you get your money back immediately.

In version 8.4.3, there are 3 main features added:

1. New option allows to show only 1 entry per found line in search result. 2. EOL (CRLF) display customizable (via Editing section of Preferences dialog). 3. New shortcuts of document management on the right side of menu (2 more shortcuts "plus" (new file) and "arrow").

There are also crash-fixes, bug-fixes and a lot of enhancement are done in this release, please check the following link for the detail information or download 8.4.3:

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/v8.4.3

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v843-unhappy-users-edition/

A bit old, but a rather interesting take on the right-to-repair issue.

Video game sales are set to decline annually for the first time in years, as another industry that boomed in the coronavirus era faces the grim prospect of a recession.

The global games and services market is forecast to contract 1.2% year-on-year to $188 billion in 2022, according to research from market data firm Ampere Analysis.

The sector expanded 26% from 2019 to 2021, reaching a record $191 billion in size. Sales of video games have consistently grown since at least 2015, Ampere data shows.

Gaming got a huge boost from Covid-19 shutdowns in 2020 as people spent more of their time indoors. The launch of next-generation consoles from Microsoft and Sony that same year also bolstered the industry’s fortunes.

However, the arrival of Microsoft’s Xbox Series X and S machines and Sony’s PlayStation 5 proved something of a double-edged sword — logistics disruptions and shortages of vital components have meant that shoppers are facing great difficulty finding any of the new consoles on store shelves or online.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — along with supply chain bottlenecks and rising inflation — further worsened the outlook for gaming. Numerous game software and hardware makers decided to suspend their operations in Russia, including Microsoft and Sony.

Russia was the world’s 10th-largest games market in 2021, according to Ampere. But it is expected to drop to No. 14 in the global rankings this year and lose $1.2 billion in value, the firm said.

Piers Harding-Rolls, research director at Ampere, said the figures show the games industry isn’t “recession proof,” with cost-of-living challenges inflicted by higher prices likely to weigh on consumption.

“After two years of huge expansion, the games market is poised to hand back a bit of that growth in 2022 as multiple factors combine to undermine performance,” Harding-Rolls said.

“Even so, the year will end well ahead of pre-pandemic performance, and the outlook for the sector as a whole remains positive, with growth forecast to return in 2023,” he added.

The market is expected to return to growth in 2023, with sales expected to hit $195 billion, according to Ampere.

Other challenges facing the industry include privacy changes from Apple that make it harder for mobile game developers to track iPhone users, as well as delays to blockbuster releases like Microsoft’s Starfield and Redfall.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/07/video-game-industry-not-recession-proof-sales-set-to-fall-in-2022.html

took me 3hrs to finally get running

Orange Site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31993429

Tell me more about Bun

Bun is a modern JavaScript runtime like Node or Deno. It was built from scratch to focus on three main things:

• Start fast (it has the edge in mind).

• New levels of performance (extending JavaScriptCore, the engine).

• Being a great and complete tool (bundler, transpiler, package manager).

Bun is designed as a drop-in replacement for your current JavaScript & TypeScript apps or scripts --- on your local computer, server or on the edge. Bun natively implements hundreds of Node.js and Web APIs, including ~90% of Node-API functions (native modules), fs, path, Buffer and more.

The goal of Bun is to run most of the worlds JavaScript outside of browsers, bringing performance and complexity enhancements to your future infrastructure, as well as developer productivity through better, simpler tooling.

Batteries included

• Web APIs like fetch, WebSocket, and ReadableStream are builtin

• node_modules bun implements Node.js' module resolution algorithm, so you can use npm packages in bun.js. ESM and CommonJS are supported, but Bun internally uses ESM.

• In bun.js, every file is transpiled. TypeScript & JSX just work.

• bun supports "paths", "jsxImportSource"and more from tsconfig.json files

• Bun.Transpiler bun's JSX & TypeScript transpiler is available as an API in Bun.js

• use the fastest system calls available with Bun.write to write, copy, pipe, send and clone files.

• bun.js automatically loads environment variables from .env files. No more require("dotenv").load()

• bun ships with a fast SQLite3 client builtin bun:sqlite

• Node-API bun.js implements most of Node-API (N-API). Many Node.js native modules just work.

• bun:ffi call native code from JavaScript with bun's low-overhead foreign function interface

• node:fs node:path bun.js natively supports a growing list of Node.js core modules along with globals like Buffer and process.

How does Bun work?

Bun.js uses the JavaScriptCore engine, which tends to start and perform a little faster than more traditional choices like V8. Bun is written in , a low-level programming language with manual memory management.

Most of Bun is written from scratch including the JSX/TypeScript transpiler, npm client, bundler, SQLite client, HTTP client, WebSocket client and more.

Why is Bun fast?

An enormous amount of time spent profiling, benchmarking and optimizing things. The answer is different for every part of Bun, but one general theme:  's low-level control over memory and lack of hidden control flow makes it much simpler to write fast software. Sponsor the Zig Software Foundation

Orange Fourm

Lockdown Mode offers an extreme, optional level of security for the very few users who, because of who they are or what they do, may be personally targeted by some of the most sophisticated digital threats, such as those from NSO Group and other private companies developing state-sponsored mercenary spyware. Turning on Lockdown Mode in iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and macOS Ventura further hardens device defenses and strictly limits certain functionalities, sharply reducing the attack surface that potentially could be exploited by highly targeted mercenary spyware.

At launch, Lockdown Mode includes the following protections:

-Messages: Most message attachment types other than images are blocked. Some features, like link previews, are disabled.

-Web browsing: Certain complex web technologies, like just-in-time (JIT) JavaScript compilation, are disabled unless the user excludes a trusted site from Lockdown Mode.

-Apple services: Incoming invitations and service requests, including FaceTime calls, are blocked if the user has not previously sent the initiator a call or request.

-Wired connections with a computer or accessory are blocked when iPhone is locked.

-Configuration profiles cannot be installed, and the device cannot enroll into mobile device management (MDM), while Lockdown Mode is turned on.

tl:dr Extra condom for bussy enjoyers to protect from STDs from Big Step-Brothers and

P.P.S. : NSO Group developed the Pegasus spyware