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Sudakistan:
🎵 Emma
#Sudakistan
https://sudakistan.bandcamp.com/track/emma
https://open.spotify.com/track/0Kx4xa3Vn1hx7tHv13WbM9
Cybersecurity news is not slowing down ahead of the holidays, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Russia switches up tactics in cyberattacks on energy companies, Amazon,
--ShinyHunters stole search and watch history of PornHub's premium members,
--Contributor to DraftKings breach and data theft pleads guilty,
--Email outage at German Bundestag was not a cyberattack but doubts linger,
--Ha…
Cowboys' Wishlist In Week 11: Major Rooting Stakes for Dallas https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-wishlist-in-week-11-major-rooting-stakes-for-dallas
Rams at Seahawks on TNF: NFC West stakes, Davante Adams' status, JSN's record pursuit https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6894693/2025/12/18/rams-seahawks-playoffs-davante-adams-injury-jsn-record/
Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski says he is "nervous about the size of these investments in these data centres"; he owns stakes in OpenAI, Perplexity, and xAI (Laith Al-Khalaf/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/61ce397b-968c-403e-aecf-16d4b2ff08cd<…
New #ThingUmbrella example to create a parametric, grid layout-based calibration sheet for black and white photography development. The sheet includes different swatches and gradients to measure results/responses of different exposure times and developer solutions/processes. The sheet also includes a placeholder for a custom test image to be added later...
All sheet components are pa…
ooh there’s a new kensington expert mouse TB800
i used to use an expert mouse; more recently i’ve been using the slimblade instead
this new expert mouse has a lower profile like the slimblade, and apparently a much smoother scroll wheel
(with the slimblade you twist the ball to scroll which is a neat trick but a scroll wheel has better ergonomics)
the new one has more buttons and side scroll things too
weirdly i can’t find it on kensington’s webshite
Die Herausgeberin des Bandes und ich klärten zwar jedes Komma ab, jedoch war uns bereits seit drei Korrekturrunden beiden entgangen, dass etwa fünf Seiten des Originalaufsatzes einfach rausgefallen waren, wohl aufgrund eines technischen Fehlers. Proofreading even at the final stages is so important!
Well, I had the dip switches set incorrectly and it was trying to test memory that didn't exist. Fixed that and the floppy drives seem to work as well...
I'm also impressed that the Dell System 200 DOS 3.3 Master disk (circa 1987) is still working.
#retrocomputing
#IBM5150
New publication: Maxime Guénette, Annette von Stockhausen, and Mathilde Verstraete, “La reconnaissance automatique pour le grec ancien (preprint),” in Apprendre Š Lire aux Machines, ed. Alix Chagué, Thibault Clérice, and Ariane Pinche (HAL, 2025), 89–102, https://hal.science/hal-05163931.