Archive for the 'Off Topic' Category
In Case You’re Rage Quitting Firefox Because Everything Is Broken…
March 19th, 2025tldr: It’s MetaMask. Disable MetaMask and Firefox will work normally again. — I’ve been using Firefox for about two decades. I’ve had a few rage quits over that time. The latest was yesterday when many sites that I use were broken—just in Firefox. Without investigation, I used this latest Firefox snafu as an excuse to […]
Mel Gibson Claimed Qigong Master Levitated Him During Therapy
February 7th, 2025You might think Mel Gibson’s claims sound like nonsense. I think they sound like nonsense. Here’s something that happened to me that also sounds like nonsense: About thirty years ago I was doing sales related work. I had a customer who owned a furniture shop in Huntington Beach, California. He had a bunch of pictures […]
Ukraine: Millions of Hours of Drone Video to Train AI for Battle
December 20th, 2024Via: Reuters: As the future of warfare pivots towards artificial intelligence, Ukraine is sitting on a valuable resource: millions of hours of footage from drones which can be used to train AI models to make decisions on the battlefield. AI has been deployed by both sides on the battlefield during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to […]
AMD RYZEN 7 9800X3D 8-Core, 16-Thread Desktop Processor Back in Stock
November 14th, 2024AMD RYZEN 7 9800X3D 8-Core, 16-Thread Desktop Processor If you build gaming PCs for yourself or someone else, you’re probably planning to build with the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3d. After initially selling out, it is back in stock. Your purchase supports Cryptogon. Thank you.
ASUS ROG Rapture WiFi 6 GT-AX6000 Router
November 10th, 2024ASUS ROG Rapture GT-AX6000 Dual-band WiFi 6 Gaming Router Note: I have a client who is buying this. Pardon the distraction. But… If you need very fast and stable wifi, this thing feels like a wired connection. Made in Taiwan = quality. Could easily run a branch office. Dual 2.5G ports. QoS. Wifi scheduling. Monitoring. […]
The Secret Electrostatic World of Insects
October 29th, 2024Via: Wired: Invisibly to us, insects and other tiny creatures use static electricity to travel, avoid predators, collect pollen, and more. New experiments explore how evolution may have influenced this phenomenon.
X.ai: Inside the Largest AI Training Cluster in the World
October 29th, 2024Off topic, but this might be of interest if you want to see what the business end of Grok AI looks like. Also, that cable management… Woh. Via: ServeTheHome:
Natural Piezoelectric Effect May Build Gold Deposits
October 12th, 2024Via: Ars Technica: One of the reasons gold is so valuable is because it is highly unreactive—if you make something out of gold, it keeps its lustrous radiance. Even when you can react it with another material, it’s also barely soluble, a combination that makes it difficult to purify away from other materials. Which is […]
Beneficial Soil Fungus Thrives in Presence of White Noise
October 3rd, 2024Via: Science Alert: Fungi may not have ears, but their growth appears to be tuned to the noises of their surroundings. When a high-frequency monotone crackle, like that of radio static, is played to the fungus species, Trichoderma harzianum, researchers have found the organism grows and produces spores much faster than is typical – almost […]
NSA Releases Internal 1982 Lecture by Computing Pioneer Rear Admiral Grace Hopper
August 27th, 2024I wasn’t going to post this, but it might be of interest if you’re an old computer nerd. Via: Black Vault:
