Maybe one of you hogs knows what's up.

I got a new IP address for my VPS and updated the DNS A record accordingly. That was two days ago and I still get an "unable to connect" error when trying to access TankieTube through protonVPN.

However, if I drop the VPN everything works. This is the case with both Firefox and Chrome.

Does this have to do with DNS propagation?

Want to make a small home server/lab, get jellyfin QBittorrent and other plugins on it to have media hosted by myself, also to make my own Inviduos instance because a lot of them are being targeted right now, shifting IPs works but they still persist.

Have a rasppi4 that I used for some projects, but I think for the amount of storage that I want to put initially and then upscale would be too hard on that little thing. Plus transfer speeds. Also the processing power probably wouldn’t be great for them big movies.

Would want to get a case with the big HDD/SSD cage, some motherboard, a chip that can handle 4K processing and then RAM with expansion(albeit I will start with 8 to 16 gb), then a good power supply so I can handle the bill. So in general I’m looking at old office equipment to get stuff cheap, and efficient in electricity use.

Now to the question, I’m looking for good marketplaces in EU that have that sort of stuff. Anything will be good and if you can give several it would be even better. Thanks a lot!

I’m trying to figure out if I wanna get one of these for the family to share and they look pretty cheap. I like that the ones I see advertised come preloaded with games so I don’t have to do all the setup and downloading. But I’m capable of doing that setup if there’s a better device that doesn’t come preloaded.

A user on the online forum 4chan has leaked a massive 270GB of data belonging to The New York Times. This leak includes the source code for the newspaper’s digital operations.

Here are some other findings we can confirm:

• The leak does have the original source code of the game Wordle, which the NY Times acquired in 2022.
• The leak includes a dated WordPress database of 1,500 NY Times Education site users. The database contains names and surnames, email addresses, and hashed passwords. You should expect it to be added to HIBP shortly.
• Several folders contain internal communications from NY Times Slack channels.
• Times uses various machine learning algorithms and NLP techniques/scripts for its services.
• Many exposed authentication methods exist, including authentication URLs and their respective passwords, secret keys, and API tokens. The majority are well protected, but plenty of such secrets need immediate attention. We have also seen private user keys used for authentication.
• There are a lot of details about internal NY Times architecture from a software development point of view.

So far, it is difficult to say whether the NY Times will need to reset the passwords for everyone who is a member of its site.

It’s worth pointing out that this leak appears to involve data from The New York Times’s IT/infrastructure/website organization rather than the news organization composed of reporters. In media companies, these two entities are largely separate. The IT/infrastructure team handles the technical aspects of the website and digital operations, while the news organization manages reporting and editorial content.

Haven't heard a peep about it in the months since it came out and all the bazinga-brained tech bloggers creamed themselves over it and wore it everywhere. Did it hit hard and then fade equally hard, like all VR? Are all the headsets just hanging on the wall unused now? I've never seen one IRL still.

looks like the middle mouse button my corsair rbg dark pro se whatever is failing and i might need a new mouse. i am a filthy gamer, so ones that have DPI settings and shit are cool. any recommendations? any of yall have one you like a lot?

thank.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2720264

What's the point of this post?

We all love to dunk on M$ for repeatedly fucking up Windows, and we all love to recommend installing the superior OS, but there hasn’t been a guide on how to actually do so. My aim is to create a guide on how to actually install Linux so that every time M$ fucks up, people can link to this guide (or any other successive guide) on top of the usual dunking.

Note: This guide is tailored towards people who are using Windows devices.

Why Linux Mint?

• Linux Mint has a well-deserved reputation as the “newbie distro for people who came from Windows.”
• Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu, which is based on Debian, and all three distros combined have a wealth of information online owning to their popularity, meaning that there’s less obstacles in troubleshooting.
• Linux Mint owning to its Debian heritage isn’t cutting edge or bleeding edge, meaning there’s a greater focus on using what currently works.

Which version of Linux Mint?

https://www.linuxmint.com/download.php

Linux Mint comes in three main editions:

• Cinnamon (←pick this one)
• MATE
• Xfce

Pick Cinnamon since this edition is more modern and closely imitates the Windows desktop environment (DE) the most. The other two use DEs that consume less resources, but don’t mimic the look of Windows as much.

How to create a USB boot drive?

There are various ways of creating a USB boot drive:

• Rufus (easy and fooproof): https://rufus.ie/en/
• Ventoy (takes more work but you can add multiple ISO images to the boot drive): https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html

Live session:

After creating your USB boot disk with Linux Mint Cinnamon Edition, you need to boot from your flash drive. The exact steps vary, but you essentially have to go to your BIOS and either change the boot order or specifically boot from your flash drive. Once there, you’ll come across a couple of screens before arriving at the Linux Mint desktop.

There’s a desktop icon that tells you to install Linux Mint, but you don’t have to do it yet. In fact, nothing’s stopping you from just running Linux Mint like this through the flash drive (there are entire Linux distro designed to be run from a flash drive like, but Linux Mint isn’t one of those). The live session is also good to catch any hardware issues like your wifi not working.

Actually installing Linux Mint:

It’s honestly pretty straightforward.

Pick the language you want, which will mostly likely be English.

Pick the keyboard, which will mostly be what you’re already using.

Connect online so Linux Mint will install the latest programs. You can skip connecting online, and Linux Mint will install the version of the programs that are in the iso image, but you’ll have to upgrade all those programs at once later.

Check Install multimedia codecs. The codecs allow you to watch videos.

Unless you have some weird logical partition set up for your drive, just choose Erase disk and install Linux Mint, and let Linux Mint handle the partitioning. If your PC has multiple drives, I would suggest physically disconnecting the drives that you don’t want the installation to touch as a precaution. Obviously, do this while the PC is off.

Pick the time zone you live in.

Set up your username, hostname, and password. It doesn’t have annoying password complexity restrictions on what password you want to use. Just pick any password.

This is a slideshow while installation is taking place.

Once installation is complete, Linux Mint will prompt you to reboot your PC. When you reboot your PC through that window, you will eventually get to a black screen with a prompt asking you to remove the USB boot drive and press Enter. Do so, and your PC will reboot to a fresh installation of Linux Mint.

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Yao Yang said in an interview, because the United States of America's on our chip suppression, so we have to go to develop this photonic chip, so it is possible that we are ahead of the curve. In this kind of decoupling and breaking the chain of this kind of situation, I have confidence. First of all, the first is the traditional chip, electronic chip we are also slowly breakthrough. Huawei has just come out with this mate 60, and has not yet formally announced what it uses for its chip, we will wait and see. But I'm afraid that the future is the world of photonic chips, it is very likely that we are changing lanes to overtake, like high-speed rail, like new energy vehicles, changing lanes not to play with you before, the Americans came to limit us is to move a stone to stone their own feet. He is not just killing the enemy a thousand to his own detriment, he may be in turn to kill the enemy a thousand to his own detriment of 1500. because China he after these twenty years of accumulation, capital has. Human resources also improved, with these two and the market, this is our killer app, the market is big enough, the United States and then give us decoupling exercise, his scientific research no way off. He can not do. This news has attracted widespread attention and heated debate, for China's position in the global chip competition and future development is also of great significance.

First of all, this news shows that Chinese companies have begun to get involved in the field of photonic chips, and the scale of investment is not small. As the global chip industry competition continues to intensify, the traditional chip has entered a bottleneck, while the photonic chip has a higher speed and lower energy consumption, the future will become an important direction of the chip industry. In this field of research and application, Chinese enterprises have also actively layout and step up to catch up. Therefore, Yao's words not only show the importance and investment of Chinese companies in the field of photonic chips, but also reveal the determination and strength of Chinese companies in technological innovation and industrial upgrading.

Secondly, Yao's words also imply that China's strength in independent R&D and manufacturing of chips is gradually improving. Optoelectronic hybrid chip is a new chip that integrates the advantages of electronic chip and photonic chip, which can be characterized by high speed, consumption, high reliability and scalability at the same time. The research and application in this field requires a lot of human and material resources, as well as a high degree of technical accumulation and innovation ability. The fact that Chinese enterprises have been able to make such remarkable progress in just a few years shows that China's strength in independent chip research and development and manufacturing is gradually improving, which is also an important advantage for China in the global chip competition.

Finally, Yao Yang's words also revealed that the Chinese government attaches great importance to and supports scientific and technological innovation and industrial upgrading. In recent years, the Chinese government has been encouraging and supporting enterprises to increase investment in scientific and technological innovation and industrial upgrading, promoting China's position and influence in global scientific and technological innovation and industrial competition. As an important direction of the new generation of chips, the research and application of optical hybrid chips is of great significance in promoting the upgrading and development of China's chip industry in the world.

To summarize, the news that some enterprises have begun to invest in the research and development of photonic chips and plan to come up with prototypes of optoelectronic hybrid chips by the end of this year and practical commercial chips in about three years, as revealed by Yao Yang, director of the National Development Research Institute of Peking University, is of great significance to China's position and future development in the global chip competition. This news shows that Chinese companies have begun to get involved in the field of photonic chips and step up to catch up with the world's leading level, but also reveals that China's strength in the independent research and development and manufacturing of chips is gradually improving. It also reveals that China's strength in independent R&D and manufacturing of chips is gradually improving. At the same time, this is also inseparable from the Chinese government's great attention and support to scientific and technological innovation and industrial upgrading.

With the increasing competition in the global chip industry and China's continuous efforts in technological innovation and industrial upgrading, China's position in the global chip industry will become more and more important in the future. China's investment and development in the field of photonic chips will also bring new opportunities and challenges for global technological innovation and industrial upgrading. Let's wait and see the future development of China in the global chip competition, and believe that China will make more brilliant achievements in scientific and technological innovation and industrial upgrading.

According to media sources, TSMC has joined hands with Broadcom, NVIDIA and other major customers to jointly develop new products such as silicon photonics technology and co-packaged optical components, and the process technology has been extended from 45nm to 7nm, which will usher in a large order starting as early as the second half of next year, and is expected to step into the stage of releasing the volume output in 2025.

With the rapid development of technology and the increase in computer processing speed, communication between chips has become a key factor in computing performance. Silicon photonics has the potential to increase the speed of optoelectronic transmission and solve the current problems of signal loss and heat from copper wiring in computer components. As a result, semiconductor giants such as TSMC and Intel have invested in related R&D. Semiconductor industry introduced a solution, is the silicon photonics optics and switch special application chip (ASIC), through the CPO packaging technology integrated into a single module, this program has begun to obtain Microsoft, Meta and other major manufacturers to certify and use in the new generation of network architecture.

Silicon photonics technology has already demonstrated broad application prospects and industrialization trends in data centers, communications, LIDAR, sensing, high-performance computing and artificial intelligence.

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What does this have to do with hardware? Can that not be done on other hardware?

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Club Penguin fans hacked a Disney Confluence server to steal information about their favorite game but wound up walking away with 2.5 GB of internal corporate data, BleepingComputer has learned.

Club Penguin was a multiplayer online game (MMO) from 2005 to 2018, featuring a virtual world where players could engage in games, activities, and chat with other players. The game was originally created by New Horizon Interactive, which Disney later purchased.

While Club Penguin was officially shut down in 2017, and its successor, Club Penguin Island, in 2018, the game continues to live on in private servers run by fans and independent developers. Though Disney pushed back on a more prominent 'Club Penguin Rewritten' remake, causing its operators to be arrested, private servers continue to this day with thousands of players.

This week, an anonymous person uploaded a link to "Internal Club Penguin PDFs" on the 4Chan message board with the simple statement, "I no longer need these :)."

The link goes to a 415 MB archive containing 137 PDFs that contain old internal information about Club Penguin, including emails, design schematics, documentation, and character sheets. All of this data is seven years old, if not older, making it only interesting to fans of the game.

BleepingComputer has since learned that Club Penguin data is only a small part of a much larger data set stolen from Disney's Confluence server, which stores documentation for various business, software, and IT projects used internally by Disney.

According to an anonymous source, Disney's Confluence servers were breached using previously exposed credentials.

The source says that the threat actors were initially looking for Club Penguin data; they wound up downloading 2.5 GB of data about Disney's corporate strategies, advertising plans, Disney+, internal developer tools, business projects, and internal infrastructure.

"Lot more files here including internal api endpoints and credentials for things like S3 buckets," an anonymous source told BleepingComputer.

The data, seen by BleepingComputer, includes documentation on a wide variety of initiatives and projects, as well as information on internal developer tools named Helios and Communicore, which have not previously been disclosed publicly.

CommuniCore is a "high-performance asynchronous messaging library, aimed at use in distributed applications."

Helios is a show authoring and playback tool that allows Disney producers and authors to create interactive non-linear "experiences" using real world inputs from sensors in Disney's parks.

Strewn across the documents are links to internal websites used by Disney developers, which could be valuable for threat actors who wish to target the company.

While the Club Penguin data is fairly old, the rest of the data circulating on Discord is far newer, with information from 2024.

BleepingComputer was told that the original Club Penguin PDFs shared on 4Chan were stolen weeks ago. However, the Disney corporate data appears to have been downloaded much sooner, as they contain the following text, "Document generated by Confluence on Jun 01, 2024 21:59."

BleepingComputer contacted Disney multiple times with information and questions about the breach but has yet to receive a reply.

Oral-B released the Guide for $230 in August 2020 but bricked the ability to set up or reconfigure Alexa on the product this February.

The Guide toothbrush's charging base was able to connect to the Internet and work like an Alexa speaker that you could speak to and from which Alexa could respond. Owners could “ask to play music, hear the news, check weather, control smart home devices, and even order more brush heads by saying, ‘Alexa, order Oral-B brush head replacements,'” per Procter & Gamble's 2020 announcement.

On February 15, Oral-B bricked the Guide's ability to set up Alexa by discontinuing the Oral-B Connect app required to complete the process. Guide owners can still use the Oral-B App for other features; however, the ability to use the charging base like an Alexa smart speaker—a big draw in the product’s announcement and advertising—is seriously limited.

The device should still work with Alexa if users set it up before Oral-B shuttered Connect, but setting up a new Wi-Fi connection or reestablishing a lost one doesn't work without Connect.

Recently, music-streaming app company Spotify similarly announced that it’s discontinuing its first and only hardware this December. Spotify's Car Thing originally cost $90 when released to the general public in February 2022. Even companies dedicated to smart home products entirely can meet an abrupt demise, and if a company suffers from poor communication skills, customers can be left in the dark.

Meanwhile, Oral-B is pushing its latest toothbrush to capitalize on the latest AI tech trend. Without real detail, Oral-B claims its new $400 toothbrush has "AI position detection that tracks where you brush across all 3 surfaces of your teeth.” Like many, I'm skeptical about the toothbrush’s incorporation of actual AI; notably, P&G declined to comment to The Washington Post on what, exactly, makes the toothbrush "AI."

and if so any suggestions? i have like 6 on my windows

They're not even doing refunds or recalls, they're just giving people 2 free months of the subscription and telling them to only charge the device and the hotswap add-on batteries with the home charger.

This piece of shit has a 4 hour standby time if you're not using the case to recharge the batteries. Literally unusable.

techbros owned.

Hello everyone, I've recently been curious to try Fedora Linux. I've been using Linux Mint for a while now, and while I really enjoy Mint, I think it's time to finally give something else a try. I want to go to a different distribution that will allow me to customize it more and have better support for GNOME and KDE.

Any information I should know before trying it out?

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4738383

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A Hacker News post.

Title: Show HN: Shortbread App – AI-powered, romantic comics for women (shortbreadapp.com)

Contenr: Hi HN! Fengjiao and Evan here. We are building Shortbread App, Netflix for webcomics. We publish guilty-pleasure romance series (think 50 Shades of Gray) as comics. Like the mature version of Webtoon.