This is how you create people like Nightmare Eclipse.

These people are going out of their way to responsibly disclose vulnerabilites to the bug bounty programs and being treated poorly as a result. Granted, AMD technically didn’t have to pay since it was a MITM attack, but they could have at least handled the whole interaction better.

The Tower of Hanoi is just a game for children?

I don’t think most people would manage the optimal solution first go (1023 moves for a 10-piece game).

Well that’s terrifying.

One Nation should not be anywhere near the reigns of power.

Ha ha ha… No.

We don’t want him here.

That’s why I stopped letting others use mine unless there was absolutely no other way.

The other option was that nobody ever replied…

https://xkcd.com/979/

I don’t know whether to be impressed or horrified.

I’m familiar with a previous edition of that.

However, this one really does your head in: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL3484848M/Complex_analysis

Not sure, but they do point to Charlie Camarda, whose concerns did get published by our national media service back in February: https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2026-02-18/artemis-ii-heat-shield-concerns-charlie-camarda/106233804

Our government is usually technologically inept.

The first online census (2016) crashed the system because they didn’t allow enough capacity. Anyone with half a brain could have told them that most people were going to try to use it during one particular time – after dinner (especially since the paper census is supposed to count everyone on that particular night). Instead, they decided to rate it for only 1 million form submissions per hour, despite estimating that two-thirds of Australians would fill it out online. At one person per family, that’s around 4 million online submissions. Now factor in that the eastern states have most of the population (and are all in the same time zone at that time of year) and, predictably, the site went down after dinner on census night.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-09/abs-website-inaccessible-on-census-night/7711652

So, funnily enough, most of the online stardate calculators make the same mistake I did (start of year = xx000). However, this one doesn’t – it uses the ‘Homestead’ reference instead (based on the source code).

Interesting! If the stardate cycle isn’t aligned with the calendar year, that would make sense (from a production perspective) since the broadcast seasons aren’t aligned to it either. The thought did cross my mind but I’ve never seen it commented upon elsewhere, so thanks for the details.

I doubt Voyager’s clocks would be that much out of sync (especially once contact was re-established with the Federation, as that would reduce any offset to minutes or hours at most), so I usually put down that degree of inaccuracy to the writing (I seriously doubt the writers did anything other than just tried to evenly progress the dates between the start and end of the season).

Interesting. If LLMs can deobfuscate code, I wonder if they (or other AI engines) will make it easier to bypass DRM.

Yes, there is…

https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit

I guess I’m that person …

The TNG/DS9/VOY era stardates are actually really easy to calculate: 1000 units per year, with 2364 = 41xxx (first season of TNG). TNG Season 1 was a bit of a mess with the stardates, but after that the remainder of that era is surprisingly consistent.

Assuming the screen caps are DS9 Season 5 or 6, that is either 2373 (50xxx) or 2374 (51xxx). The 1st of April for those years would span the following stardates (rounding to one decimal place):

1st April 2373: 50246.6 to 50249.3 1st April 2374: 51246.6 to 51249.3

For DS9 Season 4 (2372), it would be slightly different, being a leap year:

1st April 2372: 49248.6 to 49251.4

Depends. Do you listen to them far more than any other artist? If so, I’d say yes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnQNdNSgiKc

I’d probably put that in the same row as W10, but in the box left of RHEL.

Sigh. Don’t hardcode credentials in scripts, especially client-facing ones! If you must have credentials in plaintext on a file system, at least do something like PostgreSQL’s pgpass file (and don’t commit it to your version control system, or have it accessible via your web server!) with the appropriate user permissions set on it.

I’m actually not sure if it was the number of shows or the fact that Star Trek has historically been episodic (even with DS9’s larger arcs), which is suited to longer seasons. The limited runs of modern shows places a lot more pressure on them to succeed instantly (and have a higher percentage of highly rated episodes) than the TNG/DS9/VOY/ENT era.