NaibofTabr

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[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 12 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Considering how the modding community made Skyrim a long-term success, this would be a very foolish decision.

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 13 points 20 hours ago

You can get a SAS USB external enclosure but they're in the $100 range, probably not worth it for 3TB.

For internal use, you can get a used PCIe SAS Host Bus Adapter fairly cheap BUT you need to do some research. Before you buy one you should confirm that there is a driver for the OS that you are using and that it is supported on your processor/socket/chipset. These cards are server hardware - many of them are not supported by Windows and/or are not compatible with consumer motherboards & CPUs.

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 27 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

From my extensive experience in this area (true crime podcasts lol), if your hitman is either quoting a reasonable price or offering a payment plan, they’re a cop.

And the ones asking for payment up front will enjoy the free money. What, were you going to get a receipt for that?

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Act your wage.

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 12 points 1 day ago

This man is a hazard to global safety and security.

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Automation has evolved a huge amount since the 90s

This is true, and we have smaller, lighter and more accurate motors, and fancy tools like machine vision with object identification, and substantially better electronics.

I don't think it matters. Nothing has changed in food ingredients - they're squishy, slippery, soft and irregular. If you put just a little too much pressure on a cooked grain of rice it will turn into a two-inch-long smear of starch that other things will stick to, and then you've got a little pile of gunk inside your machine. The more complex these machines are the more impossible it will be to keep them clean on the inside.

I remember when this burger making robot was getting a lot of attention (apparently they were "the definition of disruption"). Their restaurant location in Daly City (Creator Burger) closed during the pandemic but then reopened with a simpler version:

Gone from this version of Creator’s robot, however, are the automated toppings like lettuce, tomato and cheese, which humans will now apply to the burger themselves.

Give you one guess why.

The company is now dead, their domain is abandoned and the restaurant location is permanently closed, although apparently they managed to sell one to a Sam's Club in Arkansas last year. Wonder how that's going for them now.

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 55 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Taco Bell tried to do this in the 90s.

This article is light on the details of the failures, but basically the little bits of lettuce, tomato and cheese would slip out of the various holders and get smashed into the moving pieces and jam everything up while starting to rot. It was broken more often than not, and even when it wasn't it was a pain in the ass to keep sanitary. Far more trouble than it was ever worth.

Building these machines and operating them won't be the hard part. Keeping them working will be more expensive than paying people to make food for a halfway decent wage. The necessary logistics system just to supply replacement parts for the machines will probably break the bank, and never mind all the technicians they'll need to make repairs.

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 2 points 3 days ago

I'm playing the remake on PS5. I think they did a pretty nice job with the graphics upgrade, and with the new tracks.

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 7 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Crash Team Racing is the pinnacle of kart racing games. The driving is more skill-based than the leading brand name, and it doesn't have shitty rubber-band AI.

Star Wars Episode 1 Racer is still great fun, easy to learn but hard to be good at.

Nothing compares to F-Zero GX. The abandonment of the franchise is a travesty, and should be considered abuse of the gaming community.

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