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  • Useful Life Skills [extra fabulous]

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  • Fun fact: if you're self employed in the UK, you've been able to do your taxes online via a simple (ish) form on the HMRC website, but they're in the process of phasing it out in favour of third-party proprietary software, so some people aren't allowed to use the free web form anymore, and within two or three years, it'll become totally unavailable. Everyone always loves it when the government finds things that Americans complain about and copies it here so we get to complain about it, too.

  • Mistakes were made [AzulCrescent]

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  • Lots of shops have gone out of business because, by having a premises, their operating expenses were more than an online retailer, so places like Amazon could undercut them, and their customers were willing to wait for delivery to save some money. It doesn't take that many customers leaving before you've got to put up prices to cover your overheads, and that just makes more customers leave, and after a couple of decades of online retail being common, you're left with far fewer physical shops.

  • Mistakes were made [AzulCrescent]

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  • In lots of the world, that's how all pills that do anything always are. It's only ones where it's safe to accidentally eat the whole bottle at once that are allowed to be in bottles.

  • Results Age— Please, we need your help. Our research suggests you're the last living descendant of the person who knew how to format this config file.

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  • Microsoft BitLocker-protected drives can now be opened with just some files on a USB stick — YellowKey zero-day exploit demonstrates an apparent backdoor

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  • A laptop that's been driven over or smashed with a hammer or otherwise crushed.

  • Microsoft BitLocker-protected drives can now be opened with just some files on a USB stick — YellowKey zero-day exploit demonstrates an apparent backdoor

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  • I'll copy the bit here that I just edited into my reply after you edited the first post:

    In the face of your edit, I see that you’ve misunderstood the exploit. You need write access to the System Volume Information directory of your own USB stick, not anything on the target machine. It’s much easier to get access to things on a computer than it is to get access on one particular computer, and this exploit lets you jump from one to the other.

  • Microsoft BitLocker-protected drives can now be opened with just some files on a USB stick — YellowKey zero-day exploit demonstrates an apparent backdoor

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  • By exploit standards, that's not especially hard. I don't think there's really anything blocking accessing it at all if an NTFS volume is mounted on a typical desktop Linux distro, as it's just NTFS permissions blocking it, and they're not typically obeyed by Linux in the first place.

    In the face of your edit, I see that you've misunderstood the exploit. You need write access to the System Volume Information directory of your own USB stick, not anything on the target machine. It's much easier to get access to things on a computer than it is to get access on one particular computer, and this exploit lets you jump from one to the other.

  • What are the most flexible/elastic resins for printers? Are there any easily accessible additives that could make standard resins more flexible?

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  • I've never needed release agent with platinum-cure silicone as it's not stuck to anything except itself unless it was porous. I have needed to lubricate bits of moulds that would have had too much of a vacuum if just pulled, though. Also, when I initially referred to coating the mould, I didn't mean a release agent but rather something like PMMA (acrylic) dissolved in acetone to protect the silicone from the resin as described here: https://blog.honzamrazek.cz/2022/07/preventing-platinum-cure-silicone-cure-inhibition-in-resin-printed-molds/

  • What are the most flexible/elastic resins for printers? Are there any easily accessible additives that could make standard resins more flexible?

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  • If you've got a manifold mesh for the object you want, you could make a mould by getting a cube that contained it, using a boolean modifier to subtract the mesh from the cube, then adding one or more cylinders for pour holes at the high point(s) of the mesh and subtracting those, too. If you only need one of the object, so don't need to reuse the mould, you can stop there and print it, then once you've cast it and let the silicone cure, just hit it with a hammer until the mould smashes and the silicone will probably be fine and pull out in one un-scarred piece.

  • What are the most flexible/elastic resins for printers? Are there any easily accessible additives that could make standard resins more flexible?

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  • Could you perhaps print a mould and then cast platinum-cure silicone in it? This can be a pain, as lots of resins contain things that stop silicone curing, but some combinations work (e.g. some bbdino silicone I had cured just fine in contact with Sunlu ABS-like clear blue resin I had) or can be made to work (e.g. coating the resin mould with something that it's more compatible with).

    If you don't need the properties of platinum-cure silicone, you might even be able to get away with tin-cure, which is much cheaper and more tolerant of other chemicals.

  • Fears grow that age verification coming to VPNs as a British research firm labels them a 'loophole'

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  • Reform got a shitload of votes in this week's elections, and one of their few actual policies is repealing the online safety act, so it's not even particularly safe to say that voters don't want their kids seeing porn if it means it's any more inconvenient for adults to see porn.

  • What old thing surprisingly still exists?

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  • Someone sent me a link to a file through Limewire today. That had its heyday so long ago that I think this is actually the first time I've ever used it.

  • What's your preferred free antivirus solution on Windows?

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  • You need to explicitly grant the script admin access or have totally disabled UAC, which already punches a large hole through Windows' security model. Malware that's in that situation doesn't need to block Defender to do harm.

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    GameStop makes $55.5bn takeover offer for eBay

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  • They issued some shares when their share price was high and didn't have huge amounts of debt compared to other companies of a similar value.

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  • I've yet to see anyone say anything about the trailer other than no, I'll wait for the Jimmy Saville movie, so it's safe to say that it's widely considered absurd that anyone would make or want to watch the movie.

  • I still have more beef for that hack

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  • Artemis also has the premise that stripping away all the safety regulation that a rich country would add to its space program would make a poorer country able to rapidly develop a superior space program and become a rich country with nothing at all going wrong except the one time

    the protagonist accidentally chloroforms everyone

    when it all works out fine in the end anyway because of ignoring the few rules that they did have. It's not a stretch to say that it promotes elements of Objectivism, although it's a lot more pro-state than Ayn Rand was.

  • I still have more beef for that hack

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  • And it gets worse when combined with Rowling's later comments that she'd always imagined Hermione was black.

  • I still have more beef for that hack

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  • I still have more beef for that hack

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  • And don't worry, if some of your readers are so strongly anti-slavery that they think the book is ridiculing the characters ridiculing the anti-slavery character, you can host a guest post on your blog explaining that it's supposed to be pro-slavery and anyone getting any other message is wrong.

  • Japan finds a way to recover 90% of lithium from old EV batteries

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  • Yes I am, because that's a safe assumption, just like assuming gravity will keep working. We'd need to discover new physics to make Lithium and Sodium plausibly form different compounds as our current understanding of physics predicts them to behave nearly the same. At this point in time, there's nothing to indicate there's anything wrong with that part of physics.