Rare Encounter

Psychic crime fighting, mastergaming, and riding the electric.

With special guest Kacey!

Show Notes

The gobbledok is back to gobble... your dok?

Psychic crime fighting

"Cult Infection" Crime Solving Webinar with Genevieve Hackett, Mon, May 10, 2021, 8:00 PM | Meetup

A seminar on how to be a psychic private investigator.

Linux versus University of Minnesota

The Linux Foundation's Technical Advisory Board sent UMN a letter on Friday April 23. Portions have been published but so far we can't find a full copy of the letter. As of April 27, there has been no response from the university.

An open letter to the Linux community

An "apology" email from the UMN prof and students at the bottom of the debacle, with a response from Greg KH.

On the Feasibility of Stealthily Introducing Vulnerabilities in Open-Source Software via Hypocrite Commits

The related paper. Was still listed as accepted to the 42nd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy on Tuesday, but disappeared some time on Wednesday.

Mirrored in case it gets removed from GitHub.

The Linux Foundation's demands to the University of Minnesota for its bad Linux patches security project

Anime

Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro!

Hooooogan! I mean, Nagatorooooooo!

AMOGUS

The Promised Neverland

What if Alex Jones made an anime out of his conspiracy theories? Also featuring Logan's Run, Annie, and Higurashi.

Japanese title: Yakusoku no Neverland

WSLg Architecture | Windows Command Line

The secret sauce behind the upcoming support for Linux GUI apps in Windows.

The architecture that makes X11 and Weston apps appear in Windows like any other graphical application.

Some amazing things are coming out of this, such as an improved RDP backend meant for virtual machines, that can share memory between the host and guest VM which speeds up visual refresh of the remote application. The RDP protocol itself is improved with the ability to remote individual apps as opposed to entire desktops.

microsoft/wslg: Enabling the Windows Subsystem for Linux to include support for Wayland and X server related scenarios

VCF Swap Meet Takes Step Back To Move Forward | Hackaday

Thanks to blitzed for passing this along!

Git gud, scrubs

Auto-Battle Is the Best Version of Combat in the New 'NieR Replicant'

Why even play games if you're just going to do shit like this?

I beat Sekiro's final boss with cheats and I feel fine | PC Gamer

Haven't you heard "cheaters never prosper"?

iPhones Are Allergic to Helium - iFixit

Channel state information

MIT researchers invent wireless "x-ray vision" with new project, Emerald - CBS News

Y shield Paint