I'm partial to the Tietäväinen design, myself. The Daëron one is nice, too. The Vardopoulou one also feels properly money-like.

I consider the Dünnweiler design a complete atrocity, the worst one by far. And most of the "people" designs aren't good.

What I dislike about the "bird" designs is the backside. Few people have any idea what most of those buildings are and they feel far less European to me than an abstract representation of a historical architectural style.

A kiln. The Bajorans wanted to use a moon as a power plant but people lived there. And apparently they had spent so much time living there (since the end of the occupation) that some old guy didn't want to leave.

He also refused to do anything until he has finished building a kiln. So Kira helped him build it and spent some time getting to know him. Then when it was done she nuked it with a phaser and he finally left.

It kinda is if you're a woman. Of course there's not very much overlap between women and 6'1" 300 lb guys.

But yeah, the problem there is the abuse of steroids and growth hormones required to get such a body. That will fuck your body up in various ways you might not even notice at first.

If it goes like the only "building something by hand without advanced technology" episode I can think of, the pyramid gets built and then Kira blows it up a minute later. Which, frankly, is a very Kira thing to do.

Heck, have the aliens try to abduct some wildlife and then it turns out they picked up the cocaine bear. Play it as an action comedy from the perspective of the aliens.

Bonus points if they then abduct a human hunter to deal with it and he turns out to be the deranged serial killer from the post.

Catapult.

It's installed through Windows's automatic driver installation system; LG just provides this stuff as a driver package. The monitors themselves can't install anything.

Yes, infrasound is a fairly well understood phenomenon. Loud noise at frequencies below 10 Hz isn't commonly picked up by recording equipment but can induce things like anxiety, nausea, and sleep problems. While recently wind power plants have sometimes been accused of generating it, it's also been caused by industrial fans and even resonance in a building's ductwork.

It wouldn't surprise me if a data center's AC caused enough noise at frequencies not normally monitored to become an issue.

So Kaspersky found out that MD5 passwords are unsafe. That's literally 20 year old news. Actually, Kaspersky found out that brute-forcing MD5 on consumer-grade hardware has become slightly faster than two years ago, which makes me wonder if Captain Obvious's secret identity is that of a Kaspersky cybersecurity expert.

El Reg concludes from this that we should ditch passwords, which they back up with the opinion of a second expert. This expert immediately tells them they're wrong, that passwords are perfectly fine if used with MFA, and that a lack of public knowledge about basic cybersecurity is the real issue. They somehow treat this as him agreeing with them.

Actual technological alternatives to traditional password use (such as passkeys or password managers with per-site passwords) are mentioned only as an aside or not at all. It never occurred to El Reg or Kaspersky to mention that MD5 has been considered obsolete since the days of Internet Explorer 7 and that more secure hashes like bcrypt have been around since the late 90s. For that matter, the Kaspersky source talks about rainbow tables without using the word "salt" even once.

Finally they conclude with a call to action to "improve that user security stack", arguing that passwords are inherently unsafe due to their "complex requirements and hashed storage". That's so deep into la-la land that I'm not even sure what it is they're trying to say or who they're even talking to.

That's an amazingly badly written article.

What impresses me the most is that the Kaspersky article they're talking about is just as asinine as El Reg's confused stammering. The most sense I can make out of it is that they're making a bad faith argument ("we can brute-force MD5'd passwords with a 5090 so you should use MFA") because they're trying to get nontechnical people to do the right thing and hope they can scare them into compliance if they bullshit hard enough.

Edit: I just noticed how often Kaspersky's article refers to the own password manager they sell. So their bad faith argument is really just in service of an ad that happens to contain some decent security advice.

A shorthand for 000a:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:000s. It's part of the alphabet v4 spec.

He should go on vacation with the CEO of Nestlé and publicly endorse single-use plastics.

"Well, excuuuuuse me, princess!"

gets shot twice, just to make sure