Very weird take to call Future Crew a "research group" and Second Reality a "graphics technology". Future Crew was a PC Demo group (in Demo Scene) and Second Reality an excellent and ground breaking demo. There wasn't any magic technology in it, but instead some very clever effects from the members, bound together into an artistic demo.
I cannot comment anything about the facts what came after with Bitboys, but the author doesn't seem to know the history and details on their demo scene origins.
Only I don't think "Second Reality" is very artistic. It is very impressive technically, but, to be honest, now you could see that it is quilt made from technical demos from different people. Yes, all these sub-demos are technical masterpieces, but demo as whole doesn't have some story or narrative to tell.
I've re-watched it (youtube rendering) now and, to be honest, these 10 minutes is not entertaining, till you remember on which hardware and in how much codesize it was squeezed.
Embossed nuts? Jumping platonic solids? Yes, very impressive for person who tried to program graphics on PC in 1993 and fantastic technical achievement, but artistic? I cannot say so, sorry.
Star Control 3 was built by a different group of designers and developers, since the original ones decided to pursue other projects. Its history is a bit murky. Some say it's great and true to the originals, while others think it deviates too much.
You can think of it as The Curse of Monkey Island vs Return to Monkey Island. The original designers now wants to come back and build a sequel to the game they created.
Definitively agree here. Once the data is in BigQuery, people will start doing ad-hoc queries and building Grafana dashboards on top of it.
And sooner or later (usually sooner) somebody will build a fancy Grafana dashboard and set it to refresh every 5 second and you will not notice it until it's too late.
Pretty much every company who does not list prices publicly in their website does this. If the vendor recognizes your company name, the price will be bigger :(
Great work! Package management and supply chain issues are definitely something which have by no means been solved. I appreciate that you did your experiment as it pushes the community forward to think solutions to these problems.
I think you should still build some kind of script to install every available package and then do some interesting analysis from the result. For example I'm sure there are supply chain troijan horses awaiting to be discovered.
Yeah. We were considering it, obviously that may have been a better way to go about it. I want to return to it in the future and do it this way, but we lost a little interest after all this.
SpaceX is at least known to have some kind of high resolution/precision microphones around the structure recording constantly so that they are able to do 3D triangulation inside the vehicle.
Would you mind (somehow) sharing the source of your current node-red configurations? I'm having quite the same setup, but I really liked your approach and I would love to speed run by taking a closer look what you have. Free time is especially hard to come by now with a young kid :)
I just read that Facebook is going to have 600 000 units of Nvidia H100 class GPUs by the end of year. What does that kind of processing power do for password cracking?
Think what if NSA could order FB to run their infrastructure for one hour? How long passwords would need to be to still resist this?
Given that some countries/nations now have access to 150-500+ superfast Nvidia cards, what kind of processing power (cpu/gpu) does the NSA have? Have they placed similar orders at Nvidia?
Their chips aren't any better, in fact they're probably quite a few generations behind what's available commercially due to various certification requirements etc. HOWEVER, last I checked, their budget for this sort of thing was 11 billion dollars a year, and that's where their advantage lies. Their chips are designed to be maximally power performant for the tasks they're doing, and they have a fuckton of them.
We have no reason to believe you. However, there is one party who really benefits from people considering all encryption weak and all cryptography broken: the NSA.
It's not that cryptography is "weak" or "broken", but people should be aware that (except from God Himself), there is also a purely human instance you cannot hide from...
Remember the "We have it all", pronounced by "45"? Maybe he simply told a FACT?
I cannot comment anything about the facts what came after with Bitboys, but the author doesn't seem to know the history and details on their demo scene origins.