TIL Skype inserts white noise in a repeating pattern into all calls to let the listener knows the call is still connected
I guess this is a kind of "comfort noise" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort_noise
Via: https://twitter.com/nicbravo/status/1038599239000096768
This seems like a good time for a PSA:
If in the future you see something on a public-facing webpage you want to make a durable record of for use as evidence, don't take a screenshot. Those are -- understandably -- widely considered too easy to fabricate.
Instead, snapshot the page with the Internet Archive. It'll log a timestamped copy of the page to their servers. Highly tamper-resistant.
https://archive.org/web/ ("save page now", bottom-right)
Holy crap. Malware hidden in a strand of DNA hijacks the computer that analyzes that particular gene sequence.
We're going to live in a very weird world man.
and of course because I was forced to put it into an array, I can only read it with the array. amazing.
I especially loooove how HP's stupid controller made it so SMART didn't work so I had no idea it was failing
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