Internet Discoveries between 29 September and 6 October

  • What do you want to show?
  • Why does man print “gimme gimme gimme” at 00:30?
  • Cartographist
  • ESO telescope captures the most detailed infrared map ever of our Milky Way
  • BOP SPOTTER
  • FreeBSD Wants More People Using It on Laptops and Here’s Their Plan
  • Doom finally ported to quantum computers, and you can play it now
  • Pulumi, System Initiative Step Up To Challenge IBM’s HashiCorp
  • Boris Vallejo and the Pixel Art of the Demoscene
  • Evolving GitHub Issues (Public Preview)
  • How Cloudflare auto-mitigated world record 3.8 Tbps DDoS attack
  • An adult fruit fly brain has been mapped—human brains could follow
  • UNSW delivers atomic quantum computing breakthrough
  • Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer
  • 60TB hard drives arriving in 2028 according to industry roadmap — HDD capacity forecast to double in four years
  • Understanding Porsche’s New Six Stroke Engine Patent

Interesting details

What do you want to show? - Here you can find a list of charts categorised by their data visualization functions or by what you want a chart to communicate to an audience.

Why does man print “gimme gimme gimme” at 00:30? - Dear @colmmacuait, I think that if you type “man” at 0001 hours it should print “gimme gimme gimme”. #abba Pretty much the whole story is in the commit.

Cartographist - Cartographist is an experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing. For more context about the project, you can check out the longer write-up below, which originally appeared as a part of Q4 2021 newsletter.

ESO telescope captures the most detailed infrared map ever of our Milky Way - Astronomers have published a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5 billion objects ― the most detailed one ever made. Using the European Southern Observatory’s VISTA telescope, the team monitored the central regions of our Galaxy over more than 13 years.

BOP SPOTTER - I installed a box high up on a pole somewhere in the Mission of San Francisco. Inside is a crappy Android phone, set to Shazam constantly, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It’s solar powered, and the mic is pointed down at the street below.

FreeBSD Wants More People Using It on Laptops and Here’s Their Plan - In a world full of Linux and Windows-based operating systems, there are some BSD-based derivatives that aim to challenge the status quo by offering a more efficient, secure, and reliable family of operating systems.

Doom finally ported to quantum computers, and you can play it now - A new port of the first-person shooter Doom has been developed to run on quantum computers. Known as Quandoom, the version was created by Luke Mortimer, a quantum computing researcher at ICFO in Barcelona who releases projects under the name Lumorti.

Pulumi, System Initiative Step Up To Challenge IBM’s HashiCorp - The Infrastructure as Code market is at a crossroads, with market leader HashiCorp soon to be being acquired by IBM.

Boris Vallejo and the Pixel Art of the Demoscene - As an epic fantasy painter, Boris Vallejo had a great influence on 1980s and 90s fantasy book covers, computer game box art, and the demoscene. Through the decades, his works have been replicated by pixel artists.

Evolving GitHub Issues (Public Preview) - GitHub Issues has been how the world’s best software teams collaborate since it first launched in 2009. Today we are excited to unveil a major evolution of issues and projects, featuring a range of highly requested enhancements including sub-issues, issue types and advanced search for issues.

How Cloudflare auto-mitigated world record 3.8 Tbps DDoS attack - Since early September, Cloudflare’s DDoS protection systems have been combating a month-long campaign of hyper-volumetric L3/4 DDoS attacks.

An adult fruit fly brain has been mapped—human brains could follow - FRUIT FLIES are smart. For a start—the clue is in the name—they can fly. They can also flirt; fight; form complex, long-term memories of their surroundings; and even warn one another about the presence of unseen dangers, such as parasitic wasps.

UNSW delivers atomic quantum computing breakthrough - Researchers at the University of New South Wales have claimed a world-first breakthrough by demonstrating provable quantum entanglement between two atoms in silicon, a crucial step for scaling quantum computers.

Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer - For a while now I’ve started my day by unlocking my phone and scrolling through different news and social media sites to see what’s going on. It’s not exactly great for my mental health and I’ve been trying to cut down on screen time for a while.

60TB hard drives arriving in 2028 according to industry roadmap — HDD capacity forecast to double in four years - The arrival of energy-assisted magnetic recording (EAMR) technologies like Seagate’s HAMR will play a crucial role in accelerating HDD capacity growth in the coming years.

<a name=’Understanding Porsche’s New Six Stroke Engine Patent’>Understanding Porsche’s New Six Stroke Engine Patent</a> - Support the channel by shopping through this link: https://amzn.to/3RIqU0u Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/d4a Become a member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwosUnVH6AINmxtqkNJ3Fbg/join Grit: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt3YSIPcvJsYbwGCDLNiIKA Link to the patent: https://patentcenter.uspto

All this was saved to my GetPocket over the week