Seemingly unsolvable, solved.

Can you imagine a single solid object that is simultaneously a Circle, a Square, and a Triangle without altering its form in any way?

Stupid simple setting up WireGuard - Server and multiple peers

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Preamble and disclaimer:

The following is a set of Rules that are intended as advice useful to avoid the most common errors observed in configuration posted on this forum.

It is my personal take on the matter, and in no way approved, endorsed or recommended, officially or unofficially, by Mikrotik or their partners or by anyone else.

In other words you are perfectly free to ignore them, though they represent (IMHO) a sort of (good) cheat sheet/reminder for people starting to use these devices.

Experts already know all these issues (and many more) and they already have their own ways to avoid them.

Zhang operated a surrogacy agency called Mark Surrogacy from their mansion. The agency purportedly marketed itself as an institution assisting American and international couples struggling to conceive through surrogacy. However, investigations revealed a startling truth: The only couple the agency served was Zhang and Xuan themselves. They are the biological parents of 21 children born through surrogacy. Of these children, fifteen lived with them in the mansion under the care of a few nannies, while friends and family supposedly looked after the other six in different locations. //

It is crucial to highlight that Xuan must be a member of the CCP to serve on the People’s Congress. U.S. immigration law prohibits immigrants with “membership in or affiliation with the Communist or any other totalitarian party” from becoming naturalized citizens. Thus, it is curious how Xuan, a high-ranking CCP member linked to genocide in Xinjiang, was able to obtain U.S. citizenship. //

In addition to concerns about immigration, Xuan and Zhang’s case highlights the ethical, legal, and moral dilemmas surrounding the commercial surrogacy industry, which has turned a deeply human experience into a commodity. As one research paper concludes, “Surrogacy degrades a pregnancy to a service and a baby to a product.” //

Surrogacy is illegal in many countries, including China, but the United States has no federal restrictions. Commercial surrogacy is legal in most states, including California. This legal landscape, along with birthright citizenship, makes the U.S. a popular destination for international surrogacy, attracting foreign couples who seek American women to help fulfill their dreams of parenthood. //

Those who advocate for immoral policies such as unchecked immigration or the commodification of women’s bodies should understand that horrifying stories like this are what happens when we take these policies to their logical end, and that cases like Zhang and Xuan will only become more common.

The Storis, in particular, is a welcome addition. The U.S. Navy lacks icebreaking capacity, leaving this function to the Coast Guard, which currently operates only one heavy icebreaker, the Polar Star, homeported in Seattle but regularly engaged in icebreaking operations in the Antarctic. Prior to the commissioning of the Storis, the Coast Guard had only one medium icebreaker, the Healy, available for Arctic operations.

The Coast Guard, in a 2023 report, estimated it needs eight or nine polar icebreakers to carry out its role in the Arctic, including four or five heavy and an equal number of medium icebreakers. With China and Russia both becoming increasingly active in the Arctic - and with Russia in particular holding half of the Arctic Ocean coastline - the Coast Guard's role in the north will only become more critical.

At the commissioning of the Solis, Alaska's Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK) said:

“I think Singapore has more icebreaking capacity than we do,” Sullivan said. “That has left us far behind our adversaries. Russia has more than 50 operational icebreakers, many nuclear-powered, many weaponized. China, which has no Arctic territory, is building a polar fleet and is spending a lot of time off our shores, including this summer.”

The One Big Beautiful Bill, signed into law by President Trump this summer, includes around $9 billion in funding for new icebreaking ships.

For the Dreamliner, the 1B has three different model types, providing between 69,800 and 76,100 pounds of thrust. Those with a fan diameter of 111.1 inches (282 centimeters) have a baseline engine length of 184.7 inches (469 centimeters). These engines have been designed with a high-bypass function, which results in the majority of the air drawn not sucked in for combustion, but instead is ducted outside of the engine core. The GEnx has a bypass ratio of 9.1, which is one of the highest in the industry.

As a comparison, the Trent 1000, developed by Rolls-Royce, requires additional cooling as a result of lower pressure ratios. The GEnx engine, additionally, has a ten-stage high-pressure compressor, which produces a 23:1 pressure ratio. This puts it ahead of the Trent 1000 model, with an eight-stage high-pressure compressor and a 19:1 pressure ratio. While the Trent 1000 has a better bypass ratio of 10:1, the GEnx is lighter, which results in improved fuel efficiency and requires less cooling. //

The GEnx-1B is manufactured across six countries, in 12 different states at 21 manufacturing sites. According to GE Aerospace, more than 1.1 million parts make up the engine. With a high degree of popularity for the engine, it is also one of the fastest-selling high-thrust engines ever built by GE. Batesville, Mississippi, is home to a GE plant that produces the composite fan case, alongside Safran Engines in San Marcos, Texas, which lays up the third generation of the composite fan blades.

The National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting has been around for more than 20 years, but a project supported by a $500,000+ grant has transformed its World War II-vintage building — the former VOA Bethany “relay station” transmitting plant — into a world-class repository of communications history and knowledge.

The 30,000-square-foot, two-story building was deeded over to the township of West Chester, Ohio, following the VOA’s closing of the station in 1994.

Quick and dirty PHP script to work around http://bugs.mysql.com/73894
"Can't easily change DEFINER on existing views, stored routines, triggers, events"

SUMMARY
The author reaches 1,800 years back into history, looking at the oldest, handwritten editions of the letters of Paul. Actual photographs of the manuscripts are included in this article.

Default export formats
The following export options are available by default:

• export_raw
  Returns the page's source as text/plain
  Example: https://www.dokuwiki.org/export?do=export_raw
• export_xhtml
  Returns the rendered page as simple XHTML without any navigational elements
  Example: https://www.dokuwiki.org/export?do=export_xhtml
• export_xhtmlbody
  Returns the rendered XHTML of the page only.
  No head or body tags are added. No contenttype headers are sent.
  Useful to include the rendered output into some other website
  Example: https://www.dokuwiki.org/export?do=export_xhtmlbody

According to sources, the conspiracy is widespread and essentially an unstated policy. The D.C. police union, which has been working to expose all this, says that multiple supervisors have been reclassifying crimes so that they don't show up in the reports. //

In other words, department leaders have been changing stabbings, shootings, and carjackings to lesser classifications like felony assault because then they will not show up in the daily crime statistics. Those crimes are also not required to be reported to the FBI, which is where most crime statistics are compiled nationwide. //

So the next time you see the press or a Democrat politician claim "crime is down in D.C." as a way to push back on the administration, know that they are citing discredited statistics that were birthed out of a scandal that's been unfolding for months. No one should believe anything the MPD puts out, and anyone who goes along with their numbers is being willfully dishonest.

Walter E. Williams -- “What is the noblest of human motivations? I would say greed.”

Casting lots is not what most people think it is. It is not rolling the dice. Casting lots were actually white, smooth stones put into a cup, but there was usually one stone that was black, thus the expression today of being “black balled.” When they cast lots, each person took a stone out after they were shaken up and the one who received the black one was the guilty party. If it was disputes that were being settled, the same process was involved and the guilty party got the black stone. For decisions about priestly duties or dividing up land they would frequently have a symbol or name for the tribe or priest that was mixed together with the others, and whichever lot came out at a particular time, a decision was based upon that. There was no chance for the lot being cast for the wrong person or the wrong tribe because God is sovereign even over the lots.

Truly, “The lot is cast into the lap, but the decision is the Lord’s alone” (Prov 16:33), but the most important question is, “Have you trusted in Christ?” There is no other way to heaven than through Jesus Christ (John 6:44). The path to hell is broad and wide, but there is only one, narrow path to heaven (Acts 4:12). You have to make a decision because to make no decision is to choose to reject Jesus Christ, and that will not go well for you the moment after you die, and no one knows when that will be. We all have an appointment for our death (Heb 9:27). At that moment, it will be too late to do anything about your eternal state. Like the rich man in the story of Lazarus and the Rich Man, you cannot cross over, nor can you go back and warn your family or friends (Luke 16:19-31). The fact is you will be there for all eternity, and when 10 billion years have passed, you will not have knocked off one second of your eternal punishment. Your eternity is been permanently cast if you reject Christ. Choose today who you will follow. Tomorrow may be too late.

Maybe https://github.com/mdavids/ntptools/blob/main/go/monitor2.go

% ./monitor2 -server any.time.nl -stratum 2

    Server: any.time.nl
    Result: OK - test successful

Any exit code other than 0 indicates an error.

mengzhuo
2d
I’ve made a tracentp tool that can works for you

./tracentp -c 1 time.nist.gov
OK from time.nist.gov:seq=1 stratum=1 offset=10.87403ms distance=118.379889ms RTT=235.539075ms ref=.NIST.

https://github.com/mengzhuo/tracentp/releases/tag/v1.0.1

Release tracentp 1.0.1 · mengzhuo/tracentp
Changelog a35e0f6 fix releaser

I have am having problems backing up my databases after an update. I have been poking around on my system trying to figure out why. One query I ran returned this result.

Got error: 1449: The user specified as a definer ('cittool'@'%') does not exist when using LOCK TABLES

After some investigation it appears that the definer for these views is an old developer account that has been purged from the system. The databases and views with this problem are used very infrequently, and most being kept around for archival purposes.

There is about 40 views with a definer that no longer exists. Is there an easy way to change the definer to a different account on everything at once? Is there a way to get mysqldump to simply dump all the views out to a file so I could edit that file and recreate the views?

You can download ready-to-use binaries for [Linux x86_64](http://(https://github.com/basiliscos/syncspirit/releases/download/v0.4.1/syncspirit-fltk-v0.4.1-x86_64.AppImage) (AppImage), Windows (WindowsXP is supported) and Mac OS X (Apple silicon).

Notable changes:

• unified shared folders model, which allows to inspect on a local and remove devices
• possibility to import files from local storage
  performance improvents, upto 5 times on a smaller files
• fix compatibility with global discovery v3 protocol
• support folder_type folder setting (send only, receive only, send & receive)
• support pull_older folder setting (alphabetic, by size, by modification date)
• support disable_temp_indixes (hardcoded to 1 for atm)
• support ignore_permissions folder flag, permissions and no_permissions file flag
• support ignore_deletes folder flag
• support device auto-accept folder flag
• support device introducer and skip_introduction_removals markers
• support outgoing messages to be compressed using lz4

Syncspirit is a syncthing-compatible is written from the scratch software in C++ as classical desktop application.

Tells The Reg China's ability to p0wn Redmond's wares 'gives me a political aneurysm'

Roger Cressey served two US presidents as a senior cybersecurity and counter-terrorism advisor and currently worries he'll experience a "political aneurysm" due to Microsoft's many security messes.

In the last few weeks alone, Microsoft disclosed two major security vulnerabilities – along with news that attackers exploited one involving SharePoint as a zero-day. The second flaw, while not yet under exploitation, involves Exchange server – a favorite of both Russian and Chinese spies for years. //

"This is the latest episode of a decades-long process of Microsoft not taking security seriously. Full stop," Cressey said, acknowledging that the government continues spending billions on Microsoft products. "Anytime there's a major announcement of a Microsoft procurement by the government, the happiest people in the world first are in Redmond and second in Beijing."

Microsoft declined to comment for this story, but did point out that Google Cloud is a client of Cressey's in his consulting work.

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"got sick of telling them what was wrong and not having them fix it"

I don't know the situation with these guys, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt, but that phrase is everything wrong with a lot of cybersecurity professionals in a nutshell...plenty of goons willing to run scans and test 'sploits then suggest insanely expensive mitigations..."Man, that £1m worth of data is exposed it needs to be protected. I recommend this firewall from Ironballs Labs in California, it's only £5m".

Person: building a sandcastle

Cybersecurity: It's shit mate, it's not going to work.

Person: looks confused, doesn't understand

Cybersecurity: Man, I keep telling you it's shit.

Person: sad because his sandcastle fell over

Cybersecurity: See I told you, I've been telling you for ages you need to make your sandcastles better.

Person: Hey man, my goal here was to just have fun and chill out on the beach, a cheap day out. What would you have done?

Cybersecurity: Well, I would have used those boulders over there to fashion a small blast furnace, scavenged for iron ore at the bottom of those cliff and collected all the drift wood over there as fuel.

Person: Man, that's not worth it, I just wanted to build a sandcastle.

Cybersecurity: Why doesn't anyone ever listen?

Usually if a cybersecurity person moans about not being listened to and having their advice ignored, it's an indicator that their proposals for mitigations are just insane.

Yes, security problems can kill your business...but so can overspending on mitigating vulnerabilities that have significantly lower ALE and ARO than the solution costs.

Cybersecurity isn't about "perfect hardened security", it's about balancing risk and cost. You wouldn't protect a £10 note with a £1m vault. Similarly, you wouldn't protect £1m with a £10 petty cash tin. You have to find the balance where the cost is reasonable vs the asset being protected and the risk is sufficiently low that the cost of attacking the asset prevents it being a worthwhile exercise.

Anyone can find a security issue and then suggest the latest and greatest cutting edge security software / hardware to protect the vulnerability...that's the easy part of cybersecurity. The hard part is finding solutions that are feasible and practical that don't result in costs that are higher than the assets are worth.

Black Hat Four countries have now tested anti-satellite missiles (the US, China, Russia, and India), but it's much easier and cheaper just to hack them.

In a briefing at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, Milenko Starcik and Andrzej Olchawa from German biz VisionSpace Technologies demonstrated how easy it is by exploiting software vulnerabilities in the software used in the satellites themselves, as well as the ground stations that control them.

"I used to work at the European Space Agency on ground station IT and got sick of telling them what was wrong and not having them fix it," Olchawa told The Register, "So I decided to go into business to do it myself." //

"We found actual vulnerabilities which allow you to crash the entire onboard software with an unauthenticated telephone," claimed Starcik.

"So basically, you send a packet to the spacecraft, and the entire software crashes and reboots, which then actually causes the spacecraft, if it's not properly configured, to reset all its keys. And then you have zero keys on the spacecraft that you can use from that stage on."

Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh
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🚨 JUST IN: President Trump wants total peace to break out in the Middle East. He has now called on EVERY country in the region to join the Abraham Accords.
7:33 AM · Aug 7, 2025

So far, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan have endorsed the Abraham Accords. In the next phase of the diplomatic push, President Trump wants the leading Arab Gulf state, Saudi Arabia, to enter the framework agreement. “It’s my fervent hope, wish and even my dream that Saudi Arabia will soon be joining the Abraham Accords.” It will be a special day in the Middle East,” the president said during his visit to Saudi Arabia in mid-May. //

Babak Taghvaee - The Crisis Watch @BabakTaghvaee1
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#Breaking: The #IRGC intelligence org. of #Iran's Islamic regime has arrested nearly all top #Iranian nuclear scientists who weren’t assassinated by #Mossad. They’re accused of being Israeli spies—simply because Mossad didn’t kill them. Roozbeh Moradi was one of them who was Show more
9:19 AM · Aug 7, 2025