Friday Squid Blogging: Illex Squid in Argentina Waters

Argentina is reporting that there is a good population of illex squid in its waters ready for fishing, and is working to ensure that Chinese fishing boats don’t take it all.

As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.

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Posted on February 2, 2024 at 5:03 PM • 105 Comments

emily’s post • February 4, 2024 12:06 PM

@ JonKnowsNothing

highly oversold solutions

I’ve used these in two chains of food stores and had only the very rarest of problems when the lookup-item-from-name function returned nothing. My main gripe is loading the bags.
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Actually, why not robotize the entire process ? E.g. something along the lines of a scan-as-you-go cart, with viewable current tally, and the exit auto-bagging. (With accommodations for the “I just came for one thing” customer.)

i.postimg.cc/tJ2kwN2L/praxis.png • February 7, 2024 8:40 PM

Aside: PNG preferred

I’m looking for a historical online article I once read about how to arbitrarily attach an image filetype header correctly to any kind of compressed (say maybe zipped) digital data and have it accepted by OSes and image editors and image viewers as if it was “born and raised” as an image (instead of created by measuring and splicing according to the image file standards).

Please let me know with a reply here if you happen to know of that article or technique. I’m pretty sure it’s trivial for pro or semipro computer sci majors or whatnot. I’m specificly avoiding (R)”true” and (R)”vera” because that’s way too obvious.

In the article, the images were not really aesthetically appealing and they weren’t representational either. And that’s what I liked about the technique. It was just the data wrapped up as an image, with no fuss about “nope, you can’t do that..”.

I mean, if I want to substitute ingredients in a food recipe, it’s not much of a big deal. so why can’t we be lyke that with some files as folders without it devolving into fred flintstones reruns?

It’s pretty obvious who I am, I’m the only guy on earth who still likes CoagulaLight freeware and BMP2WAV.exe

hackers, please stand down and think about having a happier easter holiday.