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    Posted on 21-03-02, 14:46 (revision 6)
    Dinosaur

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    Our least-worthless (but still memey) banknote, from A to Z... quite literally!

    (worth USD ~$0,0265 as of the timestamp of this post)

    No, I'm not missing letters - these are literally all the series that have been issued so far, so blame our central bank for this mess (this is not even their first time skipping entire series: the VES 2 bill missed series L, while the gap on the one-of-a-kind VES 200 bill between the two issues [A, M-R] is so large you can literally park a few cargo 747s full of cash in there).

    But there is more to this story beyond letters and gaps:

    - For starters, since 2017 a full series run goes up to 100M notes minus one (?00000001 - ?99999999)
    - Series A (full) and B (lower ~25M notes), and its replacement Z's were printed at our national mint, which can barely print anything at all these days.
    - Series E (upper ~50M), H (full) and K (lower ~10M) are the Soviet Goznak bills. As for that X... apparently somebody at the BCV forgot to tell Goznak that Venezuela had standardized on the Z series for our replacement issues since 1998, so their replacements came under that non-standard series instead (but it's not the first time our country has used the X for replacements). This also means a little increase on difficulty to have a complete set for this specific note, because who doesn't love challenges?
    - If you want to build your collection only with uncirculated notes right now without going broke... it's now kinda late: stocks of uncirculated A-series notes are basically exhausted since late '20, so it's very very VERY unlikely you can go to your nearby bank branch/ATM and get a few mint-grade notes for that one. UPDATE (2021/03/02): So today I went to my trusty bank for my daily withdrawal of COVID-free cash. Guess the uncirculated series for today? FUCKING A! Guess today is a good day to start a collection then~. As for all other four letters, the distribution has been so messy that you can literally go to the same branch every day and get all four in the same week if you're lucky - shipments of series B and K have ramped up since mid-February after being basically stalled since their introduction last year in the middle of lockdowns, while series H is by far the easiest to find.
    - As for replacements... did I've said you love challenges? Remember, we now only have not one, but TWO prefixes! For the Z-series, based on serial counts it's estimated that about 18000 replacements exist, out of a population of ~125M notes, or one replacement every ~7 bricks (1000 notes), although in real life, you may go through thousands of bills without ever seeing a replacement, while someone at the other side of the country gets several consecutive pieces (!!!). As for the X-series... that one is even more messy: each printer has its own ideas about how to count replacements, and while our handy catalog estimates are in the vicinity of ~48000 notes, as you can see on the picture, my particular specimen has a serial well past the known range! So... uh, good luck. Hope you don't want them uncirculated too! (auction prices start at $40 for a UNC-grade Z-series note last time I bothered checking!)
    - Notice the very visible downgrade on the security thread on the Soviet-printed bills: it has more windows... but the holograms, magnetic surfaces, text cutouts and UV printing are now gone on the thinner plastic strip :/

    Sidenote: That catalog is crowdsourced and the data is publicly available. Since our central bank is not the BEP (where they even document their ranges of issued replacements, how nice of them~), and the numbers they publish are beyond useless, collectors had to git serious and bring the scanners and cameras to actually know what the hell we are collecting (now you know what I've been doing in the last few months with every banknote I get in my hands). The only vaguely similar project I've seen is EuroBillTracker, albeit that one has a very different purpose: literally surveying the tracks around the world of every printed Euro bill they can get!

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    Posted on 21-03-06, 00:32
    Dinosaur

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    ...here we go again!
    http://www.bcv.org.ve/etiquetas/cono-monetario-2021

    Sweet, sweet, neverending hyperinflation!

    Yes, they can't afford all those zeroes so they instead spell the quantities in letters.

    The photos are of the actual production notes (all zeros serial numbers = samples), the real deal. Based on my appreciations and in the quality of the resident Sovereign Bolivar Connosieur of the bBoards, I can ensure you that the 200K ($0.10) and 1M ($0.50) notes are being printed here... while surprisingly our buddies at Goznak got awarded the contract to print the 500K ($0.25) bill.

    We're also skipping denominations again, there will be no revival of the 100K note!

    On a happier note, enjoy the latest fad on airplanes: facemasked airplanes!
    https://simpleflying.com/garuda-a330neo-mask-livery/
    https://simpleflying.com/cargolux-747-mask-livery/
    The Cargolux 747 is especially cute with that "NOT WITHOUT MY MASK" motto, and yes, the new Airbuses (all the Neos and the A350) also wear racoon masks on the windshield due to technical reasons (it improves thermals around windshields and supposedly makes replacing those easier)


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    Posted on 21-03-15, 13:08

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    card reader: "Not quite my tempo!"

    My current setup: Super Famicom ("2/1/3" SNS-CPU-1CHIP-02) → SCART → OSSC → StarTech USB3HDCAP → AmaRecTV 3.10
    Posted on 21-03-25, 01:08 (revision 1)
    Dinosaur

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    Touhou 18 demo rollcall

    In order:

    - Another catgirl, yay~! (can't wait for Mike x [Chen/Orin/Shou] yuri fanart. Yes, she is a (broken) maneki-neko.

    - Yorihime copypasta, but she smokes (literally, not figuratively).

    - Another kappa, but wearing camo (so expect her to be a hit on the 'murican fandom like a certain 'murican hell fairy)

    Compared with the TH15/16/17 demogirls, this initial lineup looks kinda weak... and certainly less original (it will be hard to beat TH17's Cow & Chicken)


    And yes, apparently ZUN finally learned to draw boobs after all those years, so busty Sakuya is now canon. The pad jokes can finally be put to rest HAHAHAHAHAnop--- *KNIFED*

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    Posted on 21-03-26, 12:12

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    https://tonsky.me/blog/emoji/

    Try the night mode. (Bonus points: site design doesn't work with Dark Reader.)

    My current setup: Super Famicom ("2/1/3" SNS-CPU-1CHIP-02) → SCART → OSSC → StarTech USB3HDCAP → AmaRecTV 3.10
    Posted on 21-03-26, 13:00 (revision 1)
    Custom title here

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    Posted by creaothceann
    https://tonsky.me/blog/emoji/

    Try the night mode. (Bonus points: site design doesn't work with Dark Reader.)

    When a site doesn't work with its own built-in dark mode... should we laugh or cry?

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    Posted on 21-03-26, 15:59

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    I'm afraid the site's dark mode works exactly as intended...

    My current setup: Super Famicom ("2/1/3" SNS-CPU-1CHIP-02) → SCART → OSSC → StarTech USB3HDCAP → AmaRecTV 3.10
    Posted on 21-03-26, 23:21
    Custom title here

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    Posted by creaothceann
    I'm afraid the site's dark mode works exactly as intended...
    Then we cuss.



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    Posted on 21-03-27, 04:56 (revision 1)
    Custom title here

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    Correction: We cuss, then we weaponize long-forgotten browser options.



    (Not my normal settings, but sometimes a man has to remind the web who ACTUALLY gets to make the decisions about how he reads.)
    (Fixing the incredibly narrow column of text would require something resembling effort.)

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    Posted on 21-03-27, 17:17 (revision 1)
    Dinosaur

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    > tonsky.me

    Ah, I remember that hideous Caterpillar-yellow color scheme. I have read other of his posts being somewhat regularly linked from Hackernews.

    Can't expect better from a Mac fanboy, I guess: they love UX, minimalist designs, emojis, and of course, Apple hardware.

    (I still insist: emojis are a mistake that should have never left Japan, and colored emojis are a punishable war crime)

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    Posted on 21-03-30, 21:00

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    How to create a leather-bound book

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    Posted on 21-03-31, 16:20
    Dinosaur

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    In another episode of "the DMCA is a shitty law": Sega pulls a Nintendo over SteamDB for... mirroring metadata from Steam!?

    https://torrentfreak.com/sega-lawyers-demand-immediate-suspension-of-steam-database-over-alleged-piracy-210330/
    https://steamdb.info/app/1235140/

    Cloudflare got a (clearly bogus) DMCA takedown notice over the Yakuza: Like a Dragon page on SteamDB, claiming that they were distributing pirate copies of the game (WTF!?). The SteamDB guys demanded an explanation from Sega, but their lawyers haven't learned yet how to use a computer to engage in communications with other parties, so instead they hit SteamDB's actual hosting provider with yet another bogus DMCA. Since this quickly became another David-vs-Goliath case, the couple dudes behind SteamDB had no option but to take down the Yakuza: Like a Dragon page to not jeopardize the site. A tweet shitstorm ensued, and finally someone at SoA (that actually is computer-literate) had to defuse this bomb for good:

    After initially being taken down by a DMCA, this page is now back up as the DMCA has been retracted.

    SEGA statement:

    Earlier this week, one of our games was incorrectly flagged on SteamDB. We utilize anti-piracy software to protect our games at a large scale, but sometimes it makes mistakes. SEGA will continue to fine-tune these systems to avoid this in the future and we appreciate SteamDB cooperating with us to resolve the issue quickly.


    I hope that for "fine-tuning their systems" they mean "actually hire lawyers that know how computers work"!

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    Posted on 21-03-31, 23:55
    Custom title here

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    It sounds like the DMCA takedown requests are automated. Which is really, really bad.
    Especially for Sega, if someone presses the issue. The DMCA provides stiff penalties for fraudulent takedown requests.

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    Posted on 21-04-06, 12:23

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    ICU64: Real-time Hacking of a C64 Emulator

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    Posted on 21-04-11, 22:31
    Dinosaur

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    Is it Pokemon Or Big Data?

    Spoilers: I did 70%, and that's because I'm not familiar with many of those startups/products whose names REALLY sound like Pokemon ripoffs.

    Disclaimer: I don't do Big Data, and last time I touched a Pokemon game, it was in the 3rd generation era (GBA), in 2006.

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    Posted on 21-04-14, 06:47

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    Ever heard of WebUSB? Only supported by Chrome(ium) browsers, so far.

    Wow, permissionless listing of USB devices WCGW?


    My current setup: Super Famicom ("2/1/3" SNS-CPU-1CHIP-02) → SCART → OSSC → StarTech USB3HDCAP → AmaRecTV 3.10
    Posted on 21-04-14, 08:42
    Dinosaur

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    Posted by creaothceann
    Ever heard of WebUSB? Only supported by Chrome(ium) browsers, so far.

    Wow, permissionless listing of USB devices WCGW?

    Remember: the browser is the new OS.

    Native development has been dubbed "too hard, too convoluted, too restricted, too difficult, too unfeasible". Electron was just a matter of convenience.

    Sooner, that HTML Accelerator card will stop being a meme and became real. That day, it will be a very sad day for computing in general. It will come, mark my words :/

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    Posted on 21-04-25, 15:20 (revision 1)
    Dinosaur

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    Want to start your own money printing business? Well, go cash your buttcoins and take a chance on this one-of-a-kind auction of used equipment for security printing:

    https://www.troostwijkauctions.com/uk/security-paper/01-36149/

    Online closed tender sale of banknote, security paper printing machinery (Sale 36149)
    Online closed tender sale of “KBA” banknote presses, Intaglio press, banknote protector varnish line, cutting/packing line, complete aqua save installation, counting banding machine, “Kodak” offset plate processing system etc. due to relocation of the banknotes department, of Crane Currency's former Tumba Bruk facility a worldwide leading company in printing, in Sweden.


    So, what's a "closed tender sale"?
    Tender sale
    At a tender sale (sale with registration) starting prices and bidding are not visible. Your bid is secret and cannot be seen by any other bidder.

    In other words, "you can't afford it way cheaper than a Silly Valley cellphone app startup".
    And even if you win the bid for a particular piece of equipment, it won't be easy to follow on with the sale:
    - There are "dismantling, packing and loading" fees, usually in the vicinity of dozens of thousands of Euros, on top on how much would cost to get those machines out of Sweden.
    - Some of the equipment can only be disassembled by the OEM, which adds to the costs.
    - Expect to find some toxic goo on some of the machines!
    - Spare parts sold on separate lots.

    But even if you can't afford to print fake money on your color laserjet, at least this auction gets us a rare glimpse into the weird and wonderful industry of security printing. It's waaaaaaay more complex than printing the Sunday newspapers or shopping catalogs, all with a bunch of secrecy on top due to the everlasting threat of counterfeiters.

    And yup, that plant most likely was the one that printed some of the late issues of the long-defunct Strong Bolivar, among other less-terrible currencies.

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    Posted on 21-04-26, 06:36

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    Home-mining Crypto Chia Sparks Hard Drive Shortage

    https://decrypt.co/68617/home-mining-crypto-chia-sparks-hard-drive-shortage-ahead-of-trading-debut

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    Posted on 21-04-26, 22:12 (revision 1)
    Dinosaur

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    ...is there anything buttcoin "miners" aren't ruining these days?

    I don't get this insane and unhealthy obsession with fake money, to put it frankly. All in the middle of supply shortages for pretty much everything, from resistors to vaccines :/

    ---

    Forget mememoneys, let's remind why the Internet is for: porn cats!

    Cats anywhere near airplanes mean cat-astrophes:
    https://avherald.com/h?article=48833089
    https://avherald.com/h?article=4e2ae1fa

    It should be mandatory for cats to wear those REMOVE BEFORE FLIGHT red tags :D

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