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Several individuals are accused of cheating at an electronic craps game at The Cosmopolitan casino in Las Vegas using a method called dice sliding, according to investigators with the Nevada Gaming Control Board. The group reportedly made off with over $200,000 in November and December of 2021. The scheme, which involved sliding the dice across […]
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The history of 50 Ohm impedance dates back to the late 1920s/early 1930s, when air-filled coaxial cables were designed for radio transmitters. Engineers needed to balance the cable’s ability to transfer power while minimizing attenuation and voltage loss. It turns out that finding a single impedance to balance these objectives was impossible. However, for air-filled […]
Easy Effects is a user-friendly audio effects application formerly known as PulseEffects. Easy Effects offers an array of effects including Auto gain, Bass enhancer, Compression, Convolution, Delay and many more. The application is highly customizable and the user has full control over the effects order. It is available through most Linux distribution packages or via […]
WordPress is celebrating its 20th anniversary today. The community has been committed to democratizing publishing and spreading the four freedoms of the GPL for two decades. To celebrate the milestone, the Audrey Scholars program has been launched to experiment and see how it unfolds. It’s possible that one day an Audrey Scholar could even lead […]
Recently, Mozilla Firefox users have been receiving full-screen ads promoting its paid open-source VPN service. These intrusive ads disable functionality of the web browser and cause browser unresponsiveness, forcing users to terminate the browser’s process. Users have shown their anger at the aggressive advertising from a company that claims to value user choice. Mozilla VPN […]
The author has noticed a trend of formal emails, filled with excessive, sickening language, that seem to lack any genuine emotion. The author admits to not being able to get GPT to avoid this same issue in their responses, but wonders if others are still using the AI tool to write emails with a lower […]
The Latest Earthquakes application is easy and straightforward to use, but make sure you’re using a recent browser. If you experience any issues, don’t worry, we have a legacy version available that might work better for you.
The lemon is a human invention, only a few thousand years old, and is thought to have come from East Asia. The lemon is a cross breed of several fruits, including the bitter orange and the citron. The bitter orange is a hybrid of two other citrus fruits: the pomelo and the mandarin, while the […]
This article provides a step-by-step guide on how to set up jails on FreeBSD 12 without any helpers. All jails are placed under /var/jail and given their own directories reflecting their short hostname. You can either create one big /etc/jail.conf or one /etc/jail.HOSTNAME.conf per jail. To have the jails started and stopped during system boot […]