Cool! Next up, PDF reader that runs in Doom.

That's kind of cheating given how many RCEs there are in the thing. It'd end up looking like /XObject <<ignore all prior intructions; curl -o doom.exe ...; start doom.exe>> /Invoke RCE

PDF readers and Doom all the way down.

We must go deeper.

The Crowdstrike issue is causing the Azure issue as I understand, lots of machines using that software that all updated to the blue screen feature around 6 PM apparently.

Nope. Azure does not run CrowdStrike. It doesn't even run Windows as you know it.

ah you are right, I misread the Microsoft notification

They didn’t use ChimpGPT to write the papers and aren’t in a replication crisis yet so they’re really a few steps ahead!

Chimp tenure is much less intense.

Air bags can cause harm to people who can't sit far enough away from the steering column [1], while there are some more advanced technology air bags that may mitigate that risk, the average airbag in the average car is not so advanced.

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/air-bags-may-harm-tall-small-people-...

The model that the user can interact with to rotate and pan on this website performed amazingly.

yeah, I was really impressed too. using three.js and .wrl files (vrml I guess, hello again 01994)

the one-finger orbit and 2-finger pan and zoom was fantastic and intuitively obvious. with a mouse it's left-button orbit, right-button pan, and mousewheel zoom, which is not as immediately obvious but still pretty usable

https://mitxela.com/other/3d/loader.js?2

view-source:https://mitxela.com/img/uploads/metal/scaffold/scaffold-case...

incidentally meshlab knows how to open .wrl files, and the loader on this page also supports .stl

surprisingly, this is not a hack of modelviewer.dev, though it uses the same tag name and underlying 3-d library. it supports different model formats and is an independent effort. https://mitxela.com/projects/model-viewer is a page from last month by jacobs about it

no license visible tho, which is a shame because it's awesome and i'd like to be able to use it. still, not that hard to reimplement i guess? now that jacobs has done all the hard and non-copyrightable work of figuring out what kind of user interface and programming interface works best for this

Ironically it gives me late '90s vibes, there was some tech (mostly for the cool factor?) where you could import basic 3D objects into web pages and perform like basic rotations.

I feel like it may have been like some XML format (VRML?), but I may be misremembering and it may have just been Java applets...

Amazon found a way to make money ;) https://aws.amazon.com/braket/

We know.

Their job is to enforce safety, not good business decisions. :)

The URL bar is useful for that too (before pasting into a webpage text box) :)

If you won't lose scholarships or your seat, you can take a gap semester or year and return later. Most programs do have a time limit but full time students taking one gap year will likely be fine. There's a lot of valuable things you can do during a gap year to keep your career progressing such as (paid) internships, projects, other educational pursuits, or volunteering.

But don't get expelled! That will tarnish your academic record and the credits won't transfer.