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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • New Content and Features

    • New Festivals and Events: Added the Desert Festival, Trout Derby, SquidFest, and a new environmental event in summer.
    • New Farm Type: Meadowlands Farm, which includes a coop and two chickens.
    • NPC Dialogues: Expanded dialogues, including custom gift reactions and dynamic dialogues.
    • Multiple Pets: Players can now have multiple pets after maxing out hearts with their starter pet.
    • Ginger Island Map: A new world map for Ginger Island that shows real-time positions.
    • Winter Outfits for NPCs: NPCs now have winter outfits.
    • New Items: Big Chest, Dehydrator, Mushroom Log, Bait Maker, Heavy Furnace, and Fish Smoker.

    Bug Fixes and Improvements

    • Gameplay Adjustments: Bee houses now work with flowers in garden pots, and the gold clock can be turned on or off.
    • Translation and Localization: Improved translations and added options for different fonts and font sizes.
    • Crash Fixes: Addressed various crashes, including those related to NPCs and specific events.

  • I regret buying a PS5 at all. I haven’t been a PSN subscriber for over three years at this point and I don’t feel inclined to be in the future. All the games my friends and I play are on PC and really the only game worth a damn is Astrobot, which is far and away the most fun platformer game I’ve played and is the sole game to justify that console purchase lol.

    I echo the other comments here saying this generation is a waste, it really is and there is nothing really to be gained by getting the latest and “greatest” console today. Maybe it’s just a sign of the times that consoles just don’t have that much pull like they used to, unless they’re portable like the Steam Deck or Switch.







  • A lot of healthcare facilities are running EOL operating systems like Windows XP or Windows 7 because the programs they use for billing or other reasons are stuck on that version. You would be shocked at how prominent this is across most “modern” infrastructure. The resistance to change stems from a “if it isn’t broken, don’t fix it” mentality. Pagers are still the most reliable ways to reach a doctor, which is why they’re still used, not because they’re necessarily the most secure.

    As easy as it is to point blame at “duh boomers” the situation with healthcare in particular is much more nuanced. Though I do agree that any luddites in charge of major hospitals are not helping the situation at all.







  • In a nutshell, a backdoor was intentionally planted by a malicious actor in xz Utils, an open-source data compression utility widely used in Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. This discovery was made by Andres Freund, a developer and engineer working on Microsoft’s PostgreSQL offerings. He was troubleshooting performance problems on a Debian system. Specifically, SSH logins were consuming excessive CPU cycles and generating errors with Valgrind, a memory debugging tool. Through sheer luck and Freund’s careful eye, he eventually discovered that these issues were the result of updates made to xz Utils. Upon closer inspection, he found that updates to xz Utils were the result of a maliciously inserted backdoor. The backdoor, present in xz Utils versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1, manipulated the sshd executable, allowing anyone with a predetermined encryption key to upload and execute arbitrary code on affected devices.