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Arguably one of the best things about Bsky is the lack of an algorithm, but also the ability to have custom feeds. My two favorites are below. Really handy for surfacing posts from friends that might otherwise get lost in the firehose.
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(Sub)Urban boyscout.Tech-whisperer. Tech-skeptic.
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Data recovery industry leader offers services to Southern California residents with damage related to fire.
(NOVATO, Calif. January 9, 2025) DriveSavers, the worldwide leader in data recovery, today announced it will provide free data recovery services to residents of Southern California who have lost critical data as a result of the recent fires.
This free data recovery service is available for victims of the fires and resulting property damage. DriveSavers is donating time, resources, and years of expertise to provide up to $1,000,000 in data recovery services. The free service includes external hard drives, Mac and Windows computers, iPhones, Androids, flash drives, camera cards, and other storage devices damaged during this devastating event. The offer is limited to one device per business or household and does not extend to multi-drive devices like RAIDs.
Many of these devices will have both fire and liquid damage due to fire relief efforts. Because exposure to water and air causes corrosion on circuitry, the best chance of data recovery is for customers to contact DriveSavers immediately to receive a free shipping label to our lab in California.
“DriveSavers is known worldwide for recovering data from severely traumatized devices, including those that have been burnt, submerged in water, crushed, or dropped,” said Scott Moyer, president of DriveSavers. “We offer our expertise and service to those who have lost irreplaceable data due to the Southern California fires, free of charge.”
People with devices damaged by recent Southern California wildfires should be aware that the data on their devices may be lost permanently. The recent fires were extremely hot—hot enough to melt cars—and this heat can melt the parts of a device that store data. For example, the platters inside a hard drive or the chips inside a solid-state drive or smartphone can melt beyond recovery. In some cases, it may be impossible to recover the data from the devices. See the provided photos for examples of recoverable vs. unrecoverable fire-damaged devices.
Those who require data recovery should call DriveSavers to discuss the recoverability of your device immediately at 1 (800) 440-1904. Data recovery advisors are available by phone seven days a week, 24 hours a day. Due to the type of damage we expect to see with these devices, this offer expires on January 31, 2025, or when the value of received recoveries reaches $1,000,000.
For more information about recoverable vs. unrecoverable fire-damaged devices and how to best care for a fire-damaged device, visit https://drivesaversdatarecovery.com/fire-damaged-devices-recoverable-or-not/
About DriveSavers
DriveSavers Data Recovery, worldwide leader in data recovery since 1985, provides the industry’s fastest, most reliable and only certified secure data recovery service. All of the company’s services meet security protocols for financial, legal, corporate and healthcare industries and it is the only company that posts proof of its annual SOC 2 Type II audit report and HIPAA data security and privacy compliance.Â
DriveSavers Data Recovery adheres to U.S. Government security protocols, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act Data Security Rule (GLBA), the Data at Rest mandate (DAR) and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX). For over 40 years, DriveSavers has performed data recovery on every kind of storage device, including hard disk drives (HDDs), solid-state drives (SSDs), smartphones such as iPhone and Android phones, tablets, USB flash drives, camera cards and enterprise-level RAID, NAS, and SAN servers. Satisfied customers include Bank of America, Google, Lucasfilm, NASA, Harvard University, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, U.S. Army and Sandia National Laboratories.
Press Contact: Michelle West, Senior Marketing Manager
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The post DriveSavers is Offering One Million Dollars in Free Data Recovery Services to Victims of the Recent Southern California Wildfires appeared first on DriveSavers Data Recovery Services.
San Francisco, CA
For nearly four years, NASA's Perseverance rover has journeyed across an unexplored patch of land on Mars—once home to an ancient river delta—and collected a slew of rock samples sealed inside cigar-sized titanium tubes.
These tubes might contain tantalizing clues about past life on Mars, but NASA's ever-changing plans to bring them back to Earth are still unclear.
On Tuesday, NASA officials presented two options for retrieving and returning the samples gathered by the Perseverance rover. One alternative involves a conventional architecture reminiscent of past NASA Mars missions, relying on the "sky crane" landing system demonstrated on the agency's two most recent Mars rovers. The other option would be to outsource the lander to the space industry.
What a failure. Feel bad for those scientists involved.
San Francisco, CA
If you are looking for some stimulation, try the newest game from neal.fun called Stimulation Clicker. When you start, there's only one button. Click it, and click it again and again. The more you click, the more options for stimulation you will collect. The collection of nonsense you see above cost me a few thousand "stimulations," but I didn't have to push the button for all of them, because eventually the button will take over. You'll have a chance to earn bonus stimulations and unlock achievements, too. If I were to leave this window open while I took a nap, there's no telling what I'd be able to stimulate myself with! It can get a bit noisy, though. Those who know tell me that the game does indeed end at some point, but I had to dump out at level 16 because I was getting overstimulated. Try Stimulation Clicker yourself and kiss an hour good bye. -via Metafilter
San Francisco, CA
Who doesn’t like dial-up internet? Even if those who survived the dial-up years are happy to be on broadband, and those who are still on dial-up wish that they weren’t, there’s definitely a nostalgic factor to the experience. Yet recreating the experience can be a hassle, with signing up for a dial-up ISP or jumping through many (POTS) hoops to get a dial-up server up and running. An easier way is demonstrated by [Minh Danh] with a Viking DLE-200B telephone line simulator in a recent blog post.
This little device does all the work of making two telephones (or modems) think that they’re communicating via a regular old POTS network. After picking up one of these puppies for a mere $5 at a flea market, [Minh Danh] tested it first with two landline phones to confirm that yes, you can call one phone from the other and hold a conversation. The next step was thus to connect two PCs via their modems, with the other side of the line receiving the ‘call’. In this case a Windows XP system was configured to be the dial-up server, passing through its internet connection via the modem.
With this done, a 33.6 kbps dial-up connection was successfully established on the client Windows XP system, with a blistering 3.8 kB/s download speed. The reason for 33.6 kbps is because the DLE-200B does not support 56K, and according to the manual doesn’t even support higher than 28.8 kbps, so even reaching these speeds was lucky.
San Francisco, CA
There’s an eXodus taking place, and millions are finding a new home on Bluesky. In recent days, the decentralized social media platform has been gaining 10,000 new users every 10–15 minutes, or about 1 million new users per day. Open Culture is already there, sharing the cultural posts you once enjoyed on Twitter. We hope you will join us. Find us at @openculture.bsky.social, or just click here.
PS. If you’re are on Threads, you can also find us there too.
same! @chrisrosa.bsky.social
San Francisco, CA
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