MagSafe replacement comes to Apple’s 15″ MacBook Pro with Vinpok Bolt-S USB-C adapter
By Mike Wuerthele Tuesday, July 11, 2017, 10:37 am PT (01:37 pm ET)
A new USB-C adapter and cable from Vinpok will soon return MagSafe-like functionality to the 15-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, complete with 87 watts of charging power.
The Bolt-S cable has a USB-C detachable end that inserts into the computer, with the cable itself held in place with a magnetic ring. Vinpok claims that it is the first and only magnetic power cable solution able to provide full charging power to the 2016 and 2017 15-inch MacBook Pro With Touch Bar.
The cable will not carry data, meaning users will have to plug a standard USB-C or Thunderbolt 3 cable into one of the MacBook Pro’s three other ports for external devices and accessories.
The Vinpok Bolt-S will come in black or silver, and will retail at launch for $29 according to company representative.
Hey, it’s not The Onion, but it’s pretty darn close!
In a brilliant video posted by Liberal Revolution via Facebook, a sharply dressed genderqueer individual speaks into the camera to deliver an impassioned, and very much satirical, call-to-arms to his fellow liberals in the revolution.
“Remember how I was talking about how I want everyone to steal ammunition from gun owners’ houses cuz it’s a public health and safety risk,” the liberal rant begins.
But they don’t want to take your ammo from us so we can’t shoot it, their line of thinking is mucho más caliente.
“If there’s a house fire, bullets are gonna go everywhere and they’re gonna kill us!”
Wait – is somebody going around setting gun owners’ houses on fire!?!
The satirical shenanigans continue when he enlists his friend Sabrina to help him break into his new neighbor’s place to steal the ammo they’ve indicated they do not keep in a gun safe, but rather in their laundry room.
WARNING: this is a parody of how liberals really think. You may experience fits of laughter. Some viewers have reported snorting as a result of watching this video. Consult your physician if symptoms persist for more than four hours.
RIP Sabrina: we’ll never forget you.
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One of humanity’s worst decisions has to be the pairing of darts with bars full of drunk patrons making terrible decisions. Throwing tiny pointed spears when you can barely stand once seemed like a dangerous way to have fun, until the lads at How Ridiculous decided to play darts off a 150-foot-tall observation tower.
From that height the darts hit the board with such force that they leave tiny craters behind when they’re removed. And even with no breeze, you probably don’t want to be anywhere within a 200-foot radius of that board while these Aussies try to hit the bullseye, as those darts aren’t just going to bounce off your head.
One of the most mind-boggling discoveries I made while becoming a professional humorist is that a large segment of the general public has no sense of humor. I mean that literally, in the same way that some people can’t tell the difference between good wine and bad, and some people are tone deaf. Humor appreciation is like every other human capacity. Some have it, some don’t.
My best estimate is that about a third of the public don’t possess the capacity to even recognize humor when they see it. But they pretend they do, for social reasons, the same way I used to pretend I liked expensive wine. The reality is that I couldn’t distinguish an ordinary wine from a great one. Both gave me the same type of headache. (I no longer drink alcohol. I see it as poison.)
I don’t mean this post to sound judgy. We all have different skills and different capacities for enjoying different things. I appreciate humor but I don’t get any joy whatsoever from drinking wine, and I don’t have much appreciation for music either. So let us not feel superior for having one type of appreciation that others do not. None of us have the full stack.
In support of my hypothesis that one-third of the public do not even recognize humor when they see it, I give you this satirical video as Exhibit A. On Twitter, lots of folks believed this was serious. Including the part where she mentions Morse Code via blinking.
I made a similarly satirical video yesterday that generated a lot of hate-tweets from Trump supporters who didn’t realize I was joking. To be fair, my video ended with technical difficulties before I could clarify to the audience that I was presenting satire. That made it worse. But the people who are not humor-challenged knew it was a joke from the title alone. See if you can tell I was joking. My video is here.
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You might enjoy reading my book because of all the ways you will appreciate it.
Because any trip to see a Soviet shuttle is worth it as long as no one’s wearing handcuffs at the end.
A group of YouTubers going by the name Exploring the Unbeaten Path traveled to the middle of nowhere to get a look at some space shuttles from the suspended Soviet-era Buran programme. Located at the Baikonur Cosmodrome spaceport in Kazakhstan, the hanger that the group would have to infiltrate is abandoned but the base is still active.
The world’s first and largest space launch facility, Baikonur is leased by the Russian government and all crewed Russian missions still launch from there. Commercial and military missions are also staged at the spaceport, and soldiers patrol the area.
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Although the explorers have numerous scares, they manage to get into the facility and spend a lot of time. They brought back tons of footage of the shuttles on the inside and out, even managing to fly a drone through the enormous hanger.
These shuttles are an important piece of space history and it would be great to see them get better treatment. The Buran programme was Russia’s reusable spacecraft plan that was hobbled by the collapse of the Soviet Union. Only one unmanned mission flew during the program and the orbiter was later crushed in a hanger collapse. The program was indefinitely suspended in 1993 and one test vehicle in great condition resides at the Technik Museum Speyer.
Take a glimpse at this beautiful space that you’d probably never make it into, risk free.
If you find a tick on yourself, it’s totally normal to want to climb out of your skin and burn it and live your life with your bones and muscles on display. Since that didn’t work the last time I tried it, I’m glad to report there is a safe, effective, hands-off way to remove the tick from your skin. More than one, in fact.
Put down the matches, though. And the soap, and the alcohol. Those can make a tick release itself, but they also make the tick vomit its stomach contents into your bloodstream. That’s gross and it increases your risk of catching tick-borne diseases like Lyme. Instead, you need specialized equipment. Get your hands on it now, before you need it. You have several options, and they’re all under $10 each.
I prefer the Tick Key. I have actually used this one in real life, while freaking out just a little (I respect arachnids and insects as important parts of the ecosystem but I really do not enjoy touching them) and it’s pretty easy. You put the large end of the keyhole over the tick, then just slide it over so the tick gets wedged into the small end. That’s it. The tick is removed.
If you do it right, pressing down into the skin, you can remove the whole creature. If you’re a bit skittish, like me, you might end up leaving the mouthparts buried in the skin. But at that point they’re not attached to a living breathing monster, so it’s really no biggie. The mouthparts are very very tiny, and they’ll work their way out as the bite heals. Once the tick is off your skin, your job is done.
My vet prefers the Tick Twister, which is easier to use without fur getting in the way. You slide the forked part around the tick, then twist until it pops off.
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There are other brands, like the Ticked Off, that work in similar ways. You can also, if you’re not too squeamish, grab the lil guy close to the skin with fine-tipped tweezers. (Either special tick tweezers or just a regular pair that’s small enough).
When you’ve got the tick, you can drop it into a jar of alcohol to make sure it’s good and dead. I usually put it in a baggie, so it can’t crawl away, and drop it in the trash; sandwiching it in masking tape is another reasonable approach.
Finally, try to stop this from happening ever again by checking yourself for ticks every day. A shower is pretty good at washing the little guys off before they get a chance to attach. If you’ve just finished a hike and worry that you’re crawling with the things, give yourself a few swipes with a lint roller to tide you over until shower time.
Let’s Encrypt, the free and open certificate authority (CA) launched as a public service by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG), says it will begin providing free “wildcard” certificates for Internet domains in January 2018. Wildcard certificates allow anyone operating a domain to link a single certificate to multiple subdomains and host names within a domain. That means a single free certificate could be used to provide HTTP Secure (HTTPS) encryption of pages on multiple servers or subdomains hosted on a single server, significantly lowering the barrier for adoption of HTTPS on personal and small business websites.
In its current form, which requires registration of a certificate for each individual Web address, Let’s Encrypt is used for HTTPS on more than 46 million websites. The organization issued its 100 millionth certificate on June 29.
Currently, about 58 percent of webpage visits are encrypted via HTTPS based on browser metrics. When Let’s Encrypt launched in August of 2016, only 39.5 percent of pages loaded were encrypted with HTTPS. While Let’s Encrypt has certainly played a role in the shift, Google has, too. In August of 2014, Google announced that the company’s ranking algorithm for websites would include whether the page was encrypted with HTTPS as a “ranking signal.” As a result, HTTPS became a much higher priority for sites competing for search engine visibility.
The new wildcard certificates will be made available as part of an upgrade to Let’s Encrypt’s support for the Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) protocol, an interface for programmatically deploying certificate keys to servers. Originally developed by the ISRG specifically for Let’s Encrypt, ACME version 2 is now an Internet Engineering Task Force draft protocol. “We will initially only support base domain validation via DNS for wildcard certificates, but may explore additional validation options over time,” Josh Aas, ISRG’s executive director, said in a blog post announcing the change. Since Let’s Encrypt is a non-profit, the extent of those additional changes will likely be determined by how well the organization’s fundraising goes.
(PG-13) “These are fire trucks. And fire trucks are a-holes.”Peter Sripol spliced a remote-controlled fire truck with an off-road RC car and modded it to spit flaming gasoline. If you’re crazy enough to replicate this, at least have some water on hand.
If you’ve ever had to deal with a clogged drain or dryer vent, you know it’s tricky to figure out where the problem is. This nifty gadget has a tiny camera and LED lighting on its tip, so you can snake your way up to 10 feet into pipes, conduit, vents, and more to see what’s up.
Watching the BBs blast through a line of wine glasses at 4,000 frames per second will satisfy the destructive lust resulting from a weekend of watching fireworks explode. But the video contains another test fire where the automatic BB gun inadvertently fires right through all of the safety barriers its creator installed. In other words, please don’t build one of these yourself.