producing thick plumes of oily smoke.

That’s what happens when oil burns. Specifically, when oil storage tanks burn. Burning oil makes big plumes of thick, oily smoke.

In the video below, a shot-down drone can be seen jettisoning its special FX package.

Ukraine managed to get a drone through three (or more) layers of air defense around Moscow, only to drop an FX package? Look… Even I make fun of Russian air defense, but it’s not entirely useless and it does work.

It now makes perfect sense how Ukraine was able to fabricate such an eye-catching mise-en-scene

No. It doesn’t make any sense at all, per the above reason. If you send a drone to Moscow, make it through the air defense and have the opportunity to bomb a refinery, just bomb the fucking refinery. Burning oil is your FX package, dipshit.

The actual damage to the refinery itself turned out to be disappointing, as only a few oil storage tanks were actually destroyed.

Oil tanks are big, contain a fuck-ton of oil and burning tanks are a pain in the ass to extinguish. Heat damage alone can shut a refinery down if any high pressure tanks or lines were exposed. They would need to be inspected properly and that isn’t a small task. So yeah, a couple of destroyed tanks is kind of a bad thing. (Also, he just confirmed that is wasn’t an “empty strike”, employing “FX packages”. Shit got blowed up, dawg.)

In fact, much of Ukraine’s recent narratives

… narratives, propaganda or whatever… Those are likely Russian videos of Russian oil tanks on fire. No narrative is needed. (I stay away from most state news sites and steer clear of most opinion-based news, blogs or videos. Getting actual information about a conflict is hard enough, thanks. My point: I don’t know the narratives and reading a blog like this just lets me know that the propaganda engine is having to chooch really fucking hard about this.)

Alas, these propaganda blogs are just made to sow doubt with large groups of idiots. It doesn’t matter if they are true or not, what matters is that their future front-line meat waves stay dumb and that .ml posters have another hyperlink to add as a “source”: These links are also for idiots to click that don’t validate any of those sources. This stuff fuels confirmation bias, consciously or not, and regardless if any of it is true.

Not yet.

I think there is a much higher probability of oil prices being manipulated in the short-term.

I also forgot to answer your actual question! :)

Trigging the overdraw protection on a PSU is generally not a horrible thing, but it really depends on how the PSU does it. I would generally assume that that Corsair uses a proper current monitoring circuit with my best guess being a resisor shunt of some kind in combination with a proper monitoring chip that triggers a solid state switch to cut power extremely fast. Cheapers PSUs may just use a resettable fuse, which is also “solid state” but may actually fully blow (ie: esplode) or become less effective over time. Absolute worst case, a capacitor may blow its top. (If you have an old PSU you can destroy, flip the switch to 115V and plug it into a 220V circuit. You will get a loud bang and some smoke, but generally, nothing extremely dangerous. Its worth it to see and understand how PSUs may fail catastrophically if you never have blown up a large capacitor.)

The biggest warning sign of overloading a PSU is heat. PSUs get warm naturally and will get hot under heavy load. If the PSU has a fan, just occasionally feel the air and if it’s getting uncomfortably hot, you might be getting in the danger zone. Heat will naturally change resistive properties of different materials, leading to variations in current flow. This is normal. However, heat can trigger “thermal runaway” conditions where a component gets hot, starts to draw more current, gets hotter, draws even more current and will eventually melt or explode. Not good, but also normal. Hence: Heat is a good indicator of a device that is about to fail or shut off. (Current overdraw circuits may also use thermal sensors to shut off the device as well.)

If the device gets overly warm, point a fan at it as a temporary solution. It’ll give you just a hair more wiggle room during overdraw conditions. Not much wiggle room, but wiggle room nonetheless.

In short: High current loads/pushing components over rated limits is never ideal, but it’s not extremely bad either. It shortens the total life of the device itself and its safety circuitry, but it’s ok for short periods if you aren’t stupid about it.

(Sorry for the TED talk, but it’s my way of walking through the different scenarios of what you are trying to accomplish. FWIW, I have a ton of experience blowing up electronics so I am probably more familiar with pushing safety limits than most casual users.)

Bonus: Overclocking/Overvolting is not always going to shorten the life of equipment. Damage is caused by poor and ineffective cooling, but that does take proper planning and testing. Factory overclocked devices are usually still waaaay under their actual (and usually undocumented) thermal/voltage limits. However, you are usually getting really beefy heatsinks and additional fans for those kinds of cards. If you run a “factory overclocked” card at normal load, its additional cooling will theoretically extend the life of the card beyond its actual useful lifespan since it it’s being run far below it’s rated thermal limits. (This paragraph sounds like a contradiction in itself, but makes sense when taking the total useful life of the card into account, before it actually is completely outdated and is only good for scrap.)

You should be ok, even if you touch 750W every now and then. Corsair PSUs are generally decent and can likely hold over 750W for short periods. What you are sacrificing is PSU efficiency, but if it’s temporary, whatevers. Don’t overclock the CPU and under volt the GPU and don’t run heavy and continuous compute loads for long periods of time.

While the power management is likely a hair different with my flavor of 7900XTX, it has always behaved well under heavy load and benchmarking and it rarely spikes to max power unless all the OC knobs are pushed to max.

Unfortunately, I can’t speak to how the 7900XTX is managed under Linux. If I am not mistaken, unless you are purposely overriding power profiles, you should be fine with whatever the stock settings are on the card itself. (7900XTX’s do come in non-OC and OC variants or have a switch for a dual bios for either configuration. Manufacturer OC settings can still be quite timid, IMHO.)

Depending on your specific components, the system may crash before it hits a power limit in some cases. If the PSU can’t handle the power draw requirements, the power rails might sag a little during a burst and crash the system. I have only seen this a couple of times, but it’s still worth mentioning.

Ignoring all of the above, just run some tests under different power loads, and in this case, aim for the lowest power settings you can, just to be on the safe side. While not perfect, invest $20 in a kill-a-watt power draw monitor for system testing. At a minimum, you will get a rough idea of total system power draw, which is good enough here. (I have seen ~+/-5% skew between different kill-a-watts, which isn’t an issue unless you are seriously working against a strict draw limit.)

That’s basically a tunafish sandwich without the sandwich. Add a bit of lemon juice and it’ll knock down the fishy taste. Add a bit more lemon juice for a bit more citrus excitement.

I accidentally added too much mayo to my tunafish the other day and fixed it with a bit of Panko, of all things. The extra crunch was super neat and was better than celery that some people add. (Panko, for those who don’t know, is a Japanese breadcrumb that is super close in texture to rice crispies. I thought it would help absorb the extra mayo, and it kinda did, but also kinda didn’t.)

May 19, 2026 3:00 PM _Meta Employees Are Scrambling to Use Up Benefits Ahead of Ahead of Meta’s latest round of mass layoffs tomorrow, some employees are deserting offices, abandoning their work, and loading up on perks they might soon lose, several people at the company tell WIRED.

Two employees describe a widespread rush to use up an annual $2,000 flexible benefit, which can cover a variety of expenses including health and wellness activities. A separate triennial credit of $200 toward the purchase of audio gear has led to a scramble to purchase Apple AirPods and other headphones. Another source says Meta offices have been largely empty this week, as people prioritize polishing their résumés and gather offsite to commiserate with friends for what may be their final time as colleagues. Employees are variously “paralyzed,” “coasting,” and “panicked,” sources say.

Meta plans to lay off about 10 percent of its nearly 80,000 employees on Wednesday, with notices going out to affected workers’ personal and corporate email addresses at 4 am Singapore, London, or San Francisco time depending on their location, according to a company-wide memo sent on Monday. The cuts are coming at a time when the social media giant behind Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook is enjoying record-high profits.

But CEO Mark Zuckerberg insists that the company must free up cash to invest in AI data centers, and that Meta can perform just as well with fewer employees because of AI technologies that augment human labor.

Are you a current or former Meta employee who wants to talk about what’s happening? We’d like to hear from you. Using a nonwork phone or computer, contact the reporter securely on Signal at peard33.24 and ChaoticGoode.12. Meta didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment for this story. The company has undergone three previous large rounds of layoffs since 2022, including as part of Meta’s one-time “year of efficiency” drive in 2023. But even though the latest round is smaller than a couple of those, it is drawing widespread scrutiny because it comes at a time of societal anxiety about AI’s impact on jobs.

Inside Meta, the imminent cuts are among several concerns that have sunk morale to unprecedented depths, according to 16 current and former employees who recently spoke to WIRED. Employees also have been frustrated by being “drafted” onto a new AI team without any choice and the rollout of surveillance software that tracks US workers’ laptop use to train AI models.

Meta also plans to internally restructure as it conducts sweeping layoffs, transferring 7,000 remaining staff to “AI initiatives” and converting more managers into individual contributors. That would bring the total number of those affected—either laid off or placed in a new role—to 20 percent of the current workforce, Reuters reported on Monday. WIRED independently confirmed this reporting. Some parts of the company have been told they won’t be affected at all.

But in recent days, employees who are bracing for changes have shared checklists internally about benefits to take advantage of, and are saving documents such as performance reviews and pay stubs, according to one worker. Some teams are meeting up at bars and restaurants near Meta offices in New York and Menlo Park on Tuesday and Wednesday to eat and drink away their sorrows, several employees said. Management has encouraged employees not to come into offices on Wednesday.

Update, May 19, 11:40 PM EDT: WIRED corrected the time zones when layoff notices will be emailed. _

Dude is almost directly quoting Russian state media and doesn’t even realize he is just parroting a narrative*.

This is why you don’t listen to state media, kids. If you hear something on repeat, over and over, you eventually begin to believe those words are true, without realizing it. Confirmation bias quickly kills any remainder of independent thought.

It’s a nasty process. If you have ever seen someone have their rational thought destroyed by MAGA, it’s the same thing. Rational discussions are pointless: They always degrade into pre-canned political talking points, whataboutisms and blaming others.

* I have often wondered if he parrots misleading narratives with purpose. ml is a perfect recruiting space for trolls and does function well enough to amplify fake or misleading news, after all.

Genetically-optimal? How in the fuck do they determine that? What happens if their spawn is not genetically-optimal? Recycling bin?

Geezus fuck people are dumb sometimes.

I want it to be a Lower Decks reference.

https://www.reddit.com/r/massachusetts/comments/1r8lv00/spotted_in_the_wild/

That pic looked too jpg’d to be real, but I found another source.

Not if they are both wrong.

It’s probably just a rogue hemorrhoid that will just add more stress. Sorry.

000, 666 and 900-999 are invalid area numbers and any digit group of all zeros is also invalid. Thanks for playing!

I am making a slightly different point and have a bias to this perspective: https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/SD/19230.pdf

I am saying that an SSN can be part of a larger validation scheme, not the only key to the castle. Specifically for government sites, SSNs can be linked to IRS data to verify places of last residence. A person generally needs to verify multiple items that are referenced by the SSN before basic authentication can be established and set by the user. (This is part of the full Authentication, Authorization and Access Control triad.)

An SSN is just a broad level identifier. If you look at many laws around the release of SSNs, the redaction is usually in place to prevent the linking of different documents and other data points.

If I released my SSN in this chat, I could be fully doxxed in a matter of seconds. It’s mainly because there are many legal systems in place that use an SSN as a primary key, of sorts. (It’s a bit more than that, as SSNs can be duplicated in some circumstances.)

So to say, at a high level, an SSN is considered private is absolutely correct. However, it’s so easily referenced and obtainable it really isn’t fully private either.

If I was to generate a full list of every possible SSN in the US (which I have done, multiple times), that list is effectively useless to anyone who obtains a copy of it. So, by itself, an SSN is effectively public.

SSNs are generally considered public information but how the SSN is linked to other information is usually the more difficult bit to find and it’s generally pay-walled. (Any jackass with a business license and a credit card can usually buy background check information for ‘hiring’.)

But no, it shouldn’t be solely used for authentication. That is just dumb. However, it can be used as part of a larger verification and validation scheme while building authentication/authorization profiles. In most systems that I have seen that use full or partial SSNs, it is always linked to several other identifiers that need to match.

These are actually real, for those who care: https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/mist-cannon-leaves-rainbow-trail-floating-over-city-avenue/1195796

That’s kind of the point. You want the sheep to think they are burning down society for some do-good ideology while the politicians sidestep the government into a into dictatorship or other kind of single party authoritarian system. Regardless, the politicians of the new government will be just fine.

No. It might be in a politicians best interest to ensure a population stays dumb and then ensure those dumb people raise even dumber children.

You can interpret anything how you choose, kind of like we have to do with your grammar.