Bros are really going to use a piece of glass instead of SSD 💀

Microsoft proposes usage of quartz glass to store data. Raw capacity up to 7Tb is claimed on a glass plate of a DVD size, write speed is similar to nowadays SSDs, achieved using Beam Steering. Main point is reliability — it should be really (10-100 k years) durable and resistant to electromagnetic fields

Laser goes brrr?

➡️ Microsoft.com

SDXL Turbo — AI can now generate 512x512 images almost in realtime

➡️ ClipDrop

❄️🖥 Advent of Code #2023

Get 2 coding tasks every day and complete an amazing Elves story by collecting 50 stars to fix World Snow Production.

Tasks are pretty simple yet interesting, followed by a New Year story on the ambient ASCII website.

1. Log In on adventofcode.com (top right)
2. To change your display name, go to Settings
3. To join my leaderboard, go to Private Leaderboards and use my code 3470240-72ff333e (it's already 8 of us)

➡️ adventofcode.com

After joining my Leaderboard, please ensure to do first two steps so that you won't be anonymous.

🤖 I wrote a simple @AdventCodeBot to see the leaderboard in Telegram. It's updated every 15 minutes (as asked by AOC creators to lower servers load) and available by command /leaderboard both in PM and any group.

TODO:
- Start reminder
- Daily tag reminders for users
- Solution repos and sharing
- Changes notifications

❄️ Got a garland for my small apartment

No one:
Literally no one:
Absolutely any Pole:⁠ ➡️ @jqofa

❄️❄️❄️❄️
You have been snowballed by New Year Piggies. Forward this message to 5 friends or you will have no luck for the next 5 years.

❄️ year++

Hope 2024 will be much better for all of us. @Lifebox_Robot just got a recap feature, see your own using /recap in any group with the bot

🥂

2022
➡️EIU
➡️Visual Capitalist

➡️ @saddevdiary

🇺🇦 Розбещений укронацист, що дресирує акул Буданова. Ви?

«This International Standard specifies a datastream and an associated file format, Portable Network Graphics (PNG, pronounced "ping"), for a lossless, portable, compressed individual computer graphics image transmitted across the Internet...»

➡️ W3 PNG Specification