Transfer rumours: Alaba, Emerson, Gattuso, Neymar, Sarri

Bayern's Alaba offered to Real, Neymar wants to stay at PSG, Sarri tipped for Fiorentina role, plus more.

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Hackaday Links: November 1, 2020

We normally chuckle at high-profile auctions where people compete to pay as much as possible for items they clearly don’t need. It’s easy to laugh when the items on the block are things like paint-spattered canvases, but every once in a while some genuine bit of history that really piques our interest goes on sale. Such is the case with what is claimed to be an original Steve Wozniak-built Blue Box, going on sale November 5. The prospectus has an excellent summary of the history of the “Two Steves” and their early business venture making and selling these devices to Berkeley students eager to make free long distance phone calls. The item on sale is a very early rev, most likely assembled by Woz himself. The current owner claims to have bought it from Woz himself in the summer of 1972 while on a roadtrip from Sunnyvale to Los Angeles. Estimated to go for $4,000 to $6,000, we really hope this ends up in a museum somewhere — while we’ve seen attempts to recreate Woz’s Blue Box on Hackaday.io, letting a museum study an original would be a great glimpse into our shared technological history.

Not in the market for old tech? No problem — Digilent wants to get rid of 3,000 PCBs, and quickly. They posted the unusual offer on reddit a couple of days ago; it seems they have a huge stock of populated boards for a product that didn’t quite take the market by storm. Their intention is likely not to flood the market with scopes cobbled together from these boards, but rather to make them available to someone doing some kind of art installation or for educational purposes. It’s a nice gesture, and a decent attempt to keep these out of the e-waste stream, so check it out if you have a need.

Speaking of PCBs, SparkFun has just launched an interesting new service: SparkFun À La Carte. The idea is to make it really easy to design and build prototype boards. Instead of using traditional EDA software, users select different blocks from a menu. Select your processor, add components like displays and sensors, and figure out how you want to power it, and SparkFun will do the rest, delivering a fully assembled board in a few weeks. It certainly stands to suck the fun out of the design process while also hoovering up your pocketbook: “A $949 design fee will be applied to all initial orders of a design”. You can get your hands on the design files, but that comes with an extra fee: “they can be purchased separately for $150 by filling out this form”. But for someone who just needs to hammer out a quick design and get on with the next job, this could be a valuable tool.

Another day, another IoT ghost: Reciva Radio is shutting down its internet radio service. A large banner at the top of the page warns that the “website will be withdrawn” on January 31, 2021, but functionality on the site already appears limited. Users of the service are also reporting that their Reciva-compatible radios are refusing to stream content, apparently because they can’t download anything from the service’s back end. This probably doesn’t have a huge impact — I’d never heard of Reciva before — but it makes me look at the Squeezebox radio we’ve got in the kitchen and wonder how long for the world that thing is. It’s not all bad news, though — owners of the bricked radios will now have a great opportunity to hack them back into usefulness.

By the time this article is published, Halloween will be history and the hordes of cosplaying candy-grubbers who served as welcome if ironic respite from this non-stop horror show of a year will be gone. Luckily, though, if it should come to pass that the dead rise from their graves — it’s still 2020, after all — we’ll know exactly how to defeat them with this zombie invasion calculator. You may remember that last year Dominik Czernia did something similar, albeit with vampires. Switching things up from the hemophagic to the cerebrophagic this year, his calculator lets you model different parameters, like undead conversion percentage, zombie demographics, and attack speed. You’ve also got tools for modeling the response of the living to the outbreak, to see how best to fight back. Spoiler alert: everyone will need to bring Tallahassee-level badassery if we’re going to get through this.

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YouTuber conquers cheese fondue fountain in heartwarming sequel

If you don't succeed, try, try again. YouTuber Tasty Hoon recently went viral when his fried chicken and cheese mukbang went hilariously wrong. He's now tried the combination again to greater success, this time making sure his cheese fondue can actually flow through the chocolate fountain he's set up.

Tasty Hoon takes us through the entire process of making cheese fondue in his new video uploaded on Sunday, being sure to include a respectable amount of milk to keep it liquid. Putting it in the fountain still makes him visibly nervous considering what happened last time, but his apprehension instantly turns to giddy joy when he realises it's working.  Read more...

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The Lincoln Project is giving liberals something no else one can

The Lincoln Project occupies a strange place on the internet, one that neither liberals or conservatives could imagine existing prior to President Trump's election.

Founded by former Republican strategists who view Trump as an existential threat to American democracy, it has an obsessive focus: Vote him and his Congressional enablers out of office. The super PAC is a nimble, reliably viral force that churns out ads and social media posts against Trump and in support of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. It combines Republicans' trademark ruthless desire to win the messaging war with the eccentric humor, trolling, and blunt force of internet speech. Read more...

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University apparel emblazoned with 'CUM' is a chaotic internet mystery

Delighted and embarrassed students and other internet users shared on TikTok and elsewhere that a private Lutheran school, Concordia University of Michigan, appeared to have recently debuted a rather unfortunate and/or glorious new line of athletic wear. The new line prominently featured what people assumed was the university's acronym: CUM.

T-shirts, hats, sweatshirts, all celebrated school spirit, and then some. One of the best items was a sweatshirt with a sparkly heart and the word CUM in the middle. Posts cackling and face-palming at the apparel went viral over the weekend. One TikTok got over 760,000 views.   Read more...

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You might be able to test out Dark Mode in the Facebook app right now

Dark mode devotees, listen up!

Facebook caught up with the times earlier in 2020 when it announced that it would begin bringing a dark mode version of the app to iPhone. And so the company started very limited tests of the new, more eyeball-friendly design in June. 

Now, it is testing the feature more widely, which means you could potentially make the switch to dark mode right now, provided you're among the chosen ones. 

Facebook rolled out its redesigned web interface in May, which included dark mode. However, the Facebook app didn't get the dark mode makeover at the time.

To see if you're part of the dark mode test (that is, if you're still using Facebook), update to the latest version of Facebook. Then, within the app, navigate to Settings, and then see if a "Dark Mode" option is available. Switch it on if you've got it, and voila! Read more...

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US Election 2020: Biden and Trump hit swing states

President Trump visits five states on Sunday while his rival Joe Biden campaigns in Pennsylvania.

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