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kgrossnickle / eth-box

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Observed mentions: 2021-09-15 13:30:53 UTC to 2021-11-09 13:29:24 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

012021-09-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-09-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsSep 132021-09-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-09-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-09-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-10-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-10-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-10-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-10-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-10-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsOct 112021-10-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-10-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-10-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-11-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-11-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-11-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsNov 8

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Sep 132021-09-13 00:00:00 UTC2021-09-20 00:00:00 UTC110
Sep 202021-09-20 00:00:00 UTC2021-09-27 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 272021-09-27 00:00:00 UTC2021-10-04 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 42021-10-04 00:00:00 UTC2021-10-11 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 112021-10-11 00:00:00 UTC2021-10-18 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 182021-10-18 00:00:00 UTC2021-10-25 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 252021-10-25 00:00:00 UTC2021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 12021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-11-08 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 82021-11-08 00:00:00 UTC2021-11-15 00:00:00 UTC101

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I wonder if they'll use this to enable ETH or crypto mining on PS5s? There's actually a really interesting initiative to grant similar ability to the new Xbox [0] - which given current GPU prices and availability actually kind of makes sense. People seem to forget that the Ps3 was famously used by the US AirForce to create a low cost linux compute cluster[1], oddly their biggest reason to so this was power efficiency and cost (the ps3 cluster used about 10% of the power for equivalent compute as their legacy systems). [0] - https://github.com/kgrossnickle/eth-box [1] - https://phys.org/news/2010-12-air-playstation-3s-supercomput...
In Hacking group says it has found encryption keys needed to unlock the PS5

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