• A UC Davis organosynthesis class demonstrated low-cost, manual synthesis of several mer oligos, illustrating that DIY oligonucleotide production is feasible without high-end equipment.  
• PhantomJS is being exploited for DDoS attacks, but kanzure argues the technique is trivially detectable because PhantomJS exposes global variables absent in normal browsers.  
• A technical comparison of firearm reliability concluded that revolvers tolerate single-point failures better (simply pull the trigger again), whereas semiautomatics require slide manipulation after malfunctions, though modern Glocks are still favored for capacity and simplicity.  
• Carbon-fiber rifle barrels were questioned for long-term durability; participants noted potential cracking and that most carbon-wrapped barrels retain a thin steel liner.  
• Only the Nagant M1895 revolver can effectively accept a suppressor because its cylinder moves forward to seal the gap, whereas ordinary revolvers cannot be silenced due to the cylinder gap.  
• The “New York reload” (carrying multiple loaded guns instead of reloading) was cited as a practical historical practice for revolver users.  
• Bullet-resistant armor mechanics were debated, highlighting trade-offs between hardness and tensile strength, with ceramic plates for shattering bullets and high-tensile fibers for catching fragments.  
• kanzure closed an issue in pdfparanoia and reiterated the need for a real streaming PDF parser/generator to automate watermark removal and metadata stripping.  
• Google Scholar began serving CAPTCHAs even to logged-in users, possibly triggered by automated reference-manager scraping (e.g., Zotero).