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Cocodapuf ,

Yeah, there's that physical media.

I think that "bad for the environment" gripe is pretty weak. By that argument so are books. Meh.

Cocodapuf ,

Oh, hi Amazon, I didn't recognize you at first.

Cocodapuf ,

Sounds like a fire hazard.

Cocodapuf ,

For the majority of applications you need data centers for, latency just doesn't matter. Bandwidth, storage space, and energy costs for example are all generally far more important.

Cocodapuf ,

This sounds legitimately annoying... But why is this canceling flights? Do the pilots not carry maps? Plus, they're in the air, can't they rely on radar guidance? They may have radar on the aircraft, but there's definitely ground based radar as well.

Pilots are very well trained, they should be able to handle this... What did pilots do in 1970, before gps existed?

Cocodapuf ,

That weapon is fully operational!

Cocodapuf ,

I mean... The apps are already single platform only. iOS apps are written in C#, Android apps are written in Java. They are not in any way compatible. If you want an app to work on both platforms you literally need to build it twice. It's not twice as much work, but it's nearly that. And if you only know how to develop in one of those platforms, it's a lot more work to learn the other.

I think demanding something work on multiple platforms isn't really a fair requirement, especially for smaller developers, and it would likely result in fewer apps existing at all.

Cocodapuf ,

I'm ready to reinstall 7, problem solved.

Cocodapuf ,

That seems like quite a leap.

Cocodapuf ,

How could this ever even work? Isn't the cat out of the bag. China will make chips if it wants to... I don't see how you could stop them.

'Vortex Cannon vs Drone' - Mark Rober shows off tech from a "defense technology company that specializes in advanced autonomous systems". That seems bad

I've enjoyed Mark Rober's videos for a while now. They are fun, touch on accessible topics, and have decent production value. But this recent video isn't sitting right with me...

Cocodapuf ,

If you want a real engineer, watch "stuff made here" perhaps the most competent engineer on YouTube.

If you want to watch top quality unbiased science content, there's "smarter every day", "veritasium" and "3blue1brown". They're all great, I highly recommend them all.

If you want a good combo of engineering and science, and probably the smartest person on YouTube, "the thought emporium" will blow your mind. The projects they come up with... I never knew any of that was possible.

Cocodapuf ,

Many aircraft guns do that. It's also usually automatic, look a direction and the gun points where you look.

Cocodapuf ,

That seems like cheating if it's being put up against a standard f16...

Cocodapuf ,

Wouldn't salted hashes have prevented this?

You just add some extra characters to every password before hashing and then stolen hashes and rainbow tables don't work any more.

In other words, I think ghostalmedia is correct, best practices would have prevented this.

Cocodapuf ,

Ugh... Who is still storing passwords in the clear... For fuck sake...

Cocodapuf ,

It could matter if some specific credentials were initially acquired because some other place was storing clear text passwords, and that place had a breach.

Exactly, that was my assumption.

After all, reusing passwords for multiple sites becomes a problem as soon the password becomes known. But for that password to become known, some site had to either allow the plaintext password to be leaked, or an unsalted hash. Or the site has to allow for insecure (easily guessable) passwords to be used.

Reusing passwords is undeniably the user's fault, but only because some other site's security measures may also have been negligent.

Cocodapuf ,

Who cares. Only dupes use Windows 11.

Cocodapuf ,

There's an old reference... No duped as in a person who has been fooled. You would have had to have fallen for the idea that windows 11 was somehow a good idea.

Like with Win7 working just fine, why upgrade to 8? Why upgrade to 10? Nevermind 11... It was clear the direction they were pushing, more online, connected, more software as a service. As they continued that trend the only rational move was to not upgrade.

Cocodapuf ,

Wouldn't that put us a year away? Just checking your math...

Cocodapuf , (edited )

I have to disagree with most of that.

Raising a kid right now is weird, the way they interact with tech is nothing like when we were kids. I was lucky growing up in the 90s with a computer, I could play with it all day and never get into any kind trouble it was just video games and poking around, seeing what it could do. I think having access to a computer at such a young age was transformative and wonderful.

But today, there's so much trouble to get into, it's crazy. I need to lock down that computer for my kid, there's not enough parental control software in the world to make it safe for a defiant child, so I just can't give him free access to the computer. I log him in for every session and make sure he's monitored the whole time (which is exhausting).

He had access to some public Minecraft server for a while and initially I was like "this is fine", but it was like 5 days before he was telling people to kill themselves in the chat and yelling ethnic slurs into his headset... he's 7.

I truly dread having to deal with him interacting on social media. It's going to be ugly.

Edit: I should clarify, this article is garbage, I'm not sticking up for it. The problem is not kids these days or bad parenting, it's just a more complicated world. Social media, predatory tech companies, consumerism, polarized politics, all this crap adds up to a more complicated world, more riddled with potential landmines than ever before.

Cocodapuf ,

Yeah, the technical problems are also pretty frustrating. I've been an IT guy for a long time, and I knew that I a second hand iMac would be a great machine for him, so that's what I got. But unfortunately apple has abandoned their support for 32bit applications, seriously slashing their library of software. So I've stuck to an older Mac OS that does still support it. Steam has a "family view" mode and with that I can easily curate my own huge steam library and allow him to play appropriate games. Except of course, that about 2/3 of that library will be unavailable soon, as with future steam updates they will not be supporting the last macOS version that still runs 32 bit programs. Sigh.

I already tried installing Linux mint on that Mac and it was a nightmare. Linux doesn't really do parental controls, at least not out of the box. The only silver lining was that at least when he clicked on every single web link he found, the dozens of malicious .exe files he downloaded won't run on Linux.

But I guess to reassure you, the tech can be hard, but the kid doesn't have to be. Our situation is a bit extreme, probably atypical. We adopted a 6 year old, so we have a lot of problematic behaviors, distrust, and defiance to train him out of. That shit is hard. But if you can build love and trust right from the start, you can set norms for tech usage and behavior. It'll be ok.

But I do fear social media, it looms in our future...

Cocodapuf ,

Not on Windows 7, they haven't.

Never 10 for life!

Cocodapuf ,

And to be honest, I'm only using 7 on one PC, my gaming PC is running 10.

But no, I don't see windows 11 anywhere in my future. I did try Linux for a little while and to be honest, it was a pretty terrible experience. Still, should these trends continue, it may be the only choice going forward.

Cocodapuf , (edited )

If you're against change and want things to stay the way you're used to forever, despite running terrible security and outdated UX, then Linux is for you.

What I'm against is bullshit.

I'm against ads in my start menu. I'm against getting all of my "apps" from an OS curated store. I'm against an OS constantly phoning home about every aspect of my usage. I'm against using a Microsoft account to log in to my own computer (I'm the admin, thank you very much). And I'm against simply forcing users to update to a companies newest product whenever it's convenient for the company.

I suppose what I don't like is ceeding all control over my computer to corporate entities, it's my computer.

Honestly, if I had my way and if it could have security updates forever, I'd want to use mac os 10.6 snow leopard for eternity. Best os I've ever used, it came with a lot of extra software and utilities, the search was fast and the rest of the time it stayed out of your way. The industry has only gone downhill from there.

Cocodapuf ,

There is only one way to break free and actually own and decide down to every line of code on how you want your system to run. Hell you can make your work flow identical for the next 20 years if you wanted to.

Nobody has time for that... Nobody is actually auditing all the code on their system. Yeah, you could probably customize your experience to a point where you like it, but that too is wise an investment. And it's still not a "good" experience. I only lived on Linux for a short time, but it was pretty awful. For instance, I found that Linux doesn't have any equivalent to a Ctrl Alt del or force quit, so when a full screen program crashes, just restart the machine, it's unrecoverable. That's just one example, but it's that kind of lack of overall design and structure that leaves Linux a hot mess as a home pc OS.

I'm totally happy to run my router, my nas, or a web server on Linux, but I don't want to actually use it as my computer.

Cocodapuf ,

The irony would be thick if this satellite were launched on a next-Gen methane fueled rocket.

(That is the trend now, kerosene and hydrogen are out, methane is in.)

The White House wants to 'cryptographically verify' videos of Joe Biden so viewers don't mistake them for AI deepfakes (www.businessinsider.com)

The White House wants to 'cryptographically verify' videos of Joe Biden so viewers don't mistake them for AI deepfakes::Biden's AI advisor Ben Buchanan said a method of clearly verifying White House releases is "in the works."

Cocodapuf ,

It needs some kind of handler, but we mostly have those in place. A web browser could be the handler for instance. A web browser has the green dot on the upper left, telling you a page is secure, that https is on and valid. This could work like that, the browser can verify the video and display a green or red dot in the corner, the user could just mouse over it/tap on it to see who it's verified to be from. But it's up to the user to mouse over it and check if it says whitehouse.gov or dr-evil-mwahahaha.biz

Cocodapuf ,

I feel like the big scary problem is capturing the heat. The proposed method I've seen involves a beryllium "blanket" that captures the heat to send it off to a boiler. The problem is beryllium is quite expensive and quite limited in availability. And in fact we may only have enough beryllium (in the world) for a dozen or so reactors. But it's worse, because these blankets absorb high energy neutrons, and become radioactive over time. And that means two problems, you need to replace the blanket and you need to dispose of radioactive waste.

When you put all that together, I just think "shouldn't we stick with fission power?"

Cocodapuf ,

Tokamaks... sigh.

When it finally works, you will have invented the most expensive form of energy we've ever imagined. Congratulations.

I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm excited for fusion. Fusion has some amazing potential as a power source and propulsion for space ships. But outside of that application, I don't know... I'm pissemistic. I do not think it will be the global energy revolution so many people seem to think it will be. It will not be unlimited cheap energy, not be a longshot.

Cocodapuf ,

Is it unlimited though? I mean sure, the fuel is abundant, we have hydrogen. But the other support materials are quite limited, berillium, helium, nuclear engineers. I don't think we have enough of all of that for an energy revolution.

Cocodapuf ,

Those quick half-lives decay right away, losing a neutron, right? So that Berillium-11 just decays back into Berillium-10.

The problem is that the blanket is constantly absorbing neutrons from the fusion reactions, that's it's job. So despite using simple berillium 5 to build your blanket, you end up with these heavy isotopes over time, and because the heavier ones quickly decay into lighter ones, you basically end up with a whole lot of berillium-10.

Cocodapuf ,

Really curious to know what's going on over Poland. Found this article talking about it. Seems to think Russia is responsible which I suppose isn't a surprise.

Yeah, it looks to me like this is mostly a map of gps noise, I would assume that only a fraction of it is intentional jamming. But it paints a pretty clear pattern, with the only large areas of heavy jamming being around Russia and the middle east (Israel, Jordan, Iraq, iran) and between Pakistan and India. All areas that have real concerns about being the target of gps guided nukes.

Music Piracy Is Back, Baby (gizmodo.com)

"Muso, a research firm that studies piracy, concluded that the high prices of streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music are pushing people back towards illegal downloads. Spotify raised its prices by one dollar last year to $10.99 a month, the same price as Apple Music. Instead of coughing up $132 a year, more consumers...

Cocodapuf ,

Get your kids a real computer. Show them how to move files around. Show your 7 year old how to manually install a Minecraft skin. Show your teens how to turn an mp3 into a ringtone. Show them the actual practical uses for understanding how a computer works, and what a "file" actually is. You're giving them tools to save money, make better decisions, and actually control their experience.

Supermarket responds after Reddit user’s warning about self-checkout overcharge — ‘Was annoyed that the total amount due on my supermarket purchase did not equate to the individual items I purchased.’ (7news.com.au)

Supermarket responds after Reddit user’s warning about self-checkout overcharge — ‘Was annoyed that the total amount due on my supermarket purchase did not equate to the individual items I purchased.’::‘Was annoyed that the amount due on my Woolies purchase did not equate to the individual items I purchased.’

Cocodapuf ,

Is this news?

It certainly doesn't belong in /technology, right?

Cocodapuf ,

Man, Intel seriously needs to license Optane out. That technology represents a new paradigm for digital storage. It's simpler/cheaper to manufacturer than flash memory and its speed is more comparable to RAM than flash, it's at least an order of magnitude faster than current nvme drives. It's also three dimensional, so there's potential to make super fast terabyte, even petabyte sized drives.

I wish the world was competing to make better Optane/xPoint drives like they are with flash, it's a shame the tech is locked behind a patent...

Cocodapuf ,

I use the headphone jack every single day, both with my headphones and with an audio-in cable for my car.

I'd be lost without it.

Also, I've tried Bluetooth headsets and they've all died on me for various reasons. I want relatively high quality headphones, and whether they're wired or wireless, good sound tends to cost more. But I don't want to spend more on something that will die quickly, so it's wired headphones for me.

Cocodapuf ,

Yeah, Musk has gone insane, anyone can see that.

But Musk aside, LEO satellites are still really the only viable and economical solution to the problem of broadband in rural areas, and Starlink seems to work great.

Also, the objection that resulted in pulling this funding looks pretty bullshit. Several other broadband providers are getting these same funding deals for doing basically nothing.

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