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the lower voltage they operate at calls for more attention to be paid to signal integrity between the CPU and memory

And they aren't kidding around, modern high speed signals are so fast that a millimeter or less of difference in length between two traces might be enough to cause the signals to arrive at the other end with enough time skew to corrupt the data.

Edit: if you ever looked closely at a circuit board and seen strange, squiggly traces that are shaped like that for seemingly no reason, it's done so that the lengths can be matched with other traces.

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So math is like painting, you can just arbitrarily add a splash of color somewhere to change the mood..

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I was under the assumption that the Constitution applies to all within the sovereign territory of the US, not just citizens. That's why undocumented immigrants are still given trials for suspected crimes.

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And if someone chooses to watch that, that's their business. Not nanny government's. Not saying I do. But none of us have any business telling someone else what they can and cannot watch. That's part of living in a supposedly "free" country. We aren't China. You want a "great firewall", then move there.

In our zeal to shun everything China-related, we must not become them.

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Parents?? That was my first console. How young is everyone here?

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I'm 42. I always got systems later than other kids. The Atari was in the house ever since I could form memories, and I finally got an NES in 1990, when the SNES and Genesis/Mega drive were on the horizon.

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No, OutKast, not Lil Jon.

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Ever watch somebody who doesn't know about all that use the rawdog Internet? It's amazing how people can just sit there, deal with all that, and not go apeshit. The population has been conditioned.

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Does anyody really look at anyone in an ad and say, "Yes, that's a fellow human, I connect with them on a personal level"?

I've been perceiving them as robots since 1986. Because even as a child I knew people in an ad don't act or talk like everybody I knew in real life and what they were portraying was completely made up, unrealistic dialog and scenarios.

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Right up until the first of hundreds of change orders.

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The race never stopped. You buy an Apple II. It works for a while. Then everyone is running Lotus 1-2-3 so you gotta get an expensive 386. Now Windows 3.1 and 95 is the standard, and you need Internet too so you buy a modem and a Pentium machine for a couple grand. It's okay for a while. Then downloads take longer and longer, and your computer gets slower again, so you upgrade to 6mbps cable internet and an AMD athlon/Pentium 4, and Windows XP. It's okay for a while. But then games and software no longer fit on a CD ROM. They're using DVDs, and the space they take up on your HD is approaching tens of GB. Suddenly you need to upgrade to 25mbps internet and a terabyte drive to keep up with the space requirements and updates/service packs. You're on a multi core CPU now because nobody fucking optimizes shit anymore and assumes you have the horsepower to deal with it. Then they get rid of physical media altogether. Now you're stuck downloading a fucking several hundred gigabyte game or piece of software on a 100+mbps connection to do largely the same shit we did on that Apple II in 1980. Your system RAM alone can now hold all software ever made for that Apple II with plenty room to spare.

I get why a lot of retirees in the industry want to burn their computers and take up farming.

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We already know how to take care of this in big capacitors. You put a breakaway vent in.

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Yeah I love it, Debian feels like opening a featureless gray box that just says "OS" on the front. Add whatever you want. A blank canvas. It's as close to "generic" Linux as you can get.

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The aliens: https://i.imgur.com/VjPfMw8.gif

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Uh oh, you're on a laptop. Now you gotta pull the ass end out of it too.

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the superior text editor

I never stopped, I'm still using Nano.

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I think there's already a way to forward Google Home requests directly to ChatGPT, I might be wrong though.

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$ tar -xzvf thong.tar.gz -C ~/package/

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Yeah it's like what happened to toasters, refrigerators, and home computers. Nobody gives AF anymore.

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Hey guys, unless I missed Boeing getting into biological warfare, I'm pretty sure an infection had nothing to do with them. It's funny to circlejerk though, I know.

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Are you sure you don't just want another camera stuck to the back? Maybe you have one too many external ports?

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Incredibly advanced AI, yet it couldn't fix the German accent. My Google Home speaker can do better.

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16 years old? That thermostat has sure had a run

I have game consoles that are more than twice that old and still play reliably. Apple really skewed our idea of lifespans for electronics, didn't they? It's a thermostat, they should be designed to install and forget for the next half-century. It's a core part of a house, like the plumbing and breaker box.

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Why is it so common for Apple users to replace their devices every 1-2 years then? Theres a reason it's a meme. Regardless of what Apple does with old hardware, they promote this mentality of always needing the next new shiny thing. They're the pioneers of that.

I'm still on a rooted Samsung from 2017. I know several people who went through 3 iPhones in that time.

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Conditioning everyone to see their computers as media consumption kiosks instead of the powerful, productive machines they are. That's where MS OSes are headed. They tried too early with Windows 8 Metro, but they haven't lost sight of that concept.

"My TV shows ads so it's only natural my computer does too." - I bet a lot of people already think like this.

All the ways streaming services are aggravating their subscribers this week (arstechnica.com)

Below is a look at the most exasperating news from streaming services from this week. The scale of this article demonstrates how fast and frequently disappointing streaming news arises. Coincidentally, as we wrote this article, another price hike was announced....

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In a world with finite resources, a system seeking infinite growth will eventually collapse.

That's why some of the most powerful capitalists are starting to look up. Our great-great-grandchildren are going to be indentured servants on an asteroid mine. They know what's coming. They'll pack each SpaceX Starship with 100s of them just like they did 200 years ago. That thing ain't no exploration vessel. It's a future slave ship. Private companies don't do "exploration" unless it's to find more things to make a profit on.

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Can't get a train track to every single depot and loading dock in the country that receives shipments (which is like, practically every big box store and warehouse there is). There has to be a handover at some point.

Edit: also not a big fan of the train system in the US, since the vast majority of rail is privately owned. The operators have too much control. They'll charge towns extra to put automated crossing guards on their rail and then keep charging them for its maintenance. The jurisdiction can't use their own third party workers to maintain it. The railroads are legally only required to put up a sign. It's extortion if you ask me.

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It most likely is

Instead of guessing, you people need to learn to use Wireshark and find out for yourself.

No, they don't just listen all the time with an open mic and just send all audio to the cloud. Anyone in cybersecurity would definitely notice that and sound the alarm. There's probably tens of thousands of people watching what these companies and their tech do all day long.

They can get all the data they need through other means, like trackers. Most of us aren't consciously aware of the metric shitton of bread crumbs we all leave behind on the net.

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If you're monitoring the traffic, and you start speaking, and you suddenly see packets spewing out of a device every time you talk, that's a good indication. There's indirect methods to analyze it without necessarily being able to see the actual data.

Poking around the PCB with an oscilloscope to see electrical signals will probably be useful too.

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Its already established that the mic always hot, and that data is always being sent to the server.

Tell me, how have you established this? What were your methods?

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That doesn't mean it's sending anything out through the network connection. The wake word is locally processed.

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This entire article is full of absolutely nothing but speculation with no sources and poor experimentation without proper knowledge in the field, software, or equipment. No technical analysis at all. This person kind of has no clue and is taking ignorant shots in the dark to try to confirm preexisting notions. The "experiment" they ran sounds like something my mother would do and then get all bent out of shape and frantically call me about it.

I want the 5 minutes back I wasted reading that.

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If you're getting your news from an AI model....I don't know what to say about you...other than don't breed, please. (Not you, OP)

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Article said they they actually have a service that reproduces news articles without paywalls. People are deliberately choosing to get their news filtered through ChatGPT when everyone should know by now that these things are not to be trusted with any important information.

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Shit. Password expired due to company policies. Oh well, hunter3 it is now.

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Yeah to this day I don't understand this "genius" business move. My redneck conservative dad sure as hell isn't buying an electric vehicle anytime soon, even if you put a giant MAGA hat on it.

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ring ring

picks up receiver

"Wacka wacka wacka wacka"

"It's for you."

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A botnet on wheels. Now you can't say that's never been tried before I guess. What's next, crypto miners?

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accurately emulate the functionality in some other freely available silicon

Get a cheap PIC or AVR microcontroller, put it on a DIP-sized carrier board, and write a program to simulate everything you'd see on the data/address and any other IO pins of the Z80 when they are manipulated.

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If shit like this keeps going, soon my car is going to be homemade out of 2x4s and a backyard-forged 2 stroke engine, while I try to turn sand into chips so I can stay connected to the Internet...

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There are some commonly used programming algorithms and snippets that have been in use and unchanged from their original C code since the 70s and 80s, because they do exactly the thing they are supposed to do, and nobody has come up with a better way of doing it. I have a fast hash function in a program of mine that was written by a guy in the early 2000s who was benchmarking various existing hash algorithms of the time, and that same function is still used in hundreds of other pieces of software.

I don't know of entire full programs that are like this though.

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It's very easy to remove that and ask for a password on first boot. It could literally be one line in a shell script. They could put it in a text menu if they want to get fancy.

More professional (non-hobby) RP based devices probably aren't using stock vanilla Raspbian anyway.

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Force of habit. I've been working with Pis for a while, long before the name change.

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It is. There are two. Raspberry Pi Os, and Raspbian. The former used to be Raspbian. I still get them confused.

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<3 Debian network install image.

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As a large language model, I've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty.

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Looks like every time I try to play slot cars. Soon as I try to speed up and get crazy I fly off the track.

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Hold on a second. That looks like more than 640x480 and definitely more than 16 colors. Blasphemy!

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