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fubarx ,

I remember Samsung trying to run a WWDC-like conference in San Francisco many years ago. They were offering free Tizen watches as enticement for developers to show up (AppleWatch devs had to buy their own). None of the professional mobile devs I knew back then said they would go.

As Microsoft found out with WindowsPhone, it's really hard to get traction if you're third.

fubarx ,

That is actually kind of brilliant. Having to go through MFi and getting the Apple DRM chip into the manufacturing pipeline can be a real pain (and expensive).

With this scheme, they could also run all the wired on/off and volume control actions through Bluetooth AVRCP. Even have a Mic on the wire, so if a call comes in, switch to HFP to talk/manage the call.

Damn, that's clever. Hats off to whoever came up with it.

Incidentally, there's very little Apple can do to make this stop, unless they decide to break Bluetooth and third-party accessories.

fubarx ,

There are browser userscripts out there now that do this automatically.

fubarx ,

It's Elmer's Glue. Kindergartners have been chugging it for years. What's the problem?

fubarx , (edited )

It's cool tech that is ahead of its time. 5-10 years from now, a big tech company will make something like this and everyone will cry Huzzah!

Magic Leap went the same route.

Edit:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Leap

Judging by the downvotes, I didn't state my point well enough. Magic Leap took a LOT of money, got a lot of hype, and nearly went out of business multiple times.

But they were also the first ones to demonstrate and kick off overlaying data on top of real world, what we now call Augmented Reality. Their implementation was clunky and the device was expensive, but it showed people a glimpse of what was possible in a head-mounted, immersive form factor. 10 years later, Apple released the Vision Pro which used different tech, but did pretty much what ML1 was trying to do.

I think the Humane AI pin tried some interesting concepts, but is heading in the same direction. The idea of a small, wearable, AI device is interesting. Ten years from now, when you can run it all on-device and have a hands-free, GPT-8 level conversation with it with no cloud connection may well be a yawn.

fubarx ,

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Leap

Judging by the downvotes, I didn't state my point well enough. Magic Leap took a LOT of money, got a lot of hype, and nearly went out of business multiple times.

But they were also the first ones to demonstrate and kick off overlaying data on top of real world, what we now call Augmented Reality. Their implementation was clunky and the device was expensive, but it showed people a glimpse of what was possible in a head-mounted, immersive form factor. 10 years later, Apple released the Vision Pro which used different tech, but did pretty much what ML1 was trying to do.

I think the Humane AI pin tried some interesting concepts, but is heading in the same direction. The idea of a small, wearable, AI device is interesting. Ten years from now, when you can run it all on-device and have a hands-free, GPT-8 level conversation with it with no cloud connection may well be a yawn.

fubarx ,

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Leap

Judging by the downvotes, I didn't state my point well enough. Magic Leap took a LOT of money, got a lot of hype, and nearly went out of business multiple times.

But they were also the first ones to demonstrate and kick off overlaying data on top of real world, what we now call Augmented Reality. Their implementation was clunky and the device was expensive, but it showed people a glimpse of what was possible in a head-mounted, immersive form factor. 10 years later, Apple released the Vision Pro which used different tech, but did pretty much what ML1 was trying to do.

I think the Humane AI pin tried some interesting concepts, but is heading in the same direction. The idea of a small, wearable, AI device is interesting. Ten years from now, when you can run it all on-device and have a hands-free, GPT-8 level conversation with it with no cloud connection may well be a yawn.

fubarx ,

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Leap

Judging by the downvotes, I didn't state my point well enough. Magic Leap took a LOT of money, got a lot of hype, and nearly went out of business multiple times.

But they were also the first ones to demonstrate and kick off overlaying data on top of real world, what we now call Augmented Reality. Their implementation was clunky and the device was expensive, but it showed people a glimpse of what was possible in a head-mounted, immersive form factor. 10 years later, Apple released the Vision Pro which used different tech, but did pretty much what ML1 was trying to do.

I think the Humane AI pin tried some interesting concepts, but is heading in the same direction. The idea of a small, wearable, AI device is interesting. Ten years from now, when you can run it all on-device and have a hands-free, GPT-8 level conversation with it with no cloud connection may well be a yawn.

fubarx ,

Edited my post to explain better.

fubarx ,

Media: So... you know those high-tech chipmaking machines? The ones banned for sale to China. The ones needed to make the processors for phones, cars, TVs, and AI servers. What happens if China invades Taiwan? Doesn't Taiwan have a lot of those machines?

Manufacturer: not a problem.

Media: Phew. Glad that's settled..... Say, how come?

Manufacturer: (slaps the roof of the $250M machine). We can lock this baby remotely. In fact, here's the remote (pulls out a keyfob).

Media: OK, cool, cool.

Techies of the world: WHAT THE ACTUAL FU..... !!!

fubarx ,

MSVC supports unicode. In C or C++, you could try:

; ;

Second one is the greek semicolon but the client I'm using may strip it out. I'm too lazy to try.

fubarx ,

Haha. Thanks for checking. Given the C pre-processor, I'm sure there's a way to maliciously bork it if someone sets their mind to it.

fubarx ,

The article didn't really explain what was so controversial about Mastodon? Last I heard, they created a U.S. non-profit. Did I miss something?

fubarx ,

The iPad Pro screen looks pretty good, but don't need all that processing power to just watch videos and browse websites.

Was really hoping they would upgrade the iPad Mini.

Rabbit R1 is Just an Android App (lemmy.world)

See, it turns out that the Rabbit R1 seems to run Android under the hood and the entire interface users interact with is powered by a single Android app. A tipster shared the Rabbit R1’s launcher APK with us, and with a bit of tinkering, we managed to install it on an Android phone, specifically a Pixel 6a....

fubarx ,

Big whoop. MediaTek eval kits offer either Linux or Android AOSP. Why is this news?

fubarx ,

I would love for a Nio style battery swap to make it to the U.S. It just makes sense.

And for those saying they don't want some janky battery that's been through a bunch of cycles. If you have battery swap and access to a station, there's not a lot of incentive to charge at home since the swap stations do it. The max battery life for most EVs is around 10 years. After that, a total replacement is $$$. With the swap system, you have a moderately used battery forever. If it doesn't hold charge well, just go back to the swap station and get another one.

I just got back from a trip to Southern California. Every Electrify America L3 station was busy and had a waiting line. Someone said it was normal and many stations were busy until 3-4am. Turns out anyone living in an apartment or condo highrise had to charge at these stations. It used up 2-3 hours of their day just to charge up. Everyone in line said they hated it and many said they regretted getting EVs.

A swap station would do brisk business and roll them in and out in 5m.

fubarx ,

Notice that I said Electrify America. A lot of the Tesla charging stations did have room, mainly because the software routes people to available stations.

Non-Tesla car companies are making matters worse by piling onto EA and giving away 2-3 years of free L2/L3 charging. That creates incentive to just go there. Many people don't have Teslas, nor can they charge at home. Those all go to EA and create 2 hour wait times.

The Tesla charging experience is one of their key advantages. However, that's going to change once they open it up to all cars, which they are. OTOH, Musk is reportered to have fired the whole charging station team, so maybe it won't happen.

Replaceable batteries swapped in 5m makes for a good user experience. Nothing we've said here changes that fact.

fubarx ,

I've used it to make specific images for work proposals that stock sources may not have. Sometimes for fun, I vary it so it's in the style of a cartoon or a Japanese woodcut.

fubarx ,

Fire-extinguisher robot dogs in 3, 2, ...

fubarx ,

I tried listening to it. Didn't last more than 5m. It was horrible. Like a bad Vegas Seinfeld impersonator.

Best thing to come out of the lawsuit is to hopefully make people think twice before pulling a similar stunt.

fubarx ,

Amateurs.

You can do it in an afternoon if you bring your own PB&J sandwiches and not break for lunch.

Also, the gofundme can be postponed. Just put it on that guy's credit card.

fubarx ,

I heard that interview and have been casually digging into ActivityPub.

BSKY does account for a few more situations that ActivityPub currently doesn’t.

One is pluggable algorithms. This way you’re not tied to one kind of ordering in your feed.

Another is layered moderation so you can adjust automated vs human moderation policies.

And the last one is how to transport all your stuff to a different server under several different lockout scenarios. I’m still not clear which one’s better if your server just disappears or gets locked out.

In the long run, though, there has to be just one service. You can’t have Mastodon, Bsky, and Threads each with different functionality and incompatible islands.

fubarx ,

The account portability issue is being addressed in ActivityPub. Just saw some proposed extensions.

The layered/plugin approach, though, seems like it’s more of an implementation feature. The description of how it’s implemented in BSKY made it sound like you’re not locked into a single chronological way to show a home feed. That seemed like it had a lot of potential.

fubarx ,

My wife insists she's staying there for the news and legal people she follows and she has a point. A lot of government, business, and schools continue to use it as an easy way to broadcast information.

Threads pulled off some celebrities, Bsky some policy and legal wonks, and Mastodon the tech geeks. If these services all start federating together and offering unified text and hashtag search, then where you land won't matter.

Until then, it'll be hard to get people to switch away, even with all the bad press.

fubarx ,

The ISS is planned to deorbit in 2031: https://www.nasa.gov/faqs-the-international-space-station-transition-plan/

Wonder if the FCC ruling will change after it comes down?

That's still a lot of satellites floating around that can get in the way. And it doesn't even include the other LEO providers like Project Kuiper spooling up.

fubarx ,

The immersive media experience is the killer feature right now. The whole browsing websites and pinning work stuff up in space is a novelty that will wear off. Predict everyone will go back to using their physical multi-monitor setups.

3D videos, apps, and games that take advantage of immersion will push the envelope.

fubarx ,

Most of cloud service provider revenue comes from basic services, like storage and basic compute. But

vendors like AWS, Microsoft, and Oracle figured out a long time ago the smaller, niche services are what differentiates them and makes the services sticky. If you need just a Linux instance, it's easy to provision it using Terraform or Pulumi and jump to the cheapest lowest-common-provider.

But with services like IOT, AI/ML, business forecasting, robotics, etc. Once you tie your business to those services, it's a lot harder to leave.

fubarx ,

Wonder if capacitive touch buttons qualify as 'physical' buttons. If not, VWs are going to need to make a lot of changes.

fubarx ,

I made an appointment and tried it at an Apple Store the week it came out. The UI and immersion are amazing, but after 20m my forehead was warm and sweaty and my neck started to ache. Heard the headband that goes over the top distributes the weight better.

Once they figure out how to make it 1/2 the weight and 1/5 the price, it'll go mainstream.

fubarx ,

Definitely set a CloudWatch alert to notify you if the cost goes above a certain limit. And make sure you check that email regularly. It takes a small misconfiguration to rack up a hefty bill. Best to catch it early.

Other suggestion is to stay away from the console or command line. Learn how to use CloudFormation or, much better, the CDK. You can set up a full serverless application stack, run it for a while, then delete the whole thing so it won't accidentally incur extra charges. It's also a good practice so you can include the stack setup code with the rest of your code.

fubarx ,

How to lose EVERYTHING in one go.

fubarx ,

There are two events:

  1. AWS had an outage which froze their backend
  2. They added some sort of caching that messed up when brought up and let users see other devices.

Seems like Problem 1 was with Wyze not handling disaster-recovery properly. Problem 2 is them not testing their new update and setting up proper access controls.

Trying to blame AWS on their own screwup is rich.

fubarx ,

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/02/05/politicians-are-using-kids-as-props-to-pass-terrible-harmful-legislation-dont-let-them-get-away-with-it/

fubarx ,

Speedrunning Dropbox, box.com, ....

fubarx ,

England's Private Eye magazine has been going for decades. They sell subscriptions to the paper magazine, put on events, and sell a small amount of print advertising. They've completely gone against going digital and by all accounts are profitable.

The future of journalism may well be going back to the origin of small publications.

fubarx ,

Dotcom bubble. 2008 crash. Covid. Now this.

We've all been through these. Buckle down. Ignore the outliers. It's a chance to rethink and do what matters to you.

Also, ALWAYS have a Plan B, C, and D.

fubarx ,

You mean other than porn?

fubarx ,

Noticed we haven't watched anything on it in a while. Was about to cancel it and then saw the ad for The Last Airbender live action, coming end of February.

If they drop the whole season, will binge-watch, then cancel.

Computer scientist shows how to tamper with Georgia voting machine, in election security trial: “All it takes is five seconds and a Bic pen.” (www.ajc.com)

Computer scientist shows how to tamper with Georgia voting machine, in election security trial: “All it takes is five seconds and a Bic pen.”::An expert witness for plaintiffs seeking to bar Georgia's touchscreen voting machines showed a crowded courtroom how he could tamper with election res

fubarx ,

Not all states are fully electronic. Many districts (including mine) are run on paper ballots that are then scanned.

I would be more concerned about the upstream tabulation systems. The possibility of making bulk changes is much more harmful than tampering with single voting machines.

There was a mad dash to electronic voting after the Bush v Gore hanging chad fiasco. A lot of people are still focusing on the voting machines vs. the integrity of centralized tabulation systems.

fubarx ,

Had trouble making it through even the first couple of minutes.

Sorry, not for me.

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