Apple's long-rumoured foldable iPhone could finally become a reality if a recently awarded patent is any indication. This patent hints at a revolutionary self-healing screen.
Full market saturation. They're washing machines now. We shouldn't be caring so hard about them anymore. We're pretty much at the peak of mobile telephony the way we know it. Let's come up with something totally new and focus on other tech. It's like still being excited over mass-distributed electricity 40 years after its rollout.
Apple IIgs was alright. That thing and Oregon Trail is embedded into the culture of every American 80s/90s kid. Jobs era I was a lot different than Jobs era II.
No we obviously need more cheap plastics that will dry rot in your shed and shitty rubber grips that will turn to sticky goo in five years, as well as lowest bidder designed control circuitry with a dozen corners cut.
I get what you mean, modern power tools feel like Fisher Price toys. They're disposable.
What happened to the giant metal vacuum cleaners that doubled as a blunt-force weapons?
New development policy: code generated by a large language model or similar technology (e.g. ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot) is presumed to be tainted (i.e. of unclear copyright, not fitting NetBSD's licensing goals) and cannot be committed to NetBSD....
So your results are biased, because you're not going to see the decent programmers who are just using it to take mundane tasks off their back (like generating boilerplate functions) while staying in control of the logic. You're only ever going to catch the noobs trying to cheat without fully understanding what it is they're doing.
GitHub Copilot introduced a new keyword a little while ago, "@workspace", where it can see everything in your project. The code it generates uses all your own functions and variables in your libraries and it figures out how to use them correctly.
There was one time where I totally went "WTF", because it spat out Python. In a C++ project. But those kind of hallucinations are getting more and more rare. The more code you write, the better it gets. It really does become sort of like a "Copilot", sitting there coding alongside you. The mistake people make is assuming it's going to come up with ideas and algorithms for them without spending any mental energy at all.
I'm not trying to shill. I'm not a programmer by trade. Just a hobbyist who started on QBasic in the ancient times. But I've been trying to learn it off and on for the past 30 years, and I've never learned so much and had so much fun as in the last 1.5 with AI help. I can just think of stuff to do, and shit will just flow out now.
If every time an OS had to delete something it had to fill the space with zeros or garbage data multiple times just to make extra sure it's gone, we'd all be trashing our flash chips very fast, and performance would be heavily degraded. There really isn't a way around this.
The solution to keep private files private is to put them into an encrypted container of some sort where you control the keys.
Wonder what the reason was for so much being in raw assembly when C existed. A basic library/API would be one of the first things I'd tackle in an OS. Move on to a higher level as soon as you're able.
I've tried to find them to no avail. I'm guessing the box sets just aren't made anymore, but I figured it's worth asking in case there's some obscure one out there somewhere....
Meredith Whitaker, the president of Signal, said “I keep brooding on the way the xz backdoor was enabled in significant part via weaponizing the FOSS [free and open source software culture of shitty behavior and abuse.”
“What is striking is that the uncool, mean standards of FOSS conduct that many of us have decried for years, and that many defended as authentic, tough, etc., ended up not just being exclusionary loser behavior, but a significant attack surface.”
Emphasis mine.
A software economy based around sharing and openness is not compatible with whatever the fuck you want it to be. If you want decent, secure software, provided for free, then be a decent human.
The first Neuralink implant in a human malfunctioned after several threads recording neural activity retracted from the brain, the Elon Musk-owned startup revealed Wednesday....
Everything's "techbros living in a sci-fi novel", until one day it isn't.
I'm only 42 and I have seen very incredible advancements made in my lifetime that I never thought would be reality as a child. Handheld mobile communications devices that allow you to talk and share media instantly with anyone on the planet, for instance. That's some literal Star Trek shit. Or the fact we now have the equivalent computing power of all the world's supercomputers in the 80s put together on our desks. Or RNA vaccines, instead of using dead or dying viruses, we can now reprogram the body to make whatever antibodies it needs.
I'm pretty comftable with linux mint right now but i want to peruse the wares so to speak, what are some cool or interesting distros that do things differently than mint?...
A research team at Stanford is developing a new AI-assisted holographic imaging technology it claims is thinner, lighter, and higher quality than anything its researchers have seen....
Why? I'd use the shit out of them at work. I work on construction sites. It'd be awesome to have an app to superimpose the finished plans on top of what I'm seeing so I don't have to constantly refer back to the paper prints. No more measuring shit five times, just install it exactly as you see it.
I will refuse to call most cars made in the 80s or later "vintage" even though that's the technically correct word. "Garbage", yes. It's just not the same when it's just a shitbox full of dry-rotting composites and plastics. Older cars were something you wanted to keep around. Modern "old" cars are something you're embarrassed to be driving around in.
Tabs are 8 characters, and thus indentations are also 8 characters. There are heretic movements that try to make indentations 4 (or even 2!) characters deep, and that is akin to trying to define the value of PI to be 3....
They probably meant things like monopoly breakups, wage increases, lowering healthcare costs, you know, things that directly affect the average person. This isn't going to affect my life in any way whatsoever. This squabble is between governments, not us.
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.
I bought a laptop yesterday, it came pre-installed with Windows 11. I hate win 11 so I switched it down to Windows 10, but then started considering using Linux for total control over the laptop, but here's the thing: I keep seeing memes about how complicated or fucky wucky Linux is to install and run. I love the idea of open...
It's dead for hardcore nerds that care about such things as snaps and such. But in the corporate world, it's very much alive. I literally just got done installing an Ubuntu-based NVR from Wisenet for a store's CCTV system.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
By "a lot of people", I meant "a great many of them" compared to neurotypicals. Not all.
It often takes a special kind of person to be able to absorb reams of dry technical knowledge in a narrow field and spit it out like it's a second language.
It's easy to recognize in people like RMS, Steve Wozniak, and Torvalds if you are afflicted with it too (although technically none have been officially diagnosed). Even Elon Musk exhibits traits of it (as much as I don't want to be associated with him) I can still recognize the complete social ineptitude and obsessive behaviors that are often associated with it.
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.
Apple Patent Hints At Foldable iPhone With Self-healing Screen ( www.ibtimes.co.uk )
Apple's long-rumoured foldable iPhone could finally become a reality if a recently awarded patent is any indication. This patent hints at a revolutionary self-healing screen.
Two students find security bug that could let millions do laundry for free ( www.theverge.com )
The Mac vs. PC war is back on? ( www.theverge.com )
I find it hard to believe that, outside of work computers, many people would be choosing Windows over Mac or Linux, especially is AI is their goal....
Hearing is be-leafing: Students invent quieter leaf blower ( hub.jhu.edu )
NetBSD bans all commits of AI-generated code ( mastodon.sdf.org )
New development policy: code generated by a large language model or similar technology (e.g. ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot) is presumed to be tainted (i.e. of unclear copyright, not fitting NetBSD's licensing goals) and cannot be committed to NetBSD....
iPhone owners say the latest iOS update is resurfacing deleted nudes ( www.theverge.com )
cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/12670977...
MS-DOS has been Open-Sourced! ( www.youtube.com )
Are there still any versions of Linux sold in a box like in the 90s / 2000s?
I've tried to find them to no avail. I'm guessing the box sets just aren't made anymore, but I figured it's worth asking in case there's some obscure one out there somewhere....
Bullying in Open Source Software Is a Massive Security Vulnerability ( simonwillison.net )
First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says ( thehill.com )
The first Neuralink implant in a human malfunctioned after several threads recording neural activity retracted from the brain, the Elon Musk-owned startup revealed Wednesday....
Cool distros to try
I'm pretty comftable with linux mint right now but i want to peruse the wares so to speak, what are some cool or interesting distros that do things differently than mint?...
Did Stanford just prototype the future of AR glasses? ( www.theverge.com )
A research team at Stanford is developing a new AI-assisted holographic imaging technology it claims is thinner, lighter, and higher quality than anything its researchers have seen....
Meet My A.I. Friends | Our columnist spent the past month hanging out with 18 A.I. companions. They critiqued his clothes, chatted among themselves and hinted at a very different future. ( www.nytimes.com )
Nintendo Switch Is Removing Integration for X, Formerly Twitter ( comicbook.com )
Linux kernel Rust coding guidelines are heretic.
Tabs are 8 characters, and thus indentations are also 8 characters. There are heretic movements that try to make indentations 4 (or even 2!) characters deep, and that is akin to trying to define the value of PI to be 3....
Qualcomm and Intel can't sell chips to Huawei anymore, report claims ( www.gsmarena.com )
Systemd Looks to Replace sudo with run0 ( news.itsfoss.com )
Colorado Passes Its Third ‘Right To Repair’ Bill ( www.techdirt.com )
iFixit hails replaceable LPCAMM2 laptop memory as a 'big deal' ( www.theregister.com )
I don't know anything about Linux and the idea of installing it frightens me. Where do I start?
I bought a laptop yesterday, it came pre-installed with Windows 11. I hate win 11 so I switched it down to Windows 10, but then started considering using Linux for total control over the laptop, but here's the thing: I keep seeing memes about how complicated or fucky wucky Linux is to install and run. I love the idea of open...
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nvm a restart fixed it...
TikTok sues U.S. government, saying potential ban violates First Amendment ( www.nbcnews.com )
TikTok sues the US government over ban ( www.theverge.com )
TikTok is taking the US government to court.
I used an original iPod in 2024, and it was pretty fun ( www.spacebar.news )
When you're born holding a copy of Stankonia. ( lemmy.world )
Gen Z mostly doesn't care if influencers are actual humans, new study shows ( mashable.com )
Autonomous excavator constructs dry stone wall ( electrek.co )
Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production ( newatlas.com )
Rabbit was once an NFT company that it wants you to forget about ( www.xda-developers.com )
Apple iPhone sales decline 10% in first three months of 2024 ( www.gsmarena.com )
Neofetch is Dead! Here are 7 Alternatives for Your Linux System ( itsfoss.com )
radion – internet radio TUI client written in Bash ( www.linuxlinks.com )
why does noone inprove bash such that you can write a normal foor loop with whitespace in file names?
I know that there are ten different alternatives. Why don't we simply improve the basic stuff?
Stretchable e-skin could give robots human-level touch sensitivity ( techxplore.com )
After 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat ( www.theverge.com )