You missed a very important task - getting a job requires the Internet as well.

Any retail job - all the job applications are online. There are minimum wage entry level jobs. You can ask, but most people will say to apply at the website.

Still, most jobs require application over the Internet - I'm sure the next job you're considering is being done online - either through some online job portal or you're emailing your resume around to people you know.

And then those interviews are often done remotely and not in person, again, over the internet.

There are very few jobs you can apply for in person these days.

I live in rural America, and an EV charging infrastructure is largely non-existent. In concept, EVs have their merits, but in execution, they are not usable everywhere. And frankly, I can't afford to replace 2 ICE vehicles and a farm vehicle with EVs and the supporting charging infrastructure. And besides, when the power goes out, all of my vehicles can still run.

In the late 19th century, there was little infrastructure for ICE vehicles. I mean, you had to run to a pharmacy and buy it in single gallon bottles because that's how they came. Gas stations weren't always around - and people couldn't see how running to pharmacies to buy gas was any more convenient than charging at home (if you were lucky enough to have electricity) or stuffing wood/coal in the firebox (steam powered cars)

Infrastructure gets built - it doesn't appear magically overnight. The road trip is a recent invention - it only happened by the middle of the 20th century when the interstate system was built. Before that travelling by roads was basically impossible unless you had a caravan full of mechanics and fuels and other things because breakdowns were likely, AAA wasn't around, and not having fuel at your destination was a real possibility.

EVs only need electricity to charge, and even the most off-grid person has access to it. It may be inconvenient, but electricity is much more available than gas - you have electricity yet you claim charging infrastructure is non-existent. Unless you're camping in the woods or something, you probably have access to charging infrastructure. The electrons are still the same.

And during power outages, EVs work just as well as gas cars. Perhaps better, because gas cars cannot get gas (gas pumps require electricity). And many EVs support V2L (Vehicle to load) capability, so you can be the house on the block that has access to electricity.

And in case you think EVs use some sort of special electrons, malls are having to police their parking lots because some EV owners are using extension cords to plug into ye old bog standard dangerous as heck 120V outlet on the wall. Yes, the same outlets that you see people sitting around with a charger plugged into their phone, you have people plugging their EVs into.

Why would any company partner with them?/blockquote

0.5% is a lot considering Linux as a whole has just over 4% of the desktop market. That implies Canonical has 1-in-8 Linux installs.

Qualcomm is a silicon chip vendor who basically just makes chips for phones running Android. They don't have a tremendous presence for running Linux standalone or Windows.

Partnering up with Canonical means Canonical will likely offer Ubuntu for ARM processors using Qualcomm chips. Great for my former employer (we put Qualcomm SoCs in embedded devices - most customers wanted Android, but a few wanted Linux). Now typically the Linux we put in was based on OpenEmbedded, which is fine for embedded devices.

But Qualcomm is trying to break into the desktop market - to be competitive with Apple. They're partnering with Microsoft to get Windows laptops running ARM, and likely want to bring out Linux laptops running ARM as well. Microsoft wants it because they see Apple having these wild battery life figures, something extremely difficult to get with x86 without turning your laptop into a tank. And Qualcomm probably sees Linux on the desktop as something, given Chromebooks and others have tried it. Get it going reasonably well, and maybe you can get a cheap ARM gaming laptop because of Steam and Proton.

It's hard to understand why speculative execution information and control mechanisms are available to user mode processes at all. It would seem like an obvious hole. Who would need this information other than the microcode?

It's nothing to do with user code getting at speculative execution information.

It's about the side channel attacks that are inadvertently made available due to speculation.

For example, let's say you are trying to determine where some code is executing - perhaps it's an encryption operation. You could code up something that trashes the cache. Then you can start poking at access times to hit certain functions in memory. If speculative execution tries to access a branch in the code, then when you time the results of accessing that code, it would be dramatically lower than if it was loaded from RAM.

This is because the speculative execution would have loaded code and data from RAM into the cache. Then if the speculation failed, the results are tossed away. But the fact remains - code and data was still loaded in the cache, which means if you attempt to time how long it takes to load that code or data, suddenly it decreases because it's already in cache.

It's all side channel attacks to get at the information, not something that the processor directly reveals. That's pretty much why Spectre attacks are multi-architecture - they are not limited but affect all speculative and out of order execution architectures. Spectre attacks happen not just on Intel, but AMD processors and even ARM processors. The latest one attacking Apple's M series processors is again the same thing (the processor has a hardware block that snoops the registers for things that look like pointers and then pre-emptively loads them into cache. This can speed up execution because the cache will be pre-loaded with contents of main memory so when the processor does a memory access it's already there in cache. Of course, the problem is it's also a side channel attack in that timing can reveal what got loaded into cache.

You could always do something using OBS' virtual camera thing. It's actually a setting now where OBS can be used as a virtual webcam for meetings. I think it became really popular during the pandemic to the point where it's a preset when it asks how to configure itself.

So use OBS and let the camera effects fly. You could always make yourself really small in the frame, make your head bounce around the screen, or do other effects.

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Oh, it isn't. But Apple did just get smacked down hard in Europe, and Europe isn't done with them yet because they're playing games instead of actually opening up the iDevices.

I still can't understand what was wrong with the idiot judge in the US who let Apple win a suit that they should have lost. But Apple's days of customer abuse are numbered. Oregon just banned parts pairing, the FTC is going after Apple's monopoly.

Basically, Google sells (or really, licenses) a component that goes into a phone.

Apple sells a phone.

That's a huge difference.

It's like saying Google sells you the engine to a car. You as an auto manufacturer can put that engine in your car.

You cannot, however, put an Apple engine in your car, as Apple doesn't sell engines. They only sell cars.

All the EU has done is said that Apple can't dictate that you only use Apple tires on that car. All Apple has done is made it so that alternative tires have to meet certain requirements.

(This is actually happening in real life - Tesla tires aren't actually available outside of Tesla - even though they're made by third party companies, the tires with those exact specifications are not available from those third parties. You can however get similar tires that will fit and perform similarly, though, but they aren't the exact replacement. For most people, you won't notice a difference, other than a slight loss in range).

Google interfered with third parties - it's like saying just because you use a Google engine, you can't have seats from some company - sure Google will provide you free seats with the engine, but you cannot offer alternative seats as well.

None of it applies to Apple, because Apple makes the phone. It's like asking to buy a Tesla with a Hemi engine from the factory.

As much as Samsung would love to license iOS from Apple, there is no law nor lawsuit stating that Apple must license their operating system to anyone else who asks. And honestly, that would be pretty troubling for everyone involved if some third party could demand licensing. Like Microsoft could demand Linux be licensed under BSD, for example.

In the end, it boils down to Android being an OS that Google provides to phone manufacturers to put on phones. Like Microsoft providing MS-DOS and Windows to be put on computers made by other companies.

iOS is an OS that comes with Apple phones and restricted to Apple devices. Just like how the UNIX wars were fought the same way - if you needed Solaris, you had to buy from Sun, if you needed IRIX, you bought from SGI, and HP-UX from HP.

Of course, usually the open system kills the proprietary one - I mean, Linux came about and wiped all those companies off the map. Android wiped out a whole pile of iOS marketshare, but Apple is still around - they found a niche and stuck with it.

Or just reverse what you do at home and at school.

Do your "homework" and essay writing at school. You can use whatever resources the teacher allows. At home, you do the prepwork for the next lesson - listen to lectures or whatever.

That way you can use the assigned materials, or you can also seek out other learning materials that might help you understand the concepts as well. This can include the use of AI with the caveat that well, you need to be careful if its making stuff up.

Well, the big change occurred around the 12/13/14 era when the system went from supporting 32 and 32/64 bit binaries to 64 bit only. The 64-bit only transition means apps that only have a 32-bit native code can no longer run on Android. You might think that Android apps are Java based, and you'd be correct, however many apps do have native libraries they use (with the Native Development Kit, or NDK).

I say around the era as 32-bit Android devices could still run them as they were 32-bit only devices.

Other reasons would include removal of deprecated APIs

And it is actually intended to avoid situations where government employees are perceived as discriminating against someone else on religious grounds due to being eg. Catholic vs. Protestant, or Jewish vs. Muslim, etc.

That's what the government said. In reality, it was because they wanted to ban people wearing the hijab (the head and face covering devout Muslim women wear). They tried to ban it directly, but ran afoul of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the ban was struck down and they didn't feel like applying the notwithstanding clause to it. (The notwithstanding clause allows violations of the Charter to occur, with easily worked around restrictions. This is how the language law in Quebec stays even though it clearly violates freedom of speech or equality of French and English.)

So they rewrote the law to cover all religious materials by government officials as that was the only place it could sensibly exist.

Of course, the reason for this is a large percentage of the Quebec population is Islamophobic.

Quebec's latest additions to the language law now mandate French on appliance labels that are "essential" So now things like power buttons and such must have French labels. This applies also to molded things - like say your washing machine dispensers might say "Detergent" or "Bleach" in raised plastic. That will have to be in French in short order.

Though, Quebec has also mandated all Canadian businesses that ship to Quebec have French customer service. This has resulted in companies refusing to ship to Quebec. Even Canadian companies - you can order online and ship it to anywhere in Canada, except Quebec.

Not sure how people shopping for appliances will cope with it - either they make a special Quebec model, stop selling in Quebec and let the others gouge (captive market), or if online stores will ship to Quebec. Or maybe someone will set up an Ontario to Quebec shipping service that re-ships products into Quebec.

Either way, the models do not explicitly store any item in the training information. They store the information necessary to reconstruct something like the training data, when appropriately prompted. As I said, if the data in that area is sparse enough, or the prompt specific enough, "something like it" could end up being similar enough to the training item that we consider it the same.

So by that logic, I could feed a LLM all of the open and free software source code in the world (easily available), then have the LLM spit me out versions of programs whose license I don't agree with? Like I can have it digest the Linux kernel, and have it spit out something like, but not exactly (because it isn't stored) the Linux kernel. And because it wasn't stored, I'm no longer bound by the GPL because the copyright no longer exists.

Remember, open and free software only work because of copyright law, and without copyright law, every F/OSS license is no longer valid. They only have powers because the alternative is "all rights reserved" default copyright law. So you either use Linux as "all rights reserved" or you use Linux as "GPLv2". Which you choose is entirely up to you. As a user, it makes no difference. But as a developer, "all rights reserved" means I can't do jack with the source code other than look at it and compile and run it on my machine. But I can't distribute it as copyright law prohibits it.

So if I wanted to distribute Linux, my only option is bypass copyright law by using the alternative, which is GPLv2.

Of course, if an LLM does not need to obey copyright law, then I'm no longer bound by the GPLv2 as without "all rights reserved" I can do whatever the heck I want with Linux. Including ship binary only copies with it. Since there is no copyright on it anymore, I'm immune from GPLv2 license clauses. Introducing Windows 12, built on an AI generated Linux clone.

So, either AIs have to obey copyright law, or they don't. One way is bad for everyone relying on copyright, the other way is bad to AI companies.

"Startup" is tech industry speak for "hasn't had a profitable quarter or an IPO, yet."

Or more accurately, "overwork your employees by making them work 100 hours/week for very low pay".

And before I forget. Remember that in a couple of years, every new phone sold in EU that isn't somehow specialist will need to have a user accessible and swappable battery. And once that R&D is done, as most phones have all frequencies of the world nowadays due to work that was done on RF filters some time ago, you can just buy an EU version of the phone you like to have an easily swappable battery. Which is the main thing people want to replace to make their electronic thing last longer.

Even the iPhones today have relatively easy to swap batteries. At least, going by the fact you can buy new batteries for them and have it replaced at the mall kiosk in about 10 minutes while you wait for $25. Not entirely sure what benefit you get from doing it yourself other than doing it yourself in 30 minutes versus waiting 10 at a mall kiosk?

Yeah, that's the big downside to them - it looks like the only benefit for these is the battery is replaceable.

That's it. Want sound quality? These won't do it (and from reviews, they don't sound all that great, either)

So I suppose you could get better earbuds that are worth listening to, or these things. Which remind you of the brown recycled paper, the rough brown "eco" toilet paper and such that was the rage a couple of decades ago when the whole green movement was taking off. Yes, the products are worse compared to the stuff you're used to, but hey, save the planet!

The two Shuttle disasters have generated and continue to generate far more media attention including long-form documentaries than the entire rest of the Space Shuttle program put together. Tell me more about what those 133 missions did, instead of always and only playing the disaster tourist.

Most of them are relatively boring - launch a bunch of satellites, capture a bunch of satellites and service them. Many satellites are classified.

The "exciting" missions were well documented - Hubble was laucnhed from the Shuttle. Hubble was also repaired (the first time) form the Shuttle. Then there were more than a few Hubble missions to service it as well.

At that point, I've basically summarized the majority of the missions

It unfortunately doesn't really make for good TV - a satellite gets launched. A satellite goes captured and has work done on it. Some science experiments were done ISS got laucnhed. ISS got constructed. ISS resupply mission.

Much of it is highly boring - heck, Apollo 12 - the mission between the one we landed on the moon and the one where an oxygen tank exploded - saw a huge decrease in the interest of the American public in the space program - it was just another routine mission. Apollo 13 barely caught anyone's attention until the explosion.