The International Economy says we shall continue wringing our hands. Pretty sure a ton of ultra-shortsighted business owners and investors are gonna say this was a "once in a lifetime" event and there will be no need to keep funding this kind of surveillance for the future.
Seems like Apple is no longer intent on keeping third-party MacOS backup solutions in business much longer. Everyone *must* use Apple's Time Machine, no exceptions.
Good luck also with recovery of said data if you don't have a backup.
Yikes... I knew this was coming. The move away from general-purpose CPUs means a gradual lock-down of the Mac. I'm starting to wonder if Apple really did plan to make the Mac App Store be the only place you could download software for your Mac... Jeez...
I'm thanking my lucky stars to have recently purchased one of the last Intel-based Macs, where at least I'll be able to modify bits and pieces as desired. Super prudent to not have bought into an Apple Silicon-based Mac!!!
Once again, Apple is making me question whether I want to continue giving them my business for, what has been for multiple years of providing a superior, highly stable, and commercially supported OS. If only Canoncial's Ubuntu would have just a bit more *native* support (meaning, no WINE) from companies like Microsoft and Adobe, then I'd be happy to escape from MacOS.
What if I told you that "basic rights" for computing in peace don't actually freaking exist?
We live in a world where almost everything is okay to be commercialized, sold for money, and someone make a justified living off of that earned money. That just because all software is made of 1's and 0's doesn't mean we are entitled to having a copy of it.
We live in a world where if we don't have the funding to buy some product that makes our life easier, that it means WE CAN'T HAVE IT until we pay for it. That we SHOULDN'T try to steal the damn product just "because you can".
We all need to wake up from this extremely naive fantasy that we can't be allowed to make a living off of selling software. Those of us still stuck in the 90's and still think all computing should be "free" need a massive fire under their butts to shed this fantasy of the past.
No, Open Source lost when derivatives of FOSS projects were commercialized and have become massively successful with little complaint from the general public.
If there's anyone to blame, I'd blame the video game industry for choosing to initially support Windows over a common Linux distro like Ubuntu. They (sort of) do it now, but it's almost too little too late.
It's really simple: Make the commercial product so darn good enough and easy to use over any FOSS solution with enough marketing dollars behind it, it will win. Period.
Us shouting at these tech companies with our extraordinarily pointless and ineffective boycotts and protests hasn't changed any minds. Yes, FOSS will not die, but it will permanently remain a niche. A massive chunk of them will not be missed if they go defunct or cease development. That's our world today and for the future.
Itâ(TM)s still the Law of Averages with interpolation, making it no better than lookup tables.
In medicine, using the Law of Averages only really works in maybe a military medical setting, where all individuals already meet a strict medical criteria before entering service.
Outside of that, AI for this specialized purpose begins to fall apart because there are way more than a few civilian cases that donâ(TM)t present as âoetypicalâ or textbook-style.
We are not yet able to emulate the human brain. Radiologistâ(TM)s jobs arenâ(TM)t going to disappear or decrease in availability any time in the near or far future if we continue to call a system that uses training of pre-existing, high-quality images or interpolation of such images âoeAIâ.
Jeez guys, this occurred during his *youth*... He was a child. Does this mean he is incapable of learning and correcting his moral values? Are we all set in stone the moment we are born?
I get the paranoia about hatred being âoein our midstâ, but it doesnâ(TM)t look like he actively hates any particular group today.
Learn to forgive. Accept that people can change themselves for the better.
Yikes on that, chief... I'd be pretty paranoid about my email address getting harvested without my knowledge.
Oh well... At least Zoom is quickly securing their service with each passing day.
To be really honest, it's not for large groups. Up to 12 people before it starts losing stability. Very much a work-in-progress. For sysadmins and tech-savvy people, this is a finished product because they will roll the GitHub code into some custom Jitsi client for their data center or tech company.
For an academic or business environment where not everyone is so tech-savvy... Avoid it. Better off with commercially-supported services.
In short, there is currently no "one-click easy" FOSS solution for video conferencing compared to something like Skype or Zoom.
No. This is a completely community-led project. Nothing like Canonical's Ubuntu or Red Hat's RHEL, unfortunately. This project is more for tech companies or data centers wanting to make their own remote presence tool for internal use.
Not exactly polished enough for use by Joe Average in the sales team.
Oh cool! I love playing this game!
I also know about China's endangered wildlife trade for the purpose of Traditional Chinese Medicine (which has zero evidence of efficacy as compared to normal drugs), numerous documented incidences of horrendous tourist behavior, 5000+ years of internal stupidity (multiple civil wars), continued support for the variety of abuses committed by North Korea, lack of observance or respect for human rights, sending any political dissidents to Xinjiang labor re-education camps, kidnapping and black market organ trade for a certain religious sect, attempts to colonize various parts of Africa through bribery of local officials, and total lack of respect for pre-existing international laws.
Because it thinks they're "not fair for China."
I can play this game all day. Do go on about American genocides on foreign soil that have never been repeated in modern times, including in Iraq and Afghanistan. I'd love to educate you on your utter stupidity and whataboutisms.
America learns from its mistakes. China doesn't. Please continue to tell me why America is more evil than China... lol
So, as of a few days ago, Huawei was continuing to claim complete and total innocence from charges of sanctions-busting and facilitated IP theft.
Now, today, Huawei is now shown via irrefutable evidence to be contradicting themselves completely on at least one of those charges.
I have zero sympathy for anyone still attempting to defend this company and the less-than-savory actions of other Chinese multinationals still pretending to have full independence from national government interests. And yes, the nature of these interests are much more different than companies doing contract work for the US government.
The horrifying messes would still have to be "discovered" by the next rider.
Unless all those TeslaTaxi(R) vehicles come with VOC air quality sensors in each cabin and will notify dispatch to remove the vehicle from service and have it inspected by employees.
Though, that system would have false positives any time someone farts and it remains in the car. Maybe not enough time to ventilate the car by the time the next rider needs to get in? So, maybe this hypothetical system wouldn't work?
You tell me how "pseudo" that argument is. People in the United States (and Canada) are going to want their own personal vehicles every single time. A shared ride is an alternative good, not the preferred one.
I'd think it to be idiotic and extraordinarily naïve that someone would truly believe more people would want to have a massive national automated taxi system instead of networked (or non-networked) personal vehicles with autonomous highway driving functions. Let people have an option, not "only one or the other".
Though this article doesn't specifically state it, I feel like this confirms Huawei and ZTE's complicity in Chinese intelligence operations from those who use their devices.
I feel like this should also quiet any supporters of Huawei and ZTE's "innocence" on having data stored in China. Also makes plausible that their devices have an (as of the time of this post) undiscovered data siphon or keylogger sending data to PRC servers for "quality assurance" or "verification".
Doesn't help their case that Huawei and ZTE's devices have locked bootloaders and are unwilling to unlock them.
Well... color me mildly surprised! I'd figure these EV batteries would have deteriorated by at least 20-30% if they are at least 4 years old, similar to current smartphone batteries.
Perhaps there is some hope for EVs in extreme conditions.
More and more, I'm starting to think a giant spinning spacecraft may be the best way forward if we are to travel to Mars.
Stasis isn't going to cut it if these health effects are directly the result of extended zero-g exposure.
This is gonna get expensive...
An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.
