Slashdot, for all of its flaws and idiosyncrasies, did get a few core things right 25 years ago. Cap the post scores, don't let someone post and vote, and don't let any one account have too much control (e.g. infinite mod points). Meanwhile Wikipedia is infamous for its turf wars and editors protecting their pages.

Reddit ends up being somewhere in the middle of all of this. There are a lot of good, hard-working moderators, especially in the smaller subs. But there are also the power mods, which control a wide number of subreddits for seemingly no good reason. And then you end up with places like /r/anime and /r/nba, where the mods were just straight-up power tripping last week.

They're paid in power. And there's no shortage of people who will gladly take on a bit of responsibility for power over their peers. Just look at Slashdot moderation and meta-moderation...

There's no political or cultural reason for the change. US companies went abroad for cheap labor. Well with all the IT and other workers out of work (mostly by H1B), college educated tech people are working menial jobs. The cost of labor in the US is now CHEAPER than abroad. We as a nation have done nothing, while the billionaires double their wealth each year. The middle class is gone. They are now working in the new factories at wages barely above minimum rage. It's our own fault for rolling over and playing dead. See those place over seas where folks are striking and rioting? There you might see some social change. See here were everyone is trying to get rich buying into crypto ponzi scams? Nary a peep.

Mojave is no longer receiving security updates, either. So you shouldn't be browsing the Internet on those devices.

Why would a company think they have any right to push an update to a router someone has purchased? Once someone buys the product, the company has no right to do anything to the prodcut without the person's permission.

• 1) Because providing ongoing security definitions is unequivocally a good thing. There are millions of Asus routers out there, most of whom are owned by clueless users who just want the thing to work - and conversely, who would never notice if their router was being used as part of a botnet or had been hijacked to snoop on them.
• 2) Because Asus got its ass handed to it by the FTC in 2015 for not providing security updates. As a consequence of not providing sufficient security for their products in the past, they've been required to operate a security program for the past 8 years, with another 12 years to go.

Bear in mind that Asus isn't even alone in this. The closest analogue, Apple's XProtect, similarly runs entirely in the background and is regularly downloading updates to keep apprised of the latest malware. Microsoft of course has Windows Defender, but they also distribute their monthly Malicious Software Removal Tool (even to OSes that no longer qualify for security updates).

Routers are the internet-facing box in most consumer networks. They are the first (and sometimes only) line of protection between a hostile Internet and a whole bunch of poorly supported hardware on the other side - sometimes including the router itself. So it is critical that these millions upon millions of tiny Linux boxen are not left to be abused by malware.

Merlin still includes the asd daemon.

With regards to operating systems, that much is definitely turning out to be true. Apple released a security update for the iPhone 5s as recently as earlier as this year, over 9 years after that phone was first introduced. The earlier iPhone 5 didn't get quite as much love - things got hinky for their 32-bit phones - but the OS support window has been getting longer and longer over the years.

But French regulators seem to be more concerned over hardware than software. I don't buy the "planned obsolescence" argument - save the battery, these things are designed to last for just about forever when they're taken care of - but the difficulties for repairs does raise some eyebrows.

I do think at some point regulators are going to have to decide if smartphones are PC-like appliances or secure computing terminals. But it'll probably take an extraordinary event to trigger that reckoning.

However, as someone who lives more than four hours away from my favorite MLB and NFL teams' stadiums, I am increasingly frustrated with the limitations imposed on my ability to watch games (blackouts). I'm consistently denied access to my favorite teams' games!!!

Haven't the MLB and NFL done away with local television blackouts? All of their games should be broadcasting on some locally-available network, be it a national network, a regional sports network, or local affiliate.

Just under what circumstances are you getting blacked out?

As a long-time user, the one big issue I run into is that on occasion, Gmail won't deliver the body of an email over IMAP. It will pretend the body is empty, even though it's clearly visible if you use the web interface. It's something about that specific email that happens server-side, regardless of the client used.

Let's assume that you are watching video at an average bitrate of 4Mbps. That corresponds to about 500KBps which is equivalent to 2000 seconds of non stop video. That is a half hour of watching youtube videos.

It looks like you did the math for a Gigabyte instead of a Terabyte there. So you're off by a few orders of magnitude.

1TB @ 500KBps = 2,097,152 seconds, or 582.5 hours, or 24.2 days of video.

People are jumping the gun here. These appear to be little more than test chips with manufacturing partners. This is something Arm does on the regular; Arm's customers want IP that's already been verified on the process node said customer tends to use, which means Arm has to get test chips built to do that verification.

Micron seems to be unusually well behaved among US tech companies. Have fun with that China.

Micron is China's usual target for international shenanigans. It's Micron whom they been stealing DRAM technology off of for years. So regardless of what Micron has (or hasn't) been doing, they'll get as much grief from China as Chinese authorities deems appropriate.

Slashdot is still better for actual discussion, which says a lot about the old BBS setup we use here.

I credit the Slashdot karma system. Having categories and a +5 cap has done wonders for helping to ensure that the winning strategy for karma whoring isn't to be the first person to post a snarky one-liner in a post about a popular subject.

Admittedly, it can and does still happen. But those posts aren't ranked higher than the best informative posts. Whereas you'd often need to scroll down past half of the comments in a Reddit post to find the first insightful post.

The title is a bit unclear/misleading here. YouTube will start accepting AV1 as an input for live streaming. However everything is still going to get reencoded to VP9 for distribution. So the quality benefits of AV1 are going to be lost for the time being; it'll be no better than uploading in VP9 to begin with.

Modern AMD and Intel CPUs include integrated USB.

Here's a good block diagram of what services are where (the CPU is the block labeled Socket AM5): https://cdn.wccftech.com/wp-co...