Comment Anti-Zombie protocols in effect (Score 1) 68
Slow it down with salt buckshot rounds, behead the sucker, and before re-interring, sew those lips shut.
If this seems insufficiently paranoid, ash it and launch the ashes into the sun.
Submission + - Non-invasive stimulation of the brain ends Opioid addiction, cigarette craving (jpost.com)
Bruce66423 writes: 'Doctors at the Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa have successfully treated their first Israeli opioid addiction patient using an experimental noninvasive brain technology, easing him through withdrawal in just 20 minutes.
'H., a 40-year-old family man from northern Israel, was injured in his neck several years ago. Because of the injury, he relied on painkillers and eventually became addicted to them....
'The patient himself reported a craving score of zero out of 10 for using the drug, and even another side effect, a drastic drop in the desire for cigarettes, from three packs a day to just a few cigarettes, and with no urge to use alcohol. In other words, in a treatment that lasted about 20 minutes net, our patient was completely freed from an extreme dependence that had accompanied him every day for years. This is nothing less than a medical and therapeutic revolution.”'
'H., a 40-year-old family man from northern Israel, was injured in his neck several years ago. Because of the injury, he relied on painkillers and eventually became addicted to them....
'The patient himself reported a craving score of zero out of 10 for using the drug, and even another side effect, a drastic drop in the desire for cigarettes, from three packs a day to just a few cigarettes, and with no urge to use alcohol. In other words, in a treatment that lasted about 20 minutes net, our patient was completely freed from an extreme dependence that had accompanied him every day for years. This is nothing less than a medical and therapeutic revolution.”'
Submission + - Microsoft extends Win10 CONSUMER ESU for one more year (microsoft.com)
williamyf writes: Microsoft has extended the consumer ESU support for Windows 10 for another year. It will now run until Oct 2027.
Both the ESU page (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/extended-security-updates#cw) and a Blog Post (https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2025/06/24/stay-secure-with-windows-11-copilot-pcs-and-windows-365-before-support-ends-for-windows-10/) from Microsoft reflect the change.
Consumer ESU is either free (sometimes with strings attached) or low cost (~30 U$D) compared to Enterprise ESU. The details are in the ESU page.
Enterprise ESU remains unchanged, and runs until Oct 2028. For people still using Win10 as their main OS, either because their HW does not support Win11, or because they like Win10 better, or people (like me) Dualbooting another OS as the main one, with a Win10 partition for other uses, these are excellent news.
Both the ESU page (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/extended-security-updates#cw) and a Blog Post (https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2025/06/24/stay-secure-with-windows-11-copilot-pcs-and-windows-365-before-support-ends-for-windows-10/) from Microsoft reflect the change.
Consumer ESU is either free (sometimes with strings attached) or low cost (~30 U$D) compared to Enterprise ESU. The details are in the ESU page.
Enterprise ESU remains unchanged, and runs until Oct 2028. For people still using Win10 as their main OS, either because their HW does not support Win11, or because they like Win10 better, or people (like me) Dualbooting another OS as the main one, with a Win10 partition for other uses, these are excellent news.
Submission + - Alan Turing developed a portable voice encryption device (popularmechanics.com)
smooth wombat writes: Alan Turing, one of the more famous people who worked at Bletchley Park to decipher the German Enigma coding machine, was also working on a separate project. His private papers, known as the Bayley papers for his assistant Donald Bayley who held onto the papers until his death in 2020, reveal Turning had produced a working model of a portable voice encryption device. He even demonstrated it by using a Winston Churchill speech recording.
“Weighing just 39 kg, including its power pack,” Copeland summarizes, “Delilah would be at home in a truck, a trench, or a large backpack.”
Turing’s work at Bletchley Park actually informed the Delilah experimentation he was doing at Hanslope Park, and not just because he used Red Forms, the Army-issue sheets Hanslope staffers were meant to use to alert Bletchley staffers to enemy signals, as his personal scrap paper for Delilah experiments. He drew inspiration from one of the German cipher machines they had decoded at Bletchley; not the famed Enigma machine, but rather the SZ42. While the former relied on Morse Code, the latter utilized a 5-bit telegraph code, which Copeland notes “was a forerunner of ASCII and Unicode and is still used by some ham radio operators.”
The SZ42 produced an obscuring key of telegraph characters, with an identical key produced to both the sender and receiver. If it could be done for text, Turing reasoned it could be done for sound as well.
This is the part of the story where one might say “Well, I’ve never heard of Alan Turing’s voice encoder, so the experiments must have failed.” But remarkably, they didn’t. Turing and Bayley actually did create their Delilah, and even demonstrated it using a recording of a Winston Churchill speech, “successfully encrypting, transmitting, and decrypting it.”
Instead, the reason Delilah fell to the wayside of history isn’t because it was a failure, but rather because it simply wasn’t needed anymore. By the time Turing had built and demonstrated his device, the war was over. What good was a portable voice encryptor if you had no major enemies trying to intercept your calls, the government reasoned. So funding for the project stopped, and Turing’s two-year experiment ended with a whimper. Turing’s time as an electrical engineer at Hanslope Park became a footnote in his story, if even that.
“Weighing just 39 kg, including its power pack,” Copeland summarizes, “Delilah would be at home in a truck, a trench, or a large backpack.”
Turing’s work at Bletchley Park actually informed the Delilah experimentation he was doing at Hanslope Park, and not just because he used Red Forms, the Army-issue sheets Hanslope staffers were meant to use to alert Bletchley staffers to enemy signals, as his personal scrap paper for Delilah experiments. He drew inspiration from one of the German cipher machines they had decoded at Bletchley; not the famed Enigma machine, but rather the SZ42. While the former relied on Morse Code, the latter utilized a 5-bit telegraph code, which Copeland notes “was a forerunner of ASCII and Unicode and is still used by some ham radio operators.”
The SZ42 produced an obscuring key of telegraph characters, with an identical key produced to both the sender and receiver. If it could be done for text, Turing reasoned it could be done for sound as well.
This is the part of the story where one might say “Well, I’ve never heard of Alan Turing’s voice encoder, so the experiments must have failed.” But remarkably, they didn’t. Turing and Bayley actually did create their Delilah, and even demonstrated it using a recording of a Winston Churchill speech, “successfully encrypting, transmitting, and decrypting it.”
Instead, the reason Delilah fell to the wayside of history isn’t because it was a failure, but rather because it simply wasn’t needed anymore. By the time Turing had built and demonstrated his device, the war was over. What good was a portable voice encryptor if you had no major enemies trying to intercept your calls, the government reasoned. So funding for the project stopped, and Turing’s two-year experiment ended with a whimper. Turing’s time as an electrical engineer at Hanslope Park became a footnote in his story, if even that.
Comment to paraphrase a certain meme... (Score 1) 27
I am once again calling upon the sum total of the 'TechBro Community' to eat my entire ass like a sack of groceries.
Planned obsolescence is pure unadulterated bullshit. "No user serviceable parts inside" is naught but a warning label. Specialty tools requirements to open or repair devices is rarely beter than theft of time, effort, and yet more coin from device owners.
Comment Re:If anything will do it (Score 4, Insightful) 55
Depends what you mean by "very few"
https://areweanticheatyet.com/
Check the list, see what your collection looks like.
Comment No. (Score 3, Insightful) 94
It cannot do so. Neither "AI" nor a path to achieving it exist. For now you get LLMs.
That aside, the trend over most of the last century now has been that as productivity enhancement tools have continue to improve and workers produce more value, that value keeps getting directed to the most wealthy overall and real wages tend to remain flat. This trend is not going to change without major societal shakeup.
Comment Re:I wish they'd break down cash vs. short term (Score 1) 9
If a large chunk of that $20B is stock
Comment Re:It's almost 2026 (Score 2) 35
Your completely shit attitude does nothing to change Windows itself *is* malware anymore.
Comment Neeve enough analytics? (Score 1) 2
A global switch would be better than the current state of having to dig into about:config and find all the toggles.
Still, at this point, it's less effort for me to start playing with various forks that have better default settings.
As always, re-evaluate regularly.
Comment Because fuck Broadcom from here to eternity (Score 1) 19
Remind me to check how Proxmox's new datacenter management tools are coming along.
Comment Re: So (Score 1) 72
Replacing unreliable, poorly informed middle managers that the rank and file have to work around to get their jobs done with unreliable hallucinating LLMs that the rank and file have to work around to get their jobs done...
(And yet wouldn't take much to be better than half the people I dealt with when last at a Fortune X company!)
(How do Fortune X companies function, you ask? Usually despite themselves!)
(For those not initiated, let me give it to you straight: many megacorps actually manage to look dumber from the inside than the news even begins to describe.)
Comment Re:Expected (Score 2) 14
Article mentions gallium arsenide and very briefly issues with using it.
Anyway, research on alternatives to Silicon-based semiconductors comes up in the news every few years or so, and then vanishes again. Research may get some real funding at some point though, as eventually we're gonna run out of ways to get more mileage from Silicon base. Eventually. Probably. Just that there's so much invested into current that trying to catch anything else up for performance seems like a real risk with no guaranteed payout.
Article is a bit light on details. Might be nice to see the kinds of things that were mentioned in articles like this in The Times Before, such as comparisons of electron tunneling voltages, achievable clock speeds, feature sizes, lithography variants in use, feasibility of going 3d and stacking wafers compared to with current processes and so on and so on and so on and so
Comment Exhibit Number 12,817,433 ... (Score 2) 23
... showing how much every single cellular provider in existence sucks rocks.
Comment Re:Google? wtf (Score 1) 92
Departmental level bodge jobs done by someone in management who at a *stretch* might try to migrate to Access instead of a real DB when pressured to create a better solution because the current one is choked and falling down.
