Comment Re:Let's be clear (Score 0) 178
"The difference between anecdote and data is a clip board."
Lol, this is the combination of words you think says, "I am a smart person"?
Comment Re: I would expect (Score 1) 30
*wanking motion*
Comment Re: Amazing (Score 1) 39
That's a weird thing to say when the entire article is about how they needed to keep improving the test to better help them hire software engineers.
Comment Re: I would expect (Score 1) 30
I feel like a large number of users here are still wailing against the Microsoft of 15 years ago. They're still hostile to home edition end users, of course, but they've very much cleaned up their technical posture compared to ages ago. Are they perfect? No, but they're nowhere near as developer/admin/OSS/*nix/etc hostile as they used to be.
Comment Re: Prove US wrong (Score 1) 303
A lot of Americans seem
Submission + - £1.5bn legal action in UK against Apple over wallet's 'hidden fees' (theguardian.com)
AmiMoJo writes: The financial campaigner James Daley has launched a £1.5bn class action lawsuit against Apple over its mobile phone wallet, claiming the US tech company blocked competition and charged hidden fees that ultimately harmed 50 million UK consumers.
The lawsuit takes aim at Apple Pay, which they say has been the only contactless payment service available for iPhone users in Britain over the past decade.
Daley, who is the founder of the advocacy group Fairer Finance, claims this situation amounted to anti-competitive behaviour and allowed Apple to charge hidden fees, ultimately pushing up costs for banks that passed charges on to consumers, regardless of whether they owned an iPhone.
The lawsuit takes aim at Apple Pay, which they say has been the only contactless payment service available for iPhone users in Britain over the past decade.
Daley, who is the founder of the advocacy group Fairer Finance, claims this situation amounted to anti-competitive behaviour and allowed Apple to charge hidden fees, ultimately pushing up costs for banks that passed charges on to consumers, regardless of whether they owned an iPhone.
Submission + - Cheap green tech allows faster path to electrification for the developing world (japantimes.co.jp)
Mr. Dollar Ton writes: According to a new report from a think tank, "Ember", the availability of cheap green tech can have developing countries profit from earlier investment and skip steps in the transition from fossil to alternatives.
India is put forward as an example. While china’s rapid electrification has been hailed as a miracle, by some measures, India is moving ahead faster than China did when it was at similar levels of economic development. It’s an indication that clean electricity could be the most direct way to boost growth for other developing economies.
That’s mainly because India has access to solar panels and electric cars at a much lower price than China did about a decade ago. Chinese investments lowered the costs of what experts call "modular technologies” — the production of each solar panel, battery cell and electric car enables engineers to learn how to make it more efficiently.
India's per-capita consumption of oil for road transport is 60% lower than when China hit that milestone. As a result India’s peak road-oil consumption per person will likely never reach Chinese levels.
India is put forward as an example. While china’s rapid electrification has been hailed as a miracle, by some measures, India is moving ahead faster than China did when it was at similar levels of economic development. It’s an indication that clean electricity could be the most direct way to boost growth for other developing economies.
That’s mainly because India has access to solar panels and electric cars at a much lower price than China did about a decade ago. Chinese investments lowered the costs of what experts call "modular technologies” — the production of each solar panel, battery cell and electric car enables engineers to learn how to make it more efficiently.
India's per-capita consumption of oil for road transport is 60% lower than when China hit that milestone. As a result India’s peak road-oil consumption per person will likely never reach Chinese levels.
Submission + - Work-from-office mandate? Expect top talent turnover, culture rot (cio.com)
snydeq writes: Work-from-office mandates are accelerating but the push toward in-person work environments will make it more difficult for IT leaders to retain and recruit staff, some experts say. Over the past year, many companies, including IT giants Amazon and Microsoft, have required employees to work from the office. Advocates of in-person work expect increased productivity and improved collaboration, although several studies suggest that workers can be just as productive when working remotely, and employment experts say collaboration gains can be difficult to measure. Organizations requiring IT workers to commute to an office need to ground decisions in value creation, focus on data-driven results, and avoid badge-swipe metrics, employment experts say. “In addition to resistance, there would also be the risk of talent turnover,” Converge CTO Lawrence Wolfe says. “The truth is, both physical and virtual collaboration provide tremendous value.”
Submission + - Nvidia DLSS Gaming on ARM (interfacinglinux.com)
VennStone writes: Gaming on ARM with NVIDIA and DLSS is no longer theoretical. Using an Orange Pi 6 Plus, an NVMe M.2 to PCIe extender, and a desktop Nvidia GPU, it's now possible to run Windows games through Wine with DLSS enabled on Linux. Titles like Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3 achieve usable frame rates via FEX, despite running on an ARM SBC.
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Submission + - Why some people get bad colds and others don't (sciencedaily.com)
alternative_right writes: Scientists found that nasal cells act as a first line of defense against the common cold, working together to block rhinovirus soon after infection. A fast antiviral response can stop the virus before symptoms appear. If that response is weakened or delayed, the virus spreads and causes inflammation and breathing problems. The study highlights why the body’s reaction matters more than the virus alone.
Submission + - North America's first lithium refinery built and completed in Texas (msn.com)
schwit1 writes: The first battery-grade lithium hydroxide refining facility in North America is now operational in Texas.
In May 2023, Gov. Greg Abbott, Tesla founder Elon Musk and other officials broke ground at what would become Tesla North America’s new lithium refinery in Robstown. By January 2026, it was fully operational.
The facility is the first of its kind to ever be built in North America, The Center Square reported. The facility is part of Abbott’s goal for Texas to lead in reducing reliance on China for critical minerals and technology. Under Abbott, Texas is leading in semiconductor manufacturing and development, state-led Artificial Intelligence development and nuclear energy expansion to counter Chinese dominance and threats, The Center Square reported.
Australia, Chile and China account for 90% of lithium production; China overwhelmingly refines the majority of lithium, controlling global supply, according to International Energy Agency and other reports. China also sources materials used for lithium-ion batteries mined through forced child labor in the Congo and Nigeria, raising human rights concerns.
The facility is the first of its kind to ever be built in North America, The Center Square reported. The facility is part of Abbott’s goal for Texas to lead in reducing reliance on China for critical minerals and technology. Under Abbott, Texas is leading in semiconductor manufacturing and development, state-led Artificial Intelligence development and nuclear energy expansion to counter Chinese dominance and threats, The Center Square reported.
Australia, Chile and China account for 90% of lithium production; China overwhelmingly refines the majority of lithium, controlling global supply, according to International Energy Agency and other reports. China also sources materials used for lithium-ion batteries mined through forced child labor in the Congo and Nigeria, raising human rights concerns.
Submission + - HAM Radio Operators In Belarus Arrested, Face the Death Penalty (404media.co)
An anonymous reader writes: The Belarusian government is threatening three HAM radio operators with the death penalty, detained at least seven people, and has accused them of “intercepting state secrets,” according to Belarusian state media, independent media outside of Belarus, and the Belarusian human rights organization Viasna. The arrests are an extreme attack on what is most often a wholesome hobby that has a history of being vilified by authoritarian governments in part because the technology is quite censorship resistant.
The detentions were announced last week on Belarusian state TV, which claimed the men were part of a network of more than 50 people participating in the amateur radio hobby and have been accused of both “espionage” and “treason.” Authorities there said they seized more than 500 pieces of radio equipment. The men were accused on state TV of using radio to spy on the movement of government planes, though no actual evidence of this has been produced. State TV claimed they were associated with the Belarusian Federation of Radioamateurs and Radiosportsmen (BFRR), a long-running amateur radio club and nonprofit that holds amateur radio competitions, meetups, trainings, and forums.
The detentions were announced last week on Belarusian state TV, which claimed the men were part of a network of more than 50 people participating in the amateur radio hobby and have been accused of both “espionage” and “treason.” Authorities there said they seized more than 500 pieces of radio equipment. The men were accused on state TV of using radio to spy on the movement of government planes, though no actual evidence of this has been produced. State TV claimed they were associated with the Belarusian Federation of Radioamateurs and Radiosportsmen (BFRR), a long-running amateur radio club and nonprofit that holds amateur radio competitions, meetups, trainings, and forums.
Comment Re: How about sharing like it's 1979? (Score 1) 49
Sadly, it's what enough people have been told that they want, and they believe it. To me it's a generational failure of public education to have a population that is so easily sold against their own direct interest.
Comment Re: Uneccesary? (Score 5, Insightful) 60
Good point - good science and use of resources would be for the HHS to announce a study to find out whether sacrificing things to gods makes it rain. After all, like you said, we'd never be here we didn't stop questioning literally everything over and over until the end of time.
Submission + - cURL removes bug bounties (etn.se)
jantangring writes: Open source code library cURL is removing the possibility to earn money by reporting bugs, hoping that this will reduce the volume of AI slop reports. Joshua Rogers – AI wielding bug hunter of fame – thinks it's a great idea.
cURL maintainer Daniel Stenberg famously reported on the flood AI-generated bad bug reports last year –
”Death by a thousand slops.”
Now cURL is removing the bounty payouts as of the end of January.
"We have to try to brake the flood in order not to drown”, says cURL maintainer Daniel Stenberg to Swedish electronics industry news site etn.se.
Despite being an AI wielding bug hunter himself, Joshua Rogers – slasher of a hundred bugs – thinks removing the bounty money is an excellent idea.
”I personally would have pulled the plug long ago,” he says to etn.se.
cURL maintainer Daniel Stenberg famously reported on the flood AI-generated bad bug reports last year –
”Death by a thousand slops.”
Now cURL is removing the bounty payouts as of the end of January.
"We have to try to brake the flood in order not to drown”, says cURL maintainer Daniel Stenberg to Swedish electronics industry news site etn.se.
Despite being an AI wielding bug hunter himself, Joshua Rogers – slasher of a hundred bugs – thinks removing the bounty money is an excellent idea.
”I personally would have pulled the plug long ago,” he says to etn.se.
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