Comment Re:Not innovation at all (Score -1) 81
Well, Apple's ProMotion screen has been using variable display frequencies for years.
https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxu...
Comment Re:That library file limit (Score 1) 7
Nope. That's why I changed all my players to BlueOS.
Submission + - SPAM: I Built a Dogecoin-Powered Pinball Machine
chromatic writes: It started as a joke—what if I could use cryptocurrency to power a Lord of the Rings pinball machine? From there, things snowballed into figuring out how to hack the coin mechanism, set up a relay board, get addresses starting with the word "Balrog", and connect it all to the Dogecoin blockchain. The result? My pinball machine now takes Dogecoin instead of quarters.
Link to Original Source
Link to Original Source
Comment Re: TLDR (Score 0) 117
Bwahaha. Meta didn't even invent their headset, they bought it. They didn't even remotely innovate on it, and they canceled their plans for an improved headset. The only major plan they had for it now can only be found in their fucking name. You are so far up Zuck's ass, you should be able to see Trump's.
Comment Re:F-Sonos (Score 1) 38
I replaced all my SONOS connects with BlueSound node Nano devices. A pricey replacement, but worth it.
As a bonus I was now able to turn off SMB1 on my home Samba server !
Comment Re:Well, (almost) nobody likes Cassandra (Score -1) 115
Ahh, see, you think the scientists are "being emotional about their findings", when they are actually emotional about morons ignoring their findings. If you weren't so damn emotional, you'd be able to see this simple fact, but nope - you are stupid. At least if your theory is true.
Comment Re:Why Samba? (Score 1) 33
> Every large NAS vendor (Synology, QNAP, etc) has their own SMB server they wrote themserlves
That's untrue. Both Synology and QNAP use Samba. QNAP contributes code and bugfixes back to samba.org (Hi Jones !).
Submission + - Samba gets funding from the German Sovereign Tech Fund.
Jeremy Allison - Sam writes: The Samba project has secured significant funding (€688,800.00) from the German
Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) to advance the project. The investment was
successfully applied for by SerNet. Over the next 18 months, Samba developers
from SerNet will tackle 17 key development subprojects aimed at enhancing
Samba’s security, scalability, and functionality.
The Sovereign Tech Fund is a German federal government funding program that
supports the development, improvement, and maintenance of open digital
infrastructure. Their goal is to sustainably strengthen the open source
ecosystem.
The project's focus is on areas like SMB3 Transparent Failover, SMB3 UNIX
extensions, SMB-Direct, Performance and modern security protocols such as SMB
over QUIC. These improvements are designed to ensure that Samba remains a
robust and secure solution for organizations that rely on a sovereign IT
infrastructure. Development work began as early as September the 1st and is
expected to be completed by the end of February 2026 for all sub-projects.
All development will be done in the open following the existing Samba
development process. First gitlab CI pipelines have already been running [4]
and gitlab MRs will appear soon!
https://samba.plus/blog/detail...
https://www.sovereigntechfund....
Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) to advance the project. The investment was
successfully applied for by SerNet. Over the next 18 months, Samba developers
from SerNet will tackle 17 key development subprojects aimed at enhancing
Samba’s security, scalability, and functionality.
The Sovereign Tech Fund is a German federal government funding program that
supports the development, improvement, and maintenance of open digital
infrastructure. Their goal is to sustainably strengthen the open source
ecosystem.
The project's focus is on areas like SMB3 Transparent Failover, SMB3 UNIX
extensions, SMB-Direct, Performance and modern security protocols such as SMB
over QUIC. These improvements are designed to ensure that Samba remains a
robust and secure solution for organizations that rely on a sovereign IT
infrastructure. Development work began as early as September the 1st and is
expected to be completed by the end of February 2026 for all sub-projects.
All development will be done in the open following the existing Samba
development process. First gitlab CI pipelines have already been running [4]
and gitlab MRs will appear soon!
https://samba.plus/blog/detail...
https://www.sovereigntechfund....
Comment Re:That's great but... (Score -1) 47
Bullshit. The EU Commission may think they have that power, but the EU courts always disagree.
Comment Re:Why bother? (Score -1) 47
sacrificing the users at the alter of "anti-trust".
I think you don't understand what anti-trust is about.
Well, looks like he does, because "anti-trust" is not about the users. Never was.
Comment Re:I have no idea why this is happening .... (Score -1) 185
Is this the same Judith Curry that has claimed it wasn't warming for decades? Talk about unbiased.
Comment Re: I have no idea why this is happening .... (Score -1) 185
Your point could actually be valid if you had made it to the guy on top of this thread. Now it's only moving his goal posts.
Comment Re:what about humans (Score -1) 28
Apart from you being dumb as usual, you don't even see the real problem, which has nothing to do with Apple.
This design tool, when asked for a weather app, always turned up with the same design. So if several developers use it to "design" their apps, all apps will look the same. The fact that you can't fathom this just shows you are of general stupidity, not just dumb while fixated on Apple.
Comment Re:How did the store worker get it? (Score -1) 44
Or worse: did he avoid security regularly for weeks if not months?
Comment Re:First step in every single trial (Score -1) 64
My -guess- is the ebook market is highly fragmented so 10% was a lot but as I said, not familiar.
It's not. It's barely lost in the noise compared with Amazon. That particular case was about collusion to raise prices. The thing is, Apple's contracts with ~500,000 developers who have apps on their iOS App Store, if found to be behaving in a way that effectively raises prices, would make the size of the eBook price fixing cabal seem tiny by comparison. As soon as multiple companies and contracts get involved — which is absolutely the case when you're talking about a closed ecosystem like iOS — you don't actually have to have monopoly power to be convicted of Sherman Act violations at all. (And yet Apple does.)
Funny you should mention that case. Amazon used their profits from real books to finance selling ebooks below the price they paid to the publishers, so they could monopolize the market. All to boost sales of their Kindle ebook reader they also sold below cost to ultimately get everyone to buy their Kindle ebooks that only worked on their reader to monopolize the market. And they took 70% of the sale of those Kindle ebooks unless you basically sold your soul to them, than they only took 35% instead of the ridiculous rip-off from Apple at 30%. You're a tool.
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