Comment Archive (Score 3, Interesting) 171
Time to download your personal copy I guess.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Years ago I had an alternate OS for a clickwheel iPod that had it. That was something else!
Comment Re:I still don't see how there's a basis to compla (Score 1) 37
It's easy enough to look at Reddit's robots.txt file:
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# See https://support.reddithelp.com... Reddit's Public Content Policy for access and use restrictions to Reddit content.
# See https://www.reddit.com/r/reddi... for details on how Reddit continues to support research and non-commercial use.
# policy: https://support.reddithelp.com...
User-agent: *
Disallow:
Comment Re:at least three lies (Score 2) 37
"...the data-scraping companies circumvented its data protection measures in order to steal data that Perplexity "desperately needs" to power its "answer engine" system."
Really, what would those be?
Arguably they are in breach of the CFAA.. Reddit's robots.txt file:
# Welcome to Reddit's robots.txt
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# policy: https://support.reddithelp.com...
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
Comment Instant coffee was always fairly good ..... (Score 2) 151
.... for the first day after opening the jar. After that, the taste rapidly deteriorates.
Comment Re:Still ahead (Score 2) 169
The US is now carbon negative. It reached a max of 6 billion metric tons of CO2 in the 2000s. In 2025, we are putting out about 5 billion metric ton
That's not carbon negative. It's not even carbon neutral.
What you should be saying is that the US has passed peak carbon, but even that assumes that Trump's anti-renewables drive doesn't increase carbon output, which seems unlikely.
Meanwhile China is reducing its unit energy cost by installing lots of renewable generation.
Comment Re:Rendering time? (Score 1) 17
They link to "GPU.zip" which apparently is another side-channel based on the GPU's compressions - https://www.hertzbleed.com/gpu...
So apparently by asking it to blur the background, they can time it. Then the "core" of the attack is this GPU.zip so really it sounds like this is more of a "look we found a new way to exploit this."
Comment Re:Rendering time? (Score 2) 17
FTA:
What Android APIs does Pixnapping exploit?
Pixnapping forces sensitive pixels into the rendering pipeline and overlays semi-transparent activities on top of those pixels via Android intents. To induce graphical operations on these pixels, our instantiations use Android’s window blur API. To measure rendering time, our instantiations use VSync callbacks. For a more detailed explanation, we refer to the paper.
Comment Re:They want to ne Nvidia (Score 2) 41
I don't know that Nvidia would much care if it lost the Linux market share in the graphics sector. I don't see them having an emergency board meeting where they say "OMFG we're going to lose the 237 customers that rely our GPUs on Linux to AMD! Do something!"
People buy Nvidia for more than just graphics. All those AI servers: probably most are running Linux.
Comment Counter example (Score 2) 92
Bosch is going to take down the servers that some of their smart thermostats use.
The thermostats will continue to work, they just won't be Internet-accessible.
They are sending out newer models that will be fully supported at no cost to the owner.
Comment A marvellous [winter] day. (Score 1) 82
[last lines]
James Hacker: How am I going to explain the missing documents to "The Mail"?
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Well, this is what we normally do in circumstnces like these.
James Hacker: [reads memo] This file contains the complete set of papers, except for a number of secret documents, a few others which are part of still active files, some correspondence lost in the floods of 1967...
James Hacker: Was 1967 a particularly bad winter?
Sir Humphrey Appleby: No, a marvellous winter. We lost no end of embarrassing files.
Comment Re:Linear TV is Dead (Score 2) 67
Plus support for Cablecards is no longer mandated, limiting their customer base.
Comment brightest?! (Score 1) 49
I don't get it. Brightest?!
I currently have the backlight on my oled set to 0. Yes, it's not a true backlight, because OLED is the "backlight" and display, but my point is...
It's too bright!
The same for my LCD monitor. It's at 1. My car's LCD is as far down as it can go, and driving in rural areas I have to put a cloth over it because it ruins night vision. It's all TOO BRIGHT! Why do people want it brighter? Why not just go stare at 10 suns instead?!? Wtf!
Comment Re:What kind of university would not teach physics (Score 1) 86
Universities have a physics department for more than students studying physics. Any kind of engineering degree is going to need coursework in physics, and you would want a physics department to teach those courses.
That's not how it worked when I studied physics at a UK university. The engineering students did not come near the physics department.
Comment Re:What kind of university would not teach physics (Score 1) 86
When I studied physics at a UK university, we went to the Maths department to study math. However, today that Physics department teaches the necessary math.
Comment Re:What if your car got better every month? (Score 1) 107
My God. Why do people buy EVs and force themselves into that horribly complicated situation.
Because it isn't complicated.
For most EV owners, for most of the time, it is far more convenient than using an ICE -- plugging in the car at home takes far less time and is cleaner than refueling a gas car (or worse still, a diesel).
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