I know a few people who actually did make *some* good money with bitcoin - they were geeks who had actually mined it early in the game - like pre-2010, when it was still computationally very cheap. They had basically ran that miner as a kind of fun little process in the background - same guys who had run things like Seti@Home or Folding@Home.

Then they had forgotten about the whole thing, and 5-10 years later noticed that the little toy is suddenly worth around 10000 USD/EUR per BTC. They sold at that point and were able to make down payments for a house with that crypto.

But like with any pyramid scheme, you can win if you get in *really* early.

I read it a few times over the years. One of the things it mentioned were the relations between and United States. For most European countries it was usually "Relations between US and are warm. Collaboration and cooperation are common in areas of....".

I guess they would have to chill all those entries shutting things down instead...

Huh? Haven't seen that happen in...10 years or so, and even then, only on Windows. And even then it was mostly some obnoxious software update checkers or something that just started up on boot. On any other OS they were either not there (iOS/Android) or didn't steal focus (Anything Unix-based).

Since you mention Teams, when it starts up, yeah, it fills the screen, but after that, well, if a call comes in, it appears at bottom right corner. Unless you set DND.

I really have no idea what you (or the story) means. I guess it's the same thing as when some folks claim that there are ads on the Internet?

You could move it around all the way from Windows 95 to Windows 7.

Heck, search youtube for those videos where they upgrade one windows version to the next all the way from 1.0 to 10 (or 11). I know I remember one where they set custom colors around Win 2.0 and those settings persisted all the way to 7.

Now your choices are "dark mode" and changing font sizes. Hooray.

Whenever I install new app on my tablet or phone, one of the first things that happens on first startup is request by the OS "Do you want to allow this app to send you notifications". By default I say no, unless it's specifically a messaging app.

Windows also has this for notifications in system tray.
So does at least KDE for Linux desktop environments.

You can also change these settings later if you first give the permission and then start getting too many notifications.

I know that when I installed Booking.com's app to allow easy check-ins when we did a tour of Germany last summer and drove from place to place. I allowed notifications in case any of those accommodations would like to contact me. Turns out I instead did get those meaningless spams so I just...turned them off!

And you know what, some of those apps even have notification categories that you can enable/disable so it's not necessary to even have a coarse filter of all or nothing, but *that* part is up to the developer. Most of the applications I use are something that only matter when they are in the foreground, so just turn any notifications off.

What can these exploits do?

For the "slow" chargers (EVSEs), I'm not too worried. Worst cases:
- They could allow someone to do "unauthorized" charging if it's behind a key
- They could potentially do a denial of service (make the EVSE not connect)
- If you have limited the current in the charger configuration, the EVSE basically signals the car "you can slurp up to X amperes", if you can hack the EVSE to tell car to grab as much as you can you could, I guess, blow a fuse or in worst case, start a fire. Or just cause the car to charge faster.

However, are there any details on what could they do with DC charger? I'm thinking that a probably "simple" way to fry an entire car would be to push 800V when car is based on 400V system. I mean, the protocol stack that fast chargers use is apparently ridiculously complicated, there's a whole IPv6 stack on top of which the BMS and the charger communicate, and also allowing for things like payment and the like, so question is can they access the parts that directly handle the electrical stuff? Worst cases then become possibility to fry any car that gets hooked up to it.

But FTS, how does one maintain code when you have no idea of what is in it? Start over again?

I've actually done this a couple of times:

1. Get LLM to generate some code, perhaps refine it a bit.
2. Run into a wall because the LLM cannot get past some obstacle (or it does, but then also breaks things elsewhere).
3. Start a new chat, paste the code previously generated by same LLM, say "I came up with this code snippet, it doesn't work. Make changes so that it does X".
4. Get working code out of it.

Maybe the assumption is that it would also work for maintenance of larger code bases...

That's weird. For me, "cash" has been always, way back when I got an allowance from parents, "stuff that you just spend on candy and other crap and it doesn't really count", while cash on bank account is the "real money" that I actually need to budget.

So I pay with credit card that I pay in full at the end of each month with zero interest, and if the balance on the card(s) seem like they are going over my budgeting threshold, I'll cut down on non-essentials. Cash is just crap that falls between couch cushions - these days for bank accounts and credit card balances you can get *exact* amounts on how much you have.

....unless they totally screw something up.

It's basically something I have been waiting for since EVs became a thing and these specifically when they were first announced. They have been delayed by couple of years from the original projected release, but the thing is, nothing better seems to be in the pipeline from any vendor.

    The 450 km range and price somewhere between 25k to 30k (euros) - unless they have totally screwed something up, Shut Up and Take My Money. All the others cost more than 30k, some close to 40k (Renault 5, MG4, Opel Frontera, Hyundai Inster), and I'm really only seeing diminishing returns.
    I was originally inclined to get the Cupra because it has 5 year warranty (despite being the same car as the others), but VW just decided to have that also for Polo, so have to decide on another tiebreaker instead.

    The physical buttons are just icing on the cake that's sealing the deal.

Camera makers are pushing for Content Authenticity. Look for CAI and C2PA standards. Canon are Nikon are both on board, also some phone makers, including Samsung, see https://news.samsung.com/globa...

Idea is that the device captures the image and signs it with vendor's certificate. Then, when you edit it in your editor (Photoshop - unfortunately GIMP not yet), the editor saves in the metadata what exactly you changed and signs with their own cert (e.g. "I cropped this photo and adjusted lighting curves a bit to bring dark portions out a bit more"). This chain can then be followed.

Same would apply for video material too. If all you do is cut the original clip and normalize audio, very easy to trace.

Of course it's not foolproof and you are supposed to trust the certs and the devices, but there *are* efforts to combat deepfakes.

The big problem with this is the editing bit - I mean, assuming you trust Samsung or Canon to save the content correctly and sign it, how can you trust changelog signed with Adobe's tacked onto that? Well, here's where the TPM part comes into play. But you basically need to only allow locked-down hardware to be used for editing.

I'm still hoping that this goes mainstream and not just for stuff like crime investigations and the like where authenticity of the evidence needs to be clear. It's of course full of holes but it's definitely much better than nothing.

First movie was awesome as a tech demo. The plot was basically, as South Park put it, Dances with Smurfs. That was fine, as I went in expecting tech demo and some action. Good vs. bad with generally relatable characters despite being sort of archetypes (The Corporate, General Ripper, Disillusioned grunt who becomes hero, Native Girl he smooches over, the Mentor who dies...). But at least they had *some* depth into them.

Avatar 2 was...well, ok, fine, more finesse in the tech part (the water effects), but the rest was just...baad. Characters had become more cardboard cutouts, and the anvilicious plot was just really an excuse to make a statement about whaling is baad, mmkay. Not disagreeing with that - but Star Trek IV did that same statement 40 years ago and was much more fun to watch and didn't try to drive the point home with a sledgehammer.

The third - well, I guess when it comes to streaming I'll watch the special effect sequences and then the dialogue scenes can be sped over with 2-3x speed. I have very low expectations especially after the statements about Cameron wanting to make allegory to Gaza/Ukraine/Sudan about generational hatred or somesuch.

Cupra Raval / ID.Polo / Skoda Epiq sounds pretty much like one. I'm lined up to buy one next year, unless they have screwed up really badly somehow.

Last time I filled an ESTA form in 2023, the dropdown menu for social media accounts included "GitHub". That tells all you need to know. Of course, optional field so I just skipped it. But there was also "Other" field, which can pretty much mean anything.

There was tthe Astro Slide... I'm one of the lucky ones who actually got their device. Still using it, typing this post on it,, in fact. Unfortunately the company behind it are a clusterfuck so it only got one firmware update and they essentially ghosted Indiegogo backers after that. I'd like to get Lineage on it, but since there are proprietary Mediatek blobs involved I doubt it is going to be possible. So stuck with Android 11...

Linux has utilized - pretty much forever - all the available memory as cache/buffer, so you were bound to run into the problem much sooner.

The Win95/98/ME could run for long time without ever accessing particular physical memory chips.

Windows NT didn't have this problem, but on the other hand WinNT and successors also had better isolation so if a driver crashed due to memory issue, it recovered better (This applies really to WinNT 3.5 and perhaps 4, back when it was still going with the Dave Cutler's VMS-derived approach - WinNT 3.5 is almost a microkernel).