It's modded funny because OpenCL is all but dead for new projects. It got weighed down by industry infighting to the point that the big feature of OpenCL 3.0 in 2020 was undoing everything added to the spec after 2011.
So the idea of using OpenCL as a CUDA replacement, rather than something like ROCm or OneAPI, is funny. It's like rewriting C++ programs to use Pascal.
Ran in 256K, but only on a real IBM PC with the original 10MB disk and controller. No GUI, just text. My brother-in-law bought it for his brand new XT, but basically scrapped it when he realized he could only run that and not switch to DOS when he needed to.
Per TFA:
These adjustments stem from Sonyâ(TM)s ongoing efforts to manage backend services and data feeds that support enhanced guide features on its Google TV-powered BRAVIA lineup.
It sounds like Sony is losing (or is not renewing) the contracts with their data brokers who providing the listing services for their TVs? In which case this is not necessarily expected, but it is par for the course.
There is no truly free source of OTA TV listings and other metadata in the US. The stations themselves do not provide this data over the air as an adjacent data stream (which is what a rational person would expect), so the only way to get listings is from third party providers such as Gracenote. Which as a technical solution works, but it means someone is always on the hook for paying for that service. And no one wants to pay for OTA metadata services, since the hallmark attribute of OTA TV is that it's free.
This is a problem that goes back to the earliest days of TiVo. Someone needs to pay for TV listings, but TVs and other STBs last too long; hardware manufacturers eventually tire of paying for an ever-increasing bill - it costs them money they don't get to make back if they give away the listings for free. And thus you eventually end up with required a monthly subscription just to have an OTA DVR.
The eventual death of linear TV should finally put an end to this nonsense. But until then we're all going to keep experiencing the same non-free listings issues we've had since the late 90s.
Huh. I am surprised to hear that Microsoft SQL Management Studio doesn't run. The usual problem children are either programs that are using specific x86 instructions (e.g. games with AVX2), or programs that need kernel mode drivers. MSMS doesn't fall into either of those categories.
This is an especially bad example.
The SN850X has been rebranded multiple times as SanDisk has slowly split from Western Digital (taking all the SSDs with them). They still sell it as the SN850X, but the full model and SKU numbers have changed over the years. As a result, prices for the old models have been volatile, as some vendors treat the newer iterations as the same product while others don't. Which means that for the latter, they see the old models as an item they aren't getting more stock of, and raise prices on the remaining stock accordingly.
Oldest Model: WDBB9H0020BNC-WRSN (The original Western Digital WD_BLACK product)
Mid Model: WDS200T2XHE-00BCA0 (The WD_BLACK By SanDisk product)
Newest Model: SDSP81200TAH-000E0 (The current SanDisk product)
The SN850X has been a very long-lived product from a manufacturer who supplies their own NAND and controller, so I can see why The Verge would want to use that as a tracking point for SSD prices. But the brand/SKU changes make it a poor choice. Samsung's drives are probably a better point of comparison here.
If you charge a small fee for account creation, you can get almost all the benefits of having someone's social security number and picture ID, for almost none of the cost of having to deal with such a toxic "asset". You can even offer degrees of anonymity when taking payment.
Now obviously, someone will decide to spend 5000 dollars on bots to advertise or delegitimize voting, but that would happen even if you had the picture ID thing going on. None of this gets around having to police your platform to remove comment bots, vote bots, etc. You still have to do that. But charging 5 bucks to 25 bucks to make an account creates a massive barrier to the unlimited influx of captcha solving AI chatbots, because bad actors simply can't afford to pay the amount required to flood your database will advertisements and propaganda.
They really are not. I mean, there's some post here or there that is probably botted or like AI assisted or something, but it's absolutely nothing like bluesky, reddit, and worst of all, twitter. Those places are robot playgrounds.
This isn't news. Remember how it was reported the last time it happened?
https://www.thedailybeast.com/...
Proton mail has never, despite what is being claimed, promised to not store your IP address. A subpeona can compel them to do so, and it has in the past, and this will continue to happen. If your security depends on your IP address not being unmasked, you need to use at least one VPN.
If you self hosted then the subpeona would be delivered to your ISP, which will happily comply- likely quicker than protonmail.
NO EMAIL SERVICE WILL COMMIT A CRIME FOR YOU
If you only connect through VPNs, then the email service will provide the VPN's IP. If the VPN is then contacted and they have no logs, then they will not be able to correlate the IP to a user. This is your only chance at anonymity under these circumstances: some VPN plus some private mail service that never knows your real IP address. Note that proton is a strong choice here because if you previously connected via your real IP they won't have a log of that; they'll only start saving your IP when they get a warrant. There are other equally strong private email choices, but ALL OF THEM WILL DELIVER YOUR IP IF THEY KNOW IT.
It's a bit of a moot point. Systems that aren't receiving general OS updates wouldn't receive updated bootloaders anyhow. So they wouldn't need the updated certificates that allow for bootloaders signed after June 2026.
It gets a bit tautological, but only systems that are getting updates need updates.
It lacks an appropriate number of ports and doesn't support DisplayPort.
USB DisplayPort alt mode says hello. Every rear USB-C port on the Mac Mini is also a DisplayPort. Just as it is on all of Apple's laptops.
Thunderbolt is a garbage, proprietary Apple standard.
Thunderbolt is an Intel standard. And in the case of Thunderbolt 4, it's just an additional set of feature requirements over base USB4, where those features are optional. In other words, TB4 is a superset of USB4.
It wants your email, and lets you set a username.
But it doesn't give you a password.
Now when you want to login- or really, as these things go, every fucking time- you get to go to your email and dig out their confirmation. It behaves like a site to which you have forgotten your password each and every time. Total ass.
Thufir's a Harkonnen now.
