Ignorance, really. The ads for Muse do stuff like asking it to help you shop for gifts and other things, as well as deal with customer service agents if you get wrongly billed.

So it's kind of obvious they gave up the password so the agent could peruse the account charges and then do stuff like challenge them on your behalf.

The way the ad makes it seem is that it happens automatically and takes a few minutes, instead of spending hours on the phone trying to deal with the charges.

So people are being pulled into it simply for the convenience factor.

I suppose - Apple can't copy that feature from everyone else....

The light-up Apple logo has been around for decades.Back when Jobs was around the Apple logo lit up as well because the white plastic Apple logo would let the LCD backlight spill out causing it to light up.

Of course, with OLED this isn't possible anymore so they actually would need to have LEDs behind it to light it up.

Also vi came out that exact same year: Bill Joy wrote it at Berkeley. So I suppose you could argue that your choice is a bit like early rapper culture: east coast vs west coast!

vi is a patch to ed. Remember most terminals were teletypes that output a line at a time, so you used "ed" to edit lines one line at a time. (And likely an inspiration for the brilliant MS-DOS edlin editor). But fancy new video teletypes were becoming a thing, and it was actually possible to display multiple lines of text on the screen at a time. Bill Joy added visual mode to ed to take advantage of this so you can visually display and edit blocks of text rather than a line at a time.

Tools like grep came about from ed as well.

ed-mode is fundamental to vi when doing commands like search and replace.

Want some fun? Set your terminal to TTY mode and try using vi. Depending on how good the emulation of vi is, it might work in line-at-a-time mode or not at all.

If and only if you can touch type

And use QWERTY or QWERTY-like. HJKL cursor navigation doesn't quite work the same on DVORAK or other layouts.

So this is a Snapdragon CPU laptop that will be targeted at the military. This is not a replacement for a Dell XPS or a Lenovo Yoga, if that's what you hoped.

But, this is a start in the right direction with regard to the U.S. on-shoring computer manufacture.

Not really. It's a military thing, so it's more like the military is paying $10,000 for a laptop with specs that cost $2000. Sure, there's ruggedization and all that, but most of it is just profit as well.

As much as on-shoring is, I don't think the American public will be amenable to paying twice as much for a laptop as they used to, even with the increased RAM costs driving prices even higher.

Sure, for military use, fine, it makes a lot of sense, and paying way too much for goods has been the MO for the military since forever. But for the consumer, not so much - especially when the costs of everything is so high already.

And never forget that these Snapdragon laptops haven't generally reviewed that well either - usually along the lines of "sluggish", which is why they haven't really taken over the market with the exception of Apple.

It's on-shoring as much as tariffs have on-shored everything else. It just raised the prices of everything you're paying for, and nothing new is happening.

While this is true, being the subject of an experiment to see what happens when you do that is not something most people would choose for themselves. It's not *irrational* to be concerned. Absence of evidence on a largely unexplored question like microplastic infiltration in human bodies is not the moral equivalent of absence of evidence in an extensively studied question like a vaccine-autism link.

.... how Gen Z and general idiots dont seem to have figured out that if you turn your phone by 90 degrees then it records in landscape mode. Theres a reason TV and film are recorded that way - that's how we see the world. Our eyes are side by side, not above and below.

Have you walked around with your phone in your hand? Your phone is most likely in portrait orientation while you do this as it lets you operate it single-handedly. If you watch people, they're doing stuff on their phones, including watching video in portrait orientation. Turning their phone just makes it really inconvenient to use single-handed.

What is the historical average rate of truck freight theft?

This headline sounds like an Oceans Eleven fantasy. The actual article more mundane than the headline. But the story is still interesting and oddly sophisticated for truck freight theft. Despite that, I have a nagging feeling that this isn't really novel or an increase and that it is being reported simply because data centers are the current news cycle.

Trailer theft is a huge thing. Drivers may have parked their rigs on the side of the highway and then woken up to their trailer missing.

Most trailers contain between $20-100K worth of goods, the more expensive ones may have just shy of half a million dollars worth of freight. But that's rare.

But with the AI hype, trailers containing servers, RAM, etc, which may have cost $300K a few years ago now costs over a million dollars. And with the demand, it's fairly easy to fence.

You might steal a trailer that is full of nickels. But now you need to somehow get rid of $50K worth of nickels. (That's a million nickels). Just think how difficult a mission that is.

But computer servers? Much easier thanks to demand, and you likely can get close to retail prices.

While it's true every issue has its own dimension, even if those dimensions are linearly independent, they're not necessarily orthogonal. Independent basis vectors can still have a non-zero dot product—in other words, issues which are distinct from each other can align to some degree.

SystemD isn't a monolithic application. It's a collection of utilities that all share the SystemD banner. You can pick and choose what bits of the SystemD utility set you wish to use. It is entirely possible to not use the init portion but use the system logging daemon, for example. Or other bits and pieces.

In fact, there's no distribution out there that uses everything SystemD has to offer. Most use a majority of the components, but there's often a few that are not used. systemd-networkd versus Network Manager versus interfaces, for example to manage network interfaces.

I think there was also talk of SystemD trying to replace dbus as well, but not getting any traction on that.

Heck, I think there was one now-deprecated component of KDE that was dependent on one SystemD utility that was Linux-specific. It got dropped over a more generic version that used more portable components.

When I was in university, homework was at most 10% of your grade. The midterm exam was often worth 45%, and the final the other 45%. Often with the stipulation that you must pass the final to pass the course.

I had classes where homework was assigned but not graded. It was obvious who did the homework and who didn't - you just didn't do very well on the final or midterm if you didn't do the optional homework.

Everyone's an adult. You don't do the assigned homework at your own risk, even if it isn't graded. Midterms and final exam correspond to the biggest influence on your grade.

Heck, sometimes the midterm mark can be dropped as well - I've had plenty of professors simply say because we scored badly on the midterms, they'll use the final exam mark if we do better. So if you scored a 30% on the midterm but then get an 80% on the exam, you get an 80% on the class.

Stop the coddling and just treat everyone as an adult. Assign homework, but don't mark it. You can ask if people had a problem they got stuck on so they could work it out as part of the lecture, but not part of the grade. The final grade you get depends solely on the midterm and/or the final exam.

(I got a D on a class where I didn't do the homework. The second semester the followup course I did the homework and got an A-)

That would have been really useful for some mag tape systems I used to use. They had too many errors for their error correction system.

You should do it for backup systems. It's why PAR2 exists. You run it over your data and it creates the Reed-Solomon parity files. Each file contains a checksum of every file in the set, and you need only enough parity file to fix the corruption. E.g., if you have a 1MB block that's corrupted, you just need a 1MB parity file. The files often come in varying sizes so you just use as much as you need.

There's lots of programs able to handle the PAR2 format and it's been around for decades.

RS codes are awesome in that you only need parity enough to cover the damage - you can generate parity files all the way up to 100% - which in theory if they only thing that survives are parity files, you can reconstitute the original files still.

If half the data is corrupted, and half of the 100% parity is corrupted, the remaining 50% of each is enough to rebuild

They’ve spun a serious architectural and containment failure into a marketing triumph. Give a swarm of autonomous agents vast compute and web access, and the outcome isn't an eerie glimpse of emerging superintelligence—it’s just predictable, sloppy engineering dressed up as the first glimpse of an AI-driven economic singularity.

The spin makes sense when you look at management incentives: live like a king off of a speculative bubble. For their part, AI investors react to stories of the technology's apocalyptic potential the way a junkie reacts to warnings of fentanyl's potency: gimme some. Their game: to apply "move fast and break things" mantra to the economy as a whole, by obsoleting humans.

If the investors can own an AGI, the distinction between those who can do things and those who can't becomes irrelevant. The only distinction that would matter is between people who collect rent on the technology, and those who must pay that rent to live. AGI would destroy society as we know it, and whatever replaces it would be up for grabs — with people who own the technology dictating whatever follows. That's why they're spending so much money to build a post-scarcity economy. A post-scarcity economy is not necessarily an egalitarian one.

I don't think that scenario will actually happen: investors are projecting the immediate aftermath of a major advance in AI technology into something that can be transformed by brute force scaling into AGI. Remember: investors loved Theranos too — so much for the rational investment market.

But AI doesn't have to reach AGI to cause serious harm. The technology only needs to be ubiquitous, too behaviorally complex to predict, and too deeply integrated into everything we do. When it starts breaking things, the plan is for us to be too structurally dependent on AI to rein it in.

I hope that this gets patched soon so that I can continue browsing my favorite government websites.

A large number of sites are down. Among more /. crowd would be GoG and Steam for the same reason.

The only really good news is a lot of people are taking it seriously still and not just leaving something vulnerable up. Hopefully sites remaining down will alert others to update their PHP.

Does it matter what the authorities claim to be looking for?

The answer should always be "Do you have a warrant?" followed by invoking your right not to answer any of their questions.

You may still be arrested even if you've done nothing wrong, but your attorney will have a much easier time getting charges dismissed (and filing suit against the authorities for civil rights violations) if you don't willingly give the authorities anything with which they might convict you.

CBP doesn't have that. If you're a citizen (and white/etc) they must let you pass through onto US soil. But they don't have to let you through with your possessions. They are free to seize them and hold them while you fight to get them back.

They don't need a warrant for any of this.

If you're a non-citizen, non-white or minority US citizen, well, they can put you back on a plane or detain you. If you're lucky, they'll put you on a plane. If not, you'll get put into one of those immigration prisons and held until they can verify your identity months later.

Meanwhile you'll be without your stuff for years. Meanwhile thye'll probably be downloading and searching it.