I guess strict nesting wasn’t possible, but strictly enforcing nesting would be problematic: the bowling group might have acquaintances, friends, and your actual brother.
I’m fat because I eat and snack too much and it’s 100% my fault.
I eat too much junk, too, but I am in pretty good shape.
I also know quite a few people who just don’t have the urge to eat a lot. They tend to eat small amounts, don’t finish their meals, sometimes forget to eat a meal when they’re busy. It is completely not relatable for someone like me.
Between the fact that people can eat a lot without getting fat, and that people don’t all have the same baseline urge to eat, I’d recommend you go a bit easier on yourself.
No, they tend to use last year’s Pro chip in this year’s base model. The A16 only supported USB 2.0 speeds last year in the iPhone 14 Pro model (despite the iPads showing us that Lightning does support USB 3 speeds), and it’s what’s in this year’s iPhone 15 base model.
The A17 supports higher speed through the USB Bus, so there’s no reason to hold that back for next year’s base model.
But that’s exactly why last year’s 14 Pro came under so much criticism for its slow wired connection: the phone itself supported capturing high resolution, high framerate, high bitrate ProRes video, but didn’t have a way of quickly transferring directly over a cable.
But also, even regular photos and video can take up a big chunk of space, and having a non-cloud option for practically backing up the contents is helpful.
The “light truck” segment is in comparison to the big semis or tractor trailers, which are medium or heavy duty trucks, and often require a commercial driver’s license to operate.
For example, the typical school bus or fire truck is classified as a medium duty truck.
Heavy duty trucks generally include things like cement mixers or dump trucks.
I especially love that it addresses the biggest pitfall of the typical “fancy new format does things better than the one we’re already using” transition, in that it’s specifically engineered to make migration easier, by allowing a lossless conversion from the dominant format.
I think by painting it as a bunch of buzzwords people were reading into the comment as either an endorsement that the items in the list were the same, which isn’t what I meant. I’m just trying to give a description of the various buzzwords I remember being thrown around by a combination of scammers, hucksters, cargo cultists simply mimicking the latest trends without understanding them, and actual legitimate business models, without actually giving my views on which ones actually delivered on the hype, which ones overpromised, or which ones totally fizzed out (or are going to).
For the uninitiated, generally NSFW is for sexual contents and NSFL is for gory contents. People may want to see one but not see the other at any time for any reason. I have seen this feature requested over the years in Reddit but it never happens. Maybe now some instance can finally implement it?
Even before that, Apple owes its very existence to an acquisition. Acquiring Next allowed them to abandon their dying OS and start anew with OS X, and brought back in founder Steve Jobs (who Apple had previously fired). With Steve Jobs at the helm, they made the computers cool again to buy some time before the iPod completely turned the company around.
Apple also released urgent out-of-band security patches for iOS and MacOS around the same time, and disclosed that it had something to o do with imag processing. Unclear whether they use libwebp or some other implementation, but they disclosed that it was being actively exploited on iPhones.
This isn’t just a browser vulnerability. It’s a vulnerability at a much more fundamental level, which is why it’s so critical. It’s a vulnerability in how almost every piece of software processes a widely supported image format, so anything that touches images is potentially at risk: browsers, chat or messaging apps, file browsers, or really anything that uses thumbnails or image previews, including some core OS functionality. On the server side, you’ve got anything that makes thumbnails and previews, too.
We should wait and see whether there are any practical attacks outside the browser context (maybe the malicious code needs to be placed in a web page that displays the malicious image file, or maybe they need to figure out a way to actually put all the malicious code in the image file itself). But the vulnerability itself is in a fundamental library used by a lot more software.
JPEG XL, like AVIF and HEIC and WebP, is basically a next generation format that supports much higher quality at lower file sizes compared to JPEG and PNG.
Among those four formats, JPEG XL is promising because it allows for recompression of JPEG losslessly. That means if you take an image that was already encoded as JPEG (as the vast, vast majority of images are), you can recompress with no additional loss in quality from the conversion. That’s something that isn’t true of the others.
JPEG XL also has a much higher maximum quality and specific features great for high quality image workflows (like for professional photographers, publishers, and those who need to print images). WebP, AVIF, and HEIC are good for sharing on the web, but the printing and publishing workflow support requires a few more conversions along the way.
But aren’t jpegxl and webp meant for completely different uses? Like jpeg and png are. Jpeg is better for photos and png for graphics.
No. JPEG XL is designed to be better at pretty much everything than webp (which was just adapted from a video format that was designed to be really efficient at video but without touching any patents). JPEG is best at photographs at screen resolutions, and PNG is best for screenshots of computer interfaces with lots of repeated colors, and DNG/TIFF are great for high resolution and bit depth (like for professional printing and publishing, or raw image capture from the camera). JPEG XL does a good job at all of those.
Yea it feels like something has been rotten with the ads industry for a long while.
Advertising only has as much value to the advertiser as it can get in modified consumer behavior.
If I only have $100/month in truly discretionary income, all the advertising in the world is only fighting for that $100. Realistically, though, we’re not all susceptible to the same advertising influences, which is why ad personalization exists. But personalize it all you want and you’re still, at most, getting a few percent of my monthly budget to shift towards what you want me to buy.
That means that advertising is only really worth it for whales. The type of people who might buy hundreds of dollars of goods or services through clicking on ads on Instagram, who have that combination of a huge amount of discretionary income and are fickle enough that they might impulse buy big ticket items.
Clickthrough rates are one thing, but plenty of ads don’t rely on the ad being in the actual chain of purchase. Ads for small stuff like movies, beverages, snacks, etc., or big stuff like cars, furniture, etc., try to get consumers to buy those things outside of the medium that the ad is being presented.
Plus native advertising when you’re looking for a specific purchase can sometimes factor in. Someone might pay more for a particular hotel room to get more prominent placement in results, and I’m not going to intentionally ignore that sponsored placement when choosing between a bunch of hotels. Maybe the ad didn’t actually make a difference (in theory my purchase decision would’ve considered that hotel anyway, and if it’s the best for my needs then they would’ve gotten my business without the ad), but I’ve definitely purchased sponsored results when searching for a product that I already intend to buy.
And if it counts as an ad, paid referral links from recommendation websites I trust are an easy way to “support” an outlet that I use.
That was when they were on a two-year release cycle, too, so there were basically no major features released between 2007 and 2011. The current new release every year (with features) is probably too fast for reliability and stability, especially because they need to make the ecosystem work with other devices (iPhone, iPad, watch, TV, etc.), and try to combine cross-platform features or maintain some cross platform parity between MacOS and the others.
Client side scripts for automatically downloading episodes published through RSS, and then copying it to your iTunes library, where it would update your iPod the next time you connected it to your computer. This was long before mobile internet so iPods could only be updated by plugging into a computer with iTunes installed.
I happen to use YT Music despite it sucking because I already pay for YouTube premium, and it seemed dumb to pay for Spotify or Tidal instead. Plus I hated what Spotify was doing by trying to combine music and podcasts into a single app. So naturally, a few years later Google is combining music and podcasts into a single app.
In 2003, there were very few websites where what you saw depended on your login information. For the most part, the entire web was a bunch of stateless pages where what you saw at a URL was what I saw at the same URL. There was no real opportunity for interaction with sites in the browser (anything like that required a browser plugin to run java applets or flash/shockwave content).
RSS was such a game changer in that it really did change the way people consumed content. I could load a blog and it would only show me the posts I hadn’t already read, instead of naively showing me the whole thing. Suddenly there were states, and things could be marked as read or unread.
And when someone realized how to combine RSS with actual audio or video media, that was the first real semblance of “on demand” content where anyone could press play on current, timely content at their own schedule. DVRs had basically just been invented, and cable on demand content wasn’t widespread yet. YouTube didn’t exist, and the best place on the internet to watch a trailer for an upcoming movie was apple.com, where they used movie trailers to try to persuade people to download QuickTime to play those videos.
So yeah, automating a download to your computer to automate pushing content to your iPod was a huge step forward, and basically sold itself.
All of the last 20 years of social media engagement on the internet has been companies falling for the Pepsi Challenge.
The Pepsi Challenge was an ad campaign by Pepsi to get people to blind taste Coca Cola and Pepsi side by side and decide which one they liked better. Pepsi won a majority of the time, which led to a disastrous reformulation of New Coke (before customer complaints caused a reversal back to Coca Cola “Classic”). Now the consensus is that the Pepsi challenge was given in the wrong quantity to measure: people preferred a sip of Pepsi over a sip of Coke, but the preferences shifted back the other way when asked to drink an entire can.
Modern internet feedback loops reward users for very short term bursts of preference, leading to an engagement loop where each step seems like the best step for happiness and engagement, but where the overall loop leaves people feeling shallow and disengaged. Clickbait works at getting clicks but people don’t actually like or respect the sites that do it. Same with influencer accounts working the recommendation algorithm rather than user satisfaction.
Providing a monetary reward will speed up that disconnect, and I think places where influence is rewarded with actual money will bring out a downward spiral.
Wired (and others) report that 20W number because I think they’re misinterpreting the Apple fast charging documentation, which explains that fast charging is available with a 20W charger or above. They’ve explained this for all the previous USB-PD compliant models, but real world testing has shown actual charging rates of up to 30W for the iPhone 14 Pro. I imagine the 15 and the 15 Pro will show similar numbers at the high 20’s, maybe even 30 watts.
Incomplete information included in recent disclosures by Apple and Google reporting critical zero-day vulnerabilities under active exploitation in their products has created a “huge blindspot” that’s causing a large number of offerings from other developers to go unpatched, researchers said Thursday....
Apple disclosed and patched an actively exploited vulnerability in its proprietary image processing library.
At the same time, Google disclosed and patched an actively exploited vulnerability in its own webp processing in Chrome.
The timing and similarity highly suggests this is a problem with how almost all software has implemented the webp standard in its image processing software. Because processing webp files is such a fundamental function of any different pieces of software, there’s a concern that this is one vulnerability common to a huge set of commonly used software.
I wonder if this vulnerability is especially serious, given that the programs processing images often have escalated privileges.
So it’s not that there’s something inherently vulnerable in handling webp, just that they both used the same library which had a vulnerability. (Presumably the article was a little vague about the Apple side because the source wasn’t open/available.)
I don’t think it’s inherent to how webp is processed, just a common denominator somewhere between Chrome’s implementation (which uses libwebp) and Apple’s proprietary implementation (which might or might not use libwebp). Whether Apple uses libwebp or not, it still has important implications that the most common methods to implement webp support were vulnerable: if the problem is with libwebp, well a shitload of software uses libwebp. If the problem is with some proprietary Apple code and libwebp at the same time, well that’s also concerning.
That sounds like a really strange thing to say.
I was thinking specifically of core OS functionality that uses image processing: file browsers that use thumbnails/previews, lock screens/screen savers/login screens that display images over stuff that shouldn’t be visible, notification panels that might show thumbnails, etc. Browsers are at least sandboxed, but I’m not sure the same is always true of everything else that needs to process image data.
TL;DR: a repair shop owner from Germany managed to create a tool to calibrate the display angle sensor (used to trigger sleeping on Macs when the lid is closed)
I agree with Martin on this, but I’m not sure that this is the right response to this specific video. Martin makes clear that he thinks Apple’s decision to withhold calibration tools from anyone who isn’t an authorized service partner is shitty and anti-repair, and that’s what this video is focused on.
The other point Martin makes is (in my opinion) correct, but not directly relevant here.
That’s not a requirement of publicly traded companies. Any corporation has the same obligation to put shareholder interests first, whether it’s closely held (like Valve) or publicly traded but still under the founder’s control (like Facebook) or publicly traded with no one owner that exercises significant control (like IBM). The court case that established that corporations have a duty to shareholders above everyone else (Dodge v. Ford Motor Company) involved a closely held corporation (not public) and also confirmed that the corporation’s management can exercise its own judgment and discretion in prioritizing long term over short term gains, or vice versa.
What does “maximize shareholder value” mean if not profits? You can dress it up how you like but that’s the way businesses treat it.
It doesn’t mean short term profits over long term profits, or dividends/buybacks over reinvestment, or anything like that.
The Delaware courts have repeatedly confirmed that majority shareholders, officers, and directors are allowed to do things like pay their employees bonuses, give corporate money to charity, demand less than the market-clearing, profit-maximizing prices, etc., even over minority shareholder objections that the corporation isn’t properly maximizing shareholder value.
eBay v. Newmark doesn’t change that. That was a fight about shareholder rights to buy or sell shares (or majority shareholder powers to prevent minority shareholders from acquiring or selling shares without the majority shareholders’ approval), which directly affects the value of the shares themselves (without getting into the question of the corporation’s obligation to grow that shareholder value in business operations). It’s one step removed from what we’re talking about, about the directors’ power to control shares, rather than the directors’ power to control the company.
The iPhone 15’s system will use two lenses and two sensors. It hasn’t been launched on the software side, but is expected in the next few months using the existing hardware.
And it doesn’t need to be an eye length apart: the parallax between two lenses can create an accurate 3D image. Apple’s AR/VR system will also give a way to view/share the actual captured video, assuming it gets some level of adoption.
Can we talk about how bad of a name “Fine Woven” is? There’s just something off about using a past perfect tense about a material. Plus this particular three syllable phrase doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue.
I think it’s fun: using the old timey word for “spy” or “intelligence operative” evokes the old timey task of gathering documents and information and analyzing them to understand things related to politics or world affairs (especially since it’s a column/blog for a broader general interest magazine, that covers much more than just politics and news).
Our heads are just loaded with sensory capabilities that are more than just the two eyes. Our proprioception, balance, and mental mapping allows us to move our heads around and take in visual data from almost any direction at a glance, and then internally model that three dimensional space as the universe around us. Meanwhile, our ears can process direction finding for sounds and synthesize that information with our visual processing.
Meanwhile, the tactile feedback of the steering wheel, vibration of the actual car (felt by the body and heard by the ears), give us plenty of sensory information for understanding our speed, acceleration, and the mechanical condition of the car. The squeal of tires, the screech of brakes, and the indicators on our dash are all part of the information we use to understand how we’re driving.
Much of it is trained through experience. But the fact is, I can tell when I have a flat tire or when I’m hydroplaning even if I can’t see the tires. I can feel inclines or declines that affect my speed or lateral movement even when there aren’t easy visual indicators, like at night.
Plus VHS and analog SD broadcast used to “compress” the signal by sending only every other line, every other frame. That interlacing allowed them to basically halve the bandwidth of the signal while still mostly giving the human eye the illusion of the full frame rate, especially with the glowing phosphors of a CRT screen).
The main problem for digital video formats is that interlacing doesn’t play well with the compression methods in modern codecs, so video that was originally in that analog-friendly format is very inefficient to encode (and looks bad on modern displays).
I just looked, but could only find USB-C to male lightning ports. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an adapter or cable with a female lightning port on the end.
Yes, some accessories have a hard-wired lightning male end (and therefore need a female adapter). The Apple pencil, those alarm clock speaker docks, some flash drives, etc.
None of those devices I listed have a cable attached to it, just a male lightning end as part of the device itself.
The Apple pencil, that came out 8 years ago, charges with a male lightning port at the end (where an eraser might go on a normal pencil). There’s no cable, you’d just insert that end to a lightning supported iPad or iPhone to recharge.
The magnetic charger enabled second generation came out in 2018, but Apple still fully supports the first generation model.
I think tech support is inherently bad for the soul.
I volunteered some time answering a few questions on a few Linux forums and chat rooms, at least the ones I could answer, and over time I would get more and more annoyed at the people who wouldn’t help me help them: unable to actually describe their problem or the steps they’ve already tried, and sometimes becoming aggressive towards me when my first suggestion was something they either already tried.
But obviously it’s wrong to take it out on Bob just because you were previously annoyed with Alice in an earlier interaction. Still, over time, it starts to leak into your interactions with new people who don’t deserve it, and the repetitive iterations start to foster a particular toxic attitude that requires you to walk away. At this point my contributions are shielded away from actual people, where I fix things in wikis or documentation, rather than actually helping people troubleshoot real live issues.
What are some "no brainer" inventions or features that just haven't made it to the consumer yet?
Could Cruise be the Theranos of AI? And is there a dark secret at the core of the entire driverless car industry? (garymarcus.substack.com)
To avoid regulation, Apple said it had three Safari browsers (www.theregister.com)
Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty of fraud (www.theverge.com)
Updates (lemmy.world)
The average car purchased in 2023 emits higher levels of carbon dioxide (CO₂) than its 2013 equivalent. This is due to the large proportion of SUVs in the mix, which tend to be bigger and heavier. (english.elpais.com)
if you could standardise a file format for a specific task what would you pick and why
if you could pick a standard format for a purpose what would it be and why?...
Jony Ive and OpenAI CEO Raise $1B to Design the 'iPhone of AI' (gizmodo.com)
Plan is to reinvent the smartphone with AI, in the same way the touchscreen on the iPhone reinvented the smartphone....
Now that we're finally out of reddit, can we finally get different tag for NSFW and NSFL?
For the uninitiated, generally NSFW is for sexual contents and NSFL is for gory contents. People may want to see one but not see the other at any time for any reason. I have seen this feature requested over the years in Reddit but it never happens. Maybe now some instance can finally implement it?
What’s a company that objectively improved after it got “bought out?”
Everyone knows the tale of Brand X getting bought out by some faceless global conglomerate and going to shit, but does the opposite ever happen?
UPDATE YOUR BROWSERS IMMEDIATELY. RCE VULNERABILITY DISCOVERED (nvd.nist.gov)
Any Chromium and Firefox browser prior to version 116 will be vulnerable to this, update your browsers.
Reddit abandons user privacy - Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
I left a couple of months ago. Couldn’t be happier....
Apple Releases macOS Sonoma With New Widget Features, Safari Updates, Screen Sharing Improvements and More (www.macrumors.com)
Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024 (techcrunch.com)
Truth. (lemmy.world)
Reddit is going to let you turn gold into money (www.theverge.com)
First impressions of USB-C on iPhone 15
Now that we see the iPhone 15 with the new usb-c port, what’s your first impression?...
Incomplete disclosures by Apple and Google create “huge blindspot” for 0-day hunters (arstechnica.com)
Incomplete information included in recent disclosures by Apple and Google reporting critical zero-day vulnerabilities under active exploitation in their products has created a “huge blindspot” that’s causing a large number of offerings from other developers to go unpatched, researchers said Thursday....
We beat Apple at their own game - let the unauthorized calibrations BEGIN! (youtu.be)
TL;DR: a repair shop owner from Germany managed to create a tool to calibrate the display angle sensor (used to trigger sleeping on Macs when the lid is closed)
Valve Is A Wonderful Upstream Contributor To Linux & The Open-Source Community (www.phoronix.com)
Nearly 500 smartphone brands have left the market since 2017 (www.techspot.com)
Inside Intel's Chip Factory, I Saw the Future. It's Plain Old Glass (www.cnet.com)
Fine Woven review from The Verge highlights the problems (www.theverge.com)
Kind of glad that I went with a Spigen case, instead. I can’t justify $60 for a case that is so delicate.
I think that ship might have sailed. (i.imgur.com)
Elon Musk Stormed Into the Tesla Office Furious That Autopilot Tried to Kill Him (futurism.com)
There Is No iPhone 15 Mini: Here's Why (www.macrumors.com)
Reddit implements hidden "credit scores" only visible to admins (old.reddit.com)
This is photorealism (startrek.website)
Does anyone else think this is kind of expensive? (lemmy.world)
Why are batteries in phones always measured in mAh instead of Wh like for example notebooks?
Lemmy is losing users (programming.dev)
How can we make it more popular?