The Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) students drove the SUV, which doubles as a small campervan, from Tangier in northern Morocco across dry riverbeds, steep mountain passes, and loose sand before arriving at the Sahara desert three days later....
It’s a 400km drive from the north end to the south end of the country.
They could have easily done this test within the Netherlands. I bet they did far more testing than that on local highways before taking it to the desert.
Yeah that’s Android only. If you drop your iPhone in a toilet, or if you need to factory reset it for any reason, everything in signal is gone. Even if you backup your device with the system backup feature, Signal sets a flag on all the files it writs to disk so they are excluded from all backups.
It’s been the number one feature request on their iPhone community support channel for six years, and the official response is “We will probably never add that feature. We understand that’s frustrating. Stop wasting our time by asking for it”. Meanwhile every day someone, somewhere, loses all of their message history.
Judge: But if you’re getting the same deal deal as spotify it’s fair…
The judge sounds like an idiot. Just because someone agreed to a deal doesn’t mean it’s a fair deal. Millions of developers have agreed to Google’s terms… and millions more have not agreed to them (I’m a developer, none of my apps are on the Play store for example, in part because I don’t like the terms).
In the usa the poor don’t really have anywhere to charge these cars even if they were cheap enough to afford.
You mean to tell me “the poor” don’t have access to electricity? How poor are we talking exactly? Because I’m thinking enough money to spend, say, $30k on a brand new car… which is still pretty well off.
I mean sure, if you live in a cheap inner city apartment, then you might not have a garage to park/charge in. But I bet a lot of people in that situation have access to public transit anyway - they’re not really the target market for cars in general.
It is impossible to compete with a less than five minute fill up for 300+ miles range.
Most people charge their EV overnight. It’d be even better to charge during the day though, when electricity (can be) cheaper thanks to solar power.
Not to mention that reports place charging on public charges to be more costly than gas.
Yeah you’re going to have to share a source for that. Sounds hard to believe.
So how the bleeding hell am I supposed to charge a car? I’d have to run a long cable through the garden
Personally I’d replace part of the garden with a driveway and parking space. Sure, it’s ugly. But it’s what billions of people around the world have.
Or the government could just install a street furniture like they do parking metres, but I have no way to force them to do that.
Most cities have a plan to do that (though it might just be a plan, with no funding allocated yet)… But there are challenges - in particular vandalism. They have been more successful/cheaper to maintain (and more likely to actually work when you park there) at locations with 24/7 security guards and quick police response times.
They also prioritise short term daytime parking as it’s better to charge EVs when direct solar is available - far cheaper than other power source (except hydro, but hydro generally can’t produce enough power). And they prioritise somewhere like a shopping district where you might only park for 45 minutes allowing dozens of people to charger their car per day instead of just one overnight. Shopping districts are also setup to prevent vandalism as well (and prevention is cheaper than repairs).
Every shopping mall in my city already has a parking spaces where you can charge an EV. In fact it’s often free (or at least, included in the price of parking at the mall). It works well enough but it’s never going to be as convenient as charging at home… those parking spaces are nearly always empty in my city, even though they’re free people would rather pay for the convenience of charging overnight.
Industrial and manufacturing processes Electricity and heat generation Transportation (with vast majority being bunker fueled chips, and agriculture.
Unfortunately I don’t run an industrial manufacturing process or shipping company… so there’s not much I can do there other than prefer to buy products/services that involve fewer emissions.
I’ve installed solar on my home… and some day I’ll probably add a battery (when they’re cheaper), but that’s about all I can do.
So for me at least, this stuff isn’t a huge priority. I’m already doing everything I can.
Me getting 25mpg versus 30 ain’t moving the needle on the emissions
Huh? That’s almost a 20% reduction in your vehicle emissions and private transport is a major contributor to greenhouse gasses. It’d definitely “move the needle”.
I’m not saying everyone has a part to play
I am. Might be a small part for some, but it’s a part. It could be as simple as using LED lighting instead of incandescents (10x lower emissions, and 10x lower power bill) or cooking with induction instead of gas (4x lower emissions, boils water 2x faster, and cheaper though how much depends on your gas prices).
Those two changes I suggested don’t even cost any money. They save money.
A lot of other changes also save money - green hydrogen, for example, was $4/kg two years ago and is $3/kg today… it was projected to be cheaper than gas some time between 2027 and 2040… but thanks to Russia’s war it’s already cheaper than gas now in some parts of the world. Suddenly the industry is scrambling to accelerate that transition.
The liquid natural gas industry has no long term future and not because of emissions - it’s just not going to be const competitive for much longer.
Australian Beauro of Statistics lists half a million Aussies are currently “Unemployed”.
Note in this context, “unemployed” doesn’t mean “not working”. It means half a million are currently “not working and actively searching for a job”.
The ABS doesn’t track it, but less reliable sources estimate about twice that many people are “Underemployed” which means the job they have doesn’t give them enough hours. For example maybe you’ve got a job delivering pizza on Friday and Saturday nights when they need extra staff - the ABS would classify you as “Employed” even though you’re only earning $300 per week.
The number of people “underemployed” varies a lot from source to source, in part because there isn’t a clear definition of what that means.
MacOS 14 didn’t really add any new features. There are widgets on the desktop and… that’s about it. You don’t have to use widgets if you’re worried they might be buggy.
Safari and some other system apps added some stuff, but those aren’t really part of the operating system.
I recommend a virtual machine on your Windows PC as a host.
Start simple, e.g. do all your web browsing in the Linux VM. Don’t try to transition entirely to Linux in one go, that’s too much. Once you’re comfortable in the web browser, add one more piece of software.
Eventually get to the point where you’re doing everything in the VM for a month or so, and then boot into it directly. Or perhaps buy a second PC and a KVM for your keyboard/mouse/monitor. Because you might find there’s one thing (e.g. games) that works better on Windows.
Far more likely they just used ordinary stage lights where “huh, if I set channel 4 to full intensity I get a pretty purple, lets use that one”. The manual probably included a safety warning with specs like “21.7 mW/cm² at 5cm and 8.9 mW/cm² at 25cm distance”… but who reads the manual? And even if they did would they know what those numbers mean?
What it means is a “safe” exposure time of about 11 seconds (per day)… and that’s if you only have one of them. They might’ve had 20. And by the way I took that number from real equipment you can buy for events like this one. Professional operators would be very careful using them.
Pro tip from someone who works in the industry: if you see the white or fluorescent colours glow really bright… get the fuck out of the room unless you have absolute faith in the OH&S chops of the venue and lighting operator.
It actually did - Microsoft is an ethical company now, they’ve done a great job with GitHub for example and also more successful than they ever were in the bad old days when they terrorised the industry.
Just download Xcode, it’s free, and it’s from Apple. With that you can deploy any app (if you have the binary - or the source code, but you don’t technically need the source code) on your own devices and a hundred other people’s devices (it’s supposed to be work colleagues, but your kid’s tablet will work too in practice, who’s going to check or care?).
You can also “sideload” your app to up ten thousand devices linked to other Apple IDs via TestFlight which also a service run by Apple (for a nominal subscription fee) and intended for developers to test apps that aren’t ready for distribution yet, though that process does require a partial review by Apple (it’s mostly just an automated malware scan, not a full app review). It’s perfectly normal for an app to be in development for years without going public. Most apps I’ve written have never shipped, but I still use a few of them on my own devices.
As for getting a copy of YouTube++ from a reputable source, that doesn’t contain malware… that’s basically no different from downloading software for a Mac or PC. Be careful where you download it from yeah?
Generally though, using Xcode is safer than using AltStore since you haven’t jailbroken your device and all the sandboxing/etc is still in place. I’d be more worried about malware infecting your Mac when you load it into Xcode than I would about the iPhone (though it certainly could contain a zero day that escapes the sandbox).
At most, some rewording of “unknown” sources might be in order.
On Windows and Linux (and Mac) there are ways to setup your computer to trust certain sources. You should be able to set a third party app store as a trusted source.
And yeah cut out the “unknown” bullshit and just show the name of the company after verifying their identity - which is a feature Android already has and uses all the time to check if a third party website can be trusted.
99% of of users never get over that hurdle, which makes it unreasonable. “Monopoly” is the wrong term to use and it distracts from the issue - the better term is “Market Power”. Google has enough power to have a potentially damaging impact on the industry. With that power comes responsibility to not do any damage - that’s not just my opinion it’s also the law (not in those exact words obviously).
Also - the apps are from “unverified sources” because Google deliberately refuses to verify them. They’re happy to verify and assign a trust rating to every single webpage in the world… why are apps treated different? The simple answer is because Google makes more money by refusing to verify apps unless they share 30% of their revenue - which is basically extortion. There’s no way they’re doing enough work to justify a fee that high.
Sure, charge whatever fee you want but allow third party stores to compete fairly. In that world if they want to continue charging as much as they are now, they need to offer a hell of a lot more than developers are getting right now for their money.
No you’re wrong. For example you can have a full conversation with GPT-4 about pointers or garbage collection, and come away from that with a really good understanding of the fundamentals.
You won’t get that from just reading a book or article, because you can’t ask an questions. The conversational nature of ChatGPT is amazing. I’ve learned things in days that have taken months in the past.
You can also paste in a snippet of code that doesn’t work, and it will usually explain why and how to fix it.
The article is light on details, but it claims they’re storing the hydrogen as a solid - not as a gas. Solids are generally about a thousand times more compact than a gas.
That’s hardly a revolutionary thing - there are hydrogen powered cars on the road and those don’t use hydrogen as a gas either. Those cars don’t make much sense compared to lithium, but mostly only because there’s almost nowhere in the world you buy hydrogen for your car. That’s not an issue if you’re producing your own hydrogen at home.
There’s a whole bunch of stuff, not just on the watch and not just updates, that only happen if there’s a wifi connection while your devices are charging overnight.
So it’s quite likely that they will give the equivalent processor minus the “pro” features to the base model next year
Actually… that’s unlikely.
This year’s “Pro” processor is fabricated on TSMC’s 3nm N3B process that has very low yield rates - Apple is apparently taking up 90% of the global production capacity for N3B fabrication even though they only use it with relatively low volume “Pro” chipsets.
They’ll surely have better yields next year, but it would still be nowhere near enough to put them in the mainstream iPhone models. TSMC has said they have a new process (which will require new chip designs) online now, and that’s what next year’s mainstream iPhones will use. Manufacturing might have already started (for a late next year launch date).
The website should feed your password straight into a well known hashing algorithm or key derivation function that has undergone a decade or more of careful scrutiny, without any other processing. The output will usually be a fixed length base64 or hex string.
There’s a short list of about three options that are currently considered acceptable, and a few more are probably fine but are a little too easy to crack these days (e.g. anything that shares the same math as bitcoin… what if someone throws a mining datacentre at your password?)
If the site breaks, maybe you don’t to be a customer of that service.
How they’re rendered is a set standard now too. For example there was a bit of an issue where the gun emoji could be a water pistol pointing left or a revolver pointing right… and when it was combined with a person emoji… that could lead to… issues. It’s a water pistol everywhere now.
I mean, I dont actually mind ads… within reason. But over the past few years I have watched less and less youtube content due to the ratio of ads to the actual bloody content I wanted to view....
Depends what country you’re from. Here in Australia there are ad free channels, and ad supported channels that have a reasonable amount (for example, watching sports you might see a few ads at half time when the players are resting… but that’s also when I get up to take a break from the TV myself…)
There’s probably TV here that has more ads, but you don’t have to watch those.
Honestly, I would be fine with it, if they slashed the price of YT premium by about 60%.
Here in Australia they just announced they’re about to increase prices by about 60%… new prices is equivalent to 235 SEK / month (that is for a family plan… but the family plan is the best deal - then you can at least share the cost between people).
Apple wouldn’t be renting anything and the staff are probably very well paid.
They pay professionals who could work in the best paid positions in the industry and get them to film year round on projects like this - it’s part of their R&D process for software like Final Cut Pro/etc.
And it seems it’s also part of their R&D process for the iPhone camera.
Ad free Facebook and Instagram is officially on. I’m trying to stay open minded but honestly it’s too expensive especially with this sneaky account center rule unless you’re in an unfortunate position where you need to spend a lot of time on these platforms....
They’ve already been found guilty of illegally tracking users in the EU and are facing insanely high fines - this is supposed to be their response to that - it’s supposed to be a viable business model that doesn’t involve tracking.
If they’re still tracking people even after doing something about it - there will be zero leniency given.
It’s a wonderful language, it’s general purpose, it’s cross platform, and it’s open source (Apache license). I wish it was a mainstream language outside the of the Apple universe.
What I love the most is it’s so flexible. It’s a full featured OOP language, a full featured Procedural language, a full featured Functional language, a full featured declarative language, and you can relatively easily make it work with anything else you can think of.
It also has the best concurrency system I’ve ever seen - and with high performance computing relying so much on parallel computing these days that’s a must and often what I miss the most in other languages.
A lot of other languages do some things just as well as Swift, but Swift does everything really well.
It’s possible - yes, but it’s usually not easy due to DRM issues.
The Quicktime Player app on the Mac can record the Apple TV screen - you need to connect a Mac to the TV using a USB cable. There might be DRM in the music video which will disable that feature. It will probably need to be a relatively expensive USB cable, cheap ones are unlikely to run at high enough bandwidth.
If it’s a 14" MacBook Pro, then it’s faster, has a better screen, better speakers, etc. Worth the money.
If it’s a 13" MacBook Pro, then it’s exactly the same as the MacBook Air but with a larger battery and a fan. Don’t buy that one - for almost everyone it’s a worse computer. The thinner/lighter/cheaper MacBook Air is just as fast. The fan on the MacBook Pro will almost never actually turn on anyway so that’s not a useful feature.
The larger battery is the only actual upgrade. But the MacBook Air battery probably already lasts longer than you need (as in multiple days) and the MacBook Pro is even longer than you need. To the point where it’s not really an upgrade at all it’s a detriment - makes the computer heavier than it needs to be and takes up more space in your backpack.
Does it have 8GB of RAM, or 16GB of RAM? You should get 16GB if you can afford it. Both of the computers you listed are sold with either 8GB or 16GB.
The 13" model doesn’t have any extra power. It just has a useless fan which never turns on (with normal use).
CPU temp on my M1 MacBook Air is currently a few degrees warmer than the ambient air temperature and I’ve got several moderately high load developer tools running right now (including two Linux virtual machines and two IDEs).
To give some context, I’m a developer myself and once I had a conversation with someone who has not “tasted” programming, but was wondering about passion and career. I was asked what I like about programming. My answer was that my interest in it came from writing small scripts when I was young to automate things....
This was me too - I wanted to do things my computer couldn’t do, and so I figured out how to make it happen. Absolutely the best way to learn in my opinion and so much easier today than it was when I learned.
Then my dad’s friend needed some software and I knew how to do that… so I did. It was fun, and at the end he was like “so how much do I owe you?” and I was like “what? I have no idea. Didn’t expect to get paid”. He gave me a few hundred bucks and I did a few more small projects along those lines, and a bunch of open source work, before getting a job as a junior developer.
Been doing it for over 20 years now - money was never the goal, but I do earn a decent living thankfully.
The companies behind the AV1 standard (including Apple) were investigated for a potential antitrust breach relating to the way patents for the AV1 standard are licensed.
The format is heavily patent encumbered and the patent pool is available “free as in beer” with a whole bunch of conditions that mean they’re definitely not “free as in freedom”, and that’s the part the EU had questions about… thankfully the EU shut down their investigation six months ago but at one point they were threatening Apple with a $40 billion fine - which likely put the brakes on any serious AV1 investments. You’re a lot less likely to see the maximum fine if you’re just a member of the standards body and not actually using the technology in your products.
I also wouldn’t be surprised if Apple announces a firmware update that unlocks additional hardware support AV1 encoding on every computer they’ve sold in recent years. They did that with VP9 after patent issues with that format were sorted out.
… in the mean time, do your editing work in ProRes, do your proofing work in HEVC, and accept the fact that encoding AV1 will need to be done overnight. It’s not really the end of the world. Video editors have done overnight exports for decades.
Hey folks, I am a developer of a small gui tool. Writing it was a pretty chill experience except for one super annoying thing (well actually two, flatpak’s sandbox was a nightmare…) and that was translations....
Don’t work with strings, you need to work with screenshots. The translator (human or AI) needs to see the full context or they ahve no chance. For example take these four variants of “File” in German:
Datei (English: A “File” on disk)
Ablage (English: “File” a document away)
Feile (English: a “File” tool)
Beschwerde (English: to “File” a complaint)
The word “File” often exists on it’s own in a translation list, and it can’t be reliably translated from that context alone. You’ll encounter that issue over and over in every language if all you give people (or all you give the translation algorithm) is a list of strings to review. At best you’ll waste their time by making the job harder for you, at worst they won’t take the time and you’ll be buried in bug reports where the interface doesn’t make sense.
There are AI tools now that can work with screenshots. ChatGPT+ for example accepts image uploads in the chat box, and you can ask it to translate the whole thing - the output is essentially an ascii art version of the screenshot which you can copy/paste into your translation files. This works quite well - save yourself and your translator a bunch of time by using those as a first draft. 90% of the time they’ll just skim over it and tell you it’s correct. Also - you won’t need to delay releasing a new version just because one translator didn’t get back to you in a reasonable amount of time.
Make sure users have a good way to reach you (possibly not in english…) to report translation errors. No translator is going to know the app as well as an actual user. They will get it wrong sometimes.
I’m not really a fan of specialised tools for this. Just use your regular issue tracker. If you’re adding a new feature to the UI, create a separate issue for each language and post a screenshot of your AI generated translation next to a screenshot in English. Also add a tag for the language, so a translator can look for all open issues tagged in their language.
Also, no legal stuff, no need to give anyone credit for anything, just the files.
I’m not a lawyer, but you had better give someone credit unless an actual lawyer tells you it’s unnecessary. There are situations where failing to give credit is illegal. I’m not saying you’re in that situation, but it’s a risk any time you accept contributions from someone else. You need to get that part right, or else just don’t accept third party contributions.
There was a period of very rapid development, largely government funded efforts as both sides of the war saw computers as critical strategically, and a bunch projects went from “hey do you think this might work?” to “here’s an unlimited budget, go make it work.”
They were all heavily influenced by each other (and spying on each other, and lying about the extent of their intelligence gathering capabilities) and computers were progressively developed in paralel.
Who did it “first” depends on where you draw the line in the sand and say “yes, this is a computer”. Even the “turing” test doesn’t work as a clear definition, because the first computers that could pass the that test were barely able to pass in practice.
Also, I think you could make a compelling argument that none of those projects would’ve received all that funding (and there definitely would’ve been less espionage) unless a war was going on. If the war hadn’t happened, computers would’ve taken much longer to be invented.
Antivirus provider Kaspersky uncovers a sophisticated piece of ‘StripedFly’ malware camouflaged as a cryptocurrency miner that’s been targeting PCs for more than five years.
It is a different article, but both articles are simply reporting research by Kaspersky, and Kaspersky goes into quite a bit of depth covering the Linux side of the threat, which is very real. PCMag focuses mostly on the windows side, because it’s a windows focused site.
This isn’t a single exploit, this is a “framework” that can take advantage of multiple exploits and will use which ever one it can find. You don’t need to be “heavily compromised” you just need to be vulnerable to one of the compromises. And you definitely don’t need root either.
The Python read() function, which is basically the same as fread() also accepts a length parameter and 1024 is a sensible number to give it.
You can read the entire file in python but you probably shouldn’t do that. In the real world, your software will be given files larger than it can handle and it’s important to have logic in place to process the file incrementally instead of all at once.
Honestly, it’s what makes this particular problem so challenging… the proper way to parse a JSON file is as a “stream” and not by holding the entire string in memory at once unless you can guarantee it’s very small.
It’s definitely possible to write a C program that reads the entire file. You just won’t find many examples of that because it’s a bad idea. What if someone gives you a 30GB file?
You said you used an “AI to assist” but it failed? What were you using? I pasted it into ChatGPT 4 and it found eight problems - including this one. Some of the others are even worse… for example the CREATE TABLE query is literally never executed. Oops.
They try to track me. It’s pretty clear they’re not successful, given the lack of relevance the YouTube recommendation algorithm usually presents and also how often Google asks me to prove I’m even human at all.
The Prius was the first mass market car in the entire world that could drive on battery power. Sure, the range sucked, and they dropped the ball after that by failing to shift focus to hydrogen, but the fact is Toyota does have a history of strong innovation in this space and I could totally see them being the first to ship a car with a solid state battery.
Does the Matter standard prevent devices from gathering information from other Matter devices, or even from your network/other networks around you? Does Matter dictate that devices may only share data with the Matter routers?
AFAIK yes - matter devices can theoretically collect information about other devices in your home. A lot of matter devices use very low power radio connections that would struggle to penetrate walls/etc and it works a little bit like the internet where a network packet has an almost infinite number of ways to potentially reach the destination. So, if you’re worried your TV might record the fact that your lights were turned off at 11pm… maybe get rid of that TV.
That is: are they prohibited from using non-Matter communication protocols?
Pretty sure Matter devices can use whatever non-matter communication protocols they want.
Can a device request that a Matter hub send data to a server on its behalf? Can a device directly talk to an external server?
Pretty sure they can, yes. And they need to be able to do that to download and apply security patches.
In other words - be careful what products you buy.
I would like my lights to be brighter during the day than they are at night. And if I’m sleeping at home, I’d still like enough light that I’m not stumbling over the kids toys when I need to pee at 3am.
If I’m watching TV and it’s a bit cold, I’d like to be able to adjust the temperature from the couch… and in summer I’d also like to be able to cool the house down when I leave work (and when the sun is shining on my solar panels) rather than firing the air con up when I get home from work and the sun is no-longer on my solar panels. If the smoke alarms detect a fire… I’d like to be alerted even if I’m not at home so I can check a camera and call emergency services to put the fire out before everything I own is destroyed. And I hate the fact that my fridge uses a huge amount of power at night when my solar panels aren’t powering my home… it sounds like this new Matter standard will allow me to adjust the settings on the fridge by time of day which could potentially save hundreds of dollars per year.
Do I need all of that? No. But I’d like it.
The way things are right now, if a device is going to have a “smart” feature, then the smarts need to be in the device. For example some very expensive fridges have a full control system on the fridge that can be used to configure the defrost cycle (defrost uses a lot of power and commonly runs hourly). With Matter those smarts don’t need to be on the device - they can be on your phone or your TV or a home server.
A union doesn’t change the fact that voice actors are expendable. You can make a movie without hiring any voice actors. That’s a fact.
And hard bargaining by the union is likely accelerating the adoption of AI. The technology is immature right now and not really good enough… but it’s getting better and in part because of all the strikes it’s getting better really fast.
Taking away all of the actors is a really powerful motivator for Hollywood to start making movies without actors.
At the end of the day, it’s the producers who are the moneybags of the industry. All the money comes from them. If actors don’t have a good relationship with producers, then actors will not get paid. That’s got nothing to do with AI - producers can (and often do) choose to invest their money in something other than the arts.
A French company (SilMach) backed by Timex Group is claiming to have opened a new chapter in watchmaking with the creation of a silicon motor that matches the accuracy of quartz-based movements with the elegance of a mechanical watch’s sweeping hands.
Often those “higher rate” movements are wasted anyway on a timekeeping device that doesn’t have any way to set the time precisely.
Quartz, on a network connected watch, is able to be reliably within tens of milliseconds of the official time which is a level of accuracy you’re never going to get on a watch where you manually set the time. It’s physically impossible to control your fingers with timing as short as that. There’s no way you can press the button within 100 milliseconds of a reference timepiece time unless you spend an hour trying again and again then check how far off you were.
This is a solved problem. I’m all for finding new and interesting ways to solve it… but I don’t like the claim that this is a “new chapter” in watchmaking.
Dutch solar EV completes 1,000km test drive through the desert (thenextweb.com)
The Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) students drove the SUV, which doubles as a small campervan, from Tangier in northern Morocco across dry riverbeds, steep mountain passes, and loose sand before arriving at the Sahara desert three days later....
No More Phone Number Swaps: Signal Messaging App Now Testing Usernames (www.pcmag.com)
Discussion on Signal’s forum
What is Google trying to hide in its deal with Spotify? (www.theverge.com)
Auto execs are coming clean: EVs aren't working (www.businessinsider.com)
It shouldn't matter if people work multiple jobs. The former VP of HR at Microsoft shares how to react to double dippers — 'get over it.' (money.yahoo.com)
Report: Apple pauses iOS 18 and macOS 15 development to address bugs (www.macworld.com)
Mozillas petition to get an answer from Microsoft, is it using your data to train its AI? (foundation.mozilla.org)
Microsofts new Terms and Service agreement is rather questionable. In short; It does not clarify if Microsoft will use your data to train it’s AI....
Apple, it's time to fold. (techcrunch.com)
Bored ape NFT event attendees get their faces burned by event lighting (www.theverge.com)
Who’d have thought BoredApe NFTs would be such an actual eyesore?
A Jury Will Decide If Google's App Store Is an Unjust Monopoly (www.wired.com)
What things really helped you toget better at programming?
Curious to hear about the things that helped improve your programming ability.
Solar energy storage breakthrough could make European households self-sufficient (sifted.eu)
Updating Apple Watch without WiFi?
I have an unlimited 5G plan with 400 Mbit/s on my phone and have to use an external source to update my watch?
To avoid regulation, Apple said it had three Safari browsers (www.theregister.com)
Security expert reveals surprising way to make your password stronger: use emojis (nypost.com)
Do you feel, as I do, that this adblocker ban by Youtube will harm all of Alphabet's companies? [discussion]
I mean, I dont actually mind ads… within reason. But over the past few years I have watched less and less youtube content due to the ratio of ads to the actual bloody content I wanted to view....
My take on the “Scary Fast” shot on iPhone controversy (shellsharks.com)
Facebook Puts a Price on Privacy in EU, EEA and Switzerland: It’s 9.99€ a Month + 6€ for Each Extra Account (www.wired.com)
Ad free Facebook and Instagram is officially on. I’m trying to stay open minded but honestly it’s too expensive especially with this sneaky account center rule unless you’re in an unfortunate position where you need to spend a lot of time on these platforms....
Which language you wish would really grow and reach mainstream adoption?
Assume mainstream adoption as used by around 7% of all github projects...
Is it possible to record the video feed out of the Apple TV’s new capability of using iOS device camera to see the video feed on Apple Music?
(Longest question ever, I know)...
M1: the normal one
Hello!...
What got you into coding ? (aside from money)
To give some context, I’m a developer myself and once I had a conversation with someone who has not “tasted” programming, but was wondering about passion and career. I was asked what I like about programming. My answer was that my interest in it came from writing small scripts when I was young to automate things....
Everything to know about Apple’s new M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max processors (arstechnica.com)
Is there a translation service/tool that gives reliable translations for developers of small projects?
Hey folks, I am a developer of a small gui tool. Writing it was a pretty chill experience except for one super annoying thing (well actually two, flatpak’s sandbox was a nightmare…) and that was translations....
What is up with the new Pencil USB-C port? (lemmy.world)
I don’t understand how this port is going to connect with a cable. I want to see this in person but it looks cool in the ad
The German government is working on an OSS "Sovereign Workplace" (gitlab.opencode.de)
It was announced about one year ago
Powerful Malware Disguised as Crypto Miner Infects 1M+ Windows, Linux PCs (www.pcmag.com)
Antivirus provider Kaspersky uncovers a sophisticated piece of ‘StripedFly’ malware camouflaged as a cryptocurrency miner that’s been targeting PCs for more than five years.
[HELP/~Solved~] Converting JSON to Sqlite in C
I am trying to create a program that downloads a JSON file and I’m trying to convert it to sqlite....
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Toyota nears mass production of solid-state batteries (archive.ph)
Matter 1.2 is a big move for the smart home standard (www.theverge.com)
Whose voice is it anyway? Actors take on AI copycats (www.japantimes.co.jp)
Artists around the world are joining forces to protect their jobs, and their souls, from the ramifications of AI that sounds just like them.
French innovator aims to consign ticking quartz watches to history (usa.watchpro.com)
A French company (SilMach) backed by Timex Group is claiming to have opened a new chapter in watchmaking with the creation of a silicon motor that matches the accuracy of quartz-based movements with the elegance of a mechanical watch’s sweeping hands.