Reuters exclusively reported that Telecom Italia (TIM) (TLIT.MI) on Sunday approved the 19-billion-euro ($20 billion) sale of its fixed-line network to U.S. private equity firm KKR (KKR.N), becoming the first telecoms group in a major European country to part ways with its landline grid.
Qualcomm brought a company named Nuvia, which are ex-Apple engineers that help designed the M series Apple silicon chips to produce Oryon which exceeds Apple’s M2 Max in single threaded benchmarks....
They sell access to data (i.e., ads) - that is far more lucrative than selling the data itself. Only companies that are bad at tech just sell the data (credit card companies, retail, etc)
Cambridge Analytica was far more stupid - that was them just giving away data for free. Their old Facebook Apps APIs were wide open to collect whatever for free for anyone who would use your app (CA made those “do this fun quiz and invite your friends!” kind of FB games) and the APIs just said “we require you to delete this data when the user is done with the app” with no way to enforce it
Slow charging speeds at home/work are fine, nobody is burning 100% of their range daily on their commute. The people with 200 mile daily commutes are not buying EVs
The biggest spikes look like the correspond to new year. So my guess is that the spikes are vacations and show the difference between home PC and office PC usage.
You can see the same spikes on e.g. Googles IPv6 chart - when people are away from work IPv6 penetration goes up, when people are at work it goes down.
One of the most aggravating things to me in this world has to be the absolutely rampant anti-intellectualism that dominates so many conversations and debates, and its influence just seems to be expanding. Do you think there will ever actually be a time when this ends? I'd hope so once people become more educated and cultural...
I’m already seeing people come into software dev support forums asking “ChatGPT said you could do this but it’s not compiling” and people replying that no, that’s not possible and them arguing about it because ChatGPT said it.
Once Elon Musk unleashes his “uncensored” AI chat bot, we’re going to be flooded with made-up misinformation, it’s going to be a bloodbath.
A Michigan vigilante who amassed thousands of social media followers with his unauthorized hunts for pedophiles was shot and killed in a confrontation with two teenagers, police said....
Just making sure I’m in the right place. I cannot see any developed communities here so I’ve started wondering, what’s the real place everyone from Reddit has moved to? I’ve heard something about Discuit, but never tried it.
I don’t have the article itself but they used subredditstats.com as a source, if you check some of the biggest subs on there you can see clearly in the charts the drop in posts and comments
Yes? Most use cases for Thunderbolt are external NVMe drives or laptop docks, those are fine with short cables.
The alternative of getting rid of USB-C plug compatibility and requiring an expensive optical assembly and fragile optical connectors would kill Thunderbolt. It means it’s gone from laptops where the space and cost is too high, it means it’s gone from iPads where it won’t even fit, external NVMe drives will settle for USB due to cost .
Active optical cables ARE part of the standard for those who need it.
I’ve definitely turned into the paranoid nutcase within my friend group in recent years, I hate that everything is “smart” nowadays requiring an app/internet connection & account, just to do basic things that didn’t require any of that before....
MySpace actually let you put in custom CSS and it was a huge free-for-all, everyone’s page looked completely different, and usually it was a tacky unreadable mess of hot pink comic sans text over a bright purple texture background, absolutely horrible but very charming. Facebook very explicitly in contrast allowed no customization at all as a reaction to how bad users could make their pages look.
I’ve spent the past day working on my newest Poweredge R620 acquisition, and trying to nail down what things I can do without checking. Google has shown me that everyone seems to be having similar issues regardless of brand or model. Gone are the days when a rack server could be fully booted in 90 seconds. A big part of my...
Is number spoofing really a problem outside of North America (+1 country code)? Over the past decade or so I’ve had phone numbers in 5 different countries across several continents and never had any issues with number spoofing or really any spam from phone numbers at all (since a year ago, I get at most 1 spam SMS a month here in Japan, not one call ever), but I keep hearing only Americans talking about it as a problem.
The MagSafe ones can still charge over USB-C if you want to, using MagSafe is optional. I never bring the MagSafe cable when I travel and just use regular USB-C cables.
I have friends who still have iPhone XR, XS etc and those came with USB A bricks. And any time I buy some cheap gadget with a USB-C port it just comes with a USB-A to C cable. So I can see lots of people still out there with only USB A chargers, although you’d think they would be in the minority now.
Yeah there’s no way they’re going to hit that 2025 deadline. BT started replacing people’s landlines last year but had to halt the project as it was too confusing for the elderly, etc and now they have to do a rethink about how to move everyone over
I’m raising a family here in Japan. Pick them up from daycare, take them to the clinic when sick, go to bars, talk to cabbies. Never had a hint of negativity about it.
Sure there’s xenophobia in Japan, lots of it, but I’ve never seen this meme of “they love tourists but when they hate it when you move there!” that people (who mostly have not lived in Japan) repeat online.
If anything, the examples of racism I see are the opposite - they dislike tourists who barge into small corner bars and violate local manners, but if you live there, speak the language and show an understanding of the customs they’re fine with you.
Korea has been fairly stable they are rolling towards the same sort of downturn themselves
Korea is actually in a worse position than Japan, far from being fairly stable their reproduction rate has been crashing far quicker and passed Japan years ago.
Culture aside, pretty much every country has its pension and health care schemes set up as basically Ponzi schemes - they require young people (who don’t need much healthcare and don’t get pension) paying in to support the simultaneous payouts for the elderly. You have twice as many elderly as young, suddenly the young need to pay in twice as much.
Immigrants don’t want to live in rural towns. I remember when a group of refugees were bussed in Sweden and they revolted that they didn’t get to stay in a city.
I mean even LOCAL people don’t want to live in rural towns, that’s why they’re depopulated.
Gizmodo's tests find the College Board website shares GPAs, SAT scores, and other information with Facebook and TikTok via tracking pixels. The College Board has a years-long history of sharing and selling student data.
They’re not even selling it, they’re just giving it away due to incompetence.
They added the pixel to track their ad click through rate (and to automatically optimize the targeting based on people who click through).
The pixel sends off the URL of the current page when a user visits. The search form put the GPA you entered to search for in the URL, so it gets sent off as part of the URL.
There’s no way Facebook even realized this or utilized the data in any way, it just happens to be in the URL by mistake and they get millions of URLs sent to themselves every second, no way do they actually bother to sit and analyze what’s in them.
Yeah Kodak decided they were a consumer imaging company, so after the end of film they invested in stuff like digital cameras, printers etc (all dead-end products, growth-wise), and sold off all their industrial products like chemicals. E.g. they spun off Eastman Chemical which is now worth $10 billion, sold off their medical imaging stuff, etc etc.
Fujifilm decided they were a technology company and they live to this day.
Neat - these things usually show up in the news as a render and then you never hear about it again. Being actually built full-scale is pretty cool.
Sails obviously work, the two questions with an automated metal sail for cargo ships are cost and reliability. Making moving parts that don’t break down in high wind and salt water isn’t easy.
You can still have protrutionless handles without making them electronically retractable. Just have a spring-loaded metal flap that you push in with your hand
My wife and I started talking about this after she had to help an old lady at the DMV figure out how to use her iPhone to scan a QR code. We're in our early 40s.
I think this is an apt analogy in more ways than one!
Older cars, you really did have to keep messing with them to keep them running and if you had to go to the mechanic every time, it would be too expensive, so it was almost a necessity. Just like with computers 2 decades ago.
These days you hear of people who drive a Honda for 100,000 miles without even changing the oil once and it just keeps running somehow. Why bother learning to fix something like that?
LLMs/ChatGPT and Midjourney/Stable Diffusion. Prompting them to get something useful out is an art in itself.
Occasionally I’ll be doing something manually before I realize “wait this is drugdework that ChatGPT can do for me”. I think that kind of mental shift will be difficult or scary for many people, whereas the kids who are in school now will be raised with it as a default option to do their work.
USB-C has already standardized 240W charging. Apple already ships a 140W brick with their laptops since like a year or two ago, and Framework is shipping a 180W brick later this year.
I dunno about the SA law but the EU law mandates USB-PD support.
Of course they can’t mandate the wattage level since every device will have different wattage needs, but I can use my $35 100W USB-PD charger with any USB device I have at home just fine
Wow those Seagate 14 TB numbers look pretty terrible (even ignoring the model with a tiny sample size), I guess I’m lucky that Toshiba drives are the cheapest here so that what we have the most of
Laptop with long runtime
I’m looking to buy a new laptop. I recently switched to Linux (Fedora) and would like to stay with it (Not necessarily Fedora though)....
Telecom Italia approves KKR's $20 billion grid bid in blow for Vivendi | Reuters News Agency (www.reutersagency.com)
Reuters exclusively reported that Telecom Italia (TIM) (TLIT.MI) on Sunday approved the 19-billion-euro ($20 billion) sale of its fixed-line network to U.S. private equity firm KKR (KKR.N), becoming the first telecoms group in a major European country to part ways with its landline grid.
Imagine Linux on an Arm SoC that benchmark better than Apple's M2 Max! (youtu.be)
Qualcomm brought a company named Nuvia, which are ex-Apple engineers that help designed the M series Apple silicon chips to produce Oryon which exceeds Apple’s M2 Max in single threaded benchmarks....
Facebook Finally Puts a Price on Privacy: It’s $10 a Month (www.wired.com)
Auto execs are coming clean: EVs aren't working (www.businessinsider.com)
Linux holds more than 8% market share in India, and it's on the upward trend (sh.itjust.works)
'Friends' Star Matthew Perry Dead at 54 After Apparent Drowning (www.tmz.com)
Well, this is something! (files.mastodon.social)
Meanwhile in Germany:https://feddit.de/pictrs/image/18874a11-e448-4696-8ee7-28b87e2851d2.jpeg
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits giving up on Windows Phone and mobile was a mistake (www.theverge.com)
Nadella, Gates, and Ballmer have all admitted to Microsoft’s mobile mistakes.
Microsoft fixes the Excel feature that was wrecking scientific data (www.theverge.com)
Will the world ever stop being anti-intellectual?
One of the most aggravating things to me in this world has to be the absolutely rampant anti-intellectualism that dominates so many conversations and debates, and its influence just seems to be expanding. Do you think there will ever actually be a time when this ends? I'd hope so once people become more educated and cultural...
Vigilante Pedophile Hunter Killed While Confronting Teens (www.thedailybeast.com)
A Michigan vigilante who amassed thousands of social media followers with his unauthorized hunts for pedophiles was shot and killed in a confrontation with two teenagers, police said....
Apple iOS Update to Fix iPhone 12 Radiation Levels Approved by French Regulators (www.macrumors.com)
Windows 11 (lemdro.id)
Where are all of the reddit refugees these days?
Just making sure I’m in the right place. I cannot see any developed communities here so I’ve started wondering, what’s the real place everyone from Reddit has moved to? I’ve heard something about Discuit, but never tried it.
Does anyone else think this is kind of expensive? (lemmy.world)
Intel announces Thunderbolt 5 with double the bandwidth (40 Gbps to 80 Gbps) (www.macworld.com)
A.I. tools fueled a 34% spike in Microsoft’s water consumption, and one city with its data centers is concerned about the effect on residential supply (fortune.com)
What's a current or growing trend only you seem to have concerns about?
I’ve definitely turned into the paranoid nutcase within my friend group in recent years, I hate that everything is “smart” nowadays requiring an app/internet connection & account, just to do basic things that didn’t require any of that before....
What are your tweaks to bring down POST times on new servers?
I’ve spent the past day working on my newest Poweredge R620 acquisition, and trying to nail down what things I can do without checking. Google has shown me that everyone seems to be having similar issues regardless of brand or model. Gone are the days when a rack server could be fully booted in 90 seconds. A big part of my...
Monkey photo on ID activates Philippine SIM cards, exposing loophole in new law vs scammers (www.straitstimes.com)
Why are maglev trains still rare?
They were invented decades ago....
iPhone 15 buyers will be reminded Lightning cables are now landfill (9to5mac.com)
Leaker yeux1122 says that Apple Store staff have been told to make sure iPhone 15 buyers know about the change...
Openreach Stops Selling New UK Analogue Copper Phone Lines (www.ispreview.co.uk)
Japan wrestles with its views on ‘outside people’ amid population crisis (www.theguardian.com)
Low birthrate and ageing population pose ‘an urgent risk to society’, but can opening its borders to skilled overseas workers fix the problem?
The College Board Tells TikTok and Facebook Your SAT Scores (gizmodo.com)
Gizmodo's tests find the College Board website shares GPAs, SAT scores, and other information with Facebook and TikTok via tracking pixels. The College Board has a years-long history of sharing and selling student data.
Too many users abused unlimited Dropbox plans, so they’re getting limits (arstechnica.com)
[meme] Trains -- not driverless cars -- are the future of transportation (lemmy.world)
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The Trojan Room coffee pot was switched off at 09:54 UTC on 22 August 2001 (lemmy.capebreton.social)
cross-posted from: lemmy.capebreton.social/post/327322...
Pioneering wind-powered cargo ship sets sail (www.bbc.com)
Numerous Tesla owners say they've been trapped inside their EVs after they lost power. Here's how to manually open a Tesla door if you get stuck inside. (www.businessinsider.com)
Numerous Tesla owners have said they’ve been stuck inside their EVs after the cars suddenly lost power....
How do DM's work in Lemmy? How safe are they?
Do you think millennials who grew up with the early Internet and home computers will be as bad with future technology as boomers are with current technology? (dmv.pub)
My wife and I started talking about this after she had to help an old lady at the DMV figure out how to use her iPhone to scan a QR code. We're in our early 40s.
Saudi Arabia mandates all electronic devices to use USB-C charging ports from 2025 (www.gsmarena.com)
Backblaze Drive Stats for Q2 2023 (www.backblaze.com)
Saw this posted on !technology and thought ideal to crosspost here too...