A local school near me replaced the computer suite with new machines and just left the old ones in a big cage outside to rust. Something about being “too expensive” to properly dispose or recycle.
There are multiple dedicated ESP32 flashing programs available for most operating systems, there should be no reason to use any web browser to flash a microcontroller.
The fact this even needs to be said says a lot about modern web browsers, and software development in general.
Firefox supports a new “Copy Link Without Site Tracking” feature in the context menu which ensures that copied links no longer contain tracking information.
This will be handy, so many sites add tracking tokens to URLs now. I see the YouTube tokens a lot on links shared on Lemmy.
It wouldn’t surprise me if there were still a few production Itanium systems in server rooms somewhere, running some obscure or bespoke proprietary software that can’t be migrated to anything else. There are other more arcane systems still being limped along in businesses around the world, for some frighteningly critical applications in some case.
Itanium support being dropped probably has a handful of admins panicking, but in the eyes of the kernel developers it’s a case of “put up or shut up”.
The AS/400 platform is still alive and actively maintained by IBM so I’m told, although I think it goes under the Power Systems and IBM i brands now. I know several business still using them, with development teams still coding with RPG etc. Apparently there is also reasonable ecosystem of middleware to interface with more modern systems, and some sort of *nix compatibility layer to run more modern software on the platform.
I’ve never touched one myself, but they are keeping a few greybeards I know in steady work.
Mozilla expanding into social media feels like it will be walking a very delicate line regarding privacy. Things like Pocket have already been contentious enough.
They are putting a lot of emphasis on recommendation feeds and helping content publishers “build audiences”, and of course there will ultimately be some form of (so far unspoken) monetisation. Mozilla are only going get so far with that until they start wanting user data, data which will be so temptingly convenient when it’s tied to Mozilla accounts.
Chrome has already demonstrated the negative consequences of web browsers and web platforms becoming too intertwined. Maybe I’m just too cynical, but even with the best of intentions I’m not sure Mozilla can avoid the same fate here.
There’s barely any engineering or even editorial oversight going on with some of the AI content appearing now, just piping the output of an LLM directly into a blogging platform. The initial prompt themselves could even be just be scraped headlines from elsewhere.
The authors angle seems to be more of “hate the game not the players”, and even the they aren’t entirely sympathetic to all of them. The more that search engines became the main entrance to the web, the more that website owners would seek to get closer to the entrance, and the SEO people illustrated in the article are the result.
I wish there were more colour options across the board. The iMacs have a selection of bright colours, but the Pro models are always a bit too serious. Pros like colours too!
Pretty much as the title says, just wondered if it was possible for me to stop listening to a playlist on my Mac and seamlessly pick it up on my iPhone, rather than starting the playlist again?
Unfortunately there isn’t, at least not with Apple Music. It seems a really obvious continuity feature to add but Apple have yet to do this. It’s a shame as I regularly switch between Mac iPad and iPhone while listening to music and having to find where I left off each time is a bit annoying.
Submit feedback to Apple, maybe they will take action eventually.
That’s been going on for years. I had a Nexus One back in 2010, it had the radio hardware but no software support in the stock ROM. When I installed an alternate ROM the radio worked just fine.
Removing headphone jacks is more about saving internal space and pushing Bluetooth headphone sales than a ploy to stop radio listening though.
One problem with relying on a phone to receive emergency FM broadcasts is that the phone usually needed wired headphones to be connected to use as the FM antenna.
Most smartphones today don’t even have a headphone jack. Even if they did bring them back, many people have embraced wireless headphones/earbuds and so wouldn’t have any wired ones to hand during an emergency.
There are possible ways to have an integrated FM antenna but it would have greatly reduced range - so not great in an emergency either.
Firefox become popular originally because it differentiated itself from other browsers (well, mainly one particular browser) by offering great useful features that the others didn’t have. Many of them were targeted at power users who went on to evangelise Firefox to others.
These days Mozilla only seems to get publicity and attention for gimmicks, or for removing features. The few useful ideas it has produced, like Containers, languish in obscurity. In the face of Google’s aggressive moves with Chrome, Firefox has withered has a result.
Reddit said Wednesday that the platform is revamping its privacy settings with an aim to make ad personalization and account visibility toggles consistent. Most notably though, it is removing the ability to opt out of ad personalization based on Reddit activity....
It probably was, but I would imagine a lot of the dedicated users of old are also those who have fled Reddit recently. Reddit might feel there would be less backlash to removing old now.
Four years after the Raspberry Pi 4 shipped, today the Raspberry Pi 5 is launching with a much improved SoC leading to significant performance gains....
Looking at photos of the Pi5 board, the PCIe pins are a separate ribbon connector. I am guessing the M2 hat will just use the GPIO pins for power and hardware detection, and pass the others through.
I agree it would be have been useful to have an M2 slot (or maybe eMMC connector) integrated indirectly to the board. Other similar SBCs have done so. Perhaps the Pi designers were concerned about board space or thermal considerations. I imagine they want to keep the form factor as similar as possible each version, so they maybe can’t make drastic changes to the board layout.
Peers call for urgent overhaul of secondary education in England (www.theguardian.com)
Ubuntu in sch(rule) (pawb.social)
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Keir Starmer: Labour ‘won’t turn on spending taps’ if it wins election (www.theguardian.com)
Japan is living in the future that the 1990s dreamed of. (startrek.website)
I hate chromium (fanaticus.social)
Firefox 120.0 released (www.mozilla.org)
Will Linux on Itanium be saved? Absolutely not (www.theregister.com)
Welfare cuts worth billions planned by ministers (www.bbc.co.uk)
Nitrous oxide: Laughing gas possession becomes illegal (www.bbc.co.uk)
Mozilla will move Firefox development from Mercurial to Microsoft’s GitHub (devclass.com)
We interrupt your programming rule (slrpnk.net)
Matic is a $1,795 robot vacuum for people concerned about privacy (arstechnica.com)
Matic is a $1,795 robot vacuum for people concerned about privacy (arstechnica.com)
What’s in a word? How less-gendered language is faring across Europe (www.theguardian.com)
Why Mozilla is betting on a decentralized social networking future (techcrunch.com)
What do you think?
The Netherlands (mander.xyz)
Matthew White: Stephen Lawrence suspect said he had killed before in second attack (www.bbc.co.uk)
Apple slides from 2013 skewer Android as “a massive tracking device” (arstechnica.com)
To avoid regulation, Apple said it had three Safari browsers (www.theregister.com)
The people who ruined the internet (www.theverge.com)
Meta's ad-free scheme dares you to buy your privacy back, one euro at a time (www.theregister.com)
Apple’s keyboard, trackpad, and mouse still have Lightning ports (www.theverge.com)
Everything to know about Apple’s new M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max processors (arstechnica.com)
Apple Unveils New Space Black Color for M3 Pro and M3 Max MacBook Pro (www.macrumors.com)
Apple plans “Scary Fast” product event just before Halloween (www.theverge.com)
Continue music playback from Mac to iPhone
Pretty much as the title says, just wondered if it was possible for me to stop listening to a playlist on my Mac and seamlessly pick it up on my iPhone, rather than starting the playlist again?
The Meta glassholes have arrived (www.theverge.com)
Pizza, plum cake and pickled red onion: how school lunches look across Europe (www.theguardian.com)
Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal approved by UK regulators (www.theverge.com)
Apple considered ditching Google for DuckDuckGo in Safari’s private mode (arstechnica.com)
Phones should have FM radio again (www.spacebar.news)
UTM: An Apple hypervisor with some unique extra abilities (www.theregister.com)
UK welfare budget could be cut to pave way for tax cuts, says Jeremy Hunt (www.theguardian.com)
Mozilla and the burning need for clients for power users (www.theregister.com)
Mozilla seems to be asleep at the wheel, when it once drove online activity and communications. We have some suggestions where it could go.
Meta launches consumer AI chatbots with celebrity avatars in its social apps (arstechnica.com)
Reddit is removing ability to opt out of ad personalization based on your activity on the platform (techcrunch.com)
Reddit said Wednesday that the platform is revamping its privacy settings with an aim to make ad personalization and account visibility toggles consistent. Most notably though, it is removing the ability to opt out of ad personalization based on Reddit activity....
Raspberry Pi 5 Benchmarks: Significantly Better Performance, Improved I/O (www.phoronix.com)
Four years after the Raspberry Pi 4 shipped, today the Raspberry Pi 5 is launching with a much improved SoC leading to significant performance gains....