They’re getting there with windows 11… first it was ‘hey you’re compatible with windows 11’ now they’ve stepped up to a full screen non-skippable screen a big ‘upgrade to windows 11’ but still with a button to stay on windows 10 hidden in the corner. It’s only a matter of time before that button disappears.
It’s never really been an accurate measure… it’s a hard thing to do, since federation is so loose. The estimate varies between 10m and 14m users currently (I presume ‘active’ users is based on posts).
It’s shown itself with the latest kerfuffle… the discussions (apart from the occasional nutter) haven’t devolved into people calling each other nazis yet. In fact some have been positively educational.
My system reports that im using OpenGL 4.2: pastebin.com/uXu3BLxXBut when i try to use that OpenGL vesion to write a program with it, it fails, the maximum version i can use for that is OpenGL 2.1, why does that happen?
A heck of a lot of old stuff has been deprecated in the intervening years… it’s possible your drivers don’t support emulating that old… although I’d found most can still do 1.x (because it was relatively simple, fixed pipeline).
TBH though if you’re writing anything new I’d start with vulkan, as it’s really the next gen and nowadays supported everywhere.
Those are extreme cases… they’re buying a 48k car (that seems on the high side) but trading in an 8k car (so old/cheap or both)… of course the loan is going to be large.
Normally you’d time the trade… my current car was an upgrade on my last but the monthly payments reduced because I timed it so the value of my existing car was reasonably high.
Laserdiscs were huge for being able to stop on a single frame - I worked for a place that used them for language teaching, so you had to stop dead on a sentence for it to make sense. At the time mpeg could only stop on iframes that could be 10 seconds apart, and paying to get iframes mastered where you needed them was mucho expensive (even decoding required hardware… mpeg encoding in software was a pipe dream).
Compressed video still has this problem to some extent but it’s mostly worked around in software.
Also the hardware to interface to a PC was basically a simple analogue capture card and a serial link for the control. Cheap, at least compared to the mpeg decoders of the day.
I have an SSD from a PC I no longer use. I need to keep a copy of all its data for backup purposes. The problem is that dd reports "Input/output error"s when copying from the drive. There seem to be 20-30 of them in the entire 240GB drive so it is likely that most or all of my data is still intact....
Use ddrescue… but if there are lots of errors what you get back might not be that useful. Once you have a full image mount it loopback (losetup -Pf) and get the files that way.
Don’t try to mount the ssd directly as you can make things worse if the OS tries to write to it.
Phones just do the same stuff now, so updates don’t really matter beyond security. That’s a problem for the pixel 8 too… I’ve got a 7a and it’s not really got anything my 5 didn’t have, other than being bigger and heavier. So I’m not even bothered by the 8.
Which is a problem for the phone manufacturers… because everyone’s saying that now. Phones all do what we need them to do already, there are no new killer features.
I replaced the battery on my 5 and it was just like new… still is… except it no longer gets security updates, which sucks otherwise it’s be my daily driver today.
I’d rather they didn’t announce it existed before announcing what it is… now we’ve got to sit around for a week potentially knowing the curl command could give someone root access or something.
They specifically say the high vulnerability one affects the command line tool, not just the library. High implies privilege escalation… I’m wondering how at this point because it’s not setuid and there’s really no reason opening a TCP socket could cause it (and if it does, that’s a kernel error not curl).
No. Mostly you run around collect business cards and then go online to apply for the jobs… that you could have done without going to the job fair in the first place.
TBH It’s a huge red flag if a recruiter wants upfront payment with no guarantee at the end of it (or even if they ‘guarantee’ one). If the recruiters are so desperate for someone they want to organise a job fair, they can bloody well pay for it themselves.
After thinking about it that’s exactly what they’re doing.
They sold tickets at $700 each to loads of men. So loads of men turned up.
What did they expect to happen. They knew in advance how many tickets they’d sold and to who… and nobody raised any flags. A few % lying about gender (if they did, gender is complex) wouldn’t tip the scales that much.
I answered the ‘why do you want this job’ question with ‘I’m unemployed and need money’, rather than lying about some lifelong ambition to work for a small software company in bumfuck nowhere. Got me the job.
Of course it depends on the interviewer, but TBH I’d rather work for one that values honesty anyway.
The new Plus category of Chromebooks is an assurance that you’ll get a higher level of performance and features but still at a reasonable starting price....
Apple laptops you can’t upgrade any of those things and they sell like hotcakes. It’s really not something most people do.
Chromebooks have their niche, beyond education they’re good as second laptops where you’re really only doing mostly browser stuff. Mine is getting on a bit now, a 2017 pixelbook… but it doesn’t go EOL until next year and I’ll probably keep it beyond that because it just works… only thing I’d like really would be a bigger screen.
I love my chromebook, 90% of the time when I’m lazing around nothing I need uses more than a browser, although it also runs a debian variant and can run android apps, which is useful occasionally. It’s light, doesn’t get remotely hot, has no fan noise and the battery lasts ages.
My mother has one because she doesn’t need the complexity of windows breaking everything… she only needs gmail and facebook.
or maybe some other terminology would be better? lots of people get confused when you ask them to choose an instance, sometimes I think even the word “proxy”, “host”, or “hub” is simpler...
Old adage…People don’t want choices, they want what they want.
Every time you ask a question you lose a chunk of your audience. With something like lemmy, they want to look at messages and respond. Let them do that. Encourage them to choose an instance later, when they’re equipped to make that choice.
Yes that’s a hard problem with federation… mastodon went for a default instance as a solution. There are likely better ones but that’s a problem lots of people are working on.
I’ve got an entire set of windows test VMs running unactivated for about 4 years now. We have a few at work too (we actually have keys for those but nobody has bothered putting them in).
The worst that happens is you can’t set a desktop background.
I think they removed that requirement recently… I killed the upgrade prompts originally by disabling the fTPM but they’ve come back in the last month or so.
GPUs from all six of the major suppliers are vulnerable to a newly discovered attack that allows malicious websites to read the usernames, passwords, and other sensitive visual data displayed by other websites, researchers have demonstrated in a paper published Tuesday....
It’s a timing vulnerability, based on how long it takes the GPU to render the page , I think, although it’s also browser specific.
But seems low risk… at a minimum of 30 minutes to grab a username, you’d have to be sat on the same page for a while and not notice your fans ramping up…
Also, passwords seems a stretch. No (sane) site displays passwords.
That’s my problem too… it promises so much, but massively undedelivers, and just ends up being a heavy weight strapped to my face when I could get a better experience by just looking at a monitor… better games too.
Manufacturers (especially Meta) are trying to sell it as if it’s Ready Player 1 level immersion, and it’s just not, and never can be.
That is of course the danger… as it is it’s pretty benign, allowing more people to consume podcasts in their own language. But the terms need to be clear.
I have seen a few of these with similar story lines and realized we are living it right now. They have the best healthcare, the best food, the best everything and most of us are a few dollars from disaster. That scares some of us to death literally from all the stress it causes.
The current system is in part because the rich got there by taking it from the previous leaders - every country has it’s revolution story, sometimes multiple ones - and they don’t want it to happen to them.
So more likely the new system would be even more efficient.
I’m in the UK and have it but literally none of my contacts use it except the local dog daycare that use it to send pictures. So according to stats I ‘use’ it but not really
Facebook messenger is fairly big (almost everyone is on it mainly because they all have Facebook accounts) and I know a lot on Signal (they all moved from Telegram because Russia, which I thought was an overreaction but no choice but to follow).
Back at FOSDEM we announced the idea of Matrix 2.0 - a series of huge step changes in terms of Matrix’s usability and performance, made up of Sliding Sync (instant login/launch/sync), Native OIDC(industry-standard authentication), Native Group VoIP (end-to-end encrypted large-scale voice & video conferencing) and Faster Joins...
Been waiting for this… current matrix if you try to join a popular server (eg. the one it suggests joining when you first install element) it completely buries the server, then element times out and crashes. Apparently the 1.0 protocol tries to download the entire channel history.
v2.0 is supposed to fix this, so worth trying to install it again.
Alas I can’t get elementx working. It logs in but there’s no search for channels so I can’t join a federated channel to do a speed test, so I’m left with a blank screen. Sure I’m missing something obvious.
On normal element I tried to join matrixhq, for testing…
That was 2 hours ago. It’s still going… the log is fascinating… it keeps trying to connect to servers that presumably used to run matrix but don’t any more. No idea how far back it’s trying to go… could be years…
I’ve given it 32GB and every processor I can throw at it so it shouldn’t crash this time. Will be interesting to see how long it actually takes if it completes.
I was taught how punch cards work and that databases used direct disk access. In 1990.
In college (1995) we learned Cobol and Assembler. And Pre-Object oriented Ada (closer to early pascal than anything I can see on wiki today). C was the ‘new thing’ that was on the machines but we weren’t allowed to use.
The curriculum has always been 20 years behind reality, especially in tech. Lecturers teach what they learned, not what is current. If you want to keep up you teach yourself.
IMO nothing beats the Nvidia TV and I’ve tried just about everything. Heck, I’m still rocking a 2017 on my main TV (lacks Dolby Vision/Atmos and AI Upscaling but is otherwise fine).
The non-Pro seems to have issues that affect 4k decoding in plex but never seen similar issues on a Pro (I think packing the internals into that small tube was a mistake, and it’s overheating, but that’s just a guess).
There’s some hope Nvidia will come out with a next gen but people have been hoping (and spreading rumours about) that for years… until there’s an official announcement I wouldn’t expect it. They continue to support software upgrades though.
My theory is Google etc. focus on cameras so much because reviewers are media people that take a lot of videos and photos… if you want a good review you ship a good camera.
Meanwhile all I want to see as an ordinary user is battery life, size and weight. If I take a photo it’s going on facebook (Well, more like mastodon these days) and any camera phone made in the last 10 years is fine.
It’s only illegal in the UK in London (wierd exception, imo). On other places it’s down to local byelaws (our local council states that a car must allow enough space for a wheelchair to pass for example, although it’s rarely enforced).
PIty it isn’t broken down by type… I’ve seen similar research that suggests that beef accounts for a good 90% of the footprint of a meat eater. That’s important because you might be able persuade a few people to shift their diet to only vegetables but a whole lot more would be OK with just giving up beef.
Owners of the FreeStyle Libre 3, one of Abbott Laboratories’ flagship glucose monitors, received an email this week warning them to “disable automatic system updates on your iPhone” because the new operating system’s StandBy Mode and Assistive Access Mode “may impact your ability to receive time-sensitive notifications...
Google are pretty strict about background operating these days… you don’t get on the play store with that permission without a manual review and they want a evidence that it’s necessary. OTOH they’re upfront about it - you can get the review during the open testing stage, and it’s valid for all versions.
Apple wait until you try to release, reject the app then ask for justification, which delays release and is a general PITA (although I find the apple system pretty much a test of patience anyway… it all depends who you get, and whether they actually read any of the notes you give them).
ShellBot Uses Hex IPs to Evade Detection in Attacks on Linux SSH Servers (thehackernews.com)
From The Hacker News
Windows: we noticed that you kept the useless search bar disabled since 2015, so we sent an update that re-enabled it without your permission (feddit.it)
For my “convenience” and because in this way they can show ads and clickbait...
Mastodon actually has 407K+ more monthly users than it thought (techcrunch.com)
X Community Notes used to challenge ads by Apple and others (9to5mac.com)
OpenGL version problem
My system reports that im using OpenGL 4.2: pastebin.com/uXu3BLxXBut when i try to use that OpenGL vesion to write a program with it, it fails, the maximum version i can use for that is OpenGL 2.1, why does that happen?
More Than 80 Percent Of Americans Can’t Afford New Cars (jalopnik.com)
The music usage "album" refers to the original practice of creating an album book of several 78s bound as separate pages, like a stamp or photo album. (lemmy.world)
www.reddit.com/r/vinyl/comments/…/d3579rg/
Lenovo PC boss: 4 in 5 of our devices will be repairable by 2025 (www.theregister.com)
Create image from SSD with I/O errors
I have an SSD from a PC I no longer use. I need to keep a copy of all its data for backup purposes. The problem is that dd reports "Input/output error"s when copying from the drive. There seem to be 20-30 of them in the entire 240GB drive so it is likely that most or all of my data is still intact....
The Google Pixel 8 is official with 7 years of updates (arstechnica.com)
Severity HIGH security problem to be announced with curl 8.4.0 on Oct 11 (CVE-2023-38545) · curl/curl · Discussion #12026 (github.com)
cross-posted from: biglemmowski.win/post/224873...
2023 Self-Host User Survey Results (selfh.st)
Men Overran a Job Fair for Women in Tech (www.wired.com)
The Grace Hopper Celebration is meant to unite women in tech. This year droves of men came looking for jobs.
Google Intros Chromebook Plus Devices With More Power, Apps and AI for $399 (www.cnet.com)
The new Plus category of Chromebooks is an assurance that you’ll get a higher level of performance and features but still at a reasonable starting price....
Now more than ever, ChromeOS is Linux with Google’s desktop environment (www.aboutchromebooks.com)
would it be simpler for people if we said "server" instead of "instance"?
or maybe some other terminology would be better? lots of people get confused when you ask them to choose an instance, sometimes I think even the word “proxy”, “host”, or “hub” is simpler...
You can no longer activate new Windows 11 builds with Windows 7 or 8 keys; maybe last chance to activate using Windows 7 or 8 keys, for 22H2. (www.neowin.net)
Russian zero-day seller offers $20M for hacking Android and iPhones | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
cross-posted from !android...
Raspberry Pi - Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5 (www.raspberrypi.com)
Antimatter falls down, not up: CERN experiment confirms theory (www.nature.com)
GPUs from all major suppliers are vulnerable to new pixel-stealing attack (arstechnica.com)
GPUs from all six of the major suppliers are vulnerable to a newly discovered attack that allows malicious websites to read the usernames, passwords, and other sensitive visual data displayed by other websites, researchers have demonstrated in a paper published Tuesday....
VR still makes 40-70% of players want to throw up, and that's a huge problem for the companies behind it (www.pcgamer.com)
Why virtual reality makes a lot of us sick, and what we can do about it.
Spotify is going to clone podcasters’ voices — and translate them to other languages (www.theverge.com)
A partnership with OpenAI will let podcasters replicate their voices to automatically create foreign-language versions of their shows.
I feel like we're all stuck in a movie where all the rich people live on some kind of floating island or satellite with everything they need to live well, and all of us have zero chance of going there
I have seen a few of these with similar story lines and realized we are living it right now. They have the best healthcare, the best food, the best everything and most of us are a few dollars from disaster. That scares some of us to death literally from all the stress it causes.
TIL Children as young as eight can and have been put on the sex offender registry, which lasts the rest of their lives. (jlc.org)
Whatsapp is going to run terribly... (www.androidcentral.com)
All these (ad)ons always take priority over performance.
Matrix 2.0: Radically faster client, OAuth logins and native video calls (matrix.org)
Back at FOSDEM we announced the idea of Matrix 2.0 - a series of huge step changes in terms of Matrix’s usability and performance, made up of Sliding Sync (instant login/launch/sync), Native OIDC(industry-standard authentication), Native Group VoIP (end-to-end encrypted large-scale voice & video conferencing) and Faster Joins...
"waves of technological innovation" have gotten faster over time, "students might now find themselves learning skills in college that are obsolete by the time they graduate" (www.businessinsider.com)
Should I putchase a 4-year-old nVidia TV Pro, another technology, or wait for next Gen? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
It’s my birthday, and I want the upscaling, the single platform, the flexibility (sailing the high seas), but it’s soooo old. $200? IDK
Google Pixel 8's amazing new camera features shown off in leaked teaser video: Video boost, Magic Editor, and a pro camera mode (archive.ph)
Good enough (i.imgur.com)
Mildly infuriating to see the car suffering from having to park crooked like this
Vegans, vegetarians, fish-eaters and meat-eaters in the UK show discrepant environmental impacts (www.nature.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/5586412...
Philips Hue will force users to upload their data to Hue cloud (www.home-assistant.io)
iOS 17 Could Break Crucial Diabetic Glucose Monitor Alerts, Manufacturer Warns (www.404media.co)
Owners of the FreeStyle Libre 3, one of Abbott Laboratories’ flagship glucose monitors, received an email this week warning them to “disable automatic system updates on your iPhone” because the new operating system’s StandBy Mode and Assistive Access Mode “may impact your ability to receive time-sensitive notifications...
Introducing Matrix 1.0 and the Matrix.org Foundation | Matrix.org (matrix.org)