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White_Wolf··on Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters
"Apple typically does not engage in that behaviour against other companies" - Meet Rossman. He'll tell you all about that and individuals too.
White_Wolf··on Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing
I really doubt Deepseek is subsidised. It's roughly the same price everywhere you look. Deepseek is using the Huawei hardware (as far as I managed to understand from various articles) and hence the savings.
White_Wolf··on Treasure hunter freed from jail after refusing to turn over shipwreck gold
I'd do 10 years even for 20 mil if that is what it takes to make sure my 2 kids and my wife are set. I won't be able to earn that much in a decade anyway.
White_Wolf··on A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification
By that logic, my NAS (TOS6) falls under that category.
White_Wolf··on EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google
EU doesn't need to convice anyone. They can just make it mandatory and block anyone that doesn't comply.
White_Wolf··on Reproducibility project fails to validate dozens of biomedical studies
I don't think you realise why researchers ended up in this situation.

You want to get a Phd? you have to publish something... anything.

You want money for experiments? You need publications even if you do the rest of the theoretical work on your own.

You want to get funds for some new or to continue some research? You need publications.

I'm not defending those that publish all sorts of crap as research but the whole system is rigged.

Everyone is asking for as many publications and citations as possible to even lend you a lab for 1 day to test something.

Excuse my language but what the f are you expecting?

Edit: formatting

White_Wolf··on 'Naive' science fan faces jail for plutonium import
you could buy the ones with Americium in most of the EU and US too. I think you can still find some, here and there.
White_Wolf··on Trusting clients is probably a security flaw
The HSBC app runs fine on my rooted phone with a few magisk plugins and 5 marketplaces installed and a ton of sideloaded apps.
White_Wolf··on Romanian court annuls result of presidential election first round
The law is about what he is spending. If I go and pay for ads on my own initiative, he doesn't need to declare it just like Basescu didn't declare all the stuff NGOs paid for him back in the days.

EDIT: I do find it impossible for him to spend 0 on it though. You have to travel from A to B (at the very least)

White_Wolf··on Huawei developing SSD-tape hybrid amid US tech restrictions
That is not niche at all. Pretty much any gov't, corp, etc that needs long term achives could do with faster access. 2 min is light speed since it's low(er) cost/decade/gb
White_Wolf··on Winlator is an Android application that lets you to run Windows (x86_64) apps
You can have 64-128GB RAM on a laptop these days. You could push to 3-4 easy.
White_Wolf··on Love being interrupted when my monitor asks me to accept user agreements
Just order a standard, add infested one, and a basic chinese board for it. Sellers will flash them for your panel and all. It can't any more basic than that.
White_Wolf··on E Ink faces growing competition in the "paper-like" display space
You can get 60 Hz refresh rate these days.
White_Wolf··on How Olympics officials try to catch “motor doping”
I wonder...is it?
White_Wolf··on The Raspberry Pi 5 Is No Match for a Tini-Mini-Micro PC
I'm using AVR/STM for IO. have plenty of them around. Just loaded with a basic serial to IO passthrough program. Can't complain for £2 each on aliexpress.

EDIT: added STM.

White_Wolf··on Hacker confirms access through infostealer infection [withdrawn]
You're lucky if it's only 2 and the approval process takes less than months.
White_Wolf··on Let yourself be monitored: EU governments to agree on Chat Control
I had this discussion with some mates in the office. I just told them that I don't want to share the t<>ts pics my wife sends me and the d<>ck picks I'm sending her when we're away for work.
White_Wolf··on First pictures from Euclid satellite reveal billions of orphan stars
You are making a few (?wrong) assumptions here:

- that we are first

- oxygen is needed for all life forms

- the habitable zone that is ideal for us the only one that can give birth to intelligent life

- magnetic field is needed for life to exist/radiation kills off all life

White_Wolf··on A global plastic treaty will only work if it caps production, modeling shows
Yes. They dispose of it well... by shipping it in Asia. Look up the whole scandal with plastic shipped to various places in Asia. Crap that even China considers impossible to recycle and refused to allow entry to.
White_Wolf··on A global plastic treaty will only work if it caps production, modeling shows
Maybe you're too young to remember the days of paper bags, hemp shopping bags, shoes and shirts. "more environmentally friendly"? Most alternatives are more environmentally friendly in a long run than plastic.
White_Wolf··on Search.chatgpt.com domain and SSL cert have been created
I don't think you realize the ammount or scrutiny and approvals required to allow an exployee to use a sub on the main domain in corp.. A very very.. very limited ammount or people can do DNS changes for the main domain with a crap ton of signatures and eyes monitoring the whole thing.

Dave can test his stuff on a newly bought domain for testing or the internal domains.

White_Wolf··on iPhone 15 Pro Storage Expansion – 128GB to 512GB [video]
In theory, it would be possible.

In practice(as a bare minimum):

- you need to patch the firmware for the new display

- patch out the radio

- ? patch battery capacity or re-init

Not sure how much of the patching part is possible atm.

White_Wolf··on We have 4 days to contest KYC being required by internet services
It's funny they don't need ID to vote but they'll need one for a VPS.

EDIT: I know it's about IaSS.

White_Wolf··on Asus refunds Zenfone buyer for failing to provide bootloader unlock tools
I get a message that the device is not secure but I can still make transfers and such from the banking app on a rooted OP9Pro. Never tried to use NFC payments though.
White_Wolf··on Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise
Your password is useless when it comes to hardware keyloggers. We run yearly tests to see if people check for "extra hardware". Needles to say we have a very high failure rate.

It's hard to get a software keylooger installed on a corp. machine. It's easy to get physical access to the office or even their homes and install keyloggers all over the place and download the data via BT.

White_Wolf··on Deleting Software I Wrote Upon Leaving Employment of a Company
"You were hired to do a job." --- It's not as black and white as that. You're paid for your time and expertise for a number of hours/day. You do get as job description but that is just for reference. That is the "minimum" for your job in most companies. Things can be added or removed as the job progresses.

If you write code (any unrelated code) during work hours - it's done on their time, they paid you for it, they own it.

If you write code(work related) even outside working hours - They own it. At best you might get some money for your overtime and such.

if you write (urelated) code on their laptops on test it on their infra outside work hours - gray area, can go either way. most likely a settlement and they get the code.

if you write unrelated code and test it with you own resources - depends on the lawyers but, in most places, it's yours to keep. If the CEO suite or senior management see value in it. Be ready to to defend it.

I did have this exact discussion when I started with a global 500 corp as I do write code for various things when needed and also write small apps for extra £. The above pretty much sums up the discussion with the UK lawyer. It's not my job to write code but I do to make my life easier. I also document it for handover if I decide to leave.

EDIT: a few typos and the below

The lawyer's advice was, if I write anything unrelated that I want to keep - publish/sell in my wife's name.

White_Wolf··on Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]
spot on. As a general rule of thumb I keep a form of activity/issues log and send a monthly summart to the finance guys and head of dept along with "expected issues". Letting things crash and burn is a thing I learned from one of my managers a while back. It's great for raises, bouses and rep. Takes a good deal of effort not to fix things I know will break though.
White_Wolf··on Big media publishers are inundating the web with subpar product recommendations
I'll be the unpopular voice here (not defending g for the,imho, monopoly though): - Google is not killing anything and don't owe you traffic; - You don't get traffic because your website is less algorithm oriented than other sites (among a ton of other things).

if you want to unserstand how and why certain websites rank and all that sort of stuff just lurk on black hat SEO forums and see how they game system. I don't recomment their services but it's worth reading about the things they take into account. From keywords, density, headings all the way to domain age and server location.

White_Wolf··on Broadcom-owned VMware kills the free version of ESXi virtualization software
I used to teach all my apprentices ESXI along with Proxmox and XCP-NG. Looks like it's down to Promox and XCP-NG now. I'm a bit crossed since some of my previous ones ended up getting jobs as juniors because they had ESXI basics.
White_Wolf··on Dutch Police intelligence services unlawfully spied on whole population groups
Maybe 9 eyes?

The countries involved in the 5 Eyes, 9 Eyes, and 14 Eyes alliances and their partners

    Five Eyes countries: United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
    Nine Eyes countries: The Five Eyes plus Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, and France
    Fourteen Eyes countries: The Nine Eyes plus Italy, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, and Spain
    Partners of the 14 Eyes: Israel, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, British Overseas Territories
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