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SSO + 2FA is more secure in practice than letting people create/manage their own accounts at every service. Because:

- You can force a password policy centrally (minimum 12 char + uppercase/lowercase + number etc), for every service the company is using that supports SSO.

- You can force 2FA, again for every service the company is using that supports SSO.

- You can disable an account immediately from the central admin panel as soon as you notice an account is stolen.

- When the employee leaves the company, you can delete their account centrally from every service, so there are no inactive company accounts registered to various services.

Being a work related accident does not mean the company I work for payed for everything. It just means they took responsibility of handling the case which is very logical, as the reason I walk 1 km every day to the train station and back is only because I am going to work and coming back from it.

In the end, my health insurance, the bus company and the company I work for, all contributed to the payment of expenses.

I wish him a speedy and full recovery. It is no joke, the results could have been worse.

A few years ago, when returning back from work, I was hit by a bus while crossing the road and had some of the similar injuries. Fortunately, the laws here (Belgium) are firm and it was considered as work related accident because it happened while I was returning from work. Stayed at the hospital for 3 weeks, and then stayed at home for about 1.5 more months for recovery.

And I was the only software developer at a tech company at the time. Bus factor is real: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor

As somebody who is not familiar with how garbage collection is implemented at the low level, can somebody explain why WasmGC is needed on top of Wasm?

For example, isn't CPython a C program and hence can just be compiled to Wasm, including its garbage collection part? Does garbage collection usually depend on OS specific calls, which are not part of C standard?

Exactly! I also started to pretend scroll with my tongue and it actually felt quite intuitive. It is a very clever solution! But they will probably need a well written driver which rejects accidental touches since at any point in time my tongue touches the roof of my mouth.

What is the reason they are going public? Are they trying to raise money for new products/services that are otherwise not possible? If yes, do we have an idea what kind of products/services?

How can xAI, a new startup, be more prepared for using GPUs, then an established AI company like Tesla with vast resources?

Imagine if they spent the same time for fixing/improving the search bar on Windows instead of the recently announced Recall feature.

I am sure Intel will improve the shortcomings in the next generation, so it is a good start. But I wonder how this will compare with Qualcomm's new PC CPU (Snapdragon X Elite) which also has its own NPU.

Model S, Model 3, Model X and Model Y are also cool cars, and they have the advantages of being EV. And this formula was working with these models, increasing EV adoption massively. Why change a winning formula?

Cybertruck tried to be over the top cool, and sacrificed some basics like time-to-market, easy production, range, safety... And it was a totally unnecessary change of strategy. Cybertruck really didn't need to be stainless steel or low-poly in order to sell. Model Y being one of the best selling cars in the world proves this.

Tesla could have owned the entire EV truck market currently, if they didn't choose to make a truck that required a big amount of R&D and is hard to build. Why Tesla chose such a path completely baffles me.

Tesla's mission was "to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy" which they were doing by making solid and affordable EVs and electric storage solutions.

One of the biggest reasons of the success of Model S was because it had a modern but conventional design unlike the other toy-like EV cars on the market at the time. Model S proved that it is possible to build a modern conventional EV car that people can buy.

It feels like Cybertruck is coming from a completely different mission statement. Actually most of the decisions they have been taking for the last 2-3 years feel like it.

I would say it depends on how long the bill is not payed. I wouldn't expect them to remove everything when a payment is late for a month, for example. But if not payed for more than 6 months, then it is understandable.

I know it is not what you are exactly asking but one metric is the Google Play Store download counts where Threads is by far the most popular:

Bluesky: 1M+ downloads

Mastodon (official client): 1M+ downloads (there are multiple clients but most downloaded one is probably the official client)

Threads: 100M+ downloads

As a user of Mastodon and Threads, I feel like Threads has the most active user base and also it is possible to find more popular or official Twitter users on Threads as well. The biggest lacking features are trending topics and DMs. Also the video player features are annoyingly lacking, can't even pause a video on web player. If they can implement these features quickly I think it is a viable alternative to Twitter/X.

I recently got invitation for Bluesky and briefly tried it, but unlike Threads, I couldn't find anybody who I was following on Twitter. Also it was a bit hard to discover new people, so I just left.

To be fair Qt development on late Symbian versions felt great, as it was the native development environment on late Symbian versions (Symbian Belle if I remember correctly).

The map was cs_filistin (Palestine in Turkish). Note that I wasn't even 18 at that time and had no idea about politics. There was an official CS map named cs_iraq which looked unique to me and I just wanted to create something similar.

I put all the maps I worked on to my web site with some screenshots, comments from me and my friend (in Turkish) and download links.

You can find cs_filistin here:

http://www.canol.info/maps/counter_strike/cs_filistin/ (I need to install an SSL certificate, I haven't updated the web site in years)

You can find my other maps here:

http://www.canol.info/maps/counter_strike/

This was wonderful to read. It reminded something that happened to me:

During early 2000s me and my friend used to create custom Counter-Strike maps because we enjoyed mapping. We created several maps but almost none of them got played on internet servers because people liked to stick with more known maps like de_dust or cs_assault.

Maybe 10 years later somebody asked me via some messenger or email if I still had the .bsp file of a particular map of ours. I was very surprised about this message because it was so random at that point in my life, I already moved on to other hobbies than mapping. But apparently the map was a hit among Turkish internet cafes and people were looking for the BSP file to play it after internet cafes lost their popularity and everybody had internet at their homes.

Although the performance numbers are impressive, especially for PC, yesterday's presentation was a bit of a disappointment. You have a chip that you claim smokes the competition in performance, yet you don't show any demo of it, and instead focus 90% of the presentation on AI capabilities.

For example, just partner with one of the popular game companies, let's say Riot Games, and natively compile one of their games and show side by side against a competitors CPU how much more FPS Oryon gets, or how much more the battery life goes on.

It doesn't even have to be a game, they could have shown a video export or compilation of a big code base...

I wish they showed a few new laptop models that will be coming out with this CPU.

2) Community notes (birdwatch) was already released before Elon Musk took over. Elon just changed the name and maybe sped up the availability of it that's all.

3) Reply and retweet numbers already gave a pretty good idea of how much a post was popular compared to others. Having also the view count would be welcome but the algorithm on how a view is counted is not clear and the numbers seem inflated, so in its current state I am not sure if it is actually helpful, other than showing ad providers some inflated numbers.

4) The text of the tweet itself acts like the headline now, which is even worse than having the headline. Also when you click on the image, it takes you to the page where you see the headline first anyway. So I don't see how removing the headlines helped anything. In my opinion it just made it confusing to differentiate images from links.

Is there a way to limit the processor power so that it never exceeds a certain threshold? Because some people might be okay with slower processor if it means less power usage.

Do any companies use Bitwarden? Are they satisfied with it?

We tried using Keepass but people were resistant to using it. The UI is not very user-friendly for non-technical people.

Keepass also lacks some of the features we would like to have, for example: We would like to push a new user/password to a person's vault (for example let's say IT creates a printer account for a person, we would like to put the account information to the relevant person's vault), or we would like to share a common password among a group of people.

But I am not sure if Bitwarden is a good choice in practice for this kind of things.

That news is very nice to hear! Good to know that CEO is onboard with it.

I really wonder its battery life with this new Intel processor. Both with average usage and also in idle mode.

I had a tablet with Intel Atom CPU on it about 10 years ago, the performance and battery life was good during usage but it would stay only 4-5 days in idle before running out of battery (even if left it with 100% battery). But I can leave my iPad aside and come back to it 2 weeks later and it still holds most of its battery.

Having said that, this tablet really looks nice and if it also turns out to have long battery life, I might give it a try.

Perl 5 -> 6 was much more comprehensive than Python 2 -> 3. Perl 6 is almost a completely new language.

I tried to like and retweet Paul's tweet which included a link to Substack and indeed I can confirm I cannot like or retweet it. It says "Some actions on this Tweet have been disabled by Twitter."

I wonder if Jack Dorsey will get suspended as well, because he shares his Nostr account on his Twitter profile and Nostr is specifically mentioned among the prohibited social media sites.

Although it is undeniable how good vBulletin was, UBB (original Ultimate Bulletin Board written in Perl, not the newer UBB.threads) will always have a special place in my heart. I always loved its esthetics, maybe because of the memories of nice communities using UBB I was part of. I even wrote an ASP forum script that mimicked its style.

Back in the day, UBB was the most popular forum script but when vBulletin came out with its extremely comprehensive administration panel and constantly improving features, it started to replace UBB very fast. Then appeared free alternatives like phpBB, which probably became the most popular alternative for a long time and also there was a popular alternative written in ASP: Web Wiz Forums.

Interesting that TDP increased from 65W on Ryzen 5 5600X to 105W on Ryzen 5 7600X, even though 7600X uses a newer process.

I would prefer a more controlled experiment. For example doing the same test 100 times to see the success rate of Tesla. Then doing the same experiment with the other car 100 times as well and then compare the results etc. Just 1 video might be a bit misleading.

Exactly. Not just 1 model but you can compare identical ThinkPad models as well and AMD versions have significantly better battery life. Not only that, even last year's identical models with 11th Gen Intel CPUs have better battery life than their new 12th Gen models. So Intel's power efficiency actually decreased compared to last year, even though they introduced the hybrid architecture.

In some instances Alder Lake CPUs slightly edge out Apple's CPUs in performance, but with a terrible battery life (~4 hours of real world battery life vs >10 hours on Apple laptops) and noisy fans.

AMD on the other hand seems to have focused on getting a good balance this year. 6800U models have significant performance improvements over the last gen while improving the battery life as well.

I am thinking of buying a new laptop this year, but I am waiting for the AMD models. For anyone interested, these are the models I am waiting for:

https://psref.lenovo.com/Product/ThinkBook/ThinkBook_13s_G4_...

https://psref.lenovo.com/Product/ThinkPad/ThinkPad_X13_Gen_3...

Both have much better battery life than their Intel counterparts:

ThinkBook 13s Gen 4 (AMD): 14 hours

ThinkBook 13s Gen 4 (Intel): 10.9 hours

ThinkPaf X13 Gen 3 (AMD): 15.68 hours

ThinkPad X13 Gen 3 (Intel): 11.8 hours

These numbers are usually lower in real life, but they are comparable with each other.