I have a Framework laptop (the original 11th gen Intel one) with Arch Linux and some experiments with NixOS. I've been really impressed with the laptop and their Linux support has been superb. The one caveat is that the battery life isn't great, but I hear that the newer motherboards (particularly the AMD one) greatly improves this. It's nice that I have the option to just drop in a newer motherboard, but I honestly haven't felt that it's aged nearly enough to do that yet.
The argument could be made that as they're losing the advantage in the vehicle space, they're transitioning to be the leader in the charging station space, which I think is honestly a wise move on their part
I think there's a fourth, which in my opinion is even more world shattering than the others -- the replicator. It often was shown as a novelty device to make food or warm beverages, but the ability to convert energy into any needed material would instantly transform the world into a post-scarcity, post-economic future. What would you even use as currency when everyone has personal money making machines? I've seen some people be skeptical towards the utopian future of Trek, and I understand that a bit as the show puts great emphasis on the warp drive, but I think the replicator is quietly the greatest invention they depict (and unlike warp drive, at least vaguely possible).
Agreed, and I think there are a number of... over-enthusiastic executives with dollar signs in their eyes who are in for a rude awakening about this. It might sound great to replace your artistic staff with an LLM subscription, until you realize that you laid off all the creative vision with them. That isn't to say I think it'll go away though, I wouldn't be surprised if art students in the future are taught how to wrangle LLMs to supplement their own designs.
I feel the same way. I think LLMs are neat, and I find them interesting from a technical standpoint, but I have yet to have them do anything for me that's more than just a novelty. Even things like Copilot, which I'll admit has impressed me a bit, doesn't feel like it would radically change my life, even if it was completely foolproof.
I've been using FreshRSS for a while and I've been rather pleased with it. It's browser UI is pretty good and a good number of mobile RSS apps support it.
Off topic, but is everyone just logged into Twitter to see this? I only can see a single Tweet which by itself doesn't really lend itself to much discussion.
This is what I primarily use hex editors for; I've made some simple romhacks and occasionally do some reverse engineering. I'm curious what hex editors people would recommend for this purpose though, I've tried a few over the years but have yet to really find one that "clicks".
> The offer to sell the film was, to put it mildly, not undertaken in good faith. It appears that the company would rather take less money by writing off the movie than sell it for even a few dollars more than that, because they might risk having a rival turn it into a success, which would further embarrass them for never even having tried to market it themselves
If it was really bottom line thinking, they'd accept the $70M, more than double what they'd get in tax benefits, and have another distributor release the film. Instead, they'd rather trash the film than risk looking like fools if they allowed another company to reap the benefits for releasing a hit.
Even then it's not quite an apples to apples comparison. From what I understand, everyone directly involved in the making of this film is proud of the work and wants it to be released, it's just the bean counters and executives (who I would not consider the "creators" of the film) who want to destroy the creation for ego and tax reasons.
Very interesting video. For those who can't watch, he creates a PCB with a RPi Pico and some data pins which can sniff the BitLocker key as it's sent from the TPM chip back to the CPU. I was surprised to see that this was sent in plaintext, so although his board probably will only work for that particular motherboard, the method would be sound for other computers as well.
I'll leave the comments about MS requiring TPM chips for Win11 to others.
I've been reading through the series this week and this is the first thing that popped into my mind. A series about an AI who doesn't care about its job or its clients, and achieves a level of personal liberation by hacking itself, just so it could download TV shows and watch them when no one was looking.
Is there more technical information than this article provides? Did Firefox not have a .deb package until now? It's been a few years since I used Ubuntu, but I find that really surprising. I'm not sure what this new package is or how it differs.
Doesn't seem to be anything new here that hasn't been known for ages. Annoyingly, while the tie particles are what researchers have to go on now, there actually was better evidence from the scene -- Cooper left a number of cigarette butts on the plane. Perfect for DNA evidence, but naturally the FBI realized they had accidentally lost them in the 1990s.
This is really interesting to me. I too have an 11th gen Intel machine running Arch, and while I get better battery life than 2 hours, it's still the weakest part of the system, and I very rarely put it to sleep, I just turn the whole machine off. Someday I was planning on upgrading to the AMD motherboard, but didn't really see a reason to do so yet, but this might accelerate my plans.
I've always been confused on when they do and don't break it into pages. If I go to the article now, it's all in one long page, but under certain circumstances, like if I view the comments then go back up, it's in pages.
His big claim to fame, aside from this incident which was hush hush, was that he was the first astronaut born in China to go to space, which is a pretty noteworthy thing.
I think this is really the issue. When I was in graduate school, I was in a group for some project. Before class had started, I was showing off another group member some little personal thing I had worked on over the weekend, some game or demo or something. The third group member, having seen this, was shocked that I was spending my spare time programming things for fun. I recall being perplexed by this, as it was pretty much the whole reason I was in the degree. She responded she was only interested in software engineering for the money.
It's not necessarily a bad thing to structure your career around financial success, but I met many people like her who were attempting to get jobs at Google or Amazon just to cash in as much as they could for a few years, then bounce. At some point your company is bound to become filled with people like this.
While I don't think it's enough to drive people to a different product, the fact that Google search is noticeably worse than in prior years has definitely gained mainstream attention. The amount of ads and SEO junk has caused frustration, but the alternatives aren't well known for most people to bother to switch.
I had this experience. Got a degree in physics and heard throughout my time about how awful this STEM shortage was. Went to graduate and couldn't get a job in my field at all (granted, I don't think I knew how to market myself nor was I well educated on how to do so). Ended up working towards a CS degree instead and getting a job in that field. All of my friend group in high school ended up with a diverse range of STEM degrees, but every one of us ended up in some sort of software work in the end.
That's a neat website, but it did confuse me for a moment. It's titled itself "metric time", but seems to be the same idea as detailed on the "Decimal time" Wikipedia article - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time.
However, that article warns to not confuse it with its own "Metric time" article, which isn't the same as that metric time website, it's just the SI units related to time - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_time.
Rust was a language that I firmly embraced for my own projects for about 2 years, then I eventually came to the conclusion that the benefits it gave me weren't really that useful for the things I was working on, and I switched away to other languages that I personally enjoy using more.