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iszomer··on US could ban TP-Link routers over hacking fears: report
Banning it from the American market is one thing, enforcing the ban is another topic altogether.
iszomer··on US could ban TP-Link routers over hacking fears: report
What can be said for those whom throw the "you bought it, you own it" over "nah, you're really just renting it afterall" arguments?
iszomer··on US could ban TP-Link routers over hacking fears: report
I wouldn't be surprised if some (American) corporate lobbying was performed for this to be pushed through this way but given the numerous stories of how the CCP have practically _bullied_ their way into our markets with cheap(er) goods and/or services through state-sponsored subsidies, I would imagine that this is becoming the global response to a long-winded draw-down on the lessons of repercussions and self-reliance.
iszomer··on CUDA Moat Still Alive
Depends on deployment: Ethernet has more drawbacks encapsulating PCIe packet traffic than Infiniband does, or lack thereof with RDMA.
iszomer··on Amazon workers to strike at multiple US warehouses during busy holiday season
Bank of America automates the process of creating virtual cards for your account when you set up contactless payments such as Google Pay. It is not an anonymous service as the bank still keeps the transaction records and iirc, will occasionally sell or relinquish the data on request to 3rd parties or enforcement agencies.
iszomer··on Russia's Dead Drop Drug Revolution
Geocaching is going to take a hit if it hasn't already..
iszomer··on Amazon Announces Supercomputer, New Server Powered by Homegrown AI Chips
But they are resourceful in utilizing their existing products and integrating them elsewhere, eg: snowballs with both fire and kindle tablets as part of it's UX.
iszomer··on Senators say TSA's facial recognition program is out of control
I've seen it while returning from a trip to Taiwan recently, via JFK. They took fingerprints from non-US passport holders at Customs, I think; they didn't take mine.
iszomer··on New Apple security feature reboots iPhones after 3 days, researchers confirm
And here I thought setting up a cronjob to reboot my home AIO router nightly was a good thing, back in the days when I was rocking a WRT54G running OpenWRT; just to clear any lingering socket connections from excessive bittorrent usage.
iszomer··on Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X
And Wikipedia.
iszomer··on Trump wins presidency for second time
Are you attributing the US Democrat Party to be the progenitors of democracy?
iszomer··on AMD Introduces Next-Generation AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Processor
I purchased the 5800X3D last year and have yet to replace my 2600. I did make minor upgrades to my RAM from 4x DIMMs to 2x and bumped my SATA SSD to M.2 NVME.
iszomer··on Microsoft and OpenAI's close partnership shows signs of fraying
Cooled by toilet water.
iszomer··on Google Play Protect now asks for PIN in order to sideload some Android apps
Every time I want to install a package off AUR I have to use sudo preceding the command. And people want to whine about that.. /shrug
iszomer··on Gamma radiation is produced in large tropical thunderstorms
*Release
iszomer··on Abandoned mines cover the West
Sierra Gordo and Ghost Town Living?
iszomer··on Syncthing: Open-Source Continuous File Sync with Privacy in Mind
I've tried both methods.
iszomer··on Syncthing: Open-Source Continuous File Sync with Privacy in Mind
I've had to stop using Syncthing as my primary means of file syncing due to either Android 14's scoped storage or the way this OEM implemented it. At least it still works on my backup Android 10 device.
iszomer··on I Am Tired of AI
How often do you go back to your encyclopedia hard copies only to find whatever knowledge you may have absorbed have already been deprecated? Or that information from Wikipedia may have changed at moments without notice, have never read or, dare I say, included a political bias to them?

Maybe I should have worded it better as a "beginner" or "intermediate" knowledge onramp and/or filler. For example, I have asked it on occasion to translate into traditional Mandarin in parallel for every English response. It helps tremendously in trying to rebuild that bridge that may have been burned long ago.

iszomer··on I Am Tired of AI
LLM's are a great onramp to filling in knowledge that may have been lost to age or updated to their modern classification. For example, I didn't know Hokkien and Haka are distinct linguistic branches within the Sino-Tibetan language and warrants more (personal) research into the subject. And all this time, without the internet, we often just colloquially called it Taiwanese.
iszomer··on It's Okay to Abandon Things
I have a coworker that describes exactly this behavior. Most of the (young) people I know who engage in dialog with him immediately regret it and find ways to end it without feeding into his superiority complex but I think it is his way of validating himself which I most often find entertaining and comically pretentious.
iszomer··on Forget ChatGPT: why researchers now run small AIs on their laptops
That high price tag is most often attributed to the type of memory being used which in the H100's case, is HBM2e and error correcting.
iszomer··on Disable Sequoia's monthly screen recording permission prompt
Wow, tinyapps.org is still around? Having a nostalgia moment when I downloaded their curated apps onto my ZIP100 to try on my home computer running Windows 95.

And who still remembers analogx.com?

iszomer··on YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads
I wonder if SponsorBlock is optionally available on yt-dlp..
iszomer··on Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
Not surprising. Recall how two Taiwanese companies were implicated when they reportedly had their device driver signing key "stolen", in the creation of Stuxnet.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet#Windows_infection [2] https://youtu.be/Fqk_VUMzY_M?si=H64JCMMCzY-k7Y1K&t=823

iszomer··on MSG is back. Is the idea it's bad for us just a myth or food science?
"Rice-cooking supremacists" -- is beautiful from one Asian American to another and "This Nephew using Huawei phone, they always listening" LOL.
iszomer··on Study links bananas, oats and yoghurt to greater diabetes risk in susceptible
Or alternatively wrap their banana stalks with canvas material or grown in an enclosed area covered in tarp.
iszomer··on TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel
Or hanging around your neck with a lanyard.
iszomer··on 'Dune'-Inspired Spacesuit Turns Astronauts' Urine into Drinkable Water
It can always be worse: remember the story news outlets touted about a Japanese scientist who created meat from human excrement which was debunked, TIL today?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nadiaarumugam/2011/07/08/meat-m...

iszomer··on TDK claims solid state battery breakthrough
I would be content if this became a drop-in replacement for the cmos/bios battery or an enhanced suspension/hibernation feature.
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