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mayama··on Framework Laptop 13 Pro
They have a battery live stream from 100% to 0 linked on their product page which is broken. Hopefully they'll fix it and add both linux and windows version of the test.
mayama··on IEA: Solar overtakes all energy sources in a major global first
More over that 12GW is start of construction. New commissioned nuclear is 2.7GW in 2025 and 7.4GW in 2024. 2024 is probably an anomaly.
mayama··on The RAM shortage could last years
Last year ai folks are all over wallstreet and articles, decrying how hardware folks are a roadblock to new frontiers in AI. They just couldn't print and pack the new chips faster.
mayama··on Got an Old Kindle? It Might Not Work Anymore
I sync articles and books to my phone via adb. There is this adbsync python script that syncs files in rsync fashion using adb. Hopefully google won't kill or add barriers to adb like they are doing with installing apks now.
mayama··on Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight
It's about weight and money of people going after you. No one else has more money and muscle to throw at than music/movie industry
mayama··on Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight
> Nothing is in jeopardy if the operators remain completely anonymous, which it seems like they will.

If the 3 letter agencies want to track you down, it is highly unlikely that you could keep your anonymity. Unless you are also part of 3 letter agencies from NK, CN, RU etc.

mayama··on The Orange Pi 6 Plus
It's legacy of IBM PC compatible standard, that has multiple vendors building computers, peripherals that work with each other. Microsoft tried their EEE approach with ACPI that made suspend flaky in linux in early years.
mayama··on Servo is now available on crates.io
It doesn't crash as often as it used to few years ago. JS heavy sites might not work, and layout issues too. And internet gatekeepers cloudflare turnstile doesn't work.
mayama··on Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)
Problem isn't nuclear cooling per se. It's the designs of these nuclear reactors which expected to work with mild European weather. India and China have nuclear reactors working in desert without any cooling issues. Of course, as most of EU and west atrophied in building nuclear reactors in general, building new reactors or modifications won't be economical.
mayama··on Supply chain nightmare: How Rust will be attacked and what we can do to mitigate
That could be possible for browser apps which already have a sandbox. Doubtful for general purpose languages. For example I have a library and utility to change user password, or writing sudo alternative sudors etc. How would you even begin to sandbox that are core os utilities or need access to core os themselves.
mayama··on Intel 486 CPU announced April 10, 1989
> and it still takes too long to open the bloated Web browser! - keenly awaiting Ladybird to the rescue in August

chromium browsers launch pretty fast. If you're talking about memory usage, Ladybird isn't aimed at minimal memory usage from what I've seen.

mayama··on Intel 486 CPU announced April 10, 1989
>This chip was originally introduced in 1989, was replaced by the first Intel Pentium in 1993, and was fully discontinued in 2007

That's really long compared to 1yr refresh cycles we have today with phones etc.

mayama··on Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter
OpenRouter accepts crypto for payments. That should have raised some flags with banks.
mayama··on LittleSnitch for Linux
In linux, I trust most distro apps to run with network access without any sort of firewall. And for apps from internet, just put them in bubblewrap or run with flatpak without access to homedir, network, audio, video etc. depending on program.
mayama··on John Deere to pay $99M in right-to-repair settlement
And people that are likely to not be bought wouldn't enter politics in most cases. To enter and succeed in politics needs ambition and skillset that is diametrically opposite to a honest person.
mayama··on ML promises to be profoundly weird
Most of humanity survived on agriculture and sometimes hunting-gathering for last 10k years. People that survived on hunting whales is minuscule. Comparing those two is nonsensical.
mayama··on ML promises to be profoundly weird
> AI is exactly the right term: the machines can do "intelligence", and they do so artificially.

AI in pop culture doesn't mean that at all. Most people impression to AI pre-LLM craze was some form of media based on Asmiov laws of robotics. Now, that LLMs have taken over the world, they can define AI as anything they want.

mayama··on Git commands I run before reading any code
Why does github owners need frequent change? Do members in you team change so often?
mayama··on Git commands I run before reading any code
These commands are just about what files to start looking at to understand new codebase.
mayama··on F-15E jet shot down over Iran
Problem is that there was too much propaganda in that war, that parsing propaganda is too difficult even for military watchers, let alone general public. Only when american weapons are being destroyed that, US MIC is willing to acknowledge that may be million+ usd missiles are not solution to cheap drones.
mayama··on Go on Embedded Systems and WebAssembly
Lot of stdlib, especially net, crypto, in tinygo doesn't compile, or if compiles has stubs as implementation that panics with not implemented. Few years ago, I tried compiling small terminal http client app and failed at compile stage.

https://tinygo.org/docs/reference/lang-support/stdlib/

mayama··on Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz
> An aerial drone capable of materially damaging a modern navy ship costs $1-2M a piece. Anything much cheaper doesn't have the range, survivability, or required warhead to do much more than scratch the paint.

Problem isn't a single drone, it's the cost of intercepters. Iran could launch a swarm of 100s of drones with few antiship missiles mixed in to hone in at same time. CSG has to spend $million+ interceptors and will quickly run out of them. US hasn't taken anti drone defence seriously, or the cost of doing it seriously before going in.

mayama··on Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan
Min release age might just postpone vulnerability to be applied few days later in non trivial cases like this. More I think about it, Odin lang approach of no package manager makes senses. But, for that approach won't work for Javascript as it needs npm package even for trivial things. Even vendoring approach like golang won't work with Javascript with the amount of churn and dependencies.
mayama··on Honda is killing its EVs
For that they need captive market that keeps China out to get the kind of marketshare they enjoy now, otherwise chinese makers will sweep in and dominate the market. Or another option is to just take Chinese EVs and rebadge them, like some manufacturers are doing.
mayama··on Honda is killing its EVs
To compete in EV, one has to compete also in battery manufacturing. Increasingly Japan is unable to keep up with China and even Korean manufacturers. Panasonic is still in the race due to their decades lead, but its market is largely shrinking. Once China took over batteries, it would have been unlikely for Japan to take the EV market, just like Sony. Same with most American EV manufacturers who are unable to compete, even with closed off large American auto market, that Japan has no access to. As rapidly shrinking Tesla marketshare world wide suggests, competing with Chinese makers is hard.
mayama··on Honda is killing its EVs
Liberal arts, Hollywood and the associated soft power, increasingly prevalent onlyf___ etc.
mayama··on Starlink militarization and its impact on global strategic stability (2023)
How would they geolock terminals on active conflict zone where conflict line changes in realtime. Terminals also cross miles across the line on drones etc. regularly. There was also pushback from Ukraine forces, when they are asked to register their terminals to be whitelisted a while back.
mayama··on Nanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids' IDs before booting
They will force locked bootloaders like in the phones on to laptops. UEFI is already there, just force it to boot keys of OS which verify age.
mayama··on NRC issues first commercial reactor construction approval in 10 years [pdf]
I wanted to emphasise both are untested new designs that are likely to run in to troubles, one is SMR and the other Sodium.
mayama··on 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips
It looks like computing math heavy process with known answer, like 301st prime, and comparing the result.

General memory testing programs like memtest86 or memtester sets random bits into memory and verify it.

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