Evolution in action! Just one generation and we're already losing the ability to use our fingers as we did in the past. Hopefully it's not gonna be inherited just yet (epigenetics and shat), so that we have time to adjust the curriculum to make children use their fingers more.
RHEL has never been advertised as a desktop distro. I'm not sure this news will affect more than a couple of people.
Besides KDE in RHEL is extremely outdated and contains very few KDE applications, so it's not like it was a good choice for its users in the first place.
Oh, yeah, that's why there are literally tens of thousands of messages from Android users who disable Wi-Fi and cellular data and "enjoy" up to 35% battery drain overnight and this drain is not shown in Battery information.
Oh, wait, I've seen such messages even from Google Pixel owners. These phones must be perfect, right? Android straight from its creators.
So, you're right, I'm the geekest geek and people are making things up and Android battery management is perfect. Except it sucks.
You see I've owned close to a dozen Android devices and I have yet to see a single one where battery information is complete and self-explanatory and you're always in control of your battery discharge.
a detailed breakdown of exactly how much power each app or process has been using. Am I missing something?
You're missing close to 90% of battery information which Android is hiding from you. Google for GSam Battery Monitor and BetterBatteryStats. Both require advanced permissions which could only be granted by using adb.
As a long time Android user I have to say this: there are two areas where Android totally completely utterly sucks: battery management and process management.
Battery management: it's nigh impossible to understand what exactly is draining your memory, how often your device wakes up and what sensors are in use unless you install quite specific apps and grant them quite specific permissions via adb, which is near impossible for 99% of users out there. And even when you do all of that, in most cases you're still left without any solutions because you don't know how to force Android not to use the said sensors or not to wake your device as often as it does. Also, most sensors in Android are 100% nondescript: you're looking at some weird combinations of symbols and digits and in most cases you cannot even Google for them. It's not like Android says: rotation-vector sensor is being used 100% of the time or anything like that.
Process management: in the past you could at least install certain apps which could show overall CPU usage and the CPU usage of each active app. Nowadays, there are no such options even when you enable development mode. Google did that for the sake of security but in the process they made Android even less opaque than it was before. Then you have another issue: which apps are indeed running in memory? which apps are swapped out? which are cached? It's all a fucking mess and unless you've rooted your device your only option is "Memory" [Information] which is simply a fucking abomination as it doesn't even show current info: it only shows aggregated stats for the past 3/6/12/24 hours.
For the past three development cycles (Android 7/8/9) I've created bug reports, i.e. feature requests, in Android bug tracker but each time they were either rejected or abandoned.
Google is hell-bent on making Android's internals opaque for the user and nothing so far has been able to persuade them otherwise.
The end result is that Android users are royally fucked but Google doesn't seem to care one bit.
And then you have this (a little bit outdated but still mostly relevant).
It's an absolutely welcome development as the amount of e-waste the humanity is producing is staggering. Now, let's increase the average duration of smartphone ownership to at least five years and make smartphones upgradable.
Those 99% of the species have gone extinct in the previous billion years. We are now talking about a period of time which is less than 0.000005%. I'm not sure Earth has ever witnessed such a rapid and currently irreversible extinction event.
Probably gonna be downvoted to hell but I don't care.
What's with all this witch-hunting nowadays? Notice how many things in this story are nothing but a pure speculation: "allegedly engaged", "a reported $90 million exit package", "an allegation", "reportedly found that allegation to be credible".
Nothing in this story has been proven. There's never been a lawsuit. Nothing has officially been revealed.
First, it was Hollywood actors and even directors. Now, CEOs or high ranking officers. Can anyone name a single instance of relatively recent sexual harassment allegation to be conclusively proven in the court of law?
I'm not trying to downplay this story or say that women are never oppressed/sexually harassed at work. I just want such stories to become a tad more factual than they've been so far. Someone said something to someone and now the whole Internet is buzzing about it. What the hell?
I'm not a woman, of course, but why on Earth at least a number of rape victims seek legal counsel, press charges and somehow act on the harassment in a provable manner while this recent witch-hunting has been fueled by pure speculations and seemingly nothing else?
Is to deem your smartphone compromised by default and if you're really concerned about the privacy and security of your communications then you deal with the interested parties vis-a-vis or use off-the-shelf computers with trusted software like e.g. Linux/*BSD and communication software which is known to be secure, like ring.cx, signal or wire. In order to protect yourself from compromised hardware you need to set up an internet router (any Wi-Fi access point which supports *WRT) and make sure that your traffic goes exactly where you intended it to go and not to some third parties.
That way they should constantly fine almost all the software companies in the world because almost all of them deliberately slow their their software products all the time. Some programs are occasionally getting faster (e.g. web browsers, video encoders, compression software, etc.) but that's an exception.
It's so cool he says that given that Apple boasts the biggest margins in the industry only rivaled by the sellers of drugs and weapons.
And also, what's their fee on purchases in App Store? Something close to 30%? I would love to have a business like that.
I'm not downplaying his concerns about data mining but you cannot expect Facebook (LinkedIn/Twitter/Google/etc.) to offer their services completely for free - they want something in return and it's your data which you part with. Meanwhile you are free not to use Facebook ever or use it without giving FB any of your information.
If you're really paranoid and value your privacy, you don't have a smartphone. You don't use the Internet. You don't visit public places (CCTV everywhere). You don't fly. You may as well don't exist at all nowadays: if it's not for these large companies (your data-leaking friends have enough data on you anyways) then the government will keep tabs on you until you die.
We already have USDT which is ostensibly "stable" and backed by "real" money but which has never been formally audited , and now USDC? What is this BS doing on/.?
Why would people use VPN with a web browser which is leakingtons of information and makes your fingerprint totally unique even if you're browsing in incognito mode? Changing your IP address in this case is simply futile and inconsequential.
Maybe for Netflix/Hulu? But they've long implemented technical measures which makes using them via VPN impossible. I can only think of pr0n/shady websites you don't want your ISP to know about but that's less than 0.1% of people in the world. And those will most likely use Tor browser with VPN.
A quick remark: this could theoretically work for content delivery but it will be unsuitable for video archival where picture fidelity and lossless transfer are paramount.
Even though he's considered a renowned physicist I still wouldn't pay too much attention to his sentiments about AI. You know that's what science is: you don't opine about the things which are not even remotely related to your field of research unless you want to make a fool of yourself.
Also, during the past years of his life he kept fear mongering about AI to the point where you just couldn't take any longer. We still know what intelligence is; we don't know how close we are to inventing artificial intelligence; and our intelligence algorithms easily trip over after being fed terabytes of data. One thing is certain: that's not how natural intelligence works.
I'm a lot more interested in what Jeff Hawkins is about to reveal - and if it's not some bluff given that experts from DeepMind couldn't understand anything then we are on the verge of some significant breakthroughs.
Uber's self driving car has already killed a person quite deliberately because the software contained a major bug.
Now, the question is: are we ready to trust the driving software knowing that it's nigh impossible to program in all the possible choices and situations? Say, a self driving car is driving a free way at 55MPH and suddenly encounters a group of people, a stalled car and a cliff, and there's no time to apply the brake properly. Where will it go? What the decision will be? You can think of hundreds of such scenarios where there are no easy answers at all.
Every time when I hear about these crazy miles I've got just one question to ask: has Google finally solved image recognition and I'm not talking about simple cases - I'm talking about deliberate fakes, bad weather conditions, etc.
1, 2, 3.
These issues can easily make your car software make life threatening decisions.
Wasting even more of Earth's resources on a dead satellite - what for? We already have overpopulation, global warming, severe land degradation, major wild animals extinction, pollution, etc. etc.
Magisk has made SuperSU irrelevant because SuperSU needs to modify the system partition and Android since version 7 doesn't quite like it to the point that many functions stop working completely.
That's exactly what he was talking about in interviews: once he patented it, everyone would know the formula and would be able to create this material without paying him anything.
There are quite a lot of countries in the world where US patents cannot be enforced.
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NoScript perfectly protects against this, and hopefully the websites that I've whitelisted won't use these tricks to sniff out my browsing history.
Evolution in action! Just one generation and we're already losing the ability to use our fingers as we did in the past. Hopefully it's not gonna be inherited just yet (epigenetics and shat), so that we have time to adjust the curriculum to make children use their fingers more.
All ten people in the world who own such screens will surely enjoy the video.
Perhaps it's completely free with no strings attached that's why people are still using it?
RHEL has never been advertised as a desktop distro. I'm not sure this news will affect more than a couple of people.
Besides KDE in RHEL is extremely outdated and contains very few KDE applications, so it's not like it was a good choice for its users in the first place.
Oh, yeah, that's why there are literally tens of thousands of messages from Android users who disable Wi-Fi and cellular data and "enjoy" up to 35% battery drain overnight and this drain is not shown in Battery information.
Oh, wait, I've seen such messages even from Google Pixel owners. These phones must be perfect, right? Android straight from its creators.
So, you're right, I'm the geekest geek and people are making things up and Android battery management is perfect. Except it sucks.
You see I've owned close to a dozen Android devices and I have yet to see a single one where battery information is complete and self-explanatory and you're always in control of your battery discharge.
You're missing close to 90% of battery information which Android is hiding from you. Google for GSam Battery Monitor and BetterBatteryStats. Both require advanced permissions which could only be granted by using adb.
As a long time Android user I have to say this: there are two areas where Android totally completely utterly sucks: battery management and process management.
Battery management: it's nigh impossible to understand what exactly is draining your memory, how often your device wakes up and what sensors are in use unless you install quite specific apps and grant them quite specific permissions via adb, which is near impossible for 99% of users out there. And even when you do all of that, in most cases you're still left without any solutions because you don't know how to force Android not to use the said sensors or not to wake your device as often as it does. Also, most sensors in Android are 100% nondescript: you're looking at some weird combinations of symbols and digits and in most cases you cannot even Google for them. It's not like Android says: rotation-vector sensor is being used 100% of the time or anything like that.
Process management: in the past you could at least install certain apps which could show overall CPU usage and the CPU usage of each active app. Nowadays, there are no such options even when you enable development mode. Google did that for the sake of security but in the process they made Android even less opaque than it was before. Then you have another issue: which apps are indeed running in memory? which apps are swapped out? which are cached? It's all a fucking mess and unless you've rooted your device your only option is "Memory" [Information] which is simply a fucking abomination as it doesn't even show current info: it only shows aggregated stats for the past 3/6/12/24 hours.
For the past three development cycles (Android 7/8/9) I've created bug reports, i.e. feature requests, in Android bug tracker but each time they were either rejected or abandoned.
Google is hell-bent on making Android's internals opaque for the user and nothing so far has been able to persuade them otherwise.
The end result is that Android users are royally fucked but Google doesn't seem to care one bit.
And then you have this (a little bit outdated but still mostly relevant).
It's an absolutely welcome development as the amount of e-waste the humanity is producing is staggering. Now, let's increase the average duration of smartphone ownership to at least five years and make smartphones upgradable.
Those 99% of the species have gone extinct in the previous billion years. We are now talking about a period of time which is less than 0.000005%. I'm not sure Earth has ever witnessed such a rapid and currently irreversible extinction event.
Probably gonna be downvoted to hell but I don't care.
What's with all this witch-hunting nowadays? Notice how many things in this story are nothing but a pure speculation: "allegedly engaged", "a reported $90 million exit package", "an allegation", "reportedly found that allegation to be credible".
Nothing in this story has been proven. There's never been a lawsuit. Nothing has officially been revealed.
First, it was Hollywood actors and even directors. Now, CEOs or high ranking officers. Can anyone name a single instance of relatively recent sexual harassment allegation to be conclusively proven in the court of law?
I'm not trying to downplay this story or say that women are never oppressed/sexually harassed at work. I just want such stories to become a tad more factual than they've been so far. Someone said something to someone and now the whole Internet is buzzing about it. What the hell?
I'm not a woman, of course, but why on Earth at least a number of rape victims seek legal counsel, press charges and somehow act on the harassment in a provable manner while this recent witch-hunting has been fueled by pure speculations and seemingly nothing else?
Is to deem your smartphone compromised by default and if you're really concerned about the privacy and security of your communications then you deal with the interested parties vis-a-vis or use off-the-shelf computers with trusted software like e.g. Linux/*BSD and communication software which is known to be secure, like ring.cx, signal or wire. In order to protect yourself from compromised hardware you need to set up an internet router (any Wi-Fi access point which supports *WRT) and make sure that your traffic goes exactly where you intended it to go and not to some third parties.
That way they should constantly fine almost all the software companies in the world because almost all of them deliberately slow their their software products all the time. Some programs are occasionally getting faster (e.g. web browsers, video encoders, compression software, etc.) but that's an exception.
It's so cool he says that given that Apple boasts the biggest margins in the industry only rivaled by the sellers of drugs and weapons.
And also, what's their fee on purchases in App Store? Something close to 30%? I would love to have a business like that.
I'm not downplaying his concerns about data mining but you cannot expect Facebook (LinkedIn/Twitter/Google/etc.) to offer their services completely for free - they want something in return and it's your data which you part with. Meanwhile you are free not to use Facebook ever or use it without giving FB any of your information.
If you're really paranoid and value your privacy, you don't have a smartphone. You don't use the Internet. You don't visit public places (CCTV everywhere). You don't fly. You may as well don't exist at all nowadays: if it's not for these large companies (your data-leaking friends have enough data on you anyways) then the government will keep tabs on you until you die.
We already have USDT which is ostensibly "stable" and backed by "real" money but which has never been formally audited , and now USDC? What is this BS doing on /.?
Why would people use VPN with a web browser which is leaking tons of information and makes your fingerprint totally unique even if you're browsing in incognito mode? Changing your IP address in this case is simply futile and inconsequential.
Maybe for Netflix/Hulu? But they've long implemented technical measures which makes using them via VPN impossible. I can only think of pr0n/shady websites you don't want your ISP to know about but that's less than 0.1% of people in the world. And those will most likely use Tor browser with VPN.
A quick remark: this could theoretically work for content delivery but it will be unsuitable for video archival where picture fidelity and lossless transfer are paramount.
Even though he's considered a renowned physicist I still wouldn't pay too much attention to his sentiments about AI. You know that's what science is: you don't opine about the things which are not even remotely related to your field of research unless you want to make a fool of yourself.
Also, during the past years of his life he kept fear mongering about AI to the point where you just couldn't take any longer. We still know what intelligence is; we don't know how close we are to inventing artificial intelligence; and our intelligence algorithms easily trip over after being fed terabytes of data. One thing is certain: that's not how natural intelligence works.
I'm a lot more interested in what Jeff Hawkins is about to reveal - and if it's not some bluff given that experts from DeepMind couldn't understand anything then we are on the verge of some significant breakthroughs.
Uber's self driving car has already killed a person quite deliberately because the software contained a major bug.
Now, the question is: are we ready to trust the driving software knowing that it's nigh impossible to program in all the possible choices and situations? Say, a self driving car is driving a free way at 55MPH and suddenly encounters a group of people, a stalled car and a cliff, and there's no time to apply the brake properly. Where will it go? What the decision will be? You can think of hundreds of such scenarios where there are no easy answers at all.
Every time when I hear about these crazy miles I've got just one question to ask: has Google finally solved image recognition and I'm not talking about simple cases - I'm talking about deliberate fakes, bad weather conditions, etc. 1, 2, 3.
These issues can easily make your car software make life threatening decisions.
This post is actually insightful - not funny at all. OEMs rarely if ever provide updates for motherboards/laptops older than three years of age.
Wasting even more of Earth's resources on a dead satellite - what for? We already have overpopulation, global warming, severe land degradation, major wild animals extinction, pollution, etc. etc.
Magisk has made SuperSU irrelevant because SuperSU needs to modify the system partition and Android since version 7 doesn't quite like it to the point that many functions stop working completely.
That's exactly what he was talking about in interviews: once he patented it, everyone would know the formula and would be able to create this material without paying him anything.
There are quite a lot of countries in the world where US patents cannot be enforced.
These sources (in assembler) are barely interesting to anyone aside from computer history aficionados.