News at 11: the second law of thermodynamics (manifested via the principle of minimum energy) also applies to living organisms. We are not "lazy" -- we are doing everything we can to conserve energy. The human brain does the same.
Also, it's not factually correct: Bitcoin has lost 67% of its value (which was primarily pumped by an unnatural spike in interest) and I couldn't care less about altcoins which are colloquially called shitcoins - most of shitcoins serve exactly zero purpose and were created as a means of raising capital and running away with it.
Piracy is bad, I know but I still hope that someone will set up a semi-public repository of postmortem Windows 7 updates, so that we could enjoy the last sane OS from Microsoft for three more years (not four as the title erroneously states - there's exactly three years between 2020-01 and 2023-01).
We don't. There's no even a definition of one which everyone agrees with. We are as close to real AI (which is now called AGI because AI is all the hype nowadays and no one wants to admit that the AI that we have is just stupid algos) as we were 40 years ago.
And here's another thought: Google and Mozilla don't spend nearly enough resources to properly verify extensions/addons and since they are so powerful by default (pretty much all extensions/addons for Chrome/Firefox require full access to all websites), all your in-browser data is completely jeopardized and for many people that's all the important data they have: passwords and cloud accounts.
I don't quite understand how JS in addons/extensions work but I don't think it's such a tall order to limit their ability to download external JS code and disable any uploads which might be used to extend their "features". On the other hand it might not be possible at all, since JS allows to modify itself - I'm not a JS programmer.
In Firefox you can disable automatic addons updates and have their new version scanned at least via virustotal which is not a warranty that they are innocuous but at least something. In Chrome extensions updates are fully automatic and if the extension owner has his account hacked (or extensions are sometimes sold) a new version of an extension with new virus "features" might be pushed, "checked" automatically by Google and since their systems often miss malware then you're fucked.
That's the reason why for banking I have a separate Firefox account with just uBlock Origin and nothing else.
Reencoding youtube's 128Kbit/s AAC to MP3 gains you quite an awful audio quality in the end because you enjoy AAC encoding artifacts multiplied by MP3 encoding artifacts.
I don't know a single decent youtube ripping website which allows you to download youtube's AAC/Opus audio directly.
scanned documents of the sensitive kind: contracts, non-disclosure agreements, internal letters, and memos
I have absolutely zero pity for the companies/people who uploaded such data to abbyy's servers. They perfectly knew what they were doing. You don't store private data unecrypted in the cloud unless you want to share it with the entire world.
It says that there's no Linux to speak of. When you're talking about any other mainstream OS (Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android) - they all have: 1) Universal packaging mechanism 2) A set of stable APIs/ABIs you can rely on 3) Some sort of UI stability.
All these these features are basically a swear word in the world of Linux distros.
It's a great excuse actually. When you create a Windows game, you create it for at most three platforms (Windows 7, 8 and 10.1 which largely have the same behavior, same APIs, same ABIs, same libraries; sans Direct3D 12 which is exclusive to Windows 10).
When you create a game for Linux you have to target a billion of platforms. Let game devs target Windows and test if the game properly runs under Wine/Proton - that would be enough.
Just like with shares crypto-currencies are not 100% covered with real money. For instance, even though Apple is valued at a trillion dollars, no one will be able to sell all Apple shares and get a trillion dollars for them.
At the moment crypto-currencies' value is largely determined by trading bots, not real people. Their use case is still nascent.
There's a whole lot of speculation in the crypto market and if you enter the market you have to remember that. The returns might be enormous but such are the risks.
A year ago Bitcoin cost $4,000 which means the people who bought it at its peak ($19,500) can still expect to get profits if they wait long enough. Unlike fiat money, there's no inflation in bitcoin.
As more people enter the market the value of valid crypto-coins will keep on steadily increasing.
Bitcoin and Ethereum mining are not the worst things people waste energy on.
If something can be read with the bare human eyes, it can be copied, pasted, downloaded, printed and forwarded because it can be as easily captured by any digital camera, OCR'ed and reused any way you want. From the look of it Google's implementation and wording are clearly a sham or meant for hillbillies.
Protonmail fares much better in this regard (real encryption and self-destruction beyond the expiration date) and they don't claim your recipient will not able to download or copy your message.
Blackberry 10 is also an embedded OS or I've missed something? Also, QNX can be perfectly run as an x86 desktop OS. Yeah, a really limited embedded only OS.
Not only has millions of tonnes of greenhouses gases been produced due to mining
There are dozens of other human activities which produce nothing but greenhouse gases.
it has also produced millions of graphics cards that are now useless due to being fried alive by mining
Unlike gamers who make their GPUs go through 0-100% use cycles, with temperatures ranging from 18 to 100C, most miners, on the the other hand, reduce voltage by default (this greatly increases efficiency) and keep their GPUs constantly loaded, under constant moderate temperatures (below 70C) which does not affect the GPU core lifespan in any significant way. Also mining rigs are usually open and well-ventilated, unlike gamers' PCs which are filled with dust and operate under extreme temperatures.
which will now be in a third world waste dump now as they are too hard to recycle
Or they might be resold.
meanwhile bona fide users of graphics cards have had their supplies disrupted, had their prices more than doubled and have had to wait an extra year for new hardare to come out because nvidia was too busy making mining cards to do r&d.
NVIDIA has never stopped R&D and they did not allocate any significant additional resources to producing cards meant for miners.
Anyone who made âoemoneyâ from mining should have it seized under environmental protection laws.
People waste money and resources on far more negative things.
"Our core platforms exceeded our expectations, even as crypto largely disappeared"
Crypto has not disappeared, it's just you can barely break even with it nowadays. The reason it's not as profitable as it was in the past 12 months is not even due to the depreciation of crypto-currencies, it's because mining difficulty has increased several-fold (it's increased/decreased automatically following the changes in network hashing rate). It's quite possible that the next crypto-craze will again make mining profitable.
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Microsoft launches yet another all-grey cannot-discern-anything UI abomination.
FTFY.
Compare Office 2019 to the last sane version of ribbonized Office, which was 2010.
I'd like to see at least a couple of proofs of this egregiously dubious statement.
News at 11: the second law of thermodynamics (manifested via the principle of minimum energy) also applies to living organisms. We are not "lazy" -- we are doing everything we can to conserve energy. The human brain does the same.
> Google Built a Prototype of a Censored Search Engine For China That Links Users' Searches To Their Personal Phone Numbers: The Intercept
<sarcasm><bigbrother>Weird, I was sure this feature had been rolled out to the entire world years ago.</bigbrother></sarcasm>
The cat is out of the bag, now learn to live this way.
Let's just call it "maximum excess" and be done with. Because it's what it is.
This article is sponsored by central banks.
Also, it's not factually correct: Bitcoin has lost 67% of its value (which was primarily pumped by an unnatural spike in interest) and I couldn't care less about altcoins which are colloquially called shitcoins - most of shitcoins serve exactly zero purpose and were created as a means of raising capital and running away with it.
Here's how you can get it back at least for now:
Open: chrome://flags/#omnibox-ui-hide-steady-state-url-scheme-and-subdomains and set it to "Disabled".
I'm not sure this statement is true.
Piracy is bad, I know but I still hope that someone will set up a semi-public repository of postmortem Windows 7 updates, so that we could enjoy the last sane OS from Microsoft for three more years (not four as the title erroneously states - there's exactly three years between 2020-01 and 2023-01).
We don't. There's no even a definition of one which everyone agrees with. We are as close to real AI (which is now called AGI because AI is all the hype nowadays and no one wants to admit that the AI that we have is just stupid algos) as we were 40 years ago.
And here's another thought: Google and Mozilla don't spend nearly enough resources to properly verify extensions/addons and since they are so powerful by default (pretty much all extensions/addons for Chrome/Firefox require full access to all websites), all your in-browser data is completely jeopardized and for many people that's all the important data they have: passwords and cloud accounts.
I don't quite understand how JS in addons/extensions work but I don't think it's such a tall order to limit their ability to download external JS code and disable any uploads which might be used to extend their "features". On the other hand it might not be possible at all, since JS allows to modify itself - I'm not a JS programmer.
In Firefox you can disable automatic addons updates and have their new version scanned at least via virustotal which is not a warranty that they are innocuous but at least something. In Chrome extensions updates are fully automatic and if the extension owner has his account hacked (or extensions are sometimes sold) a new version of an extension with new virus "features" might be pushed, "checked" automatically by Google and since their systems often miss malware then you're fucked.
That's the reason why for banking I have a separate Firefox account with just uBlock Origin and nothing else.
Modern and shit except it's now painfully difficult to understand which tab is actually active.
Reencoding youtube's 128Kbit/s AAC to MP3 gains you quite an awful audio quality in the end because you enjoy AAC encoding artifacts multiplied by MP3 encoding artifacts.
I don't know a single decent youtube ripping website which allows you to download youtube's AAC/Opus audio directly.
I have absolutely zero pity for the companies/people who uploaded such data to abbyy's servers. They perfectly knew what they were doing. You don't store private data unecrypted in the cloud unless you want to share it with the entire world.
It says that there's no Linux to speak of. When you're talking about any other mainstream OS (Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android) - they all have: 1) Universal packaging mechanism 2) A set of stable APIs/ABIs you can rely on 3) Some sort of UI stability.
All these these features are basically a swear word in the world of Linux distros.
Can we please stop using the words "disrupt" and "disruptive" once and for all? Nowadays in absolute most cases they are egregiously misused.
It's a great excuse actually. When you create a Windows game, you create it for at most three platforms (Windows 7, 8 and 10.1 which largely have the same behavior, same APIs, same ABIs, same libraries; sans Direct3D 12 which is exclusive to Windows 10).
When you create a game for Linux you have to target a billion of platforms. Let game devs target Windows and test if the game properly runs under Wine/Proton - that would be enough.
If something can be read with the bare human eyes, it can be copied, pasted, downloaded, printed and forwarded because it can be as easily captured by any digital camera, OCR'ed and reused any way you want. From the look of it Google's implementation and wording are clearly a sham or meant for hillbillies.
Protonmail fares much better in this regard (real encryption and self-destruction beyond the expiration date) and they don't claim your recipient will not able to download or copy your message.
Blackberry 10 is also an embedded OS or I've missed something? Also, QNX can be perfectly run as an x86 desktop OS. Yeah, a really limited embedded only OS.
There are dozens of other human activities which produce nothing but greenhouse gases.
Unlike gamers who make their GPUs go through 0-100% use cycles, with temperatures ranging from 18 to 100C, most miners, on the the other hand, reduce voltage by default (this greatly increases efficiency) and keep their GPUs constantly loaded, under constant moderate temperatures (below 70C) which does not affect the GPU core lifespan in any significant way. Also mining rigs are usually open and well-ventilated, unlike gamers' PCs which are filled with dust and operate under extreme temperatures.
Or they might be resold.
NVIDIA has never stopped R&D and they did not allocate any significant additional resources to producing cards meant for miners.
People waste money and resources on far more negative things.
Can one "plead the fifth" in Australia?
Crypto has not disappeared, it's just you can barely break even with it nowadays. The reason it's not as profitable as it was in the past 12 months is not even due to the depreciation of crypto-currencies, it's because mining difficulty has increased several-fold (it's increased/decreased automatically following the changes in network hashing rate). It's quite possible that the next crypto-craze will again make mining profitable.