Maybe raw battery cost has reduced but installed storage is 30% more expensive than it was a couple of years ago, and it was too expensive then…

It’s a timing vulnerability, based on how long it takes the GPU to render the page , I think, although it’s also browser specific.

But seems low risk… at a minimum of 30 minutes to grab a username, you’d have to be sat on the same page for a while and not notice your fans ramping up…

Also, passwords seems a stretch. No (sane) site displays passwords.

That is of course the danger… as it is it’s pretty benign, allowing more people to consume podcasts in their own language. But the terms need to be clear.

Back in the day, pre internet ‘social connection’ wasn’t really a thing unless you were in one of the popular groups. Maybe the phone would ring. Maybe you’d go out for a beer and someone you knew would be there. When you were younger there was school of course,

Something like responding to an article like I’m doing now, maybe you’d write a letter to the paper. Probably not, though.

Since the growth of the internet and later mobile phones you’re ‘connected’ 24/7. So now we have angst about it… but really things are massively better overall.

Alas I can’t get elementx working. It logs in but there’s no search for channels so I can’t join a federated channel to do a speed test, so I’m left with a blank screen. Sure I’m missing something obvious.

On normal element I tried to join matrixhq, for testing…

That was 2 hours ago. It’s still going… the log is fascinating… it keeps trying to connect to servers that presumably used to run matrix but don’t any more. No idea how far back it’s trying to go… could be years…

I’ve given it 32GB and every processor I can throw at it so it shouldn’t crash this time. Will be interesting to see how long it actually takes if it completes.

Been waiting for this… current matrix if you try to join a popular server (eg. the one it suggests joining when you first install element) it completely buries the server, then element times out and crashes. Apparently the 1.0 protocol tries to download the entire channel history.

v2.0 is supposed to fix this, so worth trying to install it again.

Wiki says they existed, and may still do… never come across one. I thought mongodb might be one but apparently not.

It’s only illegal in the UK in London (wierd exception, imo). On other places it’s down to local byelaws (our local council states that a car must allow enough space for a wheelchair to pass for example, although it’s rarely enforced).

I was taught how punch cards work and that databases used direct disk access. In 1990.

In college (1995) we learned Cobol and Assembler. And Pre-Object oriented Ada (closer to early pascal than anything I can see on wiki today). C was the ‘new thing’ that was on the machines but we weren’t allowed to use.

The curriculum has always been 20 years behind reality, especially in tech. Lecturers teach what they learned, not what is current. If you want to keep up you teach yourself.

Google are pretty strict about background operating these days… you don’t get on the play store with that permission without a manual review and they want a evidence that it’s necessary. OTOH they’re upfront about it - you can get the review during the open testing stage, and it’s valid for all versions.

Apple wait until you try to release, reject the app then ask for justification, which delays release and is a general PITA (although I find the apple system pretty much a test of patience anyway… it all depends who you get, and whether they actually read any of the notes you give them).

My theory is Google etc. focus on cameras so much because reviewers are media people that take a lot of videos and photos… if you want a good review you ship a good camera.

Meanwhile all I want to see as an ordinary user is battery life, size and weight. If I take a photo it’s going on facebook (Well, more like mastodon these days) and any camera phone made in the last 10 years is fine.

IMO nothing beats the Nvidia TV and I’ve tried just about everything. Heck, I’m still rocking a 2017 on my main TV (lacks Dolby Vision/Atmos and AI Upscaling but is otherwise fine).

The non-Pro seems to have issues that affect 4k decoding in plex but never seen similar issues on a Pro (I think packing the internals into that small tube was a mistake, and it’s overheating, but that’s just a guess).

There’s some hope Nvidia will come out with a next gen but people have been hoping (and spreading rumours about) that for years… until there’s an official announcement I wouldn’t expect it. They continue to support software upgrades though.

Indeed I’ve never even installed the hue app, always assumed it was just a zigbee thing anyway. The hardware is just a basic zigbee bulb.

Mostly I’ve been moving to using the ikea ones though as they’re much cheaper.

In many countries it’s not lawful to spoof a number you don’t own, and VOIP providers simply won’t let you do it (without sufficient proof of ownership, and a lot of the smaller ones just block such things completely). The phone system is fine and contains to tools to stop this, it’s the laws that need fixing.

You could always spoof numbers even back in the analogue days through a primary rate interface but they’re expensive and becoming less common… and again illegal to do in many cases.

Of course some random provider in the back of nowhere can still do that kind of thing and you can’t really stop it, except for preventing numbers coming from overseas that don’t have the right country code (I think this is done in many places now… it used to be I’d get overseas spam calls that looked local but haven’t seen any for a while).

The reaction is more likely ‘It’s still impossible. Just like we told you all the other times. Idiots.’

Either those entities are registed as charities or they’re not. From a quick google it seems they are, so Unity is (again) talking shit.

Dynamic pricing works for transport because people have little choice about when to travel, especially commuters. So you get cheaper pricing when there’s less demand without everyone shifting their travel plans to save money.

Not sure if it’ll work in a pub. I’ll just go to a different one, or go at a different time… there’s no lock in, so dynamic pricing could actually cost the chain money as at the busiest times people simply go elsewhere… and once you’ve lost the ‘habit’ of going to a place it’s much harder for them to persuade you to go back.

‘confusion’. Yeah, right. Not a single person was confused. You went for the cash grab and it blew up in your face.

Now you’re going to go for slightly less cash grab and because it’s ‘better’ and ‘we listened’ everyone is supposed to just accept it. Been here before…

Do we know yet if unity’s plan won’t work?

Games take 3-5 years to make… you can’t change engine mid-development so it’ll literally be years before they see any negative impact - during which time they’ll be making bank.

From their point of view that’s a success… shareholders care little about long term sustainability.

That’s literally the law in many countries - commercial drivers (who are the kinds of people who would be driving those kinds of distances) have to take a 45 minute break every 4.5 hours. Because it’s unsafe to not do so.