Posts by Detective Emil 434 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Feb 2010
Your sparkling new Mac mini might sport a processor of unrivalled brilliance, but Apple forgot the fingerprint sensor.
It's on the extortionately-priced Magic Keyboard that you didn't buy at the same time. Some people love the sensor, but hate the keyboard, so resort to hacks [machine-translated from Japanese].
Or can it simply stay onshore the all-American way?
Nothing in the article suggests that Lenovo must or does send data to China to achieve its desired level of intrusion. As Rich 2 has pointed out, it's eminently possible to be intrusive using US-based resources.
As the native English speaker in a university department, I was handed the not-in-the-job-description task of proof-reading the papers and theses of those for whom English was a second (or third …) language. Apart from bringing home the fact that, thanks to the predominance of Anglo-Saxon culture, … [t]his is the first time that we have a true Lingua Franca for all: bad English, I would point out "surprising" words, and ask my victims/clients whether their intention was to surprise their audience. Mostly it wasn't, in which case I'd suggest something more anodyne; but sometimes it was. And occasionally, when I thought that the audience needed to be made to sit up and pay attention, I'd suggest a surprising word in place of something more predictable.
I expect that the PhD. candidates in my former group are all writing about/with LLMs now.
Are there nefarious actors at play here, an automated process that auto-rejects apps with elevated access requirements, or is it just simple incompetence?
There's a third possibility …
The Register repeatedly asked Google to comment, but it failed to respond.
They just don't give a sh*t.
Blimey! I'm amazed nobody has yet mentioned the time when Apple, in its C-suite wisdom, plonked an unrequested U2 album into every iTunes account that existed in 2014. The digital equivalent of bleach wouldn't shift it, until they hastily provided a way to delete it.
Depleted U238 is used in kinetic weaponry to pack the heaviest (literally) possible punch. But high explosives seem like a much better idea for a (non-nuclear) torpedo. Nuclear torpedos might, I discover on reading that Wikipedia page, use U238 as a tamper.
Adobe Photoshop can technically run on Arm through emulation
Adobe says that Photoshop & Lightroom are already native on ARM Windows, and more Creative whatever apps are coming sooner or later. And, yes, until then, use emulation.
And another thing: according to Reuters, Qualcomm has had an exclusivity deal for Windows on ARM for eight years. Strange we're only seeing somewhat good stuff from them just as the deal's ending.
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We've decided not to replace our medium-recent, medium-premium car just yet, not because we don't like EVs, but because anything we might buy is encrusted with stuff we don't need, don't want to have to stab at a screen to control, and don't want to pay for (and to keep paying for). And it's likely to be nosey. We can tell ourselves we're being virtuous by postponing the carbon cost of building a new car.
Just watched It's quieter in the Twilight [IMDB]. Most of the people keeping the Voyagers, "humankind's greatest exploration," alive came to the US as immigrants 50 or more years ago.
Apart from anything else, if he had not been around last week, Tesla's whacking GPU delivery (for which it presumably had a use it considered good for its bottom line) would not have been diverted to umm … something or other.
I have a lot of Sonos kit that I bought early on — hell, I even managed to buy their own remote control before it was discontinued in favour of apps. I'm happy to say that everything still works (except the long-dead remote, which stopped accepting touch input). This is no thanks to Sonos, which keeps pulling stunts like this: I had their servers blocked at the router for a long time, fearful that they'd follow through on threats to brick stuff they considered too old. And I used iMazing to make sure I had a copy of a known-good version of the app in case I updated an iDevice by mistake. Sonos' continued behavior does not tempt me to update to current hardware. Maybe it's time to install those blocks again.
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