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github.com 6mo ago

Experimental dual-boot project for iPhone 7/7 Plus devices

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petapixel.com 5y ago

Sony’s creator-focused Xperia Pro arrives at $2,499

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asia.nikkei.com 5y ago

Teardown of DJI drone reveals secrets of its competitive pricing

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www.fnlondon.com 5y ago

SoftBank plans to sell $14bn stake in telecom unit

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istafid24.blogspot.com 5y ago

NEC joins construction of MIST Cable

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image-sensors-world.blogspot.com 5y ago

TSMC Builds a Dedicated 28nm Fab for Sony Orders

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asia.nikkei.com 5y ago

HP, Dell and Microsoft look to join electronics exodus from China

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asia.nikkei.com 5y ago

Once Sony's driving force, electronics division gets new mission

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abcnews.go.com 5y ago

Actor Chadwick Boseman, star of “Black Panther,” dies at 43

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asia.nikkei.com 5y ago

Kim Jong Un's sister now said to control North Korea party nerve center

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sec.report 5y ago

Super League Gaming, Inc. S-1

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asia.nikkei.com 5y ago

Has Elon Musk's Tesla already won?

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: Have you ever had your social media account compromised?

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www.express.co.uk 6y ago

Donald Trump to Ban Chinese Social Media App TikTok in the USA

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stratechery.com 6y ago

India Bans Chinese Apps, the App Store Firewall, Reddit and the Donald

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www.erickarjaluoto.com 6y ago

What I Learned from a Year of Daily Metrics

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www.erickarjaluoto.com 6y ago

Keep Paddling

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www.erickarjaluoto.com 6y ago

How to Deal with Customer Complaints

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www.erickarjaluoto.com 6y ago

There’s No Shortage of Design Work

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www.erickarjaluoto.com 6y ago

Well Played Now What?

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www.erickarjaluoto.com 6y ago

There Aren’t Any Maps for Where We’re Going

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www.axios.com 6y ago

DoorDash valued at $16B after new funding round

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www.windowslatest.com 6y ago

Windows 10 feature will fix Google Chrome’s biggest problem

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github.com 6y ago

McKernel, the OS behind Fujitsu’s Fukaku supercomputer

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arstechnica.com 6y ago

TrueNAS isn’t abandoning BSD–but it is adopting Linux

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krebsonsecurity.com 6y ago

Privnotes.com Is Phishing Bitcoin from Users of Its Private Messaging Service

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hackaday.com 6y ago

DIY Electronic Connect Four Game

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krebsonsecurity.com 6y ago

Encoding Stolen Credit Card Data on Barcodes

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www.junglecoder.com 6y ago

A Small Command-Line Productivity Tip

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asia.nikkei.com 6y ago

Tesla teardown finds electronics 6 years ahead of Toyota and VW

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Half-Baked Product 19 days ago

Why is it that people focus on the negatives. I'm not going to pick apart the whole comment but World's first self-landing rocket ship and best selling electric car in the world are not figments of a "system is rigged that getting wealthy off one good bet can sustain you forever".

Exfiltrates: to steal sensitive data from a computer system (for example, via a flash drive).

I'm not going to defend Microsoft here, but the title (at the source blog) is misleading and a bit rage-baity. What happened with Cowork may have been rushed, possibly due to incompetence, but incompetence is not malice. This framing is also recycled across a few of the author's other interesting findings.

Within the article, the wording is much more accurate: “The victim uploads a skill file to Copilot Cowork that contains a prompt injection,” and “The injection manipulates Microsoft Copilot Cowork into posting a Teams message that exfiltrates pre-authenticated file download links when viewed.”

Shame about the screenshotting feature - it doesn't afford the ability for a more interactive site to really showcase itself.

Good example: The site of the family office of the heir to the Nintendo empire only got a 4/10 https://www.y-n10.com/

On US submarines, every bulkhead and beam not in the bilge is painted seafoam green. We were told it was the most soothing/ anti-rage inducing color possible - necessary for long deployments in cramped quarters.

After a little over a decade of service, no other color infuriates me more

Reminds me of my first linux distro called damnsmall linux. I think this was used as a first attempt to port linux to the gamecube, but the main team driving the effort ended up going with Gentoo instead.

From the main page:

As with most things in the GNU/Linux community, this project continues to stand on the shoulders of giants. I am just one guy without a CS degree, so for now, this project is based on antiX 23 i386. AntiX is a fantastic distribution that I think shares much of the same spirit as the original DSL project. AntiX shares pedigree with MEPIS and also leans heavily on the geniuses at Debian. So, this project stands on the shoulders of giants. In other words, DSL 2024 is a humble little project!

Though it may seem comparably ridiculous that 700MB is small in 2024 when DSL was 50MB in 2002, I’ve done a lot of hunting to find small footprint applications, and I had to do some tricks to get a workable desktop into the 700MB limit. To get the size down the ISO currently reduced full language support for German, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese (de_DE, en_AU, en_GB, en_US, es_ES, fr_FR, es_ES, pt_PT, & pt_BR ). I had to strip the source codes, many man pages, and documentation out. I do provide a download script that will restore all the missing files, and so far, it seems to be working well.

https://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

On the iPhone, you can hide or remove every app aside from settings, safari, sms, phone, App Store, photos, and camera. I started there, and put phone on silent, and in greyscale.

Instead of the ‘push’ notifications, I have set times throughout the day to check my mail. I’m never interrupted and it turned out that it’s ok to let some fires burn

uPhone is an experimental dual-boot project for iPhone 7/7 Plus devices, allowing iOS 13.X and Ubuntu 22.04 to coexist.Basic hardware such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and the touchscreen may work, (you can use Bluetooth keyboard / mouse / headphones, speakers and other Bluetooth devices.), but many other components, including the GPU, are likely non-functional.

Linux is good now 7 months ago

I moved to linux this month for good once i realized I no longer needed microsft services (Excel for example "runs on Mac" but is missing important features). I chose redhat because its what I've been using for over a decade at work and feels like home. Only thing I miss is Capcut as that workflow was pretty ironed out. Getting the hang of KDENlive

kind of short sided on the laptop choices. M1/2 for Asahi or Framework. What?

Plenty of options from HP, not to mention German-assembled Tuxedo, and System76. Even moreso if going used

There is no configuration that meets both high-quality local LLM performance and excellent portability. A robust discrete GPU in a thin, portable laptop does not offer enough memory bandwidth or thermals for full-scale models, and a laptop with abundant DDR5 memory and high-end CPU power isn’t designed for the throughput that local LLM inference demands. The practical solution is to use a Linux laptop optimized for everyday development and use hosted LLM services when you need more power.

lol I think the Diablo Rakki was determined to be a hoax but I did find this interesting paste of Things Elon Musk launched or unveiled in less than 10 years:

Boring Co. Crew Dragon Cybercab Cybertruck DOGE Falcon Heavy Falcon 9 FSD Grok 1,2,3 Megapack Model 3 Model X Model Y Neuralink OpenAI Optimus Powerwall Roadster 2.0 Robovan Solar Roof Starlink Starship Tesla Semi

wasn't going to reply but you called out Accenture.

I work at the Government Contracting arm of Accenture called Accenture Federal and it is by far the best place I've ever worked ( I worked in submarines for a decade so probably nowhere to go but up from there). It ranks highly in those marketing pieces "best places to work" if you're into that sort of thing.

anyway, I highly recommend Accenture Federal. Great projects, benefits, and WLB