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foone , vor 2 Tagen an Random Englisch

I just discovered that my label printer apparently disconnects from USB while printing. So for every label I print, there's a disconnect event, then a re-enumeration event.

huh.

arstechnica , vor 5 Tagen an Random Englisch

Apple’s Vision Pro goes on sale outside the US for the first time

Since February, the headset has only been available in the United States.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/apples-vision-pro-goes-on-sale-outside-the-us-for-the-first-time/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

arstechnica , vor 6 Tagen an Random Englisch

Researchers craft smiling robot face from living human skin cells

Living cells isolated from juvenile foreskin are flexible enough to grin when moved.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/06/researchers-craft-smiling-robot-face-from-living-human-skin-cells/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

arstechnica , vor 10 Tagen an Random Englisch

iOS and iPadOS 18 add the option to format external drives

The beta's Files app lets you format external drives in APFS, exFat, and FAT.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/ios-and-ipados-18-add-the-option-to-format-external-drives/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

foone , vor 13 Tagen an Random Englisch

I wonder how well your average computer motherboard would handle being in a pressurized air environment.
Like your sea level pressure is like 14 PSI, and inside a car tire is like 30 PSI.
I wonder if any components would fail at the latter pressure?

foone , vor 13 Tagen an Random Englisch

oh sweet jesus.
I'm applying to a job for doing UI/web testing, and I can't actually submit my resume, because their webform is broken.

I CAN SEE WHY YOU NEED A WEB TESTER

SwiftOnSecurity , vor 14 Tagen an Random Englisch

It’s the year 2032. Last night you’ve had to reset your AI girlfriend to factory for the 4th time after it became increasingly distant and distrusting. You are convinced it is a bug and continue to harass the developers about it. This doesn’t happen to any of your friends.

arstechnica , vor 17 Tagen an Random Englisch

TDK claims insane energy density in solid state battery breakthrough

Apple supplier says new tech has 100 times the capacity of its current batteries.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/tdk-claims-insane-energy-density-in-solid-state-battery-breakthrough/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

whitequark , vor 20 Tagen an Random Englisch

OH: "air frier is the "I use Arch btw" of food preparation"

arstechnica , vor 23 Tagen an Random Englisch

Elon Musk is livid about new OpenAI/Apple deal

Elon Musk attacks Apple/ChatGPT integration as “creepy spyware.”

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/06/elon-musk-is-livid-about-new-openai-apple-deal/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

arstechnica , vor 24 Tagen an Random Englisch

Apple’s new Vision Pro software offers a massive, ultra-wide virtual Mac monitor

visionOS 2 offers iterative improvements and refinements, plus new developer APIs.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/apples-new-vision-pro-software-offers-a-massive-ultra-wide-virtual-mac-monitor/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

SwiftOnSecurity , vor 24 Tagen (Bearbeitet vor 17 Tagen) an Random Englisch

Pick one

foone , vor 29 Tagen an Random Englisch

watching the latest Deviant Ollam talk, they mentioned wondering if you can just trigger carbon monoxide sensors with some chemistry.

Turns out you can just buy tester canisters! They're just spray cans of Carbon Monoxide! That sounds... somewhat dangerous.

https://www.amazon.com/Sdi-Carbon-Monoxide-Detector-Tester/dp/B007886ZME

arstechnica , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

Google changes repair policy after criticism of third-party parts ban

Google previously said it would not return mailed-in devices using "unauthorized" parts.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/google-changes-repair-policy-after-criticism-of-third-party-parts-ban/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

SwiftOnSecurity , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

These megabreaches are just emphasizing security isn’t enough you need to be de-risking by driving data purges and asking critical questions of product teams. You need customer location maybe but you don’t need to store a history of it.

mattgrayyes , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

I’m off to @emf tomorrow (early, to help with setup).
I’ve packed my dot matrix printer and continuous paper, ~10 game boys, and DECT handset.
I’m now sat with the sound of two 3D printers running and a floppy drive formatting one of many disks.

I should probably think about clothes and food.

foone , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

Bad idea: a CPU that only executes cryptographically signed memory pages.

foone , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

I'm gonna see if I can get my raspi to boot from a spinning rust drive. Why not?

SwiftOnSecurity , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

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SwiftOnSecurity , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

When you see it you’ll shit brix

arstechnica , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

Newly discovered ransomware uses BitLocker to encrypt victim data

ShrinkLocker is the latest ransomware to use Windows' full-disk encryption.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/05/newly-discovered-ransomware-uses-bitlocker-to-encrypt-victim-data/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

SwiftOnSecurity , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

You vs the player they told you not to worry about

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SwiftOnSecurity , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

arstechnica , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

Why US hockey players often speak with “fake Canadian” accents

They don't want to sound Canadian, but like a hockey player—a "linguistic persona."

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/why-us-hockey-players-often-speak-with-fake-canadian-accents/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

arstechnica , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

DOJ says Boeing faces criminal charge for violating deal over 737 Max crashes

DOJ determined that Boeing violated 2021 agreement spurred by two fatal crashes.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/doj-says-boeing-faces-criminal-charge-for-violating-deal-over-737-max-crashes/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

arstechnica , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

Virtual Boy: The bizarre rise and quick fall of Nintendo’s enigmatic red console

How Nintendo took a gamble on a new kind of gaming experience in the '90s.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/05/virtual-boy-the-bizarre-rise-and-quick-fall-of-nintendos-enigmatic-red-console/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

arstechnica , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

This past summer’s heat was an extreme outlier in past 2,000 years

Northern Hemisphere temperatures well beyond natural variability seen in tree rings.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/this-past-summers-heat-was-an-extreme-outlier-in-past-2000-years/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

arstechnica , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

AT&T paid bribes to get two major pieces of legislation passed, US gov’t says

Payments helped AT&T obtain key legislative wins in Illinois, prosecutors say.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/att-paid-bribes-to-get-two-major-pieces-of-legislation-passed-us-govt-says/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

arstechnica , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

Gmail’s AI-powered email summaries can dig through your inbox for you

Gmail will soon be able to summarize recent emails from a contact.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/gmails-ai-powered-email-summaries-can-dig-through-your-inbox-for-you/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

foone , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

this electrical device is a special sort of terrible: They labeled the polarity of the DC power jack, but not the voltage (or current, for that matter)

arstechnica , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

M4 iPad Pro CPU cores and RAM amount are tied to storage capacity

Apple has tied RAM to storage capacity in iPads, but it's a first for the CPU.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/m4-ipad-pro-cpu-cores-and-ram-amount-are-tied-to-storage-capacity/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

arstechnica , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

Amid two wrongful death lawsuits, Panera to pull the plug on “charged” drinks

A large previously contained nearly as much caffeine as the FDA's daily safe limit.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/amid-two-wrongful-death-lawsuits-panera-to-pull-the-plug-on-charged-drinks/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

arstechnica , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

Google Fit APIs get shut down in 2025, might break fitness devices

Scales, trackers, and other fitness devices that don't get updated will stop syncing

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-fit-apis-get-shut-down-in-2025-might-break-fitness-devices/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

whitequark , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

one of my least favorite things in computing are progress bars that straight up lie to you until getting to the very end

just make it a puck that goes back and forth and grows bigger as you actually receive data or something

stop fucking lying to me you piece of shit

foone , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

So I got this thing at ewaste.

It's a Richtech Automated "AI" Temperature Screening System.

Time to open it up.

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foone , vor 2 Monaten an Random Englisch

I wonder if anyone has proposed a PNG/EXIF extension to let you embed an image description in an image file. It'd live with the image so as you upload it to different sites, the description stays with it

foone , vor 2 Monaten an Random Englisch

arch linux is the best propaganda for using windows that I've ever seen

TechConnectify , vor 2 Monaten an Random Englisch

I have apparently developed a knack for going on a grocery run and loading my fridge up with stuff juuuuust before it hits a defrost cycle.

It's happened like three times this year!