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JohnEdwa

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  • Android won't kill sideloading after all, but new verification rules will make it harder

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  • It's not a "bullshit new term", it's three decades old and means transferring files locally from one device to another, instead of directly downloading or uploading from/to an external server.

    The origin goes back to MP3.com and i-drive in late 90's, but the most common sideloading people did was downloading music to their PC using services like iTunes, and transferring them to their mp3 players. As they did often with early PDA and smartphone apps, where the term for Android comes from - get the .apk on your computer, transfer it to your phone, and install it.Sideloading.

  • Toyota Owner Didn’t Know His Car Was Talking To Insurers Until He Saw His Rates

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  • The fact that they can sell you a car without having to give you all of the terms and conditions is kinda nuts. Imagine if you went to buy a house and they just went "Nuh uh, pay first, we give you all the HOA rules and city ordinance laws you have to follow afterwards. What is in them? It's a mYsTeRy!".

  • ChatGPT is rolling out YouTube-style age prediction

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  • AFAIK it's a fedia (mbin) compatibility issue with Lemmy in general, some links posted aren't federated properly and instead just show up as the thumbnail image from Fedia.

    Probably something that is going to be, or already is, fixed in a newer Lemmy version, but some instances are a little slow to update.

  • Kioxia exec says the AI boom means the era of the cheap 1TB SSD is over —company's NAND supply is sold out for this year and likely through 2027

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  • used market gets flooded.

    ...with highly specialized datacenter grade hardware. They aren't buying gaming GPUs or consumer grade SSD or RAM, they are just hogging all the manufacturing capacity for their own specific hardware needs.

    Having racks of 72 enterprise AI GPUs with zero video out ports and 10TB of LPDDR5X memory flooding the market isn't going to be very useful unless your plan is to start a datacenter yourself.I mean, it would be really neat to own one, the 120kW power draw is just kind of a buzzkill for residential use.

  • Mo Validation Mo Problems

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  • Which would still not be perfect because "foo@bar", "foo@[123.123.123.123]" and "💩 @[IPv6 :::1]" are all technically valid email addresses.

    It looks like the only validation that doesn't block something valid pretty much would start and end at "It has at least one @ symbol, and something on both sides".

  • ‘Climate change is here’: Experts warn environmental crisis is decades ahead of forecasts

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  • Eh, the anthropocene extinction event will be like the sixth big one, something periodically wiping out a ton of species and life restructuring itself is kinda just natural at this point. As the saying goes, life will find a way. It'll look different, but just like the previous five times, it'll do just fine.

  • ‘Climate change is here’: Experts warn environmental crisis is decades ahead of forecasts

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  • X down – latest: Twitter and Grok not working in another major outage

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  • Artists I follow post mostly either on X or Instagram, which I don't find to be much better of an alternative. All that have mastodon or bluesky accounts I've switched over, but many do not because there aren't enough users.

    But I haven't actually tweeted anything for something over a decade now?

  • Fatberg the size of four buses likely birthed poo balls that closed Sydney beaches – and it can’t be cleared

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  • Well, yes. Dumping high concentrations will instantly kill everything in the waterway, diluting them and doing it slowly means they can handle it and survived.

    Heck, the ocean is full of salt, but if you started dumping high-concentrated brine off a beach you'd kill every animal and plant on sight, just as you would kill yourself drinking said brine. But it would be quite hard to argue that you can't safely put salt in the ocean, or add some to your food, once it is diluted to a safe level.

    The question is how much of something total can the ocean handle before it becomes a problem. And for many things the answer is, quite literally, that it is just a drop in the ocean.

  • Guard at Winter Olympic construction site dies in nighttime subfreezing temperatures

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  • Any temperature below somewhere around 60F/15C is "deadly cold", as in your survivability depends entirely in how well you are clothed as you will eventually die of hypothermia otherwise, the only variable being how long it takes. Kinda like how you can get a 3rd degree burn with 44C water, it just takes 6 hours.

    -12C really isn't all that cold - lowest temperature in northern Finland this winter so far has been -42,8C / -45F - but it is a temperature where you will need to pay some attention on how you dress for it. For me, it's around (-10 to 15c depending on the wind) where I'll put on long-johns in the morning and add a sweater instead of just having a t-shirt under my jacket.

  • 'Help is on its way,' Trump tells Iranians as he urges them to keep protesting

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  • He doesn't want to be the president of the solar system, there's no oil anywhere so what's the point.

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  • Also the US already has a military base in Greenland and has for many decades. In fact, they used to have dozen or so during the Cold War. And because the area is apparently such vital importance to the defence of the US, they currently have... 150 soldiers stationed there.In the one base they have kept.

    Very, very important location. Vital for defence.

  • Indonesia blocks Musk’s Grok chatbot due to risk of pornographic content

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  • Well to put it into context, you were allowed to work underground at the same age you were allowed to have sex, which was two years before you were allowed to be married, at the good ol' ripe age of 12.

    This whole "you gotta be 16/18/21 to be considered an adult" thing is really recent in human history all things considering.

  • Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why

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  • Ah, such nostalgia. I used a complex password until they forced monthly resets on us and I forgot mine a few times. After that, "FuckingPassword1", "FuckingPassword2", FuckingPassword3" etc with a mysterious post-it note on my table with a single number. Very memorable, still remember it well after a decade.

  • 'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells

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  • Traditionally, convection ovens have a fan at the back that pushes air over the food and around the oven, while air friers have a fan on top that draws the air through the food from the bottom. But for majority of the use cases, the results are very similar and I'm sure convection ovens that work the same way also exist.

  • A red pixel in the snow: How AI solved the mystery of a missing mountaineer

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  • Dutch students create modular electric car "you can repair yourself"

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  • As an actual highway-legal car, certainly not. But there are plenty of other categories you can stuff random vehicles way easier that could still be useful, such as the European L6e/L7e Quadricycle.The US equivalent is the NEV.

  • How we get to 1 nanometer chips and beyond

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  • Open any wikipedia article about "x nm process" and one of the first paragraphs will be something like this:

    The term "2 nanometer", or alternatively "20 angstrom" (a term used by Intel), has no relation to any actual physical feature (such as gate length, metal pitch or gate pitch) of the transistors. According to the projections contained in the 2021 update of the International Roadmap for Devices and Systems published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a "2.1 nm node range label" is expected to have a contacted gate pitch of 45 nanometers and a tightest metal pitch of 20 nanometers.[1]

    It used to be that the "60nm process" was called that because the transistor gate was 60nm.

  • Danish soldiers ordered to fight back if US invades Greenland, Copenhagen confirms

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  • To be fair, they haven't really gotten all that much invading done recently, they've mostly just been squatting on the parts they managed to captured back in 2022.

    I am kinda morbidly curious what would happen if they did decide to start invading some other countries - splitting their forces feels like it would be a terrible idea if their aim is to ever actually manage to win the Ukrainian war, and not just stall it forever.

  • Grok Can't Apologize. Grok Isn't Sentient. So Why Do Headlines Keep Saying It Did?

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    OLED is nice and all, but the upgrade I really want is this.