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  • 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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  • Electric motorcycles with solid-state batteries seem to be coming soon.

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  • Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models

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  • Top tip, buy a used enterprise laptop. You can get one hell of a deal when big companies throw their entire lineup out after a few years and flood the market. Some have a few scuffs here and there, but others are mint after sitting plugged to a dock for the last three years in a row.Might need a new battery though, so research how easy it's to swap and calculate that in the cost just in case.

  • Electric motorcycles with solid-state batteries seem to be coming soon.

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  • At least it being a fully integrated hub(less) electric motor makes it a much more sensible of a solution than many other tries with all kinds of belt drives and gears and cogs and stuff.

    Even the tire change is pretty simple.

  • Corsair Introduces its First Gaming Keyboard with Built-In Stream Deck Controller

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  • The device that combines a $150 gaming keyboard and a $200 stream deck costs as much as a $150 gaming keyboard and a $200 stream deck would. Not... all that surprising to me.

  • Home electricity bills are skyrocketing. For data centers, not so much.

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  • Partly because doing so risks that they might decide to invest in their own production instead, and therefore not buy any electricity from you at all which would result in loss of demand, and a reduction in overall electricity cost.Like how rising a bus ticket fare by 10% means you will lose some customers because they decide to walk instead, so your profit increase will be lower than that 10%. Raise it too much, and almost everyone walks, and you sell no tickets.

    And it's a lot harder to build your own solar or wind farm if you are a person living in an apartment building.

  • Raspberry Pis are cheaper than Mini PCs again

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  • I haven't, that's the point.If a Raspi going from $25 to $145, an increase of 5.8x is fine, and a Zero from a decade back being twice the price today, then surely when you go from $10/GB of DDR4 to new shiny modern DDR5, that increase of 5.8x is all fine too. Just buy that decade old DDR4 for double the launch price if you think it's too expensive.And from looking at DIMMprice, it's still "only" around $25/GB, that's a pure bargain right?

    Obviously neither of them are fine and both situations are utterly outrageous.

  • Raspberry Pis are cheaper than Mini PCs again

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  • I've kinda come to expect in the last three decades I've been following this stuff that hardware has the tendency to both get better and cheaper as time goes on.Like, RAM isn't really expensive at all right now either if you think selling an 8GB stick of DDR4 for $160 today fine, as that is also 10 year old hardware at double the launch price.

    So it's not that I expect being able to buy an old Raspi model for $25 or $5, I expect to be able to the buy a newer better one without having to pay up to six times as much.It's hilarious that those older models tend to be more expensive used than what they originally cost. Are we getting the housing bubble in tech hardware now too?

  • Raspberry Pis are cheaper than Mini PCs again

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  • Pepperridge farm remembers when a Raspi was $25 and you could get a Zero for $5. I also remember it still being too expensive, so I bought a comperable OrangePi for $11 instead.

  • Volkswagen shifts back to physical buttons on dashboards

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  • I've yet to find any testing that would indicate it doesn't work, only few where the effect has been quite small.

    But even the tiniest effects become massive when multiplied by the amount of vehicles on the road. Like how turning your headlights off and using LED DRLs reduces fuel consumption by roughly 1-3%, which is quite a lot less pollution once you multiply that by the 250 million cars zooming around the EU and so on.

    Stop-and-start systems usually result in a reduction of emissions somewhere between 3-10% in city traffic. That's huge.But because most people find it a tiny bit irritating, you are required the massive effort of pressing a button to turn it off every time. Most quickly realize it's not all that irritating, because having to press a button to turn it off is actually more irritating, and so it stays enabled for a few hundred million cars reducing emissions.

  • Volkswagen shifts back to physical buttons on dashboards

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  • Volkswagen shifts back to physical buttons on dashboards

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  • They needed research to realise the cost was greater than the savings.

    Touchscreen interfaces are absolutely wonderful if you are a car manufacturer, as they massively accelerate the designing process; slap a rectangle in the centre console and start manufacturing the car, you have until first units are sold (or even way later, yay updates) to figure out how it looks and works. And you don't need to make and assemble hundred little dials and buttons either, just a single screen.

    Same goes for the speedo etc display, but there at least everything is purely visual and being customizable is actually a benefit for the user too.

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