>My kids, and any friends of theirs riding with us, will boo whenever they see them on the road
Because adults around them groomed them for those actions. Kids don't just start booing at objects out of the blue, they parrot the learned behavior of the adults around them.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for, and we've already asked you once.
I also work in the EU and privacy on company's machine is a more complex topic that's case by case dependent,but claiming the employer in the EU has no right to access your machine is plain false.
It's true, that the employer can't just enter your machine to look at your personal info just because they feel like it, but they can access it for work related reasons to access work related info, if they have just cause, like a security incident for example.
Ultimately, it's the company's machine, on the company's network, inside the company's premises, on the company's time, so the company can definitely access it for a business use case if they need to, typically with a notification to you to prepare it by removing private info from it or off the screen.
Now if you happen to put your private info there because you're sloppy, and your private info gets vacuumed by accident by IT's mass ingestion of work related data, then you have the right to tell them to delete your private info and they have to comply. That's where the privacy comes in, but it's on you to avoid storing private info on company property, because if it ends up ingested by accident then it's still on you, not your employer if they ingest it by accident.
But I gotta ask, just how hard is it to avoid putting your personal info on company property?
Xbox 360 was sold over a decade. Each version had specific hardware revisions so hackers creating these tools tend to refer to the hardware code names to as a way to identify which revision their hacks apply to.
The below list is from AI, but from a quick view is correct.
I expect the commenter has backed up their owned games to the hard drive so their kid doesn’t need to fiddle with discs damaging them, or has installed homebrew retro games. I expect all online functionality has been shut down anyway so it turns the console into an ad free offline gaming machine.
They are still outputting 720p, but the consoles are good value for kids.
You go first sacrifice yourself, the finances of your family and your town, in order to save the global environment, to set an example, and we'll start to follow your lead when we'll see that your sacrifice has improved the global environment.
It's always convenient for you when someone else has to make sacrifices to their job security, housing, financial future, and comfort in order to save the environment, when you get to enjoy all the perks of their sacrifice, without needing to make any equivalent sacrifices yourself.
Seems like this can go both ways. You should volunteer to have a bank of loud, polluting turbines from obsolete passenger jets running 24/7 next to your home so Meta can serve GenAI ads with 5% lower latency.
Only if you subscribe to the logic that somehow I support datacenters built in peoples' back yards, which I never claimed, but you made up. If you make stuff up, you can make any argument you want.
Sorry, your small town getting a short stint of construction work followed by maybe 20 sysadmins, is not worth the pollution that DC will pump.
I commute by rail to the tune of ~6000 miles a year. How long would it take for those gas turbines to make those greenhouse savings worth it?
Some napkin math, lets say a conservative 50MW/day? half what the XAI Colossus DC uses. So they'd be generating about 2MWh running 24/7.
Those gas turbines spit out ~700kg of CO2 per MWh.
My car would emit about 5 tonnes of CO2 over about 15k miles(2L hatchback).
The drive is far less direct than the train, so lets call it approximately 10k miles in commuting.
In a day, one of those gas turbines would produce about 16.8 metric tons of CO2. Over 3x what my car would produce. In a day. It takes me all year to save 4ish metric tons of CO2 from my personal carbon emissions.
Yeah, so screw your small town and screw the datacenter. We all share this world. Your small town isn't worth the damage.
I don't live there, but this attitude won't make you any friends.
>We all share this world.
Yes, tell me how me and you and Bezos and Musk are all equally sharing the world. We're all in this together and you care so much about the pollution of other peoples' small towns. That's why there's nice neighborhoods and not so nice neighbourhoods, nice areas to live in and not so nice areas to live in. Because some people have to deal with the pollution so that you can live in nice neighborhoods without any pollution while still enjoying all the luxuries of modern society that generate pollution except not in your back yard.
>My car would emit about 5 tonnes of CO2 over about 15k miles(2L hatchback).
And where was that car manufactured? In your back yard or in some industrial town with more pollution? Do you oppose car factories there too?
> care so much about the pollution of other peoples' small towns.
It's CO2, it's in my town too.
I'm saying, the minor economic boon for this small town is not remotely worth the pollution over the lifetime of that data center ran off turbines.
> while still enjoying all the luxuries of modern society
We could enjoy the modern luxuries a bit more without Altman Et. Al. working to centralize labor into expensive automated Capital that we'd all have to rent back. Hell, even with some pollution caused by relocating manufacturing stateside.
I firmly believe we need to reintroduce friction into our lives to provide them some meaning and experience beyond ordering food on apps and looking at ads.
>I firmly believe we need to reintroduce friction into our lives to provide them some meaning and experience beyond ordering food on apps and looking at ads.
That's why in my country the government is incentivizing via fiscal policies for employers to be cancelling all home office perks to employers. To get people back to spending money on commuting.
>Michigan
So what's your opinion on building car factories there? If we remove those factories, air there would be cleaner.
>Russian hybrid warfare focuses on stoking fear and unrest.
Basically making everything more shitty
Except that everything that is shitty in the EU right now has been the consequence of the last ~20 years of EU leadership and individual EU member policies.
Russia didn't increase the EURO supply during covid devaluing our wages and purchasing power. Russia didn't connect our fridges on the internet without a VPN with credentials admin:admin that any script kiddie could pwn. Russia didn't open our borders to unvetted criminals. Russia didn't offshore our industry leading us to fall behind on everything manufacturing related from cars to leading edge semiconductor fabs. Russia didn't create our NIMBYistic housing policies that made our current housing shortage. etc, etc, etc.
Blaming Russia (and China and Trump) for every single shortcoming of the EU right now seems the default scapegoat for the incompetence of everyone in the EU from politicians to business leaders. Have those people ever taken any accountability for their mistakes?
If RUssia wouldn't have done it someone else would. If you lave a bag of money open outside your door, someone will eventually take it and its your fault for leaving it out for someone to easily steal it
> Except that everything that is shitty in the EU right now has been the consequence of the last ~20 years of EU leadership and individual EU member policies.
at risk of being autistic: no, not everything
plenty of shitty things is happening for reasons utterly unrelated to that
Some (or even all) EU policies being dumb does not make impossible to have problems caused by something else.
For example Russia was directly involved in making migrant crisis worse.
>For example Russia was directly involved in making migrant crisis worse.
Yes, obviously Russia will weaponize every single weakness of the EU (just how Ukraine, EU, US, NATO and China will weaponzie every weakness of Russia right now), but ultimately it's still a self inflicted weakness, that the EU could close at the snap of the finger if it actually cared about stopping it, and Russia would not be able to weaponize any longer.
It was built by Poland in very non-EU fashion (see below, "shall not apply to the investment. In particular, the following are not required"), but EU at least has not sabotaged it and in fact silently ignored some topics.
> Separate regulations—including the Construction Law, the Water Law, environmental protection laws, regulations on the disclosure of environmental information, the Geodesy and Cartography Law, regulations on spatial planning and land development, regulations on the protection of agricultural and forest land, railway transport regulations, and regulations concerning special procedures for the preparation and implementation of public road investments—shall not apply to the investment. In particular, the following are not required:
>1) a building permit or a formal notification;
>2) a decision determining the location of an investment of public purpose;
>3) the preparation of a construction design;
>4) the obtaining of any other decisions, permits, opinions, or clearances, or the submission of any notifications.
In https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50337575 you claimed "everything that is shitty in the EU right now has been the consequence of the last ~20 years of EU leadership and individual EU member policies"
at least part of that is consequence of not only that
True, but Lenovo has repeatedly demonstrated that they're willing to do it, lie to customers giving them a false sense of security while leaving them vulnerable, and will continue to put their customers at risk even after being caught several times.
>I used to think writing safe code in C/C++ was a matter of skill.
It's a matter of how many fucks the devs gave about doing quality work. You can find inexperienced people deliver quality work simply because they're passionate and they care (Half-Life was made in part by people with no prior game or coding experience), and you can find supposed rockstars deliver slop because for whatever reason they don't care, they just want to punch in, collect paychecks, then punch out.
FAANG stopped being a benchmark of skill a while ago. It's a skill of griding leetcode and 7 stage interviews to get it, then resting and vesting till you can jump ship to something better or get mass layd off.
I think you’re a bit optimistic about the quality of a triple-A game’s codebase that was rushed to a holiday release date. I have slightly more tolerance for bugginess in a game.
Has there ever existed a C or C++ codebase of significant size that hasn't had exploitable memory corruption issues? I don't think we can keep saying it's a question of the dev's passion or skill or whatever, if no dev has ever managed to do it.
That's not to say memory corruption issues are the only kind of issues, and rewriting a mature C/C++ codebase into a memory safe language may well introduce more issues than it fixes...
Outside of specially designed and verified code, probably not. Although there are certainly many projects where there are so few memory-safety issues that is is irrelevant in practice compared to other issues. Most of the issues I see are very easily preventable by using a string and a buffer abstractions that do bounds checking.
Also I think it is noteworthy that memory-safety issues are really well-defined and can automatically be found using sanitizers and fuzzers or verification tools. This is not the case for many other correctness issues and once memory safety issues are fixed this will remain as a major problem for all code.
An example that comes to mind is postfix (the SMTP daemon). It hasn't had zero memory safety issues, but nearly so. Certainly an abnormally low amount given the size/complexity of the project and the number of eyes on it.
It's also had a pretty 'normal' (read: higher) amount of non-memory related bugs such as SMTP smuggling of filesystem permission TOCTOU, so it's not like its devs are somehow really good at just not writing bugs.
Maybe they have chosen a software architecture that allows them to avoid complicated memory-related logic? I genuinely don't know, would love to hear from a postfix developer.
I have. We had an air-gapped network for ingesting and processing the deliverables and results of security audits and pen-tests at work. It was running windows and not Linux/BSD like the laptops of the pentesters, because most of our customers were MS shops so all deliverables we got from them were mostly documents, apps and files that were designed for Windows apps or had better compatibility on MS Office, and businesses stay solvent by conforming to their customers' needs instead of fighting them.
- Home prices are losing momentum. The median U.S. home-sale price rose just 0.5% year over year, the slowest growth rate since March. The median asking price fell 0.3% year over year, its first decline since March. Some relief could be on the horizon for buyers.
- Mortgage rates are still a vital stat for homebuyers and sellers. The weekly average mortgage rate hit a 3-year high of 7.4% on October 8. Daily average rates have eased slightly in recent days, dipping to 7.45% on October 14 from 7.61% about a week earlier.
- The typical homebuyer’s monthly payment is $2,777, the highest level on record except the previous week. That’s due to high mortgage rates and still-increasing home prices.
- Homebuying demand remains near record low. Pending home sales ticked up 1.5% from a week earlier–perhaps thanks to rates easing ever-so-slightly–but were still near their lowest level in records dating back to 2021. That includes the end of 2023, when mortgage rates were nearing 8%. Pending sales declined year over year in all 50 of the most populous U.S. metro areas.
- Price drops are at a record high. As sellers come to terms with prices losing steam, more of them are dropping their prices: 22% of home sellers with active listings cut their asking price, up from 20.9% a year earlier and the highest level in our records. [My note: draw attention here]
Sellers who want to (or must) sell now will lower their prices. Sellers who don't will wait, and encounter lower price levels as mortgage rates continue to rise in step with the 10Y. As long as structural demographics ensure a strong labor market (which they will), interest rates will continue to rise both from the Fed raising short term rates and from a capital shortage pushing up longer rates. Forward debt price curve up is real estate price curve down, very simply.
>I went and researched this, and found that basically none of the TV brands were anything but creepy on privacy.
Yeah they do. Go to your shopping center or airport and you'll see LG and Samsung displays everywhere. And that's the key word, 'displays' not 'TVs'.
Both sell large displays meant for 100% user ownership with no spyware or mandatory internet connection, you just have to buy those and not their TVs.
The catch? They come at steep prices compared to consumer TVs, unless you can land a deal on the used market. But that's the cost of turning a profit on screens with no spyware and ads.
The other catch is that those displays are built for heavy duty use, not for picture quality, and as such aren’t going to look as good as even a budget consumer OLED TV.
Disagree. They look more than fine, much better than the budget TV with their fake saturation turned to 11 out of the box. If you think that looks good you might have gotten used to it.
Hotel TVs, same panels as consumer models with different supporting hardware and stock calibrations. These are actually dimmer than the consumer models to increase panel longevity.
They tend to lack gaming features like high/variable refresh rate but they're more functional as normal TVs than digital signage displays.
They have similar OSes as the consumer models and can run the same apps but don't have ads unless the operator wants them to and can be centrally managed, support internal IPTV networks, etc.
If you put the model number in to your search engine of choice it should return a number of sellers focusing on the hospitality and B2B markets offering these products. Some are "call for quote" bullshit but others have a price listed and an "add to cart" button. I haven't actually tried to buy one, I have a CX that lives on an allowlist-only VLAN and I'm fine with that.
The ones the serve menus and the ones that serve eye-level video ads are definitely also built for picture quality. Still IPS for the most part, but uniformity and colour calibration can be movie-worthy
However any of the midrange ones will be brighter than the equivalent consumer (they have to operate in full sun 24/7)
You will not find an oled though, because they have yet to be full duty cycle (well I've not looked, but if they do exist, they will be many monies.)
Get yourself a nice NEC 4k, you'll be happy. unless you want 8k (good luck finding a source for the 8k) or you really like the motion smoothing of poorly setup consumer TVs.
Are you sure those displays have everything needed for a smooth TV experience? Do they have eARC to connect a sound bar, and stuff like that? Modern TVs are also quite good at upscaling 1080/720p content, screens often aren't.
it's funny, I used to think and care about this (or thought I did) back when 1080 was the common thing and 4k was new and exotic, but now I really don't care.
I think what changed was the realisation that even with 4k hardware in theory, what you're actually seeing is so variable based on bandwidth and different services' support for different shows you basically don't know anyway and thus it doesn't really make much sense to care about it.
Besides which, you realise that things that are made to be more enjoyable on 4k, like where that would actually make a difference to how good it is, are probably not that much worth watching anyway outside of demos. Certainly it's not, for example, a factor on which you want to be choosing what series to watch.
Or jailbreak/defang the consumer TVs to have privacy anyway, and teach others how, and screw over the entire profit model of the surveillance-subsidized TVs to force things to be sold at a real cost.
>Or jailbreak/defang the consumer TVs to have privacy anyway
And how will my 50 year old mom and 70 year old grandpa know how to do that? "Hey Claude scan the wifi for a LG TV, hack it, root it and give me the keys to install what I want, then lock out LG from access it?"
As always, the sane fix is in government legislation and enforcement of privacy regulations. But this isn't happening since knowledge of smart device spyware across politicians and the voting population is small and governments want to use that data dragnet that smart devices enable for their own means.
> As always, the sane fix is in government legislation and enforcement of privacy regulations.
While I do not disagree, we all know that may not happen in grandma and grandpas remaining lifetime, so lets help out the older generation where we can, and shame lazy hackers that participate in these systems.
And that is why I gave my family access to GPUs I racked up. We do what we want. Cheaper than the subscriptions over time too and we never get rate limited!
I have bad news for you. Those commercial TV-s also phone home if connected to the internet. For software updates, analytics regarding digital signage usage etc.
For a long time they haven't been just dumb displays. They also run Tizen or WebOS for digital signage applications.
> that's the cost of turning a profit on screens with no spyware and ads.
I don't think that the cost of TVs has gone down when they added spyware and ads.
You could say that that's the cost of turning less profits, rather, and I suspect that TV manufacturers keep the costs of normal displays high just to discourage their purchase by normal people.
Because adults around them groomed them for those actions. Kids don't just start booing at objects out of the blue, they parrot the learned behavior of the adults around them.
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