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Even those passively trying out AI-this and AI-that are part and parcel of the problem...
I've watched friends, over the last 2+ years, go from "Hey, look at this!" to "I didn't know it used that much energy!" to "Oh f*ck, I haven't had any freelance work in *insert industry here* in months..."
#internet #hardware #software #environment #climatechange #coginthemachine #youareexpendable #wearedoomedasaspecies #stateoftheworld #donotbepartoftheproblem
#hardware #Android #iOS #Linux #sustainability
Time to update the #introduction
I’m an ex #hardware #hacker who used to break “weird shit” like planes, trains, cars, and ships.
Now head of a security operations team. #secops
I’m #trans #pan #nonbinary #poly #salmacian - #multiqueer (™️ @alice)
Very bad at playing the #drums and #lockpicking
Really quite good at #shibari
Absolutely smitten with my beautiful husband @Polypompholyx
BudgetBraillerBlog: BudgetBraillerBlog Intro. “A manual brailler costs a little under $1,000 and electric braillers cost significantly more. Given that I was just at a 3D printing festival and you can build a 3D printer for under $200, I decided to try to design one.”
I use computers every day and, personally, I wish there were wayyyy fewer of them.
The issue with modern engineering, technology, and infrastructure is that we have taken all of our hardware problems and turned them into software problems. They are, as a rule, easier to deploy, but much harder to maintain and repair.
In a reasonable system it should not be possible, to hack a gas pump, or for there to be a need to update your refrigerator's firmware, or for an important component to be decommissioned overnight because a tiny startup on the other end of the world went belly up.
The value of physical hardware is that it can be directly inspected and manipulated in a way that software can't. It's harder for hardware to lie or cheat or hide anything whereas secrecy is a norm in software. The material of software is capable of misleading and confusing it's operators in a way physical objects struggle to do without a gimmick of some sort.
Hardware can be coerced to continue running indefinitely whereas old software needs the equivalent of a specially crafted, hermetically sealed life support system to outlive its usefulness for even a few years.
I'm reminded of when so much of the tools and infrastructure in our lives was stupid, direct, gravity fed, lever operated, simple machines that did one thing and did it well.
Now stuff breaks because a wildly abstracted system of captured photons that we tricked into doing math decided that just one out of those gajillions of uncountable particles was in the wrong place.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy software. It's never been easier to just make a tool to solve hyper specific problems. I guess the issue is that software-centric solutions have just bled into so many applications to the point that it is wildly inappropriate and just plain annoying.
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AAA gaming comes to Apple M1 thanks to the latest Asahi Linux build — Control, Cyberpunk 2077, and The Witcher 3 are playable with respectable frame rates
Asahi Linux is now the first and only distro capable of running x86 Windows games on Apple Silicon devices through a Linux OS.
#hardware
tomshardware.com/laptops/macbo…
HP ink cartridge DRM bypass demonstrated using physical man-in-the-middle-attack
A tiny PCB installed on a refilled HP ink cartridge allows users to continue using it despite HP's strict DRM settings.
#hardware
tomshardware.com/peripherals/p…
#NAS #backup #server #sleep #wake #hardware #configuration #OpenSource
Chipmakers puting AI cores in your CPU and not letting you use them for absolutely anything is the biggest waste of silicon in the history of modern computing.
Those tensor cores are godsend for things like large-scale CAD simulations but the only SDKs/samples provided are hardwired to run pretrained models.
There's no way to access the matrix/tensor capabilities directly. And that goes for both AMD and Intel.
#ai #NPU #tensor #programming #hardware #cpu
USB, wie funktioniert das eigentlich? Certified USB4 (Version 2.0)
Die Fortsetzung der USB Geschichte mit USB4, Alternative Modes, PowerDelivery und USB Type-C. Schauen wir uns gemeinsam an was sich das U...media.ccc.de
With #FreeSoftware you can do something to combat #EWaste!
Production accounts for 75+% of a device's #carbon footprint over its operating life.
Software can determine how long a device remains in use.
Lightweight, up-to-date software, free from bloat and ads, keeps less-powerful #hardware running and out of the bin.
Software freedom means hardware freedom.
Donate to #KDE and other #FOSS projects to support #SustainableSoftware.
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Когда-нибудь я сяду и напишу небольшое ревью на новую версию Audio-Technica ATH-M50xBT2 с описанием различий с первой версией.
Но не сегодня.
#hardware #headphones #log #pic #AudioTechinca #bluetooth #sound #audio #review #vote
Mercedes Puts Faster Acceleration Behind A Subscription Paywall
Back in July, BMW raised a bit of a ruckus when the company announced that it would be making heated seats a luxury option for an additional $18 per month. Now, Mercedes aims to take the concept on…Techdirt
See our good friend and frequent guest, @kyle, discuss supply chain security in this CNBC piece on manufacturing consumer electronics in the USA. We're excited to see @purism in the news!
#security #supplyChain #infosec #manufacturing #electronics #hardware #phones #teamKyle
Why The U.S. Fell Behind In Phone Manufacturing
Made in China. It’s a common phrase known by many. Cell phones, TV screens and game consoles are just some of the millions of electronics manufactured and im...YouTube
Initial thoughts on the HP Dev One laptop with Pop!_OS
HP and System76 teamed up for the HP Dev One, and for a little while now I’ve been using it as my main machine for everything possible for GamingOnLinux related and otherwise. Here's my initial thoughts, with more to come when I've had more time.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Conformant open source support for Mali-G57
The open source Panfrost driver for Mali GPUs now supports the new Valhall architecture with fully-conformant OpenGL ES 3.1 on Mali-G57, a Valhall GPU.Collabora | Open Source Consulting
Computertruhe e.V. are volunteers in Germany who repair abandoned computers so they can be donated to charity.
You can follow their main account and also several local branches:
➡️ @computertruhe (main account, in German)
➡️ @@ComputertruheBerlin (Berlin branch, in German)
➡️ @ComputertruheChemnitz (Chemnitz branch, in German)
➡️ @ComputertruheMuenchen (Munich branch, in German)
Their website is at computertruhe.de
#Computertruhe #NGOs #Deutsch #Computing #Germany #Activism #Hardware
#hardware #computer my aging respectable desktop Is hanging during firmware init. It doesn’t respond to the keyboard and it’s not possible to boot to alternate media.. I really don’t want to buy a new pc this year, does anybody have suggestions on what h/w or S/w issues might cause this?
Numlock on keyboard toggles light but that’s about it.
Memtest86 has come up clean in the recent past. Disks are fine. Video card is ok too I swapped all these for spare components.
