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Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They take your data down pretty quick when you die and stop paying for it. And as much as we all want to think AWS and GCP and Azure are sticking around forever there’s no reason at this time to believe they will be around in 100+ years.

Busch Gardens Williamsburg platinum pass review in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

You get the pass for you, to which you get unlimited visits. As a peek of having the pass, you get additional single day park passes you can cash in using the kiosks. I’ve got lower tier pass, so I only get 6 instead of 10, but I’ve been able to bring friends and family a few times using those passes instead of them having to pay to get in the park.

Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (3 children)

There have been plenty of cloud services that have shut down and taken their data offline. And plenty of current ones deleted data after users have gone inactive. Or require constant payments to keep accounts active. Cloud, as it exits now, is not the answer to the archival question.

Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)

But it can be rusted.

Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Don’t forget, you also need drives that work that long and connect to computers or some other device to utilize the bits, and the bus they use must be available and working, and the disk format they’re written in must be readable, and the images themselves encoded with an algorithm that we still have access to, etc. it’s not just the media.

I think it’s possible, thanks to the retro enthusiasts, we still have access to some things from the 70s and 80s, but they’re getting fewer and fewer, especially in a working state. That’s only 50yrs ago. What happens when you want to go 100? Or 500? A few thousand? We are familiar with journals from the Civil War, and have found items and notes from Egypt, Roman, and Ancient Greek civilizations, how can we preserve what happened in the currently information rich time we live in, for future generations? Especially as much of it migrates online to blog posts and social networks and news sites that eventually shut down due to corporate issues or shifting internet traffic?

Apple Vision Pro’s Eye Tracking Exposed What People Type in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago (3 children)

This makes perfect sense. The only way around it would be to randomize the location of the digits/letters, and I’m sure people would throw a fit if that was the case. Still it should be an option.

After a couple weeks being busy IRL trying to catch up with the online world in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (2 children)

CATS: You have no chance to survive make your time.

Black mold growing on the dispensers at my local McDonald's in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Currently. Iirc, this is being removed company wide. I know the ones near me recently renovated and no long have customer accessible drink machines.

Voyager 1 Team Accomplishes Tricky Thruster Swap in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If you’re not replacing it for spec bumps, how do they make money?

That said, smart phones are so much stronger and durable than they were even 10yrs ago.

Huawei unveils world’s first tri-fold phone, the Mate XT Ultimate Design in c/[email protected]
Linux only has 0.3% market share in Antarctica unfortunately in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Interesting and sad to hear. Personally I’ve gone with Lenovo if I’m not going with Mac. Heck, My wife has a 2011 Lenovo which has been running flawlessly. The only thing I did was bump the RAM and put in an SSD when Win7 upgraded to 10. Maybe I just skipped the crappy years?

Linux only has 0.3% market share in Antarctica unfortunately in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago (9 children)

All joking aside, I haven’t had issues with Macs overheating in years, especially with the M chips. Last time I had an issue was when they tried to cram an i9 in a MBP.

Now the Dell laptops we have at work on the other hand, I’ve had to down clock them in bios so they don’t run at 100% or they will literally overheat just running windows. One of my coworkers has to run his upside down or it doesn’t get enough air through the vents to prevent it from auto shutting down due to thermal issues.

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Scathing Federal Report Rips Microsoft For Shoddy Security (lemm.ee)
 

https://apnews.com/article/b0901a93cca2ffaf05edacbfb9ecf3da

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BMW uses autonomous cars for boring, repetitive tests (arstechnica.com)
 

On a large empty slab of asphalt, two BMWs take off. They drive in figure eights and along an oval path separate from each other but nearly in tandem, like two ice skaters practicing the same routine on a piece of black ice before coming to a stop.

Neither of the cars has a driver. That's not that impressive; self-driving cars in testing environments shouldn't impress anyone at this point. Essentially the automaker tells the car to drive a route, and it does it. The important thing here is why these cars, outfitted with additional sensors, are driving along the same route again and again, each time depressing the accelerator the same amount and applying the exact amount of pressure on the brakes: They're testing hardware with the least amount of variables you can encounter outside of a lab.

"It's boring for human drivers," says BMW's project lead for driverless development, Philipp Ludwig. When a human is asked to perform the exact same task repeatedly, the quality of the work diminishes as they lose interest or become fatigued. For a computer-controlled car, it can do this all day. And it has done exactly that.

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The US government is taking a serious step toward space-based nuclear propulsion (arstechnica.com)
 

Four years from now, if all goes well, a nuclear-powered rocket engine will launch into space for the first time. The rocket itself will be conventional, but the payload boosted into orbit will be a different matter.

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Senate bill crafted with DEA targets end-to-end encryption, requires online companies to report drug activity (therecord.media)
 

A bill requiring social media companies, encrypted communications providers and other online services to report drug activity on their platforms to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) advanced to the Senate floor Thursday, alarming privacy advocates who say the legislation turns the companies into de facto drug enforcement agents and exposes many of them to liability for providing end-to-end encryption.

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Gizmodo and Kotaku Staff Furious After Owner Announces Move to AI Content (futurism.com)
 

G/O Media, a major online media company that runs publications including Gizmodo, Kotaku, Quartz, Jezebel, and Deadspin, has announced that it will begin a "modest test" of AI content on its sites.

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The trial will include "producing just a handful of stories for most of our sites that are basically built around lists and data," Brown wrote. "These features aren't replacing work currently being done by writers and editors, and we hope that over time if we get these forms of content right and produced at scale, AI will, via search and promotion, help us grow our audience."

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