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In less than two years, a billion computers will be officially orphaned.
au.pcmag.com/security/102146/microsoft-needs-to-get-serious-about-its-windows-10-upgrade-problem
70% of the world's PCs still run Windows 10, and most of those can't officially upgraded. Not that Windows 11 is an upgrade so much as an endless sequence of annoyances.
While it relegates a billion perfectly functional computers to landfill, Microsoft is using 20% recycled plastic in its latest mouses.
Wasn't me
nostr:npub15fkerqqyp9mlh7n8xd6d5k9s27etuvaarvnp2vqed83dw9c603pqs5j9gr this you?
nostr:npub1s7h9vtyxw8ww3720v522w7lstdy7nsw0yd8zy0c669tqnf7773lq7qjdp3 did you do this?
A new communications satellite has instantly become one of the brightest objects in the night sky and astronomers are peeved, though when are they not?
archive.is/Ao1JE
BlueWalker 3 is a test run for AST SpaceMobile's BlueBird satellite constellation, designed for direct orbit-to-ground smartphone service. To achieve this the satellites are much larger than Starlink's - 64 times larger as seen from Earth, and thus 64 times brighter.
>To find the specific impact of BlueWalker 3, the authors of the new study compiled observations of the satellite recorded by amateur and professional astronomers in Chile, the United States, Mexico, New Zealand, the Netherlands and Morocco. This global campaign revealed that BlueWalker 3 reached a magnitude that made it as bright as Procyon and Achernar, two of the 10 most luminous stars in the sky, according to the study.
The problem is not so much that it is bright, as that it moves relative to the stars and spoils your photos, like an inquisitive squirrel at a wedding.
>"I really like how they used many different telescopes from many different places in the world; it highlights how this is truly a global problem," said Samantha Lawler, an astronomer at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan who was not involved with the study but wrote an article in Nature that accompanied it. "One country, or one small company, launches a satellite and it can be seen everywhere in the world."
That is how satellites work, yes.
>"We shouldn't have progress at any cost," Dr. Tregloan-Reed said. "It's like building a brand-new development over a historical site. You can't just do that. You have to protect these things."
More like building a brand-new development in an uninhabited wasteland. There is literally nothing there.
>He also acknowledged that astronomers don't own the night sky but have a vested interest in preserving it. "What we'd like to do is share the night sky, just not with you" he said.
India's Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander, after completely failing to catastrophically impact on the Moon's surface, appears to have successfully succumbed to the frigid two-week lunar night.
archive.is/S5itw
The lander wasn't designed to survive the lunar night in the first place, but they were kind of hoping it would wake up again when dawn arrived. So far no luck.
Unity has fixed the major issues in its new revenue plan, now that it no longer has customers to provide it with revenue.
theverge.com/2023/9/22/23882768/unity-new-pricing-model-update
Shame they didn't give us advance warning so we could short the stock.
Remember when NFTs sold for millions of dollars? 95% of the digital collectibles are now probably worthless.
archive.is/E75kA
Remove "95% of", "now", and "probably".
My personal theory is that the NFT bubble was quantitative easing where hot Corona Chan bucks flooded the economy looking for somewhere do go, and ending up in an annoying place and making everything smell terrible the way water floods always do.
The question is if the Trillions spent on the F35 were worth it.
For the cost of the whole program the US could have gotten something like 80,000 F18's. A fighter that has shown to hold its own 1 on 1 vs the F35.
In a war quantity is a quality of its own. Which is something the US are learning in Ukraine
weird way to say fat bitches
ChatGPT is not coming for your programming job - unless you suck at programming.
wired.com/story/chatgpt-coding-software-crisis/
Programming is hard. Or rather, programming well is hard. IRL job I have to do Python work from time to time, so I can only imagine what other find with other codes full time.
It's rather like painting: Anyone can pick up a brush and do a quick doodle, but Rembrandts are far and few between.
It's actually worse than painting: A painting just has to be pleasing to the eye to be passable. A program has to work and do what you want to. And a program of even moderate complexity can be a machine with half a million interoperating components, every one of which exhibits non-linear response.
>FORTRAN was supposed to allow scientists and others to write programs without any support from a programmer. COBOL's English syntax was intended to be so simple that managers could bypass developers entirely. Waterfall-based development was invented to standardize and make routine the development of new software. Object-oriented programming was supposed to be so simple that eventually all computer users could do their own software engineering.
None of that happened, because programming is a fairly specific skill.
>What did happen is that programmers could use these new tools to accomplish more complicated tasks more quickly.
We've introduced more and more complexity to computers in the hopes of making them so simple that they don't need to be programmed at all. Unsurprisingly, throwing complexity at complexity has only made it worse, and we're no closer to letting managers cut out the software engineers.
ChatGPT - or its open-source equivalents, like ArbitraryCamelid-7B7 - could make a difference in certain areas such as feature tests and pen-testing. However, LLMs won't and can't by their nature replace programmers, because they don't understand what they are doing in the first place.
The LLMs, I mean. Often the programmers too, but the distinction is, not always.
We'd require a different, older, and harder form of AI to do that, and right now nobody is even looking in that direction.
Right on the first instinct
State imposed child molestation.
A maker of "smart" chastity belts left users details such as names and delivery addressers exposed on the internet.
techcrunch.com/2023/09/02/smart-chastity-cage-emails-passwords-location/
The company's website itself was also exposed to hackers, so the researcher who discovered this after getting no response from the company edited the site to add a warning.
The company removed the warning, but did nothing to fix the vulnerabilities.
>The company sells a chastity cage for people with a penis that can be linked to an Android app (there is no iPhone app). Using the app, a partner — who could be anywhere in the world — can follow their partners' movements, given that the device transmits precise GPS coordinates down to a few meters.
Normally I'd mock the insanely jewed "people with a penis" line, but in this one case it is apropos.
