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I bought a desktop with “strange and undesirable” hardware (an Intel discrete GPU) from Facebook Marketplace at a substantial discount to any new machine with the same performance.…

Does your local NPR station (or even PBS) have local journalists? Obviously their primary formats aren’t written, but my local NPR has a fantastic website also.

5G is probably not a requirement for your phone service (although I can’t say for sure). The critical bit on networks in the U.S. and many other countries without 2G or 3G is VoLTE…

It’s fairly common for gifted people to struggle to communicate when they’ve made a multi-step inference in their heads. Whether this technology actually allows them to express the…

> Most programming jobs are remote. Where is this true?

Microsoft’s Copilot products are a very similar situation where the enterprise and consumer (and GitHub) features only make sense if you think about the org chart. Both companies n…

Homebrew also runs on Linux, it’s a common way to install minor command line utilities on a immutable/atomic distro

No matter how you restrict it with MDM profiles, it’s distracting compared to pencil/paper.

I’ve read this article every time it’s gotten posted here and it’s always gone a little over my head. I was able to follow how he used 8 x86_64 registers for the VM’s stack slots a…

The “kernel” in Qubes is arguably Xen rather than Linux, and that’s where the security boundaries are supposed to be defined rather than within VMs that may be running any OS. VM c…

You can run Android on an iPhone 7 as a demo, but not for any practical benefit: https://projectsandcastle.org/

You can do substantially more in UEFI than NES-level games. (See https://uefi.org/specs/UEFI/2.9_A/12_Protocols_Console_Suppo... )

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I just tested this in the U.S. with a toaster plugged into my outlet and there was a 40 Hz peak in the graph. I had a hard time telling where the wires were in the wall, though, ma…

“entii-for-workcubes” is a pretty good pun!

As I understood it, Memory Integrity Enforcement adds an additional check on heap dereferences (and it doesn’t apply to every process for performance reasons). Why does it crush ha…

Private Cloud Compute uses their own hardware: https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/

Extra pedantic: that’s the en dash, the em dash is option-shift-hyphen

Am I the only one who feels like it isn't the responsibility of backbone ISPs to filter traffic like this? In the case of a DDoS situation I could get behind it, but in this case I…

I feel like the nondeterminism makes LLM-assisted programming a different sort of concept than using a compiler. Your prompt isn't your source code.

Apple also puts fn/globe in the bottom left corner and control to its right.

In his talk a few days ago, one of the main Asahi developers (Sven) shared that there is someone working on M3 support. There are screenshots of an M3 machine running Linux and pla…

If you “fling” the page, lift your fingers off, and then tap with two fingers, does the page come to a stop?

Defendants trying to exclude ALPR evidence often invoke Carpenter v. U.S. (or U.S. v. Jones , but that’s questionable because the majority decision is based on the trespass interpr…