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Getting to the bottom of BMW's pay-as-you-toast subscription failure
Probe reveals previously secret Israeli spyware that infects targets via ads
Google exec: Microsoft Teams concession 'too little, too late'
Meet Honda's latest electric vehicle: A rideable suitcase
Google promises eternity of updates for Chromebooks – that's a decade for everyone else
UK civil servants – hopefully including those spending billions on tech – to skill up in STEM
Save the Children hit by ransomware, 7TB stolen
Long-lost 1977 Star Wars X-Wing prop discovered – lock s-foils in bid position
Atari pulls nostalgia power move and buys homebrew community forum
Google Chrome Privacy Sandbox open to all: Now websites can tap into your habits directly for ads
Musk's mighty missile is ready for launch once FAA says OK
Thursday 7th September 2023 17:49 GMT 
Re: Cost
> Perhaps one of the more unsettling things about Starship is the power it will give SpaceX in space. They can launch everyone else's cargo at just enough under competitors rates such that the competitors will find themselves unprofitable
Is it SpaceX's problem though, if their competitors can't get their shit together?
They sunk a LOT of time, money, and exploded boosters into the reusability angle, and even now that they've proved it's possible to all the naysayers, nobody else seems to be able to do it. Even Rocket Lab is doing some half-assed thing with parachutes and fishing the booster out of the water.
Linux distros drop their feelgood hits of the summer
Toyota servers ran out of storage, crashed production at 14 plants in Japan
Japan's 'Moon sniper' and its two ejectable landers make it into space
You patched yet? Years-old Microsoft security holes still hot targets for cyber-crooks
Vodafone and Amazon shoot for the stars while Kuiper satellites remain grounded
Sure, give the new kid and his MCSE power over the AS/400. What could possibly go wrong?
The only thing launched for Amazon's Project Kuiper is a lawsuit
Tuesday 5th September 2023 00:50 GMT
Well, when that "favorite supplier" is the world's leading launch provider, and demonstrably cheapest, then the situation is different.
How long do you think it would be before a lawsuit, if a government agency put out a cloud IT bid and left out.. say... Microsoft, or Oracle?
Oh wait, never mind: https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/06/jedi_contract_canceled_pentagon/
ArcaOS 5.1 gives vintage OS/2 a UEFI facelift for the 21st century
Farewell WordPad, we hardly knew ye
X may train its AI models on your social media posts
Cops drill into chat apps, sink plot to smuggle tonnes of coke into Europe
What happens when What3Words gets lost in translation?
How to ask Facebook's Meta to not train its AI models on some of your personal info
We all scream for ice cream – so why are McDonald's machines always broken?
Germany's wild boars still too radioactive to eat largely due to Cold War nuke tests
The printout may be dead but that beast of a print queue lives on
Wednesday 30th August 2023 10:03 GMT
Long print jobs
One of the problems with 3D printers is the long print jobs. For me, a typical print is 6-8 hours, and my current record is just over 23 hours.
Ain't no way you're gonna be sitting there watching it that whole time.
So yes, I do worry when I go to sleep or head out for dinner with the printer running. Not so much over a fire, but over the print coming loose from the bed and banging around, or a "globification" where the plastic decides to coalesce around the hotend in an extruder-destroying blob, or a "spaghettification" where it ends up printing in mid-air, resulting in a mass of plastic string. None of these has happened to me yet, but I've seen pictures on the innernetz.
There was a "what if 3D printing was 100x faster" TED talk. I'd settle for 10x faster, but I also realize it forces me to spend extra time on my OpenSCAD scripts and measure half a dozen times, kind of like the old times when you had to queue up to submit your card deck and then wander by occasionally to see if your printout was in your tray, or when a build took several hours.
Wednesday 30th August 2023 08:24 GMT
Don't buy cheap/proprietary shit
> What's striking is how many of the fixes were either technically possible but not implemented, or implemented and disabled by default.
Wait until you hear about the cheap Chinese printers that deliberately removed the temperature safety code from the Marlin firmware. No idea why. It's something you have spend a lot of effort doing, as the firmware comes with all the safety code enabled, and a lot of it you can't disable just by setting a #define. You have to actually find and delete the code.
Quite a few of them caught fire. Google for "anet a8 fire"
Marlin monitors the hotend, heatbreak, and bed temperatures. Not only does it check limits, but it checks for a sudden rise in temperature. It also checks for stalled motors. Plus if the printer has been heating without actually printing for a period of time, it will shut off.
> The most telling fix is that the company will enhance LAN-only mode, where printers use local data, so that it will work if the cloud services are down
My Prusa MK4 is perfectly happy not connected to the cloud. It has a local connection where I can upload my gcode, select a file to print, and monitor progress and temperatures, all in a local web page hosted on the printer itself.
> But a 3D printer that tries to print a new job before the old one has been cleared off the plate?
Before I print something, I have to confirm that the bed is cleaned and clear.
> mandated standard documentation is a known and powerful regulatory tool.
Prusa uses the open-source Marlin firmware. All the standard gcode verbs are copiously documented at https://marlinfw.org/meta/gcode/ and Prusa's extensions at https://prusa3d.github.io/Prusa-Firmware-Doc/group__GCodes.html
Gcode itself is an open standard, going back to MIT in the '50s and standardized in the early '60s. It is mostly used for CNC machining, but the moves in a 3D printer are the same, so it fits well there too.
> Yet if you look at 3D printers not as sophisticated, precise robots, but as machines that have to control a mass of motors, heaters, and complex materials, the picture changes. They have incredibly powerful control code to translate model data to final output.
Wait a minute. Is that not the very definition of a "sophisticated, precise robot"? My printer is repeatably accurate to a few hundredths of a millimeter. The model I'm printing now is 736,966 lines of gcode, which translates to about 530,000 physical moves over a 13 hour period.
> Or we could buy cheap and shiny products and hope for the best.
Did I already say "don't buy cheap/proprietary shit"?
Bambu is already known to be an open-source-hostile closed proprietary company.
Profits just keep rolling in at T-Mobile US. So only thing to do is axe 5,000 workers
After years of fighting Right to Repair, Apple U-turns-ish in California
Zoom CEO reportedly tells staff: Workers can't build trust or collaborate... on Zoom
China's top EV battery maker announced a breakthrough, but top boffin isn't convinced
Thursday 24th August 2023 14:16 GMT
Right, but you're assuming they're plugged in to charge.
I've seen Tesla c*nts using charging stations like parking spots, not even plugged in and pretending to charge, so they won't get the "idle fine"
They may or may not have gotten a handful of roofing nails under the rear tire. I couldn't possibly say.
LibreOffice 7.6 arrives: Open source stalwart is showing its maturity
Arm reveals just how vulnerable it is to trade war with China
SEC fines fintech crypto fund that promised 2,700% returns
Tuesday 22nd August 2023 16:50 GMT
Re: I despair of humanity
Oh that soap opera is still happening.
"The Sotheby's auction house has been named as a defendant in a lawsuit filed by investors who regret buying Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs that sold for highly inflated prices during the NFT craze in 2021"
"Investors previously sued Bored Ape creator Yuga Labs, four company executives, and various celebrity promoters including Paris Hilton, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kevin Hart, Snoop Dogg, Serena Williams, Madonna, Jimmy Fallon, Steph Curry, and Justin Bieber"
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/buyers-of-bored-ape-nfts-sue-after-digital-apes-turn-out-to-be-bad-investment/
Biden to bolster boondocks broadband with a billion bonus bucks (barely)
Misfiring Lenovo hires Ford director to help with revamp
Version 5 of systemd-free Debian remix Devuan is here
Monday 21st August 2023 17:34 GMT
Re: Other option(s)
Sure, but Gentoo uses Portage or some such shit, and I already have a system running Debian using dpkg/apt.
I wanted to keep using Debian but I was not going to put up with systemd, therefore I went to Devuan.
I think most of the problems with the installer is because no one uses the installer to install Devuan onto a clean PC, they usually switch a machine from Debian to Devuan, which is a different process.
Lesson 1: Keep your mind on the ... why aren't the servers making any noise?
Moscow makes a mess on the Moon as Luna 25 probe misses orbit, lands with a thud
Monday 21st August 2023 02:51 GMT 
"rushed attempt"?
Luna 24 was in 1976. Luna 25 started development in the 1990s. That's not quite what I would call a rush job. Well, except maybe if you're Capita.
In the early 2000s it was supposed to be part of the Japanese Lunar-A mission. In 2007, it was supposed to be the lander for the Indian Luna-Resource mission. It was also supposed to be vaguely part of the ExoMars program.
In 2021, they found out the laser doppler velocity & range system didn't work with the integrated guidance.
Also, because of sanctions, they weren't able to use an Airbus inertial measurement unit weighing about 1.5kg, and they had to switch to a Russian IMU weighing about 10kg, which was slower, needed more power, and was far less accurate. Well, I guess now we know how much slower and less accurate it was!
Also note that Russia's previous 4 deep space probes have failed. Phobos 1 & 2 in 1988, Mars 96 in 1996, and Fobos-Grunt in 2011.
Most of this is from Scott Manley's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM8bJsqCLYQ
Google 'wiretapped' tax websites with visitor traffic trackers, lawsuit claims
Saturday 19th August 2023 07:10 GMT
Re: Sue You, Jimmy!
> A website chooses to embed Google Analytics into its pages ... and you think that this makes Google responsible?
Yes, and it's not either/or here. They're both responsible:
1. The website designers for using GA
2. Google, for abusing the f*ck out of the data, and railing it up the back alley as hard as it can, for every last possible penny. They should be sued on general privacy grounds, but the US doesn't really have the concept of "privacy" except in certain special cases, and this is one of them.
That's why I hope they're both getting sued.
> do you also believe Google must figure out which pages are ... involved in the collection of information to go into the tax returns?
Yes, with the currently written law.
In an ideal world, Google wouldn't be taking all our data and selling it to the highest bidder. But they do, and with that comes responsibilities and consequences.
Hold the Moon – NASA's buildings are crumbling amid 200-year upgrade cycles
Friday 18th August 2023 23:29 GMT
Re: It is a tragedy...
Considering the daily bullshit I see around here about vaccines, creationism, intelligent design, magnets that help fuel economy, copper bracelets that fight cancer, and other stuff too depressing to list, nobody here even knows what science IS.
One of my favorite sayings is "we put a man on the Moon, but we can't... oh wait, we can't put a man on the Moon, either"
30 years on, Debian is at the heart of the world's most successful Linux distros
So much for CAPTCHA then – bots can complete them quicker than humans
Tuesday 15th August 2023 22:03 GMT
Re: What next for security now?
I maintain that's why companies like Amazon are so successful -- its not "unfair competition" but rather "we make sure our crap works before springing it on the unsuspecting public"
Unfortunately, I have to agree there.The amount of times I've spent extra effort to find the original vendor of stuff, only to have their website completely fall over when I try to give them money is just amazing.
80% of execs regret calling employees back to the office
Charging your iPhone literally costs Apple millions as Batterygate saga slams shut
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