The tank could run low in just a few pedal presses due to the extreme pressure. There aren't many places where failure will only cause a slow leak.
Posts by Kevin McMurtrie
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Thousands of Teslas recalled over brake fluid bug
iPhone 15 Pro Max users report seeing ghostly OLED apparitions
Maybe fixable
I've read that OLED has two kinds of burn-in. One is similar to LCD and Plasma display momentary burn-in where charges have settled into insulators to offset the analog levels. All that's needed is a periodic calibration or discharge cycle. Maybe the new fruit isn't creating conditions where that may be performed.
My old Apple Cinema Display had nothing to fix LCD burn-in. It looked like ass sometimes and the only fix was waiting a few days for it to fade back to normal.
LinkedIn lays off nearly 700 staff, engineers to suffer the most
Stability inversion
I've noticed recently that startups appear to be looking more stable when job hunting. They have 2 to 4 years of funding and a long-term vision. Public companies are scratching around for quick share price profits like drug addicts. For all the intricate moving parts in a business, all the top of command has for a plan is a profit target.
Private is even better, but they have stable employees so they're rarely posting job openings.
As it prepares to abandon its on-prem server products, Atlassian is content. Users? Not so much
Cloud Atlassian is good for productivity
The Cloudy version periodically gives your employees unannounced "distraction-free, heads down, working" days. No JIRA tickets or Confluence RFCs popping into your queue. Or take a break in the beautiful outdoors if you need documentation or specifications to get started.
Ubuntu unleashes Mantic Minotaur with 23.10 build
Re: SNAP is an infection that shows no sign of dying off
Snap could be useful but it missing a whole ecosystem of user configuration apps. It should have been a dead idea the moment the plan was wiring it up to the perpetually broken Ubuntu/Canonical/Snap Store app. The command line 'snap' tool might actually be worse.
Canon claims its nanoimprint litho machines capable of 5nm chip production
EPA flushes water supply cybersecurity rule after losing legal fight with industry, states
Excel recruitment time bomb makes top trainee doctors 'unappointable'
Qualcomm to shed over 1,000 staff in California, plus some Brits, starting in December
Beijing-backed server chip startup formed by ex-Arm China execs
Google's third-party cookie culling to begin in Q1 2024 ... for 1% of Chrome users
AI processing could consume 'as much electricity as Ireland'
HTTP/2 'Rapid Reset' zero-day exploited in biggest DDoS deluge seen yet
A cancel request?
This sounds like a feature created by an overly eager intern. A more seasoned coder would demand that clients consume what they request.
HTTP 1.1 actually got this right. You can send requests as fast as you'd like and the server will send responses as fast as it would like, in matching order. People only think that they need HTTP 2 for this because most HTTP 1.1 libraries are too crufty to handle pipelining elegantly.
DoJ: Ex-soldier tried to pass secrets to China after seeking a 'subreddit about spy stuff'
Qualtrics culls 780 jobs amid 'complex' growth spurt
Google says that YouTube vid can wait if it saves on energy
Spy power
How many gigawatts are used for ad tracking, ad serving, and syncing telemetry with the GApps suite on Android phones? Video requires a moment of expensive preprocessing, and maybe some light remuxing for variable bandwidth playback, but it's nothing compared to realtime big-data processing.
Just think about the tiny end of things: the cellphone. The GApps suite seems to use consume 2 to 5 Wh a day if its background data and background power are not restricted. Bump that up to 5 to 10 Wh a day if there's no ad blocker. If there are about 3 billion active Android phones, that's ballpark 20 GWh a day globally consumed recharging phones for power used by Google. Imagine what the servers use.
Everyone should do their part to live a more green lifestyle. Upgrade or re-purpose old servers that consume excessive power. Write more efficient code. Block all of Google's ads and personal data harvesting.
Lorenz ransomware crew bungles blackmail blueprint by leaking two years of contacts
Google introduces phone-shaped housing for its AI tech
Nukes, schmukes – fuel cells could power future datacenters
AWS stirs the MadPot – busting bot baddies and eastern espionage
Odd stats
What is "malicious?"
This is a question that plagues many realtime blocklists. Hostile networks will rapidly rotate IP addresses between legitimate and illegal uses to frustrate blocklist users. Spamhaus will stop delistings on chronically dirty networks, making the service notoriously controversial for its false positives. On the flip side, AbuseIPDB will whitelist networks that are often transiently abused. This encourages even more abuse and makes the blocklist entirely useless against transient attacks.
There are, of course, lots of networks that are 100% hostile and it would be nice if everyone stopped routing their traffic. I'd also be super happy if Amazon could work on their vast network of illegal "affiliate" and "lead generation" customers.
Now MOVEit maker Progress patches holes in WS_FTP
China suggests America 'carefully consider' those chip investment bans
Not really. Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, and Trump's cult are all viciously power hungry and unstable. Would you trust any of them? It's a good time for all to examine their foreign dependencies.
The trade war isn't causing a recession. It's the hostile political environment. It's not going to fix itself anytime soon because people sane enough to lead aren't going to jump into the current dumpster fire.
Microsoft Bing Chat pushes malware via bad ads
Build to fail
Online advertising has always been identify, track, and redirect. Simple as that. Nobody cares where that redirection goes or even how deep it goes. It's unsafe and everyone should run ad blockers.
The funny part was the 2000 dot-com collapse. Many ad slingers had such long delegation paths that they never ended at a paying business. Multi-million dollar deals spontaneously evaporated and only the exec staff and advertising staff didn't see it coming. Sometimes there were even delegation loops.
iPhone 15 is too hot to handle – and not in any good way
Chip firm accused of IP theft bites back, claims Apple's contracts are rotten
No joke: Cloudflare takes aim at Google Fonts with ROFL
And Cloudflare won't be evil?
Cloudflare hinting that they might be less evil is laughable. They've been continuously expanding their access to what they can observe about Internet users. They are also willingly bulletproofing what seems like every fake store and SMS scammer on Earth.
Dear Reg mods fearing Cloudflare's retaliation because of slander: I e-mailed you many examples. I can send you more. There are always more. I'd be really happy if there weren't always more. Just check your SMS spam bucket - Those links start at Namecheap, head through click-trackers at Amazon, then land on a fake store behind Cloudflare. Also https://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/listings/cloudflare.com
AWS spins up more cloudy Mac Minis, now with M2 Pro silicon
Re: EBS Mac?
Understanding EBS performance and cost for your workloads is 2+ hour read just to get started. Then you figure out that snapshots have an immutable EBS type that's not suitable for some uses. OK, so now you have an EBS AMI that's just for booting and it's too small for gp2 so you make it gp3 then buy more IOPS when it's mounted. Now you can add on gp2, gp3, or io2 storage on demand...if the instance supports it. Small gp2 is too slow, big gp3 is slow or expensive, and mind the block size and instance type for io2... Just put that all in a internal documentation on how to fire up a new instance. So it theoretically should be fast now but new instances are all iowait for half the day. Haha, your AMI's snapshot is arriving by dialup modem after the little burst allocation ran out because you didn't buy "Fast Snapshot Restore" for each sub region.
And as always, don't leave anything accidentally running. Turn off "Fast Snapshot Restore" from previous AMIs. Write down the snapshot ID before deleting old AMIs so you can delete the leaked snapshot manually. Oh, delete the CloudWatch logs too because log lines expire, not log streams. Actually, better have somebody manually garbage collect all the stuff that leaks. Just a few more internal documentation pages. Surely everyone reads it.
The home Wi-Fi upgrade we never asked for is coming. The one we need is not
Can I haz a 46GbE switch?
Buying just one ordinary 10GbE switch with 4+1 ports is painful. All that does is link a desktop and server. Faster LAN hasn't reached the 2.5GbE WiFi access points because those are each behind more 1GbE switches that would need upgrading. Putting that speed to use would mean adding a 10GbE NIC to the backup NAS too.
Fly, money, fly away!
IBM's Weather Company leaked my personal info to analytics, thunders netizen
The iPhone 15 has a Goldilocks issue: Too big or too small. Maybe a case will make it just right
And one more thing...
Nope, sorry. Nothing is unexpected or exciting on the phones unless you think USB-C counts. Upgrade when old phone is falling behind on telco compatibility or physically wears out.
It's sad because it seems like there's a lot of potential still in what a phone could do. Makers divide up their products by cost rather than trying to target different options. I was seriously tempted to buy one of those crazy outdoor phones with armor, massive battery, thermal camera, headphone jack, expandable storage, a real flashlight, big speakers, and replaceable battery. It doesn't guarantee that SA 5G works so that means maybe no long-range NR71 while roaming the mountains.
Data breach reveals distressing info: People who order pineapple on pizza
World's most powerful free-electron laser upgraded to fire a million X-rays per second
Uncle Sam names three Amazon execs as Prime suspects in subscription ripoff case
'Small monthly payment' only thing that stands between X and bot chaos, says Musk
GitHub Copilot, Amazon Code Whisperer sometimes emit other people's API keys
Intel thinks glass substrates are a clear winner in multi-die packaging
Chap blew up critical equipment on his first day – but it wasn't his volt
Getting to the bottom of BMW's pay-as-you-toast subscription failure
Software prices without software value
BMW's move was blatantly stupid and provided zero value. I'm surprised that car makers haven't figured out upgrade purchases yet.
Most cars have a high degree of modularity. Just a tiny bit more would make them upgradeable with newer model parts. Engine updates, EV battery updates, infotainment upgrades, better headlights, better seats, new body panels, etc. No need for radical changes to convince a few people to buy a whole new car. R&D investments would pay immediately with progressive upgrade sales.
Serial number tracking would be a little more complicated but hardly difficult. It would be certainly less effort than some places waste on personal data harvesting.
Ford, BMW, Honda to steer bidirectional EV charging standard
Re: "because if you unplug your car, your house goes dark"
The surprising answer is that home batteries are more expensive than an EV. The car also has the advantage that you can drive it somewhere to charge then take the power home home.
I have a home battery to avoid "peak" afternoon rates and getting through nuisance power outages. As much as I dislike the power company, scaling it and solar up to go off grid isn't at all viable today. There would be no ROI, ever, in my urban setting. That could change if old car battery packs get recycled for home use.
Re: Voila!
Or it's a start in freeing ourselves from energy delivery monopolies. The more home-to-home sharing, the less need for the big power company to balance varying local production and consumption.
Batteries age by use and calendar time. For occasional drivers, this could be a little revenue from a car battery pack that would otherwise be depreciating unused.
Meet Honda's latest electric vehicle: A rideable suitcase
Dysfunctionally conservative
It's much too heavy and has too little storage to be a suitcase, so why is it a suitcase? Colorless renderings of it being a perfect fit for an Accord trunk makes it look even more boring and pointless. You're going to drive almost somewhere, rip the trunk gaskets off your tall-assed Accord dragging this beast out, and finish the trip on this?
Not sold in Japan because they've figured out transportation already.
Google outlines Outline SDK: Censorship, geo-block-beating tool to drop into apps
More garbage for Play Store
App developers easily use this to put hostile advertising and personal data collection in their junk apps in a way that's difficult to detect or block. Google sells ads, Google steals privacy, Google sells evil developers cloud proxies, and Google makes more $$$$$$$$$$$.
iPhone 12 deemed too hot to handle for France's radiation standards
Portable Large Language Models – not the iPhone 15 – are the future of the smartphone
Skeptical me
It's not Star Trek time yet. Training and maintaining AI datasets is incredibly expensive. Even when technology improves to make that easier, the same funding levels will be maintained to improve the quality. In other words, there are lots of bills to pay. AI products will be tainted to serve the large corporations that built them.
It could be another 15 years before we have AI that serves only the user and can be trusted with personal data. Even so, we're doomed if AI data ingestion is tricked as easily as real humans.