Alphane Moon
That there is no perfect defense. There is no protection. Being alive means being exposed; it’s the nature of life to be hazardous—it’s the stuff of living.
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They cover mainstream topics, but they have a lot of in-depth enterprise tech news and they have their own voice and humour.
www.linuxgizmos.com www.cnx-software.com
Both these sites covers SBCs (not only Raspberry Pi), microcontrollers and random DIY stuff
Some mainstream coverage, but also a lot of random news about open source, niche and historical operating systems and computers
DIY hardware news and projects
Lots of tech news on non-western countries, mainstream topics are covered as well, but often with a different perspective.
www.semiengineering.com www.chipsandcheese.com
Very specialized sources on semiconductor developments. Very in-depth, many of the articles are difficult to understand even if you have solid (armchair) knowledge of semiconductors.
Self-promotion: I am a mod at !hardware@lemmy.world, while coverage includes a lot of mainstream tech hardware topics, there is content on more nitty gritty semiconductor topics (a lot of business type news though), battery tech and unique hardware devices (some retro coverage too). The sidebar includes more specialized tech communities on Lemmy that might be of interest to you.
What the fuck is this shit?
I wouldn’t go as far as saying it’s very easy to manipulate American oligarchs. However, they are relatively provincial and lack the capabilities to deal with truly complex challenges.
They operate in an environment with no real risk. They’ve never dealt with any real challenges. The US judicial system is a joke (even in China, Alibaba’s Jack Ma immediately regretted going on a public chimp out). US society is either openly supportive of corruption and criminality or lacks the capability (true desire and risk tolerance) to address corruption.
This is not to underestimate American oligarchs. They are extremely sophisticated and absolutely committed to their “number go up” fetish, but you also have to be real about what they are.
Not a fan of Chinese tech products either. That being said, US products weren’t that great on privacy even before Trump. And all American firms are involved in corruption to one extent or another.
My hope is recent developments in the US can give some breathing space for platforms/companies that are not Chinese or American.
US products are less risky in the short time, but by using them one is simply kicking the can down the road.
There is a very high possibility that the US will permanently become a de facto proto-fascist oligarch-run plutocracy. And it’s not even a Trump thing, the oligarchy was there before him.
No disrespect to sane Americans, I do wish you all the best and I hope I am wrong. However, I hope you understand that the topic at hand requires a sober, cautious evaluation of the situation.
Not only is this the first Pura series phone to run fully on Harmony, including the core infrastructure, but it is also the first time for Huawei’s flagship line to come embedded with Harmony Intelligence, the company’s answer to Apple Intelligence.
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Huawei is on course to fully replace Android OS on its mobile devices and Windows OS on personal computers with HarmonyOS Next, which is also adopted by Chinese automobile makers such as Chery Automobile and Seres Automobile for their electric vehicles.
Yu said the first HarmonyOS-powered notebook will be launched in May this year.
The company also aims to enlarge its developers’ ecosystem to bring in more applications that can run on its Huawei Mobile Services (HMS), a replacement for Google Mobile Services (GMS) and its popular Gmail and Google Map apps. Huawei announced that some big names have already joined Huawei AppGallery, including ride-hailing and food delivery service Grab and airline Emirates.
The much more important news in the article is that they have another other phone fully running on their Harmony Next OS (that has no connection to Android).
I wouldn’t be surprised if in the next ~10 years China will largely replace Windows/Android/iOS with homegrown alternatives.
While I am no fan of the CCP, this is a smart move. The United States is unreliable, petty and extremely corrupt; not the qualities you want in the home country of your main technology platform providers.
I doubt anyone will use this except for crypto bagholders who have no interest in music (or anything really) and are just looking to dumb their bags the next mark.
That’s the way.
The irony with all these oligarch statements is that if an employee applies their economic philosophy in a direct manner, the outcome would be that the employees’ sole goal should be to work as little as possible to gain as much money as possible while not getting fired.
You want to optimize your return per hour if you are salaried. It would make logical sense that you need to lower the amount of hours worked to get the highest possible return on a per hour basis.
You would also want to focus on approaches that make it difficult to fire you as opposed to focusing on organizational goals.
I am not saying I agree or disagree with this approach, there are clearly many issues with what I am saying (other poor souls will have to pick up the slack for your laziness), just highlighting the inherent contradictions of oligarch propaganda.
Recently, she’s been tackling a new challenge at Sunshine, her AI-driven startup focused on making everyday tasks more seamless, starting with managing users’ phone contacts and reminding them about birthdays. The company’s latest AI-powered photo sharing app reflects Mayer’s broader vision for how technology can enhance personal connections and interactions.
What a bunch of PR word salad.
I skimmed through most of the article, it reads like an oligarch propaganda piece. But in the BBC’s defense they did ask some relevant questions.
In particular, Mayer’s framing of “pessimists” and “optimists” is almost beautiful in an abstract kind of way.
It is not a matter of being pessimistic or optimistic about ML powered services, it’s a matter of not trusting a bunch of vapid, corrupt, dishonest ghouls like Mayer and her ilk.
Only a complete fool would believe the word salad about wanting to make the world a better place and leveraging technology to help develop human connections. It reads like a parody or satire.
These mother fucking AI pump and dump promoters. He full well knows what he is saying makes no sense. Why would an ML algorithm solution find a job unpleasant? I doesn’t know or feel anything.
Amodei is trying to anthropomorphize their service (to play into the notion of AI being completely revolutionary) in order to keep the grift going.
A damning result for AI pump and dump scammers.
The Americans are definitely going to cut off StarLink, we don’t have any option even if OneWeb isn’t fully ready.
Don Ho is a stand up guy! Notepad++ is also a great piece of software.
Fireflaya disrupts da AI system!
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I am old enough to remember not have mobile phones (not even smartphones) or even having a desktop PC that wasn’t connected to the internet (although we did get dialup about 6 months after buying the PC, parents thought might as well do that).
I don’t deny the utility of a smartphone or PCs for that matter. My issue is with framing a techology device as a sort of metaphysical source of “liberty” and “empowerment”. Any tool can be used for bad or for good, it’s all up to us. There are pro/cons to digital hardware and services.
It’s like with industrialization, it clearly led to empowerment of wider society. Collapse of regressive feudal models, increased education among “commoners”, rise of democracy and so on. But all of this didn’t happen in a vacuum. It required global revolutionary movement that scared the oligarchs of the time into giving consessions to commoners (because at high level they realized things could have worked out really bad for them).
Then there is the propaganda line, an almost communist-like veneration around Ivey (even though in the global context it is most definitely not iOS devices that are having most impact) and some bullshit about Ivey caring.
“I care and shit about you plebs … ugh … yeah, the negative effects bother me … Not sure how something I was involved in can have negatives, but yeah I really care! See I am even saying I care on this random BBC musical program! That’s how much I care!”
Sounds like an oligarch propaganda piece.
How has the iPhone contributed to empowerment and liberty? It’s a technology tool that can be used for both good and bad things. There is nothing “inherent” about smartphones that leads to empowerment and liberty.
And I don’t think he gives a shit about anything beyond his financial position and maintaining his social status and legion of fanboys.
FWIW, I did not have a single book with DRM issues. That being said, I don’t have too many “hot bestsellers” or something similar.
Get them out of Amazon:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=361503
It works, I just exported alk my ebooks into epub earlier today.
Let’s just hope that this has a noticeable impact on the hyperscale CSPs bottom lines in 4-6 quarters. Europe has a very a very bad habit of kicking the can down the road and not rocking the boat. Now is not the time for such meekness.
If you don’t live in the US, you’re asking for trouble if you use American tech. Doesn’t matter if the provider is sane or not, they are still subject to the whims of a proto-facist regime. But even beyond the regime, the American business community is extremely corrupt. They might not see it as corruption (corruption is what happens in some shithole), but that’s just an excuse.
And with all due respect to sane Americans, unless there is a massive change in their risk tolerance, it is unlikely there will be any movement away from proto-facism in the short to medium term.
Things aren’t going to magically sort themselves out.