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  1. 64 vulnerabilities https://www.cvedetails.com/vul...t/vendor_id-10080/Qnap.html A web portal. Lol. I don't think this would be a wise purchase for any company that cares about security
    5 points
  2. Microsoft announces Visual Studio 2022, now in a 64-bit flavor

    FINALLY!!!
    3 points
  3. NASA successfully flies Ingenuity Mars Helicopter

    Fun facts: The heart of the Ingenuity Helicopter is a OnePlus One phone (with a Qualcomm SD801) and like the Perseverance Rover it runs Linux. 😁
    3 points
  4. NASA successfully flies Ingenuity Mars Helicopter

    Mindblowing how bits and bytes traveled 180millon miles (286millon KM) and it 'only' took 3 hours. 20 years ago I was still on dialup. It would take 1 hour to download 20MB at a distance of maybe 3,000 miles. bits and bytes traveling THROUGH SPACE! There's no copper, no backbones, no redundancy, no friction (I believe...), there are other objects traveling in space. We complain if there's a lag while playing videogames, what's 180mil miles in 3 hours of delay..just mind blowing
    3 points
  5. WordPress becomes the latest company to oppose Google's FLoC

    Cookie & FLoC... potato... potahto. Just another way, now via 'cohorts', to still haunt you via personalized ads. And get to know everything from you.... Good thing that Wordpress, after Brave/Vivaldi, Safari, iOS etc, is blocking this.
    3 points
  6. Microsoft announces Visual Studio 2022, now in a 64-bit flavor

    Ok, I'm no programmer but the icons are a clear step back.
    2 points
  7. Sony reverses PlayStation 3 and Vita store closure decision

    Lol, Sony Timer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_timer
    2 points
  8. Amazon invests in nine renewable energy projects globally

    For the scales: As of the beginning of 2018, Amazon’s freight shipping arm has shipped over 5,300 shipping containers from China to the United States (however not all of them are destined exclusively to Amazon). A ship could use 63k gallons per day and it uses from 2 weeks to a month to arrive from China to the USA. 63k gallons is equivalent to 2.1gwh Globally, we are not even close to an acceptable level and I think we are even worsening the situation. However, if we are only focusing on a plastic straw or, in this case, the energy used by the corporate office, then we are creating noise of the real problem. Even more: Amazon owns 60 big cargo planes, bigger than the national airlines of some developing countries. It runs 60,000 of its own delivery trucks, not counting the 100,000 now on order. And, perhaps most startling, it says it now delivers 60% of its packages through its own drivers. However, since most of the delivery trucks are third companies, then they don't count in the green balance. It's a matter of time until we will realize that we should heavily tax shipping to the extent that countries will decide to buy products locally.
    2 points
  9. SoftBank a Japanese investment firm purchased ARM in 2016, rather than ARM going public. The difference here is a bit nuanced. SoftBank is not a high tech company, and have let ARM operate business as usual. Nvidia however will swallow ARM, and integrate it into its operations. It will almost certainly result in jobs being lost in the UK. We need not look further than to the Nvidia-Mellanox acquisition to see how things will go.
    2 points
  10. wait, was Visual Studio really still a 32bit only app until now? why???
    2 points
  11. NASA successfully flies Ingenuity Mars Helicopter

    Source please, as I highly doubt that.... Consumer electronics will not survive the travel through space for all that time, let alone the stay on Mars. And Perseverance runs on Wind River’s VxWorks, not Linux. The copter does run -a- Linux flavor though From JPL’s Tim Canham (Ingenuity operations lead): There are some avionics components that are very tough and radiation resistant, but much of the technology is commercial grade. The processor board that we used, for instance, is a Snapdragon 801, which is manufactured by Qualcomm. It’s essentially a cell phone class processor, and the board is very small. But ironically, because it’s relatively modern technology, it’s vastly more powerful than the processors that are flying on the rover. We actually have a couple of orders of magnitude more computing power than the rover does, because we need it. Our guidance loops are running at 500 Hz in order to maintain control in the atmosphere that we're flying in. And on top of that, we’re capturing images and analyzing features and tracking them from frame to frame at 30 Hz, and so there's some pretty serious computing power needed for that. And none of the avionics that NASA is currently flying are anywhere near powerful enough. Basically it sounds like since Ingenuity is a proof of concept ... they had flexibility with respect to the hardware. Source (and a really good article/interview): https://spectrum.ieee.org/auto...rover-fly-autonomously-mars ​​​​​
    2 points
  12. NASA successfully flies Ingenuity Mars Helicopter

    Only took 42,858 days (117 years and 4 months) after the Wright Brothers first powered flight to achieve powered flight on another planet. Extraordinary.
    2 points
  13. WordPress becomes the latest company to oppose Google's FLoC

    It's one thing to target the ads based on the site's content. However, it's a completely different thing to target the ads based on the visitor to the site.
    2 points
  14. ...and yet, it still beat out the latest gen CPUs from Intel Not the point. Nobody want to buy dated hardware. So would you rather buy the latest gen CPUs from Intel? After all, it is "the latest gen", even though it performs worse. Clearly what I said went over your head if that’s what you got from it. It's a natural interpretation. You are the one being ambiguous. The again, you are probably not a native English speaker, so I can hardly fault you. I’ve already explained it fully to someone else; I am not lowering myself to your level to do it again. Okay, your highness.
    2 points
  15. Another scam for the suckers that the Chinese will use to siphon money away. The actual solution here is to stop feeding these worthless pyramid/Ponzi schemes.
    2 points
  16. Shang-Chi - The Legend of the Ten Rings

    1 point
  17. Shang-Chi - The Legend of the Ten Rings

    I'd bet my soul this will be infinitely better than the Iron Fist series. I'm excited for it.
    1 point
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  19. Microsoft announces Visual Studio 2022, now in a 64-bit flavor

    They insisted it wasn't necessary and decided to take the approach of breaking it into several processes instead. so yes, laziness lol small projects it wouldn't be an issue sure, but larger projects I bet ran into that 'out of memory' error quite frequently due to the 4gb ram limitation of 32bit apps. I'm sure it's been pretty trivial for them to recompile the new version in 64bit too so laziness is the only thing that adds up in my mind. Its 2GB on 32bit, not 4GB. More precisely, 2GB usermode+2GB kernel mode memory. With a special mode, you could shift the ratio to 3GB user + 1GB kernel, but you could not use the entire 4GB for the user mode memory. case and point. that's even worse sounding for an IDE when working on any kind of decently sized project/app in this day and age
    1 point
  20. Agreed there - in fact, WAY overdue! (This SHOULD have been done as part of the original x64 push - Office and Windows 2000.) UNfortunately, I suspect that the reasons are related- if not identical - to the until-recent dearth of x64 extensions and plug-ins for existing x64/AMD64 applications - x32 was STILL seen as "good enough". In fact, weren't we both among the Neowinans that complained about EXACTLY that when Windows 2000 Professional and Office 2000 Professional launched?
    1 point
  21. Wow!!! just in time for EIP 1559! 🤦‍♂️
    1 point
  22. Intel's i7-10700K Comet Lake CPU is 18% off today

    Exactly. prices seem a bit high and I am more than happy with my i5-3550 which I probably won't need to upgrade for years to come. it's nice that CPU's don't get outdated nearly as fast as they once did. well TBH your i5-3550 is like entry-level performance now. I would probably agree with you with your 'entry-level performance' comment, as even using games as a rough measuring stick... you can see CPU's around my level are starting to push the minimums for games (or thereabouts). still, considering how old these 2nd/3rd gen CPU's are (call it about 9-10 years) they ain't significantly worse as long as your not doing tasks where additional cores make a big difference. for someone who's just doing general internet, and other fairly basic enough level of tasks that are not super CPU heavy, even i3 CPU's (maybe even older than those) would still likely be fast enough as you can still do the basics and thereabouts without their being too heavy of a load on the CPU.
    1 point
  23. NASA successfully flies Ingenuity Mars Helicopter

    Source please, as I highly doubt that.... Consumer electronics will not survive the travel through space for all that time, let alone the stay on Mars. And Perseverance runs on Wind River’s VxWorks, not Linux. The copter does run -a- Linux flavor though https://www.androidpolice.com/...s-one-takes-flight-on-mars/ Rereading the article, I guess AP was just pointing out the OnePlus One used the SD801. The chipset is in the Ingenuity Helicopter (and does run Linux). I was already informed in the comments in the same linked article that VxWorks is used on the Perseverance Rover. I have to say there has been a number of poorly worded articles on this.
    1 point
  24. Really?! If their Tegra chips are anything to go by then yes I think so. I don't foresee them locking ARM down anymore than it already is either; if anything they may open it up more than this current company I know nothing about. Time will tell though. History doesn't really show Tegra taking things to a new level though. I'm not saying Tegra on its own does. What I'm getting at is the Tegra chips are quite good and hold up quite well with what Nvidia currently has access to; imagine what they could do if they don't have to jump through hoops for the designs/specs. I'm mainly looking at the Shield devices and Switch for my basing, which both run rather well for what they are. edit: I'm not sure what Softbank does outside of ARM but if Nvidia adds their experience in other chip areas to the ARM base designs then it could potentially benefit all parties that use ARM I'm hoping.
    1 point
  25. NASA successfully flies Ingenuity Mars Helicopter

    Source please, as I highly doubt that.... Consumer electronics will not survive the travel through space for all that time, let alone the stay on Mars. And Perseverance runs on Wind River’s VxWorks, not Linux. The copter does run -a- Linux flavor though
    1 point
  26. iPhone 13 likely to support much faster 5G

    the fastest 5g iphone evaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
    1 point
  27. NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden sells his first NFT for $5.5 million

    Cover provisions? Necessities...Food, clothing, shelter and such. Did you read the article? Proceeds go the Freedom of the Press Foundation.
    1 point
  28. Intel's i7-10700K Comet Lake CPU is 18% off today

    It's cool for those who want to build computers on the cheap... and need it asap (As this is not necessarily the best time to buy computers)
    1 point
  29. yeah I am starting to see that virtual currencies are starting to be way too numerous, I thought the point of having bitcoin was to have one centralized currency around the world?
    1 point
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  31. NASA Mars 2020 Rover (build and mission thread)

    From JPL...
    1 point
  32. WordPress becomes the latest company to oppose Google's FLoC

    Nice to see the backlash against FLoC. Targeted ads need to die
    1 point
  33. I wouldn't throw stones about security patches there. Glass houses and all... https://www.pcgamer.com/amd-zen-3-psf-exploit-hack/" rel="external nofollow">https://www.pcgamer.com/amd-zen-3-psf-exploit-hack/" rel="external nofollow">https://www.pcgamer.com/amd-zen-3-psf-exploit-hack/" rel="external nofollow">https://www.pcgamer.com/amd-zen-3-psf-exploit-hack/" rel="external nofollow">https://www.pcgamer.com/amd-zen-3-psf-exploit-hack/ Awesome, what's your point? That both AMD and Intel have issues? BS. Intel has time and again had security issues that require patches that hurt performance. At this point, people might as well just factor it in to the cost of buying a Core processor. I'm going to get a Core I7, it will run at 100% the first year, and 80% the second year after the patch. You are speculating. Much like the exploits take advantage of. Kind of like you were speculating that he was talking about AMD not having security exploits? It's an Intel article, so... This isn't a BSAB thread. My comments in this Intel thread are about Intel and Intel's recent track record and why my last 4 computers run much slower because of their flaws. I'm fed up with them playing fast and loose with design.
    1 point
  34. ...and yet, it still beat out the latest gen CPUs from Intel Not the point. Nobody want to buy dated hardware. So would you rather buy the latest gen CPUs from Intel? After all, it is "the latest gen", even though it performs worse. Clearly what I said went over your head if that’s what you got from it. It's a natural interpretation. You are the one being ambiguous. The again, you are probably not a native English speaker, so I can hardly fault you.
    1 point
  35. ...and yet, it still beat out the latest gen CPUs from Intel Not the point. Nobody want to buy dated hardware. So would you rather buy the latest gen CPUs from Intel? After all, it is "the latest gen", even though it performs worse.
    1 point
  36. YAY! Just what we need ANOTHER new coin.
    1 point
  37. Any crypto coins that use empty space in savings accounts?
    1 point
  38. ...and yet, it still beat out the latest gen CPUs from Intel Not the point. Nobody want to buy dated hardware. the point is performance. The AMD 4000 series is still fantastic. In cinebench, the processor in the Surface laptop 4 was rivaling the desktop class 1700X. I owned a Ryzen 1800X desktop back in the day and that was a beast machine so to imagine a Surface Laptop 4 running toe to toe with a 15W mobile processor against a 1700X 95W desktop processor is amazing. The performance delta between the 3000 series and the 4000 series is bigger than between the 4000 series and the 5000 series. You too, missed the point. when you sit at a computer doing something, you can't tell what's new and what's "old". you can only tell performance.
    1 point
  39. wait, something like this is actual legal? In most countries it's illegal(criminal) to sell a product higher than marked price, even on ebay/blackmarket. As far as I know - yes it is not illegal (nor should it be!!!) To resell at higher price if there is a demand. That is the basis of market economy. If someone is willing to pay it is their choice. Market sets the price. I am not sure which country you are from but I dont want to be in a place where government can mess with private affairs like that. I am surprised Nvidia did not just officialy raise their prices - everyone else is doing it. It they raise prices themselves they will get the cash - not random re-sellers
    1 point
  40. Retail $999, but you can buy it for $2.000 😔 The scalper bots will finish sales 10 minutes after launch. But who cares, sold is sold...
    1 point
  41. NASA chooses SpaceX to land next Americans on the Moon

    A post borne out of ignorance. Perhaps you've forgotten that many of the advancements you now take for granted came directly from the space programme. Things designed out of necessity to solve certain challenges in space, and things that have come directly from research performed in space. Plus, as DocM said, it's not like this money is just being sent to the moon and lost. It's spent here on earth into our economies. Then, finally, consider the fragility of human life here on Earth. We're destroying our planet bit by bit, and as a single plant species this is a somewhat dangerous thing to do. Having a base and eventually a colony on the Moon is the first step to having a base and then a colony on Mars, and perhaps beyond. Thus reducing the prospects of human extinction dramatically.
    1 point
  42. Calibre 5.16.1 [Update]

    v5.16 is out.
    1 point
  43. How so? guessing they mean the tag functionality but I don't see much else that's really mac-esk. (and I don't count the tabs) Yeah, that I can see. I'm not sure tag functionality really belongs in Windows. Heck, I'm not convinced it belongs in macOS when i had a macbook i never once used that feature..tagging files takes work
    1 point
  44. All I see is a web browser UI with the existing folder pane on the left plus tags. Am I missing something? The best part about this concept is how absolutely ignorant of Windows it's made some other sites look. I think I first encountered this concept in an article on The Verge where the writer excitedly pointed out how "there's even nested folders" in the folder pane, as if they haven't looked at Windows Explorer since literally Windows 95 and thinks every folder still opens up into a new window or something. Articles about this are also littered with comparisons to Finder, which seems strange, since in terms of substance that only boils down to the tags? Any other similarities I don't quite see as uniquely Mac-ish, but rather ubiquitous to a lot of OS file navigation options and hard to remember who did what first. All in all, meh. Points for a concept that looks convincingly like real software? Can't say the same for virtually all other concepts out there that feel like the design equivalent of a YouTube comment -- full of itself, benefitting nobody, sometimes even harmful. Actual review: says "Home" in too many places at the same time. The one-row toolbar is nice and reminds me of the newer Office minimal ribbon. Having the tree pane "outside" of the tab view seems disjointed and awkward, though. Each tab has its own "state" of the pane, right? If the state of the pane is an attribute of the tab, then it makes more sense visually to be within the tab container. Needs a messier example. Concepts need to be pushed with real life situations that make us frustrated today and are the problems that would be "solved" or improved upon by the new approach. Get more than two drives in there, add some network storage, get several folders deep, pin more stuff, make things wrap and overflow, yeah? It's only pretty until it gets ugly. Is this in an "ugly" situation better than what we already have in the same situation?
    1 point
  45. And a lot of the kinds of users that hang around sites like this would love that. People have been lamenting the demotion and eventual loss of fileman.exe since Windows 95. You can't find a thread about file explorer without at least one eventual mention of Directory Opus or Total Commander -- two of the most dated looking pieces of software out there.
    1 point
  46. Which is neat...but considerably slower than File Explorer.
    1 point
  47. Kinda $hit concept because it is missing important ribbon UI functionality
    1 point
  48. NO. There is such thing as "too much simplicity". Nautilus also does this crap.
    1 point
  49. Firefox 89 to receive longer beta cycle to prep for Proton

    I really don't understand why they insist on constantly making pointless UI changes, especially ones that nobody asked for or like. If they want to do this crap, put it into a theme or something, don't force it on all the users who are happy with the way their browser looks/works already.
    1 point
  50. Firefox 89 to receive longer beta cycle to prep for Proton

    Oh, I see you're familiar with Mozilla's MO. They always do this dumb crap. First give you control in about:config and then just remove it when it'll actually matter the most. Of course they don't add official setting for it in Settings page either. I was quite shocked when they actually added "Show Other Bookmarks" setting to bookmarks bar. The rest got so bad I had to write Firefox Tweaker tool so I can change bunch of settings in one click that would otherwise take me half an hour to adjust all manually through about:config (just because they removed ability to bookmark about:config entries). So annoying.
    1 point