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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Disowning current tariffs doesn't mean they'll go away, either, though.

Tariffs are easy to put in place, but hard to roll back. You can put then in place on a whim, basically, but then the target country will retaliate with their own. As a result, removing them requires diplomatic negotiation to make sure the removal is bilateral. That's not easy to do during times of icy relations like China and we currently have.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Still I expected them to try harder this time, because the technologies to develop a good GPU, are strategically important in other areas too

I think I read somewhere that they're having problems getting AIB partners for Battlemage. That would be a significant impediment for continuing in the consumer desktop market unless Battlemage can perform better (business-wise) than Alchemist.

They probably will continue investing in GPU even if they give up on Arc, it might just be for the specialized stuff.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I believe it actually is used in regular Mint (the Debian kernel doesn't include it, but it looks like Ubuntu's and Mint's do). But yes, I suppose it is still in the process of being adopted by various distributions.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (13 children)

To be fair here, no one's certain this will be cost-effective either. The new techs make it worth trying though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

As far as I know, Linux ignores NTFS permissions when given raw access to a disk, or rather, acts as thought it's SYSTEM or some other high-level user, working around anything Windows might have set.

I think that was the case for ntfs-3g.

I'm not certain that's the case anymore with the new kernel NTFS driver, though I havent tested it. If it isn't, it should be correctly handling the file premissions.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I'd try Heiboard again, but it didn't have built-in layout options, nor a clearly communicated way to get them last I tried it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I think that's on the development plate for 0.5 if I understand correctly.

Sadly AnysoftKeyboard hasn't seen a release in some time either. Still using it for now, though.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 weeks ago

I'm surprised it's not mentioned in the article, but also complicating this situation is the Chagos refugees seeking to take control of the TLD and/or receive reparations from the current registrar.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

Their relationship had been kind of good until recently as there has been an uptick in dissatisfaction on the status quo of Taiwan's political status (unspoken independence) — mostly on China's side, but also from some Taiwanese.

They remain important trading partners for each other, though.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's not that it's a threat, it's that there's a difference between archiving for preservation and crawling other people's content for the purpose of making money off it (in a way that does not benefit the content creator).

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Not all applications on your computer may be encrypting their packet traffic properly, though. That goes especially for the applications that might be trying to reach out for resources on your local home network (like printers, file shares, and other home servers) as well as DNS requests which are usually still made in the open. I would not recommend eschewing an entire security layer willy-nilly like that. On public Wi-Fi, I would definitely still suggest either a VPN or using your cell phone as a tether or secure hotspot instead if possible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Sony holds the rights to a bunch of them.

 

Rant incoming:

This was spurred by having just read https://www.androidpolice.com/google-tv-streamer-questions-answered/ , particularly this bit:

When I asked directly, a Google representative told me they couldn't confirm which chipset powers the Google TV Streamer — essentially, Google declined to answer.

I've been noticing an increasing trend by device makers to not disclose the SoC their devices run on. I've been seeing it with e-readers, network routers, media streamers, etc.

It's incredibly frustrating to have devices actively exclude important information from their spec sheet and even dodge direct questions from tech news reporters. Reporters shouldn't have to theorize about what chip is in a released device. It's nuts.

If you're wondering why this infomation is important, it can be for several reasons. SoC vendor can have significant impact on the real world performance and security of a device. It also carries major implications for how open a device is as SoC vendors can have dramatically different open source support and firmware practices.

I've had to resort to inspecting the circuit board photos of FCC filings way too much lately to identify the processors being used in devices. And that's not a great workaroud in the first place as those photos are generally kept confidential by the FCC until months after the device releases (case in point the Google Streamer).

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