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Unfortunately, (or fortunately depending on how you look at it), new security issues tend to be found over a device's lifespan.


I'm beginning to think that "security" is just a way to make you throw out your perfectly good computer sooner.


Wait till you hear about the specter/meltdown speed performance patches.


It also shows a (potential) lack of understanding of what's happening internally at the upper levels DigiCert. This might have been a known issue or some other very poorly handled thing, is part of a larger pattern or issue, and he's been given the chance to "resign".

Don't condemn people until you have all the facts, which multiple reporters are working on figuring out right now.


They're the ones who gave us the facts. If they want to cover up or lie about it that's on them.


It's one of those things where if someone does the work, they're allowed to show off how they like.

Next time you do an interesting display mod or port, you can choose whatever video you like.


I meant it's a bit like the Lena image in digital image processing.

I get that the original author of the series is above board, but the fandom around touhou is full of enough toxic people that it's often the first thing one encounters or associates with the brand. Kind of like the tug of war with Pepe, but much worse.

I just now did a Google image search for "touhou" (just that term, no quotes) with safe search enabled and you might guess what came back. And these characters are supposed to be children.

I don't want to be a nanny or intrude on people who most likely mean no harm, but if video demos are to have a "standard" test video, should it really be Bad Apple? If you've got something really cool to show off, don't spoil it by associating it with that.


It just is a thing, tbh. It manifests in the data pretty clearly.

In aggregate, in large data sets, race comes through - especially with a few datapoints. For example, when I worked at a fintech company: with household income and zip code, we could accurately target race with >80% accuracy [0]. Add a few more datapoints, and this would very quickly get closer to 95% accuracy.

That was an _actual_ party-trick[1] demo we did, alongside also de-anonymizing coworkers based on car model, zip code, and bank name.

[0] I worked as a SecEng and were trying to prove that we were(n't) inadvertently targeting race, for compliance reasons. In the end, the business realized the threat and made required changes to prevent this.

[1] We were doing this to make a case for stricter controls and stronger isolation/security measures for storing non-PII data. The business also saw the light on this. Sometimes we'd narrow them down to 30 or 40 people in their zip code, and sometimes (such as a coworker with an old Bentley), it was an instant hit.


Confidently wrong, as usual.


This is not an issue about "old hardware" or "old games", it's about an emulator for a currently selling system. I don't agree with what Nintendo is doing, but I understand why they're so angry.


>The fact that it is Google's customers which are being scammed could be part of the reason why Apple doesn't prioritize safety in this case.

this is conspiracy bordering on paranoia. apple has problems, but willingly abusing customers who use the competitors is not one of them


Neither has anyone in the US - they're relatively niche pre-cursors to the SUV, sold a respectable yet tiny amount (500,000), and haven't shipped a product since 1980.


The article is pretty clear that it's going to be a service offered as a secondary option instead of core functionality.

>Apple is preparing new capabilities as part of iOS 18 — the next version of the iPhone operating system — based on its own AI models. But those enhancements will be focused on features that operate on its devices, rather than ones delivered via the cloud. So Apple is seeking a partner to do the heavy lifting of generative AI, including functions for creating images and writing essays based on simple prompts.


fwiw a 320w cpu isn't running at 320w all of the time. if you're powering something off of batteries in a consumer situation, a 240w vs 320w cpu isn't going to move the needle unless you're really running it hard (like a game)


The baseline draw is still much higher than lower spec alternatives, and it means you would need to cater for the high end scenario in your battery estimations if you intend to actually use it during power outages.

I switched from a 5950X + 3080, to a 5700G APU, to finally an M1 MBP + Steam Deck last year for this exact reason. Far cheaper to have a 250wh battery that can handle those two for the ±2h outages every day.


For an ordinary consumer UPS that's not trying to keep the system up for hours but just a few minutes, the peak power consumption probably matters more than the average: a 750VA UPS might simply trip its overcurrent protection if you're unlucky enough to have a power outage coincide with a spike in system load. With a big enough GPU, even a 1000VA unit might not be safe.

And it might be hard to get your system configured to throttle itself quickly enough when the power goes out: having the UPS connected over USB to a userspace application that monitors it and changes Windows power plans in response to going on battery could be too slow to react. It's a similar problem to what gaming laptops face, where they commonly lose more than half of their GPU performance and sometimes a sizeable chunk of CPU performance when not plugged in, because their batteries cannot deliver enough current to handle peak load.


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