Bishma

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[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 hours ago

I heard once that in the early days of printing (and literacy) most of Europe's reading material was made for or by the church. And one of the things that was very popular at various points in the 16th century were books of hymns, many of which contained old latin hymns turned Christmas carols. It doesn't explain the lack of New Years songs, but it may be why we continue to have so many Christmas songs compared to every other holiday.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I swear we need an Alec signal, like the Bat signal, that we can shine when topics like this come up.

Here is a playlist is all of Technology Connections videos about the format wars. Alec does a great job explaining the history and showing things off.

TL;DW tape length and price are the main reasons. Arguably if you want to hang the win on a single reason, sports is probably the best answer. Betamax wasn't long enough to tape a full game and Selectavision (which was doomed anyway) couldn't record at all.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 379 points 1 week ago (30 children)

Every person on the internet that responded to an earnest tech question with "sudo rm -rf /" helped make this happen.

Good on you.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 1 week ago

Makes sense, but it still makes me want to grab a coffee and order its murder.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I used to have a rack in a colo in the middle of Portland Oregon. The 3rd floor was the colo and they also had telecom equipment on the roof, but the rest of the building was normal commercial real-estate.

They spent so much reinforcing the floor, sound proofing the floor and ceiling, building a giant door in the wall (so they could crane in equipment), and helping pay for a new local substation that when P.a.a.S. services (AWS, Azure, etc) started they quickly started to struggle to keep the bills paid.

Soundproofing wouldn't be needed if the whole building were servers, but the rest would be.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 1 month ago

Alexa is also the linchpin of Amazon Sidewalk which is opt-out and potentially gives a way for devices in your home (like smart appliances) to connect to the internet whether you give them wifi access or not. Pretty handy surveillance tool.

But don't worry, we've only made Jeff Bezo's powerful enough to rent Venice for his wedding.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 1 month ago

I can't respect that list anyway. Where is Hanna Montana Linux?!

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

Like most of the best things in life, Proxmox is built from Debian.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 34 points 1 month ago (3 children)

They're also inflating conversion numbers (the thing company ad spend is based on) by over 50%. Google is doing the same. So even real ads are only half as effective as companies think.

Good news! There's an ad bubble too!

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Given how much time I spend actually looking at the screen while the show/movie is on, it might as well be in ca. 2000 RealVideo 160x120 resolution.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I guess Don Jr is getting his supply from Columbia these days.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago

This is the first I'm hearing it, and I feel like I'll always be just a little bit sadder now that I know its a thing.

 

While I am glad this ruling went this way, why'd she have diss Data to make it?

To support her vision of some future technology, Millett pointed to the Star Trek: The Next Generation character Data, a sentient android who memorably wrote a poem to his cat, which is jokingly mocked by other characters in a 1992 episode called "Schisms." StarTrek.com posted the full poem, but here's a taste:

"Felis catus is your taxonomic nomenclature, / An endothermic quadruped, carnivorous by nature; / Your visual, olfactory, and auditory senses / Contribute to your hunting skills and natural defenses.

I find myself intrigued by your subvocal oscillations, / A singular development of cat communications / That obviates your basic hedonistic predilection / For a rhythmic stroking of your fur to demonstrate affection."

Data "might be worse than ChatGPT at writing poetry," but his "intelligence is comparable to that of a human being," Millet wrote. If AI ever reached Data levels of intelligence, Millett suggested that copyright laws could shift to grant copyrights to AI-authored works. But that time is apparently not now.

 

Stratasys is claiming infringements on patents it owns (included ones acquired from Makerbot) on things like purge towers, heated beds, and force detection. Many of them things common to most FFF/FDM 3D printers.

Its an interesting coincidence that this lawsuit against one printer maker is happening on the same day as a new product announcement (the Prusa MK4s) from another major printer maker.

In two complaints, filed in the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division, against six entities related to Bambu Lab, Stratasys alleges that Bambu Lab infringed upon 10 patents that it owns, some through subsidiaries like Makerbot (acquired in 2013). Among the patents cited are US9421713B2, "Additive manufacturing method for printing three-dimensional parts with purge towers," and US9592660B2, "Heated build platform and system for three-dimensional printing methods."

There are not many, if any, 3D printers sold to consumers that do not have a heated bed, which prevents the first layers of a model from cooling during printing and potentially shrinking and warping the model. "Purge towers" (or "prime towers" in Bambu's parlance) allow for multicolor printing by providing a place for the filament remaining in a nozzle to be extracted and prevent bleed-over between colors.

 

A lawsuit filed in California by concert giant AXS has revealed a legal and technological battle between ticket scalpers and platforms like Ticketmaster and AXS, in which scalpers have figured out how to extract “untransferable” tickets from their accounts by generating entry barcodes on parallel infrastructure that the scalpers control and which can then be sold and transferred to customers.

By reverse-engineering how Ticketmaster and AXS actually make their electronic tickets, scalpers have essentially figured out how to regenerate specific, genuine tickets that they have legally purchased from scratch onto infrastructure that they control. In doing so, they are removing the anti-scalping restrictions put on the tickets by Ticketmaster and AXS.

So Ticketmaster and AXS are suing to maintain their monopoly on scalping?

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