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  • D.C. Grand Jury Orders Reddit to Turn Over Data on Anonymous ICE Critic

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  • This reporting says that the subpoena requires that Reddit produce the information and appear for a hearing.

  • D.C. Grand Jury Orders Reddit to Turn Over Data on Anonymous ICE Critic

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  • No, it's not volunteering, at least not anymore.

    Subpoena is legal Latin for "under penalty," because noncompliance with a subpoena carries a penalty.

    Originally, it was an information request from the feds, and Reddit refused. Then they escalated to getting a grand jury subpoena (which means they got a bunch of normal citizens to agree that the information was relevant to a criminal investigation), so now noncompliance carries a penalty.

    Reddit notified the users, who hired their own lawyers, who are resisting the subpoena and will litigate it to where they need a judge to decide whether Reddit will have to turn the information over.

    That's the process for these things, and we're a couple steps in already.

  • The mist of the www

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  • The website could know whether the username actually exists on the system. But revealing that information is a security weakness because someone could at least learn who has an account at that site (especially if usernames are email addresses, as they often are).

  • We Found a Ticking Time Bomb in macOS TCP Networking - It Detonates After Exactly 49 Days - Photon Blog

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  • The article describes how they immediately went to look for an unsigned 32-bit millisecond counter when they noticed it was happening around 50 days since last reboot, because they already knew that association you describe.

    Interesting writeup. Fun little story about the detective work involved.

  • Half of planned US data center builds have been delayed or canceled, growth limited by shortages of power infrastructure and parts from China — the AI build-out flips the breakers

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  • God I wish democracy meant that we could vote on decisions like this

    You can! Only problem is that it's one vote per dollar instead of one vote per person.

  • Ubuntu Linux raises minimum system memory requirements by 50% — requirements bumped to 6GB of RAM, previously raised from 1GB to 4GB in 2018

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  • It sucks though, I agree - software should get more efficient over time, just like hardware does.

    It generally does, for any given computing task, but the problem is that generally software adds more features over time, not least of which is supporting new hardware that hits the ecosystem.

  • Do forks of Claude Code make OpenCode completely obsolete?

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  • What if license and copyright was washed by using an LLM to translate Claude into another language?

    The law doesn't allow you to launder copyright like that. That's just a derivative work, which can be restricted by the copyright holder in the original. As an example, in fictional writing, distinct characters are copyrighted, and using an LLM to generate new works using those copyrighted characters would still be a derivative work that the original copyright owner would have the right to deny distribution.

    So if you have a copyrighted codebase and you try to implement that codebase using some kind of transformation of that code, that'd still be a derivative work and infringe the original copyright.

    Now if you have some kind of clean room implementation where you can show that it was written without copying the original code itself, only working to implement its functionality through documentation/reverse engineering how the code worked, you'd be able to escape out of calling it a derivative work and could distribute it without the original copyright holder's permission (Compaq did this with the IBM BIOS to make unauthorized/unlicensed PC clones, and Google did this with the Java API to make Android without a license from Sun/Oracle and won at the Supreme Court).

    Claude can’t be copyrighted because it’s a product of an LLM.

    No, because Claude's code is still created by humans with the assistance of non-human tools. There's a spectrum from spelling correction and tab completion in IDEs all the way to full vibe coding with a prompt describing the raw functionality (where the prompt is so uncreative that it isn't itself copyrightable). Anthropic has never claimed that there was no human in the loop, or that the prompts it uses are so uncreative and purely functional so that the outputs aren't copyrightable.

  • Many EXT4 Fixes Lined Up For Linux 7.0-rc6

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  • When I first switched to Linux around 20 years ago, ext3 was the new default on the Ubuntu installer, while a few holdouts on the forums were still recommending ext2 to new users to see whether and how ext3 would hold up to real world usage.

  • World's smallest QR code, smaller than bacteria, could store data for centuries

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  • Unless it can be paper thin this does not look better than magnetic tape.

    As the article explains, the whole purpose here is to be able to store data on a medium that can endure harsh conditions, including heat, moisture, radiation, and physical abrasion. The company's website claims the medium can retain data for 5000 years without power, and is water and fire resistant.

    I reckon you could scratch it pretty easily.

    The underlying ceramic film is already used for protecting tools like drill bits and saw blades from physical damage, which is why it was chosen for this project. They already found one of the most durable materials in the world, and asked whether they could store data using that already-durable material.

  • Micron says driverless cars and robots will need 300GB of RAM

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  • With the current level of tech in a car, you're already likely pushing 300GB in total.

    The actual article (and the call it is reporting on, with statements from the CEO) says that 16GB is the average in new cars today. No need to make stuff up.

  • Ageless Linux Emerges to Protest OS-Level Age Verification Laws

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  • Set default birthday at 1970-01-01.

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  • Will they actually devote the resources to try to pierce the anonymity of those handful of people? Everything we've seen about how tech companies operate is that they reach a threshold of "good enough for most cases" and don't bother trying to optimize the edge cases. Collecting the billions of data points to try to use dozens of analysis techniques, and then having some kind of meta analysis on how to resolve disagreements between models, would be resource intensive beyond their own profit motives.

    Someone who wants to defeat gait analysis with a different pair of shoes (heel height and sole thickness and back support affect how people walk), and wears a mask might lose the arms race if the tech companies choose to continue to improve the tech even after it's already good enough.

    I think it's possible but not inevitable. Especially if there's a financial reckoning for AI companies soon.

  • Every little bit counts

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  • Good article for pointing out that specific rocket math. The optimistic tone of that article, though, is very much a product of its publication date of February 2020. The space programs have suffered major technical, financial, and political setbacks since then, and the geopolitical moment doesn't really lend itself to megaprojects like moon missions.

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  • Linux was my daily driver from 2007 to maybe 2015, when my regular travel with my travel laptop (a Macbook) turned into my main computing device, even if my home computer was still running Linux.

    I might switch back this year and give Asahi a try on my personal laptop. I'm almost to the point where I don't need to be using proprietary software for professional related things, and once that happens, I might be able to make the switch. The Linux world has presumably moved on a bit since I was last regularly using it, but how different could it possibly be?

  • Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry

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  • Education and enterprise still have a need for a lot of group-managed laptops. Not all of them will be power users, either. Some of them won't even have sophisticated IT departments (thinking about elementary schools and the like where their IT needs might not run very high).

    I agree that we're probably seeing the waning days of the casual laptop user who administers their own system as an independent device. Everyone will either be further up the enthusiast/power user ladder or will have switched to phones and tablets.

  • Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry

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  • I’m glad the MacBook neo is only 8gb. That means they have to support it as a usable low-end target.

    This is huge. Apple has traditionally supported its laptops for at least 5 major OS versions and 2 more years of security updates, so they're essentially telling us that the MacOS version they release in 2034 will not require more than 8GB of RAM to function is gonna be a good thing for all users, who will mostly presumably have much more memory available.

  • Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry

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  • I switched to Macbooks specifically for the 11" Air. I do wish they'd bring that form factor back.

  • Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry

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  • Macbook build construction (ever since they've moved off the plastic entry level Macbook to all aluminum for all their models) is really solid but not necessarily rugged. The hinges and ports seem to hold up better than a lot of other devices from HP and Dell or whoever, but some models are more susceptible to drops, dust/sand, moisture, etc., than the solid construction would lead you to believe.

    So it depends on use case. I think they hold up very well to normal indoor use, for many years, but might not be the ideal device for clumsier people or those who might be routinely using it outdoors or in more rugged environments.

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  • I think TouchID isn't a priority for them, but looking at the supported M1 and M2 devices and features, it seems like it could be a daily driver. It has things I never got to work on my first Linux laptop (webcam, microphone, speakers, suspend, keyboard backlight, wifi, bluetooth), although it's 2026 so those are basically all expected. No thunderbolt, touchID, or display port alt mode, though, does make it a step behind MacOS, with some doubts it'll ever fully catch up even on this 5-6 year old hardware.

    Still, these were very popular devices, so I think they'll stay on the used market for a long time. I might pick one up if it's cheap enough.