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  • All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027

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  • Back cover held by two tiny plastic tabs and your prayers

  • The Downfall and Enshittification of Microsoft in 2026 | Caio Bianchi

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  • Well yes, but you still do not pay each year, this means MICROS~1 is losing profits (in their eyes, and compared to Adobe).

    OEM licenses are also bad, because MICROS~1 is selling each copy of Windows for a significant discount, not for $199.99 retail price. And users can even transfer non-OEM licenses to another PC (oh horror!)

  • The Downfall and Enshittification of Microsoft in 2026 | Caio Bianchi

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  • And yet, here we are. Until 2010, Microsoft would say - "What are you gonna do about it, install Linux and edit .doc files in vim lolol?", but now users would just buy Chromebook instead.

    Coincidentally, Windows did not get any new features since Windows 95 up to Windows 8, because why change the atrocious Control Panel if users are gonna buy it anyway?

    So they either decided that running a device driver certification program is too expensive, or they are panicking and adding dumb shit to Windows to maintain an appearance of doing something to shareholders.

  • The Downfall and Enshittification of Microsoft in 2026 | Caio Bianchi

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  • Windows has stopped being Microsoft't core business since Windows 8 (2015), and turned into an expensive liability. The core of Microsoft business now lies in selling cloud services, compute, and Office 365 subscriptions.

    The problem is - users pay for Windows only once, and not each year like all other fancy rich companies like Adobe make their users do. And the market is saturated, because Microsoft became monopoly around 1995. Every PC sold has Windows installed, and since everyone on the planet already owns one PC per person (citation needed), the sales directly depend on the birth rate.

    Trying to change to subscription model was met with violent pushback from users, so they started adding advertisements to taskbar starting in Windows 10, and created a shittiest app store ever to copy Apple.

    They have been trying to kill Windows ever since, but they cannot due to numerous contract obligations.

  • Engineer open-sources DIY radar system that's 95% cheaper than $250,000 commercial offerings, has 20 kilometer range — Moroccan engineer designs Aeris-10 radar, shares it on GitHub

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  • Military tech companies will be perfectly fine. They typically have 10+ year contracts, and military equipment has a huge price margin in exchange for being reliable and field-serviceable, and the main disadvantage of DIY radar is reliability (unless you also recruit the guy who built it into the army).

    It will probably impact civilian market more, where the same companies will try to sell you an unnecessarily hardened machined aluminium box full of cheap Chinese electronics, camo painted for an additional ten thousand bucks.

    Their next commercial offering might just be cheaper.

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  • Ok, so, someone used an LLM do create changes. This new code is no longer under the project license it is, as you say, public domain.

    Except it is, depending on code similarity. The court uses the same rules as with book plagiarism. If LLM uses exactly same code structure and only renames some variables or adds pieces of code that do nothing useful, high chances the court will declare it a derived work and enforce the license.

  • Engineer open-sources DIY radar system that's 95% cheaper than $250,000 commercial offerings, has 20 kilometer range — Moroccan engineer designs Aeris-10 radar, shares it on GitHub

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  • Radars are very much in use in Ukraine. There is a whole range of air targets besides FPV drones, there are ballistic missiles, fighter planes, bomber planes, helicopters, gliding bombs, and ships, all of which require a radar to detect.

    Acoustic sensors have limited range. By the time it detects a missile, it's already flew one kilometer away, and it's too late to grab your AA gun. Gliding bombs are silent.

    Radars have 50+ km range, and allow to shoot bombers and ships from beyond the border with expensive US-provided missiles.

  • xkcd #3232: Countdown Standard

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  • Moooooonitoring the Cow.txt Herd

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  • I'll wait for Debian package to be made for this.

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

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  • I can tell it's some 32-bit millisecond counter without even opening the article. 49 days period is too specific.

    And since I did not hear anything about MacOS network stack catastrophically breaking on any servers, the impact should be small.

  • New Patches Allow Building Linux IPv6-Only, Option to Deprecate "Legacy" IPv4

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  • IPv6 contains the entirety of IPv4 address space, four times (regular IPv4, Teredo, NAT64, and 6to4).

    So you will still be able to connect to IPv4 internet perfectly fine, you'll just use IPv6 socket for that.

  • How would you design parallel grep for huge JSONL files?

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  • One additinal trick is to compress your files before writing them to disk, using some kind of fast lightweight compression like parallel gzip (pigz command) or lzop. When parsing them, you will have smaller disk reads but higher CPU usage, which will give speed advantage if you have server-class CPU with lots of cache.

  • Got to play with the front monitor on a fire engine today.

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  • It's "water cannon" in English.

    A monitor is usually this:

    Although sound people will call big stage speakers or studio headphones "monitors" for some audiophilic reason.

  • I don't even know what it exactly wants to be

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  • They still make an acceptable FTP server for backing up your huge tarballs.

    Github is more involved, you need to create a release and then attach files to it. With sf.net you jist do a FTP upload.

  • ☆Transformation☆

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  • Is this a blazer hoodie?

  • dennis

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  • DNS is pronounced 'hosts' because it was originally one big text file.

  • Tools

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  • It's these things. Notice how the thread is smaller than the shaft. You always need to drill a pilot hole, otherwise the thread won't bite into the wood. The thread is also pretty tight, so screwing it two-three times in the same hole is enough to strip the wood in the hole, so it can be pulled out with tweezers with almost no resistance. It's also slotted, so if you press too hard your screwdriver will slip out. And if you screw too tightly, the head will rip off, because it's a mild steel.

    Or you just hammer it in.

  • Tools

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  • In Soviet Russia, all furniture was assembled by hammering wood screws. Then the assembled furniture was ripened for up to ten years in special humidity-controlled warehouses, allowing screws to expand and lock in place thanks to rusting. This required making screws from special-grade low-quality steel, and use extra-toxic glue for particle board planks so they would not rot. And still, only one in five assembled pieces of furniture did not have any rotten parts or fall into pieces when you attempted to take it home, making it even more luxurious. It is utterly impossible to repeat this level of craftsmanship in modern world.

  • Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers

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  • "Pretend you see nothing" printed in QR code on the box.