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Taf the Ghost

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    Taf the Ghost reacted to Distinctly Average in Norfolk County Council vs Apple   
    Summary
     Norfolk County Council  successfully won a  £385m class action lawsuit against Apple for covering up poor sales in China
     
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     While this is just pin money for Apple, for those loosing out on their pensions this is a significant amount. Apple obviously didn’t want a court ruling on this so have seemingly done the right thing. However, it should not have taken 4 years to do so. So this is probably just another case where only the lawyers win.
     
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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-68580235
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    Taf the Ghost reacted to lathiat in Lumafield (who make LTT's CT scanner) post CT scans of the lead in Stanley's Quencher Cup to help understand why it's there   
    Summary
    Lumafield (who make the CT scanner LTT now has) CT scanned the Stanley Quencher cup, recently finding controversy for having lead inside of it (but spoiler alert, it's not anywhere it's going to touch the drink). A great informational series exploring the product, why the lead is used and how it's protected from the liquid inside, with some fantastic explanational images!
     

     
     
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    This is a really great look at what we might be able to get from LTT Labs in the future. How do the internals of various products work (computer parts, or their own creator labs products), especially in areas that it's hard to see non-destructively. They could also potentially find manufacturer claims that could be verified.
     
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    Web Article version: https://www.lumafield.com/article/finding-lead-in-stanleys-quencher-industrial-ct
    X version: 
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    Taf the Ghost reacted to Daftsins in I Can’t Believe How Much I Paid For This…   
    Guys, I went as far as to create an account here just to tell you the video has a whine in the background bleeding from the projector from 1:52 on. It is distracting as it's sitting at an unpleasant 15600Hz. Please mind this for the next time you are working with old hardware because for audio engineers or people with tinnitus (I, unfortunately, fall in both of these groups) this makes the video very hard to watch.

    Keep up the great work otherwise.
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    Taf the Ghost reacted to wanderingfool2 in Yuzu to pay $2.4 Million Dollars in Damage to Nintendo. Citra also affected. Asks Judge to set Legal Precedent against other Emulators.   
    This was a settlement, not a legal precedent.
     
    For legal precedent see Sony V Connectix; where Connectix effectively won the right to reverse engineer the bios.  While not entirely related, it's still relatively related to this.
     
    The biggest thing though is that Nintendo went after them with the anti-circumvention measure, which in my opinion is one of the worst thought out portions of the DMCA.
     
    That's why lots of emulators work in clean room kind of concepts, and don't talk about where/how to extract bioses.  All they need to know is that you provided a valid bios.
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    Taf the Ghost reacted to TetraSky in Yuzu to pay $2.4 Million Dollars in Damage to Nintendo. Citra also affected. Asks Judge to set Legal Precedent against other Emulators.   
    They just gave up without a fight...
    Because Nintendo 100% would've dragged this on, costing them way too much in legal fees.
     
    I went ahead and saved the latest version of Yuzu when this whole thing started. Considering it's open source, though.... Cut one head and 10 more will spawn from it. They will just be more careful about it.
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    Taf the Ghost reacted to rcmaehl in Yuzu to pay $2.4 Million Dollars in Damage to Nintendo. Citra also affected. Asks Judge to set Legal Precedent against other Emulators.   
    Summary
    Yuzu and Nintendo have settled the case. Ending Citra and Yuzu, including a 2.4 Million Dollar payment to Nintendo
     
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    It may be over for emulation. You'd have to create entirely new BIOSes from scratch for any device you want to emulate or the legal precedent this may set will likely make it illegal. I feel like Linus Torvalds and his hatred of Nvidia, only at Nintendo at this point. It is a sad day for Emulators.
     
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    IGN
    The Verge (quote source)
     
    [PROPOSED] FINAL JUDGMENT AND PERMANENT INJUNCTION
    JOINT MOTION FOR ENTRY OF FINAL JUDGMENT AND PERMANENT INJUNCTION
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    Taf the Ghost reacted to DuckDodgers in White House urges developers to avoid C and C++, use 'memory-safe' programming languages   
    In a new report, the White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) has called on developers to use "memory-safe programming languages," a category which excludes the popular languages. 
     
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    The market has been flooded with developers who have degrees or certifications with only a single semester of Java programming. Doesn't matter how "memory safe" the language is. With the incredulously low standard for programmers these days, they are all a threat. Stop blaming the language!
     
    Sources:
    https://www.tomshardware.com/software/security-software/white-house-urges-developers-to-avoid-c-and-c-use-memory-safe-programming-languages
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    Taf the Ghost reacted to leadeater in Omdia has calculated the cost of components for the Apple Vision Pro   
    That will be really difficult to know, mainly since I doubt Apple wants anyone to know, commercially sensitive information yada yada.
     
    What we do know is Apple's Gross Margin is ~45% and their Operating Margin is ~30%, operating margin includes things like R&D but both are overall business metrics not a per specific product like the Vision Pro. Being a new product of a new type gross margin on the product is going to be higher than a MacBook for example since way more R&D cost is involved for the Vision Pro comparatively. that'll go down each generation presumably but could stay relatively high for the first through third 🤷‍♂️
     
    That said I doubt the ~$1500 is all that accurate. This product requires all new molds and tooling, entirely new manufacturing all of which is actually damn expensive. Like many hundreds of thousands for each new mold alone, not including the original product design just the manufacturing design and engineering required to make the part.
     
    P.S. Nvidia's Gross Margin is ~73% and Operating Margin ~49%, AMD ~47%/~5% respectively.
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    Taf the Ghost reacted to creat0r in Omdia has calculated the cost of components for the Apple Vision Pro   
    Summary
    According to research firm Omdia, the Apple Vision Pro's bill of materials is $1,542. The most expensive part is the 1.25-inch Sony Semiconductor display, which enhances the virtual experience with high pixel density and lifelike colors. Apple pays approximately $228 for each Micro OLED display used in their Vision Pro headset. The second most expensive part in the Vision Pro is the main processor, the Apple M2 chip.
     
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    The high price of some components doesn't surprise me since there's some very high-end hardware in this product. It would be interesting to know what Apple's profit margin for the Vision Pro is, after things like R&D becomes part of the calculation.
     
    Sources
     https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/24/apples-vision-pro-why-its-so-expensive.html 
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    Taf the Ghost got a reaction from Agall in Nvidia App goes beta   
    It's been so long that everyone forgets the Control Panel has been slow & laggy the entire time. It's never been a smooth experience. And, man, if you had a weak card that didn't load something properly, even into the late 2010s, was it a chore to try to fix anything.  I never had too much of an issue with the interface itself (it was functional enough), but the hanging and the lag. It was like playing a shooter at 2 FPS. If you had something you had to tweak a few times to figure out the issue, enjoy the hanging and the frustration.  (In some ways it was worse back when it was in the same design as everything else, so then it just came across as incredibly incompetent coding.)
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    Taf the Ghost reacted to porina in Nvidia App goes beta   
    Refresh rate can be set through Windows dialogs and is how I'd normally do it. It is pretty much a one time setting unless you're messing around.
     
    G-Sync will turn itself on if you have a G-Sync Compatible display. The inconvenience may only fall on those with displays not meeting that standard.
     
    Windows 11 still hasn't managed it 😄 
     
    Again, it is beta and it'll probably go through more updates before it reaches full release.
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    Taf the Ghost reacted to porina in Nvidia App goes beta   
    I get that, but I view benching as a special case. You only really need to do that if benching competitively and often that is best done on a dedicated system.
     
    Might be a hang over from when monitors sucked more? Is it actually gamut? I might be thinking of the HDMI dynamic range setting.
     
    Yup, definitely not welcome.
     
    It's been a while since I used it. I do recall having to turn off all the pointless animation effects so it is more responsive. I'd guess finding the settings faster would come over time the more you use it. I don't recall splitting settings over too many submenus to be a major problem. My personal gripe remains that the settings they do show are spaced unnecessarily apart (maybe to cater for touch?) so you only see a handful on a screen when ideally you could see a whole bunch more at once.
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    Taf the Ghost reacted to emothxughts in Nvidia App goes beta   
    Don't mind NVCP's Windows XP looking interface, but it is laggy as hell, this may be a welcome change.
     
    Now if only they also add a feature to adjust GPU clocks and volts, just like AMD's Adrenalin software.
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    Taf the Ghost reacted to RejZoR in Nvidia App goes beta   
    Except it doesn't. It's full of dumb glitches and it has been this way for basically 20 years. I had a  Menu takes forever to open, graphic settings description is overlapped by settings so you need to scroll it just right to see setting description, the menu resets to the top every time you select/change anything, when you apply it flashes several times and takes like 3 seconds to apply. On a modern system with cores, RAM and SSD speeds to throw around. Not to mention it's clumsy to use.
     
    I'd have less of an issue if NVIDIA just made it more responsive and glitch free even if it looked the same. But I had that opinion some 15 years ago. Been demanding total redesign for like a decade.
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    Taf the Ghost reacted to porina in Nvidia App goes beta   
    Just installed the App which replaces GFE for the moment. NVCP can still be accessed.
     
    Had a quick look around. I guess it does what it intended to do in the merging of GFE and NVCP, at least at a surface level. I haven't gone through every little detail. It looks like they haven't fallen for the same trap AMD did in that the density of displayed content is ok. 
     
    NVCP would be ok if it didn't have a weird delay to every action in it. GFE I only use for overlay/capture related, not the game optimisation. So App does seem like a successor to both.
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    Taf the Ghost reacted to AlfaProto in Nvidia App goes beta   
    Summary
    Nvidia App is basically a merge of GeForce Experience and a modernised Nvidia Control Panel all in one package.
     
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    Finally, after all these years, and maybe pressure from Nvidia users due to the fact that AMD has modernised their app, Nvidia decided to pull the trigger and modernised their Nvidia Control Panel.
     
    This new app is now 2-in-1 package, rather than having 2 different apps.
     

     

    Since this is in beta, there are some missing features. The entire Display section found in the Control Panel is missing.
     
    Plus, this basically upgrades the GeForce Experience app.
     
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    https://www.nvidia.com/en-my/geforce/news/nvidia-app-beta-download/
    https://www.nvidia.com/en-my/software/nvidia-app/
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    Taf the Ghost reacted to jagdtigger in Wyze cam security breach   
    Id  say its an example why you should avoid cloud connected devices in general.......
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    Taf the Ghost reacted to OhioYJ in Wyze cam security breach   
    <-- Wyze User. So not saying this issue, isn't serious, it sucks... However, I will give them some credit for being fairly open, and fourth coming with information, at least compared to many companies.  Many just go radio silent after something like this.
     
    Official Forum Post for the Security Issue <-- This post has the emails sent out directly below the update that I'm quoting below.
     
     
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    Taf the Ghost reacted to leadeater in Air Canada found liable for chatbot's bad advice on plane tickets   
    Companies are liable for bad advice and actions of employees, chatbots are no exception 🤦‍♂️
     
    Not even a good try.
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    Taf the Ghost reacted to Cela1 in Air Canada found liable for chatbot's bad advice on plane tickets   
    It's interesting that we're finally getting some legal precedent set on this. Along with some of the other stuff that has been happening in the space, I bet more companies will think twice about just slapping AI/LLM chatbots all over their sites.
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    Taf the Ghost reacted to brningpyre in Air Canada found liable for chatbot's bad advice on plane tickets   
    Summary
    Air Canada has been ordered to pay compensation to a grieving grandchild who claimed they were misled into purchasing full-price flight tickets by an ill-informed chatbot.
     
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    It's a pretty wild argument to suggest that the chatbot hosted on your website is a separate legal entity. I think my only issue is that this was only in B.C. small claims court, so we may need a bigger legal case to establish an actual legal precedent.
     
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     https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/air-canada-chatbot-lawsuit-1.7116416
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    Taf the Ghost reacted to Lunar River in Wyze cam security breach   
    Isn't having cameras connected to the Internet controlled entirely by a third party just great?
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    Taf the Ghost reacted to Ydfhlx in OpenAI unveils "Sora." A prompt-based short video generator with amazing results   
    Good luck running that model with 8GB of VRAM and consumer chips. Not to mention latency issues.
     
    Nvidia was dreaming about it because margins they make on cards actually capable of training and running these models are insane.
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    Taf the Ghost reacted to Uttamattamakin in OpenAI unveils "Sora." A prompt-based short video generator with amazing results   
    The obvious implications for all content creators really might be an issue.  There will be deep fakes of adult content and people doing it who never did.    For that matter.... remember the Endless Seinfeld forever "show".  There could be a version of that that looks as good as an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm.    Endless Curb Your Enthusiasm. 
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    Taf the Ghost reacted to StDragon in OpenAI unveils "Sora." A prompt-based short video generator with amazing results   
    Only for Hollywood.

    Finally we'll have good content to watch again.

    🍿 with extra 🧈 please.

    I for one welcome our information apocalyptic overlords.
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