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Summary Nearly 20 years after the debut of LiMux, the project where the city of Munich, as well as Lower Saxony, migrated the majority of their computer systems from Microsoft Windows to a custom Linux distribution before being cancelled in 2017, someone else is now ready to take on the challenge. This time, it's the state of Schleswig-Holstein. Citing the goals of independence, sustainability, and security, the state is planning on migrating its 30,000 computers to Linux and other open source software. Quotes My thoughts I hope them the best. Chipping away at Microsoft's business monopoly is always a good thing. Sources https://www.schleswig-holstein.de/DE/landesregierung/ministerien-behoerden/I/Presse/PI/2024/CdS/240403_cds_it-arbeitsplatz.html https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/04/germanys_northernmost_state_ditches_windows/

They're absolutely right. Artificial locks and limitations are a Hallmark of apple technology

They don't. That number is probably Nintendo's estimate of all of the revenue from that project plus a whole lot of punitives. They agreed because they didn't have a choice

Uhh, there has to be an actual ruling to do that. This was settled out of court before there was even a trial.

Summary CNET, once considered one of the major technology-focused news outlets, has been heavily criticized for falling editorial standards since it's acquisition by Red Venture in 2020. After years of dealing with AI-generated articles and other "advertiser-driven" decisions, Wikipedia's editors have had enough and are removing CNET from their list of reliable publishers and are categorizing any article published since November 2022 as unreliable. Some editors are going further and pushing to have content from any outlet owned by Red Venture automatically marked as unreliable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Perennial_sources Quotes My thoughts Enshittification claims another one. Journalism is the absolute last place that AI should be deployed to. Sources https://futurism.com/wikipedia-cnet-unreliable-ai

Sure, your application will consume an order of magnitude more resources at a fraction of the capacity and be plagued by an endless stream of runtime errors. But that's a small price to pay for the peace of mind to know that when you're on call for that 3AM outage, it wasn't because of a double-free.

The most surprising thing is that Disney still had a couple billion dollars left to burn. If nothing else, you have to commend their dedication to spreading their patented Anti-Midas® Touch™ technology to absolutely everything they possibly can.

Another decade, another gadgetbahn that did nothing but steal money and attention. I wonder what Elon's next tactic for disrupting public transit discussions will be. Will he go back to underground single-lane highways that still manage to have traffic jams, or will he jump right over that shark and gun straight for flying teslas?

Someone really played Hypnospace Outlaw and though to themselves: "neat idea, but not enough labor extraction"

Those quotes were directly from the linked article https://web.archive.org/web/20230926141746/https://www.tomshardware.com/news/ultraram-demos-prototype-chip-secures-funding-to-validate-commercial-potential

Summary Tech startup QuInAsQu has unveiled a working prototype of their "UltraRam" NAND technology. Claimed features include: Less than 1ns write latency Over ten million write cycle durability Non-volatility with data retention estimated at over a thousand years Orders of magnitude lower power consumption than existing DRAM Quotes My thoughts Jeez, does it also give massages? At least they have a working prototype, so it's theoretically not complete BS. Sources https://www.tomshardware.com/news/ultraram-demos-prototype-chip-secures-funding-to-validate-commercial-potential

Summary Microsoft has announced plans to end support for third-party printer drivers in Windows by 2027. Replacing them will be a single "IPP Class Driver" which utilizes the "Mopria" standard for providing a universal interface for compatible printers and scanners. Quotes My thoughts About damn time. Although, there's always going to be that one printer that still needs manual drivers for some reason. Sources https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/print/end-of-servicing-plan-for-third-party-printer-drivers-on-windows https://mopria.org/what-is-mopria

Looks nice. A shame someone went and punched a hole in the screen

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/lk-99-patent-update-suggest-it-could-work Round...how many are we up to now?

Before someone misinterprets that