SimonQC

EDIT: A jailbreak has been released for OS 5.6.0 and below!
You can find the topic about it here:
 
Original post:
I know I'm new to this forum, but I have been an active member of the calculator community for over 4 years. I'm trying to spread the word about this as much as I can, hopefully achieving a segment on TechLinked, and to give TI enough negative backlash to consider negotiating better terms with the community. I'll keep this article as an overview, but I'll link my in-depth sources at the end.
If you want to get up to speed quickly, I made a video that summarizes the vast majority of all the information I've gathered across dozens of sources! There's a lot of information that wasn't covered in this thread so check it out if you want to know everything!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSkN0aMswXs
 
What exactly happened?
Just a few days ago, TI Education announced that the most recent OS for theTI-84 Plus CE (-T) and TI-83 Premium CE removes the ability for the calculator to run any Assembly (ASM) code. With the decision planned to go global, this means that any program written in ASM or C will not run on any CE operating on the newest TI OS 5.5.1 or higher!

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(Source: TI-Planet: Français | English)
 
Why did this happen?
One big factor in the decision to ban ASM was due to a video created by a student and a teacher that showed the exact steps to bypass a Test Mode restriction in OS 5.2.2, an obsolete, 3 year old OS. What made the matter worse is they passed the issue off as if it were still present in modern OSes! With the video gaining almost a quarter of a million views, TI thought they'd need to take some drastic measures to uphold their Exam Mode security reputation.
 
Why is this so frustrating?
This is quite a punch in the gut for the community, TI had given TI-Planet (a very reputable TI forum that has been reporting on calculator news for over a decade) a beta build of OS 5.5.0 to review and post about. This build given to TI-Planet had all the benifits of the new Python abilities, however ASM was not banned on this build. To the community, it looks like TI knew we would hate the removal of ASM and therefor gave a different build to us just to drum up support. Then when release date came, they pulled the rug from under our feet and released OS 5.5.1 instead which did include the ASM restrictions
 
TI-Planet, has privately shared security flaws related to Exam Mode TI needed to fix, and kept vulnerabilities a secret as to not cause this exact situation. TI Planet has put so much meticulous care into protecting the hobby of thousands of students and future Computer Science Majors, like me, it's infuriating to see one clumsy video with a quarter of a million views set years of hard work go up in smoke.
 
TI Planet's time trying to protect the community isn't the only thing wasted, the hundreds developer's countless hours spent creating amazing content from overclocking utilities, to math additions like CAS, and games will become obsolete when newer calculators inevitably outnumber older ones. TI does offer alternative programming options like TI-BASIC and Python, but as TI Planet user jean-baptiste boric points out on Cemetech:
Source: Cemetech: English
 
It's also infuriating that TI's consistent reactions of killing a fly with a sledge hammer has done nothing to solve their security, in fact it has only worsened it. I think forum Planet Casio explains it better than I can:
Note: I have paraphrased the French to English translation in order to make it sound as coherent as possible.
(Source: Planète Casio: Français | English)
 
Now that ASM is banned and this situation can't get much worse, the community is already finding exploits that allows not only the ability to run ASM code anyways, but ways to bypass TI's insecure Exam Mode (which was only ever 'secure' because the community was careful not to release the exploits to the public). The community is already brainstorming alternatives that will both satisfy TI and the dedicated programming community. We're doing our best to come to terms with TI and avoid creating another cat-and-mouse game of finding and patching exploits (which happened on the Nspire).
 
Conclusion:
Like I said at the beginning, my goal is to spread the word about this as much as I can. Although this is only effecting the CE line up of calculators right now, TI has not ruled out releasing updates to older models that also bans ASM.
(Source: An e-mail from TI-Cares posted on TI-Planet: Français | English)
 
Sources:
These go more in-depth than I did in this article. TI-Planet's 20 year history of ASM on calculators is a particularly great read.
Cemetech:
TI Removes ASM/C Programming from TI-83 Premium CE: English
TI-83 Premium CE/TI-84 Plus CE ASM/C Removal: Updates: English
 
Planet Casio:
TI supprime les programmes assembleur sur TI-83 Premium CE et 84+ CE version 5.5: Français
TI removes assembly programs on TI-83 Premium CE and 84+ CE version 5.5: English
 
ticalc:
TI removes access to assembly programs on the TI-83 Premium CE: English
 
TI-Planet:
Mise à jour 5.5 supprime assembleur TI-83 Premium CE & 84+CE: Français
Update 5.5 removes TI-83 Premium CE & 84 + CE assembler: English

It was announced four days ago that Lenovo would bring Linux certification to their well-known ThinkPad and ThinkStation, including drivers and full support for running Linux. There is even the option to have Linux pre-loaded! In the past, you had to install it yourself and risk having a bunch of issues with hardware, software, and driver stuff.
 
 
I personally say, great job Lenovo.
 
Source: https://news.lenovo.com/pressroom/press-releases/lenovo-brings-linux-certification-to-thinkpad-and-thinkstation-workstation-portfolio-easing-deployment-for-developers-data-scientists/

Microsoft is finally replacing its discontinued, since over a year, old Edge web browser in favor of its new Chromium based one of the same name, but now with a new logo. The new web browser is not tied to the OS like the old Edge web browser and can now update independently, and we see it already get a number of updates continuously. That said, as Microsoft doesn't want people to use its old web browser, it is now delivering the new one via Windows Update. The update will remove the old Edge and install the new one. Microsoft mentioned in the past that they'll do this, as the old Edge has been completely discontinued, beside for security support (as UWP apps can use it).
 
For a while now, Microsoft has been working on its new web browser with official versions already being released for a number of months. You can see the new Edge web browser as Chrome web browser but with Microsoft services instead of Google, with their own implementations (including OS integrations, such as notifications) and their own polish and optimizations. Since Microsoft started this new Chromium Edge web browser with interesting results, Google felt the pressure to be active again in its own web browser. You may have notices a series of new features being released often in Chrome recently, this is why. That said, as Chromium is open source, many of these new features added by Microsoft or Google, benefits both web browsers, making the user, us, win regardless.
 
 
Source: https://www.windowscentral.com/new-microsoft-edge-rolling-out-everyone-windows-10-through-windows-update
 
If you are unaware of the new Edge web browser, here is quick overview:
The web browser, being Chromium based, like Chrome, works with the very same extensions from Chrome. In fact, you can go to Chrome extension store and just install any extensions you see. It has nearly all the same features of Chrome, as it is essentially the same web browser. For what it lacks, Microsoft has its own feature set. For example, Google is working on colored tabs and tab grouping, while Microsoft new Edge web browser has Collections. A feature which allows you make groups of tabs which you can label and keep aside, allowing to not only clear your tab bar, but also have these groups sync between your devise, including Edge on Android and iOS. So for example, if you are doing a research on something and have multiple tabs, you can regroup them, and close them out, and start a new group if you want for something else, another project of yours, like your research for a new computer for example, and you can switch between them. Collection can be shared and moved to Word and Excel, an notes and can added on the collection itself. Another feature is improved tracking prevention, which you can control from the Settings panel of the web browser. Or another one: "Continue on PC" allowing you to send a page from your phone Edge web browser to any of your PCs while you are on the go (if your PC is turned on), save it for later. This is just to name a few things. The GUI has Microsoft touch on it. From little things like icons on buttons and text boxes, to making the Settings panel be organized and easy to navigate. It is availible for: Windows 7 (yes), 8, 8.1, 10, macOS, Android and iOS. Linux version was teased at this year at Microsoft BUILD event It also available in 32bit, 64bit and ARM64 (for Windows 10 on ARM based systems) flavors. It also has IE mode for companies who run Windows Enterprise that can be enabled, as well as GOP integrations, and custom home screen. So in other words, use the one you prefer, both are excellent web browsers with teh same great performance as you would expect.
 
If you can't wait, you can get it here:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge
 

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Kind of annoying they can't even be arsed to credit us... 

I’m going to agree with the general theme of this topic. Anthony is a surprisingly great host. Granted, at first blush, I didn’t think he was YouTube material - he has that ‘nerd computer dude’ air, but his presence and obviously deep knowledge of the subject quickly overcomes that.
 
He’s entertaining and engaging and a great foil for Linus’ antics.
 
moar anthony pleez 

As someone else who was never popular I know compliments are hard to take without skepticism, but while I can't speak for others, I do genuinely appreciate your participation on these forums and your work in the videos. The back and forth doesn't come off as patronizing or smug, I think it helps move the video along in a good way. It shows two different approaches, the 'just dive in head first' and the 'thoroughly researched' approach. Both are valid, both work and get results, both are entertaining to see. Thank you for what you do.
 
Liquid cooling is fun, I think you should build a few loops and experiment and see what works and doesn't work. I'm actually getting back into it now after a decade with a very old school Koolance case and gold plated waterblock (bling bling). I'll make a build thread when my $30 Xeon comes in and tag you in it so you can revel in the nostolgia as well. I'll try to take plenty of photos of the process of getting something from 20 years ago which hasn't had coolant changed in probably 10 years working and running again.
 

I also love Anthony's videos, especially with Linus. For the cool hardcore extreme tech stuff he's definitely the best guy to be working with Linus for it. I do enjoy some of the more meme-y content that Linus does with James (or James does on his own) and it's all really good but Anthony's tech stuff is so good (especially like the new floatplane video that isn't on YouTube yet).
 
Please more Anthony!!!

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might want to boot into safe mode and see if there is yellow triangle sign in device manager