Gotta love how the hotels in Vegas think hackers are smart enough to learn to use lock picks and flipper zeros, but not smart enough to conceal them from people who need a photo to identify them.
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I wonder if all the kids issued school laptops will actually be allowed to opt out of using Microsoft Recall. That technology would be incredibly valuable for school districts interested in making sure their students don’t research subversive topics like anything related to being LGBTQ.
@GossiTheDog I was today years old when I learned that running one SQL statement to revoke a token was so difficult that writing a help article and looking like fools was actually easier.
@malwaretech Rivian is pretty good but right now all their cars are rather large. Love it still though.
AWS had 2023 revenue of $90.8B
Wonder how much of that was from the “Useless error messages you can’t control” product line?
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/05/amazon-s3-no-charge-http-error-codes/
I had a really strange experience yesterday. It’s unlikely that I’m alone in being excited to see USB-C as the sole charging standard. I really can’t wait to carry one charge block with four or so identical ports, and one set of cables that are all interchangeable.
So, I was very excited when I saw the Outdoor Technologies CHIPS 2.0 Bluetooth helmet headset. I ski a lot in the winter, and I love having a headset in my helmet. It’s also a good way to keep in touch with people. These babies also support USB-C. At $225 they’re ridiculously expensive, but so cool. They even come with a charging case. OK, sold.
I get them, and plug them into a USB-C cable I had hooked up to a charging station in my kitchen. No light. Wha’?? Tried another USB-C cable. Nothing there either. Finally looked at the cable in the box - it’s a USB-A <-> USB-C cable. Weird, I plug that in and now it charges.
Digging a bit deeper, it becomes obvious what has happened. Yes, the *plug* on these things is USB-C, but it doesn’t implement the actual power delivery objectives (PDO) negotiation of USB-C. It simply wants to draw 5v at 2a. In other words, it has a USB-C connector, but the firmware doesn’t support the USB PD standard, so it can’t use it with a USB-C source, only USB-A sources.
I really wonder where this is going. The EU has dictated that all devices must support USB-C. The question is whether this means supporting USB PD, or simply having a USB-C shaped connector? If they let manufacturers get away with the latter we won’t have the universal standard that we are looking for, but simply an even more confusing state where you can’t just look at the physical shape of the connector to determine how to use it.
Silicon Valley’s new credo: If any problem is worth solving, it’s worth solving with GenAI.
Overheard at #wwdc: ”No, the new iPad Lock Screen is nothing like Windows 8. Our rectangles have *rounded* corners.”
My “self driving” Tesla tried to kill me a week before I finally got rid of it, but we should absolutely trust the guy who deliberately chose to use only one sense (vision) for self driving to make brain implants.