New Hand-held gaming devices:
New Chips:
An interesting service I found from Internxt:
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Meanwhile,
some youtubers generating scripts with the help of AI to bitch about AI in their videos, to stimulate viewer’s feel good hormons so that, viewers spend their time in their shitty AI videos instead of working/learning something . 
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Just when you thought you’d heard everything bad about Recall…
It strikes me this is a disaster waiting to happen.
Edit: This was supposed to be a reply to @SGS ‘Security Writer’ post.
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I have regularly used this - it’s reliable and private, unlike Google’s offering…
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The RISC-V community is facing a critical challenge in clarifying its messaging around the open standard and open source nature of its instruction set architecture (ISA). The issue has become increasingly important as the US government considers imposing sanctions on RISC-V, which could impact its adoption and fragmentation.
Key Points:
- RISC-V International, the governing body, has been working to clarify the distinction between open standard and open source, emphasizing that the ISA is an open specification, not open source.
- The community has historically referred to RISC-V as open source, which has led to confusion and concerns about the potential for China to bypass US sanctions.
- RISC-V International has updated its terminology to focus on the ISA as an open standard, highlighting that implementations can be either open source or commercial and closed.
- The US government’s concerns about RISC-V stem from its potential use by China to access US technology, but RISC-V advocates argue that sanctions would be difficult to enforce and would harm the community.
- The RISC-V community is working to educate lawmakers and officials about the differences between open standard and open source, emphasizing that the ISA is a collection of ratified documentation, not a distinct technology to ban.
It’s the difference between banning, for example, exports of certain Ethernet network controllers and straight-up banning the export of Ethernet as a whole.
Key Quotes:
“The open source characterization [of RISC-V] was natural but frankly a mistake.” - Mark Himelstein, former RISC-V International CTO
"Our community thrives on the open collaboration, numerous contributions, and invested resources of our community… In this regard, there are many similarities between how we cultivate our resulting technical deliverables and how the open source software community works.” - Calista Redmond, RISC-V International CEO
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I have used Mega for some data storage + photos and videos that I have shared.
Videos and photos uploded to Mega were not compressed so that was the main rational.
To be honest… Google services have been a confusing mess… How many times has Google changed the interface of Google Drive and Google Docs in 10 years?! They do work, but the alternatives are better.
Proton Mail - more readable interface, with less gluter on screen. Absolute pleasure to use.
Mega for storage - It has objectively more clear and straightforward interface design. No crappy photo compression either. ( You can turn off compression on Google, but why have it at all? To save Googles HDD space?)
If I want more potential “security” , I leave myself the option to use Proton Drive.
Only really good service Google has left is Google Maps. What I mean here? Main thing here is the businesses and stores on the map with reviews. I am not aware of any competitive alternatives here. So what I am saying is , Maps have been a concrete stable service for years, that’s why people still use it.
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What’s the catch? Limited file size per file or a monthly cap on the free plan?
I’ve been using SpiderOak for about ten years (and was very pleased with it), but at some point they went down the collaboration software road, and now they’ve transformed into some sort of space company… So it was about time for me to move on. I’ve looked for other options for a couple of years now, but most of them didn’t pass the test. Proton Drive came out on top, although it still lacks quite some features. Recently, I stumbled upon filen.io, and so far it seems to fit the bill just fine. Truth be told, I know there are some concerns about the quality of their encryption strategy/protocols and their (very small) team size, but I might just go for it nonetheless.
You could try Mega as well. It seems to be solid + it has full featured service with free account.
Trustpilot reviews seem to be solid.
Never had an issue over the years.
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Very clear explanation of implications, for normies.
100% of all new hardware is already captured, except (some) RISC-V.
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Man, reading the comments on the latest ArsTechnica article on Recall. lmao.
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Not sure if the videos mention it, but I found this the other day on GitHub:
It’s absolutely INSANE how this even reached production.
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Is it really? 
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this… this can be used against microsoft
“enabling/assisting domestic abusers” allegations might just get someone’s attention.
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Vandalism is not a way to express your displeasure, even if the accusations are justified.
Source of the article Gegen die Ausbeutung im Kongo: Aktivisten schmeißen Farbe auf Berliner Apple Store.
The organization Africa - Newsletter - Fridays For Future
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Relax, ya’ll, I’m the onliest one allowed to be ‘serial’ around here. 
Now where’s the friggen morning L & T News? Oddly-enough, it may be here…
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