Alphane Moon
That there is no perfect defense. There is no protection. Being alive means being exposed; it’s the nature of life to be hazardous—it’s the stuff of living.
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Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticketEnglish1·1 hour agoI am assuming this is US only? I used to fly Delta a lot when travelling between Europe and North America.
Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldto Virtual Reality@lemmy.world•'Freeaim' Motorized Shoes Give Your Feet Tiny VR Treadmills, Kickstarter Now Fully FundedEnglish0·18 hours agoI would be curious to try out these VR shoes, I am assuming the experience is far different from the marketing copytext.
The price is only worth it if you want a phone that stands out and is unique.
Otherwise it’s simply too expensive for what it is.
Smartphones are a mature market and outside of “status symbol” and brand considerations, it honestly makes no sense for the vast majority of people to spend more than USD $400 equivalent on a smartphone.
Even camera quality is increasingly becoming good enough on mid-range devices.
Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldto Cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works•Insecure Shopify plugin exposed hundreds of stores| CybernewsEnglish0·19 hours agoThe Consentik plugin adds cookie consent banners to customer websites. However, the unsecured server was broadcasting real-time site analytics and private authentication tokens, including Shopify admin credentials and Facebook ad tokens, to anyone on the internet who knew where to look.
This is brutal.
Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldOPMto Hardware@lemmy.world•Stellantis abandons hydrogen fuel cell developmentEnglish0·19 hours agoFinally, there’s virtually no infrastructure for hydrogen road vehicles to refuel.
I would argue this is by far the biggest issue with hydrogen fuel. Other drawbacks could arguably be addressed with scale and additional work.
It’s just that hydrogen actually kinda sucks as a fuel, and automaker Stellantis announced today that it is ending the development of its light-, medium- and heavy-duty FCEVs, which were meant to go into production later this year.
Meant to go in production later this year? I doubt anyone at Stellantis believed this.
Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldOPMto Hardware@lemmy.world•Nvidia's Arm CPU dream hits a hardware wall, debut pushed to 2026English0·1 day agoI don’t really see Nvidia as being interested in providing competition. Imwoudl argue their goal is to develop more lock-in and raise prices.
Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldOPMto Hardware@lemmy.world•Nvidia's Arm CPU dream hits a hardware wall, debut pushed to 2026English0·1 day agoBy 2026, AMD, Intel and Qualcomm will all have better mobile CPU/SoCs. Zen 6 and Panther Lake should be out by then.
Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldOPMto Hardware@lemmy.world•Corporate inadequacy has rendered my favorite rediscovered gadget uselessEnglish0·1 day agoShe does briefly reference eBay. :)
Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldOPMto Laptops Community@lemmy.world•Review: the NovaCustom V54 is an outstanding Linux laptop with Dasharo coreboot firmware – OSnewsEnglish0·1 day agoI use as much open source as I can (quality is generally better), but there are many line of closed source line of business applications that don’t work well on WoA, let Linux (x86 or ARM).
For open source only it works pretty well. I’ve been using ARM SBCs since 2018 and it’s been great.
On desktop Linux/ARM, I am guessing there will be a lot of extra issues; drivers, problems with emulation of Windows games (independent of dGPU issues), limited support opportunities etc.
Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldOPMto Laptops Community@lemmy.world•Review: the NovaCustom V54 is an outstanding Linux laptop with Dasharo coreboot firmware – OSnewsEnglish0·1 day agoARM is pretty much as mainstream as x86 these day.
Is this really true though? One major issue is dGPU performance (this is also relevant for WoA). On the windows side there is a lot of closed source software that cannot run natively on WoA (and emulation often has a significant list of bugs and issues).
Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldOPMto Hardware@lemmy.world•Corporate inadequacy has rendered my favorite rediscovered gadget uselessEnglish0·1 day agoThis is one of the reasons I stick to wired headphones.
Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldOPMto Hardware@lemmy.world•Seagate unveils 30TB HAMR HDDs for the masses — laser-powered IronWolf Pro and Exos drives are now widely availableEnglish0·1 day agoI would how much the Exos will cost where I live (Ukraine).
Our high-end HDD prices have a massive premium relative to North America (I am talking from practical experience building PCs). I guess these days, high-end HDDs are somewhat of niche product even in the DIY segment.
Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldOPMto Hardware@lemmy.world•Chip collector showcases 'rarest x86 CPU' in their hoard — Rise mP6 266 ticked along at 200MHz in 1998English0·1 day agoFirst time I’ve heard of an 90s era x86 clone by the name of Rise.
Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Exclusive: Google Helped Israel Spread War Propaganda to 45 Million EuropeansEnglish41·2 days agoThat likely is true, but you don’t want to use a source that is definitely compromised.
Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldOPMto Hardware@lemmy.world•Intel Raptor Lake CPUs are crashing more frequently due to summer heatwaves, Firefox dev saysEnglish0·2 days agoWhile the absolute number of crashes may be modest (it’s not clear from the article), this is the kind of thing that gives you pause with respect to buying a Intel CPU in a DIY context.
Intel clearly went past a reasonable tuning limit and it is likely many people are not running the latest BIOS that addresses. Even many DIY PCs do not leverage OC’d memory or BIOS updates.
Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldOPMto Hardware@lemmy.world•Keeping Score: Has AMD Stopped Screwing Up?English0·2 days agoOn the CPU side, they’ve had an excellent execution, even before Intel started to lag in and around ~2020 or so.
I was building a PC in mid 2018 and I went with a Ryzen 7 2700. Sure ST was lagging behind intel, but you got decent ST performance and an 8 core CPU for the equivalent of $330 USD or so.
At the time, on the intel side a comparable SKU would be the i7-8700K, but that was equivalent to over $400, with moderate ST uplift and only 6 cores. From what I remember, motherboards were also more expensive for Intel at that point.
On the GPU side, I think the first time AMD has stopped screwing up was with the 9060/9070 series. Thus are compelling SKUs relative to Nvidia’s 60 and 70 series of GPUs.
Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Exclusive: Google Helped Israel Spread War Propaganda to 45 Million EuropeansEnglish84·2 days agoKeep in mind this is an extremely shit source, they are basically a lite version of tankies.
Try searching for “Russia” on their site and you’ll find a 1:1 copy of standard russian propaganda copytext (justification for the invasion of Ukraine, claiming Ukraine organized a genocide in Donbas, white washing russian crimes).
If they can’t be consistent, it is likely their concern Gaza about is a ruse, as is extremely common among western “leftists”.
And the roaches that manage this site likely don’t speak Ukrainian or russian and have never lived in Ukraine or russia.
Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldto Android@lemdro.id•Google confirms it's 'combining' Chrome OS and Android into a single platformEnglish18·2 days agoConsidering Google’s failure to support the tablet form factor on Android (many 1st party Google apps have much better versions for the iPad), I am skeptical this will lead to anything good.
Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldOPMto Hardware@lemmy.world•IBM Power11 Launched with Up To 2048 Threads and DDIMM SupportEnglish0·2 days agoPretty smart of them to offer Power11 cloud computing services for hybrid infrastructure.
One of the big moves in this generation is to also focus on AI. A big one here might be the IBM watsonx Code Assistant for i.
I totally forgot about Watson. It was supposed to be something like modern LLMs. Yet OpenAI stole their thunder.
There is also !privacy@lemmy.ca.