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Foivos··on Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain
With the current fuel prices, I see a lot of plug in using public chargers. Last year, I would never see this.
Foivos··on iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
They already have several such deals, such as Resident Evil.
Foivos··on Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
Just delete the encryption key.
Foivos··on Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera
They have thought of that. The radio volume is reduced during the Beep.
Foivos··on One KW wind turbine without civil engineering
Also vibrations. Wind turbines are not meant to be close to residential areas.
Foivos··on Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations
why should you be the one who has to work a little harder though?
Foivos··on New arXiv policy: 1-year ban for hallucinated references
I just wish to anyone who is against this policy to be forced to review a paper that turns out to be unedited AI slop. Reviewers are experts volunteers who do it for free. It is incredibly frustrating to have spent 4 hours reading a paper where you try your best to make sense of what the authors are trying to prove just to realize that it is hallucinations.

The authors should value the time of the reviewers higher than their own time. So, if you include AI nonsense in your paper, it is insulting.

Foivos··on SecurityBaseline.eu
The domain is legitimate though.
Foivos··on Talking to 35 Strangers at the Gym
"Guy who was doing exercise where you pick up barbell and lift it above your head."

For anyone curious it is called snatch

Foivos··on Apple Business
Office for Mac is increasingly getting feature parity with the windows version, but it is not fully there yet.

For example, if you want to use "data model" in Excel, it is only available in the windows version.

Foivos··on Apple Business
Did you really have compatibility issues with MS office in the last 15 years?
Foivos··on MacBook Neo
Unless you use a dock, where you plug your things in the dock. Then you would want the "good" one to be the one of the back so it looks more clean and also have easier access to the slow port in the rare case you want to plug something there instead of the fast dock.

At least we should both be happy that it exists, no matter where it is placed! This is a big improvement over the macbook 12 with just one port. This was too low even when using a dock.

Foivos··on MacBook Neo
My guess is that if you plug a fast medium on the slow USB port the OS will give you a pop up letting you know. I have seen something similar in windows 11.
Foivos··on Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users
At least when you realize it, you are cured from any imposter syndrome you might have.
Foivos··on Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy
The social stigma in Europe exists, because these drugs are in limited supply. So, if a person who does not really need them is using them, the people who actually need them to stay alive might have difficulty accessing them.
Foivos··on The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe
There are many reports that since around Christmas day, you can not do this any more on phones that support iOS 26. Updating to iOS 26 is the only option now.
Foivos··on Steam Machine
I thought it is very easy to burn and SD card. Since when can you use it as storage expansion?
Foivos··on LaLiga's Anti-Piracy Crackdown Triggers Widespread Internet Disruptions in Spain
These are not peer to peer connections. These people would send a single stream to twitch and then twitch, a known streaming service, would stream it to their viewers.

In theory someone might rent a server and do the streaming directly to his viewers, without using a known platform. This would be a legitimate false positive as you describe. But this would be so expensive I doubt anyone would do it when the alternative is a free platform with built in community and monetisation tools.

Foivos··on LaLiga's Anti-Piracy Crackdown Triggers Widespread Internet Disruptions in Spain
I think live video has a bit different pattern than video on demand.

But aside from it, it should be very obvious: A) you are notified by the intellectual property holders that somebody is streaming pirated content, B) a specific customer or set of customers, who are not a known streaming service, are serving tens or hundrends of IPs with video and C) these customers do not have much activity during other times.

Foivos··on LaLiga's Anti-Piracy Crackdown Triggers Widespread Internet Disruptions in Spain
I imagined a solution where authorities would notify the hosting company of the IPs that are streaming. It should be obvious for the hosting company which customer is using these IPs for streaming illegal content just by studying the traffic pattern, no need to actually look inside the packets.

Then they can just ban this customer. That way the authorities will not have a reason to ban IP ranges affecting the other customers.

Foivos··on LaLiga's Anti-Piracy Crackdown Triggers Widespread Internet Disruptions in Spain
Can the service providers somehow block illegal streaming themselves? That way no third party services would be affected?
Foivos··on AirPods Pro 3
They still include the blood oxygen sensor in their watches, which is impossible to be accurate because it is doing measurements at the wrist.
Foivos··on Blip: Peer-to-Peer Massive File Sharing by Former Dropbox Engineers
Somehow it has to be contrasted with ``slow'' speeds.
Foivos··on Nintendo Direct: Nintendo Switch 2
No word on whether the old controllers are compatible with the new system. Obviously, they can not attach, but nothing stops them from being usable.

This is important for some games like "Ring Fit" that require dedicated hardware.

Foivos··on MacOS sometimes leaks traffic after system updates
How can you even install the update without access to the Internet?

For years, I can not do the automatic updates, because it always fails with an error message along the lines of "Failed to personalise software, check your internet!", even though I have a perfectly working Internet connection. The only way to update is with a live USB and an ethernet connection. Everything else fails.

Foivos··on Raspberry Pi is now a public company
I cannot find the stock ticker symbol. I am aware that they are not publicly traded yet, but the ticker should be known already, right?
Foivos··on Study finds that 52% of ChatGPT answers to programming questions are wrong
This is way better than I thought. A follow-up question would be for the times that it is wrong, how wrong is it. In other words, is the wrong answer complete rubbish or it can be a starting point towards the actual correct answer?
Foivos··on Ask HN: If you've used GPT-4-Turbo and Claude Opus, which do you prefer?
what do you mean by "laziness"?
Foivos··on Sleeping our way to being productive
Something like this [1] then? I have not used it though, so I do not know how well it works.

https://www.withings.com/no/en/sleep-analyzer

Foivos··on Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced
I think the prize for the most confusing naming is a tie between USB and WiFi standards.
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