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DietPi does too...

https://dietpi.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=5&start=20#p68

I wish Apple would switch from using expanded polystyrene inserts [1] to cardboard for their non-Pro iMac packaging. So much of this polystyrene must end up in landfills rather than being recycled.

The iMac Pro uses moulded cardboard inserts [2][3], so why can't the standard iMac?

[1] https://www.apple.com/environment/pdf/products/desktops/21.5...

[2] https://www.amsys.co.uk/week-imac-pro/

[3] https://youtu.be/UxuhecF-3c0?t=153

The B1M YouTube channel recently made a video [1] covering concrete alternatives (Ferrock, Biomason bricks) and solutions for injecting CO2 into concrete (CarbonCure). It's really interesting.

[1] https://youtu.be/wOE4UegzJ_M

There's a .torrent of Collection #1 available here:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/mluhkk4dpqi8vfm/Collection_1.t...

I found the link via a comment on /r/pwned [1]. I think it originally came from RaidForums [2].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/pwned/comments/agsjie/troy_hunt_the...

[2] https://raidforums.com/Thread-Collection-1-5-Zabagur-AntiPub...

You might be interested in Times Newer Roman. [1] It's like Times New Roman, but 5-10% wider so enables you to write 13% fewer words.

[1] https://timesnewerroman.com/

> Better idea: pay the cleaners anyway and let them stay home without littering in public.

There are about 200 unemployed New York subway construction workers who would love a job where they get paid to do nothing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-...

An accountant discovered the discrepancy while reviewing the budget for new train platforms under Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan.

The budget showed that 900 workers were being paid to dig caverns for the platforms as part of a 3.5-mile tunnel connecting the historic station to the Long Island Rail Road. But the accountant could only identify about 700 jobs that needed to be done, according to three project supervisors. Officials could not find any reason for the other 200 people to be there.

“Nobody knew what those people were doing, if they were doing anything,” said Michael Horodniceanu, who was then the head of construction at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs transit in New York. The workers were laid off, Mr. Horodniceanu said, but no one figured out how long they had been employed. “All we knew is they were each being paid about $1,000 every day.”

There's a third-party app for Windows called Lunacy [1] that can read/write Sketch files, so there must be a market large enough to make that worthwhile.

[1] https://icons8.com/lunacy

Another good example is Audi's E-Tron.In French, étron means turd.

The Pixel 3/3 XL (and several other Android smartphones) can run both a hotspot and Wi-Fi simultaneously. [1]

I could be wrong, but I am fairly sure these phones only have a single Wi-Fi module.

[1] https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/11/03/pixel-3-3-xl-suppor...

Data recovery is now performed via the Thunderbolt port.

https://9to5mac.com/2018/09/20/apple-t2-data-recovery-transf...

Apple has recently documented a new data recovery process internally for Macs that utilize its T2 chip introduced with the iMac Pro and the 2018 MacBook Pro. The new process for repair staff is being introduced due to the T2 chip’s advanced security features including hardware encryption for SSD storage that isn’t compatible with Apple’s previous data recovery methods used on older machines.

PCMag should update their article.

Could the "AppleSSD" driver for Windows [1] be reverse engineered?

[1] https://twitter.com/tperfitt/status/1060995265694449664

This is the reason VLC have blacklisted recent Huawei phones.

https://twitter.com/videolan/status/1022033608670961665

The Wikipedia article linked above contains a section regarding that.

Although some "marks" had previously worked as actors or extras, they had not been hired for this purpose, and the production company had recruited participants through websites "popular with people keen to appear on television"

Personally, this didn't bother me since I was more interested in finding out how the cons worked.

The law regarding > 250w e-bikes is ridiculous too and badly needs updating.

https://ebiketips.road.cc/content/advice/advice/buying-and-r...

This article reminded me of BBC Three's The Real Hustle programme [1].

The presenters often used to wear hi-vis jackets to pull off various scams. It was surprisingly effective. [2][3][4]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Real_Hustle

[2] https://youtu.be/1vOV4-6Sozw

[3] https://youtu.be/CxappKA4YBY

[4] https://youtu.be/CRBJrSBtnKM

> on newer versions of the OS, updates are applied on a separate partition without interrupting you

The seamless updates feature originally came from Chrome OS. It's easily one of the best features of that OS.

https://www.xda-developers.com/how-a-b-partitions-and-seamle...

Fun fact: The Android update_engine which handles seamless updates is basically ripped straight from Chrome OS. Only recently were strings containing "Chrome OS" removed from update_engine’s log to avoid confusion for anyone who happens to check logcat.

I have often wondered if Microsoft could use this type of system for Windows 10? Not only would it make the update process more reliable, but faster too (especially when it comes to feature updates).

The other thing Microsoft should sort out is WSUS. It is such a flaky system!

> I'n not sure about the reasoning, but it's probably a combo of "not trusting user namespaces" (disagree) and user namespaces requiring privileges to use.

binctr looks like an interesting solution to tackle this issue.

[1] https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/getting-towards-real-sandbox-...

[2] https://github.com/genuinetools/binctr

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18180276

> it would have been obvious that these are not the same by volume and severity.

If users don't have backups, any unintended data loss caused by an operating system bug is bad because it can be difficult or impossible to recover the affected data. Would you not agree?

You may not have been affected by the two bugs I described above, but some people would have been (more so with the image corruption bug).

> the described bug has not happened as a result of an upgrade, it was not forced on any user and definitely was not affecting the whole desktop.

If you go back further in time, there actually was a bug that resulted in data loss during an OS X upgrade.

https://www.macworld.co.uk/news/mac/exclusive-oxford-semi-fi...

Oxford Semiconductor has issued a statement with regard to the emerging Panther and FireWire data-loss debacle.

The company says: "Oxford Semiconductor has been investigating reports that some FireWire 800 drives have lost data after an upgrade to the Mac OS X 10.3 Panther operating system is installed (released late October).

"Currently we believe this issue relates to a change in the way Panther uses FireWire that affected version 1.02 of the OXUF922 driver software. A new version, 1.05 was issued by Oxford Semiconductor to the manufacturers of external drive products in early September."

As Macworld UK first reported yesterday, users installing Panther while having an external FireWire drive connected to their Mac have seen data loss; similarly, users with FireWire drives connected to their systems have seen data loss once they reboot Panther. At this stage, it appears that the problem is confined to FireWire 800 drives.

In 2001 there was also a bug in iTunes 2 that caused an entire hard drive partition to be deleted if the volume label was prefixed with a space.

https://www.wired.com/2001/11/glitch-in-itunes-deletes-drive...

Some Macintosh users who rushed to download the latest version of iTunes – Apple's popular digital-music player – were singing a song of woe on Friday. A bug in the installation procedure caused the application to completely delete their computers' hard drives.

The bug seems to have affected computers with a very specific configuration: people running Mac OS X who had "partitioned" big hard drives into several smaller ones, and who'd typed a space at the beginning of the drive name.

For example, if a Mac had a drive named " music" instead of "music," it might have been deleted by iTunes.

Tom Fisher, a computer repair technician who lost about 100 gigabytes of information during the installation, said that people often include a space in the drive name to ensure it shows up at the top of the list when they examine their drives.

According to Mac experts who examined the code of the buggy iTunes installer, the problem arose from a very tiny programming mistake – a forgotten quote mark.

Ironically, if you had switched to a Mac sooner you may have been affected by Apple's data loss/corruption bugs. [1] [2]

Regardless of OS it's always a good idea to have backups of your important data.

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2018/02/19/apfs-bug-macos-data-los...

[2] https://www.iezzi.ch/leopard-1051-massive-data-loss-bug/

> Why would an e-ink device even need a screensaver

To display adverts?

> And the Urus manages to be even more flagrant brand engineering since it's an Lamborghini version of a Porsche Cayenne, which is just an Audi Q7, all based off an VW Touareg.

The Lamborghini Urus shares the same VW group platform as the Audi Q8 and the Bentley Bentayga. [1] [2]

[1] https://www.autoevolution.com/news/lamborghini-urus-meets-au...

[2] https://www.quattrodaily.com/photo-comparison-audi-q8-concep...

My first mobile phone was a Motorola V50 flip phone [1] which cost £500 in 2000. Despite being released four years before the RAZR V3 [2] it was both smaller and lighter (although slightly thicker). I reckon it would still look cool today if they upgraded the screen.

I can't remember why, but I didn't bother buying any RAZRs and my next phone purchase was a Sony Ericsson K800 [3] in 2006.

[1] https://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_v50-223.php (83 grams, 83 x 44 mm)

[2] https://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_razr_v3-853.php (95 grams, 98 x 53 mm)

[3] https://www.gsmarena.com/sony_ericsson_k800-1485.php (115 grams, 105 x 47 mm)

The only bad thing about Apple supporting APFS on Fusion Drives is that it gives them an incentive to continue selling future iMacs and Mac minis with Fusion Drives.

Having had to replace failed HDDs in Fusion Drive iMacs at work, it's certainly no fun. For all new Mac purchases I ensure they are SSD only now.

> And even the search tricks, such as using "" don't work as before.

While it doesn't have quite the same effect [1] as the double quote marks, you could select the 'Verbatim' option [2] from the search tools menu.

[1] https://search.googleblog.com/2011/11/search-using-your-term...

[2] https://i.imgur.com/I7eL41i.png

Also "Libr Library of Congress ary"!

I wonder if logo generators such as Hatchful could have designed a better logo for the Library of Congress than Pentagram did recently?

https://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/new_log...

Could the tracking pixels not be blocked via a uBlock Origin filter list?

If Apple added ports to the front of the new Mac mini, they would all have to be USB-C ports (either USB 3.2 or Thunderbolt 3).

I can't imagine Jony Ive would find a mix of USB A and C ports aesthetically pleasing.

It would be very strange for Apple not to considering the functions of the T2 chip.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208862

Okta's PassProtect Chrome extension also uses k-anonymity.

https://www.okta.com/blog/2018/05/add-passprotect-to-your-we...