Datapoint: During the pandemic, I had to use an old 2004 Powerbook G4 12" (256 MB RAM, OS X Leopard). Everything sort of worked and was even reasonably snappy. But open one website, and the machine went down. Unusable. Even if, indeed, I just wanted to read or look up a few kB of text. So painful.
One tool I've found useful in low-power/low-bandwidth situations is the Lynx web browser [1]. Used to be installed by default in most Linux distributions but I think that's probably not the case anymore. Wikipedia says its also available on OSX and Windows.
It’s the speed of the JavaScript compiler, on those old browsers they were expected to handle a few kilobytes max of event listeners. The chrome vs Firefox browser wars sped up JavaScript compilation by 10x at least
> Apple software. It's buggy, uses proprietary formats that you can't export
Buggy sure, but proprietary formats? Calendar entries can be imported or exported as iCalendar .ics (RFC 5545), contacts as vCard .vcf (RFC 6350), photos as .jpeg or .heif (ISO/IEC 23008-12), books use the open .epub (ISO/IEC TS 30135), iTunes dropped DRM for purchased files in 2016 and uses mp4 (ISO/IEC 14496-14:2020) (though not sure what Apple Music streaming uses). TextEdit uses .rtf (a closed Microsoft format), and Pages, Numbers, Keynote use their own formats (as other office software does), but they import and export to many common formats. Notes imports and exports markdown (and you can always print/export as pdf).
What are the "proprietary formats that you can't export"?
ETA: Oh, Messages, yeah. To export those, you have to copy/paste a conversation, or use a 3rd party app, fair enough.
> Plain Language Summary
The rise in global temperature has been widely considered to be quite steady for several decades since the 1970s. Recently, however, scientists have started to debate whether global warming has accelerated since then. It is difficult to be sure of that because of natural fluctuations in the warming rate, and so far no statistical significance (meaning 95% certainty) of an acceleration (increase in warming rate) has been demonstrated. In this study we subtract the estimated influence of El Niño events, volcanic eruptions and solar variations from the data, which makes the global temperature curve less variable, and it then shows a statistically significant acceleration of global warming since about the year 2015. Warming proceeding faster is not unexpected by climate models, but it is a cause of concern and shows how insufficient the efforts to slow and eventually stop global warming under the Paris Climate Accord have so far been.
Anytime there is any law about anything you can say that it's ultimately backed "using state violence". That's just silly. As silly as the notion that there shouldn't be any rules and limits whatsoever about what you can do with your computer.
> As silly as the notion that there shouldn't be any rules and limits whatsoever about what you can do with your computer.
Hard disagree. There shouldn't be any rules or limits whatsoever about what I can do with my computer, and especially ON my computer, as long as the thing I'm doing doesn't break other laws (CFAA, CSAM, etc).
Obviously, we are saying the same thing: there are (and should be) laws that limit what you can do on your computer, and within those limits, you can do what you want.
There is a distinction between laws limiting what you can do in general, whether with computer or not, and attempting to control what happens on the computer even when no other laws are being broken. I believe you may be unintentionally blurring that line.
To wit, the specific example you and I are discussing, is running open source software on a computer you own.
Tim Cook, the guy kissing Trump’s ass? Is that really the example you want to use of a company having principles? A company clamoring to bend their knee to a fascist to avoid tariffs? Lmao
Yes. They also kept their DEI and environmental programs, actually substantive policies that many other companies are trashing because of this administration. I'll take performative ass kissing while preserving the important policies any day.
> If you do not like working with the military, ...
Eh? But they do like to work with the military. How else are you going to "defend the United States and other democracies, and to defeat our autocratic adversaries"?
They want to work with the military, with just two additional guardrails.
Sure. But, contrary to what some people seem to think, "it's nothing secret" is not a sufficient justification to use an unencrypted plain-text protocol.
Yeah but you probably don't have that telnet server exposed to the internet. It's fine if it's all local, I have an unencrypted FTP server running on my Xbox but it would be insane to let that be accessible from the internet.
My point is that it's ok to use unencrypted plain text if you don't care if it's read ("it's nothing secret"), AND furthermore you don't care if it's modified.
If you don't care that it's read ("it's nothing secret"), but you do care that it's not modified, you should not use unencrypted plain text. That's why I explained that if you don't care if it's read that is not a sufficient justification to use unencrypted plain text, because then it might be modified, and you might care about that.
You then said that it "literally" is: if you don't care if it's read ("it's nothing secret") that is a sufficient justification to use unencrypted plain text.
But then you proceed to give an example where it is, indeed, ok to use unencrypted plain text, but only because you don't care if it's read ("it's nothing secret"), AND you don't care if it's modified. That is what I have been saying all along. If you were to care that the wind speed from the sensor on your roof is not faked, then you should not use unencrypted plain text.
So again: If you don't care that it's read, AND you don't care if it's modified, then, sure, use unencrypted plain text.
If you don't care that it's read ("it's nothing secret"), but you do care that it's not modified, that is not sufficient justification to use unencrypted plain text. Rather, in addition, you also have to not care if it's modified.
Let me give you an example. Air pressure varies, and airplanes use air pressure to measure altitude, so they need to set their altimeter to the correct air pressure. Now, the air pressure is not secret at all. Anyone could trivially measure it. So, one doesn't care if it's read ("it's nothing secret").
According to your faulty thinking, one could thus use unencrypted plain text to transmit it. However, someone could modify it, giving wrong numbers to the airplane, putting the airplane and the crew in danger. That is not good. No-one cares that the data is read ("it's nothing secret"), but we do care that it is not modified. Thus, do not use unencrypted plain text. Because if you don't care if it is read ("it's nothing secret"), that is not sufficient justification to use unencrypted plain text. You have to, in addition, not care if it is modified.
In your case, you don't care if it is read ("it's nothing secret"), AND you don't care if it modified. But someone else might not care if it is read, but DO care if it is modified.
Do you understand this now, or should I make a full 2x2 matrix with all possibilities and carefully explain each case with examples?
Still a bit of a bummer that with Apple, you pay a premium to escape the ad-based ecosystem^W cesspool, both for the hardware and then here for Apple News itself, and then still not only get served ads, but tasteless scam ads.
Second, are you saying that we basically need to have a radiator as big (approximately) as the solar panels?
That is a lot, but it does sound manageable, in the sense that it approximately doubles what we require anyway for power.
So, not saying that it’s easy or feasible, but saying that cooling then seems “just” as difficult as power, not insurmountably more difficult. (Note that the article lists cooling, radiation, latency, and launch costs as known hard problems, but not power.)
> So, not saying that it’s easy or feasible, but saying that cooling then seems “just” as difficult as power, not insurmountably more difficult
This is with an ideal radiator and perfect pointing so it receives no incident light, so in practice you need a bigger one than this.
However, if you think launching a solar panel that is the size of 10 NYC city blocks is "manageable," then why not throw in a radiator that is about 15 city blocks in size?
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