GeekyBear

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by GeekyBear 1mo ago
Both Android and iOS allow parents to block social media apps and web access to individual websites or the entire web, if they choose to do so. That's not a fantasy. It's also a much less restrictive option than forcing EVERYONE t
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by GeekyBear 1mo ago
Parents already have the ability to control what their children can do on their personal devices. It would be better to use public resources to educate parents on how to use those existing controls, if that is something those parents choose
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by GeekyBear 2mo ago
> It was originally more of a historical artifact of all of the tooling being deeply steeped in Apple's own tech stack. I would say that it is tied to an institutional memory of what can go wrong when your platform depends on third
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by GeekyBear 2mo ago
> I guarantee you somewhere in their backlog is an item that says "require app store for app installations on macOS" Apple isn't the company that has already attempted to lock their PC operating system to only accept apps
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by GeekyBear 2mo ago
He was my favorite author at Byte.
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by GeekyBear 2mo ago
They have finally prioritized buying leading edge Fab technology over stock buybacks, so their design team finally has a chance.
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by GeekyBear 2mo ago
Until Intel is capable of making a fanless laptop chip that also has industry leading single core performance, they aren't in the same ballpark.
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by GeekyBear 2mo ago
Efficiency is one thing. Efficiency and performance is another. We've long known that pushing clock speeds results in diminishing efficiency, so it's about time we see Intel stop pushing the clocks (and power) so hard that the chi
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by GeekyBear 2mo ago
> This backdoor only appears on decades-old VIA C3 embedded x86 processors Modern Intel and AMD chips also have separate CPU cores that neither the user nor the installed OS control. Intel Management Engine: https://en.wikiped
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by GeekyBear 2mo ago
Intel chips also have a hardware backdoor in the form of a separate core that the neither the user nor the installed operating system control. Intel Management Engine: https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Eng
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by GeekyBear 2mo ago
Fixed, thanks.
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by GeekyBear 2mo ago
As mentioned in the blog post's footnote, the bottleneck may just be on the NAS side: > this real-world speed limitation could also be related to my use of my lower-power Arm NAS (running on Ampere Altra, with 32 fairly-slow CPU cor
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by GeekyBear 2mo ago
Rye bread, cheddar, and a 50/50 mix of butter and bacon grease in the pan.
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by GeekyBear 2mo ago
WindowsRT and Windows S were already attempts to lock down Windows to only allow apps from an app store. Secure Boot initially didn't allow the install of operating systems other than Windows. Microsoft is the company continually attem
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by GeekyBear 2mo ago
"You can delay this update for a little while" simply isn't the same thing as "you still have full control over updates". It's right up there with Microsoft's "you are not allowed to turn telemetry al
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by GeekyBear 2mo ago
The base level M5 doesn't just have more memory than the base level M2. The memory bandwidth is bumped up by 50%, and the size of the on-die system level cache is bumped up by 50% as well.
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by GeekyBear 2mo ago
The M5 SSD's performance uplift was fairly substantial, even when compared to the prior generation. > In the Blackmagic Disk Speed Test, the SSD in the M5 MacBook Pro achieved read speeds of up to 6,323 MB/s, compared to just 2
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by GeekyBear 2mo ago
It doesn't work with Windows anymore, since Microsoft no longer allows the user to control their own computer. However, Software Update on Apple devices still allows you to turn off automatic update installation the way Windows used to
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by GeekyBear 2mo ago
As we used to say in the Windows world, wait for service pack 3.
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by GeekyBear 2mo ago
The most consequential public health failure during COVID was the denial that COVID was airborne, based on no scientific evidence. The infection spread based on being in the same enclosed space as an infected person, and was not based on be
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by GeekyBear 2mo ago
What a great resource! Thanks
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by GeekyBear 2mo ago
Since the loss of Anandtech, have any of the other tech websites started publishing SPEC results for systems they test?
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by GeekyBear 2mo ago
Thanks for finding that. > The Clang workload uses the Clang compiler to compile the Lua interpreter, a popular open-source language interpreter. People really shouldn't call Geekbench a synthetic benchmark anymore, since it has bee
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by GeekyBear 2mo ago
In the past, they have provided information on which workloads they use. For instance, the file compression workload on version 6: This workload compresses and decompresses the Ruby 3.1.2 source archive (a 75 MB archive with 9,841 files) us
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by GeekyBear 2mo ago
They do mention that the change is meant to reflect how real world programs handle various types of workloads. > In Geekbench 7, a workload only runs in multi-threaded mode if the task it models actually runs multi-threaded in real appli
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by GeekyBear 2mo ago
You do know that we are discussing something that Apple talked about doing, but never did vs. something that Google has been doing for years? And no, this particular article about Google attempting to have innocent parents arrested was publ
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by GeekyBear 2mo ago
Informed consent would require Google to inform you that their AI server will scan every photo you take with your device and report you to the police if it should detect (or hallucinate) something it doesn't like.
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by GeekyBear 2mo ago
Did he set up his device to upload his private data to Google, or did Google create an OS that automatically sent everyone's private data to their AI server for scanning without explicit consent?
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by GeekyBear 2mo ago
This is an image that he did not send off of his device to anyone except his doctor's office, yet Google reached into his private data and scanned it anyway. Google reported him to the police based on a single false positive. To add in
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by GeekyBear 2mo ago
> I feel that Apple open pandora's box with the client-side scanning. That box has been open for years now. Big brother is already watching what you do on your Android device. > A Dad Took Photos of His Naked Toddler for the Doct

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