Making Z-Wave closed source in the beginning sealed its fate. All competing protocols were open source. Z-Wave failed and won’t recover.
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graymatters commented on Z-Wave is remaking itself into an open source protocol theverge.com/tech/643328/... · Posted by u/elsewhen
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IRS' DirectFile hasn't matured yet to the point of accepting health insurance and retirement data; it could only process basic W-2's. At least they made a good effort in it, will try again next year.
Yes. It is IRS is deliberately dragging its feet to make it a real option for millions and millions of Americans. So that the near monopoly Intuit can rake in billions in sales each year.
Why?..
graymatters commented on Accessible open textbooks in math-heavy disciplines richardzach.org/2025/03/a... · Posted by u/volemo
2053 is pretty far. I wish Dover, who hold publication rights, improved typesetting of this and a few other classic textbooks.
It's probably not hard to use an LLM to do the bulk of the conversion to TeX work cheaply, and then some human input to polish the final document and fix errors.
2053 is too far away indeed.
“It’s probably not hard…” - how many such wishful thinking statements were uttered by humanity.
Well, I hope that if they do so, the FSF and all copyright holders of the Open Source software used to make Android Great In-the-First-Place will sue their a$$e$ off.
I don’t understand why digital financial transactions are so heavily regulated and scrutinized while cash still exists. Governments have even basically soft-killed Monero which is pretty much the only way to get actual cash-like semantics digitally. Yet cash is still given preferential treatment over traditional digital payments.
I understand the rationale behind both camps ie “to prevent personal/tax fraud, money laundering, and cut off funding to terrorists we have to give up privacy” vs “personal privacy extends to transactions and the benefits justify the increased difficulty in fighting crime”. What I don’t understand is the inconsistency between physical and digital payments. Anybody committing crime can just use cash so why even bother with all the annoyances with digital transactions?
IMO we might as well outlaw cash because typical law-abiding citizens already have basically zero financial privacy, but are missing out on all the tax revenue and supposed safety from actually fully tracking transactions. The way I see it, cash right now basically only exists so that small businesses/individuals can cheat on taxes and to keep criminals on the USD.
Very simple.
1. Orders of magnitude. Digital transactions can be billions in single transaction. While making large cash transactions in cumbersome and unrealistic.
2. Because they can. Regulating digital transactions is simple. Regulating cash - next to impossible.
graymatters commented on Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them gist.github.com/jwbee/7e8... · Posted by u/jeffbee
ASLR is technically a form of security by obscurity. The obscurity here being the memory layout. The reason nobody treated it that way was the high entropy that ASLR had on 64-bit, but the ASLR⊕Cache attack has undermined that significantly. You really do not want ASLR to be what determines whether an attacker takes control of your machine if you care about having a secure system.
You are confusing randomization, a legitimate security mechanism, with security by obscurity. ASLR is not security by obscurity.
Please spend the time on understanding the terminology rather than regurgitating buzz words.
The SEC should investigate them, see whether there was any inside trading to benefit from this horrible value loss.
This criminal lack of performance needs to be brought up during the upcoming shareholders meeting. Responsible must pay the price.
Would you hire again the Intel CEOs, head of Intel Capital, any members of Intel’s board of directors after such abysmal performance?