They should have built a solution where the phones that haven’t been tested get cut off, but get an SMS telling them to activate the phone, call SOS once. For the first SOS call, they intercept it, check that the phone was able to make the call, then unblock the phone, and after that, allow SOS calls as normal.

That would require “actually doing work” though.

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For anyone who’s not in the Synology ecosystem, this is what the release notes are:

Starting from this version, the processing of media files using HEVC (H.265), AVC (H.264), and VC-1 codecs will be transitioned from the server to end devices to reduce unnecessary resource usage on the system and enhance system efficiency. These codecs are widespread on end devices such as smartphones, tablets, computers, and smart TVs. If the end device does not support the required codecs, the use of media files may be limited.

This mostly affects things like streaming to a TV, streaming box or tablet with limited codec support.

When watching videos on Linux, the support on the NAS itself doesn’t matter, just the support only your PC. When opening videos over SMB in dolphin, the codec support on the NAS does not come into play. The thumbnails are generated by your PC.

Just install VLC on your PC and it will play whatever you throw at it, regardless of OS codecs. I would not re-encode anything.

edit: It looks like the biggest impact is using Synology Photos - it can’t generate thumbnails for HEIF photos/HEIC videos anymore

I wonder what the industry standard is for developers?

The Stack Overflow developer survey (which has it’s bias towards people who use Stack Overflow)… says 47% use Windows, 32% use Mac, and uh, Linux is split up by distro so it’s hard to make sense of the numbers but Ubuntu alone is at 27%. (each developer can use multiple platforms so they don’t add up to 100%)

The Mac mini draws 5 W when on, and 0.5W when sleeping

There were rules against using AI, they’re just arguing that they weren’t in the “Student Handbook”.

If you click through to the legal filing linked in the article, they lay out that they informed the students of the rule during a lecture, they have a record of his attendance at that lecture, and parents also got handouts during a parent teacher day.

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During the first week of class, RNH and his classmates were given a copy of HHS’ written policy on Academic Dishonesty and AI expectations.4 The students are clearly informed that this policy applies to all classes, not simply ELA classes. The policy was distributed in RNH’s class on the same day a PowerPoint presentation entitled “AI & Schoolwork” was presented to RNH’s class.5 This is the PowerPoint presentation referenced in paragraph 129 of the Verified Compliant.

Attendance records show that RNH attended the class at which the policy was distributed and the PowerPoint presentation was shown. Furthermore, the written policy was also posted on Google Classroom, on online portal containing policies which is accessible to HHS’ students. It was also distributed at Parent’s Night which was held in September 2023. If RNH’s parents were present at Parent’s Night, a copy would have been provided to them.6

If you click through to the court document the most detail it goes into is

During the meeting, RNH recounted that he used an AI tool to generate ideas and shared that he also created portions of his notes and scripts using the AI tool. RNH discussed using Grammarly, and indicated that he pasted sections from Grammarly into the Google document.

RNH unequivocally used another author’s language and thoughts, be it a digital and artificial author, without express permission to do so. Furthermore, he did not cite to his use of AI in his notes, scripts or in the project he submitted.

If you click through to the motion to dismiss, it details the AI policy that says if you do use AI just to get ideas, you have to include transcripts of your AI chat to prove that you aren’t plagiarizing it.

Yeah, but do you sign your passport with “© LS. All rights reserved.”?

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I’ve been using Kagi for about a month now and it’s been working well for me

https://theonion.com/new-apple-ceo-tim-cook-im-thinking-printers-1819572893/

Like, if that worked, wouldn’t every company just sell itself to a new shell company once a year and drop every kind of legal liability?

This flex cable is bonded to the LCD and requires a replacement of the whole display assembly

White guy in Japan. A lot of people will assume I don’t speak any Japanese (=am a tourist). I’ve had it many times where after a transaction at a shop, the staff literally tells me “I’m so glad you spoke Japanese, I was so afraid when you walked up since I can’t speak English”

The main cause of bitrot in older disks is the organic dyes fading (aside from REALLY cheap disks where delamination was a problem), whereas M-Disc uses an inorganic carbon material

iPhones don’t come with those expensive high-bandwidth cables, they come with charging cables that only do USB 2.0

On a warship? They’d have still seen it.

It took 6 months to discover, and even then it was by techs who went to physically install different hardware saw the dish hardware mounted to the ship. That’s the real WTF here, how do these ships not have some kind of passive RF scanning/rogue AP detection??

It was seen by regular enlisted people who saw the network on their phones and left comment sheets asking WTF it was, but the person in question snatched up the papers before they got to the officers. If they had hidden the SSID, nobody would have seen it because nobody scans for hidden SSIDs on their phones.

People: Specifically add “site:reddit” to their searches to avoid slop and get real human responses

Reddit: Replaces the real human responses with slop

How can Spez be so clueless