Source: Pixel phones are sold with bootloader unlocking disabled โ fitzsim’s development log
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A software developer has called on Google to make the “OEM unlocking” toggle in the factory ‘un-grey’ before shipping Store.Google.com devices to customers, following a frustrating experience with their purchase of a Google Pixel 7 Pro.
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Source: Why the Ferrari F355 Sounds So Good
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The distinct exhaust sound of the Ferrari F355 is due to the evenly spaced intervals between exhaust pulses, caused by its flat-plane V-8 crankshaft. This produces a higher-pitched noise, allowing higher revs. Cross-plane V-8s, on the other hand, produce a burbling sound, but can’t reach the same revs as flat-plane V-8s due to their heavier crankshafts.
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Source: Cory Doctorow Explains Why Big Tech Is Making the Internet Terrible
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Cory Doctorow praises Elon Musk for drawing attention to the issues of decay and abuses in digital platforms. Doctorow describes Musk’s tendency to disrupt the status quo as a positive force for change.
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Source: So many bad takes โ What is there to learn from the Prime Video microservices to monolith story
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The Prime Video team’s success in reducing costs and scaling up the audio/video monitoring service by 90% was misrepresented as a microservice to monolith transformation, when it was actually a microservice refactoring. This reflects the trend of microservices being over-sold as a solution for everything, and a return to monoliths, although a serverless first approach using Step Functions and Lambda is often preferable for intermittent and small-scale enterprise workloads.
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๐ป The Prime Video team used a serverless first approach, building a prototype using Step Functions and Lambda calls, before reusing most of the code to create a long running microservice horizontally scaled using ECS and invoked via a lambda function.
Source: AMD promises its new laptop chips will crush the Apple M2 – and itโs got receipts
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AMD has launched its new Ryzen 7040U series of laptop processors with up to 8 Zen 4 cores and integrated Radeon 780M graphics. The flagship Ryzen 7 7840U impressively uses only 15W of power and offers 9% better 3D rendering, 14% better responsiveness and 72% better multiprocessing when compared to Apple’s M2 chip.
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Source: x86 Windows Single Board Computer Server
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The LattePanda Sigma is a compact and powerful single board computer with a 13th Intel Core i5-1340P processor, 16GB RAM, and Intel Iris Xe Graphics. It has versatile interfaces, including dual Thunderbolt 4 Ports, two M.2 M Slots, a COM port, dual 2.5G Ethernet ports, SATA DATA, and SATA power. The LattePanda Sigma can run multiple operating systems and supports up to 4 4K displays simultaneously, making it suitable for various scenarios such as home automation, media server, edge computing, AI inference, and single board server.
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Source: ChatGPT cannot build a simple working site from scratch
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๐ค chatGpt struggled to complete a task to build a website for randomly assigning team members after a few rounds of debugging and mistakes.
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