Encoded media either comes out blocky, with artifacts, or plain old slow. Some also have bugs related to the encoder that app developers have to contend with.
Consolidation of control and brand recognition. As soon as Redis revealed their hostile intentions, forks split off. Valkey seems to be the favored one, and in my direct experience is what projects are using moving forward. If we don't intend to use Redis' commercial services we have no reason to use them given the license fuckery.
Like IBM with Redhat, they tried to overstep their position and exert undue control, so the community rejected their status as BDFL. Now IBM has Rocky and Liberty to deal with, and Redis has Valkey rapidly gaining credibility as the go-to solution. The social contract of FOSS goes both ways, and greed is righteously punished with the loss of power.
This was the obvious play when the original Garantia Data-now-Redis Labs went on their acquisition spree and subsequent buttoning up of the ecosystem via their cloud/hosted enterprise offering even before 2013 and then taking the Redis name for themselves. I believe it was only slowed down because of the community aspect pushing back against the stupid licensing changes of it, otherwise they would have gone full steam into it to get even more control. It's so sad to see a good product like that be hung out on the whims of some scummy leeches.
You can enforce by requiring an agreement, and making the terms reasonable enough that an OSS project can agree to them (this isn't entirely easy, but it's not that hard either).
Also, there's the thing where these other projects have been using the name since forever, so there's already a history of non-enforcement.
The best time to start enforcing their trademark (from a legal perspective) was ten years ago. The second best time is now. Negotiating many agreements with many OSS projects is a lot of legal work which they may not want to pay for. And none of this undermines my original point that their primary motivation is probably just trademark preservation. That they did a poor job previously doesn’t mean they aren’t trying to do better now, and that they could use less aggressive methods doesn’t mean they aren’t primarily focused on trademark preservation. It’s the simple explanation. Occam’s razor.
The issues of range anxiety and cost are alleviated largely by hybrids. I imagine the transition will be a slow shift from petrol -> hybrid -> PHEV-> BEV. We could use it as an opportunity to build out infra to support electric vehicles better to help drive the adoption of PHEV and BEV.
In China, it's straight to BEV and it has made the air quality, noise, and temperature significantly better. This effect is magnified since most people in China live in far denser cities than EU/America.
You can consider the beta-amyloid fiasco as a prime example of biomed's replication issues. ML/AL replication issues largely stem from the source data used for training not being available.
In my field, of psychotherapy, social and cultural factors change over time making perfect replication impossible. I'm working on a paper now and we are trying to account as much as possible for replication of our results.
A big driver for the high salaries of medical doctors in the U.S. is the staggering educational debt their degrees leave them with. Is it the same in Sweden? Some degree of wage depression is practically inevitable if we had more doctors, but I wonder how much that could be offset with affordable education?
No. Universities in Sweden are free to citizens (including EU/EEA citizens). That includes highly regarded universities such as Karolinska Institute (considered one of the top medical schools in Europe), Lund University, the University of Gothenburg, and so on.
In Scandinavia, student loans are taken to cover living expenses, not the cost of tuition. Private schools exist, but are not nearly as common as in the U.S.
You can also use resource forks to change an app bundle's icon without affecting the code signature of the bundle. I used this technique for a PoC malware challenge at BSides Orlando two years back.
Everyone’s going to have their use case, but I have probably used the power button on my mini all of a dozen times in two years. Two of those being after I uninstalled Asahi and nuked the boot loader by accident.
Seems to me like it was low-hanging fruit that Apple (no pun intended) finally decided to pick. I imagine dropping to a BFU state will help curb possible brute force or physical access attacks. The relative security/ongoing improvements of iPhones/iOS have given LEOs a certain level of unjust paranoia whenever a new security feature is rolled out.
It might come even sooner as mobile internet becomes faster and gets lower in latency. I used to have Cox, and the service availability was so bad it was nigh unusable. Switched to TMobile home 5g and in some cases, it's actually faster. That shouldn't be a thing but here we are. I don't play twitchy games so latency isn't really a concern for me. By the time 6g or whatever it's going to be called is well established, I think we'll see the incumbents get blockbuster'd.
Unfortunately for them, the degree to which one thinks they are right has no bearing on actually being right. This will go down as yet another unforced blunder an American car maker brought upon themselves.
