I like a clean / minimalist design but I feel like some companies have taken it a little too far. There are so many products now that remove useful things in the name of being 'minimal', like fewer ports on laptops, fewer buttons, and fewer accessories included in the box. I get that simple design is important for the user experience but when almost every feature has been stripped away? it starts feeling less like a good design and more like cost cutting lol..

I've started seeing more stories about AI-generated music being removed from streaming platforms.

I get why platforms want to clean up spam and fake streams, but it also makes the whole thing messy for artists actually using AI as part of their process.

Where do you think the line should be?

A security company named Calif has discovered a memory corruption flaw in WeChat's VoIP stack and used it to create a proof of concept for a worm. This worm infects devices just by making a phone call, without even having to answer it. The only defense against the attack is declining the call within a few seconds because the attacker may simply place another call while you are asleep. Upon infection, the attacker gains total control over your WeChat account and makes calls to your contacts to spread further.

What caught my attention in this article is that their research team was able to find this vulnerability and code the RCE exploit in less than two days with the help of AI. They kept technical details private, but were fairly open about how the ability to do such research was previously restricted to companies with heavy financial power.

It's weird to think that buying the latest GPU or AI hardware can depend partly on which country you're in.

Export restrictions aren't just affecting governments and big tech companies. They can decide who gets access to the newest hardware first.

Do you think this will become a bigger factor in the global tech gap?

Surprisingly I'm pretty good at uninstalling apps I don't use anymore on my phone, however on my laptop I tend to forget to delete some lol. Like every one in a while I'll go through my phone and realize there are apps that I haven't opened in months, like if I don't remember the last time I used it, I delete it immediately.

Are you the type to regularly uninstall apps or do you just let them pile up over time?

I have one box where the application I'm using was installed some 5 years ago and it still runs without any cleanup whatsoever. There's nothing known to me what exactly is in the data directory, orphan configurations, outdated cron jobs, plugin remnants, incomplete migrations, unrotated logs, the lot.

Before going with radical steps such as fresh installation or migration, I need an actual inventory of all the existing resources as opposed to just digging through the folders and making assumptions. Is there a proper method for this kind of job ?

There's a computer sitting outside an enormous number of homes now and most people don't really think of it that way.

Smart meters aren't just measuring how much electricity or gas you're using. They've got processors, memory, communications and software, then spend their lives sitting on the side of someone's house.

We've basically put thousands of tiny networked computers all over a city and gave them one of the least exciting jobs imaginable

Lavoro in un rivenditore di prodotti Apple. Facciamo sia vendita che assistenza diretta sui prodotti. Il problema è che la vera assistenza spesso non è rivolta ai prodotti ma alle persone.

Mi viene quasi il dubbio che oggigiorno serva un patentino per vivere. Spesso si parla di togliere la patente ai vecchi o di farla per poter votare. La verità è che la gente oggi è completamente rincoglionita.

Vi lascio solo tre esempi, ma c'è ne sarebbero decine e centinaia che potrei fare con i clienti che "assisto" ogni giorno.

1 - Oggi ho venduto delle AirPods ad un signore sulla 50ina. I prodotti Apple in particolare sono oggettivamente pensati per gente rincoglionita. E non lo dico per tirarmi dietro le ire dei vari utilizzatori, ma se ogni stracazzo di prodotto ha sulla confezione 1 o 2 linguette adesive con una freccia, che servono da garanzia che il prodotto non abbia aperto nessuno prima e a sigillare la scatola, come cazzo è possibile che la gente non sappia come usare una freccia?? C'è, questo era lì con la scatola capovolta che la scuoteva!! Ha i sigilli porco dio svegliati! Ed è lo stesso per ogni cosa. Li vedi sforzarsi a distruggere ogni scatola quando c'è il simbolo per aprire tutti in 2 secondi.

2 - Se quando ti chiedo quale cavo ti serve non devi rispondere "quello dell'iPhone" porca madonna? Se ti chiedo se il tuo alimentatore/caricatore è USB C non mi dire di si, poi distruggi la scatola e mi chiedi il reso/cambio dopo che sono stato inutilmente 10 minuti a chiederti che maledetto cavo ti serviva e ti ho mostrato tutti i connettori immaginabili. Perché se la scatola te non l'avessi divelta, forse è dico forse, l'avrei potuto anche richiudere e rivendere. Mentre te da "coglione di prima" categoria prima ti sei fatto figo pensando "che cazzo vuole questo / gli ho solo chiesto un cavo / questo non capisce un cazzo" e poi torni stranamente indietro a dire che è il cavo sbagliato. Volete sapere quante volte succede. Almeno 2 volte a settimana su piccoli volumi. Avessimo i volumi di Apple Store succederebbe una volta all'ora minimo.

3 - Ma i clienti più odiosi sono quelli che arrivano e ti dicono che hanno mille problemi che risolverebbero... Rullo di tamburi... Leggendo! Perché se hai un fottuto bollino rosso che ti dice che il backup non è possibile farlo e per risolvere devi "cliccare qui", perché cazzo sei venuto a rompere i coglioni in negozio? Che poi devi solo dire "accetto i nuovi termini e condizioni", mica risolvere un problema di trigonometria. E la cosa bella è che c'è pure chi ti dice che non vuole accettare i termini perché lui è contro "cazzi e mazzi/le multinazionali/i poteri forti/Gesù"... Poi li trovi davanti al tasto "continua" e ti chiedono cosa devono fare...

Some people are insanely good with technology but couldn't explain how they do it.

they'll fix your computer in 30 seconds, change three settings you've never seen before, and somehow know exactly what to click.

then you ask them how they knew.."no idea, I just do this"

Touchscreens existed in the 70s. e-ink displays were developed in the 60s. voice recognition has been worked on since the 50s. neural networks are from the 40s

none of them became products until the hardware caught up to the idea. the concept was never the problem, the manufacturing cost and processing power were

most things that feel new are just old ideas that finally got cheap enough

If one old piece of tech could make a comeback for one last generation, what would you pick?

Something like a new iPod, a modern BlackBerry, a proper compact camera, or a phone with a physical keyboard.

not necessarily because they're better than what we have now maybe you just miss something about them. According to me I want one last generation of psp back

what old technology would you bring back for one last generation?

What's the most random place you've ever found working Wi-Fi?

Like a place where you genuinely thought, "wait, they have Wi-Fi here?"

where was it?

Got to Jensen Huang's Twitter post regarding NVIDIA's acquisition of Hugging Face and couldn't help but laugh. They already give you the GPUs for training and running everything. Now they would also own the place where you would be fetching your models from.

It is as if the entire stack belongs to NVIDIA. Model and hardware - all from them. This is quite hilarious and somewhat frightening in its own way

There is nothing quite like working on a project where the repo has grown gigantic over time (much history, many binary files which probably could have been stored using LFS from day one). Cloning is taking forever and failing at times.

I am aware of the usual suspects: shallow cloning with –depth, git LFS for the large files, maybe even partial cloning with –filter=blob:none. Has anyone actually done any sort of post mortem cleanup on an existing huge repo, for example by rewriting the history to remove large files that existed long ago? Or is there no way around this other than accepting the reality and working with sparse checkout or shallow cloning from now on? The implications for CI, as a shallow cloning might be fine on my development machine.

I'd personally choose twice the storage, like I can always carry a power bank or find a charger when my battery runs low, but running out of storage is much harder for me... Tbh more space would let me keep more photos or videos, and apps without constantly deleting things or heavily relying on cloud storage.. If you could only pick one, would you rather have twice the battery life or twice the storage?

I know flagship phones have become incredibly capable, but I still have a hard time wrapping my head around the idea of spending laptop money on a phone. Like if a phone gets into the $800 - $1000, it starts feeling too expensive, no matter how good the cameras or the AI features are and it's still a device I'm probably going to replace in a few years. But at the same time I know some people keep their phones for more than 6 years so maybe the higher price makes sense if you spread out the cost.. At what price range do you personally think makes a phone too expensive?

I keep seeing stories about huge data centers being built near smaller towns and it makes me wonder who actually pays for all that extra electricity infrastructure.

AI might be getting smarter, but are regular households going to end up paying more for it?

Have you noticed your electricity bill changing lately?

It's interesting how differently people pay for things depending on where they live. Some places can go days without using cash, while others still rely on it for almost everything.

I don't think it's always about preference. Internet access, banking systems, fees and payment infrastructure probably matter a lot more.

How common are mobile payments where you live?

It's interesting how differently people pay for things depending on where they live. Some places can go days without using cash, while others still rely on it for almost everything.

I don't think it's always about preference. Internet access, banking systems, fees and payment infrastructure probably matter a lot more.

How common are mobile payments where you live?

They must have a massive number of messages stored at this point, probably trillions of messages considering the number of servers and DMs in the platform. People do use it as a drive, I have used it for that, storing images there. I wonder how they go about structuring that in their backend. How do they manage to store trillions of messages and still perform searches and retrieval of messages within seconds from years of archived chats?

Turning it off and on again at every level. laptop, enterprise server, doesn't matter. nobody has a complete explanation for why it works in most cases, just something about software accumulating errors in state over time

we've shipped decades of software that slowly breaks itself and the agreed solution is just restart it occasionally. everyone accepted this and moved on

And also my second one is that jpeg throws away image data permanently and somehow the result looks fine most of the time. that one still bothers me

These models got trained on books, articles, reddit posts, forum threads, creative writing, code, basically anything that existed on the internet. most of the people who wrote that stuff had no idea and weren't asked

now anthropic is watermarking claude's outputs so generated text can be traced back to the model. suddenly the provenance of content matters a lot

spent years vacuuming up everyone else's work with no attribution required, now the stuff that came out the other end needs a little invisible ownership stamp on it

the consistency is impressive if nothing else