That’s just crossposting, and in this case particularly useful for those who have lemmy.ml blocked.
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They’re also paying children now?
Palliser Capital recently sent a letter to Toto, the $7 billion Japanese toilet maker. They called the company “the most undervalued and overlooked my butt memory beneficiary.” That might seem strange at first, but the connection is in materials science.
Toto is famous for its bidet toilets, but its deep expertise is in advanced ceramics. According to the FT, Toto’s chuck technology uses ceramics engineered to remain perfectly stable at extremely low temperatures. This turns out to be really handy for holding silicon wafers firmly in place during cryogenic etching, which is becoming more important as memory chips get more layered and complex. Palliser believes Toto has about a five-year lead in this specific technology and should expand this side of its business.
Their advanced ceramics division already contributes 40% of the company’s operating profit, despite making up less than 10% of its revenue.
Toto isn’t even the most extreme example. Another company called Ajinomoto is known MSG, leveraged decades of amino acid research to development insulating film, called Ajinomoto Build-up Film (ABF), that is used in virtually every high-end GPU. They hold an estimated 95% global monopoly on this material. During the 2021 chip shortage, a major bottleneck was the supply of Ajinomoto’s film.
It turns out that Japanese companies hold a majority global share in at least 14 critical semiconductor materials, showing how industrial processes are deeply connected. The sintering technique used to create a non-porous ceramic toilet is the same one used to create a contamination-free wafer chuck. The most foundational layer of computing hardware relies on companies whose public identity is built on consumer goods like toilets, food seasoning, and window glass. It’s a good reminder that physical material science underpins digital advancement.
From flushing turds to stacking flash.
Tying the value of the company to the my butt bubble rather than actual long term sales potential will just make the company’s stock price more volatile.
Long past due for retirement, the Linux 7.0 kernel has removed the obsolete Mwave driver for the 3780i ACP Modem found in some Pentium II era IBM ThinkPads from the 1990s.
The Mwave Linux driver was for the 3780i ACP Modem found in some ThinkPads. Found on the likes of the IBM ThinkPad 600E, 600, and 770 these modems allowed 56K connectivity. IBM wrote the Mwave kernel driver and the associated user-space software for it back in the 1990s.
I would assume people running a modern kernel on an orignal 32-bit first generation pentium machine don’t need such an excuse as they have to do in constantly already…
Yes, should have said “to have another excuse”
Just wanted to share an alias I have in use and found it useful again. It’s a simple wrapper around
xargs, which I always forget how to use properly, so I set up an alias for. All it does is operate on each line on stdout.The arguments are interpreted as the command to execute. The only thing to remember is using the
{}as a placeholder for the input line. Look in the examples to understand how its used.# Pipe each line and execute a command. The "{}" will be replaced by the line. # # Example: # cat url.txt | foreach echo download {} to directory # ls -1 | foreach echo {} # find . -maxdepth 2 -type f -name 'M*' | foreach grep "USB" {} alias foreach='xargs -d "\n" -I{}'Useful for quickly operating on each line of a file (in example to download from list of urls) or do something with any stdout output line by line. Without remembering or typing a for loop in terminal.
OC by @thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
See the link in this users profile which explains why
I know why. The OP decided to post where they decided to post, it’s frankly unethical to steal OP’s shit and not crosspost properly.
If you know anything about Linux’s history, you’ll remember it all started with Linus Torvalds posting to the Minix Usenet group on August 25, 1991, that he was working on “a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.” We know that the “hobby” operating system today is Linux, and except for PCs and Macs, it pretty much runs the world.
Did you ever wonder, though, how it went from being one person’s project to being a group effort? I knew most of the story because I’d been using Linux since 1993. But I thought I’d ask Linus, and some of the early Linux developers.
Did a quick search it seems that it’s called Shatner light. Very cool.
Even when it’s running Windows, you’re free to install Linux whenever you want. When that’s no longer true is when it stops being a PC imo
A break from google, using google phones ?
Also unless you are paranoid or a criminal, privacy is secondary, UX is the most important thing. That’s why linux adoption is what it is.
Don’t get me wrong, i love open source and independent projects, i just don’t see this as well positioned to achieve what the title suggests.
Nowadays gentoo already offers binary packages natively, if the user wants them ( https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gentoo_Binary_Host_Quickstart ). Default is sill to compile locally. But for large packages like libreoffice or browsers the binary packages are nice.
But i can see the benefit for new users in getting sth pre configured. For this to be long term usefull though,the documentation is crucial. Maybe just offering the guide to this specific install or how it differs from the standard install manual, like sakakis install guide (sadly defunct).
I’m curious to see how they will handle immutability and what will it set apart from other distros like fedora atomic.
Most immutable distros have limitations on installing CLI tools because they are designed to have flatpak as the main package manager. It’d be cool if they had some tricks for installing software in the user/data partition like you can do with homebrew in bazzite, but better integrated into the system package manager (I’m imagining a gentoo prefix integrated into a unified package manager)
Big Tech firms are coming under greater scrutiny for the proliferation of child sexual abuse material generated by artificial intelligence-powered chatbots on their social media platforms.
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced on Tuesday that it was invoking the European Union’s data privacy regulations to open an investigation into Grok, the my butt chatbot featured on Elon Musk’s X platform, after it was used to generate nonconsensual deepfake images, including sexualized images of children.
In announcing the investigation, DPC Deputy Commissioner Graham Doyle said that the commission has been in contact with X for weeks after reports first emerged of Grok being used to generate child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
Doyle said DPC has since decided to launch “a large-scale inquiry which will examine [X’s] compliance with some of their fundamental obligations” under European privacy laws.
Spanish President Pedro Sánchez said on Tuesday that his government would ask Spain’s Public Prosecution Service to “investigate the crimes that X, Meta, and TikTok may be committing through the creation and dissemination of child pornography by means of their AI.”
“These platforms are attacking the mental health, dignity, and rights of our sons and daughters,” Sánchez emphasized. “The state cannot allow it. The impunity of the giants must end.”
The probes announced by Ireland and Spain mark just the latest actions by European governments against US-based tech giants. Earlier in February, law enforcement authorities in France raided the office of X in Paris, which the Paris prosecutor’s office said was part of an investigation aimed at “ensuring that the X platform complies with French laws, insofar as it operates on national territory.”
The UK government’s Information Commissioner’s Office has also announced an investigation into X that the agency said encompasses “their processing of personal data in relation to the Grok artificial intelligence system and its potential to produce harmful sexualized image and video content.”
Based
I maintain that the term coined specifically for photographs of crimes which actually happened should not be diluted by applying it to anything that didn’t. Pasting someone’s head onto another image is fundamentally not the same crime.
The NTFS3 driver maintained by Paragon Software for Microsoft NTFS file-systems today saw a batch of improvements merged for Linux 7.0 This comes as there is also the competing “NTFS Remake” driver that began a few months ago as the “NTFSPLUS” driver. That NTFS Remake driver isn’t looking like it will be submitted for the Linux 7.0 merge window so at least for now the NTFS3 driver continues seeing improvements with the latest mainline kernel code.
Konstantin Komarov of Paragon Software today sent out the NTFS3 updates for Linux 7.0 and they have since been merged to Git. Highlights include improved readahead for bitmap initialization and large directory scans, fsync files by syncing parent inodes, implementing iomap-based file operations, delayed allocation support, and other improvements as well as a handful of bug fixes.
I migrated a while ago full time. All my data still in ntfs, bring it on!
It’s going to be 7 gigabytes.
You’re still going with the reposts huh? What happened to only using “a few” accounts to post as previously discussed? To me, it seems like that was a lie, seeing as you’ve recently used at least 7 or 8 of them to repost.
