I've been through the Lenovo series of connectors. I worked at Intel for 21 years and they were a Thinkpad/Lenovo house. I got my mother a Lenovo on the grounds they're a bit less prone to fall apart than other brands. Macs weren't in the running because she uses windows specific software. I have my yellow tipped barrel connector adaptor secreted in box for when the occasion to use it arises.

The (quite new) MacBook Air I'm typing on has 2 USB-C and one Magsafe 3. The real issue is I have only a single Magsafe 3 cable while I've got lots of USB-C chargers and cables so when the other ports are occupied, I'm schlepping off to find the one single cable. I tend to run lots of CPU heavy jobs, so it's the higher power brick for me.

But that ARM CPU. Ugh. I've hated the ARM instruction set since the Archimedes. It's not got better. They messed up the RNG instructions ( https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdeveloper.arm.com%2Fdocu... ) stipulating 90C-RBG3(RS) structure which is the wrong choice for an instruction-as-full-entropy-source (Like RdSeed on Intel). The 90C-RBG3(XOR) is the right one since the RBG3 doesn't block the RBG2 with the XOR construction. RISC-V made the same mistake in their drafts, but they listened to my arguments and fixed it. ARM wouldn't give me the time of day and so here we are with broken specs for ARM. I wouldn't care if engineering RNG things wasn't what I did most of the time.

There's always the Framework running Linux when I want to retreat to my happy place. 6 ports, all configurable, X86 CPU and das blinken lights on the keyboard.

By Dominic's Cummings own admission revealing this secret is a criminal offence which we can hope will be treated a bit more seriously than driving all the way to Barnard Castle during the pandemic lock down.

True, but when you actually look at the differences between where a UK (ranked 8th), Canadian (ranked 9th) or US passport will get you without a visa let's just say it's not a list of places I plan to be visiting anytime soon but at least I still get to feel morally superior! ;-)

Great, I'll use my old MacBook charger.
Oh no! it's a MagSafe 1.

I guess I'll get the slightly newer MacBook charger.
Oh no! It's a MagSafe 2.

I guess I'll use the MagSafe 3 that came with the new laptop.
Oh no! It's not there.

It's a good thing I never enabled secure boot on my Framework laptop.

In the US, the push for non hybrid is all coming from the NSA.
The NIST people know this but can't say it publicly.
There was a pretty much unanimous consensus for hybrid schemes at the most recent ICMC.
I've been saying this since it became a thing which was pretty much at the last ICMC where NIST announced the deprecation of hybrid schemes.

What are the odds that they have a classical break of ML-KEM, or ML-DSA? SIKE was a finalist a fell to a classical attack.

The is the Dual-EC-DRBG all over again. It's good that DJB is raising it. People listen to him.

....that natural stupidity is even more dangerous than artificial intelligence.

I don't use wireless buttons. I just use my phone. But I've been putting things in the house under control of HA bit by bit. The mini splits, the lights, the TV, lamps, door locks, EV charging and more are all controlled by HA. With a port forward and dynamic DNS, I can control this stuff wherever I am.

It's a 100 year old house. So updating the wires has to precede any z-wave plugs or lightswitches in any given room. I'm about 70% done so far.

That is where Home Assistant shines. You can create all manner of automations and it will work with most devices. So if there's a z-wave or zigbee lightswitch, you can use home assistant to get your input of choice to control it.

I don't know the specifics of your situation, but I'm pretty sure that if you have something that works for you, you don't want Logitech to brick it one day.

It's rare to see such a good example of damning with faint praise. It even managed to cast aspersions on their next generation product all while seemingly heaping praise on them.

How's that going to work exactly? How will Sony know whom to sue if they contact me and I tell them I made the video myself? If they do not believe me they will have to sue me to get a name and what happens if the court does not believe me too? Even if I did make the video with some AI company's product, I'd be the one who made money by uploading it not that AI company so why are they the ones who have to pay?

You can't cut the creator out of the legal process so easily: they are the only one who knows whether the video used any AI and they are also the one potentially making money from it. It's clear though that the problem is out-of-control greedy companies: the artists are caught between AI companies who want to trample over copyrights and studios who will dump them the instant a much cheaper, photo-realistic AI actor is practical. At the same time moves to strengthen copyrights against AI will almost certianly be abused by the same studios to come after creators.

I agree that laws should treat humans and AI algorithms differently but for that to work you have to be able to distinguish AI vs human work and so far we can't do that with anything like sufficient reliability..

Yes, provided that you can afford ~100+ quid for a ticket, live in Leeds near the station and the trains are all running on time. Even living close to Leeds like Harrogate, adds another 1+ hours each way without any other delays making a day trip much less practical especially given the extreme cost. That's also assuming that you are not arriving in London before 10am - if you are arriving before the cut-off the cost is 200+ quid.

So prehaps, if you are living in the middle of Sheffield, the closest city in Yorkshire to London and money is no object it's a day trip but for those not living near a station in a major city and whose budgets are more limited it is most definitely not.

That sounds less like AI and more like a sponsorship deal with Bud Light.

It's not the same thing at all. In a tunnel diode the tunneling takes place at the microscopic scale. It would be like holding a (very weak for safety!) alpha particle source in your hand. All those alpha particles being emitted tunnelled out of a nuclear potential but the tunnelling took place at the nuclear scale.

The difference here is that the size of the quantum system was, itself, macroscopic - the circuit that had quantized energy levels and showed tunnelling was macroscopic. This was a significant result although I struggle a bit to see it as being at the level of a Nobel prize but at least it's better than last year when they gave the physics prize to a computer scientist!