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>FUJITSU-MONAKA utilizes a 3D-stacked architecture with a state-of-the-art 2nm process for the core and a 5nm process for the cache and I/O sections.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Advanced_Semiconductor_M...

>The Phase 2 factory was under construction as of January 2025, next to the Phase 1 facility, and is expected to be completed by 2027.[3] Initially planned for manufacturing semiconductors using a 6 nm process, 3 nm was incorporated into production plans for 2028 in 2026

I think they'd say if the CPU was fabbed in Japan, instead there's some very "careful" wording:

>next-generation CPU, FUJITSU-MONAKA [1], designed and developed in Japan

>Fujitsu MONAKA Server, powered by the FUJITSU-MONAKA CPU, enhances sovereign capabilities through domestic manufacturing,

Re:The appropriate amount of effort is zero on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @07:31AM (#46287735)
>Let me share my slightly unusual definition of “effort”: it’s the felt experience of expending energy beyond what an activity requires

How about finding a word that actually captures your meaning, or defining a new one?

I asked an LLM - it came back with "overexertion".

>Using this definition, it’s clear that the appropriate amount of [overexertion] for any activity is zero.

Re:Internet Archive: Security breach alert on Thursday October 10, 2024 @10:40AM (#41799325)
>Addresses of buildings aren't private, and they're somewhat analogous as with many computing concepts.

Buildings are analogous to domains, not email addresses.

Re:UK workers must keep all customer tips under new law on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @08:13AM (#41707367)
>Raising wages has an inflationary effect on the prices in the restaurants/bars

That implies consumers spend differently if they know the actual cost ahead of time, otherwise service inclusive pricing would make no difference. ie the whole industry is exploiting anchoring effects.

Removing anchoring effects would make restaurant businesses less profitable, and consequently the properties that host them less valuable, so lower rents.

There are clear incentives for pushing an inflation narrative.

Last year the UK ATC system crashed when it "encountered an extremely rare set of circumstances presented by a flight plan that included two identically named, but separate waypoint markers outside of UK airspace".

https://www.nats.aero/news/nats-report-into-air-traffic-cont...

>they'll claim they are "Security related barriers" and therefore exempt?

Why would it be exempt?

The obvious cynical ploy is extending the EULA idea and apple becoming a phone leasing company. Going from hardware you don't really own, to hardware you really don't own.

>don't have large enough decoupling capacitors

Is this something you can eyeball to guess at quality?

Re:Every story in the world has one of these six basic plots on Thursday November 09, 2023 @09:49AM (#38205683)
>It's like saying all music in the world consists of some form of "lower note, higher note, lower note, higher note"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsons_code

https://crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/liberals-against-progre...

>Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

>There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.=

Re:Chrome DevTools, Scroll Into View gets around paywalls on Monday February 27, 2023 @10:20AM (#34957391)
Sometimes the full content is available - but only if you navigate to it via a Google results page, and you don't have existing cookies implementing a "free article limit".
Re:Cruel Optimism (and Lazy Pessimism) on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @10:50AM (#34428210)
Ideas should be judged on their merits, but based on previous behavior I wouldn't necessarily trust Johann Hari's writing out of hand - ie other things in the book.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Hari

Re:Hyundai Head Unit Hacking on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @08:58AM (#34426633)
Ridesharing - arguably it's Google Maps who're ignoring it.
Re:3M to end 'forever chemicals' output at cost of up to $2.3B on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @10:53AM (#34082264)
>Maybe someday humans will get that.

That's what the litigation is.

Ironic to link to a website doing a similar thing - illegally using "legitimate interest" to justify data processing.
Re:Apple Introduces Apple Music Sing on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @10:54AM (#33882052)
>Can anyone make out if songs like this are specially mastered with separate vocal channels ... or if Apple is applying ML to do voice isolation

"Coupled with an ever-expanding catalog that features tens of millions of the world’s most singable songs"

"The vocal slider adjusts vocal volume, but does not fully remove vocals"

Based on the quantity and results it's ML like Spleeter (https://research.deezer.com/projects/spleeter.html).

Re:User-Agent Reduction on Friday November 04, 2022 @05:59AM (#33464095)
I've been blocked from an Akamai fenced website because I used Firefox for Android. Not great when you have a plane ticket you need to change.
Re:Protonmail can delete the wrong email and nobody cares on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @06:13AM (#33433549)
JMAP is a replacement for IMAP. Unlike IMAP it has immutable IDs[0] but not much support[1].

[0] https://jmap.io/#faq

[1] https://jmap.io/software.html

Re:Twitodon: Finding Twitter Peers on Mastodon on Monday October 31, 2022 @11:20AM (#33407038)
>Maybe self-hosting could be made more common through selling a (cheap) appliance with self-hosted services pre-installed.

Mastondon-as-a-service exists eg https://masto.host/.

one-click-install mastodon exists too -eg https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/04/mastodon-now-available...

https://www.vehicle-certification-agency.gov.uk/fuel-consump...

>The external noise emitted by passenger cars has been controlled since 1929 when the Motor Cars (Excessive Noise) regulations were introduced. New cars are now required to meet Europe-wide noise limits. These have been progressively reduced from 82 decibels (dB (A)) in 1978 to the current limit of 72 dB (A) established in 2016.

GDPR Article 16 gives you the right to have inaccurate personal information amended, taking in to account the purpose of the information.

A phone number used for this purpose would definitely identify a person, and so qualify as personal information.

Re:I got hacked and Facebook banned me on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @04:40AM (#31579494)
In the EU (and UK) you would have rights under GDPR to have your data corrected.

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-16-gdpr/

>Art. 16 GDPR Right to rectification

>1 The data subject shall have the right to obtain from the controller without undue delay the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning him or her.

>2 Taking into account the purposes of the processing, the data subject shall have the right to have incomplete personal data completed, including by means of providing a supplementary statement.

Re:Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn't want or need [video] on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @05:38AM (#31012713)
http://tom7.org/papers/murphy2022harder.pdf

>6 Conclusion

>In this paper, we decided that sometimes it’s more fun to do things the hard way, and then did so. Using several different techniques and some needless digressions, we created block devices that could support small filesystems, which then could host a fitting file. Each filesystem was bad when considered as a regular hard drive, but good when considered as a Harder Drive. We also compared these drives to the most popular cryptocurrency. The idea was to make the point that cryptocurrency is so egregiously bad that it resembles a “SIGBOVIK joke gone wrong” more than something one would make on purpose. This part may not have been as fun.

If you zap enough elements on Twitter the scroll bars come back anyway - so !important must be unnecessary for that site.

https://nitter.net/about offers a better experience IMHO, because it's fast.

Is this what the death of the open web feels like?

Re:Thank you Wise for blocking our business account on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @10:30AM (#30600925)
Such a jurisdictions would need to limit cooperation with Interpol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpol#Abusive_requests_for_...

https://freedomhouse.org/report/transnational-repression/rus...

>The Kremlin is perhaps the world’s most prolific abuser of the Interpol notice system. As other governments have found, Interpol notices and diffusions (see “Methods of Transnational Repression”) are low-cost means for the Kremlin to harass and detain exiles.

>The Kremlin’s targeting of financier Bill Browder through Interpol Red Notices has made the tool famous, but it uses the tactic to an extraordinary extent, and often against targets far less prominent.

>Without more transparency at Interpol, it is difficult to determine why or how the Kremlin is able to use its notice system so extensively. Nevertheless, Russia is responsible for a staggering 38 percent of all public Red Notices in the world, while the United States is responsible 4.3 percent and China 0.5 percent.

>Russian authorities have even been able to use Red Notices to detain individuals residing in the United States for long periods of time. For instance, in two separate public cases in the last two years, Russian asylum seekers spent over a year in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention based on Russian-sourced Interpol Red Notices.

>your shopping habits are being shared against your wishes with a random third party (the external company bookkeeper).

GDPR requires data sharing to be done for a defined purpose.

The purpose of sharing data with an external company bookkeeper for bookkeeping is not remotely connected to any purpose an analytics service fulfills. So while the shared data is capable of the same insights, it's explicitly illegal for it to be processed that way without a defined purpose (which is it's own can of worms).

>entirely anonymous browsing data

It's never entirely anonymous, because how useful data is, is inversely related to how anonymous it is.

ergo it would only be truly anonymous if it was truly useless.

Re:Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W external antenna mod on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @10:43AM (#29567477)
>You can open them and reflash then with Tasmota but they are a pain to open.

Not sure if you tried it, but depending on the age of the stock or the tardiness of the OEM in applying security patches, it may be possible to flash them without opening them first.

https://github.com/ct-Open-Source/tuya-convert#procedure

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