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> Here are some past cases of these interactions: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu....

For me that link says:

> Error: Forbidden

> Your client does not have permission to get URL / from this server.


Sorry, I think there was a typo - does it work now?

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...


Uh... sometimes? First time I clicked it seemed to work, but a subsequent click gave me that 403 error.

Don't you think that as LLMs get better the deanonimization attacks will get easier?

Also, a journalist in a hostile regime might be one example, but a user that posted _very_ personal things under an alt account is also another example, and I bet the latter is much more common than the former.


Do you have enemies that would be interested in spending real money trying to link your public accounts to some (possibly existing, likely not) alt accounts with "personal things"? I don't think that's very common.

And no, while I'm sure LLMs can be used for stylometry in academic exercises, I don't think they'll really enable any sort of automatic mass-deanonymization of random social media accounts. But who knows, the US government probably has a bunch of new PRISM-like programs going on already, so it might happen.


AFAIK B&W 800D is used in many mastering studio's. I wonder what they will do with their high-end / pro audio segment, since it's quite different from your average home stereo (or even hi-fi) markets.


I wondered the same thing...FWIW under Samsung the pro/pro-sumer audio Harman brands (JBL in particular) have managed to keep making well-regarded products from consumer Bluetooth speakers up to live PA systems and studio monitors. On the other hand, Lexicon is a former top-shelf audio brand that has pretty much languished under Harman - they no longer employ some of the world's best audio DSP talents, and have been slow to update the highly regarded Lexicon DAW plugins for native Apple Silicon.


A few months ago I tried a new JBL receiver. It was trash (the worst I have tried and I tried 5 or 6 different ones for my room). I also saw their soundbar and their vintage speakers. I wouldn’t agree that JBL makes quality products, but that is just my experience.


> ...the first Framework Laptop 12 motherboard is going to use Intel's 13th-generation Core i3 and i5 processors

I _really_ hope they launch an AMD version (perhaps with an iGPU) soon after that. That and preferably with Libreboot support. This would make it the ideal portable laptop for me and thus I'd be able to (finally!) replace my X220T.


Libreboot would be amazing progress for moving open-source downwards in the stack.

It feels odd having a load of closed source EFI stuff and then putting linux on top of it. Sure linux injects a bunch of firmware into hardware later in the boot, but it's still progress


I am a fan of open source and being able to tinker etc. But I've never felt the need (advantage?) to do more than just use the bios/efi to boot or configure a few basics.

I've been burned by a small SBC that had poor support, but on laptops/desktops never felt limited.

But people always sound so excited to libreboot their personal computer... Am I missing out or is it just nerd cred?


There is security.

The other things is bug-fixing. The way it currently works is that bugs often only get fixed for one version and other issues like that.

Getting this stuff open and having upstream heavy fixing of bugs will imporve the ecosystem.

The other things is performance. Faster boot times are quite nice.

The other things is being able to better play with more advanced boot security concepts, booting with Bluetooth/NFC verification and so on.

And once its open, and you can more easily work with it, and its more available, hopefully more people do more interesting work with it.

That said, its not an absolute priority for me, but its just a better long term solution. So companies that push it are a big plus.


I'd say that after numerous revelations in regards to UEFI vulnerabilities and such, an open source BIOS / EFI has become a necessity for me rather than something just nice to have.


A lot of those revelations are due to majority of EFI code other than vendor specific drivers being quite open source unlike the bad old times.

Still would like an end to end open source UEFI bootchain, most groups end when they hit the 60% of stuff they need for their limited use cases : - |


Why would you prefer AMD? price, heat/fan noise?


Framework shipped AMD 7040-series and 13th-gen Core i-series alongside each other for the 13.

The 13th-gen Intels had miserable battery life and heat issues under load. If you could manage that, all four USB-C ports were full Thunderbolt ports equally capable of driving displays, PD, and USB 4 throughput.

The AMD line had considerably better performance-per-watt but rougher firmware support (and early on, really broken Linux kernel support that required Fedora or other rolling kernel release distros). It also couldn't deliver the same "every port does everything" promise that the Intel boards did, with some ports not supporting displays or USB 4, which significantly reduced the value of the expansion-card model to kind of a novelty.

On the 12, if it's likely also going to have a smaller batter than the 13, going only with 13th-gen Intels means it likely will be either a further step back in battery life vs. the 13 or throttled to extend the battery.


The two CPU models are i3-1215U and i5-1334U [1] which are 15 W parts with 2 P cores. They should be OK.

[1] https://youtu.be/-lErGZZgUbY?t=729


The issue isn't TDP so much as performance-per-watt. The equivalent Ryzen 5 PRO 7540U can run at the same base TDP, had 2 full and four 4c cores on a smaller die, and outperformed the 1334U almost across the board.

Both chips were Q1 '23, so the timing's not a great excuse. They were in HP's 2023 EliteBook G10 840 (1334U) and 845 (Ryzen 5 PRO 7540) laptops, and the 845 was better on both single- and especially multi-thread Cinebench R23, _much_ better in GPU loads and gaming, _and also_ lasted longer on battery.

I think Framework mostly just wants to target an education market with a mainboard experience that's lower maintenance than AMD has been for them. Fewer USB-C restrictions, less firmware drama.

Still hard to get excited about it being the _only_ available option, though.


I would suppose they got a good deal on them, as they're a little out of date, but they're good enough, and overall provide a good package. If you're trying to hit a price point, there will always be compromises.


I don't know about the GP. I won't buy anything from Intel unless things change dramatically. My last Intel laptop had serious thermal throttling problem that could be completely avoided if Intel cared a bit about users. The one before had some other problems. In past 20 years, anytime I bought (or was given by a company) AMD I was happy, and as time goes by I get less and less happy with Intel.


Thermal issues on a laptop I'd be pulling heatsinks and putting better paste on. Also a laptop cooler is nice unless you get junebugs.


Framework also mentioned they use PTM7950 in everything from now so repasting wont help if they didnt mess up assembly.


i don't know about other people's experience - but my framework with intel cpu is always running that fan relatively maxed out even when it's not doing anything. And it has massive issues staying asleep which is some sort of driver issue with Windows. But I can be an airport and all of a sudden my backpack feels like it's about to combust and i can hear my laptop fan rippin', even though it should be asleep.


That is by design, it's a feature from Intel and Microsoft called "modern standby." It basically means your laptop cannot actually sleep anymore. Instead, it enters a slightly-lower-power mode so that it can download emails in the background, run Windows updates in the middle of the night, and generally pretend to be a phone even though no one wants that and the hardware/os was not really designed for it.


Modern Standby requires that deepest sleep states take less power than S3 standby, the issue is mainly drivers and applications either waking the system or not putting peripherals into deep enough sleep (or shutting them down entirely if possible)


Some new laptops cannot actually fully suspend to ram. It sounds crazy but I had this issue even after installing Linux on a laptop. It’s a hardware limitation. You can thank Microsoft for trying to make sure they can sneak in OS updates when you think your laptop is asleep.


It's not sneaking in OS updates, it's faster wake-up mainly.

Combined with properly prepared HW taking less power in modern standby than in S3, but it requires hardware/firmware/driver/userland confluence to work well


By the way, how do people carry those laptops on airplanes if regulations mandate that every radio equipment must be off?


They don't. Only cellular connectivity. Most airlines even offer WiFi now


Mandate is a strong word.


Airplane mode is still a thing.


I'm not sure I had the same issue, it is a different laptop, but it would not go to sleep. The current solution is to make it hybernate instead of sleep.


Considering Intel's track record on hardware vulnerabilities, I'd much rather prefer AMD.


just an anecdata but recently I was building a HTPC/NAS. Initially I wanted N100 for pure NAS, but ended up with an 5500 AMD and I was blown away by the capabilities of IGPU. Turned out to be a quite capable gaming machine.


And a 2-in-1 laptop in tent mode would be perfect for (casual) gaming on the train with a gamepad; much more ergonomic than holding one of the many heavy gaming handhelds.


Does it have ECC and Coreboot / Libreboot support?


For sure this. I've recently found out that you can only pay using credit card, US bank account or Cash App.


As long as private trackers have absurd seeding rules and require you to sign up (initially) without your VPN active, I won't be touching them with a ten foot socket.


Get a seedbox and set it to seed indefinitely, you solve both problems at once.


From what I have seen about published seeding rules most trackers as switching to pretty reasonable rules. Typically the only major sin is not seeding for a minimum length of time (usually a few days). Then there are ratio rules but these are typically assisted by bonuses for long seeding even with no downloads and freeleach for new and popular torrents. There are still a few trackers where the site ratio stat is zero-sum but for the most part this isn't the case. As long as you do make content available you will not be punished.


The challenge is twofold on “elite” private trackers:

1. Getting into the tracker requires ratio proof from other reputable trackers.

2. Freeleech becomes less common, which makes maintaining a >1.0 ratio difficult without a seedbox and IRC based tools (eg, autobrr).


I think they mean join a group that uses a shared Plex server. People sell slots on their own servers with an automated/semi-automated request workflow for new content.


Just buy a hard drive.

Why are you so afraid of them knowing your IP?


People running such trackers usually have no idea about security, they‘ll likely put your IP in an excel sheet, for law enforcement to take when their home is raided.


there was one tracker that suffered this, 32p.


Really hoping for some nice performance improvements because my first time experience with VSE hasn't been that swell so far: https://old.reddit.com/r/blender/comments/186bbll/my_experie...


Would you say that this could run (smoothly) on my X220 with i7-2640M?


Imagine some old sci-fi movie where the computer write out the answer to a query, as if it actually was some scene worker typing it to some terminal. On this:

    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    Intel® Core™ i5-8300H × 8
    32,0 GiB ram
So I guess your computer would be a faster typist?


I think you have to have WSL for this to work, but this is how I do it on Linux with Xorg:

  sleep 3 ; xdotool type --delay 5 "$(xclip -selection c -o)"  ## Force-paste the secondary paste buffer (Ctrl+Shift+c)


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