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JWcph, Radicalized By Decency

OK, so it took a while but #Apple's desire for customer lock-in has finally killed off, not just the 3.5mm jack but the entire wired earbud category 🤬

I don't want that wireless crap! I'll lose them, I'll forget to charge them & the connection will keep dropping - fuck all of that.

"But they last longer!" - bullshit. You think "new phone every year" Apple wants that? You think anyone does?

I just want a pair of reasonable cabled buds, but apparently that's too much to ask.

#tech#business
:blahaj: Why Not Zoidberg? 🦑

Let's make one thing absolutely clear: People who use AI coding are liable. They can't blame the AI.

Also, we are now facing the Online Privacy Apocalypse. Not only because of AI of course but also because politicians are taking the final step to literally make privacy online a criminal offense.

404media.co/women-dating-safet

404 Media · Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan“DRIVERS LICENSES AND FACE PICS! GET THE FUCK IN HERE BEFORE THEY SHUT IT DOWN!” the thread read before being deleted.
#AI#Tech#TechBros
Aptivi

Samsung is working on One UI 8 for M33 and F15

Samsung has recently started testing One UI 8.0 on the Galaxy M33 and the Galaxy F15 smartphones. First spotted by Mohammed Khatri (@mohammed_k_2010) on X, who discovered the first build of One UI 8 for F15 in India, while M33’s first build was discovered for Europe, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. Samsung is currently working on optimizing One UI 8 for the two smartphones that will receive this update after the flagships.

While the M33 gets its fourth (and the last) generation update, after which only security updates will be received, the Galaxy F15 will get its second generation update after One UI 7. Those midrange devices will get their update to One UI 8 as soon as the rollout for the midrange devices starts, which is usually after the flagships.

The build information for both phones can be seen here:

  • SM-M336B: M336BUXXUCGYG1/M336BUODMCGYG1/M336BUXXUCGYG1
  • SM-E156B: E156BXXU6CYG5/E156BODM6CYG5/E156BXXU6CYG5

To update your M33 and your F15 after they receive the One UI 8 update, follow these steps:

  1. Open the Settings app
  2. Navigate to Software update
  3. Tap Download and Install
  4. You should see “One UI 8.0” at the top of the screen
  5. Press Download
  6. Wait for the download to complete, then press Install now.

Make sure that your device is fully charged before performing the update to avoid interruptions. Never interrupt the update process in any way, or problems could occur later. You’ll need to use Wi-Fi to download the update as the mobile data charges can be expensive, depending on the size of the update.

#Android#Android16#AndroidB
Ada :v_trans: :v_pan:​

Hey fedi-admins, what's your recommended GUI option for k8s administration?

Specifically looking for something with a low barrier to entry, as it's intended for the devs in my team who have minimal ops/infra experience.

We've been looking at 'Portainer' as the combination of easy management, stack deploys and RBAC quite appealing, but the way they're aggressively pushing the paid version... not so much.

#tech#devops#containers
Aptivi

Linux 6.17 will be able to reboot Silicon Macs

One of the most important hiccups, alongside the Apple graphics card drivers support for the mainline Linux kernel, was that Linux wasn’t able to reboot the M2/M1 Silicon Macs, because the necessary Apple System Management Controller (SMC) driver was missing in the mainline Linux kernel, and that only the Asahi Linux kernel provided such driver.

Starting from Linux 6.17, Silicon Macs, such as the latest MacBooks, can now reboot the system, which is one of the most important functions that every computer has to implement when building an operating system. This is because Linux 6.17 has provided the Apple SMC driver that not only handles system reboot, but also handles temperature sensors, voltage and power meters, and more.

The work needed to be done is finally done on this patch that adds the macsmc driver to the MFD driver section. The commit message explains how this driver works:

The System Management Controller (SMC) on Apple Silicon machines is a piece of hardware that exposes various functionalities such as temperature sensors, voltage/power meters, shutdown/reboot handling, GPIOs and more.

Communication happens via a shared mailbox using the RTKit protocol which is also used for other co-processors. The SMC protocol then allows reading and writing many different keys which implement the various features. The MFD core device handles this protocol and exposes it to the sub-devices.

Some of the sub-devices are potentially also useful on pre-M1 Apple machines and support for SMCs on these machines can be added at a later time.

To be more specific, another patch is introduced that adds reboot bindings to the device tree definition, which is required as the new Silicon Macs talk to SMC and write to NVMEM cells. Writing to those cells will use the below properties:

  • shutdown_flag: Flag indicating shutdown (as opposed to reboot)
  • boot_stage: Stage at which the boot process stopped (0x30 for normal boot)
  • boot_error_count: Counter for boot errors
  • panic_count: Counter for system panics

In the Treehouse Mastodon instance, Asahi Linux developer Sven Peter has confirmed that the Apple SMC driver has just made it to the Linux 6.17 merge window, and that it’s now finally possible to reboot the Silicon Macs normally. Further Apple drivers will be merged to the mainstream Linux kernel later.

The only thing remaining is that Linux distros will have to update to Linux 6.17 before the Silicon Macs will gain ability to reboot from Linux, which will take time, depending on the kernel update policy. It may take from the matter of days in rolling distros, such as Arch Linux, to weeks or months in non-rolling distros.

Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka will use Linux 6.17 as the final kernel release, which means that this version of Ubuntu will be the first version that supports rebooting the Silicon Macs.

Photo by Anna Shvets

#Linux#Linux617#M2
Eric 🇨🇦

Got my DAW basement recording area torn apart right now as I just bought a newer used computer. Replacing my old ex-gov’t i5 desktop w/16GB RAM for a newer and faster i7. The local fellow I bought this desktop from just had it custom built for his music production, but he’s switched over to MAC so didn’t need it anymore. He’s an Emmy award musician and producer; written music for over 4000 TV episodes and film scores. The computer’s a good step up for me. Here’s some of the specs.

Intel Core i7-5930K @ 3.5GHz — 6 cores / 12 threads (LGA 2011-v3), 64GB DDR4 RAM, 750GB storage, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti, Universal Audio QUAD Core DSP Card (PCIe).

Don’t have a clue what the Universal Audio device is. It has a whole whack of plugins in the folder.

Got it for $250 and so far it runs great. Doing the file transfer and software install thing now. And cleaning up the recording area a bit too. #music #recording #tech

SuffolkLITLab

TL;DR: While Zero Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) offer a promising way to improve digital ID privacy, they do not prevent verifier abuse or limit information requests. The discussion around digital IDs requires careful consideration of legal protections and power imbalances to ensure user safety and privacy online. eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/zero #law #tech #legaltech ⚖️ 🤖 #autosum

Electronic Frontier Foundation · Zero Knowledge Proofs Alone Are Not a Digital ID Solution to Protecting User PrivacyIn the past few years, governments across the world have rolled out digital identification options, and now there are efforts encouraging online companies to implement identity and age verification requirements with digital ID in mind. This blog is the first in this short series that will explain...
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