The keyboard has 4 keys to the right of the space bar, so it's probably a PC-style keyboard with "Windows keys". But the Mac is old enough it would be ADB only. There's no way that's working without a spendy adaptor.
It's an intersection of immature tech and desperate capital.
Look at some of the rubbish that was tossed around when personal computers were new. The classic one is "you'll have one in the kitchen to store recipes" but they didn't foresee livestreaming or Microsoft Excel. Or look at some of the railway routes proposed in the mid-1800s. Fair enough, people will speculate and make dubious guesses about the future of new tech. I expect we'll find useful cases for generative AI, but many of the "now with extra fingers" products will wither when they prove to offer unacceptable cost once unsubsidized, or simply prove to be too much hassle to get correct output from. When a support LLM regularly gives technically incorrect answers, nobody will want it no matter how clean its grammar and florid its language is.
But fir now, it's fuel for late-stage capitalism that has to jump from bubble to bubble to keep delivering infinite growth. They'll wager on any and all of it, even the stupid and ultimately useless stuff, in case it delivers the moonshot return they're after. It's institutional FOMO that they might miss buying into day-1 Apple, or that they might strangle their big win by not cramming it down everyone's throat hard enough.
The Atari XL seriea computers cut a nice space between retro and futuristic.
They're much sleeker looking than their 400/800 predecessors, as well as the Apple II and the breadbin VIC 20/64/C16. Only the 64C and Plus/4 really look similarly minaturized and not-in-need-of-a-big-wristrest-for-comfortable-typing.
The use of metal and smoked plastic trim gives it a premium appearance. The 1200XL even hides the cartridge slot on the side to avoid anyone nistaking it for a mere console..
It feels like there's going to be a fire sale on American talent.
Someone should be rising to the moment- the counyry that offers an easy "show your voided American visa/passport and skip through the emigration process" could poach effectively.
I've seen a lot of cheap little "appliance" machines-- fanless devices meant to be network routers, NAS devices, signage controllers advertised as running on like 4th and 5th generation laptop CPUs.
You could get a SDR dongle. The cheap ones probably won't fo AM well, but they make excellent FM tuners, as well as aircraft, 2-metre and 70cm ham bands with a pretty basic antenna.
Our new defacto president is the avatar of bubble economics.
Even the other oligarchs, thry made something at dramatic scale to justify their wealth. Microsoft did sell a lot of software. Facebook got 176 billion people on board to blast adverts at. They're trillion dollar firms that do correspondingly large run rates.
Tesla is still a minor player in its space, and SpaceX is inherently a narrow business. Even PayPal, where the horrors all came from, isn't a major value add, it's a thin mask atop the clunkiness of American payment rails that should have been replaced by something like FedNow by 2003.
But he's taken these tiny fundamentals and convinced Wall Street to puff more air into them than a fresh bag of Lay's.
ATSC 3.0 is usable. I have a HDHomerun sitting on my LAN with a couple 3.0 tuners.
The big problem is:
the 3.0 broadcasts are still mostly tests, so you get mostly a respin of a 1.0 channel
the audio is AC-4 and a lot of software doesn't support it. There was stuff for Windows but when I looked, the usual suspects (VLC, mpv) on Linux didn't support it
Work uses a VPN. So if there's a useful answer to a work question on some technical reddit, I don't see it. Way to remain a relevant resource for anything but fandom BS.
Doom. I'd make an adorable Cacodaemon and by the nature of Doom, I will be everywhere, blasted across the universe as programmers port me to anything that can oscillate between a high and low signal level.
As someone who has to deal with PCI compliance issues, there's plenty of noob mistakes, out-of-date thinking and outright "let's log this data for debugging purposes even though if any regulator found out they'd nuke us from orbit."
There are valid questions, many of which revolve around how and why it's used.
Some systems have brain damaged approaches to diagnostics/logging, license enforcement, or remote service/update systems that create security holes but are not intentionally malicious.
Security is hard and we should remember Hanlon's Razor.
I hear that again and again, but I don't quite understand the endgame anymore.
There was the theory Russia had compromising material on him to get him to play along, but the MAGA crowd is so committed and reverent that I'm not sure anything could shame him anymore.
Russia could show a tape of him porking his 7-year-old daughter on the Times Square Jumbotron and the GOP would rally to lower the age of consent to 6. If the Russian financial authorities showed incontrovertible proof that Trump was broke, Congress would declare he had a bazillion FreedomBux (tm) to magically settle his debts.
Why would he bother listening when there's no leverage left?
It's more chilling to think this is pure domestic terror with no evil-other boogeyman to blame. The far right got all their best and brightest in one place, and thry couldn't dilute their paranoia and hate enough to serve their greed.
The keyboard has 4 keys to the right of the space bar, so it's probably a PC-style keyboard with "Windows keys". But the Mac is old enough it would be ADB only. There's no way that's working without a spendy adaptor.
Unacceptable. Beat the props guy with a Model F.