How (and Why) a Reverse Engineer 3D-Printed an iPhone.
Scotty Allen reverse-engineered the interior case of an iPhone and has released the files to people wanting to make their own.
https://www.404media.co/how-and-why-a-reverse-engineer-3d-printed-an-iphone/ #reverseengineering #iPhone #techology #3DPrinting
Pick your #AI article:
- AI will eliminate [industry] jobs (NOTE: bonus points if you don't mention a time frame)
- Check out this cool new (ChatGPT/Claude/etc.) feature! (...that is kinda cool but overall useless).
- Use these # prompts to [task]
- AI models steal [asset type] from [industry]
- We made AI say [insert phrase], which can harm [people group]
This is really something —
"A Peterson Institute study found that spending on the construction of US computer and electronics manufacturing facilities had 'skyrocketed' in the last two years, with more electronics construction proceeding in 2024 than in the two previous decades."
Uncertainty over the future direction of the US under the next administration may jeopardize all that.
https://www.ft.com/content/e478dd6c-6dad-4795-9610-1098c2d33d88
#ChipsAct #tech #techology #USeconomy #economy #USpol #USpolitics #USelections #election
If you have an e-reader and you side load (manually add) books to your device, which of the following do you do?
Just curious about people's habits with their ereaders. If you have some reasons or logic for what you do, please comment below!
(resubmitted poll with more precise options)
If you have an e-reader and you side load (manually add) books to your device, which of the following do you do?
Just curious about people's habits with their ereaders. If you have some reasons or logic for what you do, please comment below!
If you’ve read me for a while you know that – when it comes to tech reporting/talking about tech – I have been around the block a few times. Talked about some hypes, cut some supposedly magic technologies down to size. Sometimes even defending or advocating for certain tech.
After a while the patterns seem to repeat (which is what lead to my talk on Empty Innovation). Narrative structures keep coming up again and again just with certain keywords replaced or updated. And sometimes not even that. But I also keep repeating myself, trying to hopefully bring some clarity to certain technologies as a springboard towards a deeper, more contextualized understanding that does not try to strip all politics and history and social meaning from tech. It doesn’t always work but I have my moments.
But today – in another conversation on “AI” and what it can or will or might or might not do in the future – a radical idea came to me. Something truly shocking. Here’s the thing:
Things that do not exist (yet) do not exist.
Mind. Blown. I know.
And of course my brain having soaked in way to much philosophical reading wants to pull it apart (What even does “to exist” mean? Don’t you believe that dreams or goals exist and have an impact on the world? etc. etc.) but bear with me for a second. And let’s just use a very simple understanding of existing. Like the things you can see or touch or actually explore in a defined shape that others experience similarly to you exist. This laptop. This blog. Others do not. Like the chocolate bar I’d love to have right now but does not exist.
Sure. Great job stating trivialities, sugar addict. Why should I care?
Well. It’s been a long time since we talked about technologies, innovations etc. as things that exist. And it’s hurting us and the discourse.
Let’s just stick to AI, the hype du jour: You can of course talk about these systems and what they do. About some marginal improvement on some benchmark that a new model has bought with a billion dollars in energy spending or something. But that’s barely ever the discourse.
A few days ago I commented on Meta’s open letter to the EU asking to be allowed to use all the data without paying or obeying the law. For innovation and because it might raise GDP. And while Meta’s letter is a blatant example of propaganda and lobbying the way it argues isn’t limited to the shady area of the digital city.
We are constantly asked to keep talking about things as potential. To judge things based on promises of what they might do that go way beyond the actual realities of the thing. Like OpenAI and others can’t make any money with their machine learning models. But their text and image generators might bring a 10% GDP increase as Meta’s open letter claims? You sure about that? Sounds like that requires a lot of magic thinking between 1) “OpenAI builds stochastic parrots” and 3) “GDP goes up by 10%”. How exactly is 2) shaped in this chain of reasoning and does it actually exist?
Sure I can argue that if you all give me 100 bucks right now you will all be millionaires in 10 years. But what exactly is the rational connective tissue between those statements? Or might they be the ramblings of a person either not very smart or very much a con artist?
In the tech discourse we need to stop thinking and talking about things that do not exist.
When someone tries to sell their tech (step 1 in the chain of reasoning) with massively large claims (step 3 in the chain) look at whether step 2 actually exists in reality. Because if it doesn’t that’d not “disruptive innovation” or “a breakthrough” or “a unicorn”. That is bullshit. It’s not just a waste of your time, it’s a way to infantilize you.
If you allow any jump (giving tante 100 bucks now makes you a millionaire in a year) no argument matters anymore. Sure massively wasteful “AI” systems could somehow solve the climate crisis but they probably most definitely absolutely won’t. But it’s possible under the “any promise about the future is allowed” rule. Because that rule makes all analysis, all prediction, all hopes and goals irrelevant. Anything is possible and you can just pick whose random string of word salad you follow. Maybe ask the rich dude who claims to be a stochastic parrot himself and who runs OpenAI? Take a bigger swing and go to the “our machine god will save/kill us all” folks. You already accepted that nothing means anything anyways.
I’m tired of arguing with word salat. I’m taking a radical stand. I just want to talk about what is real when it comes to tech. Fuck your visions, come back when you have some proof.
Is there any way to control how windows 11 decides to connect to displays?? First on my laptop it would always Extend displays, annoying because my docked laptop is constantly powering a 4k TV that is usually off, but managable.
NOW, despite no change from me, it defaults to ONLY the second screen (not main display mind you) with the laptop screen blank. Every time I change it to First Screen Only but it forgets.
A downside (unintended) consequence of lithium batteries.
"Electric toothbrushes and light-up sneakers are setting France on fire
Waste treatment plants have seen an uptick in fires caused by lithium-ion batteries in household goods."
#ClimateChnge #EV #Batteries #France #Europe #USA #Waste #Pollution #Fire #Science #Techology #News
Listening to the latest Epic and Apple app store machinations on episode 595 of @atpfm
I’d missed it as I don’t read Apple new sites much these days.
Listening to Better Offline (How Shareholders Are Destroying The Tech Industry): https://omny.fm/shows/better-offline/how-shareholders-are-destroying-the-tech-industry
In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through how [a] destructive mindset has created an entirely new kind of manager - one disconnected from labor and creation - and how the dark hand of shareholder supremacy is behind everything strange and bad in tech in the last few years.
Top Indian companies have very few people with disabilities on rolls
#AXSChat #WeAreBillionStrong #a11y #DisabilityRights #DisabilityInclusion #Equity #SDGs #Disability #Techology
Please allow me to introduce myself
I'm a man of moderate means and questionable taste
I've been around for a long, long year
I've seen too much and I've lost faith
Apologies to the Rolling Stones but I've updated it for the general malaise that is #GenX life in the early 21st century. General #introduction post here as I've just migrated from mastodon.social. I'm the homebody type who's very content to just curl up with a good #book. I enjoy #movies and most types of #music. Love good #food but I have a lifelong hatred of olives. I'm mostly here to meet fun, funny people and have a good time while taking the serious stuff in small doses for the preservation of whatever sanity I have left. I imagine I'll update this as more things occur to me to add. Below are some more specific interest. Glad to be here and beige bless!
#Stationery, #Calligraphy, #FountainPens, #Science, #Genetics, #Astronomy, #History, #Neolithic, #CelticPeoples, #Anglophile, #Techology, #Animals, #Raccoons, #Raptors
Is there a better tool than:
powercfg -lastwake
? I have mystery power ons for my desktop that aren't recorded in it, and my laptop was hot after being at home, plugged in and closed ALL day so it apparently woke. But no wakes recorded.
This week’s Instacart IPO is a big milestone for the tech industry and the company’s roughly 3,500 full-time employees, some of whom are earning generational wealth for making an early bet on a little grocery delivery startup many years ago. The Verge reports: https://flip.it/3.rRrC
#Tech #Techology #Instacart #IPOs #Startups
Harro! A small (or not) #introduction here:
Apart of what you can read in bio:
I love playing games. My favorite genres are #JRPG and #4x strategies, but it doesn’t mean i only play them, everything with a good lore and interesting universes or neat gameplay features are welcome. I also play some #Gacha mostly #GranblueFantasy and #BlueArchive nowadays. #Gaming
I watch #Anime from time to time, mostly i prefer dialogue/story focused stuff. My all time favs are #MonogatariSeries and #SteinsGate
Same goes for #Movies hard to not like what #Nolan or #Tarantino do
I’m a music lover (aka meloman) so all genres are valid, though my favs are #HipHop and its branches and #VGM especially #Falcom Sound Team JDK are pure joy. I do, however dislike heavy metal for some reason, but not all of it.
I’m interested and learning to do #Art and #GraphicDesign
Figma and PS are my main tools atm alongside #StableDiffusion which leads to my #Techology side.
I love everything that moves progress forward and opens new possibilities. Currently learning and training some LoRAs and i think its a great way to enhance my IT skills as well.
I’m a PC power-user, which means i use #CLI a lot and overall know a lot about PCs. I also like to find neat tools and soft on #Github that can help with everyday tasks so feel free to ask if you looking for a tool for a particular task I might know exactly what you need.
By way of an #introduction, I'm a husband, father, grandfather & software developer.
My favorite books & tv/movies include #Techology #ScienceFiction #Horror #Fantasy. Also #Comedies &
a fan of #Survivor & #TheAmazingRace
I work in #softwaredevelopment creating solutions to enable sharing results w/#C++, #Java, #MATLAB & sometimes #JavaScript. I try to keep learning
Fan of #BostonSports, but not a fanatic: #BostonBruins #NewEnglandPatriots #BostonRedSox #BostonCeltics
I've traveled a little, more schools than years, lived in Germany, traveled around Europe.
Regrettably, much of this was done before #Techology we take for granted today. I was in the Navy. If you took pictures, you had to snail-mail them away for weeks, to be disappointed with the results.
Today, you can Google Street view most places you'd like to visit ahead of time @tso and here's a #Thread on the #Azores, the islands that belong to #Portugal
https://www.visitportugal.com/en/destinos/acores. #VirtualTour
A delayed #introduction.
I'm a husband, father, grandfather & software developer.
My favorite books & tv/movies include #Techology #ScienceFiction #Horror #Fantasy. Also #Comedies &
a fan of #Survivor & #TheAmazingRace
I work in #softwaredevelopment creating solutions to enable sharing results w/#C++, #Java, #MATLAB & sometimes #JavaScript. I try to keep learning
Fan of #BostonSports, but not a fanatic: #BostonBruins #NewEnglandPatriots #BostonRedSox #BostonCeltics
Cui Bono? 
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