Contents
- Google Makes Sharing Plus Codes Easier in a Push To Simplify Addressing System Globally
- Translation From VC-Backed PR Jargon To English of Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz's Statement That He's 'Stepping Down'
- Twitter Flags Trump and White House Tweets About Minneapolis Protests for 'Glorifying Violence'
- Miss Your Office? Some Companies Are Building Virtual Replicas
- Ancient Mass Extinction Tied To Ozone Loss, Warming Climate
- Vulcan Is Closing 'The Living Computers: Museum + Labs' In Seattle
- Uber Destroys Thousands of Bikes and Scooters
- Germany Calls In Russian Envoy Over Hack Attack
- ACLU Accuses Clearview AI of Privacy 'Nightmare Scenario'
- Google Sued by Arizona Over Location Data and Alleged Consumer Fraud
- Google Launches Android Studio 4.0 With Motion Editor, Build Analyzer, and Java 8 APIs
- YouTube Says China-Linked Comment Deletions Weren't Caused By Outside Parties
- NSA Warns of Ongoing Russian Hacking Campaign Against US Systems
- A $350 'Anti-5G' Device Is Just a 128MB USB Stick, Teardown Finds
- The Most Powerful Raspberry Pi Now Has 8GB of RAM
Translation From VC-Backed PR Jargon To English of Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz's Statement That He's 'Stepping Down'
Twitter Flags Trump and White House Tweets About Minneapolis Protests for 'Glorifying Violence'
This is the first time such a step has been taken against a head of state for breaking Twitter's rules about glorifying violence, a company spokesman said. The company said users' ability to interact with the tweet will be limited, and that users can retweet it with comment, but not like, reply to, or otherwise retweet it. "...These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won't let that happen. Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with him all the way. Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you!," Mr. Trump's tweet said. The official account of the White House, which tweeted Trump's message, has been flagged as well.
Thankfully your constitution was written for this.
What do you mean the gun nuts aren't all immediately out and ready to protect the nation from a wannabe murderous tyrannical dotard? Wasn't that the whole point?
Re:There is no defense for S230 anymore here
You only assume Trump is threatening lethal force.
Stop, or I'll shoot... you with something non-lethal to subdue you without causing any lasting harm.
Sorry, but unless you expressly qualify your statement, the default when "shoot" is used as a verb conveys lethality.
Even if it was open to borderline interpretation, this is a president speaking, so - knowing the reach and impact of their words - there'd be clarification to avoid misinterpretation as a threat... unless that threat was the intention. Either way you look at it, it's clear what Trump meant to communicate. It always is, typos aside.
Re: Another day
Have you looked at his twitter feed
Yep.
There's lots of hating on Twitter since they censored him. There's a new executive order to force them "uphold free speech".
There's some stuff about how how Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey needs to "get his act together and bring the City under control" (I'm guessing Trump doesn't like him),
There's some stuff hating on Obama and several other people.
Not a single mention of what happened in Minneapolis or what actions will be taken to prevent it ever happening again.
PS: Have you seen the video of what the cops did? That's murder, right there. If they weren't cops they'd be in jail right now. Plus the paramedics who just loaded him on a gurney without even checking if he had a pulse or not.
Re: Another day
You appear to be implying that Trumpâ(TM)s tweets could somehow alleviate ignorance, rather than exacerbate it. I defy you to provide some evidence of that.
Miss Your Office? Some Companies Are Building Virtual Replicas
Graphics reminiscent of early "Tomb Raider" videogames depict a version of the company's Dutch headquarters, adapted to include pool tables, techno music and in-jokes such as a "memorial" library named for the very- much-alive chief creative officer. Staff roam around in the form of avatars such as robots and panda bears. Gordon Willoughby, the chief executive of WeTransfer, said the platform helps provide the social experience of office life in the way that Zoom calls and Slack have replaced business meetings and desk-side chats. That is particularly valuable for recent hires, he said. [...] Although clients can use Breakroom to create their office utopia, the platform also enables real-world elements such additional privileges for senior staff. In Sine Wave's own virtual world, senior members can lock the boardroom, which is located on top of a hill overlooking the rest of the office.
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Even if you put aside the stupidity of a low res virtual office with panda bear avatars aside.....do people really miss the full "office experience"???
Geez....enjoy the freedom while you have it, eh?
Miss your office?
Uh, maybe the upper level management misses it because they can't exert their power in person, from which they likely derive all meaning. The rest of us, though? I don't think so.
Ancient Mass Extinction Tied To Ozone Loss, Warming Climate
Just as the extinction set in, the spores became misshapen and dark, indicating DNA damage, John Marshall, a palynologist at the University of Southampton, and his co-authors say in a paper published in Science Advances. It's evidence, he says, that "all of the ozone protection is gone." Scientists have long believed -- at least before humanity became a force for extinction -- that there were just two ways to wipe out life on Earth: an asteroid strike or massive volcanic eruptions. But 2 years ago, researchers found evidence that in Earth's worst extinction -- the end-Permian, 252 million years ago -- volcanoes lofted Siberian salt deposits into the stratosphere, where they might have fed chemical reactions that obliterated the ozone layer and sterilized whole forests. Now, spores from the end-Devonian make a compelling case that, even without eruptions, a warming climate can deplete the ozone layer, says Lauren Sallan, a paleobiologist at the University of Pennsylvania. "Because the evidence is so strong, it will make people rethink other mass extinction events."
Great Dying
There was just a summary in Nature this week of research suggesting that the greatest mass extinction event in the history of the planet, The Great Dying, which led to the extinction of 90% or more of marine life and 70% of land species, was caused by Siberian volcanoes releasing tons of mercury for 300,000 years. This is based on mercury content of rocks from that era and computer simulations based on the mercury content of rocks of that age.
Just thought it was relevant so I'm sharing it.
Gamma ray burst?
I'm sure they've done more research than me, but a sudden disappearance of the ozone layer to me seems like a strong possibility of a gamma-ray burst.
Vulcan Is Closing 'The Living Computers: Museum + Labs' In Seattle
"Two museums under the Vulcan wing, closed because of the pandemic, will also remain shuttered: the Living Computers: Museum + Labs and the Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum," reports The Seattle Times. "For both, the Vulcan statement said, the coming months will be a time to evaluate 'if, how and when to reopen.' The Living Computers: Museum + Labs, described on Vulcan's website as 'the world's largest collection of fully restored supercomputers, mainframes, minicomputers and more,' opened in Sodo in 2012 and was expanded in 2016. Its offerings included not only selections from Allen's vast personal collection, but hands-on exhibits on virtual reality, self-driving cars, robotics, and computer-generated art and music."
his sister is destroying his legacy
Inevitable I think
Not Living Computers
And here I was thinking they had a room full of people who did calculations with pen and paper, from the day before automated calculating devices were used.
In the beginning, the top floor of a factory was often the drawing room or the calculation room. If there was a need to do matrix calculus, they would pass each term to two people (to check the results) in a classroom-like setting.
When I see the term "living computer", I think of these calculation rooms, not of the machines that came afterwards.
Also, not everything had to be done with calculus. For a two-dimensional stress calculation in a lattice construction, you would draw a Cremona diagram, and do the calculation graphically. One aeronautical student showed that the graphical results done on a pre-WW-II aircraft done with Cremona diagrams were about as accurate as the same calculations done with Finite Elements in the days of computers.
Uber Destroys Thousands of Bikes and Scooters
In 2018, Uber said it would focus more on its electric bike and scooter business than on cars. But on May 7 this year, Uber announced a deal that saw Lime take over the Jump bike business. As part of the deal, Uber invested $170 million in Lime, while Lime acquired "tens of thousands" of Uber's Jump bikes -- and the associated intellectual property. Lime's chief executive Wayne Ting has said he prefers the design of Uber's bikes and will deploy more of them in the future. However, there were also "tens of thousands" of older-model bikes that Lime did not inherit as part of the deal. Videos shared on Twitter show the bikes arriving at a recycling facility in North Carolina to be destroyed. "We explored donating the remaining, older-model bikes," Uber said in a statement. "But given many significant issues -- including maintenance, liability, safety concerns, and a lack of consumer-grade charging equipment -- we decided the best approach was to responsibly recycle them."
The decision to destroy these bikes comes amid a national bike shortage. "We have never seen anything like this in a very long time," said Dave Nghiem at College Park Bicycles in College Park, MD. "We have never locked down half the planet like this so they can't do their jobs to build bikes. So, no one has been building bikes for three months. If no one is building bikes, there's no bikes on the continent," said Dave.
Kurt of Bike Share Museum seems to think it is all about killing Jump, "destroying every bike they can, and slowly taking Lime down in the process." He adds: "We also can't emphasize enough how disgusting it is for UBER to scrap 20,000 bicycles in the midst of an unprecedented pandemic where bicycles have literally become an object of survival. Heavy as they are, these could be transportation for the many who have been brought to financial ruin during COVID-19."
Good news
Donated food has been granted strong protections from liability. If being two decades old can be called 'news'.
It's the world we live in
American corporate culture in action
This liability concern is laughably American. Those bikes are in many orders of magnitude better condition that what much of the rest of the world would acceptably use and more importantly *sell*. Hell I bought a second hand bike for cheap in the Netherlands that flat out had no working brakes. The extent of the "liability"? Store owner said, "don't ride this until you get it fixed".
Re:Good news
And one jury filled with people too stupid to get out of jury duty can blow that to shit friend. I'll give you a personal example...had a relative whose psoriasis was just horrid, looked like you poured boiling oil on the poor guy but then came a miracle drug that just made it disappear, the catch? It caused flipper babies. He had to watch an hour long video in the presence of a doctor explaining the risk, had to answer a bunch of questions to make sure he understood the risks, and sign a contract saying he would not try having kids for five years after taking the drug...wanna guess what happened to that drug?
Yup two sluts took the drug, promptly ignored everything, got knocked up and when they had flipper babies sued the company. Jury completely ignored all the contracts and videos and awarded them an assload of money and drug company now only sells it in Asia. Bless his heart his pharmacist heard it was gonna be pulled and bought every bottle he could find in North and South America so he was able to take it for nearly 4 years after it was pulled but now he is back on disability and looks like a burn victim, all thanks to two raging thundercunts who cared more about getting the D than destroying the life of a child and 12 people too damn dumb to get out of jury duty.
So you can bitch about the company trashing the bikes all you want but if I was them I'd have done the same, because in the USA you can't have nice things without some lawyer figuring out a way to fuck you for it.
Makes sense
People are jumping to unnecessarily negative conclusions. Believe it or not, this is just the lowest cost, most efficient method of closing this topic out.
Donating, giving away, etc takes up resources, requires on going budgets, and has a lot of unknowns. The liability issues can be mostly mitigated but still adds costs in vetting what must be disposed vs donated. At a 20k volume, the logistics alone wouldn't be offset by the residual value for tax write off.
The easiest thing for a company to do is to just dump it on an e-cycle 3rd party and wash their hands of it. That 3rd party has the volume and expertise to assess the various options and see if resale, donation, or destruction is the most cost effective path. Clearly they chose destruction.
Other items like used cellphones & cars have an after market logistics chain that is well supported by a consumer base to absorb the volume of end of life devices. But these things, like keyboard & mice, do not.
Germany Calls In Russian Envoy Over Hack Attack
Federal prosecutors issued an arrest warrant on May 5 for Russian national Dmitry Badin over the attack and the German ministry said there was credible evidence that he was part of the GRU military intelligence service at the time of the attack. "The arrest warrant against Mr Badin was issued on the basis of the strong suspicion that the accused conspired with other hitherto anonymous persons to carry out intelligence activities against Germany on behalf of the secret service of a foreign power," said the ministry. In a statement on Wednesday, the Russian embassy in Berlin said German officials so far had not been able to present facts to underpin the accusations against Moscow.
Will come to nothing
Germany can't present the facts that underpin the accusations without burning their cyberintelligence methods. No way Germany does that.
I suppose Germany hopes to get a media trial since they can't get a court trial. I doubt Russia cares what German press says. Nothing will come of this accusation.
Re:Cyberwarfare
Can someone with actual knowledge on the subject explain how one state proves another state is behind a specific hacking incident? .
Disclaimer: I used to work in a CERT and I actually worked in Internet security when it was not fancy and was not politicised (20 years ago).
The answer to your question is that In 99% of the cases it does not. In 99% of the cases it is attribution on the basis of "we have seen this malware used by X". This is completely and utterly bogus because once malware has been captured, it can be subverted, reverse engineered, repurposed and put to use by whoever captured it. Iran has used a Stuxnet derivative to go after other gulf countries. Russia uses NSA exploits from the EternalBlue toolkit. Everyone is using UEFI exploits and UEFI malware originally designed by the Italians. On top of that, there is a gazillion of crime syndicates which get their copies of state actor malware with a few months after it has been put to use. Some of them actually make it and sell it to nation states. Others get it as a result it being made in Kleptocracies like Russia where the authors moonshine on the side for criminal gangs. And last, but not least, criminal gangs also capture malware which has been put to use, reverse engineer it and repurpose it for themselves.
There is, however less than 1% of the cases where the malware is BRAND NEW and whoever captures it has managed to trace successfully to origin.
All in all, you need to read the announcements. If the announcement mentions any "known malware previously used", just bin it. This is someone fishing for "red under our bed" pocket money from the "forever war fund".
ACLU Accuses Clearview AI of Privacy 'Nightmare Scenario'
The suit, filed in the Circuit Court of Cook County, adds to the growing backlash against Clearview since January, when The New York Times reported that the company had amassed a database of more than three billion photos across the internet, including from Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Venmo. This trove of photos enables anyone with the Clearview app to match a person to their online photos and find links back to the sites where the images originated. People in New York and Vermont have also filed suits in against the company in recent months, and the state attorneys general of Vermont and New Jersey have ordered Clearview to stop collecting residents' photos. According to the A.C.L.U. suit, "Clearview has set out to do what many companies have intentionally avoided out of ethical concerns: create a mass database of billions of face prints of people, including millions of Illinoisans, entirely unbeknownst to those people, and offer paid access to that database to private and governmental actors worldwide." The company's business model, the complaint said, "appears to embody the nightmare scenario" of a "private company capturing untold quantities of biometric data for purposes of surveillance and tracking without notice to the individuals affected, much less their consent."
Re:Consent to use photos
What about those of us who get captured in photos but didn’t consent to Facebook’s terms? Moreover, in the case of Illinoisans they have to give explicit consent to have their biometrics used. Facebook didn’t have that permission (hence separate suits against them), so they certainly didn’t have permission to give it to others.
Google Sued by Arizona Over Location Data and Alleged Consumer Fraud
My Android v7.1.1 has location turned off but, ...
Under options/developer options/running services/Google Play services is a service named LocationPersistentService
Stop it and it comes back.
Google is lying.
"Maps won't work unless you enable ..."
I use my cellphone as a phone and little else. When AT&T killed 2G, after months of warning and pestering us to upgrade our phones, just before the shutoff they finally gave me and my wife free LG10 smatphones rather than have us leave their network.
As they were initially configured they burned a lot of power and got warm even when in the holster. So after the AT&T guy found that a couple pieces of the gaming bloatware had gone feral and killed them, I went through the menus and disabled a bunch of the bloatware I wasn't using. (And I never accepted the browser license because Chrome's license includes Adobe's, which has anti reverse-engineering boilerplate that escalates into an effective non-compete and looks like it could become an issue career-wise.)
So I went through and disabled as much of the bloatware as I thought was necessary. I left google maps live but disabled its access to nav info (and pretty much everything else), intending to use it for maps but not real-time navigation.
Since then my phone, roughly once a day, pops up a notifier to the effect of:
Enable Google Play services.
Maps won't work unless you enable Poogle Play services.
But the maps tool still does a map just fine.
I've been assuming this is related to a hidden path that Google uses to track your location and that the notifier text was deceptive.
Re:"Maps won't work unless you enable ..."
From KitKat onwards you can't disable Google Play Services at all. A bunch of features that were previously provided by the OS were moved into Play Services to make it easier for Google to update them (and mine data from them). Now if you want to avoid Play Services you need to use something like LineageOS with a re-implementation of Play Services like micro-G.
Google Launches Android Studio 4.0 With Motion Editor, Build Analyzer, and Java 8 APIs
Re:Why haven't they added support for Go yet?
YouTube Says China-Linked Comment Deletions Weren't Caused By Outside Parties
"This was not the result of outside interference, and we only remove content when our enforcement system determines it violates our Community Guidelines, not solely because it's flagged by users," said Joseph. "This was an error with our enforcement systems and we have rolled out a fix."
Re:Not even denying it anymore
So Google admits it has CCP operatives within the company. Wow!
Every large tech company does. I'm no fan of Google, but this is hardly an embarrassing admission. If you're recruiting engineers from China, and why wouldn't you if you're shopping overseas for cheap talent at all, then some percentage of them will be government agents. Even a government like China's has its grass-root loyalists, who sincerely believe the government is great.
What Google should be embarrassed by is the failure of the system of checks and balances that's supposed to keep crap code in general from being checked in. What went wrong there? There's no way people are checking in changes to something like YouTube without a code review, so why wasn't this caught? It's possible that this was part of an innocuous change made by one agent, code reviewed by another, and no one else bothered to look at it.
But I rather think this was a change to data, rather than code, that was done without the rigor of a code review. Every giant embarrassing cloud failure I've seen close up, from Amazon breaking S3 and DynamoDB, to Microsoft firewalling off all its customers from its servers, to some equally embarassing stuff on my own team, all of them weren't code changes. They were something else - a change to a network setting, or a commonplace administrative runbook, or a routine key rotation, that went horribly wrong because the general-purpose change-control system is no where near as good as a code review at spotting bugs. And someone doing it on purpose? Easiest thing in the world to slip into a routine change control doc without anyone asking questions.
Re: Not even denying it anymore
That's what having carrier status is all about and that's what safe-haven requires. You must take down illegal material (deemed by law to be objectionable or breaching copyright/trademark) but you can't start editing on the basis that the posts are not aligned with your own ideologies or beliefs -- that turns you into a publisher with all the resulting liabilities that publishers face.
They openly hired a CCP VP for Chief of AI
Google hired Li Fei Fei as Chief of AI - she is a known member of the communist party of China. Now, she is on the board at Twitter, just in time to check the "accuracy" of Trump's lovely tweets. This is just the tiniest part of the tip of the iceberg of Chinese CCP members in active positions in US tech companies.
Who care inside or outside?
I can see at least four ways this was accomplished:
1) automated or semi-automated complaints by CCP against their targets.
2) CCP operatives working for Youtube and/or Google did this on their own.
3) CCP operatives managed to convince non CCP-linked people working for Youtube/Google to do this.
4) CCP operatives broke into Youtube servers and added their own censorship code.
I don't see how this could possibly be an accident. In any case, there is something very seriously wrong, possibly criminally.
I call bullshit
The claim, "YouTube never removes comments only on the basis of user reports" is simply not believable. When this was happening, I posted a comment with the triggering words on a video about a CCP aircraft carrier. In under a minute my comment was deleted. My posting history said I never even posted the comment. There is no way in hell it could have happened that fast if it required a human complaint and a human followup, therefore the only plausible explanation is there is automatic deletion code that triggers on key words and phrases without human intervention. I'm not the only person to test this. I did it as a followup to someone else's post that it was happening. The other person had reported equally fast deletions.
Alex Joseph is a liar. Plain and simple. He's clearly trying to cover something up. Whether it was rogue employee who injected the deletion code or youtube is China's bitch is the question. The former can be forgiven, but shows a clear lack of internal controls on important code. The latter shows a business who has sold out our country to foreign agents.
NSA Warns of Ongoing Russian Hacking Campaign Against US Systems
The NSA said the hacking activity was tied directly to a specific unit within Russia's Main Intelligence Directorate, also known as the GRU, named the Main Center for Special Technologies. The cybersecurity research community refers to this same hacking group as "Sandworm," and has previously connected it to disruptive cyberattacks against Ukrainian electric production facilities. A security alert published by the NSA on Thursday explains how hackers with GRU, Russia's military intelligence, are leveraging a software vulnerability in Exim, a mail transfer agent common on Unix-based operating systems, such as Linux. The vulnerability was patched last year, but some users have not updated their systems to close the security gap.
A $350 'Anti-5G' Device Is Just a 128MB USB Stick, Teardown Finds
But what does the 5GBioShield actually consist of? The BBC pointed to a recent teardown by security company Pen Test Partners, which found that the device is just a USB stick with 128MB of storage. The company wrote: "When plugged in to our test machine we may have missed the bubble of 'quantum holographic catalyzer technology' appearing. The stick comes loaded with a 25 page PDF version of the material from 5GBioShield's website. It included a Q&A of distances for the "bubble" and how to know if it is working. It's an "always on" system apparently, is always working, powered or not, so no visual checks needed. A review of the stick's properties revealed nothing more than what you'd expect from a regular 128MB USB key. We weren't even sure that 128s are still in production!" The report says that the London Trading Standards has launched a probe to investigate this product.
How will the company defend itself? BioShield Distribution Director Anna Grochowalska told the BBC, "We are in possession of a great deal of technical information, with plenty of back-up historical research," and "we are not authorized to fully disclose all this sensitive information to third parties, for obvious reasons."
Re: It's not a jammer, it's a shield
quantum nano-layer technology
That's the holographic sticker. Nanometer thick layer of aluminum deposited on it, and these diffraction holograms do use quantum effects.
The rest of it is saying it will protect you from any non-existent things that exist.
expands the field effect from 4m radius to 20m + radius when plugged into an USB wall charger or a computer.
That is to say, the blue light comes on and you can see it from further away.
Well, they had to do something with the box of old 128Mb decorative USB sticks they found in the back of the cupboard.
Re:It's not a jammer, it's a shield
I was thinking there is no way this is not satire. Just some comic playing a funny one. I mean, have people read the website? It is amazingly funny.
Don't assume it's a joke. I'm old enough to remember a certain degenerate political leader suggesting the injection of disinfectant to "knock out" the coronavirus from your lungs "in one minute".
I know you think I'm making this up, but it was recorded on video:
But it saves the 5G
How will the company defend itself?
By pointing out that selling $0.50 flash drives for $350 will stop idiots from knocking down 5G towers.. or regular towers they think are 5G
Re: It's not a jammer, it's a shield
Non-solution to a non-problem
The Most Powerful Raspberry Pi Now Has 8GB of RAM
A little disapointed with the 4 overall, it's ok.
I picked one up because I can't damn well help myself.
The good? Well it's faster, with more memory, has a modern power plug (USB-C) and they fixed some shortcomings with USB and network, if I recall.
The bad?
Well the drivers for the GPU - I don't know much about linux bot what I've read, it's STILL not fully working using a modern driver, I don't know the term but the GPU driver isn't supported in the kernel yet, something like that. So if you use it for say, Kodi (LibreElec) it's /marginally/ faster than a Pi3.
Despite the benchmarks of the raw processor being astoundingly better than Pi3, if you upgrade to the 4 hoping to get the UI slick and smooth in Kodi? Not going to happen for a while yet (apparently, it will... the unit is nearly a year old already)
The USB-C power issue - it's finally fixed, mind you, good luck identifying which model you've purchased in stock - only sure fire way to avoid it, buy an 8GB. It's not too bad an issue, since my cable worked (I have the 'bad' model)
The processor doesn't support any cryptography acceleration. This is pretty big for people wanting to get fancy with the Pi with things like OpenSense and PfSense - the unit will be significantly worse at these functions, despite the fact (apparently?) crypto modules in hardware are fairly common nowadays and when the unit was designed. Don't quote me but I even read the processor in the Pi comes in a Crypto capable edition they didn't opt for - for cents more (something, along those lines)
The unit doesn't do HDMI 2.1 (that's fair, I guess)
The unit doesn't do AV1 (that's also entirely fair)
If you're wanting an EXCELLENT 1080p HTPC machine, the Pi 3B+ and Pi4 are great at this. No question, LibreElec is a masterpiece of reliable code. It's frustrating the UI is about 20->35 fps instead of 60 on the Pi4 but honestly once the video is playing, even the Pi3B regular is great.
Furthermore, the Pi4 should never ever have launched with 1GB. I get they wanna keep costs down but please guys, move forward, 2GB should've been the minimum from the Get-Go (I believe the 1GB is now retired for the 2GB)
I estimate, the Pi5 will not come out for a solid 3+ years. My hope is the Pi 5 has AV1 decoder, HDMI2.1, 2 or 4GB minimum and Crypto hardware. In about 3 years, that may be feasable in the $35 to $50 price range. We'll see. It would make an astoundingly good machine. The Pi4 is starting to creep up in price. $75 US you can start to buy some semi-decent used real hardware for that money.
Re:We're getting closer
Finally
A Pi with real memory is a real desktop. I'm getting one.
If it gets any more expensive...
Re:Any other uses for this?
I was always a bit disappointed with the lack of real peripherals on the GPIO. You can bit bang but real hardware is much nicer and lower overhead.
For a product I designed using Pi Compute Modules I just had a separate microcontroller that did all the lower level stuff and power management for the system, with the Pi running apps.
Re:Context, please
Well a CNN reporter and crew got arrested this morning on live TV, so now it's a bigger issue than just black people rioting and might actually get the attention it needs. But probably not.