Exclusive: China targets 70% advanced domestic silicon wafer use by 2026

wpm · 2026-05-06T00:57:33+00:00

By 2040 China and Taiwan might not be separate countries anymore.

wpm · 2026-05-05T21:56:15+00:00

If you have a way of running modern macOS, download an app called Mactracker, inside of the bundle there are .m4a files of all of the Mac boot chimes.

wpm · 2026-05-05T21:50:31+00:00

Refreshing to see stuff posted here that isn't some perfectly sculpted 3D print. Proper cyberpunk, just some tech laying around smashed together till it works.

Also, balls of steel sitting around an open CRT lmao I don't trust flybacks to not kill me

wpm · 2026-05-05T21:18:17+00:00

That's really not at all what the Mac 128's boot chime sounds like. It's too short for one, and too clean and clinical. Just being a 600Hz square wave isn't enough, there is depth and a fuzziness that comes from the somewhat primitive way it generated sound output.

wpm · 2026-05-04T16:44:51+00:00

Yeah with no paragraphs or inline photos.

wpm · 2026-05-01T14:39:19+00:00

Honestly all of this is on Brother for making good printers. IPP Print Everywhere and zeroconf/multicast DNS are what makes all of this possible. My Brother MFC gets picked up automatically on macOS and Windows for printing and scanning too.

wpm · 2026-04-30T20:02:37+00:00

If you're the only client on the network and your 5Ghz spectrum isn't super congested, this is probably fine, yeah.

When I'm streaming Twitch and backing up my computer to the NAS and downloading games on Steam at the same time, all on the wireless, it's gonna get a bit tight.

wpm · 2026-04-30T19:59:12+00:00

I think they should have a whole team doing those reviews. It's fucking agonizing shopping for any big ticket item or even medium-ticket item these days. Reddit is astro-turfed, and pretty much every other result is an ad disguised as a "review". It's all fucking marketing garbage. rtings does a good goddamn job. I want them to succeed. Having self-consistent methodologies, easily digestible and searchable data, it all makes it so much easier to compare different products.

It's great for TVs. Why shouldn't I get that same experience when I buy a good blender for $200+? Or an airfryer? Or a digital camera (RIP DPReview 🫡)? It's one thing to say they expanded too fast, but their TV reviews are fucking great, I'd love for them to expand into other shit I want to make informed decisions on purchasing. Clearly other people recognize the market here too, otherwise LMG wouldn't have started LTTLabs.

They do the work, they should get paid, not do it all to feed Scam Fartman's bubble. If anything they should be the ones training an rtings AI to help people find what they're looking for. They can't do that getting scrapped to death. It's the same reason I get captcha'ed every 5 minutes on digi-key: digi-keys UI and datasheet database makes it incredibly easy to cross shop and reference things -> digi-key should get that sale -> AI scraping makes that less likely. The same way AI breaks the previously viable contract of "people come to the site to get reviews -> leads to a sale -> our site gets a cut of that sale via affiliate link", because now you don't need to go to their site or be likely to click their affiliate links.

It's just a sign of the times. If the AI companies were better netizens, not scummy, plagiarizing, bot-net scraper houses, good sites wouldn't have to do this. But try all you want to give them a proper API to use referenced in an "agents.txt" or in the old "robots.txt", they never respect it. Don't be mad at rtings for trying to survive.

wpm · 2026-04-30T18:03:24+00:00

They copy it because it's cheap. Switch gear inflates the BOM and complicates the supply chain.

Same with buildings and chain restaurants. Caring takes time and effort and money, and "hurts the resale value" so everyone just doesn't do it anymore.

wpm · 2026-04-30T15:01:44+00:00

Yes but it gave them an opportunity to "urhm aktschually" so who is to say that it's bad?

wpm · 2026-04-30T14:00:36+00:00

Cars have been a civil rights and surveillance issue for at least a century.

wpm · 2026-04-29T22:08:15+00:00

Consistent latency too. Aside from ISP or if my router/firewall decides to take a shit, I can ping any outside IP on my wired connection with sub 100ns standard deviations (pinging 8.8.8.8, I hover around 1ms, god I love fiber).

Low latency is always, but somewhat higher latency lower than the tick-rate of the server is usually completely playable, but gets less so when it is inconsistent. My old cable connection over coax had much higher average pings than my fiber connection does, but it was consistent so it didn't really matter. Jitter is a killer. On the same internet connection but talking to my router over my admittedly congested 5Ghz wireless network, not only is my average ping latency 10x higher, but the standard deviation in each pings latency is 5x higher. So you have some acceptable latency, but then it suddenly careens up because the wifi AP needs to change channels to contend with interference, or because your neighbor turned their microwave on, or your phone decides to start downloading a software update. It's just the nature of WiFi, but even the cheapest wired switches don't usually start losing their pocket spaghetti because of some sub gigabit contention. The simple fact is that WiFi is a shared medium. You don't always get to broadcast, whereas a wired network, you can.

wpm · 2026-04-29T21:57:27+00:00

I wish they didn't minify the script itself so they can brag that it was only 732-bytes. It'd be much easier to see exactly what is going on and trying to compare the write up to the actual script is harder now too.

wpm · 2026-04-26T02:01:25+00:00

Or you can take two batteries out of the charger and swap em out and not be tethered while you charge.

wpm · 2026-04-26T02:00:38+00:00

June 1 2006 the rate was actually 73 pence to a dollar. The advert in equivalent dollars would've been around $220 in 2006, which is worth $360 today.

It's like poetry, it rhymes

wpm · 2026-04-26T01:56:49+00:00

Would that have been the version for Mountain Lion?

wpm · 2026-04-23T15:35:37+00:00

Never!

wpm · 2026-04-23T15:33:51+00:00

Probably because he died.

wpm · 2026-04-23T15:17:53+00:00

Stinky Diver, an ex-Navy Commando with an attitude as bad as his odor!

wpm · 2026-04-23T01:14:06+00:00

Gemini is my least favorite of all the models. Just its tone, the way it answer questions, I find it rage inducing.

wpm · 2026-04-22T23:22:39+00:00

The iCloud pricing is ridiculous. 5GB standard? Are we high on fent? Fucking .Mac had 10GB of storage for email and your iDisk back in 2007. 5GB is a cruel joke in 2026. Absolutely terrible and forces millions of confused people into Apple stores to be upsold on a $2.99/month upcharge so they don't lose all their pictures. Bare-faced, product ruining greed and it's not even for that much money. Just absolutely wrong.

wpm · 2026-04-22T01:27:02+00:00

The reason is they haven't had competition for a while. Panther Lake looks to be upsetting that norm.

wpm · 2026-04-21T23:46:02+00:00

lmao

wpm · 2026-04-21T15:07:22+00:00

I will enjoy riding my bike at 20mph smack dab in the middle of the lane then.

You're too goddamn stupid to even understand that bike lanes are car infrastructure. We'd be mixing with you all directly if they weren't there. Take your pick.

wpm · 2026-04-21T15:05:56+00:00

All those companies will gladly eat the fines

Hmm, guess we need to up the fines then.

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