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Apple has a history of making perfectly good hardware rapidly obsolete - intentionally. This is a new one for Apple - shipping systems with 12 GB RAM but only allowing use of 8 GB RAM. (Apple is not the 1st vendor to do this, however.)
i find this pretty funny
the M4 iPad Pro with 8GB RAM actually shipped with 12GB RAM, which we found out through teardowns, Apple never acknowledged it and still only let you use 8GB RAM
fast forward to 2026, Apple releases a more powerful on device Apple Intelligence model that requires a minimum of 12GB RAM, which won't run on the base model M4 iPad Pro cause it has "8GB RAM", even if the underlying hardware had 12GB RAM
make it make sense Apple
It's possible they have mapped out bad RAM from a larger device but I suspect it was just cheaper to build one system and sell it at different RAM configs. I once worked for a mini-computer maker that did this. They sold them with different RAM configs but the hardware on all of them was identical. They disabled access to the total RAM with a firmware tweak. When a customer bought a RAM upgrade, they sent a tech out who just tweaked the firmware to open up the already existing RAM. Kind of crazy.
Edward - KF7VY ๐บ๐ธ ๐ณ๐ด ๐จ๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ง retweeted
i find this pretty funny
the M4 iPad Pro with 8GB RAM actually shipped with 12GB RAM, which we found out through teardowns, Apple never acknowledged it and still only let you use 8GB RAM
fast forward to 2026, Apple releases a more powerful on device Apple Intelligence model that requires a minimum of 12GB RAM, which won't run on the base model M4 iPad Pro cause it has "8GB RAM", even if the underlying hardware had 12GB RAM
make it make sense Apple
Edward - KF7VY ๐บ๐ธ ๐ณ๐ด ๐จ๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ง retweeted
This is why people hate greedy, unethical @Microsoft. Theyโve just installed an update on the computer of every user of Mac @Office 2021 that bricks Word, Excel, Powerpoint etc.
We all have perpetual licences for Office 2021 but apparently Microsoft decided it was time to try to make everyone pay them money, even though the licence was supposed to be a one-off purchase.
After some trial and error, this fix worked for me โ posting here for anyone having the same problem:
1. Delete the Office apps (Word etc.) from the Applications folder
2. Download and run the Microsoft licence removal tool: go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linโฆ
3. Download and install the version of Office for Mac from 6th October 2026: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/ofโฆ
4. Enter your original licence code for Office to activate it
5. In the Finder, go to Macintosh HD > Library > Application Support > Microsoft and delete the MAU2.0 folder
6. Open Word, then go to the Word menu, then About Microsoft Word and check that it shows your licence
7. Still in Word, go to the Help menu, and make sure that the Check for updates option isnโt there
8. Donโt update Office for Mac and it should keep working โ you need to keep updates off or Microsoft will install an update that bricks Office all over again
What a waste of time.
Portland, Oregon has become a living experiment of how not run a city. (I live in OR but now avoid Portland.)
Spent time in Portland recently and I hate to say it but the city is a complete disaster and that's not an exaggeration
As a reminder, the iconic 'Big Pink' building sold for an insane $39 per SF - an 88% discount to its last transaction price
The wild thing is the buyer probably paid too much for it IMO
What do you think the future holds for Portland?
The era of "real estate always appreciates in value" is over.
Half the "Baby boom" generation will be deceased by the mid-2030s. They've got over 10 million homes that will go on the market - that's up to 1+ million per year - over the next decade or so.
Many may be living in older homes, with less amenities, smaller square footage, older designs, that may not appeal to today's lifestyle creep buyers, so there's that too.
Plus the incoming young cohort is smaller than past generations. The housing markets of the past decades are gone, although it might not feel like it for a few more years.
Yes. Housing will be cheaper in 5 years, and here's why:
โข Inventory is already at the highest level in over a decade. Existing-home supply hit 4.9 months in August, the highest reading since 2015, and 18 states have now pushed active listings past their pre-2020 baseline.
โข Builders are discounting like crazy to compete. They're panicking. They are sitting on a huge backlog of completed, unsold homes and are already cutting prices and offering rate buydowns to move them.
โข The boomer sell-off is just getting started, and will only accelerate. ~13.9 million homes held by boomers and the Silent Generation are projected to hit the market over the next decade, a 74% jump in turnover versus the prior decade.
โข Rates arenโt โhigh,โ theyโre normal-low-ish. The 30-year average has run around 7.5% since records began in 1971. Todayโs rate near 7% isnโt a problem, itโs a return to the historical mean after a 15-year anomaly (which caused tons of problems).
โข And if rates do fall, it will be counterproductive: a significant rate drop will stabilize or lift prices, not help with "affordability".
โข STRs and second homes are coming back into the market, too.
โข The โshortageโ narrative is industry-sponsored BS, and national data is heavily skewed by a few coastal metros that have unique issues (SF, NYC, Boston, LA).
Overall: supply keeps climbing, rates probably won't change much, and the people telling us otherwise have a direct financial stake in us believing the opposite. At the VERY LEAST we're entering a multi-year period of weaker price appreciation / declines in the majority of regions.
Follow the data, not the PR.
At the peak in 1965, the "Baby Boom" accounted for about 33% of the total US population. Following generations have each been smaller, as a percent - today, most are 20% or so and the "Boom" is down to perhaps 18%.
What happens to the housing market will depend on whether the "immigration spigot" is "on" or "off".
In the early 1970s, less than 5% of US residents were foreign born. As of 2025, 15.8% were foreign born and that is forecast to rise to 18% by 2040.
This behavior is wrong.
WARNING: STRONG LANGUAGE
President Trump escalated his invective against Norway, calling it a โshit house countryโ and saying Norwegian immigrants are not welcome in the United States because the Nobel committee, based in the capital Oslo, has not awarded him a Peace Prize reut.rs/3U1joSt
This is quite the "shot across the bow". About 27% of Microsoft staff to be offered a voluntary exit plan, apparently to raise cash flow for AI data center spending.
I'm regrettably concluding that the career of "software developer" will be ending soon. Here, Oregon State University saw a -23% drop in computer science enrollment, although an increase in electrical engineering and computer engineering (hardware focus).
$MSFT offers 60,000 employees a voluntary exit.
60K Yโall!!
First time this has ever been offered at Microsoft and it will affect employees in India, The United States, Canada, and the UK at level 70 or belowโฆ
Employees find out in a few hours if they are being targeted for this.
This just makes me think that H127 layoffs sound intense. Is this a pre-layoff round?
Also makes me wonder if they changed some scheduled layoffs due to be called out by @VP. Peace offering? ๐ค Timing is just interesting.
More to come.
Robert Reich is a blowhard. Nationalizing SpaceX would cost the taxpayers a minimum of $2 Trillion (current market cap) plus fees/other expenses.
SpaceX ownership is about 1/4 by small/retail investors, 1/4 by institutional investors, and just under half by Musk.
Per the US Constitution's 5th Amendment, the government would have to pay market price to acquire and nationalize the company. Which would then be run by political committees, delivering less innovation, less efficiency, and soon be worth much less.
Brilliant.
Robert Reich: "Defund Musk. I mean this. If we have a Democratic administrationโand the Democrats ought to be starting this, not just with oversight hearings, but also laying the groundwork for nationalizing Starlink and SpaceX. Nationalize it."
It doesn't get much more communist than this. These people are crazy. Power at any cost. #TeamElon
Edward - KF7VY ๐บ๐ธ ๐ณ๐ด ๐จ๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ง retweeted
AI productivity gains are showing up, but only in ~15% of jobs.
The three heaviest AI adopters (information, professional services, finance) went from a 2.2% productivity trend to 5.0% since 2022.
The rest of the economy: 0.9% to 1.4%.
Ontario Premier cancels contract with Starlink, a company founded by a Canadian, whose CTO and Chair of the Board is Canadian. Amazing.
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Edward - KF7VY ๐บ๐ธ ๐ณ๐ด ๐จ๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ง retweeted
Turns out that if everyone was paid the same, saved the same amount, made the same on their investments, and worked & lived the same amount of timeโฆ
โฆ people 65+ would have 74% of the wealth.
Surprised? Welcome to Equal Land.
adamnash.blog/2026/10/25/whyโฆ
This. Reporters generally lack domain specific training. We end up with Eng Lit and BA/Journalism grads having titles such as Senior Medical Reporter, Senior Space Reporter, Senior Cyber Security Reporter. The lack of knowledge was made obvious by reporters that fell for Elizabeth Holmes (Theranos) and Sam Bankman-Fried (finance) - and who later admitted they had no idea what either was talking about yet promoted them to sainthood.
What an extraordinary lowering of professional standards.
Nobody is suggesting Joe Tidy needs to be a web developer. Theyโre suggesting that someone employed to report on cybersecurity should possess a basic understanding of the technologies underpinning the internet.
PHP has been around for over 30 years. Knowing what it is hardly requires a computer science degree.
And reaching millions of people isnโt evidence of technical competence. Itโs evidence that the BBC has an enormous audience. By that logic, popularity is a substitute for expertise.
In fact, reaching millions makes technical competence MORE important, not less. If a journalist doesnโt understand the fundamentals, how can they independently assess the claims theyโre broadcasting to that audience?
โThe best cybersecurity journalist in Britainโ apparently doesnโt need to recognise one of the worldโs most widely used programming languages.
If thatโs genuinely the standard youโre defending, youโre making a far more damning criticism of British technology journalism than any of Joeโs detractors.
Oregon State computer science enrollment down by 23% YoY (includes a large online/remote learning program). CU Boulder down by 11%. Univ of WA CS applicants declined from 7000 to 5000 (about 10x more than they accept).
๐จ AMERICAN STUDENTS ARE WALKING AWAY FROM COMPUTER SCIENCE.
And universities are paying the price.
A new report from The Chronicle of Higher Education reveals:
โข Oregon State lost nearly 1,000 computer science students in ONE YEAR.
โข CS enrollment plunged 23%.
โข Online CS enrollment dropped 30%.
โข The decline contributed to a $19 MILLION budget shortfall.
โข Nationwide, four-year college CS enrollment fell more than 8%.
For decades, Americans were told to study computer science because thatโs where the jobs were.
Now graduates are struggling to find work, companies are moving technology jobs overseas, and AI is threatening entry-level opportunities.
Yet employers continue sponsoring H-1B workers and recruiting through OPT.
Hereโs the question nobody seems willing to answer:
If American students are abandoning computer science because theyโre worried about finding jobs, where exactly is the shortage of American tech talent?
chronicle.com/article/the-coโฆ
Edward - KF7VY ๐บ๐ธ ๐ณ๐ด ๐จ๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ง retweeted
15 jobs AI is unlikely to fully take over in 30 years, ordered by necessity:
1. Physicians
2. Nurses
3. EMTs/Paramedics
4. Firefighters
5. Police officers
6. Electricians
7. Plumbers
8. Teachers
9. Mental health therapists
10. Social workers
11. Caregivers
12. Physical therapists
13. HVAC technicians
14. Judges
15. Skilled construction trades
The longest run on sentence in history! Someone has not learned how to use sentence structure or paragraphs. The writing on this made me LOL!
So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.
Heh!
Have they asked Claude to design a sustainable business model?
teapawt.org/Polymarket/status/2112โฆ