Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM
Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM
Samsung is reportedly preparing to wind down its SATA SSD business, and a notable hardware leaker warns the move could have broader implications for consumer storage pricing than Micron’s decision to end its Crucial RAM lineup.Yetnesh Dubey (Notebookcheck)
US: Two survivors of Brown University attack escaped other school shootings
Two survivors of Brown University attack escaped other school shootings
Mia Tretta was shot in the abdomen in 2019 at a school near LA and Zoe Weissman witnessed a Florida shooting in 2018Ashifa Kassam (The Guardian)
Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM
Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM
Samsung is reportedly preparing to wind down its SATA SSD business, and a notable hardware leaker warns the move could have broader implications for consumer storage pricing than Micron’s decision to end its Crucial RAM lineup.Yetnesh Dubey (Notebookcheck)
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So general solutions are welcome, but a friend and I are both craving the old blizzard RTS games. The problem is: fuck that company, and they probably use a rootkit anti-cheat anyway
So is there a general solution for multiplayer in old PC games without company support, and is there a particular solution for, say, starcraft2?
Rain and rubble: Gaza families face a double threat in makeshift homes
By Ahmed Dremly in Gaza City, occupied Palestine
14 December 2025 12:47 GMT
Since winter began, Saber has lived in constant fear. Their fragile tent offered little protection from rain or wind, and he knew it could collapse at any moment.Two weeks earlier, rainwater had already flooded the tent, reaching nearly 30cm. His daughters fell ill with colds that lasted for days. Desperate to prevent it from happening again, Saber borrowed money from one of his relatives to buy a plastic tarpaulin and reinforced the tent with wooden poles.
But when the latest storm hit Gaza a few days ago, his efforts proved useless.
“I spent the first night of the rain holding the tent up with my own hands as rain poured in from every direction,” Saber told Middle East Eye.
“It felt like I had done nothing at all. The tent collapsed on us in the first hours of the rain.”
Rain and rubble: Gaza families face a double threat in makeshift homes
For the past several days, Saber Dawas and his wife have been struggling to keep their seven daughters warm and dry after heavy rain and strong winds destroyed their tent in Gaza.Ahmed Dremly (Middle East Eye)
How we got hit by Shai-Hulud: A complete post-mortem
How we got hit by Shai-Hulud: A complete post-mortem | Trigger.dev
On November 25th, one of our engineers was compromised by the Shai-Hulud npm supply chain worm. Here's what happened, how we responded, and what we've changed.trigger.dev
Anatomy of a settler abduction
Last Wednesday, Palestinian teenager Owais Hammam was on a walk near his home in the West Bank village of Kharbatha Bani Harith, when he was ambushed by a group of Israeli settlers, dragged to a hilltop outpost, and beaten unconscious. From his hospital bed in Ramallah, Hammam spoke to photojournalist Faiz Abu Rmeleh, recounting how both settlers and Israeli soldiers took part in his brutal torture.
from +972’s Sunday Recap
+972 Magazine [published in Israel]
Dec 14, 2025
Also:
* Israel preparing largest ever act of ‘archeological cleansing’ in West Bank
* Israel’s Gaza proxy strategy is collapsing
* After Israel-Hamas prisoner deal, ‘48 Palestinians ask when their turn will come
* Netanyahu’s pardon request is a lens into Israel’s political psyche
* The GOP fed the antisemitism monster. Now it’s turning on its masters
https://www.972mag.com/wp-content/themes/rgb/newsletter.php?page_id=8§ion_id=189049
How do I keep PulseAudio from randomly changing the volume?
I'm on OpenSuse Tumbleweed (although I'm pretty sure I noticed the behavior on Manjaro, too).
The problem is that the volume of e.g. Firefox gets turned down for no reason. I noticed that a youtube video was quite quiet. I then checkt pavu control and saw that the volume for Firefox was set to 83%. I set it back to 100, but after the pc resumed from standby, it was at 83 again. Sometimes it's enough to just pause the video for it to move the volume back down.
Why is that and how do I disable this functionality?
Seems like you're right. I just noticed that when you right click the video -> Stats for Nerds, there's "volume/normalized" and when it says 83%, pulseaudio will also be 83%.
I guess there might be some way to tell pulseaudio to ignore the volume of the video player
Using E-Ink tablet as monitor for Linux - alavi.me
Using E-Ink tablet as monitor for Linux - alavi.me
We will explore how we can use an Android E-ink tablet (or any tablet) as a monitor for Linux computeralavi.me
YouTube’s AI is Breaking the Creator Ecosystem
Over the past four years, I've significantly reduced my social media footprint. There are countless reasons for this, all of which are beyond the scope of this article, but the point I want to make is this: despite my growing apathy and downright hostility towards social platforms, I've found YouTube to be an oasis of sorts.I am not going to pretend that YouTube hasn't played its part in the global disinformation epidemic or that it has somehow escaped the claws of enshittification. What I will say is that unlike other social platforms, its feed (unlike those of its competitors) are maleable using browser-based plugins (tools such as subscription managers). It is one of my primary learning platforms; without its vast array of tutorials, there is no way that I, a non-programmer, would have learnt Linux as fast or become as comfortable in a FOSS-based computing environment, as I have since the pandemic.
But enshittification is, like death and taxes, a certainty now. Which brings us to the subject of this column: AI moderation on YouTube.
YouTube’s AI is Breaking the Creator Ecosystem
A moderation system that leans on automation just knocked legitimate tech tutorials and even entire channels offline. The appeals felt automated, too.Theena Kumaragurunathan (It's FOSS)
SPhotonix 5D memory crystal: cold storage lasts 14B years
After decades of research and development, humanity finally has a data storage medium that will outlast us.The 5D Memory Crystal stores data by using tiny voxels – 3D pixels – in fused silica glass, etched by femtosecond laser pulses. These voxels possess "birefringence," meaning that their light refraction characteristics vary depending upon the polarization and direction of incoming light.
That difference in light orientation and strength can be read in conjunction with the voxel's location (x, y, z coordinates), allowing data to be encoded in five dimensional space.
And because the medium is silica crystal, similar to optical cable, it's highly durable. It's also capacious: The technology can store up to 360 TB of data on a 5-inch glass platter.
The future of long-term data storage is clear and will last 14 billion years
: SPhotoix moves its 5D Memory Crystalcold storage tech closer to deployment in data centersThomas Claburn (The Register)
First AI implosion: Oracle just lost $35 billion in market cap. In 48 hours
THE THERMODYNAMIC RECKONING
How a $610 Billion Circular Financing Architecture, the Laws of Physics, and the Ghosts of Railway Mania Are Converging to Reshape Global Financesubstack.com
The View From Inside the AI Bubble
The View From Inside the AI Bubble
Secret parties, lavish buffets, and talks of annihilation at one of the largest AI-research conferencesAlex Reisner (The Atlantic)
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in reply to diffaldo • • •The Wealth of Nations made convincing arguments that mercantilism wasn't the most effecient system. Paid laborers cost less than slaves. Hoarding [gold] bullion makes it abundant in your country, thus less valuable.
It may be time for the next system. The manifesto will need arguments that appeal to one's pragmatism rather than sense of charity (48 Laws of Power, Law 13, Robert Greene).
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in reply to azureskypirate • • •You're posting on an anarchist instance and I think federate with the tankie instances.
Amoral arguments for doing the right thing abound. Nobody gives a shit. Its a cult. They need to be dragged out bodily,and the leaders shot.
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in reply to ceoofanarchism • • •The interesting thing is that IRC plenty of economists think negative externalities (costs imposed on third parties) should be factored into price. That way the market would actually be fairer, more free, and more efficient.
For example, often the price of a product doesn't include the environmental cost. So for example product A is cheaper to make than product B when you include the environmental cost. But manufacturer B is able to pass the environmental cost on to the tax payer, so the sale price of product B is cheaper in shops, and manufacturer A can't compete. It's effectively a subsidy of inefficient and unethical companies. The product which in total costs less to make has a higher sale price than the more expensive product, because we as tax payers and a society are effectively subsidizing the less efficient and more polluting manufacturer. That's the opposite of a free market.
This happens all the time, even if you ignore direct subsidies. Whether it's meat, oil products, stuff made in countries with lax regulation (and even more negative externalities), stuff
... show moreThe interesting thing is that IRC plenty of economists think negative externalities (costs imposed on third parties) should be factored into price. That way the market would actually be fairer, more free, and more efficient.
For example, often the price of a product doesn't include the environmental cost. So for example product A is cheaper to make than product B when you include the environmental cost. But manufacturer B is able to pass the environmental cost on to the tax payer, so the sale price of product B is cheaper in shops, and manufacturer A can't compete. It's effectively a subsidy of inefficient and unethical companies. The product which in total costs less to make has a higher sale price than the more expensive product, because we as tax payers and a society are effectively subsidizing the less efficient and more polluting manufacturer. That's the opposite of a free market.
This happens all the time, even if you ignore direct subsidies. Whether it's meat, oil products, stuff made in countries with lax regulation (and even more negative externalities), stuff made by underpaying workers and forcing them to rely on the government(and tax payer) aid, etc. etc.
Obviously, this is the kind of wealth distribution and inequality society and the media rarely see as problematic, because it is so deeply ingrained. But never let the right tell you wealth distribution is a taboo. They're quite happy with wealth distribution when it suits them or their masters.
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in reply to diffaldo • • •The demand for billionaires decreases, while supply has increased, which means their value should drop
Edit: changed increasing demand to decreasing
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in reply to diffaldo • • •that graph gives me ap macro ptsd
i've never hated a class so much in my life
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in reply to diffaldo • • •Actually, according to Adam Smith, the meet of offer and demands has an equilibrium, **if and only if ** :
- everyone could join and leave the market
- the information is pure and perfect
- the joining of leaving of anyone on the market would not affect the market
- and a fourth one I have forgotten (it was 15 years ago t.t)
Leaving without contraint mean that I would not affect you life to stop participate in this market. It may mean that things needed are not on the market, or if their are, that it would be provided by another mean outside the market.
It also mean that advertisement should be ban, or that the information of what exists on the market is very accurate. I was looking for the political system the most compatible with this theory, and I found councilism. And then, I discovered the whole name is fucking Council communism. I was radicalized from libtard to commies by Adam Smith, this how this society is absurd.
The question is why politics, rich people and bosses never appli the most basics principles of the theory they are supposed to use: Historical materialism and stuff
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