It's also weird how unappealing and bare it is. It's like they don't want new users. As someone who rarely clicks Twitter links and never logged in, I thought the first post was all there is to this, which certainly wouldn't entice me to sign up...
It's better than showing the top replies like when you're logged in, which are usually a bunch of lobotomized blue checks saying the dumbest things imaginable
Hate the user more than the tool. I know the audience is
there and you want impressions but Twitter was never meant for long form content like this.
It’s a blog post tweeted in chunks. Probably it would reach far less people if it was posted on a niche personal blog so I can understand people
doing it but I think it’s not a Twitter problem
per se.
It's not a blog post tweeted in chunks, it's post-as-you-progress, a conversation that others can follow... or not. I do it all the time, and so did Wenting here. Others will often give suggestions with things to try. Wenting has a blog in which describes completed projects: https://www.wentingzhang.com.
Twitter's long ass posts suck egg. Twitter threads should be readable. They were and they were fine and good. It was great having content broken up. It was great seeing reactions to individual sections.
It should not made impossible to see some's Twitter theads. Get in the sea.
On the contrary, Twitter's threads to me are one of the greatest enhancements to discussion we've ever had.
It's quite clear what specifically someone responds to with length-limited tweets. The discussion naturally expands into a tree of refining arguments. Where-as in most text mediums, there's no direct pointers telling us specifically what someone is referring to; it's implicit context we the reader have to infer. If the person even is making a targeted real reply in the first place, isn't just soapboxing.
The ability to direct arguments & contestations clearly is far advanced over regular text by the hypermedia form for Twitter. Its wild to me that we haven't rebuilt more discussion systems to generate structure.
True, but Instagram did the same thing, you used to be able to browse photos without an account using a web browser, but they changed that.
Instagram also ruined a bunch of other things in the past couple years. For example photos no longer get shown to all of even your own voluntary followers, the platform uses some "AI" to decide if they think it's worthy of your friends' attention or whether it should be censored away from them.
Tumblr is a meme, but it's also one of the few places left where you can view a feed of reverse chronological content exclusively from the people you follow, and that's moderately valuable in of itself.
Justice Tech Solutions offers a version of this laptop that has the "Endless Justice" OS preinstalled. This is a derivative of the Endless Linux distro. What I found amusing about this (apart from the involuntarily dystopian name) is that it apparently has dozens of games preinstalled, so there are probably a few convicts playing solitaire in class, just like normal people do.
"According to Microsoft telemetry, Solitaire was among the three most-used Windows programs and FreeCell was seventh, ahead of Word and Microsoft Excel."
At university I made some money on the side giving courses in HTML, Excel etc. One person that was mandated by an employer to follow such a course had extreme trouble using the mouse. I opened Solitaire and showed quickly how to click and drag. The person in question had to confess he also did not know how to play Solitaire.
"The laptops contain standard Microsoft Office applications, a link to the Division of Rehabilitative Programs (DRP) Learning Network, and pre-loaded approved bookmarks. This gives students access to Internet sites approved by academic instructors as appropriate for research."
In that case it would probably be good to issue to politicians - it might cut down on allegedly accidental leaks and would be of little immediate use to a thief who might "find" it on a train.
Then run them with only some variant of ChromeOS or similar on it.
Root FS is immutable, all content goes over a wireguard secured network connection. No network? No files.
"What do you mean you can't get in? It says here you're trying to access content just fine... You said you're where? Moscow? I'm sorry sir but we can't risk that."
And at least for the BIOS version I have (and the BIOS V06 available on the website), there is a default password.
Unfortunately no mention of lkwpeter, AMI_SW, or aLLy -- those would be my instinctive guesses. However, I'm puzzled that he didn't just try to clear the default password from the BIOS image before flashing it, or try a BIOS image from a different model with similar hardware; Apollo Lake SoC with an IT8987 is not exactly a rare combination --- Clevo W515PU uses that, for example.
Anyone else have guesses on what the OEM/ODM for this was? The APL09_MB_V10 identifier makes me lean towards LCFC/Compal, but the complete lack of component designators is odd, and Compal mobos are usually blue. Quanta and Wistron tend to go for green mobos, from what I've seen. Can't rule out Pegatron either.
Super unlikely they audited it. But also what's the risk?
Generally they only care about prisoners getting things in or out of the prison without the blessing of prison staff. Prisons also tend to be able to afford to be reactive, rather than proactive. If a new method of smuggling is created, the prison staff will learn about it eventually and deal with it at that point, by ensuring that only they control what comes in/out using that method.
Aren't they being punished enough by being in prison?
Jokes aside, with such hardware and a lot of time on your hands you could really dig into practicing your low-level development skills, given there is some compiler.
Looking at CPU benchmarks shows that one being roughly the same performance as this other common CPU that's 8 years older, but uses around 1/20th the power:
I can say that the above was more than sufficient to do native development, audio+video conferencing, watching videos, listening to music, as well as the usual office tasks of email, documents, image editing, IM, and the like. Software inefficiency has simply expanded to fill all available CPU performance.
> So I quickly connected a USB Hub onto it. I decided to use the USB signal on the touchpad connector, because I am a bit too lazy to figure out the pinout of the dock connector.
I love this so much. I'm totally a hardware noob but even I thought "there has to be USB somewhere right". This whole inspection is amazing and shows that it's very much possible to take back control over your hardware. Sure, this is specifically locked down for prisons, but you could also think of it like a consumer device from a dystopian future. Let's fight against that together with libre open source hardware & software projects.
