The NetNewsWire blog has the details on NetNewsWire 5.0b5 — which should be the last beta.
Still planning to do the 5.0 final release Monday morning, which really means doing the release on Sunday and pushing an announcement to this blog Monday morning. :)
The last things on my to-do list are actually writing that announcement and doing screenshots for the NetNewsWire web page. Easy. 🐯
When we discuss Islamist fundamentalist terrorists, we ask: who are the hate preachers radicalising them in mosques or the internet? We have yet to engage seriously in a similar debate about far-right terrorism for a simple reason: the hate preachers are mainstream politicians, commentators and media outlets.
Owen Jones makes a key point. The arsonists walk among us, and the smell of accelerants is unmistakable whenever you open a newspaper or watch the news.
At the bottom of the R for macOS Developer’s Page there’s mention of an “other binary” called “RSwitch” that is “a small GUI that allows you to switch between R versions quickly (if you have multiple versions of R framework installed).” Said switching requires you to use the “tar.gz” versions of R from the R for macOS Developer’s Page since the official CRAN binary installers clean up after themselves quite nicely to prevent potentially wacky behavior.
All the RSwitch GUI did was change the Current alias target in /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions to the appropriate version. You can do that from the command line but the switcher GUI was created so that means some folks prefer click-switching and I have found myself using the GUI on occasion (before it stopped working on macOS Vista^wCatalina).
Since I:
there was sufficient justification to create a 64-bit version of this app.
You can clone the project from any of the following social coding sites:
and, you can either compile it yourself — which is recommended since it’s 2019 and the days of even remotely trusting binaries off the internet are long gone — or build it. It should work on 10.14+ since I set that as the target, but file an issue where you like if you have, well, issues with the code or binary.
Once you do have it working, there will be a dial-switch menu in the menubar and a menu that should look something like:
The item with the checkbox is the Current alias.
Kick the tyres, file issues & PRs as you’re wont to do and prepare for the forthcoming clickpocalypse as Apple nears their GA release of Catalina.
BBC News asks a straightforward question: How much warmer is your city? Enter your country and then your city. You get a time series along with projections. It reminds me of The New York Times piece from a few years ago, but the BBC one uses more recent data and covers major cities worldwide.
Tags: BBC, global warming
My new book, Grokking Simplicity, all about functional programming, is now available in early access. The first three chapters are ready to read. Go to https://lispcast.com/gs, add the book to the cart, and use discount code MLNORMAND for 50% off.
My new book, Grokking Simplicity, all about functional programming, is now available in early access. The first three chapters are ready to read. Go to https://lispcast.com/gs, add the book to the cart, and use discount code MLNORMAND for 50% off. https://share.transistor.fm/s/1e869b45 https://youtu
Eric Normand: Hello. My book is launched. You can get the book by going to lispcast.com/gs. There’s a 50 percent discount when you check out. Just add the discount code MLNORMAND, M-L-N-O-R-M-A-N-D. I wanted to get that message out of the way before I explain more.
I started this podcast back in the beginning of 2018, I can’t remember. Was it February, March? It was to practice to explore the ideas of functional programming that I wanted to turn into a book. I’ve been publishing two per week. Since then, I’ve missed a couple of those scheduled spots. In general, I’ve been publishing two of these episodes every week.
My audience, that’s you, you’ve been a huge help in really exploring these ideas. I get emails, I get tweets, I even get LinkedIn messages asking about the concepts, asking for clarification, going deeper, really great questions. All of these have really helped, come up with better ways of explaining. Of realizing that it can go deeper and putting that into the book.
I signed the book contract in June. After I started my — there’s a little history — podcast, I was contacted by Manning. They wanted to do a book. They, I guess, saw that I was talking about writing a book.
I hadn’t done much yet, I just put together some ideas, and some notes and things. I had been doing the podcast. They wanted to do a book with me. We talked it over. After a few meetings, they sent me a contract. I signed the contract and I got started.
That was over a year ago. I went through many drafts, many revisions of the first chapters. Then I have meetings every week with my editor, to try to get the material to something learnable. Something important, something profound.
It wasn’t until January, that I finally figured out a format that will work. It’s not just text, that’s how I started out was just typing text. There were so many ideas, they would all come out at once in my text. I actually had 60, 75 pages of text that went out for review. Is the first three chapters, it went out for review in November.
I didn’t like it, my editor and like, it is getting mixed reviews. Then there with this new format, it just clicked. Like, “I get what I need to do now, understand the format.” Let me talk about the format. It’s a much more visual book. I was trying to do something visual, but I just wasn’t hitting it. It was too much text.
Now it is super visual. Things are explained really well using real-world scenarios. We go right into solving real problems using functional concepts. Who this book is for? It’s for people who know functional programming, who want to recommend a book to someone who doesn’t know anything, in functional programming.
So many people are like they’re known amongst their friends, the one who’s into functional programming. If you’re into functional programming, you probably are past the first half of the book at least. You probably don’t need the book, right, or you get bored in the first half. Then when you want to point someone to a book to get them started.
There’s nothing there while now there is, it’s called “Grokking Simplicity.”
It is all about applying functional programming in the real world. It starts with actions, calculations and data. I don’t want to go into everything, I’ve talked about in the year and a half since I started this podcast. You can binge it if you want. Actions, calculations and data are the entry way into functional programming.
The next entryway is higher order functions. Then the next entryway is algebraic thinking. It’s available in MEAP right now. MEAP is M-E-A-P, Manning Early Access Program. The way that works is, you can buy an eBook version today and you will get updates as they come out.
The schedule I have with my project manager, is a chapter a month. You can get what’s available now, it just released and in a month, you’ll get the next chapter. There are three chapters in the MEAP right now. Today is August 21st 2019. Just to give some context, if you’re listening a little later.
There are two formats you can buy on manning.com. It’s only available on manning.com right now. When it’s published, it’ll be everywhere. Right now, it’s manning.com. There’s two formats. One is the eBook only and that has PDF…Right now it just has PDF. Eventually it’ll have Kindle and ePub and all the others and an HTML version you can read on the Web.
Then there’s the eBookPLUS what they call pBook, which is a clever way of saying print book. You will get all the eBook formats and when it finally publishes, you get a print one in the mail. It’s only a little bit more expensive to buy the print book. If you like print books, I recommend doing that.
You still get the ebook updates as they come out. Then one day, you will also get the pBook in the mail when it’s finally done. The schedule for the book, they’re estimating early 2019. I think, April, let me double check that. I have not been thinking of it. No, spring 2020 is what they said. I said 2019. But I said 2020.
There’s no guarantee, it’s just an estimate. There’s three chapters now, podcast only exclusive. There are three other chapters that are in the can. Those are waiting to go out, so I have a little buffer, in case I’m late one month with a chapter.
There’s already six written and there’s two more that are really close. I’m just chugging away on them right now. Just stay tuned on the podcast. I’ll keep you up to date on the news. I’ll probably give another one of these nonfunctional programming, but more book-oriented updates when the next chapter becomes available.
LIspcast.com/gs is the short link. It’ll take you right to the Manning page. You’ll be able to buy it. The discount code 50 percent off. The discount code is MLNORMAND, like my last name, and it will expire on August 31st 2019 so use it now.
If you’re listening in your podcast player. Pull over if you’re in the car, or pop open a browser tab and go there now and buy it because this 50 percent discount won’t last. I don’t get to issue new discount codes. This is the marketing team at Manning gave me this one. I don’t know when the next discount will be, so act now.
Thank you so much. I’ve been obsessing about the stats and watching. Watching sales come in. It’s very exciting. I just need to get back to work on the book and get more chapters done. Awesome. Thank you and rock on.
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A week ago last Friday, I spoke to Joi Ito ...[who] told me that the Media Lab’s ties to Epstein went much deeper, and included a business relationship between Joi and Epstein, investments in companies Joi’s VC fund was supporting, gifts and visits by Epstein to the Media Lab and by Joi to Epstein’s properties. As the scale of Joi’s involvement with Epstein became clear to me, I began to understand that I had to end my relationship with the MIT Media Lab.
Ethan Zuckerman is leaving MIT’s MediaLab as he finds out more about ties between it and Epstein. As he says, being able to step away is in part privilege. But I think it is good that such privilege is used to send a message, and is itself part of that message. Looking forward to also reading Joi Ito‘s thoughts about this.
[UPDATE Joi Ito’s response is here]
It’s been a very significant week for Apple’s TV efforts. On Monday the company debuted its first full-length trailer for an Apple TV+ original; that trailer was for The Morning Show, which has long been destined as a tentpole title for Apple. From what I’ve seen online, the trailer has been well-received, aided by an aggressive marketing push on YouTube and Twitter.
While The Morning Show’s first full trailer is a big occasion, and we’ll likely start seeing promos for other Apple TV+ shows soon with its fall launch fast approaching, the most important TV news in Apple’s week came from Disney.
Disney announced that its Disney+ streaming service would launch with native iOS and tvOS apps, which will use Apple’s In-App Purchase system for subscriptions, and the service will be “fully integrated with the Apple TV app.” Depending on your interpretation of that quote, Disney didn’t technically announce that Disney+ would be a channel in the TV app, but “fully integrated” is a strong phrase, and since Disney’s adopting Apple’s In-App Purchase system and integrating in some way with TV already, there’s virtually no reason to think it won’t be a full-fledged channel.
Following these two key events – the marketing push for Apple TV+ starting to gain steam, and Disney+ partnering with Apple in a key way – I’ve been reflecting on what Apple’s future in TV may hold.
We’ve known since March what the company’s TV strategy entailed: putting the TV app everywhere as an aggregator, bolstered by channels and Apple TV+. With the TV app Apple can do something that no one else seems to be trying: control the full stack of TV experience through integrating hardware, software, and services – the classic Apple playbook. But Apple needs partners to make this vision a reality. Without TV app commitments from big players like Netflix or Disney, it was unlikely that Apple’s strategy could ever find success. Signing Disney+, however, changes everything.
Absent Disney, failure seemed inevitable. The lack of both Netflix and Disney+ would have been a death blow to Apple’s plans. But with the home of Disney, Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars now on board, I’m starting to think Apple’s TV strategy might just work. Here’s why.
Oprah Winfrey, on-stage in March, deftly explained one of the unique advantages Apple has in TV:
“They’re in a billion pockets, y’all, a billion pockets.”
No other company that’s making a serious TV effort has a hardware base like Apple’s. The Apple TV may be a niche device, but the iPhone, iPad, and Mac certainly aren’t. People have these devices in their homes, in their pockets, in their bags on the go, so wherever a person may want to watch TV, Apple hardware is right there ready to be used.
Apple’s most popular products, the iPhone and iPad, can download content offline using the TV app, making them the perfect devices for enjoying a favorite show on the go. But while I expect mobile TV viewing to continue increasing, many of us still prefer watching our shows and movies at home, on the big screen. Apple doesn’t have a TV set on the market, and most people will never shell out $149+ for an Apple TV device, but soon Apple will make it so they don’t have to. The TV app has already started rolling out on smart TVs from manufacturers like Samsung, and before long it will arrive on streaming boxes and sticks as well. This means, effectively, that the TV hardware you currently own can play nice with your Apple mobile devices, running the same TV app and containing the same content.
That’s not to say the Apple TV device is entirely irrelevant. It’s actually gaining meaningful improvements this year, such as Picture in Picture support and the ability to switch between different user accounts. So Apple TV users will still receive a premium experience, but for everyone else, the lack of an Apple TV won’t in any way serve as a barrier to buying into the larger TV ecosystem Apple’s building with the TV app.
Ultimately, hardware is of relatively little consequence to the average TV consumer. We mostly just want to watch what we want to watch, and the medium delivering that content isn’t too important. So despite Apple having a big hardware advantage over its competition, it’s unclear how much impact that advantage can make. I will say one thing though: no one else gets to pre-install apps on our devices like Apple does. Is that monopolistic? Maybe or maybe not – but it’s certainly an advantage.
The TV app is at the center of Apple’s TV ambitions, and it’s built around the belief that people just want to watch great content with as little fuss as possible.
One of the most appealing features of the TV app is aggregation. It hosts an Up Next queue that tracks your content viewing across a variety of first- and third-party services. Rather than visiting separate apps for each different streaming service, you can keep track of everything you watch, and want to watch next, in Up Next.
Up Next in the TV app aggregates content from different services.
When a new episode of a show you’re watching is released, it will be in Up Next. When you can’t quite binge that whole season of Fleabag in one sitting, Up Next will show you exactly where you left off and let you resume with a single tap. Need to save a new movie or show you want to watch later? Just add it to Up Next.
Besides aggregating what you’re watching from a variety of services, the TV app also aggregates all the content you could watch from those services. The app features personalized recommendations, sections dedicated to what’s new, or what’s trending, and a lot more. Where else can you find recommendations for things to watch across HBO, Prime Video, Hulu, iTunes, Disney+, Apple TV+, and more?
Most consumers today have a very limited number of TV subscription services to keep up with, so it’s not as big a problem that content from those services is siloed in separate apps. It’s not too hard to remember that for Stranger Things you open Netflix, for The Handmaid’s Tale it’s Hulu, and for Game of Thrones you need HBO. But as the streaming wars ramp up, and new players enter the market while existing players continue beefing up their own catalogues, the need for an aggregator will grow obvious.
Currently, Amazon is the only major player seeking to fill an aggregation role besides Apple. But Amazon will never have Apple TV+, it doesn’t integrate with Hulu, and its hardware was conspicuously absent from the list of devices Disney+ will launch on, casting doubt on the possibility of a Disney+ channel in Prime Video.
Why have separate apps and accounts for all these services, when you can find their content in one place?
Up until now, the TV app’s biggest failing as an aggregator has been its lack of Netflix integration. Despite so many other noteworthy streaming services being on-board, missing the biggest service in the world is a painful strike against TV’s usefulness. Arguably, Netflix’s absence will be less a problem if Apple gets the next wave of big streaming players on-board with its vision. Signing Disney+ is a huge win, giving the TV app a sense of legitimacy that Netflix had stripped away. A year from now, if Netflix is still the only TV app holdout, it likely won’t matter as much because consumers will have more streaming service options to choose from then. Aided by Disney+, HBO Max, and Apple TV+, the TV app could still gain widespread adoption without Netflix – which, coincidentally, would put Apple in a better position to finally strike a deal with Netflix. In any case, the TV app’s future as an aggregator is bright.
Besides the aggregation angle of the TV app, there are several other key benefits you get when using TV – more specifically, when you use TV to watch content from a channel. Channels content will play directly in the TV app, with no need to download a separate app. There will be zero ads with channels content, ever. Playback will happen using the default system player, which brings a standard set of controls and even perks like Picture in Picture on the iPad and Mac. You can share subscriptions with family members automatically thanks to Apple’s Family Sharing system, with no password sharing necessary. And as I already mentioned, TV supports offline downloads on the iPhone and iPad, and will soon include multi-user and Picture in Picture options on Apple TV.
The experience of using different streaming service apps is, in a word, unreliable. Just the other day I was using the Prime Video app on my iPad, and playback kept randomly stopping. It happened almost 10 times in a single episode. In the past I’ve had troubles with the CBS All-Access app, where the ads’ volume would be substantially higher than the show I was watching for some unknown reason, requiring me to adjust volume every time a commercial break started and ended. I’ve also heard horror stories about the HBO Now app, though I don’t have as much personal experience with it.
With the TV app, Apple has built an aggregator that promises a dependable, quality experience. Who else is doing that? Amazon alone, and they have more hurdles in their path than Apple.
Until earlier this year, the TV app was overly complicated by the fact that in order to aggregate content, you needed separate apps installed for all content providers, on all of your devices, and you needed to set up accounts for each service inside those apps, all for the sake of getting a playback experience that was unpredictable at best, infuriating at worst. It wasn’t exactly Apple’s fault, but it was definitely Apple’s problem.
Channels fix that problem. While legacy integrations with services via their installed apps is still a possibility in the TV app, the experience Apple’s pitching now involves channels – and it’s finally the experience you would expect from an Apple product. As I mentioned, channels content plays directly in the TV app, you don’t need to download other apps or create accounts for other services; with a couple taps you can sign up for a new channel using Apple’s own In-App Purchase system, and your content starts playing in an ad-free, predictable, quality way.
Apple’s TV app makes third-party services more accessible than even those services’ own apps do, with a dead-simple signup process, while simultaneously delivering a playback experience that’s better too. It provides features like offline downloads that most services’ apps don’t offer.
By integrating with the TV app as a channel, third-party services like HBO and CBS All-Access are letting Apple handle its area of expertise – technology and user experience – while the services are only responsible for doing what they do best: making great content. It’s specialization at its finest, resulting in an overall better product for users.
Apple creating a hub for third-party services is, I believe, the primary purpose of the TV app. It wants to be the aggregator of TV content, delivering a great experience for its users while taking a cut of each service’s subscription sales. If successful, this could produce a sizable revenue source for Apple, and create additional lock-in for its ecosystem. However, where does Apple TV+ fit into that goal?
Apple’s forthcoming streaming service exists, yes, to boost the company’s services revenue. But it also gives Apple a better chance at success with its aggregation strategy.
The Morning Show will be a tentpole of Apple TV+ when the service launches.
Apple’s TV app pitch to third-party services carries a lot more upside thanks to TV+. By creating its own streaming service, which will live exclusively in the TV app, Apple is putting skin in the game like it never has before. For prospective partners who may assume Apple will continue treating TV like a hobby, as it’s done for many years, it’s hard to deny the seriousness of $6 billion invested in TV+.
Apple has incentivized itself to heavily promote TV+, which means heavily promoting the TV app; third-party services can either benefit from Apple’s marketing push, or try to stand on the strength of their own brand. A giant like Netflix doesn’t currently need Apple’s help, but with smaller players the math is entirely different. Apple can help those services find a bigger audience, while also handling the key user experience element that most streaming services just aren’t good at.
Apple is clearly serious about making its TV+ service successful. But TV+ isn’t an end in itself; instead, it’s part of a broader strategy to own user experience in the stream-first era.
Apple’s history with TV has been entirely underwhelming. Though products like the Apple TV, the iTunes Store for movies and shows, and the original TV app have all had fans among Apple’s existing user base, none of those products ever inspired widespread adoption. They’ve adequately served a subset of Apple users, but they haven’t moved the needle in the broader TV market, and as such they’ve never lived up to the reputation of Apple’s other product lines.
This year, however, the stars may align for that to finally begin changing – partly owing to the significant investments Apple’s now making in TV, but also because of the present cultural moment TV finds itself in.
Cord cutting is fast becoming a greater norm, and content providers are ready: Netflix and Amazon are pouring more cash than ever into originals, while Disney+ and HBO Max prepare for launch soon, followed shortly thereafter by NBCUniversal’s new service.
Stream-first is an inevitability, and everyone wants a piece of the new TV wave, including Apple. The company is in a unique position to offer the TV experience that no one else can, geared not just toward niche users, but to the mass market – people who just want to watch great content without the hassle of managing different apps, services, and queues. With its hardware, the TV app, and Apple TV Channels including Apple TV+, Apple truly has a legitimate chance to matter in this fight.
For the first time, Apple might actually find success in TV.
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The stunning emergence of a new type of superconductivity with the mere twist of a carbon sheet.
It’s exceptionally difficult to twist two sheets of graphene exactly 1.1 degrees out of alignment. But this “magic angle” leads to extraordinary effects.
Credits: Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine
wow
Practicality will make its self known whether you want to or not. So, try different visual forms and take it from there. Read More
In addition to reviewing the updated Blix Vika+, Electric Bike Review tested the updated Blix Aveny city ebike. The overall impression of the Aveny is that it "is an elegant electric bike with tons of new accessories, upgraded 500 watt motor, powerful and long lasting 48v 14ah battery, disc brakes, thicker tires, can fit a Yepp child seat, and is feature complete with lights, rack, fenders." Check out the review below in our latest Blix Journal.
The Aveny "is a stylish step-thru ebike with a laid back cruiser approach and upgraded drivetrain hardware, a full accessories package, and a powerful geared hub motor drive system." Electric Bike Review is also impressed with the Blix price point and ability to design stylish and user friendly bikes. They consider the Aveny to be "one of the more interesting models on the market right now because it hits a reasonable price point" and is "commuter ready out of the box."
Looking specifically at the design of the Aveny, it is "built around a wave “step-thru” frame that is stylish and easy to approach, while maintaining stability at the same time." Although the frame is ultra-low, the wave style frame "increases strength, it also helps to balance out any rear cargo you might add to the back rack." This might include a child, meaning extra stability and strength is super important to both the rider's and child's safety! In addition to the rear rack, there is an abundance of accessories Blix recently launched for the Aveny and other bike models. Electric Bike Review finds there to be "really a lot of cool options and I love the utility of it all." These include a large basket attachment for the rear rack, and "in the front there is a color matched basket available with a drink holder area, small platform rack, and a large platform rack."
Another perk of the frame design on the Aveny is the position of the battery under the seat. This means the "weight is positioned well and the battery is easy to remove for charging or transport because of the flip-up saddle mount." The battery is now a 48V 14Ah battery which "is what I would consider a high capacity battery and compliments the system well... when you are hauling kids around and need to engage that electric motor to the max, a battery like this is just what you want." Plus, with 5 levels of pedal assist and a throttle, there are "many ways to ride."
Check out the EBR Video Review Below:
Join Flickr and The Street Photography International Collective for an afternoon photo walk around downtown San Francisco.
SPi is one of the largest communities of street photographers in the world. To celebrate that community now being 1 million strong we are co-hosting a public PhotoWalk together. If you live in San Francisco or are just visiting, we would love to meet everyone and have the opportunity to hang out with the local community.
Starting outside the entrance to the Ferry Building, we will spend time on The Embarcadero and make our way through the Financial District. We will finish our walk at Flickr HQ on Fremont street where you will be able to view the Exhibition of the 2019 SPI Awards.
When: Saturday, 31 August 2019
Meeting Point: Entrance to the Ferry Building, San Francisco
Time: 02.00pm PDT
This is a free public event.
For RSVP and/or questions, please post here or join our Facebook Event.
This is a little bit of bad news. It’s not my intention, and it’s not what I want to happen — but NetNewsWire 3.3.2 apparently does not launch in the next version of macOS (10.15, Catalina).
It links to the PubSub framework, which is not included with the next macOS.
NetNewsWire 3.3.2 was the last release of the full version that I worked on, before selling NetNewsWire to Black Pixel, and I’ve heard from lots of people that they’ve been using it ever since. They never switched.
I would rather it continued working forever, but that’s not to be. Not my choice. Sorry about that!
I’m (supposedly) on vacation yet utterly unable to relax given my huge personal backlog and a pervasive need to tackle at least some of it in a meaningful way before I go back to work, so things aren’t exactly peachy right now, especially considering that a lot of what I wanted to attend to seems to be stuck in limbo and all sorts of niggling issues keep cropping up.
Maybe it’s just the heat getting to me. It sure is getting to my hardware…
As much as I love the Surface Laptop, I have had to put it aside for a few weeks–besides having the latest Windows 10 Insiders release on it, the metal enclosure gets uncomfortably warm, so I fell back to using my iPad remote desktop setup and am planning to take my “unapologetically plastic” Chromebook with me next time.
Windows 10 now has an amazingly fast Linux subsystem, but that came at the expense of breaking wsltty and the new Windows Terminal just isn’t good enough yet, so a throwaway Linux laptop is actually refreshing (if you’ll pardon the pun), even though it feels essentially the same as three years ago.
A few days ago my ancient Synology DS411j NAS sent me an e-mail while we were on the countryside complaining that one of its fans failed, which is the first hardware problem I’ve had with it in eight years.
I shut it down remotely and ordered a replacement fan the very next day (which turned out to be extremely hard to find, and exorbitantly priced to boot), and am now grudgingly budgeting for a new NAS (likely the DS620slim, since I would like something more compact), but on one of the days we checked back home (we move around a lot–it’s complicated) I vacuumed both fans (good thing it has two, which most of the new models don’t), re-seated the connectors and it seems to be working again (knock on wood).
Considering I’ve had it since 2011 I am a bit surprised that a pokey ARMv5 device with 128MB of RAM has effectively outlasted nearly every other piece of electronics in the flat (and may well, with luck, make it to at least next year), but like the NSLU2 that came before it proved, there is a lot you can do with such meager processing power.
I was also a bit concerned to realize that the closet the NAS lives in reached temperatures above 40oC during our absence, so I moved one of our temperature sensors there temporarily to monitor the situation and relocated my Raspberry Pi k3s cluster, since Kubernetes tends to demand a bit too much CPU power just to keep itself together, even without more than a few pods running…).
Speaking of Raspberry Pis, I decided to order a Flirc case for the Pi 4 I got a little while ago instead of putting up with fan noise, and it arrived on one of the days I was running errands in Lisbon, so I was able to set it up and get some initial impressions:
Using this case atop my office desk (which is one of the coolest places in the house these days even without much ventilation), the Raspberry Pi 4 reports 53-55oC when idle, which is a bit too much for my liking and a bit warmer than, say Phoronix’s testing, especially if you look at idle temperatures.
Being of a systematic sort, and since I access my Pis almost solely via ssh, I wrote a little tmux status bar script that I now have deployed everywhere (I used to have this neat monitoring daemon running, but collecting all the data was not something I wanted to maintain, which is something I should rethink).
Using it, I can compare temperatures across multiple Pis easily:
k3s cluster (running at 50% CPU constantly, but with a heatsink in an open “rack”): 49.2oC.
Comparatively, the ODROID that runs all my home automation and averages 15% CPU load reports a CPU temperature of 48oC, but the thing is essentially a massive heatsink with a CPU tacked on…
Incidentally, I’m really happy with the 3A+. Much more than with the 4, really, and coding on it from my iPad has been a breeze. Again, the only thing it’s short on is RAM, and I think this thing would be the sweet spot for me if it came with 2GB of RAM.
Either way, keeping my little menagerie of Pis appropriately cooled is something to keep an eye on and possibly monitor in a more systematic way. But for now, I need to have another go at reading and relaxing, hopefully with less electronics involved.
If you happened to check out my Twitter feed on the weekend, you’ll know that I attended a pair of dueling rallies outside a train station in central Vancouver. On one side, a crowd in black supporting the Hong Kong protests; on the other a red-clad flag-festooned squad bringing Beijing’s message. I was dressed in black and took pictures of the other side.
It’s a no-brainer. Hong Kong isn’t perfect but it’s a civilization, with laws and with access to the world. China is a big hulking cut-off-from-the-world prison for the mind, built on systemic brutality and corruption. I admire the Hong Kongers’ courage and fear for their future. I can’t protect them from the PRC but at least I can show where I stand, and who knows, it might even make a difference if enough other people do too and the Beijing bastards decide that crushing HK might be bad for business.
I didn’t take pictures of the pro-HK side because you can bet the other side wouldn’t hesitate to use such things against them. It was probably superfluous since the Beijingers were loaded with cameras.
Now you’ve seen all the signs they had. It was all very uniform and organized on the Beijing side, everyone was waving the same thing. On the HK side there was an explosion of hand-lettered signs among a scattering of HK and Canadian flags. In the picture above, I particularly liked the worried-looking dude looking left through glasses, and got a nice picture of him when the sun came out.
He didn’t seem to be having much fun, but that’s probably a little misleading because there were definitely people on that side who were into it.
These two dudes were definitely full of that old school spirit, mind you one of them had his little camera rolling non-stop.
And you have to ask who these people were? I suspect they fell into three baskets. First, committed pro-Party people, maybe from the Consulate, maybe with less official standing, genuinely on the tyrants’ side — the rewards are good. Second, Chinese folk here in Vancouver who’ve stayed inside the Party-line bubble, there are media offerings to help. Third, people who don’t like the Party or (more likely) don’t like politics, who’ve had effortless-but-irresistable family or professional pressure applied.
Let’s just call them all puppets, because that’s how the people pulling the strings think about them. Here’s the puppeteers’ infrastructure:
Through the crowd, you can see the table where puppets can get their placards and posters and flags. I’d just love to know who organized that table and paid for the printing.
That’s what the demonstrations turned out to be. The size of the red and black crowds was roughly equal — maybe a few more on the black side? — and the police did a good job of keeping space between them; it helped that nobody I saw apparently wanted to start a fight.
Disclosure: I thought how satisfying a sudden charge across the open space at the puppets would have been, but fortunately I’m grown-up enough to keep my fantasy life where it belongs.
In terms of faces and if you ignored the colors, a lot of the people on either side could have been transplanted to the other without anyone noticing. But the black side was a little older and more grizzled and a whole lot more spontaneous and cracked better jokes and the signs were better and by the way were on the side of freedom.
I was kind of in the middle of the black demo and noticed that every few minutes, there’d be a roar of approval from the puppet side, countered by a thunder of booing from ours. By watching where people were looking, I traced the source to the road going by. What was happening was that a few bright Beijing sparks were driving their expensive sports cars round and round the block waving PRC flags.
Who’s the white dude driving the Ferrari, I want to know.
Which I think kind of underlines the key point. Like Orwell said, the object of power is power. A chief pleasure of power is showing it off, and driving around in Lambos and McLarens and Ferraris is a pretty satisfying way to do that. Particularly when you can soak up applause from the plebeians on your side and jeers from your enemies.
The people of Hong Kong don’t want to be censored, tortured, imprisoned, and killed by those whose asshole kids are driving supercars around West Coast cities across the Pacific. I’m with them.
piku now has its own GitHub organization, after almost three years. It’s not as if I have any shortage of personal projects, but this one has become a bit more useful to other people than most (thanks largely to contributors like Chris McCormik), so I decided to take the time and split it off into a standalone thing.
It runs pretty much everywhere (any cloud, any kind of CPU) and can currently deploy Python, NodeJS and Java apps (as well as arbitrary binaries). Near-zero overhead, Heroku-like workflow, and just a smidgeon over 1000 lines of code (1087 right now), which means you can understand all of it in one sitting.
It also comes with comprehensive docs (which need cleaning up) and bootstrapping scripts, but most importantly it keeps saving me time whenever I need to deploy simple services, so I’d say it’s been time well spent.
A year ago Arjen Kamphuis went missing in northern Norway. Given Arjen’s personal and professional history, various scenarios were all possible to his friends and family. As time went on without news, the question whatever happened morphed into dealing with the ever diminishing probability of his return.
When his belongings were found near and in the water shortly after he went missing, an accident seemed a logical conclusion, but then his phone was activated in the south of Norway. In the past year this has led to various conspiracy theories, who when rebuffed by Arjan’s family and friends, were extended to include them.
Norwegian police have now released a statement they consider his disappearance as a closed case (a machine translation of a Norwegian news article). They now announced that his phone and other belongings such as his laptop, were found and taken by two truck drivers who had been fishing near the spot Arjen went missing. The truck drivers are cleared from any suspicion, and a kajaking accident is the most likely explanation.
I’m sure the CTs will continue on (‘Why were the truck drivers never mentioned before? They were Eastern European, so likely Russian operatives!’). I do hope, even in the absence of absolute certainty, his family and friends can have some peace of mind over what happened.
I’ve know Arjen for a long time, and in our infrequent but regular interactions it was great to get a taste of his brilliant and active mind. Since his disappearance I’ve more actively taken up the topic of information security, paying what I learned from Arjen forward to those around me. There’s never much to learn from random tragedy itself, except what Arjen’s close friend Ancilla wrote late last year, to truly care and be curious about how those around you are doing, and to keep them close, to spend time with them.
As I said earlier, in relation to Elmine and I spending the effort to go to Canada for a few days of conversation and hanging out
The simple act of spending time together talking about life for a while [as Peter described it] is a rather rich and powerful thing to do, which packs the full complexity of being human.
In conversation with Arjen during a roof top lunch 11 years ago. The oldest photo I can find of our conversations.
Unless — and I admit this is possible — you’re trying to annoy the reader, try not to fall in love — or even in like — with the em dash. So many manuscripts I edit suffer from inflammation of the em dash — it’s rampant — as if these little buggers multiply like cockroaches. … Continued
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Of course the CTs around Arjen Kamphuis missing continue, here’s an example within hours of Norwegian police coming out with their statement.
Not linking to it, and removed the info about the Twitter account. No use in spreading it, other than holding it up as an example.
Making an unconscious assumption (in this case the assumption that the time of announcing new info is the time that information was gained or determined accurate), and then jumping to conclusions based on that assumption.
(I work for Mozilla. Not speaking for Mozilla here.)
I recently found out that Linux Journal, where I was editor-in-chief for a while, is shutting down. This might seem natural, because considering all the places you find Linux—from the largest cloud services and supercomputers to the cheapest smartphones—it makes about as much sense to have a Linux Journal as it would to have a magazine called Air Breathing Aficionado. For what it's worth, MSDN Magazine is shutting down too. Are operating systems just boring commodities now?
Yes, but that's not all.
In 1994, Randolph Bentson wrote a Linux device driver for a Cyclades serial board. This piece was before my time as editor. This probably didn't seem like a big deal at the time, but it was a key event in how the Free Software scene grew into the open source software business, and then the Internet business, as we know them.
Device drivers used to be proprietary software
that came on a floppy or CD-ROM with the board.
What Cyclades came up with was a good early example
of what Joel Spolsky later called commoditizing the
complement.
Eliminate many costs of keeping the software
proprietary, push the maintenance programming into the
open, and lower the total cost of ownership of the
device. Most of the major hardware companies ended
up making the same decision. Today, the operating
system is an inexpensive commodity, and most hardware
firms have dedicated kernel teams
to keep
the free part of the software/hardware combination
working. This keeps the whole product (Linux plus
Linux-supporting hardware) attractively priced.
The Linux business is built on ruthless commoditization, and would not be a business without it. Tim O'Reilly pointed out that it's a good example of Clayton Christensen's "Law of conservation of attractive profits." Red Hat was the survivor of a crowded Linux distribution market largely because of its committment to work upstream and offload as much code review, testing, maintenance programming, and version control as possible. The OS market is a tiny fraction of what we thought it would be based on the way things were headed in 1998. Yes, individual Linux developers are well-paid, but the OS business? The ubiquitous OS license price, on both client and server, is $0.
An even bigger commoditization shift came later, when
server hardware
became a commodity too, driving all the attractive
profits
to the service business. Big Internet
companies as we know them grew out of the Linux scene,
where the mandate to commoditize everything that you
don't directly make money from is so obvious that
people rarely even discuss or acknowledge it.
Commoditizing the operating
system was only the first few levels of
the game. Google, for example, beat level
one of the game by installing racks of janky-looking Linux
boxes instead of proper servers
with licensed Solaris or whatever on them,
then beat level two by commoditizing the mobile OS.
But it's not just Google, and it's not just OS
and hardware. Today's tech
business is
not so much about technology any more. It's more
about applying the principle of commoditization, learned from Linux,
to everybody else's work, whether by investing in building network effects to take over
services formerly run by local
businesses
or enforing arbitrary rules on video
creators
while aggressively using recommendation
algorithms to drive users to "fresher"
content.
The commoditization play in web publishing is to control the data on who is looking at something, in order to drive the profit out of where they look at it. This doesn't necessarily work so well, but whether or not tracking-based ads work better isn't the point. They only have to work well enough to drive the web content business into the commodity category with the cover bands from Amazon Prime Music. The only real opposition comes from publishers and privacy developers. Privacy developers don't want users followed from one site to another, and publishers don't want their audience's eyeballs sold somewhere else.
The optimistic view is that better privacy in
the browser will help us beat commoditization.
If everything works out just right, privacy in
the browser means that nobody can get trustworthy
data about ad impressions on random sites, which
means no more infinite online ad inventory,
which means that advertisers have to board the
flight to quality
to sites known to be
trusted by their users. Then increased market
power for those publishers means more expensive
advertising,
which means more
signaling
power for brands. Signaling power, if used
right, builds brand equity, which means brands
can spend more on ads, so they increase
signal by contending to support obviously
expensive content. This effect is responsible
for the kind of ad-supported media that's worth real
money
offline, so let's make it work for the web too.
Advertisers bid less for ad impressions
without tracking data when impressions with
tracking data are available. According to one Google
study,
Based on an analysis of a randomly selected
fraction of traffic on each of the 500 largest Google
Ad Manager publishers globally over the last three
months, we evaluated how the presence of a cookie
affected programmatic revenue. Traffic for which there
was no cookie present yielded an average of 52 percent
less revenue for the publisher than traffic for which
there was a cookie present. Lower revenue for traffic
without a cookie was consistent for publishers across
verticals—and was especially notable for publishers
in the news vertical. For the news publishers in the
studied group, traffic for which there was no cookie
present yielded an average of 62 percent less revenue
than traffic for which there was a cookie present.
The paper Consumer Privacy Choice in Online Advertising: Who Opts Out and at What Cost to Industry? by Johnson, Shriver, and Du finds 52% less revenue for impressions to users who deliberately opt out using an industry site.
The crappy ad problem is related. If the ad network doesn't know that you're an affluent car shopper, you're not going to get the professionally shot photo of a BMW on a scenic road. Instead, you're going to get ads for FREE* LIVER FUNGUS CURE!!!1! (just pay shipping, order auto-renews weekly).
These two effects are visible when impressions with and without cookie data, reaching a similar pool of people, are available in the same market. It would, however, be unrealistic to extrapolate from this to get to the conclusion that the result of protecting a large fraction of an audience will be that ad budgets intended to reach those people will go down by 52%. Jonathan Mayer and Arvind Narayanan point out that after GDPR, The New York Times cut off ad exchanges in Europe, and kept growing ad revenue, and that another study showed only a 4% revenue boost from behavioral tracking. (Measuring normal RTB bids against artificially cookie-blocked RTB bids seems like it would not detect a flight to quality.)
As privacy protection gets better, sites will have options to fix the low bid problem without commoditizing the content site by leaking user data. Context-based ad placement technology is still catching up to user-tracking-based technology.
Nobody wants to be stuck being the commodity, and with decent privacy in the browser, the content site doesn't have to.
That's the basis for cooperation between
privacy-protecting browsers and sites
trusted by their readers. Former Mozilla
COO Denelle Dixon writes, on the Digital Content Next
site,
In short, behavioral targeting will become
more difficult, but publishers should be able
to recoup a larger portion of the value overall
in the online advertising ecosystem. This means
the long-term revenue impact will be on those
third-parties in the advertising ecosystem that
are extracting value from publishers, rather than
bringing value to those publishers.
I have been talking and writing about the alignment of interests between privacy developers (who don't want their users' activity from one site following them to another site) and publishers (who don't want to leak their audience data) for quite a while. But privacy and publisher market power are two parallel causes, not one big movement. The commoditizers have a lot of skill and time to put into splitting the alliance that puts publishers on the same side as privacy developers. Can the Internet ad duopoly do something to satisfy privacy demands from users and regulators without ceding market power to trustworthy sites? Two proposals.
Fraud Resistant, Privacy Preserving Reporting Using Blind Signatures is a system to prove that a likely human visited a site, without giving the advertiser enough information to show that a certain user visited a certain site.
Federated Learning of Cohorts(FLoC): We plan to explore ways in which a browser can group together people with similar browsing habits, so that ad tech companies can observe the habits of large groups instead of the activity of individuals. Ad targeting could then be partly based on what group the person falls into.
If they can't track users individually, they'll still try to figure out a way to get high-value ad impressions from known human eyeballs at random sites, and commodify publishers that way. But that depends on getting the privacy developers to decide to be fine with this kind of scheme.
The good news is that privacy developers tend to be generally sympathetic to the publishers, because positive externalities and stuff. But we're still facing the risk of privacy-acceptable but anti-publisher user data handling schemes. Privacy developers need help to keep any new privacy technology aligned with the interests of whatever publishers their users choose to trust. That means we have to commit to more ongoing coordinated open source development, with publishers who want to stay out of the precariat using and testing the same code as browser and tool developers who want to keep their users safe.
The other good news, now that I think about it, is that they're now paying the privacy/publisher alliance the ultimate compliment, by trying to split it. We're on to something here.
“Sorry but if sincerely defending your beliefs is clearly and easily distinguishable from trolling, your beliefs are basic.”
🍌
Education is the art of conveying a sense of truth by telling a series of decreasing lies.
Stories are templates for ideas our brains most easily absorb. Shape your idea into a classic story, and it will go right in, even if it's made up.
Performance is a natural part of communication. Embrace it and you can become a superhero to others, as long as you don't actually believe it.
Truly understanding people means understanding all their little vanities, self-deceptions and flaws. Start with your own.
Only you can truly motivate yourself. Find your goal and never stop working towards it. It may take 20 years.
Dare to dream and push on, even through personal hell. Sometimes it takes a friend or a crowd. Sometimes the only way out is through.
Don't just think outside the box. Learn to exit the world around it, and observe it from all angles simultaneously. Choose the most optimal move for all possible games you find yourself in.
Always do it with style, even if you have to copy someone else first. Practice.
Social graphs pass along proof-of-work. You can win by producing it and racing the crowd. The people who validate it have competing and often low or wrong standards.
Social harmony depends on an accurate simulation of the other party. People who see a gift of information will continue to grow. People who see threats in every message will never feel safe.
Rituals and tradition are the deep protocols of society, supporting its glacial macro-evolution. We retain and perform them in obfuscated form, often mistaking our lack of understanding for obsolescence.
Foundational myths tell us to learn from the past and avoid it, that we know who's good or evil, what's virtuous or sinful. Yet every generation creates demons from its own ranks, rarely the same as the last.
Don't teach them to look for swastikas, only the jackboot stomping on a face, and mind your own step.
Ghosts are real, they are called egregores and live inside groups of people. We can reverse engineer them to figure out how they work.
Civilization is the art of compressing lessons and erasing mistakes, to fit increasing knowledge into a fixed biological substrate. Decay is the opposite, when mistakes are compressed and lessons are erased.
This may seem shocking, but unless you’re an accountant or archivist, you probably don’t need a traditional scanner—today’s smartphone scanning apps are simply that good. After spending more than 35 hours researching 20 scanning apps and testing seven of them, we’ve determined that our favorite is the lean and efficient Adobe Scan (for Android and iOS). It’s dead simple to use, capable of beautiful scan quality, and equipped with excellent text-recognition capabilities. Best of all, it’s totally free—even for iPhone owners.
While OnePlus already launched multiple smartphones this year, it seems that the Chinese company might also launch a OnePlus smartphone with an odd rear-facing design.
The news comes from famous leaker Evan Blass, who revealed an image of the back of the handset. It appears that the phone has a large circular camera setup.
The smartphone also has a volume rocker, alert slider and power button on its sides.
OnePlus typically releases its T-series smartphones in October and November. So we might not have to wait much longer to see exactly what this phone is.
It’s currently unclear how many cameras the phone will have or what the front of the handset looks like.
Source: Evan Blass
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A new report has revealed more details surrounding pretty much every upcoming Apple device, including the next iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, HomePod and AirPods.
The report stemming from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman and Debby Wu reveals numerous aspects of Apple’s upcoming product lineup for 2019 and 2020.
Combining that report with a few previous leaks, we can paint a relatively clear picture of Apple’s upcoming hardware and software plans as we near the company’s rumoured September 10th event.
The report claims Apple will once again have three new iPhones. Two of them will carry the ‘Pro’ moniker and feature a triple-lens camera system. This includes a wide-angle lens for the first time on an iPhone. Alongside the new lens, there should be some form of low-light photography mode and support for higher resolution pictures.
These Pro models will replace the company’s higher-end iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max, while the remaining less costly model is the successor to the iPhone XR. The XR replacement will feature dual-cameras for a better zoom system.
The new Pro handsets will have reverse wireless charging too, just like the Huawei P30 Pro and Samsung’s flagship devices. The primary use case for this is the ability to charge the AirPods with a wireless case.
Rumours suggest all of the new phones will get an upgraded Face ID sensor called, ‘Multi-Angle Face ID.’ This revamped facial scanning technology should allow users to unlock their phone while it’s lying face-up on a table, reads the report.
The new phones should be tougher than last years models as well. Bloomberg claims there will be some form of shatter-resistant technology to help the iPhones survive deadly drops. Alongside this, it’s rumoured Apple is going to add better water resistance to the devices.
The phones are rumoured to be equipped with Apple’s A13 chipset and a new chip called ‘Matrix’ for computer vision and augmented reality performance.
The phones will likely feature a matte finish instead of the glossy version from last year’s models. The XR replacement will also get a new green colour. I expect for Tim Cook to make an eco-friendly pun when revealing the new hue (I’m taking bets on this in the comments.)
‘Haptic Touch’ is set to replace ‘3D Touch,’ though both features work the same way. That said, 3D Touch sensed pressure when you pushed on the phone’s screen while Haptic Touch requires users to press and hold on the screen.
The Cupertino-based tech giant is on track to release two new iPad Pro models. The tablets will measure in at 11-inches and 12.9-inches respectively, which is the same size as the current models.
The new iPad Pros are expected to feature upgraded chipsets and cameras, including possibly a multi-lens camera system.
Bloomberg also says that Apple is going to discontinue the entry-level 9.7-inch iPad in favour of a model with a 10.2-inch screen. This brings the iPad’s screen proportions much closer in size to the 10.5-inch iPad Air.
It wouldn’t be surprising to see this new iPad feature a similar design to the iPad Pro and replace both the Air and the entry-level tablet.
The iPad Mini is also rumoured to be receiving some sort of update as reported in a previous leak, but there aren’t any specifics available yet.
There were also reports earlier in the summer that Apple could be using OLED displays for some of its iPad models, though Bloomberg doesn’t mention this in its report.
As reported before, Apple is working on new AirPods with a waterproof design and noise-cancelling technology. They are rumoured to launch next year and will be more expensive than the current AirPods.
Further, the report claims that since the original HomePod hasn’t sold well, Apple is working on a cheaper model. The new model will reportedly feature two speakers, instead of the seven included in the original HomePod.
Having fewer speakers seems to suggest that the rumoured HomePod will be a smaller and cheaper device. Apple is possibly aiming to compete more directly with Google Home and Amazon’s Echo with this iteration.
There won’t be a completely new Apple Watch this year. Instead, Apple is going to focus on software improvements with WatchOS 6, claims the report.
That said, the company is still going to refresh the Series 4’s design slightly with new ceramic and titanium case options.
Apple priced previous ceramic Apple Watch models at the highest end of its watch price scale. It stands to reason that these new models will be a premium upgrade over last year’s aluminum and stainless steel Apple Watch models.
The Bloomberg report further solidifies rumours of a new 16-inch MacBook Pro that will be similar in size to the current 15-inch model. The computer will feature minimal bezels so it can maintain a similar footprint to Apple’s already sizeable 15-inch laptop.
The laptop is rumoured to feature an LCD display with a 3,027 x 1,920-pixel resolution, squashing hopes of an OLED MacBook.
This will be the largest MacBook in Apple’s current laptop lineup, and Bloomberg claims its aim help convince more professional users to switch to a Mac.
The report states we should see this laptop near the end of 2019, while other leaks a suggest 2020 or 2021 release date.
There have been previous rumours that the existing 13-inch Pro and the MacBook Air are also getting subtle refreshes, but these are likely just new chips.
The Bloomberg report also claims that Apple’s recently announced Mac Pro and high-end display will launch before the end of the year.
Apple is rumoured to release both Apple Arcade and Apple TV+ this fall.
Previous rumours suggest Apple TV+ is getting a public release sometime in November, while Apple Arcade will reportedly drop alongside iOS 13 in late September.
Source: Bloomberg
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OtterBox, known for making rugged smartphone cases, has announced its Qi-certified wireless phone charger called OtterSpot.
What makes this charging system interesting is that it’s an expandable unit.
OtterSpot’s system is split into two devices, a main charging base and a portable wireless battery. The base unit is responsible for charging up the wireless batteries and a device if you choose to do so.
Then, you can use these batteries on-the-go or spread them throughout your home or workspace.
This makes it both accessible and portable when travelling.
OtterBox’s wireless charging battery holds up to 5,000mAh and offers up to 10 watts wireless charge speeds.
The batteries also provide simultaneous charging using a USB-C port in case you need to charge another device. These batteries seem to be versatile, especially at home where you’re in multiple areas during the day.
The OtterSpot Wireless Charging System, which comes with the charging base and the wireless battery, starts at $129.95 USD (roughly $172.79 CAD).
However, if you want to buy additional batteries or the base, it will cost you $69.95 USD (roughly $93 CAD).
Source: OtterBox
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Huawei’s next smartphone will use Google’s Android operating system with the company’s EMUI skin. The handset is likely the Huawei Mate 30 series.
At a briefing in New York, according to CNET, Huawei’s senior vice-president Vincent Yang confirmed that the company might launch a smartwatch and a TV using HarmonyOS.
However, Yang thinks it’s unlikely that Huawei will launch a smartphone with the new operating system.
If the U.S. bans Huawei permanently, then the company will have HarmonyOS as a backup plan. As of now though, some companies are being issued conditional licences to work with Huawei so long as it doesn’t pose a national security threat.
More recently, the U.S. Commerce Department has also extended the deadline by 90 days for companies working with Huawei to find alternative business.
Huawei’s upcoming smartphone will launch sometime during the next few months.
Source: CNET
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