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IDC expects shipments of PCs could shrink by up to 9% YoY in 2026 due to global memory shortages, as demand from AI data centers continues to outstrip supply (Zak Killian/Tom's Hardware)

IDC warns PC market could shrink up to 9% in 2026 due to skyrocketing RAM pricing — even moderate forecast hits 5% drop as AI-driven shortages slam into PC market
Memory shortages are expected to have a serious impact on the PC and smartphone market.

🇭🇺 Why is Orbšn scaring Europe with a "war with Russia"? Oil depots burning in Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/why-is-orbn-scaring-europe.html

In this post, guest author Maxi shares her experience in reusing data and machine learning models.
The short version:
It's frustrating, because people don't share or don't even respond to a clearly "reasonable request". We cannot build on other researchers' work if they don't share anything. Model weights offer the possibility to share information without sharing sensitive data, but even those are not shared.
Check out the long version for mor…

Data sharing (un)culture

Most of my screenshots are set to friends-only since I take a lot of them.
I decided to make a few public so everyone can check them out:
https://steamcommunity.com/id/midtsveen/screenshots/

Researching DIY solutions for preparing digital negatives for my salt/kallitype printing experiments. Working on a little curve fitting tool/library (of course using https://thi.ng/umbrella) for computing tone mapping curves derived from sample swatches (here 5% steps of gray/density). The screenshot shows 2nd - 5th d…

And this is why not just any program can take screenshots on most #Wayland compositors:
https://www.pixnapping.com/
Google despite the difficulties when exploiting this, classified

Pivot Club
Sarah Davidson has intimate, and at times hilarious conversations with both household names and everyday heroes who took the plunge and sharing the messy, honest truth about reinventing yourself...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/pivot-

Right, folks, so there is an account on mastodon.social (@8124@mastodon.social) that has been libelling me and others, defaming us as antisemites for the longest time.
They just sent the posts attached.
They have been reported to mastodon.social and I have raised my concerns with them and yet no action has been taken against that account even though the account has been suspended on at least three major Mastodon servers and limited on at least four others.
It is not limited…

For my linked dipole, I came up with using high-shrink (I use 4:1) marine (lined with heat-activated glue) heat shrink tubing and dacron line for making neat links that wind nicely and avoid putting stress on the wire.
Today I realized that I could use the same technique to put loops at the ends of my end-fed antenna and …

Martin Fleischmann @… gave a fantastic talk today at ITU about his personal path :geopandas: and insights about #opensource in front of a 100 people audience, impressing also many students!