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Apple reportedly signed a 3rd-party driver, by Tiny Corp, for AMD or Nvidia eGPUs for Apple Silicon Macs; it's meant for AI research, not accelerating graphics (AppleInsider)
https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/0

AMD or Nvidia eGPUs can work on Apple Silicon Macs, but not for graphic acceleration
Apple has signed a driver for AMD or Nvidia eGPUs connected to Apple Silicon but there are some big caveats, and it won't improve your graphics. Here's what they're for.

Because I constantly hear myths about the good old compact cassette here's a longer post dispelling them:
1. They can sound as good as CDs
2. They don't wear out
3. You can't use a pencil to wind them
4. You can go to specific tracks automatically
5. You don't need to carry around extra batteries
I will elaborate below:
1. Sound Quality
Many higher-end decks can record cassettes on metal tape with various Dolby noise reduction settings; especially the combination of metal tape and Dolby S will make tapes that are pretty much indistinguishable from listening to a CD.
Even normal or chrome tape with Dolby B (around since the 1970s) will give great results; likely indistinguishable from a CD when played in a car or while out and about with a personal player.
Some extremely high-end tape decks produce better than CD results in some regards (for example some Nakamichi models go to 26KHz with frequency response, while CD are inherently limited to top out at 22KHz).
It's true that the dynamic range of CDs is much better than either vinyl records or tapes. However, unless you're super into classical music there's likely not much music for which this truly matters, as 99% is mastered to use much less dynamic range than provided by any audio media format. (If you're super into classical music you probably want SACD or other high-res lossless sources anyway, not CDs.)
2. Yes, it will wear out mechanically but you will wear out mechanically before it does. Please watch VWestlife's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dgJ4hRHBiw
3. European and American pencils are too thin to engage the cassette reel cogs. (You'd need to get a Japanese pencil. People mostly used BIC pens for this purpose which have the right thickness.)
4. Most (nice) decks and personal players from the early-to-mid nineties onwards have track skip features (e.g. Sony has AMS, Automatic Music Sensor), which allow precise winding to a specific track.
Some decks even did this in the early 80s!
5. My late-90s Walkman has seventy-eight (78) hours of playback on one (1) single AA battery.
Anyway, the main reason why I like them is they're fun to use and recording them is very deliberate instead of algorithms selecting music for me. :)

Super-Insulating Our Living Room (2010) - Learn how we retrofitted interior wall insulation for winter warmth and summer cool, and trimmed our carbon footprint. #aerogel #frugal #cutCarbon -

Super-Insulating Our Living Room (2010)
Learn how we retrofitted interior wall insulation for winter warmth and summer cool, and trimmed our carbon footprint. #aerogel #frugal #cutCarbon

Mailbag: Better or worse than record indicates? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-better-or-worse-than-record-indicates

lol https://theonion.com/iran-imposes-new-cash-grass-or-ass-fee-for-strait-of-hormuz/

Iran Imposes New ‘Cash, Grass, Or Ass’ Fee For Strait Of Hormuz

"Underwater turbines are gaining government support – our research maps their global potential"
#Energy #Renewables

Underwater turbines are gaining government support – our research maps their global potential
New research highlights hotspots where the tides are strong and the water is shallow.

My fellow people of the United States, if I have anything to teach from what Minneapolis just lived through, it is this:
Nobody is coming to save us.
Not Congress. Not the courts. Not the ICC or the EU or NATO. Not the generals or the rank and file. Not the press. Not the markets. Not the elections. Not some mythical version of “The People” that materializes out of nowhere as some messianic external force.
We’re it. We’re all we’ve got. If we don’t stop fascism from completely engulfing the US, then nobody stops it.
7/

Cursor launches Automations, a new tool that lets users automatically launch agents triggered through new additions to a codebase, a Slack message, or a timer (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/05/cursor-is-rolling-out-a-new-s…

Cursor is rolling out a new kind of agentic coding tool | TechCrunch
Called Automations, the new system gives users a way to automatically launch agents within their coding environment, triggered by a new addition to the codebase, a Slack message, or a simple timer.

Rapidly coming to the conclusion that all media should be worker-owned. #propublica