You know, Kierkagard wrote, "Of all ridiculous things, the most ridiculous
seems to me to be busy, but he died more
than a hundred years ago, and he never had to keep up with the tech news. It'll
keep you busy. Trust me." Yeah, who's a smart guy now. Microsoft is sick of you
making offline or local Windows 11 accounts, and they're not going to let
you do it anymore. In their announcement of a new Windows 11 Insider preview
build, Microsoft says they are getting rid of known mechanisms often used to
create a local account. According to Windows Central, amongst these removed
mechanisms are commands like start ms-calonly
local >> locally. Microsoft says if you want to
use Windows 11, which I know we all desperately do, we're going to have to
complete the outofbox experience or Ubie
with internet access and a Microsoft account. The announcement states that
creating an offline account bypasses critical setup screens that are part of
the Ubie and could cause oo oozers users
to exit the setup without a properly configured device. But I know that's all
just code for give us your data. We want your sweet, sweet data, obviously.
Interestingly, folks already appear to be finding workarounds for Microsoft's
newest changes, including just creating a local account on an earlier Windows 11
build before updating. Microsoft, I'm going to offer you a bit of constructive
criticism here. Maybe folks would be more willing to create accounts the way
you want them to if they actually wanted to use Windows 11. Huh? Focus on making
Windows 11 cool. Cart before the horse kind of thing. You get it. Qualcomm is
acquiring Arduino, the Italian company
beloved for their open-source microcontroller boards and I'm assuming
free bread sticks at lunch. It's just like the Olive Garden but a country,
right? It's understandable that Qualcomm would want to subsume Arduino's
incredibly popular and adaptable hardware and software into their own
edge computing stack. But enthusiasts along with people who have never touched
a microcontroller before worry that this move will hurt Arduino's open-source
approach. But the two companies say they're serious about keeping that open
approach and community spirit alive. So they're updating Arduino's Uno lineup
with the Uno Q, a little hybrid board
that combines Qualcomm's Linux Debian capable Dragon Wing QRB2210
chip. Yep. with Arduino's STM32U585
microcontroller. It's compatible with Arduino's existing
shields and other hardware. Its schematics are open source, and it's
coming alongside AppLab, a new open-source tool for building
specialized apps for the UNOQ's unique hardware configuration. If you've still
got questions, don't ask us. Again, we don't know. But thankfully, my other
dad, Jeff Gearling, has a great new video and article up about this
development. He's so smart. Probably smarter than your dad.
>> He's number Uno. >> Synology has backtracked on its policy
banning the installation of nonverified hard drives in its NAS products. In as
little as 6 months, Synology was able to surmise that requiring people to buy
special Synology branded drives was pissing off their customers and driving
sales down. Very impressive. Synology's
press release says that 2025 Diskstation Plus, Value, and J series models running
the newest DSM 7.3 software will support
the installation of nonvalidated third-party drives with some caveats. If
you want to use M.2 drives, those still need to be a model listed on Synologyy's
hardware compatibility list. and enterprise NAS units, which only worked
with verified drives before Synology expanded the policy in April, will still
need special rubber stamped drives. So, what tipped the scales here? Well,
Synology told RS Technica that testing more drives and adding them to their
validation program is taking a while. So, they figured they'd open things up,
even though the only thing that drives their decisions is creating reliable and
secure data solutions. As long as that data is secure on a validated drive,
they are willing to drive this whole thing into the ground. Except when their
sales go down cuz nobody's security is
perfect. It's what a put a floppy in there. See if we care. Okay, so we're so
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their October deals at the link below. Chinese philosopher Laauo Su wrote about
how the slow overcomes the fast. One
thing's for sure, the quick bits hate loudu. So get at it. Nintendo is suing James
Archbox Williams, a moderator for the Switch Pirates subreddit, where he
allegedly promoted and sold Switch ROMs
and other piracy tools. Now, he did this so often Nintendo was able to track down
his identity and sue him for 4.5 million
in damages, which they claim is actually nowhere near the actual damages done.
This guy almost put Nintendo out of business. While we often joke about
Nintendo being unreasonably latigious, if their claims are accurate here, that
Williams continued to sell ROMs even after being served a cease and desist,
deleted or hid evidence, and then ghosted lawyers, aka
around, then it seems like he's entered the find out phase of things. Nintend
don't ignore a cease and desist.
Logitech is bricking its POP smart home
buttons on October 15th. In a move that Hackaday concisely called sudden and
rather customer hostile, pop button users are receiving an email informing
them that the product, which is less than a decade old, is being shut down.
But don't worry, they're getting a 15% off coupon at Logitech's store. However,
Hackaday says this coupon is only usable by US-based customers.
>> Damn it. Logitech is not only just
shutting down the product and its support for things like Apple HomeKit,
Sonos, and Philips Huegh. Anyone hoping to keep using them locally is also
completely out of luck. So, Logitech has really pushed my pop buttons with this
one. >> Good one, Riley. >> I I'll own it. Steam, Xbox, PlayStation,
Riot Games, and Epic Games were all hit with spikes in outage reports at around
the same time on October 6th, according to data from Down Detector, which led
many to assume a massive DDoS attack was
underway. Now, according to cyber news, some are speculating the attack comes
from the massive botnet Isuru Isuru. Why
would someone go after our dear Steam, though? Yet even more conjecture
suggests that this attack may be to sell a product through a demonstration of its
strength. Personally, I'm pretty sure it might be that. Or alternatively, all the
video games cause violence boomer people have LEARNED TO HACK. LOOK OUT,
GRANDMA'S PLUGGED IN. And it ain't just
Skyrim this time. OpenAI said its recently launched Sora 2 video generator
would block depictions of public figures. And it did for the
approximately 2 seconds it took for people to find a loophole and start
barging Zelda Williams with fake photorealistic videos of her late father
Robin. Very cool and normal behavior. Soratu's ability to recreate Pikachu
being cooked and eaten and Mario running from the cops also caused a ruckus with
copyright holders, which seemed to catch OpenAI CEO Sam Alman by surprise. I
thought they'd love it. So, this week, OpenAI added more restrictions to the
model, but only after enough AI videos had flooded the web that it triggered
Mr. Beast to wonder, hm, what will AI
videos do to YouTube? And how will it impact the millions of creators
currently making content for a living? Has anyone thought of this yet? Scary
times. The Neurolink brain computer interface is helping one of its patients
control a robot arm. And those are just the sorts of cool sentences we get to
say on Techlink sometimes. Pretty cool. Anyway, Nick Ray, a Neuralink patient
who has ALS, posted a video of himself using Neuralink to direct an assistive
robot arm to pick up a drink for him, bring it to his mouth, and allow him to
sip off from it without it impaling him through the jaw. It's great.
>> Thought about thinking it. We're like, don't. Ray
wrote in his post that he's also been able to put on his hat and microwave
chicken. He's very excited to talk with
his hands again. Just be careful where you're swinging those robot arms, Nick.
Okay, you don't know your own strength and we don't want a Dr. Octopus
situation here. Okay, take it easy. But very happy for you. We should take it
easy, too. Hey, let's have a rest and come back on Friday for more tech news.
After all, Vietnamese philosopher why are you making me titch not han
believes that resting is a very important practice and resting is a
precondition for healing. So chill. Okay. Heal.