I was an adjunct instructor at a local technical college teaching computer hardware courses. One student asked me if a hard drive that was full weighed more than a hard drive that was empty.
102·2 days agoWhat’s not funny? The murder part or the rape part?
Did you miss the whole Weird News thing and think this was humor?
Elaborate, please. We’re dying to hear the reasoning behind your spurious comment.
10·3 days agoThat telemetry site, https://iss-mimic.github.io/Mimic/, is amazing.
Like driving on four basketballs
2·5 days agoOther sources:
I go to https://www.amd.com/en/products/specifications/processors.html quite often, as I can filter on any CPU specification and pull up the technical details I need right away.
For the AI 365, https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/laptop/ryzen/300-series/amd-ryzen-ai-9-365.html, AMD specifically lists Ubuntu and Red Hat as supported.
Ryzen 8000-series, https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/laptop/ryzen/8000-series/amd-ryzen-7-8840hs.html, same story.
So, to actually answer your question, I think going with the AI 300 series might be a little premature. I tend to wait a generation, sometimes two, before adopting a new architecture or CPU model. There’s just no telling what bugs need to be ironed out, what lessons were learned in the fabrication/design process, and so on.
The Ryzen 8000 series is built on a stable, time-tested platform. I would go with that, unless you are the adventurous type.
9·6 days agoSomeone wanted the Milton life.
I’ll do it for $1495
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Absolutely correct - some trees are still in the process of losing their leaves.
Video for the curious:
Temperatures neared 50 degrees Saturday afternoon, so the video was hard to believe.
A motorist was driving a Jeep Cherokee onto the thin ice of Puckaway Lake in Green Lake County, about 55 miles north of Madison.
As expected, it didn’t end well, since there was only about 4 inches of ice on the 5,000-acre lake, an impoundment of the Fox River, according to a Facebook post by the Wautoma Police Department.
An ice angler on Puckaway Lake in Green Lake County broke through about 4 inches of ice Saturday while trying to return to the Lotus Drive boat landing. The driver escaped wet but appeared to be unharmed.
Green Lake County Sheriff Joe Konrath said the 62-year-old man from Cambria was unhurt in the incident that was reported to his office at about 3 p.m.
“He just thought the ice was strong enough to drive on it,” Konrath said. “It warmed up pretty good Saturday afternoon, and Puckaway is just the Fox River going through and the water current probably weakened the ice. But he never should have drove on there.”
Two Wisconsin men died in the last few days when they fell through the ice in separate incidents. The state Department of Natural Resources on Friday warned people to exercise caution on the ice, which can look solid even when it’s not.
Mason Koerber, whose uncle Andy Duernberger, of Slinger, took a video of the incident, said the driver had been fishing on the lake near the Lotus Drive boat landing on the lake’s northern shore, which is in Marquette County a few miles south of Princeton. After fishing for a few hours, the man tried to return to shore but broke through the ice about 75 yards from shore. The front end of the vehicle plunged through the ice with the back end sticking up into the air.
The Jeep Cherokee of a 62-year-old Cambria man is seen here on Saturday in Puckaway Lake in Green Lake County. The man escaped through an open window as the vehicle began to sink. ANDY DUERNBERGER
In the video, the driver, who was the only person in the vehicle, can be seen crawling out the driver’s side window, which he appears to have rolled down before driving, and then hoisting himself out of the water onto the ice.
Koerber, who works in West Bend but is also a volunteer with the Slinger Fire Department and has trained in water rescues, said other people were fishing in the area where the Jeep went through but everybody had walked out, including Duernberger. There were no other cars or trucks or even ATVs on the lake.
The vehicle was removed Sunday, according to Wautoma Police.
1·17 days agoNineteen people were arrested Thursday after about 50 protesters, unhappy over UW Board of Regents investments they allege are connected to the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza, were forcibly removed from the Regents’ business committee meeting after disrupting proceedings.
Pro-Palestine protesters started outside the Gordon Commons dining hall around 7:45 a.m., later moving into the Regents meeting. For about the first 15 minutes of the meeting, the group stood silently along the walls. But then protest organizers began to interrupt the meeting, loudly alleging that the Regents were meeting in violation of the state’s open meeting laws and objecting to the board’s response to their demands to divest from companies they say are funding the conflict.
New protest rules at UW-Madison: Keep it quiet, and don’t block commencement photos
The protesters included members of UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee’s chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine and the UW-Madison chapter of Young Democratic Socialists of America, according to a statement posted on WisPolitics.
“Thursday’s action will challenge the Board of Regents’ complicity and refusal to align university investments with ethical standards,” the statement read. “Students and allies will continue building momentum for accountability and justice in the UW system. One of the most important stakeholders of the UW System, the students, want the Board of Regents to know that they are not welcome on their campuses as long as they continue to actively support a genocide and scholasticide.”
Protesters also objected to the recent response to an investigation aimed at ensuring the UW system was not investing in companies that “condone discrimination.” They were given a one-sentence response stating that the case was closed, an Instagram post from earlier this week said.
UW-Madison Dean of Students Christina Olstad attempted to intervene with the speakers, but they refused to leave. The Regents then paused the meeting as UW police officers pushed the protesters out of the board room; at least three people were either put in handcuffs or removed from the room through back rooms.
Chanting and yelling could still be heard from elsewhere in Gordon Commons 30 minutes after the initial disruption.
An Instagram post from UW-Milwaukee Popular University for Palestine and other protest groups said all detained students had been released as of 9:45 a.m. UW Police Department confirmed the 19 arrests in a statement released just before 11:30 a.m.
UW Police officers did not give out any citations, but did not rule out issuing them in the future based on investigations into each arrest case, the statement added.
UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee experienced days-long protests in late April and May earlier this year that included illegal encampments. The universities took different approaches to intervening in the protests, with UW-Madison attempting to remove the tents from Library Mall in early May; that effort backfired, with protesters promptly installing more tents than were there before.
Both encampments agreed to end their protests prior to UW-Madison’s and UW-Milwaukee’s spring commencements.
MADISON — On the crisp afternoon of Oct. 22, Shanglin Yang walked down State Street, a route he had taken countless times since beginning his computer science studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
But this time, he said, two men approached him, making loud monkey noises and filming his reaction on their phones. Their laughter echoed as they got close to Yang, he said. As an Asian international student originally from Shenzhen — a tech hub often called “China’s Silicon Valley” — Yang said he felt exposed, targeted and humiliated.
A UW-Madison student who witnessed the incident and asked not to be identified by her full name — fearing repercussions — acted quickly, taking photos of the harassers.
“They were mocking him, and it was clear their behavior wasn’t meant as a joke,” the student, Megan, said. “I just reacted quickly to document what I saw.”
In the days following the incident, campus sources identified one of the men as an undergraduate student in the university’s School of Business.
The incident has brought attention to a larger conversation about the campus climate at UW-Madison. While the university has announced plans to double its international student population over the next four years, enrollment among students of color has dropped. According to a Cap Times report, the percentage of underrepresented students of color in the first-year class dropped from 18% in 2023 to 14.3% this fall.
Yang is among nearly 8,000 international students from 125 countries around the world who are studying at UW-Madison. Those students contribute an estimated $339.7 million annually to Madison’s economy, according to the Association of International Educators. Yet incidents like this raise a question: Is UW-Madison prepared to support and protect its increasingly diverse student body?
“Diversity isn’t just a buzzword,” said Lyn van Swol, a professor of communication science at UW-Madison. “It’s about creating norms of inclusion that aren’t just performative but deeply ingrained in the culture. Schools need to set a precedent that bias and harassment will not be tolerated.” Institutional silence and delayed responses
Even though bystanders stepped in to help, Yang said he felt ignored in his efforts to seek accountability through official channels. After filing a report with the Office of Student Assistance and Support, he followed up on Oct. 29 but didn’t hear back for weeks. When he contacted the Madison Police Department, a dispatcher questioned why he hadn’t reported the incident sooner, Yang said. Weeks passed without further updates.
“I thought reporting it would lead to some action, but all they offered was a ‘voluntary conversation’ with one of the guys who harassed me,” Yang said. “It felt like they just wanted me to move on and let it go.”
Seeking further support, Yang turned to faculty allies, including Kathryn McGarr, a professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and Alexander Hopp, a professor in Asian American Studies. Both professors advocated on his behalf, contacting the Office of Student Assistance and Support and the Office of Compliance to push for a formal investigation.
“I’m very grateful for the support I’ve received from Alex, Kathryn, Megan and so many others,” Yang said. “But this is the school’s responsibility — it shouldn’t fall on others to fight for me.”
When Yang followed up with the Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards on Nov. 12, this is the emailed response he received:
“We cannot disclose information about one student’s record with another student,” wrote Ryan Podolak, the associate director responsible for the office. “If there is additional information you have since submitting the intiial report, you can send that to me.”
The email contained typos, including “intiial” instead of “initial,” and incorrectly suggested that Yang was inquiring about another student’s record rather than his own.
“When something happens, you realize how much of that is just words,” Yang said. “The very institutions that are supposed to protect you just look the other way.” A broader pattern of neglect
Feeling let down by the institutions he thought would protect him, Yang turned to Reddit to share his experience. Within hours, his post went viral, drawing over 280,000 views and more than 300 comments — far exceeding the typical Reddit engagement, where posts average around 49 comments. It resonated deeply with people of color across campus who could relate to his frustration.
Reddit post by Shanglin Yang
UW-Madison international student Shanglin Yang posted on Reddit about a harassment incident on State Street and received over 300 comments, with many readers sharing their own experiences as students of color. Screenshot from Reddit
One commenter, writing under the name AffectionateRing9860, echoed Yang’s frustration:
“I have gone through a similar situation as an Asian American student at UW-Madison.”
Another user, Ketchup_182, invoked a recent memory:
“Just a couple of years ago, a UW student was caught on video saying Black people should be sent ‘back to the cotton fields,’ and absolutely nothing was done.”
The comment appeared to refer to a racist video that circulated on social media in the spring of 2023, after which nearly 60,000 people signed an online petition calling for the white student’s suspension. UW-Madison officials and legal scholars noted the university was unable to punish the student because of her First Amendment rights.
Ch053n1, another Reddit user, reflected on the vulnerability that many Asian students feel: “Unfortunately, the reason this happens is because they know Asians are easy targets and won’t do anything if they pick on you.”
The top comment read: “I’m currently in a First Amendment class at UW. Since the incident occurred off campus, it’s unlikely UW is able to do anything about it.”
“Nothing is going to happen,” wrote BlckMetalPotatoes.
Many commenters voiced disappointment with what they perceived as systemic inaction by the university.
“UW-Madison really fails students of color/non-white students,” wrote gopackgo15. “That’s the worst thing about this school. I really hope there’s some kind of resolution.” The university responds, belatedly
On Nov. 15, the Cap Times began investigating Yang’s case, contacting university offices and law enforcement for answers. This is how those offices responded:
The Madison Police Department classified the case as a “disturbance” and closed it on Nov. 20, citing no physical altercation. The department explained that Wisconsin’s “hate crime enhancer” statute could not be applied due to a lack of clear evidence of intent. The UW–Madison Police Department clarified that its jurisdiction typically does not extend to off-campus incidents unless tied to campus-specific threats. The UW Office of Student Assistant and Support and the Office of Student Conduct, initially unresponsive to inquiries, both contacted Yang on Nov. 20 to inform him the student involved was being addressed. On Nov. 22, Jenny Bernhardt, communications director for Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Lori Reesor, responded with additional context. Bernhardt said UW-Madison follows established processes to investigate student misconduct, but federal privacy laws prevent the university from sharing many details. She also emphasized that UW-Madison is committed to supporting students who report bias incidents, whether they happen on or off campus. UW Media Relations declined to comment on the case.“I find it ironic,” Yang said. “For a month, no one took any action. But the moment reporters got involved, suddenly everyone had something to say. It shows the power of the media and also highlights how the university could have acted sooner but chose not to until it became public.”
Detective Gracia Rodriguez, who oversaw the Madison Police investigation, said the two men claimed their actions were part of a TikTok trend. However, the detective did not specify which trend, and an independent search by the Cap Times found no evidence of such behavior trending on TikTok.
Megan, the UW-Madison student who witnessed the incident, rejected the explanation.
“I think they made up that excuse,” she said. “What they did and what I saw is not a game. If it were, they should’ve targeted one of their friends — not a stranger.”
She expressed frustration with how the case was handled.
“When Detective Garcia called to tell me the case was closed, it felt like being silenced,” Megan said. “It wasn’t until the Cap Times got involved that they started reaching out again.”
As a UW-Madison student who initially studied legal studies before switching to nursing, she said she respects law enforcement but believes the case was mishandled.
“This was brushed under the rug and not taken seriously,” she said. “What those boys did was a crime, and they lied to the police about it — and the police believed them. This isn’t an isolated case. The school and the people meant to protect us have silenced the victim.”
Yang, meanwhile, has filed a Civil Rights Investigation request with the university’s Office of Compliance, shifting focus from what happened on State Street to what the university will do next.
“I’m not asking for extreme punishments,” Yang said. “But I do expect the university to stand by its values and take incidents like this seriously.”
Reflecting on President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1941 “Four Freedoms” speech — freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear — Yang added: “Human rights are supposed to be about freedom and equality. But if the First Amendment protects the freedom of speech for harassers, who is protecting the freedom from fear for people of color?”
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Very much so!