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Wednesday, September 25

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Daily News Stuff 25 September 2024

Launchtime Doubly So Edition

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Disclaimer: I for one welcome our new radioactive AI overlords.

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Woof

Had a data error on one of the SSDs (non-redundant) on this server, causing ZFS to freak out and take everything offline.

Including all local snapshots.

At least the operating system is on a different drive, so the server kept running and I could just log right in and fix it.

I'm moving everything over to the new servers now before this one gives me another heart attack.  Those don't have redundant SSDs either, but there are two servers plus a separate backup server on a 10Gb VLAN.

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Tuesday, September 24

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Daily News Stuff 24 September 2024

Flu-Ridden Cow Leavings Edition

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  • AI superintelligence will be here in 20 years says Sam Altman who would never ever lie about such a thing.  (Ars Technica)
    "It is possible that we will have superintelligence in a few thousand days (!); it may take longer, but I’m confident we’ll get there," he wrote.
    Wanna bet, Sam?
    It's easy to criticize Altman's vagueness here; no one can truly predict the future, but Altman, as CEO of OpenAI, is likely privy to AI research techniques coming down the pipeline that aren't broadly known to the public.
    No.  He's not.
    So even when couched with a broad time frame, the claim comes from a noteworthy source in the AI field-albeit one who is heavily invested in making sure that AI progress does not stall.
    No.  It doesn't.
    Elsewhere in the essay, Altman frames our present era as the dawn of "The Intelligence Age," the next transformative technology era in human history, following the Stone Age, Agricultural Age, and Industrial Age. He credits the success of deep learning algorithms as the catalyst for this new era, stating simply: "How did we get to the doorstep of the next leap in prosperity? In three words: deep learning worked."
    The problem with that is that "deep learning" hasn't worked, and can't.  There's no point making ever larger and more expensive models - if there ever was - because we've run out of data to feed them.
    Not everyone shares Altman's optimism and enthusiasm. Computer scientist and frequent AI critic Grady Booch quoted Altman's "few thousand days" prediction and wrote on X, "I am so freaking tired of all the AI hype: it has no basis in reality and serves only to inflate valuations, inflame the public, garnet [sic] headlines, and distract from the real work going on in computing."
    Yes.


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  • Redis users are considering jumping ship.  (The Register)

    Redis used to be open source.  Now it isn't.

    Which is a problem for Redis.


  • Because now Valkey exists.  (Valkey)

    It only exists because Redis used to be open source, but Redis did use to be open source.

    Meaning that Valkey could take the last open source version of Redis, and create its own version.

    And then add features that Redis never had (like multi-threading) and then ship it as open source.

    The only thing Valkey can't do is stop being open source, which is a feature rather than a bug.


  • The Arc browser: Why you need a better browser than Chrome.  (The Verge)

    Chrome used to be the best.  Now it's...  Meh.

    Arc is designed to be an operating system for web applications.  Should you try it?
    So, the origin of The Browser Company is I was a political appointee in the Obama White House and after the 2016 election, I was personally devastated by the result. I felt like technology and the technology industry had an impact on the things I didn’t like, and I was very motivated to try to do something about it.
    No.


  • Intel's Razer Lake CPUs will follow after Nova Lake now that the Arrow Lake Refresh has been cancelled.  (Tom's Hardware)

    Look, I follow this stuff every single day, and if you told me that Veronica Lake was now set to follow Swan Lake because Rose Madder Lake had been cancelled I would have no idea whether that was real or not.


Disclaimer: Oh you'll take the high lake and I'll take the low lake...

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Monday, September 23

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Daily News Stuff 23 September 2024

More Where That Came From Edition

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  • The entire human genome on a poker chip.  (Tom's Hardware)

    Ew.

    Etched by laser.

    Never mind.

    The storage device, using glass or quartz discs up to the size of a CD, can store up to 360TB and last more or less forever unless you hit them with a hammer.

    The problem is that you need a high power laser to write the data in the first place; you can't stamp them out in bulk.


  • Keeping Firewire alive on Linux.  (Tom's Hardware)

    Recent versions of Windows and MacOS have abandoned Firewire entirely, so if you need to maintain support for some unusual hardware device, Linux is really your only option.

    Or stick with Windows 10.


  • Running C code natively from JavaScript.  (The New Stack)

    You seem to be attempting to summon Cthulhu.  Would you like me to help with that?


  • Are Facebook's Ray Ban smart glasses actually not terrible?  (The Verge)

    Yes, they're marketed as AI, but what's more important is that they contain a microphone, a camera, and speakers, all of which work - and reportedly work pretty well - without any AI bullshit.

    And they're glasses; they don't cover most of your face and make your neck hurt.  If you already wear glasses you can get them with your prescription.

    And they cost $299, not $3499.

    What they don't have in their current iteration is a display.  There are other smart glasses like this that do have displays - not full VR but little HUDs, which can be very useful.

    If these features can come together maybe the Apple Vision Pro can quietly die and be forgotten.

Something Important Was Forgotten Video of the Day




Disclaimer: Or noisily.  All the same to me.

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Sunday, September 22

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Daily News Stuff 22 September 2024

Dooby Doo Edition

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The stages of vtuber graduation:

1. Denial
2. Bargaining
4. Signing up for a six month subscription in advance


For those keeping track:

Kiryu Coco -> Kson*
Pikamee -> Henya
Selen Tatsuki -> Dokibird*
Pomu Rainpuff -> Maid Mint*
Yozora Mel -> Rica (@ricaaach)*
Amelia Watson -> Dooby3d**


* Their previous/simultaneous personal accounts
** A rename of their previous personal account


Disclaimer: REEEEEE!

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Saturday, September 21

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Daily News Stuff 21 September 2024

Fried Chimken Edition

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  • Qualcomm is reportedly in talks to acquire Intel.  (The Verge)

    Intel's stock price is in the toilet after years of mismanagement, which is what makes this at all viable.  The company is valued at less than Nvidia or AMD, and half as much as Qualcomm.

    Which is a little odd because none of those other companies have Intel's massive manufacturing capacity, and is testament to how badly Intel has screwed up.

    I very much doubt this deal will go anywhere.  Intel is betting everything on its upcoming 18A and 14A process nodes (1.8nm and 1.4nm respectively).  If those are successful then all is forgiven.  If not, then who would want to buy them?


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  • Speaking of AMD the company's upcoming Strix Point Halo laptop chip has been spotted in a test sample of an HP ZBook Ultra.  (WCCFTech)

    Specifically the Ryzen AI 390 variant with 12 Zen 5 CPU cores and 40 graphics cores.

    Since it's a ZBook - HP's workstation line - it will not be cheap, but it does come with 64GB of RAM standard.


  • Which is just enough to run the latest edition of Microsoft Flight Simulator.  (Tom's Hardware)

    The game recommends 64GB of RAM, at least a 12-core CPU, and an Nividia RTX 4080 or AMD Radeon 7900 XT.

    Which is a lot.


  • Concord reportedly cost a total of $400 million to develop.  (PlayStation Lifestyle)

    This is the game that Sony shut down less than two weeks after launch, at which point it had around 100 players.  Total.  Worldwide.

    Insiders have said that the game had already cost $200 million to develop by the start of 2023, at which point it was in a "laughable state".  Sony spent another $200 million getting additional studios to clean it up and create pre-rendered content.

    That part seems to have worked because the problem when it launched last month was not bugs - it appeared to be technically competent - but that the game was ugly and boring.  

    And that part was because nobody was permitted to offer any criticism, for the entire eight years it was in development, what the article calls "toxic positivity".  No-one was permitted to speak out, and no-one dared to blow the whistle because they were dealing with the kind of people who would follow them to their next job just to libel them to HR.


  • You can now reprogram the Windows Copilot key if (a) you are stuck with a Windows version with Copilot and (b) your keyboard has a Copilot key.  (Tom's Hardware)
    We discovered that the Copilot key returns the F23 key, a key hearkening back to the IBM era when IBM keyboards came equipped with function keys from F1 all the way to F24.
    This took me a minute.  They're not talking about PC keyboards, they're talking about mainframe terminals.

    Apparently I'm not that old just yet.


  • You can get a 1.5TB Intel 905p for $299.  (Tom's Hardware)

    Why would you want to do that?  That sounds expensive.

    The answer is, you probably wouldn't.  This is one of Intel's Optane models, and there's a reason the company doesn't make them anymore.

    But if you have an application that is very sensitive to read latency, these drives are five times faster than any flash-based SSD, and last basically forever.

    For sequential transfer rates, though, it is five times slower than the latest PCIe 5 M.2 drives.


Disclaimer: Bleeeh.

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Friday, September 20

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Daily News Stuff 20 September 2024

Addicted To Stress Edition

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In the vtuber world, Pina Pengin (formerly of Sony's Prism Project, now with the independent Prima Project) returned to streaming today after several weeks absence when she was flooded out of her home twice in a month.

And Amelia Watson of Hololive English announced her not-a-graduation after four years with the company.  Her last stream will be September 30.

But she will still be affiliated with Hololive and both the company's website and the CEO's own tweets hint that we may see her again.



Stress Video of the Day




Disclaimer: Unless I have to work late.  If I have to work late, which I usually do...

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Thursday, September 19

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Daily News Stuff 19 September 2024

Dorayaki Derangement Edition

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  • Nintendo and the Pokemon Company are officially suing Palworld creator Pocketpair.  (WCCFTech)

    At issue is the idea of catching and training weird animals, that Nintendo asserts it stole fair and square.

    Japanese patent law is a bit weird and unlike western patents, so whether they have a case is uncertain.  One major problem is that Pocketpair now has a billion dollars to fund its defense.


  • Speaking of western patents Congress has decided that now is the perfect time to fuck everything up.  (Ars Technica)

    The Supreme Court has already thrown out entire categories of patent.  You can't patent something that is already commonplace "but on a computer", and you can't patent people's genes.

    The proposed bill is supported by the larger pharmaceutical companies and opposed by literally everyone else.

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Disclaimer: Well, more chaos than usual anyway.

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Wednesday, September 18

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Daily News Stuff 18 September 2024

Paging Dr Bleat Edition

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  • Well, that happened.


  • OpenAI's new AI called o1 is the same garbage but more expensive.  (The Verge)

    It still makes shit up, because it's a language model (a bad one) and not a fact model.  It is somewhat improved in making excuses for its lies, but that's about it.
    "What worries me more is that in the future, when we ask AI to solve complex problems, like curing cancer or improving solar batteries, it might internalize these goals so strongly that it becomes willing to break its guardrails to achieve them," Hobbhahn told me.
    No, really?


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Totally Unconnected to Anything Music Video of the Day




Disclaimer: Beep beep, beep beep, boom.

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Tuesday, September 17

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Daily News Stuff 17 September 2024

Duck Duck Bang Edition

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Disclaimer: I think I am, therefore I am, I think.

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