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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


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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.


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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




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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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Monday, September 16

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Daily News Stuff 16 September 2024

Well Fuck Edition

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Sunday, September 15

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Daily News Stuff 15 September 2024

With Frickin' Laser Beams Edition

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Disclaimer: Which would be particularly inconvenient if you're the one taking the photo.

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Saturday, September 14

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Daily News Stuff 14 September 2024

Mermaids R Us Edition

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Pixy Is Watching

Quality Assurance in Another World continues to shine.

Yes, it's another "trapped in a VR game" isekai - and we all saw how that would work in real life with ENReco* - but it once you swallow that pill (and it is at least a variation on the regular capsule) the story is handled with more intelligence and empathy than most such.

It's listed on MAL as 13 episodes, which means there's no way in hell it will reach the end of the story. 

I was thinking it was paced like a 24/26 episode run, but a quick comparison with the manga covers shows that episode 8 of the anime takes us no further than volume 3 of the manga - out of 13.  So we probably need three seasons just to catch up.




* ENReco - ENigmatic Recollection - is a Hololive production where all 19 of the Hololive EN girls are roleplaying as amnesiac versions of themselves transported to be heroes in another world.

They were all booted from the game server by technical glitches twice in the first thirty minutes.



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Friday, September 13

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Daily News Stuff 13 September 2024

Big Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom Edition

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Mu Mu Music Video of the Day



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