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Sunday, November 03

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Daily News Stuff 3 November 2024

Peanut Iesu Domine Dona Eis Requiem Edition

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  • AMD just made choosing a CPU much easier.  Or much harder, depending on your perspective.  (Tom's Hardware)

    The 9000 series CPUs were - at their launch two months ago - overpriced for their performance relative to the existing 7000 series.  They are actually great on some server-oriented tasks, but the improvement since the last generation for desktop tasks and gaming is relatively small.

    AMD has adjusted the pricing to match.  the 9900X is 6% faster than the 7900X on PassMark, for example, and now costs 8% more.

    For me, good enough.  That will be my next CPU.

    If you're more interested in games or have a specific workload that loves large caches, the 9800X3D is due out this week and should also deliver great performance.


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Saturday, November 02

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Daily News Stuff 2 November 2024

Urinating Dog Edition

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Disclaimer: Chimkin.

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Friday, November 01

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Daily News Stuff 1 November 2024

Expecting Someone Taller Edition

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  • Microsoft will be offering a one year $30 support plan for users who are reluctant to move from Windows 10.  (PC World)

    Microsoft has its own page on this, but it is almost entirely trying desperately to persuade users to just switch to Windows 11; it's hard to even spot the support plan.

    And unlike the business version of extended support, this will last for a single year, after which you will be cut off and left to install Linux.

    On the upside:
    Microsoft will also continue to provide Security Intelligence Updates for Microsoft Defender Antivirus through at least October 2028.
    Which is really all I want.  Just leave me alone, stop screwing things up, and keep blocking viruses.

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Disclaimer: New blog who dis?

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Thursday, October 31

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Daily News Stuff 31 October 2024

Precious Edition

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Disclaimer: Imagine if you will the new speakeasy, a place where AI is forbidden and everything you hear is the drunken ramblings of a genuine idiot.

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Wednesday, October 30

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Daily News Stuff 30 October 2024

Vast And Hideous Edition

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Gotta Catch 'Em All





Disclaimer: Or at least half vast.

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Tuesday, October 29

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Daily News Stuff 29 October 2024

Inordinate Fondnesses Edition

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Disclaimer: Life is hard.  It's even harder if you sign your name on the ransom demand.

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Monday, October 28

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Daily News Stuff 28 October 2024

Silence Shall Fall Edition

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  • Nature abhors a vacuum, and OpenAI's Whisper abhors a momentary silence.  (The Verge)

    If it encounters such a thing, it will happily fill the void with something it just made up, often creating strange or offensive sentences out of nothing at all.

    Which wouldn't be a huge problem since we've come to expect that of chatbots.

    Except that Whisper is used for medical transcriptions.

    Lawyers everywhere are salivating like dogs hearing the dinner bell.


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Disclaimer: Thingy.

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Sunday, October 27

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Daily News Stuff 27 October 2024

Training Edition

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  • Are Boeing's problems beyond fixable?  (Financial Times / Ars Technica)

    Probably not.

    They do need to ditch their space division, though.  Find a buyer or just shut it down.  Unless the government starts handing out cost plus contracts like candy again, it's a money pit for them.


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Disclaimer: Reminder - Orion is an anagram of "OpenAI is bleeding cash".

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Saturday, October 26

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Daily Tech News 26 October 2024

Doobut Edition

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  • Siri now has an integration with ChatGPT.  (The Verge)

    Asked a simple question, it can return answers for things you didn't ask, just vague enough to be completely useless when they are not entirely wrong in the first place.


  • Delta Air Lines has filed its long-awaited suit against Crowdstrike.  (Reuters)  (archive site)

    Delta wants damages of $500 million to cover its direct costs over CrowdStrike's colossal screwup, plus additional unspecified amounts for lost profits, reputational damage, and lawyers' fees.

    CrowdStrike says this is Delta's own fault for being stupid enough to use CrowdStrike.


  • This page does not exist.  (Wikipedia)  (archive site)

    The judge in a defamation case in India has ordered Wikipedia to take down the page about the case - globally.

    Be a shame if this got Streisanded into the stratosphere.


  • Cheaper Zen 5 laptops are on their way.  (Tom's Hardware)

    The current Zen 5 laptop chips are Strix Point, with twelve cores (four Zen 5 and eight Zen 5c).  The new Krackan Point chips trim that down to eight cores (four of each) and likely also trims down the GPU side to eight cores.

    Still waiting in the wings is Strix Point Halo, with sixteen Zen 5 cores and forty graphics cores.


Voices from the Distant Past Video of the Today


I was wondering how long she's been doing this, and that she started at 17 makes sense of things.

Dooby had about 50,000 people show up for her debut across Twitch and YouTube.


Voices from the Distant Past Video of the Tomorrow


If you know who this is, you won't want to miss it, even though she'll just be playing a game and chatting.



Same goes for this one.

It's a heck of a weekend for fans of...  A certain Japanese entertainment company.


And Rica is having her Live2d debut on the 31st, so it's a heck of a week too.



Disclaimer: Do not the Korsche.

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Friday, October 25

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Daily News Stuff 25 October 2024

Eurobleat Edition

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  • Intel's Arrow Lake desktop CPUs - effectively the 15th generation Core chips though they don't call them that - are finally here.  Are they good?  Should you buy one?  No.  (Tom's Hardware)

    They do post very good results in a couple of AI benchmarks, and generally solid results in multi-threaded productivity tasks, but on games they average 5% slower than the previous (and cheaper) generation, and are even further behind AMD's previous generation gaming-oriented chips like the 7800X3D.

    In fact, for games they are often behind the two-generation-old 5800X3D, sometimes behind the budget-oriented 5700X3D, running roughly even with Intel's three-generation-old 12600K.  But costing four times as much.

    And while these new chips do use significantly less power than the 14900K blast furnace, they still use significantly more power than AMD's offerings.

    Intel managed to one-up AMD's Zen 5, which has been nicknamed Zen 5% for its mediocre performance gains on consumer applications, but actually going backwards.

    To complicate matters further, new BIOS features to improve performance that should be on by default, aren't, and when they are turned on manually they sometimes make things worse.

    The same goes for Windows, with the latest 24H2 update causing some games to run noticeably slower on Arrow Lake, when the same release improves performance on AMD's Zen 4 and Zen 5 chips.

    It's a mess.


  • And AMD's 9800X3D is due out in two weeks.  (WCCFTech)

    That looks like the way to go for people who play a lot of recent computer games...  Whoever they are, given how poorly received recent titles have been.

    If you just need something that works for everyday tasks, something like the 8700G or even the previous generation's 5600GT should do the job nicely.

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You Had One Job Videos of the Day


That bad, huh.  You don't even have to watch these, just look at their expressions.


You Have One Job Video of the Day



She's back!  I mean, not back, I've never seen this strange-looking rat before.



Disclaimer: I was writing a paper on my PC, and it went bleep-bleep-bleep-bleep...

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