Friday, August 16
Daily News Stuff 16 August 2024
Ouch Edition
Ouch Edition
Top Story
- What's next for KOSA, the Kids' Online Safety Act, that passed the Senate with overwhelming bipartisan support over the objections of critics pointing out the obvious and catastrophic second-order effects that would simply lead to banning minors from the internet entirely? (The Verge)
Yeah. Dunno. It's a podcast, and there's no transcription, or even a summary.
I didn't even realise it was a podcast at first because there's eight paragraphs of useless blather in the form of a story, and the linked audio starts out talking about something else entirely.
Update: And the podcast is unbelievably obnoxious.
Tech News
- Stop fucking monkeys. (Ars Technica)
That is all.
- Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt gave a speech telling tech startups to just steal stuff. (The Verge)
Literally.So, in the example that I gave of the TikTok competitor - and by the way, I was not arguing that you should illegally steal everybody's music
That by the way was precisely what he did argue.- what you would do if you're a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, which hopefully all of you will be, is if it took off, then you'd hire a whole bunch of lawyers to go clean the mess up, right? But if nobody uses your product, it doesn’t matter that you stole all the content.
Got it.
And do not quote me.
- Getting HDMI video working on the Pi Pico 2. (GitHub)
No surprise that this works just like the Pi Pico.
- Getting HDMI video working on the Apple II. (Liliputing)
Pretty neat, though you have to be pretty devoted to the Apple II to be adding a $200 video card to it.
- The final review of the Ryzen 9950X and 9900X, I promise. (Phoronix)
This time it's testing technical applications on Linux, and shows these chips in a much more favourable light.
The sixteen core 9950X is the fastest processor overall, and the twelve core 9900X lands between Intel's 24 core 13900X and 14900X.
In some types of benchmark the AMD chips utterly dominate. In machine learning workloads, the 24 core Intel chips fall just behind AMD's previous generation six core chips.
If you do any of this stuff, worth a look.
Disclaimer: Ow ow ow ow ow.
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Re: monkeypox, the article claims there's a new variant that can spread through less...intimate...means. I remember when they said that about AIDS.
Posted by: Rick C at Friday, August 16 2024 10:34 PM (MItL9)
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If people are sharing recreational drugs with monkeys, and IV needles, they are out of their damned minds.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Saturday, August 17 2024 12:10 AM (rcPLc)
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Avian Monkey Flux - coming soon to an election near you.
Posted by: Joe Redfield at Saturday, August 17 2024 03:35 AM (KOtXO)
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