Monday, November 03
Daily News Stuff 3 November 2025
1400 Edition
1400 Edition
Top Story
- Is OpenAI becoming too big to fail? (MSN)
It sure is. Just like Lehman Brothers. And Worldcom. And Enron.
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman explained how the company is planning to pay for $1 trillion worth of hardware and services deals with an annual revenue of $13 billion. (Tech Crunch)
"We are taking a forward bet that it will continue to grow, and that not only will ChatGPT keep growing, but we will be able to become one of the important AI clouds, that our consumer device business will be a significant and important thing, that AI that can automate science will create huge value," he added.
Well, I know I feel comforted.
Tech News
- The best things to watch over and over and over. (The Verge) (archive site)
I recall my nephew could watch My Neighbour Totoro on loop and never tire of it, but in his defense he was three years old at the time.
Which tells you a lot about the mental ages of tech journalists.
- Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 is here, the sequel to their 2019 game The Outer Worlds which I was looking forward to at the time before they signed an exclusivity agreement with Epic Games for a ton of money and by the time it was available on my preferred stores I had lost all time and interest and even though I own it now I have never gotten around to playing it where was I oh - don't even think of playing it with ray tracing enabled. (Tom's Hardware)
It runs... Adequately... With ray tracing off.
With ray tracing on it can't hit 60 fps (average, never mind the 1% lows which are abysmal) on an RTX 5090 at 1080p even using "performance" upscaling - so it's only actually rendering at 540p.
- Meanwhile the Anbernic RG DS is here and under $100. Along with specs which we didn't have until today. (Liliputing)
This is a dual-screen handheld gaming thingy that looks uncannily like the Nintendo DS only better.
The two 4" screens are "only" 640x480, but then the original DS had 3" screens with a 256x192 resolution. The CPU is "only" a quad core Arm A55 running at 2GHz, but the original had a single Arm9 core running at 67MHz. Oh, and 3GB of RAM compared to the original's 4MB.
Also, the DS sold for $150 in 2004.
It looks pretty cool but back when I was playing Final Fantasy III on my DS I did not yet need reading glasses. On the other hand, I now have reading glasses so maybe that's not such an issue.
Musical Interlude
Disclaimer: Only because Kevin Caldwell's EVA AMV is blocked.
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You would think that Obsidian being bought and owned by Microsoft would mean they now have the talent and resources to do the work of making their games run well out of the box (They, like Bethesda, have always launched their games extremely buggy, and required countless patches and upgrades before any of their titles run well.). Of course, since Microsoft has decided to start following Activision-Blizzard's management philosophy of running game development, we probably should not be surprised by it.
BTW, is Waterfox still a good choice for a browser?
BTW, is Waterfox still a good choice for a browser?
Posted by: cxt217 at Tuesday, November 04 2025 02:05 AM (ZLF73)
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I read that one potential drawback to that Anbernic console is that the display is not an integral multiple of the original DS screens, which means you may see stretching artifacts (the article didn't mention this but I guess black bars are a possibility too).
Posted by: Rick C at Tuesday, November 04 2025 07:39 AM (IYwKy)
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Browsers? Yeah, firefox just told me they're ending support for Windows 10.
Posted by: Mauser at Tuesday, November 04 2025 10:36 AM (XWgGM)
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"Browsers? Yeah, firefox just told me they're ending support for Windows 10."
To be fair, Microsoft already did that, too.
To be fair, Microsoft already did that, too.
Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, November 05 2025 07:53 AM (UdJ+b)
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Notes on browsers: 1. Pale Moon works, but features and whether the main dude will continue might eventually have uncertainty. 2. Vivaldi is fairly mainstream, and supports features, but I haven't checked OS EoL. 3. LibreWolf I'm basically using with JS always off, and the Dark Reader and uBlock add ons. Waterfox, Seamonkey, etc., I do not have recent opinions on. (Edge has some positives, but currently I am salty at Microsoft, and somewhat at Edge.)
Posted by: PatBuckman at Wednesday, November 05 2025 08:04 AM (rcPLc)
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I asked about Waterfox because in a post from a LONG time ago (I want to say circa 2021.), Pixy had mentioned Waterfox with Vivaldi and Brave for browsers, as well as Edge for business case. After experiencing Edge, Vivaldi, and Brave, I was wondering how Waterfox is right now - especially since I am trying to avoid the latest builds of Firefox.
Posted by: cxt217 at Wednesday, November 05 2025 11:12 AM (ZLF73)
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I don't think I have installed Waterfox more recently than then. It still updates, and the website looks sound enough. Currently lists the minimum as Windows 10, but it also runs on Mac and Linux, per the website.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Wednesday, November 05 2025 01:02 PM (rcPLc)
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Hmmm, I guess if Waterfox is not as insane as Firefox has turned out to be, it will be okay to use.
Posted by: cxt217 at Friday, November 07 2025 11:06 AM (ZLF73)
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