Is this how time normally passes? Really slowly, in the right order?

Saturday, May 06

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Daily News Stuff 6 May 2023

Irrelevant And Fucked Edition

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Disclaimer: And not in the good way, where at least there's twenty bucks on the nightstand afterwards.

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Friday, May 05

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Daily News Stuff 5 May 2023

Both Is Good Edition

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  • OpenAI is both irrrelevant and fucked.  (SemiAnalysis)

    This is allegedly a leaked document from Google, but whether that's true or not the analysis is accurate.  It explains in detail how OpenAI went in a matter of weeks from a tech darling - a purveyor of complete crap, yes, but that doesn't matter to the investors - to utterly irrelevant.

    Free software that you can not only run, but train, on consumer-level hardware is now nearly as capable as ChatGPT and free of the biases OpenAI cripples its own software with.

    This is exactly what befell OpenAI's Dall-E image generation AI.  In two years it went from being the market leader to not even being thought about, mostly because of OpenAI's mishandling.

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Disclaimer: An integer overflow walks into a bar...

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Thursday, May 04

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Daily News Stuff 4 May 2023

Always Two There Are Edition

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Disclaimer: Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

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Wednesday, May 03

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Daily News Stuff 3 May 2023

His Excellency Regrets Edition

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  • AMD's consumer chip sales are down even more than Intel's - by a massive 65%. (Tom's Hardware)

    Unlike Intel, though, AMD's other divisions - servers, gaming, and embedded - saw pretty solid performance, with gaming down slightly and embedded up by 163% thanks mostly to the Xilinx acquisition.

    They still lost money for the quarter, but $140 million compared to Intel's $2.8 billion in red ink.

    Strongest economy ever.

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Tuesday, May 02

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Daily News Stuff 2 May 2023

From Out Of The Silent Woodwork Edition

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Disclaimer: (A)bort, (R)etry, (D)isclaim?

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Monday, May 01

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Daily News Stuff 1 May 2023

Idiots Among Us Edition

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  • We interviewed the quote engineer unquote Google fired for saying its AI had come to life.  (Futurism)

    Blake Lemoine, the "engineer" in question, was fired for violating NDA.

    Being a gibbering imbecile is just icing on the cake.


  • OpenAI CTO Mira Murati on shepherding her own gibbering imbecile.  (Security Week)

    I think the people who really stand to lose their jobs here are the ones who write about AI, who could all be replace by a TRS-80 Model 1 Level 1.
    We’re far from the point of having a safe, reliable, aligned AGI system. Our path to getting there has a couple of important vectors. From a research standpoint, we’re trying to build systems that have a robust understanding of the world similarly to how we do as humans. Systems like GPT-3 initially were trained only on text data, but our world is not only made of text, so we have images as well and then we started introducing other modalities. The other angle has been scaling these systems to increase their generality. With GPT-4, we’re dealing with a much more capable system, specifically from the angle of reasoning about things. This capability is key. If the model is smart enough to understand an ambiguous direction or a high-level direction, then you can figure out how to make it follow this direction. But if it doesn’t even understand that high-level goal or high-level direction, it’s much harder to align it. It’s not enough to build this technology in a vacuum in a lab. We really need this contact with reality, with the real world, to see where are the weaknesses, where are the breakage points, and try to do so in a way that’s controlled and low risk and get as much feedback as possible.
    The vapidity is astonishing.


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  • A quick look inside the Asus Flashstor 6.  (Serve the Home)

    You can install the drives without even a screwdriver, and it looks like the CPU is just fast enough to handle 10Gb Ethernet rates from a RAID-5 array.  This model doesn't have 10GbE so it maxes out at about 50% CPU load.


  • A quick look at the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 (2023).  (Notebook Check)

    The is a great laptop except of course it lacks the Four Essential Keys.  I was looking at the model with 4060 graphics before settling for a much cheaper HP that had those keys.  The version reviewed here, though, has an RTX 4090 which some might consider overkill for a 14" laptop.


  • Maybe you should store passwords in plaintext.  (Qword)

    I mean, no, you shouldn't, and if anyone seriously suggests that you should set them on fire, but what this article is actually discussing is the nature of incentives for technology workers, and why all large organisations suck.


Disclaimer: ENODISCLAIMER /dev/disclaimer could not be opened for reading.

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Sunday, April 30

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Daily News Stuff 30 April 2023

Road To Nowhere Edition

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  • Microsoft has been quietly - very quietly - supporting right-to-repair legislation.  (Grist)

    Apple is the Wicked Witch here.  Microsoft has actually made small improvements, like user-replaceable storage in many of its Surface tablets.  Apple meanwhile is at war with its own authorised repair centers, requiring them to sign NDAs forbidding them from even mentioning the existence of the NDA.


  • AMD's Radeon 7800 graphics cards will have 16GB of RAM.  (WCCFTech)

    There's been a lot of fuss recently over the fact that 8GB of VRAM - as found on the previous generation's 3070 Ti - is no longer enough to run some new games at full resolution.  Performance isn't just a little bit slower; in some cases the 3070 Ti is slower than the much cheaper 3060 because that card has 12GB of VRAM.

    So AMD is making a fuss about its high-mid-range cards having 16GB, as much VRAM as Nvidia's 4080 at half the price.

    The Radeon 7700 will have 12GB of VRAM like the 6700 - the article doesn't mention this but knowing AMD's RDNA3 cache design, 48MB of cache means 12GB of VRAM.  12GB is probably fine for a low-mid-range card like this.



Disclaimer: Ow.  Thumped in the basket by a biscuit.

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Saturday, April 29

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Daily News Stuff 29 April 2023

Almost Exactly Except Not Edition

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  • The AOKZOE A1 Pro has AMD's latest Ryzen 7840U and up to 64GB of RAM and 2TB of SSD.  (Liliputing)

    That should make it close to twice as fast on the CPU side as my new laptop and more than twice as fast on the GPU side.  Memory isn't upgradeable but since the entry model has 32GB and 64GB is available as an option, that's not a problem.

    Confusingly, it also has a 1920x1200 8" screen covering 100% of sRGB and the other four essential keys - the A, B, X, and Y buttons from an Xbox controller.

    Because it's a handheld gaming device and not a tablet or a laptop.  It's like they've been reading all my complaints and did their best to produce the perfect device but spilled coffee on the plans at some point.

    The Asus ROG Ally has similar specs but is limited to 16GB of RAM and uses a smaller 7" 1920x1080 display.  It also nominally uses the AMD Z1 Extreme CPU, but that's just a rebranded 7840U.

    Same thing for the Aya Neo Air Plus, Neo 2S, Neo Geek 1S, and the forthcoming Neo Slide.

    The Neo Slide being a little different because it actually has a keyboard.  Would have been a very useful thing to have when I travelled more - full laptop power that fits in a coat pocket.

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Friday, April 28

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Daily News Stuff 28 April 2023

Number Five Is Alive Edition

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  • The Asus Flashtor (not FlashStor as I had it previously) is in stock right now on Amazon's US and AU sites.  I couldn't find it before because I was spelling it wrong.*

    Curiously enough the Australian pricing is almost exactly at MSRP when you account for exchange rates and sales tax, while the US price is 8% higher.  Usually it's very much the other way around - Gigabyte's laptops for example cost 30% more in Australia.

    I want one, but I won't be able to afford to fill it with SSDs until maybe September.  I think it supports volume capacity upgrades, though, so I can start with one SSD and then add a couple more at a time.  (One reason to go for Btrfs over ZFS.)

    * Wait, no.  I had it right.  The listings on Amazon are wrong - and it's being sold directly by Asus.



  • Intel is not having a good day.  (Tom's Hardware)

    Sales for Q1 of 2023 were down 36% over 2022 and profits were down 133%, which is, well, bad; the company lost $2.8 billion.  Mind you, that's 30% less than Facebook's Metaverse project lost in the same period.

    Server chips usually save Intel when consumer sales are weak, but not this time: Consumer products were down 38%, while datacenter products were down 39%.  Mobileye was the only bright spot with sales up 16%

    I have no idea what Mobileye is.

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  • Need to connect more monitors but only have a low-profile PCIe slot free like maybe you have a Hyte Y60 with a main graphics card or a SilverStone CS01-HS case?  And you're allergic to fan noise?

    Matrox - yes, they're still around - has you covered.  (WCCFTech)

    These are low-end Intel Arc A310 and A380 cards, so don't plan on playing anything more taxing than Minecraft.  The A310 is equivalent to Intel's Xe integrated graphics with the full 96 cores, while the A380 is one step up from that with 128 cores.

    Since the cards have dedicated VRAM they'll likely perform a bit above expectations.  And one of the A310 cards is a 30W passively cooled model.

    All will run four 4K or two 8K monitors over DisplayPort.

    Price is not mentioned anywhere which means it will be way more expensive than you think.


  • Colorado has signed into law a right-to-repair bill for farm equipment.  (Ars Technica)

    Louis Rossman has been covering this for years on YouTube.  A right-to-repair bill passed in the New York legislature but was killed by Governor Kathy Hochul, so I think this is the first major piece of such legislation to become law.


  • Twitter competitor Bluesky is dead.  (Tech Crunch)

    It's still wriggling around but these people are fucking morons, even dumber than the ones running Twitter before Elon Musk fired them all.

    Nearly as dumb as the utter retards of the tech media reporting on them.  (The Verge)

    I'm all for competitors to Twitter but these people don't have a single functional brain cell shared among the lot of them.


  • Clubhouse, a kind of spoken-word Twitter that was briefly pseudo-popular during the Wuhan Bat Flu Death Plague, has fired half its employees.  (Tech Crunch)

    The total number of which reportedly never exceeded 100, so it's possible they didn't burn through all their capital and are about to die.  Just slowly fade back into obscurity.


Disclaimer: Mute them all.  God will know his own.

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Thursday, April 27

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Daily News Stuff 27 April 2023

The Thirteenth Hour Edition

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Disclaimer: Quittin' time!

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