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Sunday, November 17

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Daily News Stuff 17 November 2024

I Am Chaos The End Of Ends Edition

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  • A million people have left Twitter for competitor Bluesky since the election.

    A million of the most annoying people on Twitter.

    Bluesky is getting what it deserves.  (Twitter)

    The tech is fine, but the people running Bluesky are the same ones Elon Musk fired from the Trust and Safety team the day he took charge.  They are all-in on censorship, and so are the people now flocking to the platform.

    And since there are no conservatives to fight, they are fighting each other.

    Content reports have soared by 4000% as they lash out at everyone and everything, and in a truly beautiful turnaround, the most committed lefties are getting permanently banned for claiming the election was stolen.

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Disclaimer: Well, that didn't happen.

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Saturday, November 16

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Daily News Stuff 16 November 2024

Oops All Bombs Edition

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Disclaimer: Buckwheat flour works great for making gluten-free fried chicken.  Just so you know.  Much better than general-purpose gluten-free flour.

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Friday, November 15

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Daily News Stuff 15 November 2024

Trash Fire Trebuchet Edition

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  • The EU has fined Facebook 800 million euros for making the Facebook Marketplace part of Facebook.  (Ars Technica)

    Even Ars Technica knows this shit is coming to an end:
    In the past five years, EU regulators have also passed a landmark piece of legislation—the Digital Markets Act—with the aim to slow down dominant tech players and boost the local tech industry.
    There is no local tech industry.
    However, some observers expect the new commission, which is set to start a new 5-year term in weeks, to strike a more conciliatory tone over fears of retaliation from the incoming Trump administration.
    There are going to be so many tariffs.  Beautiful tarriffs.  You've never seen tariffs like them.


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Holocure 0.7 Trailer Video of the Day



Holocure 0.7 is out today.

This is a Hololive-related game as the name would suggest, but unofficial, fan-made, and completely free.  (Hololive is perfectly happy with that although technically they own the IP.)

And it's good.

It's basically a Vampire Survivors clone where you battle swarms of annoying fans as one of - hang on - 47 playable characters, all with unique weapons and skills, and a crazy number of upgrades that switch around randomly between games.

It's also starting to be a Stardew Valley clone with home-building, farming, fishing, and mining (and slave labour), and apparently now a Jump King clone, and has a casino where you can bribe the dealer, and I don't know what else.

Small problem for the team working on the game is that Hololive is adding new talents faster than they can be added to the game.  There are two EN generations and four JP generations, with the latest group appearing only a week ago.


Disclaimer: Flow Glow or not Flow Glow...

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Thursday, November 14

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Daily News Stuff 14 November 2024

Plushable Stackie Edition

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Disclaimer: I came here to ship plushies and chew bubblegum, and the plushies are delayed by 18 months...

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Wednesday, November 13

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Daily News Stuff 13 November 2024

Weapons Of Mass Distraction Edition

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Disclaimer: Turns out that bees are not legumes.  Who knew?

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Tuesday, November 12

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Daily News Stuff 12 November 2024

Potato Edition

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Disclaimer: I'm not saying it was aliens....

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Monday, November 11

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Daily News Stuff 11 November 2024

State Of The Thing Edition

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  • Generative AI doesn't have a coherent understanding of the world. (MIT)

    No fucking shit. Thanks to the big brains at MIT for bringing us this world-shattering news.
    The researchers found that a popular type of generative AI model can provide turn-by-turn driving directions in New York City with near-perfect accuracy — without having formed an accurate internal map of the city.
    Despite the model's uncanny ability to navigate effectively, when the researchers closed some streets and added detours, its performance plummeted.
    When they dug deeper, the researchers found that the New York maps the model implicitly generated had many nonexistent streets curving between the grid and connecting far away intersections.
    It's a stochastic parrot. We know.
    This could have serious implications for generative AI models deployed in the real world, since a model that seems to be performing well in one context might break down if the task or environment slightly changes.
    Again, anyone who has used AI for more than a couple of minutes is fully aware of this.
    "We needed test beds where we know what the world model is. Now, we can rigorously think about what it means to recover that world model," Vafa explains.
    It doesn't have one.
    The researchers demonstrated the implications of this by adding detours to the map of New York City, which caused all the navigation models to fail.
    Yep.

    Years ago, engineers tried using genetic algorithms to optimise a particular electronic circuit to use fewer transistors. They got a result that worked, but nobody could explain how.

    Turned out it worked by the coincidental passive properties of the circuit, and not due to the transistors. The moment you made the slightest change to the operating conditions, it failed entirely.


Disclaimer: Unless I have to work late. If I have to work late, which I usually do...

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Sunday, November 10

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Daily News Stuff 10 November 2024

Oops All Scorpions Edition

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  • Beata Halassy had breast cancer - for the third time, despite chemotherapy and a mastectomy.

    She had cancer.

    She gave it measles and it died.  (Nature)

    Beata is a virologist so she prepared her own virus culture - a mild strain intended for vaccine production - and had a colleague administer it.  She has now been cancer-free for four years.

    Naturally she wanted to publish the results of her research - on herself.  That's where the real problems started, because scientific journals didn't want to touch it.

    On the upside - apart from the whole thing about being alive - she now has funding to repeat this research to try to cure cancer in pets.


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Disclaimer: You thought he was buying a social network in terminal decline.  He bought a solar system.

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Saturday, November 09

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Daily News Stuff 9 November 2024

Snake Edition

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Tostada Video of the Day



What Does the Election Mean for Twitch Streamers Video of the Day



Asmongold is no dummy.  He doesn't always agree with Trump, but he recognises a gravy train when it presents itself.



Disclaimer: Ours is not to do or die, ours is but the pecan pie.

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Friday, November 08

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Daily News Stuff 8 November 2024

Pork Bun Edition

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  • We've already seen AMD's latest chip, the Ryzen 9800X3D, demolish the competition (including other AMD chips) for playing games.  But how does it perform for the kind of work I do, like running databases, compiling code, processing mathematical models?  (Phoronix)
    For the geo mean of the more than 300 benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D surpassed the Core i9 14900K and landed just behind the prior gen Ryzen 9 7950X and Ryzen 9 7950X3D processors. Compared to the Ryzen 7 7800X3D, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D delivered 1.34x the performance.
    This is an 8 core CPU competing against Intel chips with 24 cores.  Yes, the huge Phoronix benchmark suite compares both single-threaded and multi-threaded workloads, but then I run a mix of single-threaded and multi-threaded tasks in my daily work.

    Its performance here is nothing short of amazing.  35% faster than the preceding generation is huge.  I want one.


  • And it's sold out.  (Tom's Hardware)

    Seems there was some pent-up demand out there; supplies are selling out as soon as they arrive in stores.


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Disclaimer: Beware of the derg.

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