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Tuesday, November 05

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Daily News Stuff 5 November 2024

Torment Nexus 2.0 Edition

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Showa American Story Video of the Day

Warning: This video depicts zombies - maybe people too, but definitely zombies - being killed in extremely gruesome ways.



It's basically a Chinese game developer's take on what America might look like if Japan had bought Texas at some time in the 1980s and then everyone got eaten by zombies.

While the recent title from Bioware, Dragon Age: The Veilguard is basically a 50-hour DEI lecture from a blue-haired HR staffer with a sociology degree, this game is insane in a good way.



Disclaimer: Guys, you're getting out-competed for creativity by literal communists.

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Monday, November 04

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Daily News Stuff 4 November 2024

Multiply And Conquer Edition

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  • The Verge is having a complete meltdown.  I hope to see this continue.


  • OpenAI has hired the CEO of Twitter challenger Pebble.  (Tech Crunch)

    Former Twitter challenger Pebble.

    Never heard of Pebble?

    Nobody else has either.


  • We have solved the problem of every device having its own unique charger.  Now it's all USB-C.  Some idiots still aren't happy.  (MSN)

    Don't bother reading the article; the author is an idiot, as I said.


  • The PlayStation 5 Pro has an extra 2GB of DDR5 RAM on top of the 16GB of GDDR6 memory it shares with the regular PS5.  (Tom's Hardware)

    Which seems to be a lot of trouble to go to for such a minor improvement.


  • SK Hynix has shown off 16-high HBM3E memory.  (WCCFTech)

    The memory chips are stacked up so you get 48GB in the space of a single chip, with more than 800GB per second of bandwidth.

    That used to be a lot.


  • V'Ger phone home.  (Mashable)

    NASA lost contact with Voyager 1 - again - and regained it just a few days later - again.

    Which is pretty impressive given that it takes about a day for a signal to reach the probe and for us to get a response back, even when the 47 year old spacecraft feels chatty.

    Voyager 1 has apparently turned off its main (X-band) transmitter, but was still willing to talk on its backup (S-band) radio.  NASA is working on persuading it to turn on the main transmitter again.


Disclaimer: Maybe you could give it a weekend off?  It's logged more than six billion miles on the job, might be nice to put the feet up and relax for a bit.

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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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Disclaimer: Do you guys have bombs?

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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.

Tech News

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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