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Daily News Stuff 22 January 2025

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  • The founder of IMDB is stepping down from the role of CEO after 35 years.  (Tech Crunch)

    If you do the math, then yes, that means IMDB is older than the web.  It started on Usenet on the rec.arts.movies newsgroup during the late Cretaceous.


  • Decentralised social media is the only alternative to the tech oligarchy.  (404 Media)

    This is not untrue so far as it goes.  There are just a couple of problems with the statement:

    First, this complaint arises out of a lack of censorship.

    Second, we already have this.  It's called Usenet.  It still exists.

    Third, almost all the direct accusations leveled against individuals made by the author are lies and potentially actionable.

    Fourth, the decentralised platforms built recently like Mastodon and Bluesky are oppressive shitholes run by people who are sad that they were born too late to serve as Stasi informants.

    Fifth, the author himself is an unreformed Stalinist loon who despises everything that is right and good in the world:
    A legion of the worst people on Earth have spent years building admittedly resilient alternative social media sites after being deplatformed from or rage quitting sites like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. Places like Rumble, Gab, Truth Social, Odysee, and Patriots.Win are full of the worst America has to offer, but people on these websites have been successful in seeding (often false, often hateful) narratives that filter up the power chain and often end up getting repeated by Donald Trump or on more widely viewed right wing media like Fox News
    So it's a choice of light censorship by a coterie of partially reformed billionaires or totalitarian oppression by the left.


  • Nvidia's 5000 series GPUs are out of stock.  (WCCFTech)

    They haven't launched yet - that doesn't happen until the 30th - but they're out of stock.


  • AMD's 9900X3D and 9950X3D run games at about the same speed as the 9800X3D.  (Tom's Hardware)

    Which should come as no surprise, because they are just versions of the 9800X3D with more than eight cores, and very few games use more than eight cores.  (Because both the Xbox and PlayStation have eight cores.)


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1 that 404 media thing, when selecting hypotheses to explain, chose a conspiracy theory involving word patterns over supposing that people were choosing to trust their own lying eyes over a word pattern conspiracy

if everything is merely narratives, and consensus, then it is possible to just talk our way into an organic free range NSDAP utopia future, that is totally not basically a communist hellhole, because words have no meaning, and because there is no connection between ideas, or nor place where logical proofs can apply

we actually live in a world where things exist, which are not controlled or influenced by any pattern of words

uncoerced transactions are themselves valuable, and also convey important information

prices are important

machines operate in a real world, where they function or do not, and we cannot simply talk them into working

big narrative word pattern would be conspirators are salty that other people have 'other ways of knowing', and are considering things without caring about the narrative

Posted by: PatBuckman at Thursday, January 23 2025 04:43 AM (rcPLc)

2 Ah, UseNet.  I remembered it well, and quite enjoyed it.  Then my newsgroup server I was using shut down and I could not access it anymore.

On the one hand, I wished I could use it.  On the other hand, the last time I inquired about UseNet, I was told the place was overrun with scam and spam postings.

Posted by: cxt217 at Thursday, January 23 2025 07:06 AM (ZLF73)

3 cxt217, it's true.  Every alt group, the last time i checked, probably 10 years ago, was utterly overwhelmed with spam.

Posted by: Rick C at Thursday, January 23 2025 11:15 AM (NEIix)

4 Do Australians say Zee Pee Em, or Zed Pee Em?

Posted by: Rick C at Thursday, January 23 2025 11:16 AM (NEIix)

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