Tuesday, August 06
Daily News Stuff 6 August 2024
Emmanuel Goldthiel Edition
Emmanuel Goldthiel Edition
Top Story
- How dare That Devil Trump and his Ventriloquist Puppet Vance suggest that the government take action against Google? (The Verge)
They are clearly fascist racists and their racist fascism is illegal under the First Amendment and they and everyone they know and all their families should be imprisoned without trial immediately and forever. Also, Peter Thiel!!!1!
- A federal judge has ruled that Google is maintaining an illegal monopoly in the search and advertising markets. (The Verge)
Amit Mehta of the District Court for DC, an Obama appointee, ruled in favour of the Biden Administration's antitrust lawsuit against Google, saying that the company had violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act.
This is clearly the work of That Devil Trump. His perfidy knows no bounds.
Tech News
- Andy Warhol's lost Amiga art has been found. (The Silicon Underground)
A former Commodore engineer - the same person who trained Warhol on how to use a computer - came forward and said he had had copies of the art on display in his home for the past forty years. He just didn't realise that nobody else had a copy.
- The most expensive bug ever. (Quora)
Now sadly the second most expensive bug ever.
- Silicon Valley parents are sending kindergarten age children to AI-focused summer camps. (San Francisco Standard)
This is actually a lot less worse than the headline would suggest. The younger kids are playing with Lego robots, and the older ones working with image recognition systems.
Nothing to do with generative AI.
- Video game actors are on strike over AI. (The Verge)
Okay.
- Is the Asus ROG Ally X any good? Yes. (Hot Hardware)
This is a hand-held gaming PC similar to the Steam Deck - or the Nintendo Switch or PlayStation Vita - only more powerful and more expensive than it's competitors.
If that's what you want, it fills the role pretty well.
A Little Close to Home
Mayonaka Punch is an anime about a vtuber kicked out of her little group over creative differences who hooks up with a vampire (they use the term banpai in the Crunchy sub).
Clicked over to Twitter in the intermission and saw that Hololive's Minato Aqua will be graduating at the end of the month. Which reminded me of Yozora Mel, who was terminated in January, whose nickname was banpire because she was a vampire who kept getting banned by YouTube.
Clicked over to Twitter in the intermission and saw that Hololive's Minato Aqua will be graduating at the end of the month. Which reminded me of Yozora Mel, who was terminated in January, whose nickname was banpire because she was a vampire who kept getting banned by YouTube.
Which made me sad.
As for the show, it's not terrible so far.
Update: They're not going to do what I think they... They did. Well, respect, but ouch.
As for the show, it's not terrible so far.
Update: They're not going to do what I think they... They did. Well, respect, but ouch.
Disclaimer: Peter Thiel!!!1!
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With Biden and Harris obviously incapacitated, there are a lot of little hints that people long disenchanted are taking a chance to get a knife in on the left. Right now, after events, I'm feeling a bit crazy, like many explanations might be admissible. These cases have a long lead time, and the judge and the DoJ are almost certainly left partisan actors, but I am tempted to suspect that they are actually doing a good thing for good reasons.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Tuesday, August 06 2024 11:51 PM (rcPLc)
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The techs at the money-losing traders must've been watching too many heist movies if they tried destroying servers with fire axes instead of just ripping out the network and/or power cords.
Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, August 07 2024 12:11 AM (MItL9)
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I suspect that part of the story may have been embellished just a tad.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, August 07 2024 12:22 AM (PiXy!)
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