I'm in the future. Like hundreds of years in the future. I've been dead for centuries.
Oh, lovely, you're a cheery one aren't you?

Wednesday, August 13

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Daily News Stuff 13 Aufgust 2025

An Edition

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Disclaimer: Cough.

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Tuesday, August 12

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Daily News Stuff 12 August 2025

Needs More Fish Edition

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  • Wikipedia lost its challenge against the UK government's requirement that all the site's moderators must be registered with the government.  (BBC)

    This is required by the Online Safety Act which ostensibly was created to prevent children from seeing porn.  It's obviously complete bullshit because there is no porn on Wikipedia, and the moderators aren't children.

    Almost as if this was never about the porn.


  • LLMs aren't world models.  (Yosef K)
    A friend who plays better chess than me — and knows more math & CS than me - said that he played some moves against a newly released LLM, and it must be at least as good as him. I said, no way, I’m going to cRRRush it, in my best Russian accent. I make a few moves – but unlike him, I don't make good moves, which would be opening book moves it has seen a million times; I make weak moves, which it hasn't. The thing makes decent moves in response, with cheerful commentary about how we're attacking this and developing that — until about move 10, when it tries to move a knight which isn't there, and loses in a few more moves. This was a year or two ago; I’ve just tried this again, and it lost track of the board state by move 9.
    This aligns with recent posts of leading AI tools losing chess matches to an Atari 2600.

    The Atari doesn't know much, but it does encode the rules of chess.  The LLMs...  Don't.


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Monday, August 11

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Daily News Stuff 11 August 2025

Eternal February Edition

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Disclaimer: I dream of 9 to 5, to be honest.

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Sunday, August 10

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Daily News Stuff 10 August 2025

Cough Cough Wheeze Edition

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  • I have RSV - respiratory syncytial virus - and putting a name to it doesn't help at all to be perfectly honest.

    I bought a COVID test because I was starting to suspect this wasn't just a cold, and the particular test also tested influenza A and B - it didn't feel like the flu, but okay - and RSV, which hadn't crossed my mind at all.

    Good news: My lifetime 100% COVID-free rating remains untouched.

    Bad news: RSV is bloody annoying.

    The common symptoms in adults match mine precisely, so I haven't developed an idiosyncratic reaction.
    If present, symptoms are generally isolated to the upper respiratory tract: runny nose, sore throat, fever, and malaise.  In most cases, nasal congestion precedes the development of cough.  Unlike other upper respiratory infections, RSV is more likely to cause new onset wheeze in adults.
    Still annoying.


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Disclaimer: Five to nine is still worse though.

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Saturday, August 09

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Daily News Stuffn't 9 August 2025

Oops.

I've been sick recently, which hasn't been a problem for these posts because I couldn't sleep, which left me doing things like throwing out expired food items from the pantry at 3AM, or sorting my socks alphabetically.

I seem to be getting better.  (Posted because I slept through the usual time for my daily thread over at Ace's place.)

Update: It's RSV.  And one thing RSV is known for is that the symptoms are often worse at night, and also when lying down, which ties directly into my trouble sleeping.  I slept just fine today...  From 7AM to 11AM and about 2PM to 6PM.

 

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Friday, August 08

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Daily News Stuff 8 August 2025

Theory Of Everything Else Edition

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  • The Framework Desktop is here and it is the perfect machine for a very specific subset of users.  (Tom's Hardware)

    The 16 core CPU is as fast as you'd expect, and the 40 core integrated graphics are quite capable of playing your games at 2560x1440.

    But where it really excels is when you need 96GB of memory on your GPU.  That would cost you $10,000 or more on a dedicated graphics card, while this entire PC is just $2000.

    If you don't need 96GB of memory on your GPU, it's still nice, but you're probably be better off with a system with dedicated graphics.


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Thursday, August 07

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Daily News Stuff 7 August 2025

Piezoelectric Edition

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  • Ron Deibert, the director of Citizen Lab, a group monitoring the intrusion of government surveillance into the private internet, has woken up confused from a fifteen-year coma and ready to fight. (Tech Crunch)
    Ahead of his talk, Deibert told TechCrunch that he plans to speak about what he describes as a "descent into a kind of fusion of tech and fascism," and the role that the Big Tech platforms are playing, and "propelling forward a really frightening type of collective insecurity that isn’t typically addressed by this crowd, this community, as a cybersecurity problem."
    You mean like banning the country's oldest newspaper from all social networks over a factually accurate article?


    No?

    "I think that there comes a point at which you have to recognize that the landscape is changing around you, and the security problems you set out for yourselves are maybe trivial in light of the broader context and the insecurities that are being propelled forward in the absence of proper checks and balances and oversight, which are deteriorating," said Deibert.
    What?
    Deibert, who this year published his new book
    Oh.  So that's what this is about.


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Disclaimer: A song about my eyes?  Sounds awful.

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Wednesday, August 06

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Daily News Stuff 6 August 2025

Solar Edition

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Disclaimer: Wax on, wipe off.

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Tuesday, August 05

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Daily News Stuff 5 August 2025

All All Nighters Edition


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Disclaimer: What he said.

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Monday, August 04

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Daily News Stuff 4 August 2025

Hot Water Edition

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  • Did Craigslist really kill newspapers?  (Poynter)

    Yes.  Sort of.  Maybe.  But also mostly no.

    Newspapers had been in slow decline for thirty years when Craigslist launched in 1995.

    What the site did certainly do was accelerate a process started by the newspapers themselves.

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Disclaimer: All in all it's just another three cue in the wall.

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