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Comment · 5 days ago
They just released MacOS 27.2 a few days ago? How and why did they not do a patch at least then?
Comment · 7 days ago
Even outside of the Chinese models, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Meta all of them are offering significantly more coherent and competitive internal models and reasonable price.

Why would I pick anthropic.

Comment · 27 days ago
I don’t see the value in this news piece. If AMD announced they were going to reduce the supply then it would show a lack of competitiveness and belief in the AI story. They would lose a tonne on the stock market.

Given a bubble they have no alternative but to hype it up?

At the moment given oil and bond crisis, including Oracle force majeur on Project Jupiter it seems the bond market money supply is tight. Same with SoftBank’s 1 trillion yen bond in Tokyo at 4.9%?

Seems to me that AMD again wants to hold hot potato of inventory…

Comment · 1 month ago
I wouldn’t judge the ntpd-rs move from this. Have been running it for 9 months or so with a nts pool in ntp server mode on my pi5. Been rock solid.
Comment · 1 month ago
Snaps are a lot lot better in this regard especially in the perspective of connections.

You can define connections to home, camera, network etc...

I have not seen the same in flatpak.

Comment · 1 month ago
Odd how much data people are trusting with a company on a monetary cliff edge.

Sure send them all your financial, personal data, they won't ever sell it on to the highest bidder for a new profit stream.

Using it as a therapist, financial advisor, health expert and blackboard has always been a terrible idea.

Comment · 2 months ago
Always wondered why making something like a rust memory safe Firefox, Linux, vlc, ffmpeg or curl isn’t a benchmark for these LLMs.
Comment · 4 months ago
It means financial companies have been illogically pumping semiconductor companies the last 5 months despite the profits, royalties and supply chain being entire worse than a year ago.

They pumped ai adjacent stocks to draw retail in, to provide liquidity now when they are in theory forced to purchase SpaceX.

Effectively getting people to buy semi-ai stocks at a premium to fund their forced purchase for SpaceX.

Comment · 4 months ago
My theory is hedgies and investment banks using semi and ai hype as a liquidity bridge to drop into SpaceX which happens next week.

Arm and AMD pumped to insane levels on basically nothing.

What proof is there for your narrative versus mine?

Comment · 6 months ago
How often do you have to do fast transfers from computer to computer?

Would argue for those purposes 40gig thunderbolt makes a lot more sense.

Comment · 6 months ago
If this is true, I feel teh wifi alliance have a tonne to answer for the ewaste they generate.

WPA3 moved from symmetric AES to ECDH which is vulnerable to Quantum. Gonna be a tonne of IOT inverters waste.

Comment · 6 months ago
Apple is about to deprecate the iphone 11/SE 2020 version. Am gonna repurpose them as webcams given the 12MP camera put in there is arguably better than the brand new ones they put on new macs.

The phone now has a limited lifespan though because of this prior stupidity where eventually am gonna get into spicy pillow territory. At that point the phone prematurely dies.

We are going into a period where we are throwing away devices with 12mp+ cameras, and processors arguably faster than most desktops. It was arguable when the phones were old and legacy, but at this point the cameras on there are stupidly good.

We need these phones to be repurposed for a second life and actually capture their manufacture energy costs.

Frankly, if Apple allowed old iphones to be used for server usage, it is kind of crazy how efficient per dollar that would be.

Comment · 8 months ago
ARM is a bloody financial hand grenade.

10% of the stock is floated.

90% of the stock is owned by Masa who used it for collateral for his 18 billion loan for Stargate. THat is against 33 banks who have a strong incentivise to dump in a margin call situation.

Their revenues are circular for the last 4 years, with 30% growth purely coming from Softbank shuffling their own money.

They are gonna be the canary in the coal mine for when the AI bubble implodes.

Comment · 8 months ago
The US job stats were revised down for 2025 to 181k, but somehow the Country gained 130k in January?

Is anyone looking at this and the CBO figures and not just realising the government is straight lying about the figures?

Gonna believe Powell and Waller on this one.

Comment · 9 months ago
That is not a correct assumption. https://ig.ft.com/ai-power/

Reports in North Virginia and Texas are stating existing data centres are being capped 30% to prevent residential brownouts.

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