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  1. BachChain
    Summary Nearly 20 years after the debut of LiMux, the project where the city of Munich, as well as Lower Saxony, migrated the majority of their computer systems from Microsoft Windows to a custom Linux distribution before being cancelled in 2017, someone else is now ready to take on the challenge. This time, it's the state of Schleswig-Holstein. Citing the goals of independence, sustainability, and security, the state is planning on migrating its 30,000 computers to Linux and other open source software. Quotes My thoughts I hope them the best. Chipping away at Microsoft's business monopoly is always a good thing. Sources https://www.schleswig-holstein.de/DE/landesregierung/ministerien-behoerden/I/Presse/PI/2024/CdS/240403_cds_it-arbeitsplatz.html https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/04/germanys_northernmost_state_ditches_windows/
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    They're absolutely right. Artificial locks and limitations are a Hallmark of apple technology
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    They don't. That number is probably Nintendo's estimate of all of the revenue from that project plus a whole lot of punitives. They agreed because they didn't have a choice
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    Uhh, there has to be an actual ruling to do that. This was settled out of court before there was even a trial.
  5. BachChain
    Summary CNET, once considered one of the major technology-focused news outlets, has been heavily criticized for falling editorial standards since it's acquisition by Red Venture in 2020. After years of dealing with AI-generated articles and other "advertiser-driven" decisions, Wikipedia's editors have had enough and are removing CNET from their list of reliable publishers and are categorizing any article published since November 2022 as unreliable. Some editors are going further and pushing to have content from any outlet owned by Red Venture automatically marked as unreliable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Perennial_sources Quotes My thoughts Enshittification claims another one. Journalism is the absolute last place that AI should be deployed to. Sources https://futurism.com/wikipedia-cnet-unreliable-ai
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    Sure, your application will consume an order of magnitude more resources at a fraction of the capacity and be plagued by an endless stream of runtime errors. But that's a small price to pay for the peace of mind to know that when you're on call for that 3AM outage, it wasn't because of a double-free.
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    The most surprising thing is that Disney still had a couple billion dollars left to burn. If nothing else, you have to commend their dedication to spreading their patented Anti-Midas® Touch™ technology to absolutely everything they possibly can.
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    Another decade, another gadgetbahn that did nothing but steal money and attention. I wonder what Elon's next tactic for disrupting public transit discussions will be. Will he go back to underground single-lane highways that still manage to have traffic jams, or will he jump right over that shark and gun straight for flying teslas?
  9. BachChain
    Someone really played Hypnospace Outlaw and though to themselves: "neat idea, but not enough labor extraction"
  10. BachChain
    Those quotes were directly from the linked article https://web.archive.org/web/20230926141746/https://www.tomshardware.com/news/ultraram-demos-prototype-chip-secures-funding-to-validate-commercial-potential
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    Summary Tech startup QuInAsQu has unveiled a working prototype of their "UltraRam" NAND technology. Claimed features include: Less than 1ns write latency Over ten million write cycle durability Non-volatility with data retention estimated at over a thousand years Orders of magnitude lower power consumption than existing DRAM Quotes My thoughts Jeez, does it also give massages? At least they have a working prototype, so it's theoretically not complete BS. Sources https://www.tomshardware.com/news/ultraram-demos-prototype-chip-secures-funding-to-validate-commercial-potential
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    Summary Microsoft has announced plans to end support for third-party printer drivers in Windows by 2027. Replacing them will be a single "IPP Class Driver" which utilizes the "Mopria" standard for providing a universal interface for compatible printers and scanners. Quotes My thoughts About damn time. Although, there's always going to be that one printer that still needs manual drivers for some reason. Sources https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/print/end-of-servicing-plan-for-third-party-printer-drivers-on-windows https://mopria.org/what-is-mopria
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    Looks nice. A shame someone went and punched a hole in the screen
  14. BachChain
    https://www.tomshardware.com/news/lk-99-patent-update-suggest-it-could-work Round...how many are we up to now?
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    Before someone misinterprets that
  16. BachChain
    People are surprised? Or have they already forgotten about the whole Nvidia tessellation scandal?
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    Damn, they really just created the whole .zip shitshow then immediately dumped the whole thing on someone else.
  18. BachChain
    The whole video, I just kept thinking about how ethernet was specifically designed to have multiple clients just spliced into a single coax cable
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    Straight from the document
  20. BachChain
    This does not affect the ability to run 32 bit usermode binaries. Even now, those run while the CPU is in 64 bit mode. This should only affect firmware and OS kernel level stuff.
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    Summary Under the slogan of "Envisioning a Simplified Intel Architecture", Intel has published a draft specification for "X86-S". This variant of the venerable x86 CPU ISA would strip out all of the legacy 16 and 32 bit components as well as several obsolete features, leaving only x86_64. Quotes My thoughts I think clearing cruft is an admirable goal. It's kinda crazy that a Ryzen 7000 or Raptor Lake processor still has to act like 8086 when it turns on. Less architecture also means less places for bugs and vulnerabilities to live. Sources https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-X86-S-64-bit-Only https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/technical/envisioning-future-simplified-architecture.html
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    Summary During the OCP Regional Summit, AMD announced a plan to deprecate their current AGESA CPU firmware family, citing lack of flexibility and difficulty with scaling as the primary motivations. Replacing is is what AMD is calling "openSIL", a platform-agnostic open-source set of libraries. openSIL is not yet production-ready, and isn't expected to be until around 2026. Priority is being given to server platforms, but the intention is to eventually migrate AMD's entire processor stack. Quotes My thoughts Assuming this pans out as advertised, this could make AMD king of the coreboot community. Sources https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-openSIL-Replace-AGESA
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    Remember when the RX 480 launched at like $250? And how, seven years later, it's still one of the best value options available?
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    Summary Tech repair YouTube channel KrisFix has reported receiving an increasing number of RTX 2080tis suffering VRAM damage. He attributes this damage with heavy GPU coolers causing excessive amounts of flex on the bottom of the card, straining the memory chips located there, and eventually breaking the solder joints. Quotes My thoughts I'm surprised that 1) this hasn't become more of a problem sooner, and 2) including card brackets hasn't become standard practice for these monster cards. Sources https://www.tomshardware.com/news/rtx-2080-ti-dying-from-gpu-sag
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    https://www.newegg.com/g-skill-32gb/p/N82E16820374446?Description=ddr5&cm_re=ddr5-_-20-374-446-_-Product&quicklink=true I did say slightly less
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