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Here is another video which showed some interesting results.
3Blue1Brown - Gradient descent, how neural networks learn | Chapter 2, Deep learning
 
 
I downloaded this video 2018-05-11.
My 1080p version (VP9) (WebM)- 723 kbps
1080p version downloaded today (VP9) (ID 248, WebM) - 616 kbps
1080p version downloaded today (VP9) (ID 614, MP4) - 647 kbps
1080 Enhanced (VP9) - 1559 kbps
 
 
So this is one video where it seems like something has happened to the VP9 file.
The new 1080p version seems to have a lower bit rate than the old 1080p version.
Just to be clear, the "enhanced" version still looks way better than the old 1080 version and it is 100% for certain that there is no "YouTube is putting the old quality behind a paywall" going about. The "enhanced" version is a brand new file that didn't exist before and it is higher quality that what we could view before. The conspiracy theory should die. It's still bullshit.
 
But it seems like YouTube has changed their VP9 encoder and reencoded videos.
In the case of the 3blue1brown video it seems like this change happened 2023-12-11. The timestamp says the exact time and date I downloaded it on though, so that's weird. Not sure if that's a bug, or an indication that there is something weird at play here. I doubt it just so happened that they reencoded the video exactly when I downloaded it.
 
I'll try and look into this more but it is however important to note that the reduced bit rate might not mean the quality is lower. Google's VP9 encoder was not exactly great before, and it might just be that it was very inefficient on a "bit to quality" ratio. So there is a possibility that they are fixing this with their new encoder.
This seems to only apply to VP9 files though. AVC files are untouched, and the "Enhanced 1080p" are brand new files, not relabeled.

Okay I am back.
I found this video in my library and I have some interesting observations. It's a video from "All Gas No Brakes" that I downloaded for archival purposes back when rumors had it that the channel was going away.
 
I have a 1080p copy from 2020-04-04.
Today I downloaded the 1080p and 1080p enhanced versions. Here are the bit rates:
 
Old 1080p - 2347 kbps
New 1080p - 2347 kbps
Enhanced 1080p - 3503 kbps
 
 
It's the exact same file.
 
Even the metadata is the same. In fact, the "encoded date" is the same.
You can test this yourself if you want.
Get youtube-dl and run this command:
yt-dlp.exe -f 137
 
This will download the 1080p avc version of the video and you can read the metadata if you want. The timestamp is 2020-04-04 20:23:59.
 
What I did observe however when downloading various versions of this video is that Youtube very recently (not sure if it's 10th December 2023 or 12th October 2023, stupid American date formatting) created a VP9 1080p version of the file. That file has a bit rate of 2015 kbps. But since VP9 is a more efficient format, it should look better than the avc version of 1080p. 
 
So the idea that Youtube is just relabeling old 1080p videos as "1080p enhanced" is complete bullshit. It's not true. It's just some conspiracy theory that some people came up with based on zero evidence.
 
 
Here is the enhanced version:
 
Here is the VP9 1080p version:
 
 
For those who want to replicate the verification, here are the different format IDs:
1080p (AVC aka H.264) - 137
1080p (VP9) - 614
1080p Enhanced - 616

Their desktop models are actually fine, pretty straight forward, but their mobile ones are absolutely horrid. From last gen architectures being named as current gen by numbers down to just straight up confusing numbers entirely. And they didn't used to be this way which is annoying. I still have my old Ryzen 5 2500U powered laptop and those were pretty straight forward numbered.

There is a shot of a Phoenix 2 APU that has both Zen 4 and Zen 4c cores (two Zen 4 and four Zen 4c). The cores are exactly the same but the Zen 4c are a lot smaller (rearranged layout to make it more dense and efficient).
Lower density allows for higher clock speeds than higher density due to less concentrated heat and possibly lower noise.
 

That one has an easy explanation. McDonalds Coffee (and also plenty of other restaurants) over heat coffee and tea to a level that would physically burn you. And they know that. https://web.archive.org/web/20150923195353/http://www.business.txstate.edu/users/ds26/Business Law 2361/Misc/McDonalds coffee.pdf
 
Now, I'm not one to dismiss stupid lawsuits, but that was definitely one McDonalds should have seen, and wasn't the first time. 
I don't drink coffee, but I also can't stand hot drinks at all, but it seems to me that if a drink is being held at a temperature that would burn your skin in a time shorter than it would take to react to the spill, you would make some effort to operate it at the lowest temperature that would make it safe, which is 160F, not 205F.
 
They also apparently continue to do so, and so does Starbucks.
 
I suppose if you're stupid enough to drink coffee, and you spill on yourself, you have nobody to blame but yourself. McDonalds and Starbucks can avoid the potential half million dollar lawsuits millions of times per day by getting out of selling Coffee, or only filling customer's own suitable reusable coffee cups. Because then the problem is not the coffee but the customer's choice of mug.
 
 

I was initially speechless so let me try to articulate my reply here... you are already speculating that she is "an emotionally unstable salty ex-employee and she is trying to contribute to devaluing a multi-million dollar company out of spite and/or a misunderstanding of reality."

Has it occurred to you that this is the reason why many victims never choose to come forward, or have a delay in doing so? Because either a large company or their fans will rabidly go after them, implying that they're making it up, that they're just in it for the money, that they have mental illness? That's exactly what many posters are doing in this thread.

I would encourage you to read the entire Twitter thread (via Threadreader). on some very specific issues, some less and more worse:
High workload, but regularly having their job belittled because it was "the fun job" (or expectation to check/post on socials on weekends because "Social media isn't a real job). Fear of coming forward earlier due to backlash from the LTT community (which is happening right now in this thread) - look what happened to Mindchop after he bought the silver play button at the NCIX option (short version: they ended up committing suicide after LTT fans relentlessly harassed him because they felt Linus deserved the button)  Fear of coming forward earlier as LTT has a lot of industry connections and could effectively tank future job prospects Being blacklisted from appearing in videos after coming forward saying they had been inappropriately grabbed multiple times in the office. Being mislead greatly on the nature of the job contract and being given a totally different job contract after moving back to Canada and losing a US visa, and then when confronted on it, Linus gaslighting her on how "perhaps [she] should changer [her] priorities" because her brother died less than a week before she moved. Called a tattle tale for reporting inappropriate workplace behavior Being told off for using sick days that employees are legally entitled to Being asked questions that are sexual harassment (sexual history, BF sexual history, "how [they] liked to fuck", asked to twerk for a coworker Forced to manage the Onlyfans account despite not wanting to (which via user comments and video images forced unwanted sexually explicit content on her) These are not trivial accusations, and starting the discussion with how maybe LMG is the real victim and she's mentally unstable and must be making it up is absolutely insane.

LMG deserves a chance to defend themselves and investigate this properly. But starting this discussion by attacking the legitimacy of the accuser (ad hominem attack) or the forum (Twitter) in which they chose to share their side of the story is both disgusting and a reason why many people never come forward to whistleblow on toxic workplaces. I've seen a variety of this in this forum thread already from different posters...

GN did actually offer returns, even after months, to anyone affected.
 
Here's GN's response to that issue - I started the video where they explain the situation.
1. They immediately marked the mat as "Out of Stock" so that no on else would buy them.
2. They attempted to find a means to fix the issue by correcting the mats and failed to find one.
3. They created pinout cards to send to affected customers, which include not only the correction, but additional pinout info. They also made metal pins featuring the corrected pinout. Anyone affected was sent an email where they could get a kit featuring these. Anyone who didn't want a kit was allowed to return the mod mat for a refund instead.
4. They did then decide to sell the remaining mod mats, however, with the full correction kit, and with complete transparency on their website about what you were getting.

Following would be my demands to make ads acceptable enough that I'd uninstall adblock:
 
For web content:
Ad is inline with content and does not obscure content Ad is clearly an ad, and does not try to represent itself as something it isn't e.g. fake download buttons No animation, video, sound, new windows or similar unless explicitly interacted with. Mouse over events does not count as an interaction Site's promoting their own content also counts in this e.g. "before you leave, please subscribe", or video that is not related directly to the page contents. For video content:
Has a big skip button with no delay to activation. Skipping removes all ads in the current sequence, not just the playing one Audio level is matched to surrounding content For all adverts:
Ad is relevant to the site content. In case of sites with highly diverse content, it should be relevant to the page/content it is displayed near No ad tracking beyond if an advert is displayed or clicked. No cross site user tracking or profiling. No misrepresentation. That is displaying anything that intentionally makes you think it is something it is not, even if it is technically correct.  
Chances of all above happening: exactly 0%. 

According to Gamers Nexus the 5600X3D CPUs are defective 5800X3D CPUs that have been locked down. Apparently the 5600X3D is just a one off run to get rid of the limited quantity of bad 5800X3D chips AMD had.
 
 

The incremental effort probably isn't significant. It isn't zero either. To my understanding the hooks into the game engine required to implement FSR2, DLSS or XeSS are essentially the same, which is why modders can do it when games themselves don't. There may be some additional verification and a bigger setting in the menu is needed. Basic scaling like NIS and FSR1 are even simpler.
 
COD MWII is an example they can implement everything if they want:

 
I'm in two minds about this. For rumours and speculation, typical company policy is a "no comment" because you could eventually work out what is going on by looking at what isn't denied. However at times it is better looking to give a straight answer like nvidia did in this instance. Just outright say it.
 
On the flip side, if AMD is doing as claimed, they could also just be open about it. Exclusivity deals are not a new thing. There will be give and take as part of sponsorships.
 
Another possibility is there is an NDA saying neither can discuss terms like this in the open.
 
May 2023 Steam Hardware Survey, of individually listed GPUs, RTX GPUs made up 31% of everything. While still not a majority, it is significant, and continues to grow. Non-RTX nvidia 33%, and all AMD 10%. All Intel 7%.

Microsoft also issued a statement on this.
 
https://www.ign.com/articles/microsoft-addresses-xbox-emulator-ban-says-its-based-on-long-standing-policy
 
 

I'll just grab my tin foil hat and say that Samsung has started developing a massive death-laser on the moon, and so want to make sure its details are never captured by "enhancing" the image and thereby wiping any images of the death laser.

Summary
One last game has been added to Stadia, and a self-serve tool for enabling Bluetooth on the controllers will be released next week.
 
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My thoughts
I'm incredibly happy to see these controllers get one last update so they aren't just e-waste. Huge kudos to the Stadia team. We don't see stuff like this happen very often.
 
Sources
https://community.stadia.com/t5/Stadia-General/A-Gift-from-the-Stadia-Team-amp-Bluetooth-Controller/m-p/85936

Der8auer appears to have done enough testing to be pretty confident in his conclusion of MBA cooler cards having a flaw in the vapor chamber QC and or design. If validated by other testing, I think he is correct in his call to action of these need a recall, because unlike the 12VHPWR connector issue which was completely user error. This issue is not. Majority of cases are not test benches and are going to be mounted horizontally. 

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So buy non reference coolers, or water-cool the reference. 
 
AMD is correct in terms that the chips are designed for a TJMAX of 110C. a card getting there is not the issue, and is a misleading headline imo. That part is still inside spec. But that the vapor chamber running dry causing the card to throttle rather then hold a steady boost is the actual issue. 

If anything I think the name is the most questionable part and already we've seen some confusion on it. DLSS 3 makes it sound like a direct successor to DLSS 2 and DLSS 1. I guess if you view DLSS 3 as a superset of DLSS 2, maybe. But DLSS 3 seems to be a different toggle that could be used without DLSS 2 if someone wanted to. Maybe something like DLSS-X2 would be more descriptive, and keeps the door open if a future version might triple (-X3) the fps. But it is what it is.
 
Wait a sec, I just realised, if you went with my system above, you'd end up with DLSS 2 X2. Can I get a job on the USB naming group? 😄 

Not all liquids are automatically conductive and conductivity itself isn't a problem so long as it's completely dry before it's connected to power. The problem with spraying them with regular water is that it creates sediment and can also start oxidizing some of the parts, causing corrosion and permanent damage, as well as wash away thermal paste. Plus the potential direct physical damage from the pressurized spray. Distilled water could at least get rid of the sediment but again it runs the risk of dissolving the thermal paste... if you're going to try this be prepared to also reapply all the thermal paste. Distilled water is also not conductive but if it picks up sediment it can become conductive to you should still have it completely dry

Summary
The majority of graphics driver development effort these days, whether from Nvidia, Intel, or AMD, is concentrated on new APIs like DirectX 12 or Vulkan, increasingly powerful upscaling technologies, and particular upgrades for new game releases. However, AMD has been focused on an old trouble area for their graphics drivers this year: OpenGL performance.
Over the summer, AMD released a rewritten OpenGL driver that it said would boost the performance of Minecraft by up to 79 percent (independent testing also found gains in other OpenGL games and benchmarks, though not always to the same degree). Now those same optimizations are coming to AMD's officially validated GPU drivers for its Radeon Pro-series workstation cards, providing big boosts to professional apps like Solidworks and Autodesk Maya.
AMD claims that its new drivers can enhance Solidworks rendering performance by up to 52 percent at 4K and 28 percent at 1080p resolutions when used with a Radeon Pro W6800 workstation GPU. Autodesk Maya performance improves by 34% at 4K and 72% at the default resolution. The size of the improvements varies depending on the app and the GPU, but AMD's testing shows significant, consistent improvements across the board on the Radeon Pro W6800, W6600, and W6400 GPUs, which AMD claims will help those GPUs outperform analogous Nvidia workstation GPUs like the RTX A5000 and A2000, as well as the Nvidia T600.
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Well, that's interesting. Those Performance improvements seem quite nice, especially since these performance improvements are coming to older cards. Good on you AMD. Though it should be noted that these improvements apply solely to OpenGL and so doesn't carry over to macOS as well (since it was deprecated, unless you somehow compiled it on macOS, which I think someone has done). Would've been nice to see them on OpenCL and Vulkan but c'est la vie.
 
Sources
ArsTechnica
AMD - Blog, Adrenaline Release Notes

Don't give them ideas. Have you SEEN magazines?

Bitcoin wasn't the first cryptocurrency. It was just the first one to really take off and address the "minting" issues inherent in currency supply maintenance & have a very efficient ledger system. (There's inherent issues with any currency system, so there's research literature on this stuff going back over 100 years. Because paper currency is centuries old and metal currency is millennia old.) It also billed itself as "Digital Gold" more than anything else. While big public backers are keen on it replacing currencies for valid reasons, the project never actually had that potential. 
 
Ethereum is different. With its early institutional support, it's always been more of a test bed for new FinTech insights and a prelude to Central Bank Digital Currencies. (Blockchain approaches are here to stay because they're very useful for a lot of internal tracking systems.) It's about both a lot higher transaction volumes & pushing anyone else out of the space. There's too much utility in Blockchain technology, which means its "new tech". So there's power positions to be made by running a project/company to the top of a field over all others. It's what we've seen happen in ETH. The utility of GPU mining for its long term objectives is simply done. 
 
That's why this stuff isn't banned, generally. Though there's functional aspects that most countries don't allow other "legal tender" to be used, but no one has ever successfully restricted bartering. You'd accomplish very little. Unless you're China and you can ban every app anyone would use. Which they did.

Something to keep in mind about the font, is that while they are clearly not using the official "GeForce font" for the SKU number. Videocardz points out:
 
 
In the beginning of September, there was an alleged GeForce RTX 4080 Founders Edition card pic leak that featured a similar font (where they got the comparison from):
 

 
https://videocardz.com/newz/alleged-geforce-rtx-4080-graphics-card-has-been-pictured
 
Now, today there was another leak, this time featuring a Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4090 GAMING OC graphics card box:
 
 
The packaging also features NVIDIA’s RTX 4090 logo with the new font.
 
https://videocardz.com/newz/gigabyte-geforce-rtx-4090-gaming-oc-graphics-card-has-been-pictured
 
So as far as the font goes, it appears that NVIDIA might be going in a different direction. As far as the rest of your concerns, if it is a fake, we will find out eventually. These things tend to come to light sooner rather than later.
 
 
If you are on 3000 series, I agree that most likely this next-Gen is not for you (but there will be some nice gains made, however). I do agree that these cards are going to be expensive and hard to get though. 3080 is a solid card, I wouldn't be thinking about upgrading if I were you either. 

It sounds absurd but after looking at the images I can kind of see where they're coming from...

You already posted these 8 months ago and what was said is still valid, RMA/warranty is for manufacturing defects and this is very obviously external damage, so if they agree to fix it at all it will be a paid repair.
 
 

Yeah, that's corrosion. They're going to call it user damage/abuse. I'd say your AIO probably leaked, but I don't know too many AIOs that include salt, sugar, and/or cocaine in their loop. Do you know why your GPU has corrosion and mystery liquid on it?

It's not, any anyone who knows it is has clearly not followed the story properly.
 
This is the timeline:
February ~21 - LAPSUS$ gets access to some Nvidia servers.
February 28 - LAPSUS$ makes a public statement that they have stolen data from Nvidia and starts uploading it. They demand that Nvidia removes the hash limiter or else they will publish their leak, because they claim the hash limiter also cripples gaming performance (it doesn't).
March 2 - LAPSUS$ says that unless Nvidia makes all their drivers for Windows, Linux and MacOS open source before March 4, they will release all the stolen data regarding silicon designs etc.
March 4 - Nvidia has not posted anything, LAPSUS$ doesn't do jack shit. They do not post anything regarding Nvidia. Pretty sure they never mentioned Nvidia again and everyone just forgot about it.
March 24 - Several people in LAPSUS$ gets arrested and since then I don't think the group has done anything.
 
Skip forward to:
May 11 - Nvidia decides to open source one of their drivers and people somehow think it is related...
 
 
Now can we please stop with these idiotic conspiracy theories that clearly makes no sense if we sit down and think about them for a minute?
 
 
 
In before:
"But what if Nvidia promised LAPSUS$ to release their drivers as open source and that's why nothing was posted on the 4th of March!? That totally explains everything! Except the lack of info... and that Nvidia has no reason to follow through on this supposed promise since the group is no longer active... and that Nvidia did not even fulfil this supposed promise since they have only done half of one thing out of the 3 things LAPSUS$ asked for (release the Linux driver source code for some cards, not all cards, nor the MacOS or Windows driver source codes)
 
 
 
 
Edit:
Sorry if I sounded rude but I am so sick and tired of people making up conspiracy theories without doing any research, and then a bunch of users on this forum will take it at face value and not question it at all. It seems to happen a lot, particularly with Nvidia.
Something happens, someone makes a stupid and illogical comment that makes Nvidia seem bad, a bunch of people will jump in, thumb it up, assume it is true (even if it isn't) and then parrot it in a bunch of threads until it becomes "common knowledge" because "everyone says it so it must be true".
 
Can we all agree to do some research to verify if what we are saying actually makes sense? And to look up if what we thumb up actually makes sense? Misinformation is a serious issue these days, and while this is a rather trivial thing to get incorrect, it still shows a worrying trend where people just assume things are true as long as they align with their biases, which just worsen their biases even more.

Summary
 
In what is possibly one of the biggest announcements in Linux history, potentially ending a decade of grudges and feuds going all the way back to Torvald's infamous 2012 "Fuck you", Nvidia has officially released a set of open source kernel modules for their GeForce and workstation GPUs. This code allows running GeForce cards on Linux without using Nvidia's closed-source proprietary drivers. It's dual-licensed with MIT and GPL, and the code is hosted on GitHub. Unfortunately, the code is limited to Turing and newer architectures, limiting its usefulness for older cards.
 
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While this is definitely a start in the right direction, I have my doubts about this initiative expanding, or continuing long-term.
 
Sources
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia-open-kernel&num=1
https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules