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Alphane Moon

@ Alphane_Moon @lemmy.world

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That there is no perfect defense. There is no protection. Being alive means being exposed; it's the nature of life to be hazardous—it's the stuff of living.

  • TSMC Has No Choice But To Trust The Sunny AI Forecasts Of Its Customers

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  • Good point, TSMC is not just the pick axe seller in the gold rush, they are a generalized "best in class" tools seller.

    To some degree, I don't think it matter for them what they are baffing, they'll always have demand as long as they are the clear leader.

  • The lost 213th issue "ON THE FRONTIER"

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  • Good stuff! )

  • Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Plus trades blows with Intel and AMD, but underperforms Apple M4

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  • It is worth noting that the benchmarked Snapdragon X2 Plus ran on a reference platform, while testers used commercially available products for the other chips. This is a key caveat, as results can vary widely depending on chip binning, cooling, power limits, SSD speed, memory latency, and installed apps.

    What this means is that performance with real devices will likely be even worse.

    With the X Elite we also had benchmark results on "reference platforms" that were never hit on real devices.

  • The FCC approves SpaceX's request to deploy an additional 7,500 Gen2 Starlink satellites, bringing the total to 15,000 satellites worldwide

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  • To hell with Starlink, it's giving money to individuals who wish you harm.

  • UPDATE: The US Commerce Department drops a plan to impose restrictions on Chinese drones to address national security concerns; FCC barred imports in December 2025

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  • The U.S. Commerce Department said on Friday it has withdrawn a plan to impose restrictions on Chinese drones to address national security concerns after an earlier crackdown on passenger cars and trucks.

    Considering the mercurial nature of US policy, I wouldn't be surprised if this plan is brought back at a later date.

  • Chinese smartphone maker Realme set to become an Oppo subbrand

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  • I thought this was the case already.

  • Bitspower Presents GX & CA100 Series Enclosures at CES 2026

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  • I am a Fractal Design person when it comes to cases, but these look really nice.

    It's too bad it will be impossible to build an new PC in the next 24-36 months.

  • OpenAI's first Jony Ive-designed AI hardware might just be a pen

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  • The pen would be far from ordinary—described as "contextually aware," it's designed to work as a "third-core" device that sits alongside your laptop and smartphone. Think of it as an AI companion that fits in your pocket or on your desk, enabling seamless two-way communication with ChatGPT through a paired device.

    And why can't you just your smartphone?

    The whole "AI device" thing sounds like Altman and Ivey wanting to become a new Apple of sorts. These people are so vapid and honestly boring.

  • OpenAI locked up 40% of the world's memory supply

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  • TeamGroup’s general manager Gerry Chen warned that December contract prices for some DRAM and NAND categories increased 80-100% month-over-month. He expects availability to worsen significantly in Q1 and Q2 2026 once distribution stockpiles run dry. At that point, according to Chen, obtaining allocation could become difficult “regardless of willingness to pay.”

    Wow, this is crazy.

  • 'She is going to pay a very big price': Trump issues new threat to interim leader of Venezuela

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  • HyperNormalisation has its flaws (too big of a focus on a single "theory of everything") and an argument can be made that it emphasizes style over substance, but it's a great experience. Even if I disagree with some of the structural arguments of HyperNormalisation, it does raise a lot of good points and in a very engaging way.

    I would also recommend Bitter Lake from the same director which IMO is a more intense experience.

  • Ukraine has become a live-fire test range for AI drones like the Bumblebee, provided by a secretive Eric Schmidt-led venture, raising alarms in Kremlin circles

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  • My argument would be that the government is a representation of its citizens.

    It's up to each individual citizen to make the government work; be it with autonomous weapons or surveillance. Both have legitimate use cases and it is up to the voting public to make sure they are used responsibly.

    Even in developed democracies, only around 70% of the population votes and in the US it is closer to ~60%.

  • Ukraine has become a live-fire test range for AI drones like the Bumblebee, provided by a secretive Eric Schmidt-led venture, raising alarms in Kremlin circles

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  • I am not naive enough to think it won't (I mean this in a practical way, i.e. hearing/seeing how Shaheds have evolved over the last ~3 years from my balcony).

    But I would much rather we get it to use it first and have a head start (not just usage but refinement) and maybe we'll even have a good 6-18 month lead period on somewhat semi-permanent basis.

    If one wants this technology to "disappear" [not be used], then one needs to address corruption in their own country in an outcome based manner and defend the international rules based order (by force if necessary).

    And yet we have Obama, the darling of the US centre right, calling the invasion of Crimea a "regional issue" back in 2014 or chickening out to strike Assad when he used chemical weapons (after an explicit warning that chemical weapons were a red line).

  • Ukraine has become a live-fire test range for AI drones like the Bumblebee, provided by a secretive Eric Schmidt-led venture, raising alarms in Kremlin circles

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  • I strongly disagree with this framing.

    I live in Ukraine and I am only happy to see better drone technology for fighting the russians. Every time you walk in the centre of Kyiv you see the memorial for many thousands of fallen soldiers right on the main square of the country. Any technology that saves lives and kills more russian invaders is a good thing.

    If one doesn't want this tech to be misused, then the citizens of a given country need to deal with local oligarchs, corruption and crime.

    In the case of the US (just one notable example out of many thousands), this would be arresting Mark Zuckerburg and his goons for enabling mass scale fraud that netted them $16B in 2024 alone.

    And the scam run by Meta is the tip of the iceberg. I don't support capital punishment, but for the ennoblement of the Rohingya genocide, it would be reasonable to consider an exception for Zuckerburg and other senior thugs in the Meta criminal gang.

  • Hacker Congress CCC talk by Cory Doctorow: 'A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet'

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  • Thank you!

    I did check the site, but I missed it.

  • Hacker Congress CCC talk by Cory Doctorow: 'A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet'

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  • I wish there was a text transcript of this, I will check the video out after the holidays though.

  • Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme Benchmarks Highlight Impressive CPU Performance but Underwhelming GPU

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  • I have my doubts about their benchmarks with respect to real world use cases. I have a 5800X that scores about 2,200 on GB6 ST. So does the 4,000 score mean it will be roughly x2 performant for constant throughput single thread use cases?

  • DistroWatch - The best open source operating systems of 2025

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  • I use a Debian stable ARM distro called DietPi; it's perfect for aow touch DIY NAS/media server/Pi-Hole.

    You get all the stability and predictability of Debian with a nice set of ClI tools and configuration utilities from DietPi team.

    I've been using them for 8 years (been donating too), other than an issue with a major Debian upgrade, I've had no issues.

  • Jolla announces "the other half" extensible backcovers as strech-goal to phone pre-order campain

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  • I hope they are able to get 25K pre-orders and expand their geographic sales coverage after that.

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    Latest Epstein release contains picture of Noam Chomsky with Steve Bannon

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