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nlgranger

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  • Chips aren’t improving like they used to, and it’s killing game console price cuts

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  • technology is still advancing

    Actually not really: performance per watt of the high end stuff has been stagnating since Ampere generation. NVidia hides it by changing models in its benchmarks or advertising raw performance without power figures.

  • ICE Invades Wrong home, Steals Their Life Savings, and Then Leaves

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  • We had police just following orders during WWII in France. This is not a proud moment of our history, we pardon but we do not forgive.

  • A map of European supermarkets

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  • Same in France

  • US tourism industry faces drop-off as immigration agenda deters travellers

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  • None of the researchers in my lab go to conferences in the US anymore (there is remote participation since covid).

  • French MEP says US should give back Statue of Liberty

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  • That's rich coming from a party which saved the (partially) far right government from dissolution.

  • Self-Driving Tesla Crashes into Wall Painted to Look Like a Road… Just Months Before Planned Robotaxi Launch

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  • I think it's all about the timeline. Tesla gambled on cameras before AI models became usable (the company most certainly committed itself to the camera sensors a few years before it became public). By the time automated driving models became usable, Tesla had tons of camera data to capitalize on, but presumably not the corresponding radar data (or not in a consistent manner), so rebuilding a multi-sensor dataset for AI training was probably not very appealing in terms of cost and time to market.

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    Current World situation has me like

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  • There might be a few shortcuts in the message but the general idea remains: the connection between liberalism and authoritarianism makes sense.

  • Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt

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  • They already suffered from his shitty actions, he did not become a terrible person overnight.

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    "We" didn't vote for this

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  • We in France experienced a higher than usual participation rate during the last representatives elections. Turned out the extra voters had roughly the same distribution as the others. At least it was not game changing. In the US, the winner takes all voting system also demotivates voters, in some counties the argument that voting is useless is legit.

  • AMD won't patch all chips affected by severe data theft vulnerability — Ryzen 3000, 2000, and 1000 will not get patched for 'Sinkclose'

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  • I'm not saying this is a small issue and nothing should be done. I just noted that the issue is not as big as some other hardware-based vulnerabilities we encountered in the past. And every threat model calls for a corresponding counter-measure.

    You are assuming activists are well funded in some way, and that they are not repressed. I'm assuming they are repressed, which is why they have people that buy and configure their equipment and hand it to them so that it hasn't been tampered with. If you cannot afford that your should use your computer as if it was compromised.

    You’re basically saying consumers don’t need any kind of antivirus either Where did I write that?

    And what makes it so hard to release patches for consumer hardware. AMD focusing on where its money's at and OEM/motherboard manufacturers being cheap and lazy and not pushing forward updates when they have them.

  • AMD won't patch all chips affected by severe data theft vulnerability — Ryzen 3000, 2000, and 1000 will not get patched for 'Sinkclose'

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  • Agreed, firmware security by chip manufacturers has been underwhelming to say the least and we can blame them for that. But in this specific instance I still don't see the benefit of a fix for consumer usage. Companies have a responsibility and accountability toward their users, so a fix is due, for personal laptops/PCs the threat is toward the owners themselves (activists, diplomats, journalists, etc.). The latter do not buy second hand equipment, and if the firmware is compromised while they own it, they are already in danger.

  • AMD won't patch all chips affected by severe data theft vulnerability — Ryzen 3000, 2000, and 1000 will not get patched for 'Sinkclose'

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  • Consumer usage is not really concerned by the attack scenario of this vulnerability from what I understand. The prerequisite is to have access to the bios so it's already game over at this point.

  • Amd fan

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  • They are bad at writing software and firmware support is sketchy. That second point is technically the motherboard vendors fault but it could be due to confusing design and documentation on the AMD side. Hardware-wise they are great AFAIK.

  • Drivers keep crashing into Amish buggies, so Ohio enacted a law requiring buggies be festooned with electric flashing lights

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  • I believe they used carbide lamps and not oil lamps.

  • We Just Lived Through Two of the Hottest Days Ever. Does Anyone Care?

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  • I'm a bit dubious that revolutions can be effective nowadays against a well organised oppressive state with present tools (propaganda, police, surveillance, corruption). All revolutions have failed over the last few decades (Iran, Venezuela, Syria, Tunisia then Arab Spring, etc.).