This article was based off what the CEO said at the Second Annual AI Summit, following the news of their new head of GPU hire who says he “will lead GPU engineering with a focus on AI at Intel”. The AI pivot is the actual news.

The kinds of communities you align yourself with is up to you, I suppose.

It is kind of embarrassing that I read all of this and the only thing I have to say about it is “I agree completely”. My own self from back in university days or even high school would be shocked. I guess churning through your thoughts and being able to express them effectively really is a skill you can lose over time.

Sounds like I2P without the privacy.

matters in the hands of closed source software and suspicious hardware

Don’t most Linux distributions not enable full disk encryption by default? How would that have improved the situation in this case?

AT&T is the one with the device-specific whitelist. Verizon doesn’t have a specific model white/blacklist but it does have lower compatibility because of the bands they support.

Jurassic Park Trespasser

I guess it’s some sort of sick performance art by showing that even though the >90% voted no AI, DDG will still have AI turned on by default in its main site and corral the >90% into the hidden away subdomain.

I don’t use macbooks very often because I don’t own one, but whenever I do I can’t believe that the trackpad doesn’t actually move. Whatever combination of pressure sensitivity and haptics they have crammed in there is nothing short of amazing.

Donations and ads sweeten the pot a lot. Also you don’t really need to buy media if someone else already made it available for download, and you don’t need to store it if you’re uploading to external hosts. So if you’re running a video game repacker site, and you get all your games from scene releases, you upload all your files to various external file hosts, and you run ads on your site + inject pay per click links, you could probably turn a profit from your hobby.

Turns out that if you want to have similar performance as a non-GC language you use about 3 times as much RAM compared to the non-GC language.

How does this work with respect to your previous comparison with iOS now that the iPhone 17 comes with 8GB RAM? Are you implying that no Android phones will reach performance parity with iPhones until they start shipping with 24GB RAM?

From that article it looks like this is supposed to be a joke and you’re not actually supposed to hold such a position unironically.

Why is it not surprising? Are people with anime profile pics more gullible or ignorant than the average person?

It certainly is a rich tech person’s perspective.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/30/business/politics-data-centers-electric-bills/

https://archive.ph/4roV4

We already have tools to rank titles and if it is AI slop, a low effort copycat game, the ratings will reflect this regardless of the tech that may or may not have been used.

It is not enough for me. I want to know if AI was involved so that I can avoid it even if it is good.

I’ll try to exercise my “assume good faith” muscle here because I think the above poster is at least genuine about what they are posting: I believe this poster wishes that the people who oppose the proliferation of AI at the cost of human connection would “put their money where their mouth is” by reaching out to the people that this poster feels are unfairly ignored.

Yep. I thought $100 for 8TB was expensive when I checked earlier this year and now the cheapest one is $140. Fuck 😂

The above post only applies for HTTPS traffic using a third party secure DNS - traditional P2P torrenting will leak what you are downloading to your peers. There are anonymous P2P networks like I2P that (allegedly) solve this issue, but it is not widely adopted.