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Re:Intel stock collapse worsens as $3.5T chip rout spreads on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @12:27AM (#50348435)
What affect on day to day operations of Intel does speculation on already sold stocks have?
Re:WTF Ubuntu? on Monday November 02, 2026 @05:26PM (#50344859)
Have a look at the bug page for jammy

https://bugs.launchpad.net/kernel-sru-workflow/+bug/2171802

It seems to have passed everything but testing?

They could use better communication, but if they arent happy with testing a kernel update for something that hasnt been exploited in the wild a few more days making sure its not going to brick a bunch of servers is probably a good thing.

Re:Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament on Saturday October 31, 2026 @06:41AM (#50314761)
I mean its just a practicality.

Lots of governments just end up with career lawyers and politicians.

They can choose their advisors and their advice.

The more varied experts you can get into parliament, the more likely you have an on the record disagreement from an expert preventing a politician from choosing the incorrect advice that suits them better.

Thats not to say they are going to be any better for corruption, but in todays world there are so many deep silos that governments just completely step over and disregard.

Re:Nvidia and Micron Make Up 34% of America's Earnings Boom on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @01:17AM (#50269603)
>Ok great, thanks for clarification. But still, on year 3 of the AI buildout, assuming the pace doesn't accelerate (it's already pretty fast!) then each GPU bought logs $0 profit since it's offset by amortization of the last two years.

Probably worth noting that Azure has had GPU resources for a while, I think it was already a profitable line for them, and since people have been chasing GPU compute on cloud platforms it can be difficult in some regions getting a reservation. Microsoft is probably looking at AI as Another profitable use case for our assets, let's expand it rather than a greenfields GPU buildout from zero. And where capacity doesn't get used by AI their customers can use it for other stuff across most not all SKUs

Re:Qwen has alter egos triggered by flipping a single neuron on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @12:34AM (#50269389)
Virtual call center agents all suddenly think they are Ford F-150s
>The US has the 1st and 2nd amendments, which gives us protection from tyranny in the government

Lmao. Jim Tyranny has had what? 3 cracks at him? Hardly protection.

>Meanwhile there are more heat deaths in Europe than gun deaths in America.

This is a weird metric of freedom. It seems more like a reflexive, zeitgeist based response than any actual freedom metric.

In my experience the country with the most freedom is Canada. I have never seen anything like it. It's just so easy to do business there. Even if it wasn't that the laws enable it (they do) but even the way people operate. Being able to have a discussion with a customer without 12 rounds of a solicitor trying to insert dumb loopholes into a contract, costing the potential customer more in billable hours to their solicitor than the cost of the contract.

The USA is just junk. States that want to be Feds, Feds that want to be States, and when you cut through all the red tape you still have to deal with Litigious, ignorant Americans. Oh and if you want to import or export something just forget it.

"Oh but we have guns" is basically the exception that proves the rule, in a country where people get detained for such crimes as "Being beloved childrens author Mem Fox" or "Said naughty things on reddit" or "Working while waiting for Immigration to sort their status out".

But guns right. Guns. Woohoo freedom yeehaw guns.

Re:SS United States to be sunk as largest artificial reef on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @11:24PM (#50268995)
Might not be great for the fish tbh.
<subsidised, officially sanctioned by nearly every government, regulated to be easily deployed> technology overtaking <banned by several governments, mired in red tape, with a huge opposing lobby with deep pockets that's part of every group that should be supporting it> technology who would have thunk it.
Re:US designates helium as a critical material on Monday October 26, 2026 @06:52PM (#50252292)
>They should have smuggled nukes from the collapsed soviet Russia or do whatever was necessary to produce nukes.

The plan in Iran was always self sufficiency.

>Opened a Meta for Business account to try and buy ads. Immediate lifetime ban before taking even a single action.

It let me pay for ads for 2 weeks and then decided I need a temporary ban. Theres no reason posted for the ban. Temporary ban has no end date. Every time I submit a support ticket, they tell me to just chill out and maybe it will end next week. This has been going on 3 years.

Re:SimCity, but with Permits on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @09:59PM (#50175142)
>Somehow the anarchists never seem to expect people to use their newfound freedom to erect a new government in place of the old.

Theres so much anarchist writing on this exact topic lmao. It's even the core theme of Le Guin's Dispossessed, with the anarchists replacing a state with an internalised social hierarchy, even while worrying that certain elements of their organisation layer are going to become the government, they rebuild the government.

No anarchist I have ever met has ever thought that one day they turn the government off and thats the end of the job.

Re:US Man Given Prison Sentence for Bot-Farming Music Streams on Thursday October 08, 2026 @10:56PM (#50015443)
No says the man in washington, listening to your own song 10000 times simultaneously is "fraud"
Its just like, 1TB of LLDP/Pings/Probes/Whatever

Looks like nmap OS detection can use ~90kb per host per attempt.

Define "Liberal".

I know conservatives love some kinds of control, and centrist/leftist parties love other kinds of control. Swinging from one to the other gets you both, not neither.

The gang gets used as target practice for a Tomahawk missile.
If its modelled after the Australian Access and Assistance bill, which it probably is, they will just compel the app to provide the capability to gather the data before/after its encrypted/decrypted, and stream it to some kind of logging device the feds install in your rack.
Satellites are very reliant on ground ops. Its much like crypto. You think all your stuff is in space, but the FBI agent has a wrench and will just break your kneecaps until you let him in. But also the FBI agent will pull your operating permit for the country your ground stations are in and take you offline.
Re:Our approach to EU text provenance rules on Monday October 05, 2026 @11:28PM (#49973819)
This also isnt that.
Re:Our approach to EU text provenance rules on Monday October 05, 2026 @11:27PM (#49973813)
>There's lots of regulations that are easy to bypass.

Considering kids already use word substitution and other techniques to avoid plagiarism detectors, is creating a new kind of plagiarism detector weak to word substitution a valid path forward?

Actually, if anything it's just going to compound the false positive rate, making things worse for people who arent cheating.

Re:12,000-year-old Göbeklitepe burials explain scattered bones on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @10:31PM (#49903675)
>Graeber has been dead for years.

Yeah I have been trying to "was" him as much as possible.

>Your references post date their work

Yep but theres no conspiracy to hide these facts that only the brave Graeber can explain through the medium of book sales.

>Jomon Japan

Yeah I am faintly remembering something about their giant burial cairns or something.

Re:When oil prices spike, where does the money go? on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @10:28PM (#49903659)
Somehow I read that in popeyes voice.
>Windows NT 3.1 and Jurassic Park were both released

A horror about the unchecked madness of human technological development, and a movie about dinosaurs.

Re:12,000-year-old Göbeklitepe burials explain scattered bones on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @06:10PM (#49901435)
Again I don't see the comparison being made?

Like we known hunter gatherers had social hierarchy, settlements and crafts.

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/01/preserved-10500-year-o...

“These aren’t people that were struggling to survive. They were people confident in their understanding of this landscape, and of the behaviours and habitats of different animal species that lived there,” added Gray.

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020ArchP..27..329T/abstra...

"Their social organization was complex and can even be compared with that of the Levantine Early Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) farming society."

It seems like Graeber was fighting a strawman?

Re:12,000-year-old Göbeklitepe burials explain scattered bones on Monday September 28, 2026 @11:32PM (#49887811)
>The linear narrative of the evolution of human societies is dead

This is I guess one of the bigger problems with Graeber, like when he was attacking Silicon Valley he demonstrated he had absolutely no idea what he was arguing against.

Likewise, armchair reading of human social development has never appeared to be linear to me. Palace Economy > Crash > Temple Economy > Crash seems pretty damn standard. I was watching an old documentary on the socioeconomic development of Egypt and it looks like they discovered and rediscovered several important social and economic reforms, that were then lost and rediscovered by themselves and other societies over and over again.

The question is, was Graeber an idiot and just didn't know what he was talking about or was Graeber just another grifter like Hancock who relies on misrepresenting other peoples arguments for financial gain.

Considering that the venn diagram of AI safety gooners and OpenAI is a circle, and that these idiots are starting to worship this stuff as a religion, expecting rational action from them is kind of ludicrous. For all we know Aella promised them a gangbang if they delayed the model a week.
They would never upset their AI eschaton by switching it off. If anything they need more ceremonial cult leaders.
Jimmy CIA here to sell you a new security product.
Re:An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot on Monday September 28, 2026 @02:43AM (#49874404)
>has been repeatedly shown to allow unfriendly AI to escape containment:

Has it been shown, or has the cult simply updated their tenets to preclude AI containment?

I swear any idiot with the tiniest bit of security or networking experience could box up an LLM. Failing to do it properly is a choice.

More power than anything* the fibre usually comes later.

One going up near me is being built on the site of an old coal fired power plant. Lots of juice and an old dam for water. Theres not exactly 2000 cores of fiber out that way, but I am sure it will come eventually.

Theres some going into old paper mills and logging camps too, same sort of thing, near water, lots of juice, out of the way.

*Sometimes theres a simultaneous fibre buildout, or they are built where theres a lot passing through but its less of a concern afaik.

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