It was 8 years ago. AMD was on the verge of bankruptcy and Intel had been propping them up for years so they wouldn’t have to deal with the government going after them for having a total monopoly. If Zen had been a failure AMD wouldn’t have survived. I figured Intel had advanced stuff in the pipeline that they were just sitting on waiting for AMD to force their hand (because they were dicks like that). I was wrong.

This simultaneously made me laugh and sad. Sad because I have heavy investments in Intel.

Stellantis CEO just abruptly quit yesterday or day before too.

He’s burning it to the ground to try to get Trump elected.

Hacker sanctions are finally real.

It’s almost like the Oligarchs of the world are all on the same team.

. . . that’s because we’ve been using these images to train AI for years?

Wow you have very forgiving traffic laws where you’re from. $190 for rolling through a stop sign here.

Fair use for tugging it

Not gonna lie my inner child would be delighted to see Brazil shooting down Starlink satellites.

Most ‘hackers’ are just mid tier (mediocre) IT level types who rely on existing exploits floating around in the wild. It’d probably be hard to find any still in circulation for such an old system.

Nah you can use ghetto smtp to relay incoming mail to a different port on your server if your ISP blocks incoming 25 and sendinblue (it’s changed names but my sendinblue config is still working) to send outgoing mail if they block outgoing 25. It’s less than ideal but doable for low volume private email servers.

That was a good test run. I think it’s time to put it into production.

I mean quitting vim isn’t hard you just reset the computer.

That’s funny, I feel the same way about Excel users.

nano friends rise up!

Intel had such a huge competitive lead during AMDs Bulldozer debacle. I assumed they were still making internal advancements and just sitting on them since there wasn’t any need to push the envelope while they had basically no competition.

Now I’m wondering if they did the typical US corporation thing of laying off their actual talent and using their obscene profits from this period for bonuses for their corporate officers.

And this is why I don’t understand why Nvidia is valued so highly on the stock market.

Don’t hold your breath waiting for anything about the stock market to make sense.

There’s a reason why AMD with such a lower staff count has managed to leapfrog Intel.

Jim Keller was a pretty big reason.

The dumb masses always eventually follow the smart people. Reddit was full of mostly smart people in the beginning, if you can believe that.