I really, really hope that the 15th generation of Intel processors will be splendid good, because intel is a dead man walking if they keep fucking up. They're losing datacenter market share to Qualcomm and their gfx offerings have scarcely a thing on either Nvidia or AMD. But Linux users are up shit creek with AMD because AMDs implementation and optimization of both cpu and gfx architecture is lacking. As much as I wanted AMD to smack up intel good, it's not happening b/c i keep running into system instability when running Linux on AMD hardware, and that makes it useless for me. So i'm realistically stuck with intel. The clock is ticking. View quoted note →

Being that NOSTR is an anti-censorship protocol unlike the centralised systems like facebook and twitter and whatnot, which seem to eventually ban any hint of wrongthink, its inevitable that wrongthinkers of any and all kinds will seek it out, but from the theoretical considerations of this to seeing actual moon landing deniers (etc etc ) pop up in the extended feed here is frankly disappointing. ( It couldn't stop with the knee-jerk contrarians that advocate eating unlimited salt in your diet because the FDA recommended a limit to salt intake, would it? 🤯 ) As the saying goes, you're entitled to your own opinions but not to your own facts; deny reality at your own peril. Also, and I see that the sob story scammers have entered nostr as well. Very sad, alas the days of innocence are over for nostr.

Gizmodo

The AI Report That's Spooking Wall Street

The majority of companies are failing to see any returns on their AI investments, a report finds.

q: "A new report from MIT is casting doubt on the hype around the financial value AI brings to businesses, and may be triggering a small tech stock sell-off on Tuesday. The report, The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025, found that the promised AI gold rush isn’t paying off for most companies yet." The comparison to the Gold Rushes of the US is apt since it was the case that it was not the gold diggers that became rich from the gold mania; it was those who sold tools and supplies to the hopeful golddiggers. Always beware of manias. #econ

Today, the 9th of August, 2025: We mark today the 80th anniversary of the nuclear bomb dropped on Nagasaki, of the then Imperial Japan. Approximately 35,000 people were killed in the blast. A previous nuclear bomb was dropped on Hiroshima three days before, on the 5th of August, 1945. The surrender of Imperial Japan was to follow six days later on the 15th of August, 1945, though formalized by the signing of the surrender documents on the deck of the USS Missouri on the 2nd of September, 1945. World War Two claimed over 73 million human lives spanning from 1931~1939-1945. #otd #nagasaki #ww2 #history

It's #monday and YOU CAN WIN IF YOU WANT!! #lol #music

128 GB of storage on your phone seems like a lot, right? WRONG! The latest update to Android 14 makes the OS, reserved storage and support files alone take up 84 Gigabytes! 😳 #mobile #tech

Quite decent article. View article →