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I'm starting to think you don't actually love the things you claim to love? But yes, several communities are having trouble with these things. Here's one: https://lakelandgazette.info/news/2026/07/05/meta-data-cente... and here's another: https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2026/03/amazon-wil...

It always made more sense as the host CPU; the Knights Landing product was vastly more useful. The problem has always been hanging your compute on the far end of a PCI bus. In AI when you're just shipping FP16 around it doesn't matter as much, but in the HPC world we want FP64, and I/O constraints kill this product dead.

Waymo cars are generally "involved": https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2025/09/14/waymo-...

I can only find two fatality crashes in NHTSA data, and Waymo vehicles were merely "involved" in both of them.

Hard to have vendor lock-in without vendors! Not that I think anyone should be lining up to produce what appear to be clones of the Intel Xeon Phi.

Thanks for letting me know. Otherwise I would have assumed that 1.5 million of dollars of income per week was some kind of success!

I wish I had a product whose 'near-total collapse' meant I was 'only' selling two thousand of them a week

Nothing in those notes is interesting, but switching to Lua is. It doesn't matter that it happened a few weeks ago.

Thanks; it's much easier to examine assertions and weigh evidence when I can actually see the evidence instead of someone talking at me, regardless of their credentials. I appreciate the link.

They "shoot themselves in the foot" by only offering it in a billion-and-a-half-person market? Not sure how. The sales numbers in ROW are probably a rounding error compared to India.

Also HMD already sells that other product you're describing. They're on the same website linked above; click "Feature Phones" to see them.

The article about an AI-generated X11 server? Why not?

The aim is to reduce the number of users of the software who are uncomfortable with those who are gay, trans, and/or anticolonial, probably because dealing with such people is a heavier burden than the other kind.

There are also studies that completely refute the "social media is harmful" narrative too, and I'm talking on the order of millions of participants across more than 50 countries.

Why not link to those instead of a youtube video?

not having to learn what Nix flakes are is a pretty big plus

And another common claimed abuse of Flock data is cops using it to stalk people in other cities, other states, and across the country.

The potential for abuse rises with the number of people who have access to that data, regardless of who they work for. Restricting access strictly to users in the municipality under contract reduces the number of people with access and thereby mitigates some abuse vectors.

a vibe-coded "shell", which is a term that has evolved to describe a suite of software that does all the desktop-environment stuff that you don't get when you use an X11 window manager or Wayland compositor that isn't part of a bigger desktop ecosystem.

It's the UK equivalent of the US "trashing".

Netherlands was not. It was a republic of oligarch-run states. They did not have even landholder suffrage until halfway through the 1800s.

Depends on who "you" are. A project manager might be better off. An individual contributor is probably better off using the right tool for the job.

I'm not sure the difference between low-effort slop and high-effort slop is as significant as you seem to assume.

What do you imagine the farming robots will look like? I'm betting they look like expensive purpose built tractors.

this is the strongest endorsement of peertube I've seen so far

presumably

So it's "selective degradation of functionality" based entirely on your assumptions regarding the motivations of the users? How is this a useful description?

It doesn't, because nothing has been released, and nothing will for months. However, since literally everything else in the author's Github account is from Claude, it's a fairly safe assumption that this is too.

Phrased this way, nothing changes: both true and irrelevant. In other words, any action taken in response to this message is an overreaction. It's just noise.

Such claims can both be true and pointless. For those of us who have to decide what actions to take, there is a point in differentiating between bugs and vulnerabilities, and breathlessly proclaiming "we found a vulnerability but we don't have an exploitation vector or proof that there's a meaningful security consequence" is annoying and likely to get the proclaimer ignored in the future.

But not the other way around, which makes them different.

Sorry, are you accusing government workers of deliberately de-housing people in pursuit of a bad salary?

Probably not an accident; see Kim. Data Center Cooling Water Discharge: Assessing Environmental Transparency and Information Gaps, 32 Hastings Envt'l L.J. 177 (2026)

But the work is out there, for instance Miara et al. Thermal pollution impacts on rivers and power supply in the Mississippi River watershed, Environ. Res. Lett. 13 034033 (2018)

Worthington et al. The effects of a thermal discharge on the macroinvertebrate community of a large British river: implications for climate change. Hydrobiologia 753, 81–95 (2015)

Lukšienė, Sandström, Lounasheimo, and Andersson. The effects of thermal effluent exposure on the gametogenesis of female fish. Journal of Fish Biology, 56: 37-50 (2000)

Penk and Williams. Thermal Effluents from Power Plants Boost Performance of the Invasive Clam Corbicula Fluminea in Ireland's Largest River. Science of The Total Environment, vol. 693 (2019)

The thing being covered up here is being in the general area when someone else committed a crime. I'm not seeing how 30 years lines up with slightly worse than that.

I would describe Wikipedia's process as democratic but not necessarily open. And it's pretty hypocritical to describe how they operate as 'mob rule' while complaining that rabble-rousing on other platforms should be allowed. Which is it? Should Sanger be allowed to raise a mob to win a policy vote, or should Wikipedia forbid external vote-whipping?

I stopped engaging with Wikipedia because my experience of their administration is that it's deeply toxic. This specific instance doesn't seem too out-of-hand to me, since the rules are clear in this instance. It's where there are grey areas that their behavior starts to get unhinged.