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  • Valve Says The Companies Making RAM Give Them A Price And If They Say No, They ‘Never Talk To Us Again’

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  • Oh wow, reading the wiki you linked, looks like that one exec really learned their lesson \s

    On 5 April 2006, Sun Woo Lee, Senior Manager of DRAM at Samsung Electronics, entered into a plea bargain with the US Government for his involvement in the price fixing conspiracy.[5] Following the plea agreement he was sentenced to 8 months in prison and fined US$250,000.[6] Lee was subsequently promoted to President of Samsung Germany in 2009, and then President of Samsung Europe in 2014

    edit/update: Oh, wow so Sun Woo Lee actually really lucked out as Korea focused more on making an example of the Samsung heir apparent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Jae-yong

    8 months in prison sucks, I totally concede that. Yet literally the deal they made looks like they were asked "Would you take the fall and go to prison for 8 months and then get paid millions per year afterward?"

  • The YouTube Scene Right Now

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  • Unfortunately a lot of channels have resorted to that because of the changes to algorithm and focus on shorts versus longer format. Youtube's short video audience is huge, the shorts are cheaper due to size, and I guess they don't pay the short video creators comparatively the same?

    At this point if I see "It's over!", "I am done" or "Some other dramatic but not relevant text" I often just unsub.

    Watching Veritasium's staff swapping titles and thumbnails for the same video trying to find an audience is a bit sad as that company has put a lot of effort into making great videos.

    B1M knows their target audience very well and I haven't seen many if not any clickbait titles for their stuff.

    One bummer is that I unsubbed from a channel (not naming him, dude's just trying to get by) I had been following for years because they had a very poorly disguised infomercial about a giant UPS for appliances. This was the third time they have done something like this so I called it.

  • Fetterman casts only Democratic ‘no’ vote as Senate passes measure to block US action against Iran

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  • Fetterman ran on a platform that "He's not Dr Oz!" and he's done amazingly well at that!

    Unfortunately the root of the problem with Democrat vs Republican is that while the GOP seems to have rock solid blackmail on its representatives, the DNC is a circus.

    We've got AOC and Bernie who have nothing in common with Chuckles or the Democrats that voted for more money for ICE's monthly subscription of keep people in cages and randomly terrorize people. Fetterman is indeed an asshole but again it was him or the Dr addicted to being on television so much that he tanked his career Oz (I believe that is his middle name).

    The only way out of this chaos is if we the people of the USA can pay attention long enough to get ranked choice voting implemented in enough states. Otherwise even if you can get the circus to all agree on anything, Jill Stein will come out of her crypt and siphon enough votes over to the Green party.

  • Russian 9M730 Burevestnik Missile Uses Direct-Cycle Nuclear Propulsion, Which Leaves Radioactive Trail During Flight

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  • Oh I didn't mean to praise the USA. We're also one of the last countries to use cluster munitions and white phosphorous. Also the "Highway to hell" make it clear that entrapping and slaughtering retreating forces is A OK!

  • Windows 11 hibernation has been silently hammering your SSD this whole time

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  • Sleep works great until you are the unfortunate winner of the computer randomly deciding to wake up and your GPU power cable deciding 4am is the best time to shit itself.

    Also fun boring dystopia problem, my "smart" TV for some reason kept triggering one of my workstations to come back online through wake on LAN. Moved the TV over to its own vlan and of course that problem is partially solved.

  • Iranian Hardliners Threaten President’s Life in Furious Backlash Over U.S. Agreement

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  • At one point, didn't the USAF assassinate, or atleast attempt to, the Iranians attending a ceasefire meeting?

    Its tough to keep up with everything: my partner is in USA FEMA & this maybe an interesting summer, gestures wildly at Ukraine, the heatwaves in India/Pakistan, plus stuff that hasn't even hit the news yet.

  • Windows 11 hibernation has been silently hammering your SSD this whole time

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  • That's what this article was about actually. Explaining hibernate, the consequences, giving a realistic impact of using it, explaining sleep and the benefits.

  • France mobilises €13 billion for tech sovereignty funding push

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  • Indeed. I have been hearing a lot of bad things are in the pipeline with Android being laced with "AI" plus as you mentioned Google is trying to close the doors. FDroid has been screaming bloody murder but I bet you the majority of people who read this sentence probably don't even know what that is, never mind Google is trying to shut it down.

  • Iranian Hardliners Threaten President’s Life in Furious Backlash Over U.S. Agreement

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  • disclaimer: I am not on anyone's "side". This is a horrible conflict that needs to stop before it gets worse and escalates to include other countries.

    Some of the backlash maybe over feeling the USA is walking away without enough concessions.

    A big question is likely along the lines of "Will the USA withdraw military forces from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, plus all of the smaller sites?"

    What guarantees that the USA and Israel won't stockpile arms, rebuild a new targets of opportunity list, and resume hostilities at a future date of their convenience?

    The new supreme leader of Iran lost his wife of almost 30 years, his father, and I believe another sibling. That's not something that can be easily patched up quickly, even with 300 billion.

    Another thing is the hardliners believe that Iran can keep this going plus inflict more damage at the cost of the average Iranian civilian's life... which doesn't seem to be high on their list of concerns.

    If you go to the USA's white house government page, and click on the Iran peace deal; if my enemy was posturing like this I would tell them to go fuck themselves. Never mind whatever new shit that idiot is rage tweeting in the middle of the night.

  • France mobilises €13 billion for tech sovereignty funding push

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  • I love how blissfully ignorant Microsoft is being about how much they have doomed themselves to IBM status. Still a meaningful entity but no longer a leader in anything.

    Really interested to see what emerges from the chaos. Lisuan seems like a very viable upstart to fill the void Nvidia and AMD are currently leaving open if they can scale up their fabs and do the standard Chinese business tactic of flooding the market. Apple has only spent a fraction of what Microsoft and Google has while still maintaining their ocean of cash so its possible the ghost of Steve will have the last laugh? Linux is getting a lot of praise from notable tech influencers aimed at the general market, for example LinusTechTips, which may nudge Linux into stratospheric heights like 8% market share. Or perhaps it will become like metric vs imperial where the planet uses some flavor of Linux while the USA grudgingly holds onto Windows?

    The really big one to watch is if the EU can digitize its monetary system enough to replace the VISA/Mastercard GDP vampires.

  • The YouTube Scene Right Now

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  • I appreciated https://www.youtube.com/@TheInfographicsShow for the person that does their narration to do a short introduction to show they're a human. Also all new videos start with a short 10-20 second clip of him narrating so you know its him. Otherwise they've been using the same art style for so long that I imagine they recycle 90% of their graphical assets.

  • Russian 9M730 Burevestnik Missile Uses Direct-Cycle Nuclear Propulsion, Which Leaves Radioactive Trail During Flight

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  • I vaguely remember that 1970's USA proved this was a viable technology alongside the nuclear powered jet engine but decided to not pursue it because this would be a terrible direction for the arms race to go.

  • Cancer patients are choosing ivermectin over chemo, and doctors are concerned

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  • Unfortunately very true. Over a decade ago I worked on a project that built a database of every MD in North America and most of Europe. That then got hooked up to a couple different systems that maintained a track on them (employer, title, etc) but also heavily focused on if they did any research. This part was its own data store because it was like a four dimensional record of what MD's were specialized into what, ranked them by what line they were on as a paper's authors list, and a progression in their specialty. Pharmaceuticals reps already had the raw data but no one had put together.

    The primary customers of this were obviously pharmaceuticals who found an exploit. Reps would have to document exactly what they gave MD's to ensure there was proof they hadn't tried to bribe the MD in any form. Now the exploit was something like. "Hey Dr. Specialist, we would like to fund your research!" Completely legal and I believe under a completely different set of regulations.

  • 'The retail SSD market has almost disappeared,' says Silicon Motion exec; OEMs are buying third-party drives as direct NAND supply dries up

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  • They're literally building the logistic and transport ships to secure a beachhead.

    As this one security analyst put it, if the confederates had stolen all of our gold and setup shop nearby, do you think the US would let that go?

  • To cosmic shreds, I say!

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  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_experiment

    Wu was one of the few female physicist on the Manhattan project. Absolutely amazing what she accomplished despite having the double whammy of having to overcome racism as well as sexism. Currently on my watch list is a veritasm video that talks about her experiment.

  • Only 16 percent of Americans think AI will have a positive impact on society, a new study shows

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  • AI has already and is actively making a substantial chunk of things worse.

    OpenAI has made war crimes legal

    Youtube is a sea of slop

    Book industry is drowning

    FOSS is being openly robbed while also drowning under slop

    Anti-AI paranoia is really ratcheting up and its also being exploited by AI. USAA the military savings bank has a flood of AI bots accusing humans of being bots to stifle criticism of the bank enshitifying itself. Meanwhile pre-AI video reposts have people screaming "That's AI slop!" In other places, too thorough of a text post is probably AI but it also might just be some poor neurodivergent person who is an actual expert on the subject and is excited to share.

    Then there is all the layoffs and firings.

    Health insurance scams are using AI to target those who are less lightly to appeal.

    Stuff like the people shut out of part of the job market because an AI decided they had been rejected from too many prior applications.

    Oh and the computer electronics parts market is fucked. I have a few spare DDR5 memory sticks that would now pay for a third of what my current computer cost me! Never mind the NVME spares I have on the shelf.

    Actually most of the consumer electronics market is fucked. Didn't they postpone the next play station while Valve is trying to figure out if people will be cool donating a kidney or part of their liver for the VR goggles and the steam console box.

    Only saving grace for me is my spelling and grammar skills seriously atrophied after using grammarly for a few years so most people look at my writing and never think "This sounds like AI!"

  • To cosmic shreds, I say!

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  • I thought Madam Wu's experiment provided a starting point for explaining why the universe exists despite its best efforts to annihilate itself. Disclaimer, I have passing interest in physics but I have no formal education on any of it.

  • Cancer patients are choosing ivermectin over chemo, and doctors are concerned

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  • In a better world the people promoting this stuff would be in jail as they're exploiting people's fear for their own profit.

    How much money did Joe Rogan get paid to guide all of these people to commit a round about way of suicide? How cheap is the price of a life going for these days? $10?

  • To cosmic shreds, I say!

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  • What would that do to a star's interior?