@eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club

Steps to world domination:

1. “Invent” “AI” (by using other people’s data).
   
2. Get people hyped about it and ideally hooked on it.
   
3. Only provide it as a cloud service. But hey, if you want to, you can run it locally!
   
4. Buy all hardware available on the market, so that nobody but you can build more systems.
   
5. All PCs of consumers and competitors are too weak now and can’t be upgraded anymore.
   
6. Everybody depends on your cloud service! Win!
   

All of that is possible because corporations don’t have a “conscience” in capitalism. Nobody forces the RAM manufacturers to sell all their stuff to just one or two buyers, but since the only goal of that manufacturer is to make money, they do it.

ASUS Announces Price Hikes Starting January 5
ASUS has informed its partners that prices on certain products will increase starting January 5, just days before the company is expected to unveil new hardware at CES. In a letter dated December 30 and obtained by Digitimes, the Taiwanese manufacturer pointed to rising costs for memory and storage components as the primary driver behind the adjustment.

The company specifically called … ⌘ Read more

OpenAI Is Paying Employees More Than Any Major Tech Startup in History
OpenAI is paying employees more than any major tech startup in history, with average stock-based compensation hitting roughly $1.5 million per worker in 2025. “That is more than seven times higher than the stock-based pay Google disclosed in 2003, before it filed for an initial public offering in 2004,” reports the Wall Street Journal. “The … ⌘ Read more

JPMorgan Says Javice Firms Billed Millions Just for ‘Attendance’
JPMorgan Chase is now fighting to avoid paying $10.2 million in disputed legal charges racked up by Charlie Javice, the convicted founder of student-finance startup Frank, after court filings revealed her defense team billed more than $5 million simply for attending her fraud trial – including on days when court wasn’t even in session.

A previously se … ⌘ Read more

Camera Makers Went Weird in 2025 - and That’s Exactly What the Shrinking Industry Needed
The camera industry shipped 6.5 million interchangeable lens cameras last year – a 50% decline from 2010’s peak – yet 2025 may have been the most creatively ambitious year in nearly two decades of digital photography. DPReview’s Richard Butler argues that this year’s releases displayed “invention, … ⌘ Read more

Test from v0.0.5

There might be a slim chance for me to end up using spf13/cobra for v0.0.5

It Took 6+ Years For Linux’s “New” Mount API To Be Properly Documented In Man Pages
In demonstrating one of the gaps of man pages in modern times and likely having hindered the adoption of the Linux kernel’s new mount API, it took more than six years for those system calls to be properly documented within man pages. The Linux “new” mount API was introduced back in mid-2019 with Linux 5.2 and since supported by key file-systems after several years but not until weeks ago was this file descriptor based mount API sco … ⌘ Read more

Nvidia Takes $5 Billion Stake In Intel Under September Agreement
Nvidia has completed its previously announced $5 billion investment in Intel, buying over 214 million shares at a fixed price after the deal received clearance from Federal Trade Commission. “The leading AI chip designer said in September it would pay $23.28 per share for Intel common stock, in a deal that is seen as a major financial lifeline for the … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de How about “Quongsi”? I generated the first five letters with pwgen --no-capitalize --no-numerals 5 and since that already showed up in DDG search results, I simply appended the last two, which yielded nothing on DDG and Google).

What kind of project is it? Maybe we can help you find a name or nudge you in the right direction.

Blender 5.0 Benchmarks Since Blender 3.0 For CPU Rendering Performance
As part of the many different year-end benchmarks on Phoronix, over the holidays I was curious about how far the Blender 3D modeling software’s performance has evolved over the past few years. So in looking at the CPU rendering performance I ran benchmarks of the major releases since Blender 3.0 through the recently released Blender 5.0… ⌘ Read more

Taiwan’s iPass Releases Floppy Disk Pre-Paid Cash Card
Taiwan’s iPass has released a limited-edition prepaid payment card shaped exactly like a 3.5-inch floppy disk. The company, perhaps rightly so, felt the need to include a warning on the product listing: “This product only has a card function and does not have a 3.5mm [sic] disk function, please note before purchasing.”

The NFC-enabled novelty card went on sale start … ⌘ Read more

AI’s Hunger For Memory Chips Could Shrink Smartphone and PC Sales in 2026, IDC Says
The global smartphone and PC markets face potential contractions of up to 5.2% and 8.9% respectively in 2026, according to downside risk scenarios from IDC that trace the problem to memory chip manufacturers shifting production capacity away from consumer electronics toward AI data centers. Samsung Electronics, SK … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net And I froze my ass off yesterday at -5°C and strong winds. 🤣

25.2% of Energy EU Used in 2024 Came From Renewables
An anonymous reader shares a report: In 2024, 25.2% of gross final energy consumption in the EU came from renewable sources, up by 0.7 percentage points compared with 2023. This share is 17.3 pp short of meeting the 2030 target (42.5%), which would require an annual average increase of 2.9 pp from 2025 to 2030.

Among the EU countries, Sweden recorded the highest shar … ⌘ Read more

5K Gaming Is Too Hard, Even for an RTX 5090D
Asus has been showcasing its new 5K 27-inch ROG Strix 27 Pro gaming monitor running at 5,120 x 2,880 resolution and up to 180Hz, but even Nvidia’s flagship RTX 5090 struggles to deliver smooth frame rates at this demanding pixel count. In testing conducted by Asus, the RTX 5090D – a Chinese-exclusive variant with weaker AI performance – achieved just 51 frames per second in a Cyberpu … ⌘ Read more

End of year review: 0.5/10.0, and that’s because I got a domain name, lol

Lua 5.5 Released With Declarations For Global Variables, Garbage Collection Improvements
Five years after releasing Lua 5.4, Lua 5.5 debuted today as the newest version of this lightweight and embeddable scripting language… ⌘ Read more

Ler fichas técnicas de sondagens é um exercício interessante - e mostra como a matemática prova mas também pode ser usada para enganar. Um exemplo: sabiam que a última sondagem para a Euronews sobre as Presidenciais perguntava às pessoas se votariam em Joana Amaral Dias, mas nunca perguntava se votariam, por exemplo, em Jorge Pinto, encaixando-o na opção “Outros”? Nos resultados dessa sondagem, Joana Amaral Dias figura com 0% de votos, contra os 0,6% de Jorge Pinto, mas deve-nos deixar a pensar… qual seria o resultado se o nome de Jorge Pinto fosse dito explicitamente? E talvez mais importante, qual foi o critério usado para incluir um dos nomes e excluir o outro?

Intel Releases GenAI Examples v1.5 - While Validating This AI Showcase On Old Xeon CPUs
Intel engineers as part of the OPEA Project today released the Generative AI Examples v1.5 update. This “GenAIExamples” open-source project is a collection of GenAI examples as part of showing the capabilities of the Open Platform for Enterprise AI (OPEA) and also highlighting Intel’s hardware strengths for generative AI… ⌘ Read more

Darktable 5.4 RAW Photography Software Reaches Parity Between X11 & Wayland
Darktable 5.4 is out today as the newest feature release to this open-source RAW photography software. Besides improving camera support, UI enhancements, and more the Wayland support has been improved with Darktable. With today’s Darktable 5.4 release, the Wayland support should be on par with the X11 support… ⌘ Read more

#ptpol #debate #presidenciais

1 - #LMM e nomes de clientes - ambos acham que é preciso transparência

2 - suspensão de mandato - #Cotrim não pode, #Ventura já suspendeu

3 - TC lei da nacionalidade - Cotrim tem pena que TC tenha chumbado, mas gosta da lei e quer que avance sem os problemas constitucionais, Ventura insiste na lei toda mesmo a parte anticonstitucional

4 - EUA quer extrema-direita na EU - Ventura é pró-Trump, Cotrim concorda com Trump numas coisas e discorda noutras

5 - última sondagem - Cotrim acha que Ventura é só alarido (e amigo de pedófilos), Ventura tem orgulho de estar em primeiro lugar em todas as sondagens

6 - pensões - Cotrim quer pensões privadas, Ventura quer subir pensões ao nível do salário mínimo, “cortando nas gorduras” (gostava de ver essa proposta de lei… e de qq forma, isso não é medida presidencial - não que ele queira ser presidente). Na palavra final, Cotrim apela o voto dos eleitores do Chega nele em vez de Ventura

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Considerações pessoais: asco. Um mau, outro inqualificável. Não me surpreende que discutem eleitorado, mas preocupa-me que esse eleitorado exista. Não me interpretem mal, se isto fosse a segunda volta obviamente que sem qualquer dúvida seria Cotrim a ter o meu voto, mas… ew.

2025 Was the Beginning of the End of the TV Brightness War
The television industry’s brightness war may have hit its inflection point in 2025, the year TCL and Hisense released the first consumer TVs capable of 5,000 nits under specific settings – a figure that would have seemed absurd not long ago when manufacturers struggled to reach 2,000 nits. LG introduced Primary RGB Tandem OLED technology, moving fr … ⌘ Read more

AMD Awarding Ryzen AI Max+ “Strix Halo” Laptops To Those Fixing ROCm Bugs
AMD Ryzen AI Max+ “Strix Halo” is beautifully awesome. Probably my favorite hardware of 2025 whether it’s in desktop form with the likes of the Framework Desktop or for very powerful laptops between the Zen 5 CPU cores and very capable Radeon 8060S Graphics within devices like the HP ZBook Ultra G1a. If you are interested by Strix Halo too and looking for a way to obtain one without the high price, AMD is running a holiday special of those … ⌘ Read more

Intel XPU Manager Updated With BMG-G31 GPU Support
Intel XPU Manager 1.3.5 released today as the newest version of this open-source software for monitoring and managing Intel GPU hardware with a focus on their data center products. Notable with this revision is adding BMG-G31 GPU support… ⌘ Read more

How We Ingest Plastic Chemicals While Consuming Food
A comprehensive database built by scientists in Switzerland and Norway has catalogued 16,000 chemicals linked to plastic materials, and the findings paint a troubling picture of what Americans are actually eating when they prepare food in their kitchens. Of those 16,000 chemicals, more than 5,400 are considered hazardous to human health by government and industry sta … ⌘ Read more

Coursera Acquires Udemy For $930 Million
Coursera announced on Wednesday that it will acquire rival online learning platform Udemy in an all-stock deal that values the combined company at $2.5 billion, a move that brings together two of the largest U.S.-based players in an industry that has struggled since pandemic-era enrollment highs faded. Under the terms of the agreement, Udemy shareholders will receive 0.8 shares of Coursera for … ⌘ Read more

Opus 1.6 Audio Codec Adds New Machine Learning Functionality
Version 1.6 of libopus as the library for the open-source Opus audio codec is now available. Opus 1.6 brings new machine learning “ML” based features in building atop the machine learning features initially added to Opus 1.5… ⌘ Read more

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Host: Exomate X352 (MP PV)
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Packages: 172 (pkgsrc)
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Racks of AI Chips Are Too Damn Heavy
The weight of AI server racks has reached a point where legacy data centers cannot accommodate them even with significant retrofitting efforts, The Verge reports. Chris Brown, chief technical officer at Uptime Institute, said most retrofitting attempts would require “bulldozing the building and starting over from scratch.”

AI racks are projected to reach 5,000 pounds compared to the 400 to 600 pounds … ⌘ Read more

4: (ainda a Lei da Nacionalidade) GeM explica o que diz a Constituição, o porquê, e que concorda com ela. É favor e acha urgente haver a Lei da Nacionalidade, mas tem de ser uma sem violações à constituição. AV não sua berraria e pressão ao GeM mete o GeM a dizer “temos de mudar a constituição”. Fonix, mas eles sabem que isto não é uma eleição a deputado mas sim a Presidente? E há quem vote nisto… Jornalista finalmente pergunta isto ao AV, Ventura bla bla e como jornalista está sem tempo deixa andar :-( GM acha que só há 1 artigo na constituição que não pode ser mudado (288).

5: futuro do país - GeM quer mobilizar a sociedade para uma mudança, instalar a união para irmos em frente. “Eu não disse que queria mudar a constituição”, mas se a direita quiser mudar, logo que não toque no 288, siga.

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Foi preciso um debate com o AV para cair o pano ao GeM e ver-se o que está por detrás de palavras de ocasião.

Why Floods Threaten One of the Driest Places in the World
One of the most water-scarce regions on Earth is now experiencing a dramatic atmospheric shift that’s pushing moisture onto Oman’s northern coast at rates more than 1.5 times the global average, according to a Washington Post investigation of global atmospheric data [non-paywalled source]. The change has turned extreme rainfall into a recurrent source of cat … ⌘ Read more

Are Warnings of Superintelligence ‘Inevitability’ Masking a Grab for Power?
Superintelligence has become “a quasi-political forecast” with “very little to do with any scientific consensus, emerging instead from particular corridors of power.” That’s the warning from James O’Sullivan, a lecturer in digital humanities from University College Cork. In a refreshing 5,600-word essay in Noema magazine, he notes t … ⌘ Read more

Rust Coreutils 0.5 Released - Inching Toward Full GNU Compatibility
Rust Coreutils 0.5 is now available as the latest milestone for this Rust-based alternative to GNU Coreutils. Rust Coreutils 0.5 continues moving closer to “full GNU compatibility” with nearly a 90% pass rate on the GNU test suite… ⌘ Read more

The World’s Electric Car Sales Have Spiked 21% So Far in 2025
Electrek reports:

EV and battery supply chain research specialists Benchmark Mineral Intelligence reports that 2.0 million electric vehicles were sold globally in November 2025, bringing global EV sales to 18.5 million units year-to-date. That’s a 21% increase compared to the same period in 2024.

Europe was the clear growth leader in November, whil … ⌘ Read more

2/n
CM explica que OEs não são moções de censura, apontando a agulha da irresponsabilidade a LMM. LMM acha que CM não explicou o chumbo só OE (espero que ela responda).
3 - migração: LMM acha que as medidas foram boas, e as mas repercussões também vão ser resolvidas com os efeitos da vida verde. CM anda atrás para responder em relação ao chumbo do OE, para dizer que a situação da Saúde hoje prova que o Bloco tinha razão. CM aponta que até o Governo já vai recalibrar a via verde porque ela não funciona. Relembra que estes números de hoje provam que os migrantes não vêm para ser subsidiodependentes como alguns dizem, pelo contrário
4 - Chega - CM não dará posse a PMs que não têm condições, como manda a constituição. Não quer passar a campanha a falar de um governo do Chega que não vai acontecer. LMM dá se tiver acordo escrito. E se não cumprir o acordo? “Isso não me passa pela cabeça” (porque nós nunca vimos o Ventura a mudar de conversa de um dia para o outro certo?)
5 - Saúde - LMM critica CM ser contra as PPP. CM lembra o dono da PPP que recusa a atender pacientes que não sejam rentáveis. Saúde tem de ser para todos (tal como diz a constituição).
6 - Europa - CM fala da proposta europeia sobre pensões e o perigo que isso é. Fala da ingerência de Trump na Europa. É solidária com Ucrânia

Arkansas Becoming 1st State To Sever Ties With PBS, Effective July 1
joshuark writes: Arkansas is becoming the first state to officially end its public television affiliation with PBS. The Arkansas Educational Television Commission, whose members are all appointed by the governor, voted to disaffiliate from PBS effective July 1, 2026, citing the $2.5 million annual membership dues as “not feasible. … ⌘ Read more

GPT-5.2 Arrives as OpenAI Scrambles To Respond To Gemini 3’s Gains
OpenAI on Thursday released GPT-5.2, its latest and what the company calls its “best model yet for everyday professional use,” just days after CEO Sam Altman declared a “code red” internally to marshal resources toward improving ChatGPT amid intensifying competition from Google’s well-received Gemini 3 model. The GPT-5.2 series ships in three tiers: … ⌘ Read more

3 - Europa e Ucrânia - CM defendeu no parlamento europeu que a Europa devia reforçar os meios de defesa da Ucrânia, mas está contra uma escalada militar, o caminho tem de ser a Paz, mas não a solução de capitulação de Trump. AF (q destaca q isto não é assunto para um presidente) diz que é errado q se chega à paz enviando armas, não acha bem enviar armas aos palestinianos e portanto também não acha bem enviar à Ucrânia. Agressor e agredido na Rússia e Ucrânia?

4 - Nobel da Paz e Venezuela - CM condena Maduro, mas também o Nobel de Paz. AF diz que estão de acordo.

5 - CM não deixa debate chegar ao fim sem pedir à RTP para repensar a sua posição no que diz respeito à Eurovisão, AF concorda.

6 - Jovens e anonimato nas redes sociais - AF acha que vale a pena fazer esses debates. AF é “contra o anonimato na internet” mais ou menos. CM diz que a cena dos jovens é se calhar como o Tabaco. Anonimato vs. Segurança é falsa dicotomia.

7 - Estranha última pergunta, um bocado saída do nada, e surpreendentemente isso é onde se vê uma diferença de opinião: com AF (mal) a criticar o anonimato na net, CM (bem) a defendê-la.

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Considerações pessoais: mais um debate entre os “candidatos bons”, sem surpresas a não ser no final com AF espantosamente s atacar o direito (e protecção graças) ao anonimato

I’ve rebuilt ntfy with the web interface, though it took me an hour or so of JavaScript dependency hell and a certain library whose native interface doesn’t have support for NetBSD

• Step 1. Clone ntfy repository as usual

• Step 2. export NODE_ENV=production

• Step 3. make web-build

• Step 4. Make a tarball with the generated assets and copy it over

• Step 5. Repeat the above mentioned first step

• Step 6. Unpack the assets into server/

• Step 7. Build backend with make cli-linux-server

• Step 8. Done

The result is right here

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Too little, too late: Europa aprova meta de redução de emissões de 85% em 2040 (90%, mas 5% podem ser “compados” em créditos de carbono).

Isto é um bocado ridículo, contudo, porque a Europa é signatária do acordo de Paris, e para o poder cumprir, a ciência diz que não só esta redução de emissões tem de existir, como até tem de ser maior.

Mas pronto, continuamos nas proclamações enquanto adiamos as ações…

#criseclimática

https://www.publico.pt/2025/12/10/azul/noticia/ja-ha-acordo-europeu-reduzir-emissoes-90-ate-2040-diabo-detalhes-2157600

Coisas sobre a Greve Geral que ainda nem toda a gente sabe:

1. A greve não é só para funcionários públicos, é para todos;

2. Aderir à greve é tão simples como não ir trabalhar: não é preciso mais nada, nem avisar a chefia nem nada. Tudo é automático;

3. A única “repercussão negativa” de fazer greve é que o trabalhador não recebe a remuneração desse dia;

4. Fazer greve não é uma “coisa da política”, é uma defesa dos direitos dos trabalhadores, que estão em causa neste pacote laboral (fica mais fácil ser despedido, mesmo sem razão; horas de trabalho de graça; etc.);

5. A greve é mesmo para todos: não é preciso um contrato de trabalho, e nem é preciso ser trabalhador - reformados, estudantes, todos podem fazer greve. Uma forma de o fazer é minimizando dar trabalho aos outros, a não ser em casos de urgência.

#GreveGeral

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‘Food and Fossil Fuel Production Causing $5 Billion of Environmental Damage an Hour’
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: The unsustainable production of food and fossil fuels causes $5 billion of environmental damage per hour, according to a major UN report. Ending this harm was a key part of the global transformation of governance, economics and finance required “before col … ⌘ Read more

4 - Justiça: #Seguro diz que a Justiça precisa de ser esclarecer, o problema não é as leis mas sim o seu não cumprimento. #GouveiaEMelo acha que Ministério Público tem de ser como a mulher de César. Estão alinhados.

5 - Defesa: Seguro é um Europeísta. GEMelo não é europeísta, é “um pé na Europa, um pé no Atlântico”. Qual é a diferença? GeM não sabe dizer. GeM diz que os investimentos estão a ser mal feitos porque Presidente não tem visão, mas o presidente não tem nada a haver com isto, é o Governo e no máximo a AR. Seguro quer Comprar Europeu, tecnologia dual Europeia, GeM também - ambos concordam que ainda não podemos fazer isso.

6 - Guerra e Paz: entramos em Guerra se as coisas caminharem nessa direção? Nenhum dos dois respondeu, falaram mais do tema anterior que é menos perigoso para o eleitoralismo.

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Conclusão/considerações pessoais: dois maus candidatos, mas isto serviu para me consolidar na ideia que GeM é pior. Tenho curiosidade em ouvir MM a falar nalguns destes temas, para ver se está mais alinhados com o Governo (por exemplo com a conversa do salário mínimo), para comparação. Apesar de ter ficado com a ideia de GeM ter sido pior (aquela “pequena política” inicial provavelmente influenciou-me) foi Seguro quem deixou passar medidas inconstitucionais, e não vê nada de errado

Microsoft To Invest $17.5 Billion in India
Microsoft announced on Tuesday its largest-ever investment in Asia – $17.5 billion over four years starting in 2026 – to expand cloud and AI infrastructure across India, fund skilling programs, and support ongoing operations in the country. The commitment adds to a $3 billion investment the company announced in January 2025 that is on track to be spent by the end of 2026. A new hyperscale cloud … ⌘ Read more

Xbox Is Bleeding Out
Microsoft’s Xbox consoles were conspicuously absent from Black Friday’s winners, failing to crack the top three in U.S. sales during one of the retail calendar’s most important weeks. According to Circana analyst Mat Piscatella, the PlayStation 5 captured 47% of Black Friday week console sales ending November 29, followed by the Nintendo Switch 2 at 24% and – somewhat remarkably – the NEX Playground, a Kinect-like Android device … ⌘ Read more

AMD EPYC Embedded 2005 Series Announced For BGA Zen 5 CPUs
AMD today announced their newest member of their expansive EPYC family: the EPYC Embedded 2005 series. The new AMD EPYC Embedded 2005 Series are intended primarily for networking, storage, and industrial devices while these BGA processors will likely see other interesting thin-server uses as well. ⌘ Read more

England need to win next Test or Ashes will get embarrassing - McGrath
Australia legend Glenn McGrath says England must now know they need to adapt their approach and win the third Test in Adelaide or they could be facing a 5-0 Ashes defeat. ⌘ Read more

Bug-Catching “Smatch” Static Analysis On The Linux Kernel Under Threat Due To Funding Gap
For the past 15 years the Smatch static analysis tool has been routinely run for uncovering countless bugs within the Linux kernel. Dan Carpenter who authored Smatch and has been routinely analyzing the Linux kernel with it has authored more than 5,568 patches over the years to become one of the top bug fixers for the kernel. But his funding at Linaro has been cut and the project’s future now in question… ⌘ Read more