In this TeamSpeak server, Hamachi still means a VPN you use to host Garry's Mod servers. But they do know this: squeakers migrating from Discord in the wake of age verification are going to get banned immediately.

I remember back in 2023 I was gonna write a piece about devs using DLSS as a crutch for performance but decided not to because I didn't feel like there was enough proof. Should have ignored that feeling and gone full in on vibes because I would have been right!

Sulla purges Roman Senate of political rivals in unprecedented display of executive power

No idea if this is true, but I wouldn't be surprised because this man's theory about people being mad about the economy is that it's just hysteria. Yes, if you think you're struggling, it's just all in your head! Pay no mind to real income going down after 2020!

I only shop at Costco for chicken, but if every store except Costco stopped selling chicken, I have a feeling the price of chicken would go up pretty quickly. Timmy Two Cells unsurprisingly doesn't really get it. He's got a few screws loose.

There are three options: requiring unanimous consensus before decisions can be enacted, one appointment per Presidential term with no cap on membership, or complete abolition. The current system where there are literally no checks and a President can install every single justice is dictatorial.

The media has completely failed like 50% of this country. Absolutely absurd that the most critical mainstream outlets get is a general nod of acknowledgement of how crazy Trump is before moving on to a segment on the latest inane bullshit.

I'm only on Windows because Linux just isn't great for laptops, particularly newer ones and those not made with Linux in mind.

Alright, rev up the gerrymandering machine and get rid of all the Republican districts in blue states. You can gerrymander every single district in New York to have a little bit of NYC and turn the whole thing blue. Works for me!

A Decade of AMD Ryzen: 10 Years of CPUs Tested How AMD Went From Near Collapse to CPU Dominance www.techspot.com/article/3117...

This is literally like how the USSR and China plastered Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, etc over everything. Egotism really does not know ideology.

Occasion. I have a nigh impossible time remembering if it's two C's or two S's or both or neither. Latin hasn't been much of a help.

MSI PinSafe motherboards promise smoother PCB backs and fewer cut fingers

And there we go, whole thing was faked.

So I've had an LG C5 for a couple of weeks and I think the degree to which the brightness fluctuates on OLED is insanely understated. It's borderline unusable for gaming without seriously reducing the brightness. At some point I'm getting a Mini LED for gaming.

I love how he's just running NYC like he's playing Democracy 4. He solved the pothole crisis and now he's on to squatters.

I swear the only time my laptop fails to go to sleep is when I put it in my backpack. Thing is literally too hot to touch all over. It seriously can't be this difficult for Microsoft to figure this out.

I really enjoy people going back to articles from 2006 where pundits were hand wringing about how unpopular Democrats were going into the midterms.

I remember one of the videos I did for Silicon Insights (RIP) was about P and E cores and whether disabling the E cores on the 200 series was a good idea. In nearly every single game the performance either went down by a large margin or it didn't matter.

Man it would have been nice if he thought about this before putting Iran at war with us.

Go fuck yourself Bobby, my father didn't have brain stem strokes before he got COVID and stayed in a hospital for a month. You're going to hell you son of a bitch, and hopefully sooner rather than later.

Anthropic is moving to API billing, Microsoft is going to do it too, I guess OpenAI is probably not far behind. Now the claims of "they can just increase prices like Uber did" will be put to the test. Will people pay $200 a month minimum for ChatGPT? Guess we're gonna find out!

I feel like this is a weird thing to be concerned about when Snapdragon X2 laptops so far show pretty good gaming performance. I'd be surprised if Prism holds gaming back except perhaps when targeting higher framerates like 120 FPS.

The math is hard to argue with. Point at inflation all you want, but when you crunch the numbers based on median income and expenses, it really does not look good. Unless there's some specific reason why the median doesn't make sense.

Imagine having so much money that you're giving away billions of dollars per year and you're still in the green by a few billion. Granted, Amazon stock can go up and down (and it's been down quite badly lately) but the overall trend is absolutely upwards.

Great article if you're curious why people are still upset over inflation. If post COVID inflation was 1000%, do you think consumers would be happy as long as prices remained the same for a year? We're at 20% or so in 5 years when it should be close to 10%. This sucks.

Literally the whole point of this show is that this lady is basically Sherlock Holmes and just fucking knows what's going on at a single glance. She doesn't need fucking CoPilot. What the fuck are we doing?

Okay so I'm watching the High Potential episode that came out this week and there's a fucking plug for CoPilot in it. Like, this is a police procedural, what fucking detective is gonna plug in case data into CoPilot? This is fucking awful.

ChatGPT and other models will literally just roleplay with you. It reminds me of that one time where a guy was asking Claude to help him code and it told him to do it himself. It does this kind of stuff like a person playing DnD saying "it's what my character would do!"

Wonder if this will get to Bazzite any time soon, I've got a HTPC with a 9060 XT 8GB that can struggle from time to time.

Yahoo email's custom AI summarize tool Yahoo Scout once again was used to try and launder a scam into my inbox. Scout, which you can't turn off as far as I can tell, credulously tells me that I bought some Bitcoin but if I didn't authorize it, there's this number I can call. Amazing.

Will these morons ever fucking learn that Iran will keep bludgeoning us with the Strait until they get what they want? They're probably gonna bump up the toll to $4 million a ship after this.

What the fuck did we get out of this? Sky high gas prices for a few years? A dozen totaled jets? Shattered diplomatic and military credibility? A bunch of dead Iranians? Status quo ante bellum? What a fucking disaster. Worse than Vietnam.

The polling indicates that Trump and his cronies are gonna do great in states like Wyoming and Kentucky, and absolutely dogshit basically everywhere else. I know lots of people wanna see his approval dip below 30%, but it really does not matter as long people vote.

The whole argument for AI reaching profitability is that companies can just jack up the prices and people will pay because AI is becoming essential. But now that the moment has arrived, Anthropic's users are revolting and saying they'll just go to OpenAI. What if OpenAI does the same thing?

Things have gotta be pretty bad at Anthropic if they're telling people they can only use OpenClaw through the API instead of through a regular subscription. It's really similar to the Sora situation: comes out and a few months later it's basically shut down. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

For fun I compared my latest electricity bill to the one from last year, and per watt I'm paying at least 10% more. The only reason why I'm paying about the same is because I'm using less power, maybe because of better insulation and because I got rid of my desktop. Inflation at 3% my ass.

My family will have to spend 25 percent of our net income on childcare this fall. FUCK YOU.

Just noticed today that short interest in the Nasdaq 100 (or at least the QQQ ETF based on the Nasdaq 100) is steadily creeping upwards and is nearly 10% when two months ago it was 7%. By contrast the Vanguard S&P500 ETF VOO is at practically no short interest. Not a good sign for tech stocks.

What did this gain me? Why did I pay taxes to a government that gloats about destroying the kind of infrastructure we used to build yet no longer do? Yea, their leaders suck. So do ours.

I was telling friends and family (not that they care much about the stock market) that it'd go back down by the end of the week. This was based purely on vibes, of course.

There's a reason why "squeaky wheel gets the grease" is a saying. It'd be pretty weird if trans activists suddenly stopped agitating for what they wanted just because the guy they voted for got the win. If Mamdani wants to keep being mayor, he'll need to solve his supporters' issues. Politics 101.

Golden retriever runs 15 feet after owner mimes throwing tennis ball

Crazy that the stock market goes up after Trump admits he lost the war. My guys, this does not mean we go back in time before Iran blew up a fifth of the world's fossil fuels supply chain. We are living in a world that has happened in addition to the Hormuz Strait now having a toll.

Are falling RAM prices the first sign that capex is coming down for AI? I assume this isn't due to increased supply, I think we would have heard if a new fab was up and running. Maybe decreased consumer demand? I feel like that just doesn't really make sense.

Holy shit we're actually going to lose. Despite everything, Iran is gonna come out of this war in the strongest position it has been in like... centuries?

This video got me thinking: will we even notice when tokens are no longer subsidized? It's pretty clear that the people who complain about rate limits or having to use less complex models are very few in number. It also won't affect AI's financial situation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=w62x...

Man they're that worried people don't think they're Christians, huh?