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pachouli-please··on Sexual harassment takes a hidden toll on gig workers
(companies everywhere cheer very quietly as it's not their problem thanks to contractor hiring arrangements) sigh
pachouli-please··on AMD expects to outsell Intel in Q4 for the first time in history
Ryzen and EPYC have been doing crazy kickflips since around 2018 in both value and performance. Since Ryzen 3000/Zen 2 things hit parity on IPC generally, and Ryzen 5000/Zen 3 and beyond has just been total crush mode. Especially after 3d cache was intro'd.
pachouli-please··on AMD expects to outsell Intel in Q4 for the first time in history
The community is basically doing this now with the kickflips in driver/rocm/etc "stuff". It's gotten so good and well-embraced that even AMD is backing some of these community efforts.
pachouli-please··on AMD expects to outsell Intel in Q4 for the first time in history
Totally. That's what I was vaguely (from mobile, sorry) trying to give them credit for. Their latest low power stuff is genuinely good, and their iGPUs are catching up fast.
pachouli-please··on AMD expects to outsell Intel in Q4 for the first time in history
Not to forget AMDs dominance in performance per dollar in CPUs of any variety up until very recently on basically all fronts. Consumer, handheld/low power, server, you name it.

Intel finally has really great low power/budget answers, but still loses greatly to 3d cache chips on most workloads.

pachouli-please··on Anthropic S-1
In the open weights scene, it is always chasing closely behind. Many leading edge big open models are trained in-part with distillation of large commercial hosted models.
pachouli-please··on Gen Z Is the First Generation Dumber Than Their Parents
In at least one case...
pachouli-please··on What heraldry and Japanese mon can teach about visual-identity generators
This site is not LLM-generated.
pachouli-please··on Original Sony PlayStation 2 security chip 'broken wide open' after 26 years
Do you know of any good recent-ish resources for learning about jailbreaking and sideloading titles on the ps3? Last time I was trying to figure out how to load my game backups I gave up as it seemed way complex compared to the xbox 360.
pachouli-please··on Backflip: Apple now wants to train AI models with user data after all
Confusing cookie consent lead me to closing the site. Will have to wait for a mirror or archive link.
pachouli-please··on Apple A20 Pro Geekbench Result
Very quick, but I wonder how much of it comes from the clock speed bump (4.93 GHz from 4.26 GHz, +15.7%) instead of overall platform IPC improvements.

If it were largely clock speed, I worry we'll find that thermal throttling makes these numbers only generally available in the lab or very short bursts before the device gets too warm.

That said, very excited for what that means for the Neo laptops with more thermal headroom once they get a refresh, and if it happened to be this chip. Though I suppose that is unlikely, as they seem to be adopting a strategy of using past-gen chips for Neo.

pachouli-please··on The Helicopter with Radioactive Blades
Presumably the measure of distance from the source to receive dosages under those conditions.
pachouli-please··on Saying 'Google It' Makes You Sound Old
I quietly like it because it erodes a company's ability to strong-arm via trademarks if it's part of common parlance.
pachouli-please··on I indexed 669 GB of my GoPro videos using my M1 Max computer and local ML models
It's also a bit apples (heh) to oranges for a handful of reasons, but most impactful

- "unified" ram makes all the system ram available as VRAM - dedicated ai coaccelerator thingy

Both of these reasons allow the apple silicon chips to crush conventional cpus in these kind of AI model workload stuffs

No idea about what the windows arm stuff is capable of. I know they use Qualcomm snapdragon chips though.

pachouli-please··on LittleSnitch for Linux
i loved zonealarm! and also pained myself with all the little rules and upkeep lol
pachouli-please··on Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?
Ideally the other couple low orbit satellite based ISPs will get to a decent place by the time of irrecoverable enshittification.
pachouli-please··on Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11
Link to this fridge? Just so I know which one to avoid you know
pachouli-please··on Tell HN: Google ignores English searches and forces localized results
If you like it and want it to be maintained in a way that at least somewhat aligns with you (or at least your dollar), you need to pay for it
pachouli-please··on Google's year in review: areas with research breakthroughs in 2025
Good bot
pachouli-please··on Former Nintendo employees reveal what it took to launch the NES
Would you say _Game Over_ is the best example of a book in this space/topic, despite the flaws?
pachouli-please··on Rating 26 years of Java changes
>little bit bias and opinionated Well, we are reading an individual's blog after all.
pachouli-please··on Google Ends Support for Lynx Browser
Google's job is to sell ads, not provide accessibility to text-only browsers.

(for the record I grow to dislike g more every day, and also this move)

pachouli-please··on Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server
I pop this up at an annual lan party amongst friends and its always a hit. Easy to use, easy to run, jam-packed with features
pachouli-please··on Moonbase Alpha: That time NASA made a meme video game
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pachouli-please··on Notion Mail is out
you moved off gmail due to forced mfa of all things? interesting...

also, aren't 'app passwords' or whatever they call it still a thing?

pachouli-please··on Show HN: OmniTools – Self-Hosted Open-Source Swiss Army Knife for Everyday Tasks
Heic to jpeg would be cool, my mom doesn’t have an iPhone and has to handle iPhone pictures regularly, which confuses her

Also I see split pdf, but create pdf from a collection of selected pictures would be cool too!

Neat project. Always love self hostable

pachouli-please··on Urban Dead is shutting down
What a shame, having gotten into Torn recently, this scratches a similar itch and I would have liked to try it.

Any other hidden text-y web gems out there like these two that I should check out?

pachouli-please··on Show HN: Cs16.css – CSS library based on CS 1.6 UI
This is so epic. Makes me want to create web pages myself which I never really have to date.
pachouli-please··on Why Do Older People Waste Their Time Playing Dumb Phone Games?
I'm not sure this is an age-specific issue.

Though I do find it entertaining that the older crowds are so sucked into phones when they spent the entire Millenial/beyond generation's time complaining of kids being too 'into their screens.'

pachouli-please··on America Must Free Itself from the Tyranny of the Penny
On the anecdote subject, I use debit cards 60% of the time and cash 40% of the time. I am continually trying to use cash more to keep payment processors out of my commerce habits (or at least via that angle).

That said I think everything below the quarter is useless and just adds a ton to cash handling difficulty and expense. It'd be sad to see them go as they were/are staples of currency in the US, but functionally their purpose is so seemingly useless.

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