techrat

Intel has been misrepresenting the TDP requirements of their CPUs for some time.

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/319402-intels-desktop-...

Something they list as 65W can draw over 200 Watts at full load.

Consider that even with the most high end CPUs, they include the copper slug stock coolers than can make even a 45W rated CPU thermal throttle.

> For most of the 2010s, Intel kept its typical desktop CPU power consumption at or below the CPU’s rated TDP, even at peak power draw. Once AMD launched Ryzen and Intel had to start adding more CPU cores to its desktop parts, that changed. The Core i9-10850K draws up to 265W but claims a 125W TDP. The Core i7-10700 claims 65W, but draws up to 214W under load, at motherboard defaults.

In effect, Intel is brute forcing performance by cranking the power draw way up in order to compensate for what AMD has been able to bring to the table. They're bulldozering their way out of this mess, basically. The end result is that Intel is already pushing their chips to near maximum performance, power efficiency be damned, leaving zero room for overclocking... as the reason for this article exists.

You miss the whole issue with Intel's CPUs.

How much power they draw.

They hit thermal throttle quite often. Especially the high end chips where Intel is maximizing the clock to bin them as i9s.

1% overall decrease in performance to ensure a lower power draw overall to prevent reaching thermal throttling thresholds absolutely does equate to better performance.

To the point to where you often could get better performance UNDERCLOCKING what Intel sold you. Often to the amount of 1% less performance but also 15% less power draw.

Ripple effects.

Humans have ruined a lot of ecosystems that had a natural balance. Wolf culling being one of the most obvious examples of our cause and effect.

https://www.yellowstonepark.com/things-to-do/wildlife/wolf-r...

It took until now for you to lose respect for him?

> I would mention that you can find an equal amount of controversies, if not vast amounts more, about the US government,

Whataboutism isn't an argument but a concession to the person you're replying to.

This sort of whataboutism isn't an argument, but a concession to the person you're replying to. Instead of meeting an example with a counter, all you've done in this conversation is show that there are now TWO examples.

> They began on Reddit because Reddit was incapable of handling image uploads.

I'd argue they largely still are incapable of handling image uploads. Their gallery system sucks and the redesign just makes it harder to even see what was posted.

'Choosing a side' is what ceased to allow him to claim he was an impartial leaker and/or journalist.

Like with thispersondoesnotexist, the toons also tend to have severe problems with the ears. Nearly every one of them has an ear that blends into the background or is disproportionately unmatched.

> Explain I'm naive: why would Apple's bug bounty program be so poorly run?

Hubris.

Apple's culture is still fundamentally the same from the day they ran ads saying "Macs don't get viruses" to today. They used a misleading ad copy to convince people they could just buy a Mac and be safe, not needing to do anything else... ignoring that Macs still got malware in the form of trojans, botnets and such... and encouraging a culture of ignorance that persists to this day. "It just works." etc.

So now their primary user base is majorly people who have zero safe online habits.

And that sort of mentality feeds back into the culture of the company... "Oh, we're not Windows, we don't get viruses. We don't get viruses because our security is good. Our security is good, obviously, because we don't get viruses." It, in effect, is a feedback loop of complacency and hubris. (A prime example of this is how Macs within the Cupertino campus were infected with the Flashback botnet.)

Since their culture was that of security by obscurity (unlike, say, Google's explicit design in keeping Chrome sandboxed and containered for sites), closed source and again, hubris... it's coming back to bite Apple in the ass despite their ongoing "We don't get viruses" style smugness. If it's not about Macs not getting viruses, it's about how Apple values your privacy (implying others explicitly don't) and like with everything else, it's repeated often enough to where the kool aid from within becomes the truth.

Apple's culture is that of smugness, ignorance and yep... hubris. Why should they have a serious, respectable bug bounty program if they've been busy telling themselves that they don't simply have these kinds of security problems that they've bragged about never having?

Again, nothing there specifically puts weight into the argument that "Fuchsia is replacing Android."

And also, Fuchsia's license is more permissive than Android's.

In other words, rumors are started because people imagined cross-code commits to be something more than it really was.

Code gets shared between projects all the time. Nothing in there specifically says that Fuchsia will replace Android.

In case you had problems comprehending it the first time, ChromeOS and Android were not *merged.*

The rumor has been around since 2015.

https://www.theverge.com/2015/10/29/9639950/google-combining...

Running ones' apps on another OS is not merging the two.

The ChromeOS/Android merger claims are still unsubstantiated. Pretty sure you'd find a fair number of AOSP/Android commits in the ChromeOS repos.

Still not convinced there's any actual evidence of Fuchsia replacing Android here.

> This irks me. Not everyone has such choice about what to buy.

Not an excuse anymore. Motorola has universal devices that work on all carriers. Including the most difficult ones in the US, Verizon and AT&T. The unlocked Motorola devices are also often cheaper than getting a device through a carrier.

> With Google's eventual transition to Fuschia OS

I still have yet to see even the most remotely reliable source that indicates Fuschia is actually going to replace Android.

Reminds me of when people were so absolutely sure that Android and ChromeOS were going to be merged.

Never happened.

I really wish people would stop repeating hare brained tech blog gossip and speculation as confirmed roadmaps.

> Most Android devices these days have bootloaders that cannot be unlocked

[citation needed]

I'm finding the majority of devices to be unlockable as long as you don't buy your device from a carrier.

Carrier locked devices are not typically the norm but in the US.

And if you truly cared about software freedom, you wouldn't be buying carrier locked devices in the first place.

I really wish people would stop griping about losing security features when you flip the one switch that ensures the security of the system. Unlocking the bootloader means it is now possible to modify system files. Of course Safetynet is going to fail. The point of Safetynet is to ensure the system hasn't been tampered with.

However, despite all of your doom and gloom posturing without actual examples, I've yet to actually use a single app (and I use several banking and root detecting apps like remote features for my car) that will prevent me from continuing to use the app if rooted. It just pops up and says "We see you're using a rooted device, this is not recommended." I click "OK" and proceed as normal.

The alternative is to use Apple and whelp, that'll never happen... since I actually do care about software freedom.

"made" in this case tends to refer to created, not just manufactured. it (as the article states) is mostly an issue for chinese brands with poor quality control or ulterior motives.

The size of the board has little to no bearing on the quality of the VRMs. VRMs are VRMs. There's nothing that prohibits an mITX board from having the same VRMs as an mATX board or even a Full ATX board: The reserved CPU area still applies to all board sizes. The extra width is mostly beyond the memory slots or below the first PCIe 16X slot. That has no bearing on what's used for the CPU itself.

I would also wager the vast majority of people who have a PC only use one SATA or NVMe socket/slot and only have a GPU as an add-in. This makes, for the most part, an mATX board mostly as used as an mITX board in terms of features.

My first generation AM4 mITX board that I built with a Ryzen 7 1700X can handle the 3000 series Ryzen 9 CPUs just fine.

https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/Fatal1ty%20AB350%20Gaming-ITXa...

Even the Ryzen 9 3950X.

I recently did a rebuild and got another mITX AM4 board.

https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/B550I-AORUS-PRO-AX-rev-...

It handles all Ryzen 3000, 4000 and 5000 CPUs. Including the 16 core Ryzen 9 5950X.

Size =/= Quality of Board.

The old style tokens were widely in use in the late 90s through to the early 2000s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_SecurID

Oh the days of being on Slashdot and getting downmodded to -1 Troll because you dare to suggest that Windows is a usable operating system and not type Micro$uck or some other variant.

I was actually quite fond of WinNT4. Lean and stable.

Microsoft being the Evil Empire and facing antitrust for bundling Internet Explorer was, of course, cheered on... meanwhile very similar groups of geeks these days see no problem with Apple only allowing Safari to be the web browser engine on iOS...

When I first saw this car (pre-internet), it was in the music video for Depeche Mode's "Never Let Me Down Again"... I refused to believe it was a real model that wasn't just made for the video. It just seemed so impractical.

Never thought I'd see the day where calling out a webhost known for giving shelter to white supremacist shooter manifestos and doxxing murder lists for atomwaffen would fall under 'moral panic.'

> We can not fight uncivility with uncivility.

Paradox of Tolerance.

https://i.imgur.com/ve1VDvK_d.webp?maxwidth=760&fidelity=gra...

> Doing so only makes the situation worse.

“Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.”

> That doesn't mean you cater to them.

Heh.

Pay attention...

They specifically cater, not just host, but CATER to those who are unable to host elsewhere due to their content.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epik_(company)

> Epik is known for providing services to websites with far-right content, such as the social network Gab, video hosting service BitChute, conspiracy theory website InfoWars, and neo-Nazi message board website The Daily Stormer.[1][6][28] It was described in 2019 by Vice as "a safehaven for the extreme right" and in 2021 by The Seattle Times as "a home for far-right websites" because of its willingness to host far-right websites that have been denied service by other Internet service providers.[1][29][30] In 2021, The Daily Telegraph wrote that Epik was "a safe harbour for websites said to be enabling the spread far-right extremism and carrying Neo-Nazi content";[25] the same year, Fortune called the company the "right wing’s best friend online".[9] NPR reported in February 2021 that "when websites flooded with hate speech or harmful disinformation become too radioactive for the Internet, the sites often turn to [Epik] for a lifeline."[13]

> Harassment and threats of violence are illegal.

And Epik continued to host sites that were taken offline specifically for those reasons.

That's your cognitive dissonance.

Many registrars offer free Whois Privacy by default. Even Google Domains.

It might be the number of files and subdirectories rather than the total file size of the torrent.

Ah yes, the mythical "rights of the might" that overrule peoples' rights depending on who feels their rights are more important.

Why should anyone should suffer consequences for threats of harm online? You agree that someone should be allowed to threaten, harass, intimidate and harm someone else through speech online?

Freedom of speech has never meant freedom from consequences of said speech.

As far as I see it, Epik's hack is a consequence of the speech they allow. No need for government, constitution and laws to see the cause and effect here.

Epik's business model is to specifically cater to fascists.

> Epik is known for providing services to websites with far-right content, such as the social network Gab, video hosting service BitChute, conspiracy theory website InfoWars, and neo-Nazi message board website The Daily Stormer.[1][6][28] It was described in 2019 by Vice as "a safehaven for the extreme right" and in 2021 by The Seattle Times as "a home for far-right websites" because of its willingness to host far-right websites that have been denied service by other Internet service providers.[1][29][30] In 2021, The Daily Telegraph wrote that Epik was "a safe harbour for websites said to be enabling the spread far-right extremism and carrying Neo-Nazi content";[25] the same year, Fortune called the company the "right wing’s best friend online".[9] NPR reported in February 2021 that "when websites flooded with hate speech or harmful disinformation become too radioactive for the Internet, the sites often turn to [Epik] for a lifeline."[13]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epik_(company)

No need for quotes, bruh.