I may be too kind, but I think the reason for bringing up "the government" was to make a connection implied by users where some authority is telling them what they can and cannot say.

If there were any journalists working at bloomberg, they might have pressured MS to explain exactly what they intend to do about the "fake news" problem in place of censorship. If we read in between the lines I'd guess they're experimenting with accompanying articles and shadowbanning to limit the problem without bringing the negative aspects of more explicit censorship.

Hard to say exactly what's the story here since bloomberg replaced their article with javascript begging for subscriptions. The only disjointed quote from MS goes like this: "I donâ(TM)t think that people want [tech companies] to tell them whatâ(TM)s true or falseâ.

This is true, but more so there's limits to what a "platform" can do to censor users without defamation, or the alternative which is an arbitrary and opaque moderation policy. If the platform chooses to display the "truth" alongside a falsehood there's significantly less risk than the alternative of (sometimes) incorrectly mislabeling something as false.

No, let's do talk about it. The 1070ti had 95% the shaders/cuda cores of the 1080, but this "4080" doesn't even have 80% the cores of the full 16GB model. I'd expect this wouldn't even measure up to the traditional 70 model. It appears that they're also limiting the 12GB model to only 75% the bus width (192 vs 256bit), and that marginal clock difference is unlikely to do much to make up for either large performance gap.

I guess relative cost position matters a lot more than model numbers, but it would be nice if there was some more transparency rather than less.

The reason is likely mutual trust from interactions in the tech youtube scene with their resident OC propagandist and stability consultant "Kingpin", who has participated in OC competitions and other "extreme" computing events with both GN and Jay. There's likely a bit of familiarity bias here, but when your business is falling apart can you really be blamed for being less objective in your decision making?

It was kind of funny hearing Steve talk about the work before releasing their video however, "spent a week writing this story", and all that writing effort could have gone towards a more concise press release with some simple follow-up questions.

Which part of the "supremacy clause" says that treaties are above the constitution?

Yeah, a lot of content distribution problems could be solved by a broadcast model, the last time that was really attempted was VBI on TV channels, which unfortunately never really caught on.

You could probably do some time cycled delivery of popular content on shared last-mile cable media, but that would require some major upgrades to user owned storage and of course the software to go with it. This also unfortunately won't help at all for the biggest problem area which is 20+yo last mile phone lines that can't even reliably run DSL.

He was paying google, although only for their MVNO phone service. I don't know the details of it, but there's likely more legal limits on sabotaging someone access to a phone system vs and an ISP than as a provider of free email/cloud services.

The real problem here is the degree that google accounts are linked to android and the near impossibility of disentangling them. Even projects like LineageOS which was intended to degoogle Android now includes gapps, because the OS doesn't work correctly without them.

Yep, and Hagnagy has already been banned or dis-invited from other security conferences. BHIS even pulled out of a conference they had confirmed attendance on, citing the fact that Hadnagy had been sneaked onto the schedule.

There's a strange line that these entities are straddling where they won't reveal any details of a complaint, but will cite the policy which a partner has allegedly violated. If defcon just said "We won't be working with Chris any more do to creative differences" or the like, it would be hard to argue defamation, but generally claiming harassment without any detail is still defamation if they can't demonstrate that it's true.

Hadnagy claims that defcon leadership didn't talk to him about what problems they had, and he still doesn't know the person or the nature of the complaint: https://www.social-engineer.or...

I know reading the articles is passe, but you could at least notice this is a thread about Linux, not darwin or whatever apple is calling their faux open source unix base these days.

Shift+Ins works in many contexts where Ctrl+V won't.

You can't even scroll terminal output without Shift+PgUp so it's hard to imagine doing without at least some of the function keys in a dev/test environment.

Sad thing is, a lot of the smaller keyboard layouts could still have these less-used keys available if they had decent macros, but most have only entirely useless functions connected to the "Fn" key, and no capacity to configure others.

Yeah, they were queuing repairs for months leading many to attempt the DIY fixes which wouldn't work long-term due to cracked solder balls. Then they'd deny warranty repairs based on their illegal "warranty void" stickers.

This was of course after months of lies about how the defect only impacted some tiny percentage of overall systems which kept climbing to match some small fraction of what users were experiencing.

Still after all that Microsoft remains a large player in the market segment is a mystery. Customers must really enjoy being abused.

Intel ended support for Ivy Bridge and older processors in 2018 when they failed to create a new IGP driver for windows "10" 1803, although Ivy Bridge was only practically replaced in late 2014 when Haswell processors finally became generally available, meaning approximately 3 years of support.

Today's announcement terminating support for Comet Lake which isn't even 3 years old and is still being sold in new systems seems a bit extreme. It's really up to Microsoft whether they decide to kill the old drivers by changing models again.

The concept that prevents most reviews from being about performance, battery life, or other objective criteria is mostly due to this concept. When a computing OEM makes the decision to buy an intel or AMD platform they buy the whole thing: the chipset, processor, IGP and power target decision is already made for them.

Other broad stroke decisions are also made like is this a "desktop replacement" or the much more popular standard ultrabook? While a big maker can divert and make something of a less popular form factor they very rarely do.

This leaves most of the differences between laptops with the things that you touch and look at; keyboard, touchpad, and monitor quality making up the bulk of the difference of experience. This review could have pointed out that Dell's XPS line is a disaster that's not even part of their professional series, but instead they try to make it sound as if an immature platform with a better processor overrides all of the more tangible advantages.

So would you give up all those advantages of a high quality matte screen, a keyboard that doesn't break after a few hours of use, and a lower power target for a processor that's 15% faster in geekbench? https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/...

There are also risks with unfermented grapes however. Higher sugar content, and a smooth taste that doesn't encourage slow consumption isn't exactly good for blood sugar.

It's probably not the alcohol that makes grapes healthy, or the sugar but the phyto-nutrients in the skins.

Closest you'll get to something like that would be the t700 project which puts a tiger lake board/cpu inside a thinkpad t60 chassis for around $1200 USD.

Hard to justify IMO, but an interesting project nonetheless: https://www.xyte.ch/t700-crowd...