No I did not know that.

How does this compare with an HD? Before you say hard drives are dead that's a critical thing, let's compare all the specs.

Demand software developers start caring about memory print of their software again. Both in RAM and storage.

Unironically. We've lived out at least a decade and a half of "this software stack is utterly unoptimized garbage" "who cares, just slap bigger system requirements. We're not spending money on optimizing something that doesn't matter to anyone since hardware is advancing so fast".

It's good that every decade or so we get a memory and storage crunch and developers actually have to rediscover things like better compression algorithms and methods, proper garbage collection, and general software optimization.

Seriously, have you seen the size requirements of modern games? Have you seen the retarded chugging of modern office software running win11 on 8GB RAM machines when they have to actually start swapping? Have you experienced the joys of Chrome and all the memes about it being a ramvore?

What in the actual fuck are those tabs doing eating gigabytes of RAM? And why in the fuck are most Chromium based browser installs now almost a gig of storage?

You could do the same things a decade and a half ago on 4 gigs RAM and tiny SSDs that were less than one gigabyte and the system flew and most things except the porn torrents could be stored on it.

And then you consider "ok, what did we actually get for that insane increase in system demands?"

Built in always on spyware. Slightly redesigned UI according to the latest fashion trends. A few arcane additional features barely anyone uses. Games with "that unreal look" that look worse than unreal games a decade ago. And "modern" webpages that essentially ask you one question: "Would you like scrips with those scripts so you can enjoy scripts while you're enjoying scripts".

While reading a text based news article.

Just kidding. They don't ask.

>"seriously? of course firefox users fucking complained. That's why the mozilla had to add their AI kill-switch after they got caught auto-adding AI."

No. Mozilla never "added AI". They added the ability to optionally hook Firefox into third-party AI systems (with the default on). And there was ALWAYS AN OFF SWITCH. It just wasn't in the main settings, it was under about:config. Then they later added in the main settings as well.

It never downloaded or installed any AI system. Very different.

>"I've gone and deleted chrome. I'm using Brave, but its crypto-bros in charge of that so I dont exactly trust them either. They just have a really effective adblocker that doesnt seem to trigger youtube into issueing shrill threats about breaking TOSs with adblockers"

I would suggest Firefox + UBO. I have no problems on YouTube or other sites with them (at least that is my experience on my machines which all run Linux). And as a huge bonus, you get to NOT support Google's efforts to control the web (Brave is still based on Google Chromium). Plus you also signal to sites that you want to support actual browser diversity, not mostly just a different UI on yet another Google-controlled engine.

>"Quick - copy and paste all your comments from the "Copy Fail" discussion over here!"

Pretty much :) It is essentially the same issue, found in three other kernel modules. Alma Linux and others already have pages up about it. These are serious issues for multiuser/multitenant servers needing to mitigate immediately. Not so much for single-user or home systems.

Copy Fail used the algif_aead module and for enterprise Linuxes, that is built-into the kernel. So either update the kernel, or mitigate with:

# grubby --update-kernel=ALL --args="initcall_blacklist=algif_aead_init"

and reboot. Dirty Frag uses three additional modules: esp4, esp6, and rxrpc. Enterprise Linuxes don't build those in, so all distros should be able to use something like:

# rmmod esp4 esp6 rxrpc
# sh -c "printf 'install esp4 /bin/false\ninstall esp6 /bin/false\ninstall rxrpc /bin/false\n' > /etc/modprobe.d/dirtyfrag.conf"

for immediate mitigation, without rebooting. Of course, disabling those modules has a price, it will disable IPsec ESP, IPsec VPNs (like Swan), and AFS clients. So if you use/need those, you can't mitigate without losing that functionality.

Sadly, here's basically the scoreboard:

--Google Chrome
--Microsoft Chrome (Edge)
--Apple Chrome (Safari)
--Chinese Chrome (Opera)
--Crypto Chrome (Brave/Vivaldi)
--AI Chrome (Comet)
--Firefox
--Not-Firefox-Firefox (IceWeasel, Palemoon, Waterfox, etc.)

And, while I prefer Firefox myself...the fact is that web developers hated the drudgework of having to work in anything but a browser monoculture...and Google wanted the browser to be an OS unto itself, which is why the browser has hooks into everything else - overwriting the firmware on a phone is something that Microsoft got no shortage of crap for making such a thing technically-possible with ActiveX, but when Chrome does it to update a Pixel in recovery mode, it's "innovative".

We are in an economic mania right now. Governments, corporations, startups, you name it, are all afraid of being left behind. They are buying up memory, disks, computing capacity because, well, if they don't, someone else--one of their competitors--will.

Supply will be expanded and built out while demand remains high.

How long will this take? That's the trillion dollar question. It could be months or it could be years, but at some point, demand and supply will come back into closer to equilibrium. Whether that's because demand crashes or because supply builds up to meet demand is another open question. This has to be one of the greatest repositioning of capital in recent memory.

Hmm, I used to build military observation systems and the few things I looked at are obvious lens reflections making dots that, if you try to chase them, keep moving as you turn. With complex lens systems, you can get multiple dots. I have even seen a big spot caused by my aircraft window when flying over clouds, so the effect is not limited to a camera system - an Airbus A320 window will also do!

I don't know, three letter agencies are very territorial. Would you claim some random footage shows one of your toys when there was a chance it would get blabbed some Murdoch kid?

You would think that they would be preemptive and control the risks, seeing as this could create a problem for them in the future. I guess they'll pass out AI stimulus recession checks when crap hits the fan

That of course assumes there isnt a shortcut involving physics we're not even close to discovering.

Don't think he's a white supremacist but someone who likes Western culture and is "pro-west". So am I. It so happens that most Western culture was created by white folks because for most of modern history, the West was coincidentally full of white folks. However, if he was a white supremacist he wouldn't want to flood the US with brown folks from India and he definitely does want that.

Looks like Altman did steal a non-profit he saw dollar signs on. I don't care if the liberal idiots on the news hate Musk. They aren't finished having a freak out over his relationship to Trump and DOGE drop-kicking USAID to the curb (good riddance! MOAR!). The only problem I have is that DOGE didn't do NEARLY ENOUGH and Trump 180'ed on almost all his campaign promises (didn't cut government even close to significantly enough, ran off DOGE, didn't stop Ukraine boondoggle, didn't stop Gaza boondoggle, and started another regime change war he promised not to).

My own beef with Musk is his H1B love. Altman seems like a sexual predator with not-one-single-moral and he definitely "stole" OpenAI. The dude is guilty as sin both on the facts and on his skeevy personality that screams "liar!". The main winner will simply be Anthropic, IMHO.

I'm sure I'll see some useless ad-hominem for even mentioning either one without being overwhelmingly negative (merely mostly negative isn't good enough). *YAWN*

How do you not know this?