Wednesday, June 25
Daily News Stuff 25 June 2025
Pyraplush Edition
Song is Stacey's Mom by Fountains of Wayne. Anime is Jungle wa Itsumo Hale nochi Guu.
Guu - the little pink-haired girl - is Cthulhu. Because of course she is.
Pyraplush Edition
Top Story
- You don't need an author's permission to read their books. (Tech Crunch)
If they publish it, you can buy a copy and read it, according to a federal judge for the Northern District of California.
Groundbreaking? Not for people, no, but it may signal a seismic shift for all the content creators throwing lawsuits at AI companies, because this was one of those cases.
There is still an issue that Anthropic did not buy all the books it used to train its AI, at least, not at first. The damages for that will be the subject of a separate trial.
Tech News
- Intel may be going X3D with next year's Nova Lake CPUs. (Notebook Check)
At least, with some specific models. Not with the high-end (and high-power) 50 and 52 core models (!) but Intel is planning to add a large game-friendly L3 or L4 cache into the mid-range 18 and 28 core models.
(Which used to be a lot. I bought a 12-core CPU just recently.)
- Is the Intel N355 a worthwhile update over the two year old core N305? No. (Serve the Home)
It's about 1% faster. If you're looking at embedded devices (where these CPUs are popular) just go for the cheaper option.
- Nvidia has announced the low-end RTX 5050. (Tom's Hardware)
2560 cores, 8GB of RAM, $249.
Not sure how much demand there is for it. I guess if you just want a current-generation Nvidia card for compatibility, it is that.
- You can speed up Intel integrated graphics under Linux by 20% by turning off security fixes. (Phoronix)
I'm not sure this is a good idea.
- On X11 and the Fascists Maggots. (Gnome) (archive site)
It used to be that you just had to check in on that one guy writing his own operating system in his own programming language every few months to see the intersection of mental illness and operating systems.
Now it's mainstream.
Gnome did take the post down in the past few hours, at least, hence the archive link.
- The Unihertz Titan 2 is a modern Blackberry. (Liliputing)
4.5" square screen, physical keyboard, 12GB of RAM, 512GB storage, 50MP main camera, 32MP front camera, running Android 15.
This actually looks pretty good. $269 for a pre-order, $399 if and when it reaches retail.
- Patent infringement damages awarded against Western Digital in a lawsuit brought by SPEX - whoever they are - have been reduced from $533 million down to $1 because SPEX could not provide a consistent theory of how, and how much, it was damaged. (The Register)
I expect some attorneys working on contingency are cancelling plans right now.
Musical Interlude
Song is Stacey's Mom by Fountains of Wayne. Anime is Jungle wa Itsumo Hale nochi Guu.
Guu - the little pink-haired girl - is Cthulhu. Because of course she is.
Disclaimer: In the future we will all be Cthulhu for fifteen minutes.
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Geez. A lot of people--Jordan on the Gnome blog is one of them--are doing the rest of us a huge favor by not shutting up and doing their jobs.
Posted by: Rick C at Thursday, June 26 2025 03:01 AM (1ue+b)
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Fortunately, when I hear someone call people fascists, I know I don't need to take them seriously any longer. Ditto, generally, for people who use words like genocide.
Posted by: Rick C at Thursday, June 26 2025 03:02 AM (1ue+b)
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Could I please request a substitution? I'd like to be Nyarlathotep for half an hour. Thank you for your consideration.
Posted by: Joe Redfield at Thursday, June 26 2025 03:12 AM (KOtXO)
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Well, I would like to say that the members of the Italian Fascist Party were fascists, but a lot of them quit. Also, the Armenian genocide is one of the mass murders (1) that I from time to time enjoy discussing.
(Though I mostly don't know anything about the Three Pashas, and mainly remember the Armenian genocide for the sake of Arminian jokes. Though, in all seriousness, there is an Armenian church, and when I heard about it, the dude was explaining about apostles who had founded these slightly obscure Churches that have continued on to this day. Thomas apparently founded one on the coast of India, or something.)
Yes, generally, the words are over used by morons who have declined to communicate any useful ideas.
(1) Apparently, once you go past the famous people that everyone knows about, Leopold of Belgium was a fairly prolific mass murderer. But, really, I have not had the heart or the stomach to properly redo that scholarship for myself.
(Though I mostly don't know anything about the Three Pashas, and mainly remember the Armenian genocide for the sake of Arminian jokes. Though, in all seriousness, there is an Armenian church, and when I heard about it, the dude was explaining about apostles who had founded these slightly obscure Churches that have continued on to this day. Thomas apparently founded one on the coast of India, or something.)
Yes, generally, the words are over used by morons who have declined to communicate any useful ideas.
(1) Apparently, once you go past the famous people that everyone knows about, Leopold of Belgium was a fairly prolific mass murderer. But, really, I have not had the heart or the stomach to properly redo that scholarship for myself.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Thursday, June 26 2025 07:40 AM (rcPLc)
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"Well, I would like to say that the members of the Italian Fascist Party were fascists, but a lot of them quit."
Ok, ya got me there, but we don't hear much these days from members of the Italian Fascist Party, so I think my rule of thumb is still mostly valid.
Ok, ya got me there, but we don't hear much these days from members of the Italian Fascist Party, so I think my rule of thumb is still mostly valid.
Posted by: Rick C at Thursday, June 26 2025 08:05 AM (1zWbY)
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