I love Sweeney’s holier than thou attitude. MFer, you don’t give a shit about anything other than self-enrichment and social standing among other oligarchs.

It is worth noting that the benchmarked Snapdragon X2 Plus ran on a reference platform, while testers used commercially available products for the other chips. This is a key caveat, as results can vary widely depending on chip binning, cooling, power limits, SSD speed, memory latency, and installed apps.

What this means is that performance with real devices will likely be even worse.

With the X Elite we also had benchmark results on “reference platforms” that were never hit on real devices.

To hell with Starlink, it’s giving money to individuals who wish you harm.

The U.S. Commerce Department said on Friday it has withdrawn a plan to impose restrictions on Chinese drones to address national security concerns after an earlier crackdown on passenger cars and trucks.

Considering the mercurial nature of US policy, I wouldn’t be surprised if this plan is brought back at a later date.

I thought this was the case already.

I am a Fractal Design person when it comes to cases, but these look really nice.

It’s too bad it will be impossible to build an new PC in the next 24-36 months.

The pen would be far from ordinary—described as “contextually aware,” it’s designed to work as a “third-core” device that sits alongside your laptop and smartphone. Think of it as an AI companion that fits in your pocket or on your desk, enabling seamless two-way communication with ChatGPT through a paired device.

And why can’t you just your smartphone?

The whole “AI device” thing sounds like Altman and Ivey wanting to become a new Apple of sorts. These people are so vapid and honestly boring.

TeamGroup’s general manager Gerry Chen warned that December contract prices for some DRAM and NAND categories increased 80-100% month-over-month. He expects availability to worsen significantly in Q1 and Q2 2026 once distribution stockpiles run dry. At that point, according to Chen, obtaining allocation could become difficult “regardless of willingness to pay.”

Wow, this is crazy.

My argument would be that the government is a representation of its citizens.

It’s up to each individual citizen to make the government work; be it with autonomous weapons or surveillance. Both have legitimate use cases and it is up to the voting public to make sure they are used responsibly.

Even in developed democracies, only around 70% of the population votes and in the US it is closer to ~60%.

I am not naive enough to think it won’t (I mean this in a practical way, i.e. hearing/seeing how Shaheds have evolved over the last ~3 years from my balcony).

But I would much rather we get it to use it first and have a head start (not just usage but refinement) and maybe we’ll even have a good 6-18 month lead period on somewhat semi-permanent basis.

If one wants this technology to “disappear” [not be used], then one needs to address corruption in their own country in an outcome based manner and defend the international rules based order (by force if necessary).

And yet we have Obama, the darling of the US centre right, calling the invasion of Crimea a “regional issue” back in 2014 or chickening out to strike Assad when he used chemical weapons (after an explicit warning that chemical weapons were a red line).

I strongly disagree with this framing.

I live in Ukraine and I am only happy to see better drone technology for fighting the russians. Every time you walk in the centre of Kyiv you see the memorial for many thousands of fallen soldiers right on the main square of the country. Any technology that saves lives and kills more russian invaders is a good thing.

If one doesn’t want this tech to be misused, then the citizens of a given country need to deal with local oligarchs, corruption and crime.

In the case of the US (just one notable example out of many thousands), this would be arresting Mark Zuckerburg and his goons for enabling mass scale fraud that netted them $16B in 2024 alone.

And the scam run by Meta is the tip of the iceberg. I don’t support capital punishment, but for the ennoblement of the Rohingya genocide, it would be reasonable to consider an exception for Zuckerburg and other senior thugs in the Meta criminal gang.

Thank you!

I did check the site, but I missed it.

I wish there was a text transcript of this, I will check the video out after the holidays though.

I have my doubts about their benchmarks with respect to real world use cases. I have a 5800X that scores about 2,200 on GB6 ST. So does the 4,000 score mean it will be roughly x2 performant for constant throughput single thread use cases?

I hope they are able to get 25K pre-orders and expand their geographic sales coverage after that.

It means that they thought this was good and convincing sounding market copytext.

To be honest, I would say moderation problems are between LW and ML are not comparable.

I would even argue there isn’t any instance-specific issue with LW for new users.

Yes, waiting for more migration features.

I’ve moved a small community over. For Hardware, I am waiting for programmatic migration tools.

Lemmy, once you get past the landing page that looks like it’s selling server storage, half the subs are devoted to things like Marxism.

))) The tankie reputation (even though it’s not justified at all) strikes again.