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07:10 schestowitz-TR; In the Age of Misleading Media (the System Relies on Induced Optimism) One Must Check Medical Facts for Oneself https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2023/01/17/medical-facts/
07:10 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive In the Age of Misleading Media (the System Relies on Induced Optimism) One Must Check Medical Facts for Oneself
07:52 schestowitz-TR; https://nitter.pussthecat.org/MarkBeacham/status/1615154394764394497#m
07:52 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-nitter.pussthecat.org | Mark Beacham - VK3XB/5Z4XB/A65B (@MarkBeacham): "Ham Radio: Links 16/01/2023: Microsoft RNDIS Ejected From Linux https://ift.tt/mQiNhXz" | Nitter | PussTheCat.org
07:52 schestowitz-TR; https://nitter.pussthecat.org/luicito_chavez/status/1615220244431396865#m
07:52 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-nitter.pussthecat.org | Luicito Chavez (@luicito_chavez): "techrights.org/author/schest" | Nitter | PussTheCat.org
07:52 techrigthssec; ack
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08:09 schestowitz-TR; had a productive night so far
08:09 schestowitz-TR; ons #s will be out soon
08:09 techrigthssec; ack
08:09 schestowitz-TR; I want to compare those to prior years
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08:37 schestowitz-TR; seems like good news if idg cans its old sites
08:37 schestowitz-TR; for all i care, can all the old "content" too
08:37 schestowitz-TR; lots of crap in there
08:37 schestowitz-TR; better buried
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09:09 schestowitz-TR; my open office (two words) experience was so shit that I promised myself never to do it
09:09 schestowitz-TR; it's bad for many things inc. health
09:20 techrigthssec; There are countless studies showing that open plan office spaces are dreadful
09:20 techrigthssec; for both morale and for productivity
09:20 schestowitz-TR; they help create and cement BS jobs
09:21 techrigthssec; and, as you point out, health (through stress and germs)\
09:21 techrigthssec; That's the main reason they are in use still even a little bit.
09:23 schestowitz-TR; people who insist they are OK "working at the office"
09:23 schestowitz-TR; typially turn out to be foxes in the vineyard
09:23 schestowitz-TR; the grapes are sour anyway
09:23 schestowitz-TR; iow, they're not given a choice
09:23 schestowitz-TR; they must be at the office x days
09:25 schestowitz-TR; perhaps today many at microsoft will be given indefinite "sick leave"
09:25 schestowitz-TR; no pay, don't bother coming back
09:25 techrigthssec; or unpaid "leave"
09:26 schestowitz-TR; no kidding, intel ireland did it blatantly and openly months ago
09:26 schestowitz-TR; HR gettinc "creative"
09:52 techrigthssec; gemini.techrights.org/2023/01/17/rebranding-plagiarism-as-hey-hi/
09:52 techrigthssec; who is the quote in the summary from ?
09:52 techrigthssec; tm-new gallery updated
09:53 techrigthssec; bread crumb links modified this time
09:53 techrigthssec; nft -f /etc/nftables.nft to clear the black list
10:11 schestowitz-TR; Enquiry Sent to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Regarding 'Missing' Deaths in the United Kingdom https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2023/01/17/office-for-national-statistics-enquiry/
10:11 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Enquiry Sent to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Regarding Missing Deaths in the United Kingdom
10:13 schestowitz-TR; fantastic work on tuxgallery
10:13 schestowitz-TR; so far no errors encountered!
10:13 schestowitz-TR; the 'tux museum' will be cheaper to keep alive this way
10:31 schestowitz-TR; In 2023, England and Wales Deaths More Than 22% Higher Than Pre-COVID-19 Levels https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2023/01/17/2023-and-pre-covid-19-levels/
10:31 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive In 2023, England and Wales Deaths More Than 22% Higher Than Pre-COVID-19 Levels
10:49 schestowitz-TR; Week 1 Deaths in England and Wales: In 2023 a 31.2% Increase in Deaths for People Aged 15-44, 27% Increase in Deaths for People Aged 45-64 (Compared to Pre-COVID) https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2023/01/17/ons-week-1-deaths-england-and-wales-by-age/
10:49 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Week 1 Deaths in England and Wales: In 2023 a 31.2% Increase in Deaths for People Aged 15-44, 27% Increase in Deaths for People Aged 45-64 (Compared to Pre-COVID)
11:29 schestowitz-TR; twitter needs a a boycott already. let it collapse. https://www.commondreams.org/news/covid-19-drugmaker-pushed-twitter-to-censor-activists-demanding-generic-vaccine | Source: Common Dreams
11:29 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.commondreams.org | 'Deeply Sinister': Emails Reveal Big Pharma Pushed Twitter to Silence Vaccine Equity Voices
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13:45 techrigthssec; There are some redundant files to trim from it now but that can be done in
13:45 techrigthssec; a while
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14:09 schestowitz-TR; just had a discussion about quitting things
14:09 schestowitz-TR; we are now 100% mumble
14:09 schestowitz-TR; rianne 100% veg
14:09 schestowitz-TR; i'm 100% off social control media
14:09 schestowitz-TR; and stopped with football cold turkey
14:09 schestowitz-TR; there are other examples
14:09 schestowitz-TR; but with gulag noise I still check sometimes
14:09 schestowitz-TR; e.g. msft layoffs
14:09 schestowitz-TR; just updated a post of mine
14:09 schestowitz-TR; now I'm 90%+ sure it's happening
14:09 schestowitz-TR; azure might be impacted too
14:10 schestowitz-TR; "eskiko" was shilling azure BS in IRC today
14:10 schestowitz-TR; I was not happy about gut feeling rather than facts re azure
14:21 techrigthssec; Great, though confirming the layoffs first is important. However they'kk
14:21 techrigthssec; do what they can to hide and misdirect and delay.
14:21 schestowitz-TR; they know it damages morale
14:21 schestowitz-TR; so we need to keep at it
14:24 psydruid; hence all this PR about HEY HI
14:25 psydruid; to mask the fact that Azure is not doing well
14:25 psydruid; and many people are getting fired
14:27 schestowitz-TR; right
14:27 techrigthssec; It also damages their share prices which they then have to spend/embezzle
14:27 techrigthssec; even more funds to pump up artificially when they do the "share repurchase"
14:37 techrigthssec; The have spare resources for playing with AI through the severely overprovisioned "Azure" hosting which is substa
14:37 techrigthssec; ntially devoid of paying clients.
14:37 techrigthssec; It's probably costing them more than they can afford to have all that
14:37 techrigthssec; dead servers space going to waste so they might as well run ML algorithms on
14:37 techrigthssec; it and try to spin that as a positive in the PR and among their shills.
14:38 schestowitz-TR; they already shut down some datacentres
14:38 schestowitz-TR; but the media picked up on this
14:38 schestowitz-TR; and it made azure look like the failure it is
14:38 schestowitz-TR; they also frantically came to our irc chat
14:38 schestowitz-TR; after we had written repeatedly about azure layoffs
14:39 schestowitz-TR; to downplay what's happening
14:39 schestowitz-TR; lewis wrote some articles on the failure that is azure
14:39 schestowitz-TR; based on insiders
14:39 schestowitz-TR; so azure has, in effect, been converted into a plagiarism machine
14:39 schestowitz-TR; pay your subscription fees to do your plagiarism with Microsoft's help
14:39 schestowitz-TR; text... images... code
14:39 schestowitz-TR; plagiarism as a service as I call it
14:39 schestowitz-TR; the new ebuzz video mentions the media bias and omission of class action lawsuiot
14:39 schestowitz-TR; there is now a new lawsuit over copyrights in image "HEY HI"
14:39 schestowitz-TR; basically sites that help create "derivatives" of artists' good work
14:59 techrigthssec; The eBuzz video nails the problem, no mainstream media at all has raised any
14:59 techrigthssec; of the key issues.
15:02 schestowitz-TR; it took me a bit of time to realise all this fake hype is part of a PR campaign
15:02 schestowitz-TR; one mainly one company
15:02 schestowitz-TR; like with "github", they hide behind other brands
15:02 schestowitz-TR; musk said on the recdord that 'open HEY HI had been hijacked by MSFT years ago
15:02 schestowitz-TR; as if "HEY HI" was a nnew thing
15:02 schestowitz-TR; money buys perception
15:02 schestowitz-TR; look up "SCIGEN"
15:02 schestowitz-TR; circa 2004
15:02 schestowitz-TR; now they say things like "Office" will have this HEY HI
15:02 schestowitz-TR; and "Bing"
15:02 schestowitz-TR; "HEY HI"
15:02 schestowitz-TR; try it out!!! HEY HI
15:02 schestowitz-TR; Bing having layoffs
15:02 schestowitz-TR; pixie dust "HEY HI"
15:02 schestowitz-TR; even nadella's head will have HEY HI
15:02 schestowitz-TR; of course schneier had to massively participate in the hype campaign
15:02 schestowitz-TR; maybe without realising he had been taken for a ride by conde nasty [sic] i.e. microsoft
15:02 schestowitz-TR; sam varghese wrote about this fake hype 2 days ago
15:08 techrigthssec; Oh. I may have missed Sam's article, since ITWire doesn't get checked so often
15:08 techrigthssec; any more.
15:08 schestowitz-TR; he barely published anything anymore, like it's "seasonal"
15:10 schestowitz-TR; sam quoted an aexpert responding to microsoft bullshit that had been relayed by MS Schneier, iirc via
15:10 schestowitz-TR; Conde Nasty
15:10 schestowitz-TR; he links a lot to Conde and "new" Slashdot
15:10 schestowitz-TR; tons of crap
15:10 schestowitz-TR; I sigh a lot when seeing him posting new stuff
15:10 schestowitz-TR; now he's shilling his book that perpetuates myths about "hacker"
15:12 techrigthssec; Slashdot turned to crap after the first sale and still managed to go downhill
15:12 techrigthssec; from there.
15:13 techrigthssec; I guess it's owned by BIZX last I can tell. Dice and Conde Nast
15:13 techrigthssec; did their damage and kicked it down the road.
15:14 schestowitz-TR; are you sure conde nasty owned it?
15:14 techrigthssec; Not sure if I recall correctly
15:15 schestowitz-TR; i think that is not correct
15:16 schestowitz-TR; but dice i remember, now it's this guy logan
15:16 schestowitz-TR; who came to TR IRC
15:16 schestowitz-TR; to try to coivince us things would improve and wanted to make a good first impression
15:16 schestowitz-TR; i think dice was even worse tbh
15:16 schestowitz-TR; they activbely promoted gates lies
15:16 schestowitz-TR; and even employed microsoft moles
15:16 techrigthssec; Conde Nast still owns Ars Technica and what remains of Wired
15:18 techrigthssec; and "Reddit"
15:18 techrigthssec; At least one m$ shill seems to have been planted in Slashdot prior to the
15:18 techrigthssec; sale to Dice, if I recall the timing correctly. It certainly was under
15:18 techrigthssec; attack then
15:20 schestowitz-TR; conde used New Yorker to compel 'L'F to put Torvalds in the clinic
15:20 schestowitz-TR; they 'settled' on that
15:20 schestowitz-TR; after crazy scum mjg and his other ilk of crzzied kept libeling the man who wanted
15:20 schestowitz-TR; to keep quality control and goals in check
15:22 schestowitz-TR; RebeccaBlackOS is hardly used by anyone. Larabel uses that to shill crappy Wayland. Hey, RebeccaBlackOS doesn't need to worry about stability and compatibility. It's a JOKE distro. For JOKERS like Phorpnix. https://www.phoronix.com/news/RBOS-January-2023
15:22 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-RBOS Updated As The Linux Live Environment Showcasing The Latest Wayland Code - Phoronix
15:23 techrigthssec; It was the New Yorker article which set off the lynch mob in earnest wasn't it.
15:24 schestowitz-TR; a
15:24 schestowitz-TR; s people pointed out in LWN, New Yorker demanded action BEFORE publication
15:24 schestowitz-TR; then LF agreed to put aside Torvalds
15:24 schestowitz-TR; hence, the headline at the New Yorker reported the "outcome"
15:24 schestowitz-TR; so it was a work behing the scene
15:24 schestowitz-TR; to get Torvalds "fired"
15:24 schestowitz-TR; familiar?
15:24 schestowitz-TR; dirt digging
15:26 schestowitz-TR; LT became sacrificial lamb for LF
15:26 schestowitz-TR; to "protect" its (Microsoft) brand
15:26 schestowitz-TR; LF does not value the person who made the "L"
15:26 schestowitz-TR; unless he conforms e.g. rust (github/google)
15:26 schestowitz-TR; nwo there is very little resistance to lockdown and palladium inside linux
15:26 schestowitz-TR; don't expect LT to act better than tim bl on DRM
15:27 techrigthssec; scape goat actually
15:27 techrigthssec; He remains only as a mascot, if one goes by appearances
15:34 psydruid; Gates is the master and Torvalds the puppet, at last
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21:35 schestowitz-TR; we've been getting perl errors, both accounts, when trying to add or update TM
21:35 schestowitz-TR; was anything changed on the system?
21:35 schestowitz-TR; it says it lacks the Capture/Tiny.pm module
21:35 schestowitz-TR; fixed with apk add perl-capture-tiny
21:36 schestowitz-TR; did you change something a few hours ago (around 7pm GMT)?
22:25 schestowitz-TR; psydruid: MSFT layoffs
22:25 schestowitz-TR; think of that as a treat
22:25 schestowitz-TR; they're hurting
22:25 schestowitz-TR; let's do another round
22:25 psydruid; the more layoffs the better
22:25 schestowitz-TR; until there's no Microsoft left or very little
22:25 psydruid; until all employees have been laid off
22:25 schestowitz-TR; yeah, more is better
22:25 schestowitz-TR; then, if Microsoft is busted, they cannot spread windows either
22:26 psydruid; and the leadership has kicked the curb
22:26 schestowitz-TR; no microsoft crap left to spread to company
22:26 schestowitz-TR; companies, unis, etc.
22:26 psydruid; the single most malicious company ever
22:26 schestowitz-TR; no github :-)
22:26 schestowitz-TR; offline
22:26 schestowitz-TR; "BUT ME REPOS!!!"
22:26 psydruid; probably even worse than IBM in its reach
22:26 schestowitz-TR; "BUT MY LIKES/STARS!!"
22:27 psydruid; because there weren't as many computers during IBM's heyday
22:27 schestowitz-TR; "oh noes; azure is shutting down like codeplex"
22:27 psydruid; and there were more companies that competed with one another
22:27 schestowitz-TR; yeah
22:27 schestowitz-TR; concentration of power is always harmful
22:27 psydruid; most of them with their own Unix variant
22:28 schestowitz-TR; they don't need to compete as much
22:28 psydruid; Microsoft has really caused a race to the bottom
22:28 psydruid; in terms of everything to do with IT and CS
22:29 schestowitz-TR; exactly
22:29 schestowitz-TR; we've discussed it here in IRC
22:29 schestowitz-TR; that's not to say that no microsoft-> utopia
22:29 schestowitz-TR; we'll still have other perils
22:29 schestowitz-TR; but MSFT being like Novell (defunct) would be a step in the right direction
22:29 schestowitz-TR; esp. for GNU/Linux
22:29 schestowitz-TR; and FOSS
22:30 schestowitz-TR; because only one company attacks those THAT much
22:30 psydruid; without Microsoft sabotage and distraction constructive work can be done again
22:30 schestowitz-TR; yes, but there will be other barriers
22:30 schestowitz-TR; the other obstacles may included Gulag
22:30 schestowitz-TR; Gulag also doe snot like GPL
22:30 psydruid; Gulag is fortunately peripheral to most end user computing
22:31 schestowitz-TR; either way, today/tomorrow will be a good milestone
22:31 psydruid; and doesn't own GNU or Linux
22:31 schestowitz-TR; now I want to know what divisions are cut the most
22:31 schestowitz-TR; azure? github?
22:31 psydruid; no single company does
22:31 schestowitz-TR; windows?
22:31 schestowitz-TR; we'll find out soon
22:31 psydruid; hopefully all of them all of the time
22:32 schestowitz-TR; it's a momentum thing
22:32 schestowitz-TR; once you cut it gets worse
22:32 schestowitz-TR; like, fire windows devs
22:32 schestowitz-TR; and Windows Update introduces more bugs
22:32 schestowitz-TR; so people cannot reboot
22:32 schestowitz-TR; or lose file
22:32 schestowitz-TR; and that leds Windows down some death spiral
22:32 schestowitz-TR; if the corrupt media will start covering GNU/Linux
22:32 schestowitz-TR; instead of pretending the choice is about WHICH VERSIOn of Windows
22:33 psydruid; what made it clear to me that there is no way back is that the various incarnations of Windows Phone are dead and buried
22:33 psydruid; if it was so easy they could have just recompiled all applications and owned the "smartphone" market too
22:34 schestowitz-TR; microsoft seldom announes something is dead
22:34 schestowitz-TR; with atom editor they said "sunsetting"
22:34 psydruid; but they were greedy and paranoid so they launched several incompatible versions
22:34 schestowitz-TR; silverlight, zune....
22:34 psydruid; they should have stuck with a pure ARM port of desktop Windows
22:35 schestowitz-TR; msft layoffs bad news for amd and intel
22:35 psydruid; but their stupidity is our gain
22:35 schestowitz-TR; bad news for larabel
22:36 psydruid; once you have applications running on your operating system it becomes a juggernaut
22:36 psydruid; which is why free software is unstoppable
22:36 psydruid; everything gets updates to work together all the time
22:37 psydruid; larabel will cling to ARM or whatever replaces Intel and AMD
22:41 schestowitz-TR; anyway, just told rianne
22:41 schestowitz-TR; she is happy about this whole thing
22:41 schestowitz-TR; "good job, lads!"
22:41 schestowitz-TR; let's do another round of demolition at Microsoft
22:42 psydruid; https://illumos.org/docs/contributing/qds/
22:42 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-illumos.org | Quality Death Spiral - illumos
22:42 schestowitz-TR; psydruid: larabel is already in deep s***
22:42 schestowitz-TR; if you check his appeals for money
22:42 schestowitz-TR; as it's harder to break even with these energy prices
22:43 schestowitz-TR; i need phoronix... for links about kernel dev
22:43 schestowitz-TR; just the links
22:43 schestowitz-TR; as nobody else daoes that
22:43 schestowitz-TR; 15 years ago a site called KernelTrap did that
22:43 schestowitz-TR; it requires deepm kernel knowledge
22:43 schestowitz-TR; LWN is not very active
22:43 psydruid; if you sell out like he has done and you still can't pay the bills, you may be doing something wrong
22:43 schestowitz-TR; maybe an article per day only
22:44 psydruid; I don't really follow LWN or Phoronix for kernel stuff
22:44 psydruid; I read the O'Reilly books about 15 years ago
22:44 psydruid; I need to read modern ones
22:45 psydruid; to get an idea of the current state
22:45 schestowitz-TR; linux is... weird
22:45 schestowitz-TR; let me explain
22:45 schestowitz-TR; linux has a "core"
22:45 schestowitz-TR; that is not THAT big
22:45 schestowitz-TR; they cull old code
22:45 schestowitz-TR; but a lot of the code is vendor-specific
22:46 schestowitz-TR; and nobody except one or few companies know it
22:46 schestowitz-TR; so something like schedular evolves
22:46 schestowitz-TR; but a lot of the code is in things like massive drivers for GPUs
22:46 schestowitz-TR; *scheduler
22:46 schestowitz-TR; so you never really know "Linux"
22:46 schestowitz-TR; then you have massive drivers for hypervisors
22:47 psydruid; you can only know a part of Linux and then it keeps moving forward (or backward)
22:51 schestowitz-TR; yes, notice con kolivas is no longer bothering
22:51 schestowitz-TR; he said it had grown too big
22:52 psydruid; I don't bother, even though I know my way around the code
22:52 psydruid; and I have no plans to take up a Linux kernel developer job
22:53 psydruid; even though ARM offered me one a few years ago to work on Linux/KVM
22:54 psydruid; there is just too much BS going around in that community
22:55 schestowitz-TR; not sure
22:55 schestowitz-TR; it can pay well
22:55 schestowitz-TR; and if you like c, it's not a bad career=
22:56 schestowitz-TR; linux won't go away any time soon
22:56 schestowitz-TR; I could probably become a linux developers
22:56 schestowitz-TR; because it's in c
22:56 psydruid; I'm not interested
22:56 schestowitz-TR; but... steep learning curve
22:56 schestowitz-TR; git mailing lists, structure, APIs
22:56 schestowitz-TR; and even then your patches might be considered "risky"
22:56 schestowitz-TR; and thus not pushed
22:57 schestowitz-TR; so you can spend months working on just a patch ~1000 lines of code
22:57 schestowitz-TR; testing and refining it
22:57 psydruid; just too much red tape for me to feel productive
22:57 schestowitz-TR; at that point,
22:57 schestowitz-TR; several linux releases were out
22:57 schestowitz-TR; like 6.0, 6.1
22:57 schestowitz-TR; with "rust now available"
22:57 schestowitz-TR; so you're always chasing yesterday's kernel
22:58 schestowitz-TR; and your code becomes obsolete a few years later
22:58 psydruid; but it might be a good job for you, if you are interested
22:58 psydruid; I think you just focus on a specific subsystem
22:59 psydruid; and yes, it will become obsolete and be in need of updating
22:59 psydruid; but that's what you get paid for
23:00 psydruid; I might end up at CapGemini in the short term while working on my plans for the longer term
23:01 schestowitz-TR; arm had MANY layofgs
23:01 psydruid; I've finally been seriouslu learning web programming for the past few days on freecodecamp.org
23:01 schestowitz-TR; one third iirc
23:01 schestowitz-TR; *layoffs
23:01 psydruid; seriously*
23:02 psydruid; that's why I learned ARM assembly and immediately after RISC-V
23:03 psydruid; now anything I write for ARM I port it to RISC-V soon after
23:04 schestowitz-TR; iirc, that codecamp has microsoft boosters
23:04 schestowitz-TR; if that's the site i removed from rss
23:04 psydruid; the biggest burden will be porting things back to x86
23:04 psydruid; probably
23:04 psydruid; but I'm concerned about learning stuff, I couldn't care much about the site itself
23:05 psydruid; so far I haven't come across anything Microsoft-specific
23:06 schestowitz-TR; Larabel: AMD is sending me dozens of expensive CPUs (list here is just Ryzen series, not EPYC) https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-core-i5-13400/2
23:06 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Intel Core i5 13400 Linux Performance - Raptor Lake 10 Cores / 16 Threads For $239 Review - Phoronix
23:06 schestowitz-TR; maybe they sent him over 100 by now
23:06 schestowitz-TR; but EPYC is the jewel
23:07 schestowitz-TR; sure, overpriced
23:07 schestowitz-TR; but you can offload them in ebay for 5k apiece
23:07 schestowitz-TR; and I doubt he truly needs that many
23:07 psydruid; the jewel of the nile
23:07 schestowitz-TR; AMD reckons it's cheap to send loads of these
23:07 schestowitz-TR; then he starts peddling AMD Pluton
23:07 schestowitz-TR; and clown
23:07 psydruid; maybe no one else wants them
23:07 schestowitz-TR; (azure)
23:08 schestowitz-TR; yes, they are overpriced
23:08 psydruid; AMD and Intel are caught in between
23:08 schestowitz-TR; maybe they have excess stock now
23:08 psydruid; lots of competitors are coming up now
23:08 schestowitz-TR; as a business, I'd not spend $10,000 just for a CPU
23:08 schestowitz-TR; even 120+ cores
23:09 psydruid; they're essentially a legacy product for running an obsolete and irrelevant operating system
23:09 schestowitz-TR; i worked with companies that had CPUs like these
23:09 schestowitz-TR; and like 90% of the time nothing runs on them
23:09 schestowitz-TR; overprovisioned to the extreme
23:09 schestowitz-TR; and if they run something they need fast
23:09 schestowitz-TR; it might finish minutes/hours later
23:10 schestowitz-TR; then idling for a day
23:10 schestowitz-TR; so it's uneconomic
23:10 schestowitz-TR; better to have several low powered machines
23:10 schestowitz-TR; you can turn them off when you don't need them
23:10 psydruid; people will need fewer and fewer of them
23:10 schestowitz-TR; last year I started to turn off my screens when afk
23:10 schestowitz-TR; due to rising costs of energy
23:10 psydruid; that's what I do at home
23:10 psydruid; when I don't need much -> ARM
23:11 psydruid; when I need more compute power -> x86 laptop (up to 3/4)
23:12 psydruid; in the clown they are supposed to run at 90% capacity at all time
23:14 psydruid; they can ask $10,000 due to monopoly rents
23:14 psydruid; as was mentioned earlier here
23:15 schestowitz-TR; right
23:15 psydruid; when they have to compete on equal footing prices will have to drop
23:15 schestowitz-TR; they might say "R&d"
23:15 schestowitz-TR; code for "patents"
23:15 schestowitz-TR; or ripoff
23:15 psydruid; GNU/Linux is the big equaliser
23:15 schestowitz-TR; but those dies don't cost much to make
23:15 schestowitz-TR; they overcharge
23:15 schestowitz-TR; and with so many cores I'd struggle to find use
23:15 schestowitz-TR; even video processing
23:15 schestowitz-TR; you finish faster
23:15 schestowitz-TR; and then what???
23:15 schestowitz-TR; I run ffmpeg nice'd
23:16 psydruid; I would only ever buy and run one for a private clown
23:16 schestowitz-TR; my PCs are under-utilised already
23:16 schestowitz-TR; atm I use 4 of them
23:16 psydruid; to let many developers and users access it at the same time
23:16 schestowitz-TR; with 8 screens
23:16 schestowitz-TR; with two raspi working in the background
23:16 schestowitz-TR; one does almost nothing
23:16 schestowitz-TR; shows weather and recipes
23:18 schestowitz-TR; Phoronix is an Apple site today? https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-M2-Pro-M2-Max relevance to Linux? NOTHING.
23:18 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Apple Launches The M2 Pro & M2 Max + New Mac Mini With M2 / M2 Pro - Phoronix
23:19 psydruid; I bought a cheap used Sun SPARC rack server years ago for testing Linux at about the same time I bought my first ARM SBC and an old Powermac G5
23:20 psydruid; after a few years all that expensive hardware ends up on eBay
23:22 schestowitz-TR; i no longer use arm on here
23:22 schestowitz-TR; the arm machine I gave to rianne
23:22 schestowitz-TR; she uses two arm machines now
23:22 schestowitz-TR; i used to have 5 laptops here
23:22 schestowitz-TR; now it's done to 4, with 8 screens, not 9 or 10
23:22 schestowitz-TR; it was too much anyway
23:22 schestowitz-TR; I consolidated a bit
23:23 schestowitz-TR; rianne now uses 3 machines, I use 4+1 (pi)
23:23 schestowitz-TR; and the power bills are not insane at all
23:24 psydruid; power consumption is one of the main criteria now
23:25 psydruid; I optimize for that when the performance is already adequate
23:25 schestowitz-TR; we even pay less than before
23:25 schestowitz-TR; because of the gov. scheme
23:25 schestowitz-TR; 66 a month
23:25 psydruid; and that will get more important over time
23:26 schestowitz-TR; psydruid: my scarcity is time
23:26 schestowitz-TR; and more screens can save time
23:26 psydruid; I want to minimise my bills and get the best performance while doing so
23:26 schestowitz-TR; so I don't need to move between virtual desktops
23:26 schestowitz-TR; CPU power is not the scarcity
23:26 schestowitz-TR; video processing is the only very heavy task here
23:27 schestowitz-TR; takes up maybe 1-2 hours per day on just one machine
23:27 schestowitz-TR; and next month we should get fibre
23:27 psydruid; if I do need more performance I start one of the fast laptops
23:32 schestowitz-TR; 20 years ago with fedora and suse... wake on lan
23:32 schestowitz-TR; with sleep or hibernationm
23:32 schestowitz-TR; so you can access lab machines overnight
23:32 schestowitz-TR; using nfs
23:32 schestowitz-TR; and then run simulations on whole clusters of computers
23:33 schestowitz-TR; for the CPU capacity
23:33 schestowitz-TR; was very common even then
23:33 schestowitz-TR; for my phd I needed to run very big jobs
23:38 psydruid; I'll see what I can do in the future
23:39 psydruid; but I don't know what the future will bring
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