Mastodawn

I haven't read either site in ages but I can confidently say that you can stop reading both Tomshardware and Neowin. If they're willing to put out this kind of slop with blatant mistakes in it you can assume the rest of their reporting is also slop, and will likely be either misleading, confusing or flat out false.

Jan Philipp Sachse May 25

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Gabriele Svelto May 24

From the looks of it editors on both websites probably fed the most prominent Raptor Lake bug we have on our tracker, as well as my social media comments, to an LLM and asked it to generate an article on the topic. The results are complete drivel that include claims like we fixed the bug (we did not), it was caused by a known errata (it was not) and was fixed by microcode (not possible, degraded hardware stays degraded). No human editors reading the sources would have made these mistakes.

Jan Philipp Sachse May 25

Gabriele Svelto May 24

Regarding the Raptor Lake bug I received a couple of messages from confused users that had read articles on Tomshardware and Neowin. They asked about erratas and microcode updates which puzzled me, because that was part of my early investigation into the bug and we know that the failure is not caused by a known errata and microcode updates cannot fix broken CPUs. So why did they ask? As it turns out it was slop. Both articles are 100% slop full of confusing and inaccurate claims.

Jan Philipp Sachse May 23

everton137 May 21

The author of @allaboutberlin on how Google AI Overviews are killing independent web publishing, citing a 70% drop in traffic after seven years of steady growth. His work trains the model. The model is replacing his site. There is no credit, clicks, or revenue. This is what the "enshittification" of the open web looks like in practice.

Hard to imagine moving to Berlin without stumbling upon his guides at some point.

https://allaboutberlin.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nicolasbouliane_ai-is-killing-all-about-berlin-when-you-share-7463188284924616705-I3Mn

#AI #OpenKnowledge #Berlin #Google #Enshittification #OpenWeb #IndieWeb

Jan Philipp Sachse May 18

captain acab

🏳️‍🌈May 16

progress

Jan Philipp Sachse Apr 28

Niki Apr 27

1/2

Apple in 2007: here’s 400 videos playing at the same time, with interactive search and real-time animations (via https://t.me/ilyabirman_channel/12350)

Jan Philipp Sachse Apr 23

josh susser Apr 22

so we're calling AI imitations of people "sloppelgangers" now, right?

Jan Philipp Sachse Apr 20

Mike Sheward Apr 14

i was quite surprised to discover that no one had registered deleteduser [dot] com, and was curious to see how many emails i'd get if i registered it, assuming many orgs 'delete' logic probably just overwrote the email address with [email protected] or similar.

The answer, is at least 3 different orgs in the hour that I've owned that domain and been listening for email.

And yes, all of those emails contain the actual PII of the person who has been 'deleted' :-D

#infosec

Jan Philipp Sachse Apr 15

Ingwar Perowanowitsch Apr 15

Der Tankrabatt kostet für 2 Mon. 1,6 Mrd. €. Dafür, dass sich die Öl-Konzerne weiter bereichern, SUV-Fahrer besonders entlastet und fossile Kriege finanziert werden.
Das Deutschlandticket kostet für 12 Mon. 1,5 Mrd.€. Dafür, dass 14 Mio. Menschen entlastet, Stau reduziert, das Klima geschützt & fossile Unabhängigkeit gestärkt wird.
2 Monate Tankrabatt ist also teurer als 1 Jahr Deutschland- ticket. Nie wieder soll es heißen, dass für letzteres kein Geld da ist und es leider teurer werden muss!

Jan Philipp Sachse Apr 9

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

Apr 7

I don't own a car. I take public transit everywhere, and I do think personal vehicle use has real environmental costs. But I don't think driving is inherently unethical.

I live in Seoul, and the city makes transit easy for me. That's not a virtue. It's a condition I happen to benefit from. Some people live where transit barely exists, or where it doesn't get them to work, school, or care. In those places, driving is not optional.

The same is true of flying. In parts of Europe you can cross borders by train. In island nations, or in places with weak land connections, flying may be the only realistic option. “Just fly less” means very different things in those places.

A lot of what gets called my ethical choices comes from the conditions I live in. That makes me wary of turning structural failures into personal morality. If the alternative is missing or unusable, shaming people for not choosing it solves nothing.

When environmental harm gets framed as individual moral failure, attention shifts away from the structural changes that would actually matter. It's not an accident that oil companies spent decades popularizing the idea of the personal carbon footprint.