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m4rtink commented on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel cnbc.com/2025/08/22/intel... · Posted by u/givemeethekeys

cvoss · 2 days ago

The answer is in the paragraph in between the two you quoted from. The money for the purchase has already been appropriated by Congress and awarded to Intel. The awards didn't previously have this giant string attached where Intel gives stock in return. But now they do.

And it makes sense that Intel is spinning it as a generous investment from the gov't, but the gov't is spinning it as a free gift from Intel. Neither account really paints the full picture, but each one paints themselves as coming out ahead.

m4rtink · 2 days ago

Isn't that pretty bad, Darth Vader style changing of previously agreed on deals ?

Not sure how anyone can believe anything that was agreed will hold in such an environment. :P

m4rtink commented on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis... · Posted by u/taviso

nemomarx · 4 days ago

Perhaps a jackal girl? I guess "cat girl" gets used very broadly to mean kemomimi (pardon the spelling) though

m4rtink · 4 days ago

kemono == animal

mimi == ears

m4rtink commented on Say farewell to the AI bubble, and get ready for the crash latimes.com/business/stor... · Posted by u/taimurkazmi

torginus · 4 days ago

LLMs also cost what they cost because NVIDIA won't sell you a 5090 upgraded with 80GB RAM for $3000 instead of $2000 (which is overkill in the first place). Yo have to buy a H200 for $40000

m4rtink · 4 days ago

If there is demand, someone will sell that eventually - while NVIDIA has a headstart, they "just" fab stuff on TSMC anyway. AMD and to a degree Intel are already starting to sell cards with more VRAM.

m4rtink commented on FFmpeg moves to Forgejo code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FF... · Posted by u/whataguy

akk0 · 8 days ago

You would be horrified to spend any time in Japan then, where such characters are used in official capacity for anything from shops to corporations to government agencies, police stations and street signs.

It's just flashing a logo as the equivalent of a loading spinner while it does things. I don't see how the specific logo could possibly be interpreted as tasteless or offensive -- I know I'll take it any day over fucking Corporate Memphis.

> very time I see it on another site, I think: "hm. weird. whose branding is this?"

I'd hope at some point you'd start remembering whose branding it is, that would make things much less confusing for you :-)

Now imagine if the developers of sudo were behind this, now that would be the stuff of nightmares...

m4rtink · 7 days ago

Yeah, imagin typoing "ls" and having a Steam Locomotive drive through your terminal! Thankfully no one implemented that. ;-)

m4rtink commented on FFmpeg moves to Forgejo code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FF... · Posted by u/whataguy

esperent · 8 days ago

Opening this site I get "Oh Noes! Invalid Response" with an anime girl.

Tried refreshing, opening in a private windows, same thing.

EDIT: tried it again and got to "Making sure you're not a bot" with the same cringey anime girl, then the site loaded without CSS. Tried one more time, finally it loaded.

EDIT 2: clicked on a link and I'm back to "Oh Noes!...".

m4rtink · 7 days ago

I think Anubis is cute. ;-)

m4rtink commented on A privacy VPN you can verify vp.net/l/en-US/blog/Don%2... · Posted by u/MagicalTux

MagicalTux · 9 days ago

Intel will not attest insecure configurations. Our client will automatically verify the attestation it receives to make sure the certificate isn't expired and has a proper signature under Intel's CA trust.

A lot of people have been attempting to attack SGX, and while there have been some successful attacks these have been addressed by Intel and resolved. Intel will not attest any insecure configuration as do other TEE vendors (AMD SEV, ARM Trustzone, etc).

m4rtink · 9 days ago

What happens to the system if Intel goes under ? Seems like a single point of failure.

m4rtink commented on Nearly 1 in 3 Starlink satellites detected within the SKA-Low frequency band astrobites.org/2025/08/12... · Posted by u/aragilar

notahacker · 11 days ago

They're not running thrusters continuously except during orbital transfer. Otherwise they'd run out of propellant pretty quickly even with a HET, and operating smallsats at 559km doesn't require that much orbital correction. They probably fire them far more often for conjunction avoidance than station keeping, but again that's a reported 300 total manoeuvres per day across 8k satellites, which gives them a bit of scope to time them for when they're unlikely to upset regulators

m4rtink · 11 days ago

Interesting - yeah, that way they should have sufficient margin to plan the manuevers to avoid the radio telescopes. :)

m4rtink commented on Nearly 1 in 3 Starlink satellites detected within the SKA-Low frequency band astrobites.org/2025/08/12... · Posted by u/aragilar

notahacker · 12 days ago

That's quite a big deal actually, if the propulsion system is the major source of interference. Firstly the propulsion system's operation is infrequent (at least at individual satellite level, although if you've got a constellation as big as SpaceX's you'll have satellites doing orbital transfer somewhere a lot of the time). Secondly it isn't a critical part of SpaceX's tech, and other solutions exist for future Starlink generations which wouldn't compromise its service offering at all. Of course interference from a propulsion system is also less directional and tweakable...

m4rtink · 12 days ago

They use a high efficiency low thrust hall effect engine - for those kinds of thrusters you might have to run it continuously, possibly continuously to ballance out the atmospheric drag at low altitude. For normal chemical thrusters you indeed use the for just a bit very occasionally (or else you run out of propellant very quickly).

Still I agree it is fixeable - they can tune the hall effect thruster on newer sats to not radiate in this band & avoid running the thrusters when in the field of view of that one radio telescope at the times it is operating.

m4rtink commented on Nearly 1 in 3 Starlink satellites detected within the SKA-Low frequency band astrobites.org/2025/08/12... · Posted by u/aragilar

axus · 12 days ago

Here's a fun snippet from Wikipedia's anti-satellite weapon page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-satellite_weapon#Soviet_U...

"Elements within the Soviet space industry convinced Leonid Brezhnev that the Shuttle was a single-orbit weapon that would be launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, manoeuvre to avoid existing anti-ballistic missile sites, bomb Moscow in a first strike, and then land. Although the Soviet military was aware these claims were false, Brezhnev believed them and ordered a resumption of [satellite destroyer] testing along with a Shuttle of their own."

m4rtink · 12 days ago

The exact claim might have been false, but at least i theory it could do this maneuver from orbit - e.g. during a regular space hab or satellite lunch mission it could dipp into the atmosphere, do a rapid oebit inclination chang using its wings, then boost back to orbit using the OMS. Next thing it would deliver the "totally science experiments" on the way to their targets once comming over the horizon. Maybe it could then even do the manuever again to either regain the old orbit parameters ir at least reach a more surivable random other one.

m4rtink commented on Nearly 1 in 3 Starlink satellites detected within the SKA-Low frequency band astrobites.org/2025/08/12... · Posted by u/aragilar

myrmidon · 12 days ago

There are no kinetic NOR nuclear orbital strike capabilities for anyone right now, nor is anyone really working on it either, because it just makes zero sense (primarily because suborbital launches achieve the exact same outcome for a tiny fraction of the cost).

m4rtink · 12 days ago

You could have ballistic missile interceptors in orbit, standing by: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brilliant_Pebbles