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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 12h

INTEL: “we are discontinuing our x86 product line in favor of licensing ARM IP from NVIDIA. we hate life, and ourselves. somehow we made an okay graphics card but it was definitely not on purpose.”

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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 12h

‪ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC: “we have invented a new kind of chiplet that’s made out of other chiplets. this enables us to create the new EPYC 9666X3D with 32GB of L2 cache. topology information will be available to system software via a new CPUID leaf that instantly kills you.”‬

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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 13h

‪“it’s exactly the same as the product that NVIDIA designed for Gigabyte but ours says ‘HPE GreenLake Simplivity Agileocity For The Enterprise’ on it!”‬

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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 13h

HEWLETT-PACKARD ENTERPRISE: “HPE GreenLake Simplivity Agileocity Software-Defined HCI Solutions are also involved in AI CapEx in some kind of way!”

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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 13h

i was specifically thinking of the NVIDIA Mac Mini: www.nvidia.com/en-us/produc...

NVIDIA DGX Spark

A Grace Blackwell AI supercomputer on your desk.

www.nvidia.com

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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 13h

META: “hiring AI researchers to build a version of TikTok that saps the human will to live! your salary will be the GDP of Malaysia!”

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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 13h

“selling products” is below us. you can get it from our board partners.

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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 13h

“we are making the CEOs of ASUS, SuperMicro, and Gigabyte duel to the death for Jensen’s amusement. the winner will get to manufacture a product that we’ve already designed for them, but will not be allowed to put their own branding on it!”

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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 13h

‪ALSO NVIDIA: “we have invented an ARM mini-PC with a soldered-on BGA GPU and 128GB of HBM3. it costs $5,000 and will be shipping some time in the next two hundred years.” ‬

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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 13h

NVIDIA: “Announcing the RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Solid Gold Jensen Huang Signature Limited Collector’s Edition (financing options available)”

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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 13h

ANTHROPIC: “artificial superintelligence will certainly cause the end of the human species, which is we must build it before OpenAI does so we can have some chance of inscribing human moral values on the post-human future”

OPENAI: “what if we put ads in ChatGPT?”

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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 21h

Inspiring! This System Still Serves CPU Compute The Old-Fashioned Way

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Joshua M. Clulow @jclulow.bsky.social · 1d

Screenshot of the XFINITY X1 Entertainment Operating System welcome kit, a truly stupid thing.

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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 1d

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 1d

mechanical pencil represents creation, boxcutter represents destruction

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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 1d

angery

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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 1d

ChatGPT is where you talk to the GUID Partition Table

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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 1d

the “G” actually stands for “GNOME”, because it’s from the GNOME Project. few know this.

eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 1d

‪saying that ChatGPT was a “shell” or a “window manager” would be a fine analogy, that’s the software that you use to access and interact with other software. but GNOME is not an operating system either. ‬and saying “ChatGPT is the same type of thing KDE is” is probably not sexy

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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 1d

‪saying that ChatGPT was a “shell” or a “window manager” would be a fine analogy, that’s the software that you use to access and interact with other software. but GNOME is not an operating system either. ‬and saying “ChatGPT is the same type of thing KDE is” is probably not sexy

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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 1d

every hype cycle has its “calling things ‘operating systems’ that are not actually operating systems” moment; at least when Kubernetes was an operating system it was “software that abstracts over hardware resources and provides services to applications”

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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 1d

you can just call it a “platform” that’s fine i don’t give a shit

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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 1d

“operating system” does not mean “an app that has other apps inside it”; i understand that this may be confusing to people who don’t know how computers work.

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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 1d

CHATGPT IS NOT AND WILL NEVER BE AN “OPERATING SYSTEM”, CALL IT THAT ONE MORE TIME AND I WILL STAB YOU

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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 1d

"dingus" is a technical term btw

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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 3d

imagining “SPORTS” hat and “MUSIC BAND” shirt

screenshot of a scene from 30 Rock where Steve Buscemi is dressed like a high schooler in a tshirt that says “MUSIC BAND”

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