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MarkWayneNewton

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MarkWayneNewton··on The Copilot+ PC branding is dead

Microsoft would struggle marketing water to people in the middle of the desert.

MarkWayneNewton··on I'm Tired of Being on the Network

Tech/phone addiction is real. But it will be years before anyone admits it.

MarkWayneNewton··on I said no and Apple said yes

Macs are for people who think they know how to computer but actually don't know anything at all.

MarkWayneNewton··on Disney+: New user agreement allows ads before movies in all subscriptions

The seas are always open, friend.

MarkWayneNewton··on Apple May Return to Server Market with Nvidia Technology

lol

MarkWayneNewton··on The American Age Is Over

The fire of the Empire is beautiful at night.

MarkWayneNewton··on The US is talking about space weapons now

You can always count on the current administration to say things they shouldn't.

MarkWayneNewton··on I asked Claude to build an OS from scratch. A few days later it runs on a laptop

funny how the stuff AI "creates" always looks like something that already exists.

MarkWayneNewton··on Holodomor

Hard to believe people still 'debate' the cause.

Humans are an ignorant beast.

MarkWayneNewton··on Roblox plan to grow their gaming empire even further

Will they ever start working on moderation of their user base? Or do they hope they can lobby their way out of it?

MarkWayneNewton··on Fake GitHub Repositories Spreading Malware via PowerShell

Maybe this sort of thing will force MS to harden their OS.

hahahahaha.

MarkWayneNewton··on Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout

A normal well adjusted person would be embarrassed to wear any advertising.

MarkWayneNewton··on Show HN: The Kinect is dead, so I rebuilt it in a browser tab for my kids

Excellent work!

MarkWayneNewton··on "All my fundees have blue eyes." Epstein and the tech dark ideology

Will be funny to see how this information is embraced by the valley. Will probably just be ignored like all other 'problems'.

MarkWayneNewton··on iPod Classic 6G in QEMU

CoverFlow originally was a 3rd party 'mod' that Apple bought at some point. My memory is hazy...

https://github.com/davidtphung/coverflow-media

https://512pixels.net/2023/10/the-history-of-cover-flow/

MarkWayneNewton··on Orbs

Simulacra and simulation.

MarkWayneNewton··on I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes

The page was created with AI.

MarkWayneNewton··on LG Display unveils FLiPP, achieving dream next-generation OLED technology

The ads are gonna look marvelous!

MarkWayneNewton··on Founders OS, now one-click installable via MCPB and live on Smithery

Another "OS" that isn't an OS. No cap.

MarkWayneNewton··on AI Barons Are Ready to Give Away Their Fortunes

Now this is good PR. Get ahead of the hate before the public remembers your name.

MarkWayneNewton··on Solar vehicle built by a programmer. Runs on solar energy, battery, or pedals [video]

Some call it a recombinant tricycle.

MarkWayneNewton··on I Wanted to Own the Harness. Then Codex Desktop Won

If you need to layout your text like that just to make it seem big maybe you don't really have that much to say.

MarkWayneNewton··on One Japanese village defied the tsunami (2011)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/fudai-floodgate

Link to article with useful, interesting pictures of the floodgate.

MarkWayneNewton··on Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country

At least these sites (its more than Amazon) are being built near the energy source they will consume. Straight out of the ground into a turbine and then into the electron spinners.

Also there's not a lot of anything where these sites are located (Near El Paso). The 4-5 Road Runners who live around there will probably appreciate the change.

West Texas is basically Mad Max 2.

MarkWayneNewton··on Ford Fathom

Vaporware has crossed over.

MarkWayneNewton··on At the altar of AI capex, Google is sacrificing the golden goose

An advertiser crying about advertising.

BOO THIS MAN!

MarkWayneNewton··on Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did

If this thread is indicative of the sort of browser discourse in <current year> it's no wonder Google won.

Nerds used to know how to computer, is what i'm saying.

MarkWayneNewton··on Earth's molten core reversed direction

Link points to wrong article.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260806050713.h...

MarkWayneNewton··on AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon

While this design is self-limiting I think its a good approach. It doesn't take an entirely new architecture or infinite memory to produce significant performance improvement.

MarkWayneNewton··on AI Hacking, Fearmongering and Prometheus

Burn the AI once we land on the beaches of the future. Then we CAN'T go back.

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