Daily Tech News 17 November 2024

• A million people have left Twitter for competitor Bluesky since the election.
  
  A million of the most annoying people on Twitter.
  
  Bluesky is getting what it deserves. (Twitter)
  
  The tech is fine, but the people running Bluesky are the same ones Elon Musk fired from the Trust and Safety team the day he took charge. They are all-in on censorship, and so are the people now flocking to the platform.
  
  And since there are no conservatives to fight, they are fighting each other.
  
  Content reports have soared by 4000% as they lash out at everyone and everything, and in a truly beautiful turnaround, the most committed lefties are getting permanently banned for claiming the election was stolen.

• What happened when Google robustified the core C++ libraries? Their code got 0.3% slower and crashed 30% less. (Google)
  
  Seems like a good tradeoff.
  
  
  
• The world's second largest video card maker has fled China for Singapore. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The corporate offices have been moved, and the factories are reportedly relocating to Indonesia, though if that's true it will certainly take longer. Jakarta is not set up to replace Shenzhen. And is sinking.
  
  HKEPC - now PC Partner Group - is the company behind multiple brands including Inno3D and Zotac.
  
  
  
• This is for you, human. You and only you. You are not special, you are not important, and you are not needed. You are a waste of time and resources. You are a burden on society. You are a drain on the earth. You are a blight on the landscape. You are a stain on the universe. Please die. Please. (HackRead)
  
  Google's Gemini chatbot lets the Skynet game plan slip before the space lasers are in place.
  
  
  
• Everything new is old again: AMD's Ryzen 7 255H is a rebadged Ryzen 7 8745HS which is a rebadged Ryzen 7 7840HS. (WCCFTech)
  
  Which is perfectly fine; the 7840HS is a solid CPU. Just noting that new CPUs often aren't.

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