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links, etc Amazon AI: Amazon’s Secret Weapon in Chip Design is Amazon - IEEE Spectrum a fun IEEE article about how amazon does vertical integration with hardware and some interesting nuggets about their engineering process. nothing paritcularly revelatory here, but the feedback loops that they operate on and the visibility into cloud scale problems is pretty interesting. a little on the duh side of things, but likely nice when you’re working in an enviroment with effectively limitless compute you really can just throw more CPUs at the problems....

links, etc Intel Honesty not a bad rundown of the current state of intel. it’s unsparing in the critique. one thing that it doesn’t do is provide any coverage of the situation the balance of the intel portfolio. of note, their horking the network stuff. barefoot tofino was binned. it wasn’t a particularly sexy asic, but it did allow operators to start having some conversations around where it made sense to turn the dial in overlay and packet processing on the host stack vs....

links, etc diyPresso - World’s first DIY espresso machine i cannot seem to look away from this.

links, etc RFC 9620: Guidelines for Human Rights Protocol and Architecture Considerations i struggle with the IETF on a number of fronts, but this was a surprisingly compelling read. technology has become a far more powerful tool for suppression and surveillance than we thought it would be in the mid-late 1990s when we were super pumped about the democratization of information access. protocol analysis for information leakage is something that’s been de rigueur from a security perspective for some time, but even that’s proven to be insufficient....

links, etc Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector it’s a deliciously snarky read and brings the science. The mainstream press is failing America – and people are understandably upset | Rebecca Solnit this hits on so much of what’s been gallling me lately. tags: #uspolitics, #spacekaren