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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • It doesn’t seem like AMD has any intention of continuing to develop this project. The reason it went open source in the first place is that AMD stopped funding this project. The dev and AMD had an agreement that he could open source the code once they stop working together. They stopped working together because AMD wanted out of a project that would benefit its products, and that was demonstrated to work well. The dev opened sourced the project as agreed. This was back in Feb this year.

    Now AMD are trying to make the source code closed so no one can access it. They are not announcing a closed sourced version of this feature that they are developing themselves as far as I know. So this move is simply to remove code from the Internet that would allow their cards to work better in certain workloads when compared to their competitors. AMD should not have an incentive to do this. Nvidia has an incentive to get rid of this code, yes.

    The implication is that AMD is doing this because they don’t want to truly compete with Nvidia. And they don’t want to compete with Nvidia because their CEO’s don’t really want to compete. This is not the first time AMD has simply chosen not to put pressure on Nvidia with AMD seemingly comfortable with their place.










  • I couldn’t watch this from the UK. I had to use a VPN. I have to say that from personal, and this is anecdotal however, I lived next to a food bank until a few months ago and every day that it was open (3 times a weeks), the queue for that place was spilling onto the streets. I remember remarking how many normal people I saw, families with children after them, people I would expect to see in a supermarket are waiting outside food banks.

    I think that if you know where to look, it is that bad. If you don’t, though, it can be easy to miss as most people suffer is silence it seems, out of embarrassment or something else, I don’t know. I wonder how many of these people I saw outside the food bank tell people they know that they are forced to use a food bank? I’m not judging them for potentially not saying something to anyone, if they feel embarrassed, but at the same time if people suffer in silence, the issue can be ignored.

    My personal opinion is that things are that bad, we just don’t give it visibility and we don’t talk about it.