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This should be the link of the post, HN should ban links to sites like tomshardware.com where the scroll is hijacked to force play videos and don’t provide mean
by bithavoc 5y ago
This should be the link of the post, HN should ban links to sites like tomshardware.com where the scroll is hijacked to force play videos and don’t provide meaningful information over the same Phoronix’s articles.
- IntelMiner 5y agoBeing less information dense than Phoronix is an achievement That idiot stuffs his "articles" with so many pages littered with ads to milk every single penny he can out of the few Linux users that don't have adblock enabled
- cwillu 5y agoBelieve me, it hurt my soul to point out that this was a rehash of something michael wrote. But the fact remains that the only informational content of this post came out of the legwork performed by another party. I can't read the word “phoronix” without mentally substituting “moronix”, but the point stands.
- 5e92cb50239222b 5y agoThat "idiot" also works 20 hours a day and barely comes even at the end of the month despite all those advertisements. It's a one-man shop. I am no fan of Phoronix, but give him a break.
- stonogo 5y agoMaybe there isn't a market for working 20 hours a day posting content-free articles sourced from other freely-available news sites, and he should find other work?
- samus 5y agoHe also maintains a general-purpose benchmark collection and uses it to perform regular performance tests for to-be-released Linux kernels. Several times serious performance regressions were found (most recently because of AMD power management and on Alder Lake). Maybe he should indeed stop helping big companies save money this way, but the Open Source scene would be worse off as a whole.