Monthly Archives: September 2025

Article note: Imgur as a "community" has always been weird to me because I remember that it was literally a less-shit photo hosting platform (than photobucket or reddit's awful first party tools at the time, or the like) to use with other platforms, that then metastasized its own community. That said, from a few visits, their revolt looks a little more effective than the last set of bad reddit ToS changes, and the barrier to running an imgur-like service is pretty low, so they might be in danger. I would certainly be happy to see one of the advertising companies who own platforms get kicked in the teeth for shitty extractive behavior.

Article note: Neeeeat. They've applied for patents on basically putting another layer of JIT between the x86_64 machine code and actual execution engines, so instead of just superscalar multi-issue micro-op tricks on a single core, they can split and schedule across multiple cores.