This is the ONE thing you aren’t supposed to do as a passive investor. A play like this will cause you to lose upside almost always, and some people never get back in and miss out on almost a lifetime of growth.
This is absolutely insane. If you look at joelreymonts recent activity on GitHub, there is what I would consider an bomb of AI slop PRs with thousands and thousands of changes, AI generated summaries/notes, copyright issues, you name it.
People like this are ruining open source for the rest of us, and those poor maintainers really have their work cut out for them sorting through this slop.
You’re just limiting yourself for no reason. It’s not Apples fault that you are sitting in front of an un-upgraded computer that is tool-less (for one of your tasks, at least) and has step by step instructions meant for beginners.
All of the side channel attacks for CPUs has been from in depth use of branch prediction techniques that make up a significant part of every modern processor’s performance. It’s one of the main things we can do aside from just clocking them higher.