alt Hacker NewsI imagine they’re talking about handling network protocols in the kernel or the NIC instead of in userland code, and they’re generally right. It runs off the same battery, but the kernel implementation and especially the (hardware-accelerated) NIC implementations of protocols like TCP and TLS are generally more energy efficient than doing the same amount of IO in userland code.
I think the point is not if the text can be interpreted charitably, but that the usage of AI text in what is intended for humans to read causes mistrust about where else corners could have been cut, on what is security-critical software