Well, I don’t like it when people sanewash billionaire greed, and you defended his logic around “utilization” as if it were a good point.

How is this a rebuttal? It sounds like he definitely said what people claim he said. The only issue here is putting a paraphrased statement in quotes, but I can forgive that since the message didn’t change.

https://frvr.com/blog/news/openai-ceo-sam-altman-says-its-terrible-to-have-everybody-have-a-bunch-of-the-worlds-limited-supply-of-dram-instead-of-shoving-it-all-in-datacentres/

I’m happy to answer your question, but I don’t think I understand what you’re asking me. Can you clarify?

That’s an awful comparison.

It’s like email.

You can have a gmail.com address, and send and receive emails between yahoo.com and hotmail.com addresses without issues. Nobody really cares which provider you chose, and if you really want to, you can register your own domain and host email yourself.

If this doesn’t land, then the person you’re talking to probably has never used a computer.

I thought that too, until I learned it was North Korea. Probably not great that they acquired that much dark money.

I guess that depends: are you okay with literally anyone accessing this computer? If so, change nothing.

If you’re trying to just give yourself access to your own computer, stop forwarding ports and download Tailscale.

It was founded by crypto grifters with backing from Jack Dorsey. It was a shithole the day it went online. It was never countercultural in the slightest.

Bluesky never had a policy against letting fascists join. There’s been a fascist community there since day 1. If you only noticed when JD Vance joined, you weren’t paying attention.

Oh my God, they put the URL on the page. Sharing a screenshot of it is totally fair game, and still spreads the URL, while giving you the plausible deniability of only posting it to criticize Bluesky.

Still, fuck Bluesky for this. I told people that joining “Twitter cloned by cryptobros” was a bad idea, and they didn’t listen.

Yeah, but joining an instance is so hard guys. How am I supposed to know which one to join? What if I join the wrong one? The human brain was never meant to know more than one domain name.

The whole Internet should just be one single website so I don’t have to think. But I will complain about how only one rich guy owns that website, but I’ll do it on that website since it’s the “public square”.

The tapes are $5 but the drive was $400.

It’s linear, so you have to pull a whole backup at a time, but it is possible to store multiple unique backups on a single tape, and only pull one.

Because there is nothing in this world more sacred than corporate intellectual property and the copyright code that protects capital. /s

You need to read the article.

Factory Farms aren’t making the AI images, researchers are. The complaint, apparently, is that AI image generators aren’t trained on enough animal cruelty to realistically depict a modern slaughterhouse.

This is a problem because the author of this article thinks that in the future, people will rely on AI image generators to understand the world around them, and honestly, if that’s already the assumption, then we are cooked.

Oh wow, in your hypothetical, the DevOps manager is an incompetent moron. AI Agents will never recover from this one.

I have a friend that works there. They told me about this, and I was like “per day?”

I was not prepared to learn that the budget was less than a dollar per day. Might as well just stop using AI agents that that point.

Honestly, any “creative business” that still does business through Mark Zuckerberg should have corrected themselves years ago. The next best time is today.

With these new terms, any creative business left on Facebook and IG needs to be called out for agreeing to Meta’s terms. This is the line artists can’t pass. Staying on Meta is scab behavior.

Doing business with Meta at all should be a reputational liability.

Unironically how I use LTO-6 tapes.

2.5TB of storage for ~$5/tape on ebay.

Never delete anything. If the authorities ever come after me, discovery is going to be hilarious.

The next time someone asks what the point of boycotting Israel is, point to stuff like this, and the beeper bombs.

Literally every Israel company might actually be a state-run malware company or a bomb-maker secretly trying to hack or blow up you or or your customers.

The Israeli supply chain is not safe.

Imagine trusting Torrents when Usenet is right there.