I have two chimps within, Laziness and Hyperactivity. They smoke cigs, drink yerba, fling shit at each other, and devour the face of anyone who gets close to either.
They also devour my dreams.
Lemmy has Reddit. PieFed has Lemmy.
Also, from 4chan’s PoV, Reddit is more like a boogerman than a boogeyman: it’s that weirdo creepo that makes you say “eew”, avoid at all costs, and if you touch them by accident or social pressures (“why no handshake?”), you immediately wash your hands.
Instead the actual boogeymen are internal: for /g/ it’s /a/, for /b/ and /int/ it’s /pol/, and for almost everyone else it’s /b/.
I’m trying to parse it.
In case it helps anyone here, the Unicode for his text is 𓇍𓇋𓏭𓂻 𓍘𓇋𓇾𓂋𓇥𓂋𓈐𓆑. I think the first four hieroglyphs are supposed to be read as /ji:/, roughly “yee”; I think they encode /j/, /i/, [lengthens the preceding vowel], [determinant for movement].
That explains it - they’re most likely doing it with OpenAI.
…I’m low-key wishing the bubble bursts before SoftBank is able to cash out.
“This should not be seen, in our view, as a cautious or negative stance on Nvidia, but rather in the context of SoftBank needing at least $30.5bn of capital for investments in the Oct-Dec quarter, including $22.5bn for OpenAI and $6.5bn for Ampere,” Rolf Bulk, equity research analyst at New Street Research, told CNBC.
When I read that, I was puzzled; when the bubble bursts, OpenAI will be way more affected than nVidia, as the later is basically the guy selling shovels in the gold rush. And odds are SoftBank’s CEO knows it; so why are they moving its investments this way?
Then I remembered this often quoted excerpt from The 18te Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte applies here: “Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.”
The “first time” here is the dotcom bubble, often compared with the current AI bubble. When the internet was becoming popular, you had that flood of dotcom businesses with overpriced stocks, stocks went brrr then kaboom, bursting around early '00. Like this:
Note however how sharply the prices raised in '99. I think SoftBank is betting on that: buy stocks, sell them juuuuust before the bubble bursts, and you got some nice profit.
Here’s the open letter. I also recommend people to read what Wikipedia says about her, and take your own conclusions.
“We are not predicting human-level AI next year,” a Commission spokesperson told Euractiv in response to the scientists’ open letter, arguing that AI is developing faster and less predictably than older forecasts had suggested.
“This is about being prepared, not declaring a date,” they added. “Responsible planning is not guessing the future, it’s preparing for different scenarios.”
CUT OFF THE CRAP. Even if we interpret her statement as a figure of speech, she still fucked it up. She is a politician dammit; it’s part of her job to be careful with the shit she says.
As I said in another thread, a week ago: AI is not screwing workers over because it’s stealing jobs. It’s more like suckers at the top will lose big money on AI fluff, and to cut costs off they’ll fire a lot of people.
Based on stuff said in the comments (“İt happened when I asked for weather, maybe someone can replicate it.”), I did some dumb test. Using duck.ai because… well, guess why I’m not subscribed to ChatGPT? Privacy. The article confirms my decision, by the way.
Anyway, I was curious, I wanted to know which location it would assume I’m from.
I don’t know which is the dumbest part - making shit up / lying / assuming, acknowledging its own intellectual dishonesty… or not taking spelling into account. (Using British spelling might not be a sign someone is from the UK [I’m not], but it’s a pretty good sign the person is not in USA.)
Indeed. Sadly, corporations abused telemetry so much that it makes users automatically distrust software with it - even when it’s opt-in. As such I’m not surprised it isn’t more common, specially in the Linux ecosystem.
If we take distro defaults into account, it’s possible Arch stats overestimate GNOME market share.
Based on tecmint list, the top 3 distros are Mint, MX Linux, and Endeavour. Their defaults are:
Granted, the fourth one (Debian) does default to GNOME, but your typical Debian user is more experienced, so it’s less likely they stick to the default.
…I wish I had actual data instead of a bunch of guesses. :-/
I wouldn’t be surprised if other big DEs, such as KDE, start making firmer plans for dropping X11.
If going by Arch Linux statistics, KDE dropping X11 will have a bigger impact than GNOME doing it.
In this video (Odysee link), someone asks X11 users why they’re still using it in 2025. The main answers were
In the light of the above, I think GNOME’s decision to drop the X11 backend is a big “meh, who cares”. If you use GNOME you’re likely not in the first case; #2 and #3 boil down to hardware support, not something DE developers can interfere directly; I’m not sure on #4 and #5, however.
Before I even read the article, let me guess:
Now, reading the article…
*Yawn*
…okay, to any fleshy sammich! (Jelly and mustard? Eww.)
Reminder mustard is a great addition to any sandwich.
TL;DR: don’t be a dumbarse like Lvxferre. Don’t waste your time reading this text; it is not worth it. It’s basically some guy building a prediction around a big assumption.
The core claim of the article is that generative artificial¹ "intelligence"² in 2025 is roughly in the same situation as the internet in 1995. As in: back then it was impossible to predict how, and both optimists and pessimists were dead wrong on their predictions, and yet the internet did have a huge impact on our lives.
In no moment he backs that core claim up. He takes it for granted. He assumes³ that genAI will revolutionise everything, internet style. Will it? I don’t know, you don’t, he doesn’t either - nobody knows, because it boils down to future events, and only a goddamn liar (no, worse - a moron) claims to know the future in this regard.
And the fact he’s assuming is further reinforced by his claim at the end that “We’re early in the AI revolution.”.
Then he spends the a good chunk of the text trying to predict the supply and demand effects of his certainty on jobs. His analysis is interesting, but at the end of the day it’s just a big red herring - it distracts the reader from the core claim he was supposed to back up, and failed to.
Immediately afterwards, he does it again, now talking about bubbles. Same deal: interesting-ish analysis spoiled by the fact it’s a red herring, taking for granted a core claim that might be false.
The Predictably Unpredictable Future
Or: “The Moronic Oxymoron”.
no one can predict with certainty what our AI future will look like. Not the tech CEOs, not the AI researchers, and certainly not some random guy pontificating on the internet. But whether we get the details right or not, our AI future is loading.
You were so close, author. So fucking close. Then you dropped the ball by vomiting certainty one final time.
No worries - the way you phrased kind of suggests you weren’t endorsing it. I mentioned your username mostly as a reference to which comment I was talking about.
[Skavau, on Piefed and Lemmy] They’re not free speech zones though. Assuming that’s what you want. Most instances will have specific rules.
Even if the OOP wants that “freeze peach”, that boils down to “waaah! I want to scream sluurs! And how much of a social failure I am I hate marginalised groups!”, it would be perfectly possible to create a Piefed or Lemmy instance to host it. So even in that case the Fediverse would be an option…
…as long as the person doesn’t feel entitled to be heard by people who don’t want to hear their shit, you know? Because, as soon as someone created such instance, most other instances would (IMO correctly) defederate it.
By “Swiss Cheese” they mean Emmental / Emmenthaler, right? There’s a bunch of Swiss cheeses, after all.
Anyway. Bacterial activity creating pockets of carbon dioxide. Those bacteria are already in the milk provided you didn’t pasteurise it, but if you did they can be added back (as a Propionibacterium culture), right before you add the rennet. It’s also one of the factors behind the flavour of the cheese.
Right-wing libertarians believe in the freedom to restrict the others’ freedom, and fiercely oppose the oppression of not being allowed to oppress. Couple that with the interests of money hoarders and here you go. Not really rocket science, innit.
TL;DW: execs assume monopoly from market dominance, without taking into account other stores could contest said market dominance.