“Well, we raided his mom’s house and confiscated all his cobbled-together e-waste.”

“And!?”

“His drives were encrypted. Apparently he ‘applied PQC patches to dm-crypt himself’, whatever that means. All I know is that it made the guys from NSA scream. There was nothing we could do.”

“So we’ve got nothing?”

“Oh no. He happily gave us both the keyfile and the passphrase.”

“So…?”

“No warez, no CSA, no political manifestos or illicit recipes. Not even tax evasion - it’s not like he has an income. Just… copyleft source code as far as the eye could see.”

So, I guess nVidia finally ran out of companies to play financial musical chairs with. Microsoft just can’t find anymore janitorial closets to pack full of excess GPUs, so nVidia finally has no choice but to see if they can’t get consumers in on it. Gotta keep that merry-go-round spinning a little longer.

It’ll have to do.

“If that’s true you should be able to prove it by doing thrice as much of everything on the list you wrote with no issue.”

Intriguing and unexpected.

“…And therefore I feel that it’s incumbent on me to assault you while you’re just trying to use the toilet in peace.”

Bloodcurdling screams emanates from the Windows users

“Hm? Did something happen?”

More incoherent screaming

“…Nah, sounds normal enough.”

“Now with ATC disabled by default.”

Dane here. I don’t know what Peter Hummelgaard’s major malfunction is, but at this point I’d like to see his personal finances audited by the PET to ensure that he’s not subject to any undue outside influence.

Maybe throw in a psychiatric evaluation too, because having a multi-year erection over violating other people’s privacy can’t be fucking normal.

Nice idea. There’s plenty of potential energy storage concepts, but this looks cheaper than most of them, and it’s convenient to be able to holistically deploy them in conjunction with off-shore windmill parks or use them instead of land-based solutions that’d take up footprint that could be put to other use.

Yeah, the post made that perfectly clear. I just have no interest in doing so.

Whenever that has happened, post-mortem analysis has indicated the failure to be more closely related to the interpretation of the instructions given than my innate sense of direction.

Well, the first thing you wanna do is, you go straight until you reach the third red house. That’s one made from brick, mind - not the painted wooden one. If you see that one, you’ve gone too far and should hang a left - but if you do, mind the dog; that beast is rabid, I swear. Anyway, if you got that right - don’t actually go right - take another left. Not the same left as the one I mentioned before, obviously. That’s another one. So where were I? Ah yes. After a while you’ll notice the appearance of curb-side trees - I think there’s a term for that, but that’s not relevant - when you see those, you were supposed to take the immediate right turn before them, I think…

Yes, I suppose I could, but it’s just not the same, you know? Sure, perhaps the thermalization of the chaotic flaming furnace of a big crunch will ensure all remnants of the prior Universal state is eradicated just as effectively as the cold uniform isotropic order of heat death, but a big crunch harbors the hope of a new cyclic beginning. Before you know it, you’re veering into Penrose-ish optimism about the whole thing, and how’s that going to keep anybody awake all night shivering in horror?

Hm? Clicks link with vague interest.

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So, can I stop lying awake at night wallowing in existential dread over the eventual heat death of the Universe or not?

Well, to the surprise of practically no one, he clearly doesn’t.

Yes, I suppose claiming the AI service providers are ‘too big to fail’, despite having virtually no real customers, no significant revenue and them solving no real problems (but certainly creating plenty) would be just about the only way this whole debacle could possibly get any more idiotic. And it’s naturally a superb way to introduce a third step of making the US taxpayers hold the bag.

So… Given how the 21st century has gone so far, that regrettably does seem rather plausible.

Uh, that’s great but no thanks. If you’ll excuse me, I have to go ensure the Faraday liner of my phone pocket and wallet are both in good working order.

“We also plan on patenting atmospheric air and granting reasonably priced usage licenses for limited daily volumes to every man, woman and child on the planet. It’ll be great!”

Well, that raises a number of uncomfortable questions. Who were all these kids and who were their guardians? What was so special about the curriculum of this private ‘school’ (if that’s what it truly was / is) and why did it need to be situated in Zuckerberg’s private compound? If he wanted to run a school, it’s not like he couldn’t afford to just build or rent property for one somewhere else.

Fuck, this has all sorts of bad vibes.