When they came for foxkin I did not speak out because I thought it was kind of cringe

Then they came for xirs and faers, and I kept silent because making people learn a new word is kind of unreasonable innit?

And when it was time for them/thems, there was nobody left to speak for us

Fam have you seen evaluations of AI companies. For the amount of venture capital poured into openai, their profit should 20x or it’ll take a century for the investments to recoup. The reason for why they keep investing is that the AI is supposed to blow up the market and earn gazillions back.

Everyone agrees ML is extremely useful. Most people also agree that LLMs have their uses too.

What we don’t agree is that AI is the printing press, electricity and the internet rolled into one. And if it isn’t, then all this investment is made under false pretense, hence it is a bubble

Samsung

It absolutely won’t be. Best case It’ll be a white label from local Chinese brands like Oppo, worst case – a no-name company selling 150$ phones on alibaba. I’d put my money on the latter, the margins will be much better.

Great scam for a washed up celebrity with a cult following.

If you can afford to spend 10 bucks a month for a search engine, Kagi is pretty sleek. No ads, you can block/prioritize websites, good bangs, convinient CSS field for easy modding.

It does AI stuff too, but it’s optional as the other non-standard search output fields.

I wonder if it creates more inhouse sysadmin jobs? When you buy a license from M$ you also get tech support. But if you have problems with open source, you gotta go get a computer person

An actual fantasy critter, armored snail

opt-in:

Can we take all your stuff?

1. Yes daddy
2. Remind me tomorrow

This isn’t really up to China, NK won’t listen because it’s not really up to them either. Most authoritarians would love to scale the repression down, but you can only do it while political and economic climate is right (without losing your power and your head)

If you signal to your citizens that they can speak more freely, the first thing out of their mouths will be Hey why did you do that fucked up thing?

Thus, you can “loosen the bolts” only when you are safe in your position of power and don’t mind a few concessions to the masses. “Yes we overstepped a few lines, but it was all the fault of this one bad man and also look at all this bread we have now!”

This is why authoritarian countries usually have “seasons”.

A single message now generates 20 different summaries and analyses, requiring a rack of GPUs and a diesel generator.

We’re so lucky that electricity is unlimited and free, otherwise it might’ve caused a serious problem.

Sure, if I want to pay per message/call. I could also hire a butler to do all my chores for me, alas I am not a Swedish royalty.

Central Asia, businesses here do not have websites. They put a listing on aggregators with a phone number and may be an instagram account.

The problem is not that I’m not using signal (I am), its that I also have to use telegram and\or whatsapp if I want to contact anyone without sending them an sms, or a pigeon.

So all this bloat still affects me, whether I “just use signal” or not.

I cant schedule an appointment at the vet with signal.

Like it or hate it (personally I prefer the latter, posting there I felt like a middle schooler with a PUNCH ME sticker on my face) it was a great source of indexable data on programming.

I wonder how will this affect future search and llms, now that all similar questions are being asked in private llm threads.

They look like Thin Men aliens from Xcom

ChatGPT draw me an example of capitalism co-opting its own critique

I hate so much that this has a 100% chance of becoming a norm. Narrator can make a mediocre book shine, or turn a good book into a fucking rollercoaster (Andy Serkis, anyone?)

AI? Not a great narrator. Its character voices are boring, intonations weird, pacing awful. I’d honestly rather get an amateur narrating it for fun, over a robot sounding like a knock-off Morgan Freeman.

“[Netflix] members pay as much attention to midroll ads as they do to the shows and movies themselves,” Amy Reinhard, president of advertising at Netflix, said, per the publication.

Amy, I want you to be honest with me, are you an alien.

Because on planet Earth we do not, if fact, pay as much attention to the ads as to the things we’re actually interested in. Famously our brains even produce this fascinating effect to spare us from the bullshit you’re shoving into our eyeballs.

I’ll give him credit for it when it fucking happens

I love Firefox (its my browser) but It’s insane to say it requires 400 millions per year.

That’s 4000 people at 100k salary. Browsers are complicated, but you do not need an actual town of developers to maintain one.