Comment on Data centers are now hoarding SSDs as hard drive supplies dry up

MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• derpgon@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  At this moment I am seriously considering if we mayhaps need a tool that automatically queries the AI tools with random garbage just to eat up their budget.

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  • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That counts as usage, they’ll use it to convince investors.

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    • ulterno@programming.dev ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, that’s kinda like trying to DDoS a Cloudflare protected server in hopes that they would drop Cloudflare.

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• ulterno@programming.dev ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It is useless to play this game against them. All the top players are already in.
  Best, find your own way to create ICs and make them for community purposes.
  There will be much less money and you will be tempted to sell to AI chaps, so you will need willpower.
  Specially after putting the time and effort to manufacture yourselves.

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  • ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It does somewhat feel like all the levers of power are in the hands of people who have little to no reliance on the consumer market anymore. Your money is no good here.

    They can all enjoy the perfect financial circlejerk with most of the world’s money whilst the rest of us scratch at the window.

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    • ulterno@programming.dev ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      scratch at the window

      I have read this thing 2 times today and I can’t find a meaning for this.
      What does this idiom mean?

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      • ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I mean, in essence, it refers to someone trying to get someone else’s attention when they are outside of a situation and looking in.

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      • Machinist@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        It’s an old saying, longer version I know is:

        “Saddest thing in the world is a cat scratching at the window because it used to be an inside cat.”

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