EncryptKeeper

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump threatens tariffs on countries that ‘discriminate’ against US tech⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The U.S. is the world’s largest consumer market by a factor of 3. So it’s more accurate to say “Give me what I want or I’ll take away a sizable chunk of your customers”.

  You and I both know that the U.S. won’t just magically and instantly stand up its own production to replace your countries market, but in this case he just needs American companies to start importing from a different foreign country with lower tariffs. The effect this has on your country depends on how much your country’s GDP comes from exports to America, but it’s potentially very harmful.

  As an American this sucks because long term, long after this dude is gone, our trading partners will have already adjusted who they’re exporting to in order to absorb a loss like this, and I doubt that’d change for decades.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Docker or Proxmox? Something else entirely?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’ll never really be a perfect drop in replacement because Docker relies on its daemon for a lot of functionality and Podman is daemonless, so you have to work around that. But like you said it’s just a matter of learning how things work with Portman.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Docker or Proxmox? Something else entirely?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Docker images are OCI compliant and are agnostic of the container runtime you use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not everyone wants unauthenticated RCE from thousands of servers around the world.

  Ive got really bad news for you my friend

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The point was never that Anubis challenges are something scrapers can’t get past. The point is it’s expensive to do so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been playing Satisfactory for 6 years and I still haven’t finished it lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The original comment reply to me was all about how the legal system would act in the context of the CFAA specifically. And in that context that logic does not follow. Theres not much latitude for any judge to interpret the CFAA that way.

  They could always push through some new law however.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not saying courts couldn’t pass a new law saying whatever they want. But the laws we have today would not allow for ad blocking to be considered unauthorized access. Not in the U.S. at least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That doesn’t make any logical sense. You cant tie legal authorization to an unsaid implicit assumption, especially when that is in turn based on what you do with the content you’ve retrieved from a system after you’ve accessed and retrieved it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If I put a banner on my site that says “by visiting my site you agree not to modify the scripts or ads displayed on the site,” does that make my visit with an ad blocker “unauthorized” under the CFAA?

  How would you “authorize” a user to access assets served by your systems based on what they do with them after they’ve accessed them? That doesn’t logically follow so no, that would not make an ad blocker unauthorized under the CFAA. Especially because you’re not actually taking any steps to deny these people access either.

  AI scrapers on the other hand are a type of users that you’re not authorizing to begin with, and if you’re using CloudFlares bot protection you’re putting into place a system to deny them access. To purposefully circumvent that access would be considered unauthorized.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Unauthorized access into a computer system and “Piracy” are two very different things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That logic would not extend to ad blockers, as the point of concern is gaining unauthorized access to a computer system or asset. Blocking ads would not be considered gaining unauthorized access to anything. In fact it would be the opposite of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t get over their CEO that looks like a nine year old. Not sure what it is about him

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam can't escape the fallout from its censorship controversy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, besides personal checks or money orders? Crypto. About the only thing Crypto is good for really.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Like make a query and then go make yourself a sandwich while it spits out a word every other second slow.

  There are very small models that can run on mid range graphics cards and all, but it’s not something you’d look at and say “Yeah this does most of what chatGPT does”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  AI models require a LOT of VRAM to run. Failing that they need some serious CPU power but it’ll be dog slow.

  A consumer model that is only a small fraction of the capability of the latest ChatGPT model would require at least a $2,000+ graphics card, if not more than one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean no not at all, but local LLMs are a less energy reckless way to use AI

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battlefield 6 players are crying out for a 'real' server browser, and it's about time we demanded the basic FPS feature that Call of Duty killed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I know exactly why they didn’t make dedicated servers and why doing so would be a scramble. But we are going to need them regardless

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deploying Nextcloud on AWS ECS with Pulumi⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  An $8 VPS would not be sufficient for a heavily used multi-user Nextcloud instance, and it wouldn’t come with enough storage either.

  You could cloud host this thing for less absolutely, but not a whole lot less. I have a Vultr VPS (cheaper than Digital Ocean, Linode, and other cheapo VPS providers) and all it does is reverse proxy and do some caching and it’s scraping by at a total of $24 a month. A $40 solution that’s more functional if not over-engineered for the difference in price equivalence to a Netflix subscription is not that huge a deal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As electric bills rise, evidence mounts that data centers share blame. States feel pressure to act⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  PSE&G told some coworkers of mine their bill would go up by “as much as 20%” because they went up by 150%

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify to raise prices in September⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You mean replacing a bunch of people with AI didn’t work?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deploying Nextcloud on AWS ECS with Pulumi⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is an awesome helpful comment

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deploying Nextcloud on AWS ECS with Pulumi⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure that’s the point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deploying Nextcloud on AWS ECS with Pulumi⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Folks in IT. This is one of those “deploy something enterprise grade because you can” type of scenarios. It’s like asking why somebody would play a dry milsim game like Arma when Call of Duty exists. This will cost you more than a simple VPS on a platform but it wouldn’t exactly break the bank either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Buy HDD on sale now or wait for Black Friday?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Black Friday is a decent deal if you’re buying a larger volume of drives. If you’re only planning on buying a few, you don’t have to wait for to. That being said, a ln unimpressive sale is better than no sale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tucson City Council votes 7-0, unanimously to kill AI Data Center⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes, just stop using the internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thats like saying ride hailing and food delivery is not profitable because Uber is not profitable in the US.

  Uber is profitable and has been for years now. They also never faced the insurmountable challenges that AI companies do today.

  work in a profitable AI company and can list you a hundred more.

  No you don’t and no you can’t. If you could, you would have done so by now.

  No startup is profitable - thats by design because profit seeking is not what makes your company successful.

  Startups generally have a plan and realistic path to profitability, unlike the AI companies of today.

  You may continue to live in your fantasy world based on nothing but hope and strong feelings, but you’ve failed to educate anyone here on anything besides your own ignorance. You are free to stick your fingers in your ears and your head in the sand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course I used the company that is the market leader in AI as an example that AI companies are not profitable… that’s how that works.

  They’re not the only AI company that’s not profitable, like I said none of them are. You can take your pick of you don’t like OpenAI as an example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Delusion? Ok let’s get it straight from the horse’s mouth then. I’ve asked ChatGPT if OpenAI is profitable, and to explain its financial outlook. What you see below, emphasis and emojis, are generated by ChatGPT:

  OpenAI is not currently profitable. Despite its rapid growth, the company continues to operate at a substantial loss.

  📊 Financial Snapshot

  • Annual recurring revenue (ARR) was reported at approximately $12 billion as of July 2025, implying around $1 billion per month in revenue YouTube+2Hacker News+2Ed Zitron’s Where’s Your Ed At+4Reuters+4PYMNTS.com+4.

  • Projected total revenue for 2025 is $12.7 billion, up from roughly $3.7 billion in 2024 Tap Twice DigitalSaaStr.

  • However, OpenAI’s cash burn has increased, with projected operational losses around $8 billion in 2025 alone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The revenue of AI lies in mass surveillance and ads. But even going full dystopia, that has not been enough to make AI companies profitable.