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- Comment on The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now) 1 day 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) 1 day 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) 1 day 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
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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.
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Projected total revenue for 2025 is $12.7 billion, up from roughly $3.7 billion in 2024 Tap Twice DigitalSaaStr.
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However, OpenAI’s cash burn has increased, with projected operational losses around $8 billion in 2025 alone
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- Comment on The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now) 1 day 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.
- Comment on The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now) 1 day ago:
AI as a technology is so far not profitable for anybody. The hardware AI runs on is profitable, as might be some start ups that are heavily leveraging AI, but actually operating AI is so far not profitable, and because increasingly smaller improvements in AI use exponentially more power, there’s no real path that is visible to any of us today that suggests anyone’s yet found a path to profitability. Aside from some kind of miracle out of left field that no one today has even conceived, the long term outlook isn’t great.
- Comment on The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now) 1 day ago:
I mean we haven’t figured out how to make AI profitable yet, and though it’s a cool technology with real world use cases, nobody has proven yet that the juice is worth the squeeze. There’s an unimaginable amount of money tied up in a technology on the hope that one day they find a way to make it profitable and though AI as a technology “improves”, its journey towards providing more value than it costs to run is not.
If I roleplayed as somebody who desperately wanted AI to succeed, my first question would be “What is the plan to have AI make money?” And so far nobody, not even the technology’s biggest sycophants have an answer.
- Comment on Red Dead Redemption 2 was amazing. 2 days ago:
The game is essentially a trudge from shooting gallery to shooting gallery, with a large open world to do very little of consequence in. There isn’t really anything more to it than what’s on the surface. Either you enjoy the slow burn cowboy experience or you don’t. It doesn’t really get any better.
- Comment on Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source 2 days ago:
Better URL, sensationalist post that doesn’t mean a whole lot
- Comment on Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source 2 days ago:
People are usually aware enough to know that seeing Unicode characters in a URL looks wrong even if they don’t know why. Pair that with Punycode’s reputation for being abused by malicious actors and some clients not even showing the Unicode, and you have a link few are going to want to click on.
- Comment on Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source 2 days ago:
Yes lol.
- Comment on Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source 2 days ago:
No chance anyone’s clicking on that link
- Comment on Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source 2 days ago:
As far as I know they have not handed over any emails.
- Comment on Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source 2 days ago:
You’re right that they can see the emails in transit if you’re not using encryption, but they never said they can’t. They are as secure as they can possibly be, and are honest about what’s secure and what’s not. I would leave Protonmail at the first sniff of trouble but I just haven’t seen anything that concerning.
- Comment on Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source 2 days ago:
I mean we know from documented events that Proton doesn’t store you emails in plain text because there have been Swiss orders to turn over information which they have to comply with and they’ve never turned in emails, because they can’t.
- Comment on Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source 3 days ago:
They support IMAP. Which means, IMAP client can read your mails from the server.
Proton mail does not support IMAP. Because your emails are encrypted on the server.
Again, unless you add a layer of encryption (assuming the recipient understands it, too), it’s plaintext. On the servers.
Protonmail doesn’t claim that non-protonmail email is end to end encrypted. Any emails sent to a regular email without third party encryption will be plain text through the SMTP server, but they don’t store it. So in this case they are still not storing your emails in plaintext. Your recipient will, but that’s out of Protonmail’s control.
shows up in full plaintext on their SMTP server. Whatever they do after that (and we’ve established it’s not client-controlled encryption), they have access to it.
You’ve not established that at all. Protonmail stores that message with client side encryption and they have no access to it. Have you found any evidence that they don’t?
- Comment on Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source 3 days ago:
There is no way to retrieve your mail using IMAP on a regular client if they’re encrypted on the server.
That is probably why you can’t retrieve your emails using IMAP from a regular client.
And Gmail can retrieve your mails from proton using IMAP. It’s even in their own (proton’s) documentation.
I don’t think it can. Where in the documentation did you find that?
- Comment on Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source 3 days ago:
Ok yeah thats a far cry from Proton actually “Having your unencrypted emails on their servers”
There’s the standard layer of trust you need to have in a third party when you’re not self hosting. Proton has proven so far that they do in fact encrypt your emails and haven’t given any up to authorities when ordered to so I’m not sure where the issue is.
- Comment on Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source 3 days ago:
How have they enshittified? I haven’t noticed anything about their service get worse since they started.
- Comment on Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source 3 days ago:
they obviously had to have them in plaintext on their server, even if only for compatibility with current standards
I don’t think that’s obvious at all. On the contrary, that’s a pretty bold claim to make, do you have any evidence that they’re doing this?
- Comment on Proton releases a new app for two-factor authentication 5 days ago:
Yes it’s just you. They released a 2FA app because it complements their existing password manager and because Google has one. Since Proton is positioned as a privacy-first alternative to Google, it makes sense they’d launch competing versions of any given app or program Google does. A 2FA app also wouldn’t capture any kind of personal data.
What could they do better than Aegis, which is already FOSS and privacy preserving?
What could they do better than Tutanota mail, Which is already privacy preserving? By your login Proton shouldn’t exist at all. Is it your opinion that non-privacy respecting software should have lots of competition and options but privacy respecting ones should not? That’s not the greatest idea.
- Comment on Proton releases a new app for two-factor authentication 5 days ago:
I don’t think there’s any evidence he’s a crazy racist that we know of.
- Comment on Proton releases a new app for two-factor authentication 6 days ago:
It’s legit. The negative comments are because the CEO supports US Republican politicians which is a red flag, but there haven’t been any operational reasons to not trust them that I’m aware of.
- Comment on White House unveils sweeping plan to “win” global AI race through deregulation 1 week ago:
Post Bush. The Obama administration.
- Comment on Google AI Overview is just affiliate marketing spam now 1 week ago:
- Comment on [VIDEO] Japan Sanctions Visa after the Censorship of Anime and Manga 1 week ago:
How is Japan anti-censorship? What a time to be alive
- Comment on White House unveils sweeping plan to “win” global AI race through deregulation 1 week ago:
From 2008-2016 we did not have idiots running things. Theres been a very start downhill spiral since 2016
- Comment on YSK Employers do NOT verify your total work history unless you're applying for a government position. 2 weeks ago:
Being a caregiver is relevant work experience if the job you’re applying to is for caregiving, or at least something semi-related like the medical field.
But if you’re applying for programming or sales positions it’s entirely irrelevant.
- Comment on YSK Employers do NOT verify your total work history unless you're applying for a government position. 2 weeks ago:
If you get any amount of work from recruiters they always called your references and/or your past jobs.
I’ve given a handful of people permission to use me as a reference and every single time, that person goes hunting and will work with 2-5 recruiters over the course of their job hunt and from each and every one I’ll get a 20 minute call where they grill me about the candidate. It’s kinda exhausting as somebody who isn’t in charge of hiring/firing.
- Comment on Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures? 2 weeks ago:
I saw some “review bombing” on his game Heartbound.
heartbound is his game. It’s not published by the company he resigned from. It also isn’t just people review bombing it for some unrelated reason. His game has been in early access hell for years with no sign of ever releasing to the people who’ve backed him and paid for it. And after he started getting all this attention, various developers have been digging into his code and finding out that’s it’s coded horribly, and the chances of him finishing the game with the way it’s coded are low. It’s not review bombing of the reviews are legitimately criticizing the game. The fact that they’re so recent is because Pirates poor behavior is putting his game in the spotlight.
So my take here is that he was worried that reaction would spread to the other studio
Your take would be wrong. He didn’t say he resigned because he was worried about the publishers games getting potentially review bombed in the future. He said they had been review bombed, in the affirmative. Which was yet another PirateSoftware lie.
I disagree, but I don’t know much about him.
Well this keeps coming up and it’s getting really weird that you keep making the point of “Here is my opinion on something, strong enough to believe others are wrong, even though I’m ignorant to most of what’s going on here”.
Perhaps before you make any more assertions you should just go and… figure out what it is you’re talking? I don’t mean to be rude but your opinions just mean less than nothing when they’re admittedly based on ignorance. What I’ve explained to you is
- Comment on Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think he’s been swatted. In fact, a lot of the “backlash” that Pirate has complained about has also been debunked. In the contrary, since the backlash started he’s been calling for his fans to brigade and mass report anyone who criticizes him, live on stream.
As for the resignation, generally companies don’t like to have people who are ongoing, unapologetic public menaces to be the faces of their company. Any consequences Pirate faces are all of his own doing. If you’re going to be a public figure, you have to understand that you’re going to be held accountable for your behavior by somebody.
