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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Techcrunch reports that AI coding tools have "very negative" gross margins. They're losing money on every user.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  They will manage the fallout just like the sub-prime crash and PPP program, with huge cash transfers straight to the wealthy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Techcrunch reports that AI coding tools have "very negative" gross margins. They're losing money on every user.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, we’re losing energy with every He atom we fuse, but we make up for it in volume!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s literally 80 years old. You can only do so much to hide your age before you start looking absurd.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Expand North! So much room up there.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea weather, but also the Canadian shield. There is just a thin layer of soil on top of the bedrock over a huge portion of Canada.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI beats Elon Musk's Grok in AI chess tournament⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And they’d both get destroyed by StockFish

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imagine being a billionaire, running one the most powerful, corporations in the United States, and prostrating yourself to Donald Trump in this very public and embarrassing way.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ernst Roehm did it first

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They increase demand for domestic goods and therefor raise the price of goods that were already more expensive than the imported goods.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now)⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The Naval Research Laboratory invented onion routing and open sourced the code.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI is 'breaking' entry-level jobs that Gen Z workers need to launch careers, LinkedIn exec warns⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My child died from leukemia; here’s what it taught me about B2B sales

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imagine not being able to shower, because AI slop generator machines need that water!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You could consider them an extractive industry like mineral mining. In this case the electricity and water are turned into profit. It creates some local jobs like construction, but the system administrators are likely hired from elsewhere. The R&D is likely being done elsewhere as well. Most of the money these businesses spend goes straight to Nvidia and the profit goes straight to a small group of executives and investors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So guy 1 is Musk, and guy 3 is Thiel, but who is guy 2?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Also you can get locked out of other services that use email for 2FA and password resets

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The worst thing about Linux is its users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Bitwig has a Linux version. It’s proprietary and paid, but it’s very nice to use and comes with a ton of devices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg writes a manifesto on bringing "personal superintelligence" to everyone to improve humanity, but doesn't even define what superintelligence means.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  He was a psychology major that made a website with PHP. His background in CS is taking a few classes before dropping out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Substack prompted a Nazi blog again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The main benefit of having a substack vs just running some blog software is that substack manages monetization/subscriptions for you. Hosting text-based content is very easy, but getting paid for it isn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Cool. I’m old enough that in middle school I begged my Mom to take to the mall to buy Linux. I got Red Hat Linux from a store called Babbage’s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wyoming to host massive AI data center using more electricity than all Wyoming homes combined⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess they could say they are generating 1GW of computing power

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The european mind can't comprehend this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wrestling is a popular school sport in America

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Executive Order:AI must agree on the Administration views on Sex,Race, cant mention what they deem to be Critical Race Theory,Unconscious Bias,Intersectionality,Systemic Racism or "Transgenderism⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And this is one of the best arguments about depending on LLMs. People are outsourcing their thinking to linear algebra machines owned by the wealthy. LLMs are a tool of social control.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The heroes we had as kids⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Everything is always yellow

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨crypto investment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Me too I had like three, but it was over 100 at that point. They were in my possession for all of fifteen minutes before they got sent to The Silk Road.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introducing Lumo, the AI where every conversation is confidential | Proton⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Got to get on the slop train before it crashes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vibe coding service Replit deleted production database⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This used to be my playground

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm doing my part!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, I’m starting to think the military might be net negative on this earth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI launches personal assistant capable of controlling files and web browsers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am thinking about that issue with Copilot and SharePoint where Copilot would answer queries about other users emails and schedules.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I totally missed the point when PeerTube got so good⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you are just going to verify the info, why not just find out yourself and save yourself some time?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ancient food are absurdly complicated.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They knew you could, but mostly didn’t because it takes a ton of energy to boil off water. There was no petroleum, no coal, so you would need a bunch of wood. So you use a bunch of wood to boil a liter of ocean water and you would get about 35 grams of salt. It just wasn’t worth it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instagram Is Full Of Openly Available AI-Generated Child Abuse Content.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How do you think they train the models?