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- Comment on Nvidia insists it isn’t Enron, but its AI deals are testing investor faith 3 days ago:
It does impact employee morale when they get paid with stock incentives and they go to zero.
- Comment on Nvidia insists it isn’t Enron, but its AI deals are testing investor faith 3 days ago:
You can’t really bail out a stock price though…
I guess you could provide a guaranteed backstop to sellers and funnel the stock to the government, as Trump seems to love doing, but then you end up with a $3T of over-valued assets that you can’t do anything with.
- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 3 days ago:
That probably makes sense.
I haven’t played around since the initial shell shock of “oh god it’s worse now”
- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 3 days ago:
I plugged my local AI into offline wikipedia expecting a source of truth to make it way way better.
It’s better, but I also can’t tell when it’s making up citations now, because it uses Wikipedia to sort its own world view from pre training instead of reality.
So it’s not really much better.
Hallucinations become a bigger problem the more info they have (that you now have to double check)
- Comment on Nvidia insists it isn’t Enron, but its AI deals are testing investor faith 3 days ago:
You can do everything right and still have the curse of investor overconfidence placed on you.
Huang has been complaining for some time that doing well doesn’t result in stock gains, but the actual problem is the stock price is way too high so doing well does nothing for investor expectations.
This is when you sell shares because they no longer have any upside potential.
It sucks for companies though, but the fact is nvidia is overvalued at a 4.5T market cap.
- Comment on Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI 4 days ago:
Salesforce has now begun reframing its AI strategy, shifting away from the language of replacement toward what executives call “rebalancing.” Rather than eliminating roles outright, the company says future AI deployments will emphasize augmentation, with humans retained in decision-critical and customer-facing positions.
This was so obviously the solution that should hav been tried first
Salesforce’s reversal has become a reference point in ongoing debates about AI and employment. While automation remains a central pillar of the company’s long-term strategy, its experience has underscored a growing consensus among executives and analysts: AI can reduce workloads, but replacing skilled workers too quickly carries real operational risk.
I don’t get why boards don’t dump these CEOs. I’m sure they’re happy with the reduced costs from firing half the employees, but to not consider the potential issues and actually vet the quality was such a bad decision. The facts are there was zero advantage to being the first to do AI customer support, but firing half your employees is irreversible.
- Comment on Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI 4 days ago:
- Comment on If you have ANY Canadian ancestor, you are likely a Canadian citizen as a result of recent changes in Canadian law 4 days ago:
Do people use shredded cheese?! What the fuck?
- Comment on Question about accessing my services from corporate Network 4 days ago:
I know a guy whose former employer used the fact that he plugged a USB into his work machine to threaten to sue him unless he gave up severance when they layer him off.
Don’t use your work machine for anything other than work, ever. Assume it logs everything, assume it will all be used against you as needed.
Assume if you write it on that machine they’ll try and claim it as their IP.
- Comment on Can someone ELI5 RSS/Atom feeds? 5 days ago:
They do not need an account ever.
There are a few companies that run reader apps that do require an account.
RSS was very common until Google created Google Reader, everyone centralized on it for some reason, then they killed it. Then Google and Apple and Firefox removed rss feeds from their browsers.
There are independent apps not is hard to find good ones
- Comment on Rainbow Six Siege ravaged by massive server breach that gave its players billions of paid currency for free 5 days ago:
I’ve rebuilt databases from logs and snapshots several times.
It should be pretty easy (and by easy I mean labour intensive and exhaustingly detailed) to pick a snapshot, identify real money in, then undo all skin/item purchases and revert all money to the original amounts.
That’s kind of best case scenario to the user base. Nobody gets screwed.
It’s also possible the hackers didn’t just modify the tables so there’s an audit trail, or they have change data capture enabled, or can replay the database transactions out of the box.
This is all very stack dependent.
- Comment on Report: China is said to have a functioning EUV lithography system 1 week ago:
This was only a matter of time.
Frankly, a few American companies buying up and blocking the entire global supply of memory and chips is going to mean the Chinese fabs only have to compete on price and quantity, not quality, to dominate much of the world’s chip sales.
A lot of the world will accept cheap Chinese hardware with large quantities of memory, over the anemic overpriced offerings Nvidia is putting to market for 4-10x as much.
- Comment on Beans aswell 1 week ago:
🌽
- Comment on Harken, mortals, your saviour is born 1 week ago:
Huh?
This is a 5000 year old meme.
- Comment on Harken, mortals, your saviour is born 1 week ago:
That’s biblically accurate furby
- Comment on Love what you do 1 week ago:
Is this the guy who broke Jake Paul’s jaw?
It might be the other brother, I don’t care to keep up.
- Comment on TikTok Deal Done And It’s Somehow The Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse 1 week ago:
Everyone just looked the other way while Trump and his cronies repeatedly ignored deadlines and hammered away at the transfer.
I’m so tired of this blatant corruption.
- Comment on Apple announces more ads are coming to App Store search results 2 weeks ago:
I decided to also try, there’s at least one ad on every screen.
And searching shows basically a full screen ad
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly #150: Watchtower No More 2 weeks ago:
I guess that’s true.
This morning my very non techy wife was complaining all the AI shit on her computer was making it slow.
I looked over and Explorer was visibly lagging clicking in to a folder, on a system with an SSD and solid specs.
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly #150: Watchtower No More 2 weeks ago:
I feel like I just want to check out of society lately.
Charging money to run your own actions, what the fuck?
But the sane thought goes with the new increased iOS ads, and just the general state of “now you’re locked in, let the gouging begin” phase of tech. I’m so fucking tired of it.
I know this is self hosted, but man I’m ready to start living in a cave.
Congrats to all the execs, you’ve completely ruined the tech industry.
- Comment on Apple announces more ads are coming to App Store search results 2 weeks ago:
Why?
It’s bc a k ready a cesspool.
- Comment on Where do you store your bind mounts? 2 weeks ago:
My docker mounts just point to the folder they live in.
I’d rather have the data stored next to the config so it’s easy to find and manage.
- Comment on China Has Reportedly Built Its First EUV Machine Prototype, Marking a Semiconductor Breakthrough the U.S. Has Feared All Along 2 weeks ago:
What happens to Taiwan when China is competitive on chips?
I could see them deciding to invade, Taiwan destroys their fabs, and then China gets a monopoly but also sanctions.
The west ultimately ends up unable to build chips and China has a global monopoly.
- Comment on Totally unhinged 2 weeks ago:
This looks like a joke and/or bait.
- Comment on Nvidia plans heavy cuts to GPU supply in early 2026 2 weeks ago:
The optimist in me has hope that this does fuel an explosion cheap hardware for businesses to build cheap+useful+private AI stuff on.
- Comment on Nvidia plans heavy cuts to GPU supply in early 2026 2 weeks ago:
When their only competition just hiked prices, why would they keep theirs low? That’s free money.
- Comment on Nvidia plans heavy cuts to GPU supply in early 2026 2 weeks ago:
And sadly none of this hardware will be viable for consumers to use, even bought used.
- Comment on Nvidia plans heavy cuts to GPU supply in early 2026 2 weeks ago:
I think the real question is how long can these companies decrease supply until consumers get hooked on thin-clients like iPads for all their computing, and have to pay rent on cloud services and SaaS for everything they do.
- Comment on Word. 2 weeks ago:
Send help, I ran
:term vim, now I’m double stuck - Comment on Attitudes 2 weeks ago:
Exactly how I feel.
