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- Comment on Bill Gates warns AI will take over most jobs and leave humans working just two days a week 11 hours ago:
The article presents a couple of different perspectives: Gates’ comments and Hinton’s counterpoints at the end. Maybe the downvotes are assuming it’s only promoting Gates’ perspective because they didn’t read it?
- Comment on Bill Gates warns AI will take over most jobs and leave humans working just two days a week 11 hours ago:
Don’t worry, he will be saying the opposite after he dumps whatever stock he’s trying to pump.
- Comment on The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started 23 hours ago:
Yeah, your ire is justified. Total ADD move to start reading, have a thought pop in your head, then post without at least scanning the rest of the article to make sure you’re not posting something stupid.
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly (24 October 2025) 1 day ago:
Quite true, and to that point, here’s the fork for the missing open source admin UI: github.com/OpenMaxIO/openmaxio-object-browser
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly (24 October 2025) 1 day ago:
MinIO is really gutting the open source version. I also found it confusing that all of their docs are for AIStor, which I guess is the same product that was rebranded. I suppose open source is not immune from enshittification.
- Comment on China releases 'UBIOS' standard to replace UEFI — Huawei-backed BIOS firmware replacement charges China's domestic computing goals 1 day ago:
I have been waiting impatiently for WASM to really take off. I’d imagine that some day, it will be the most popular way to build software.
- Comment on Nvidia and TSMC produce the first Blackwell wafer made in the U.S. — chips still need to be shipped back to Taiwan to complete the final product 2 days ago:
I don’t know much about manufacturing chips, but if this is just an incremental step towards Taiwan not being a single point of failure and there will be sustained progress in this direction, then this seems like a worthwhile achievement. Obviously getting the supply chains in place and fully duplicating the manufacturing capabilities that exist in Taiwan would be quite a complex endeavor that won’t happen overnight (if ever), so incremental progress like this is about what I’d expect.
- Comment on The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started 2 days ago:
I have no idea what would truly work in the long-term. Is there really a system that is immune from psychopaths eventually seizing control while everyone else passively allows it, then when it gets bad enough, the guillotines finally come out, rinse and repeat?
- Comment on The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started 2 days ago:
Corporations that are incentivized to make number go up and grow indefinitely at the expense of all else are a big part of the problem. Proper anti-trust regulation that is actually enforced to limit their size, as well as an aggressive wealth tax to limit individual wealth would go a long way.
Fundamentally, though, capitalism rewards those who seek power over those who contribute to society and also doesn’t incentivize long-term societal well-being. Regulation would only limit how much power any one psychopath can gain. If we could start from scratch and create a new society with any system we wanted, it would not be Capitalism.
- Comment on The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started 2 days ago:
While Sodium-Ion sounds legitimately promising, we’ve all read so many articles about “revolutionary new battery tech” over the years that the default response is “cool, let me know when mass production starts.”
- Comment on The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started 2 days ago:
Capitalism may be workable with strict regulation and proper social safety nets. The problem is that we have crony capitalism, which allows billionaires to essentially control the laws, which concentrates power into too few hands, similar to other oppressive forms of government. A key piece we are missing to make capitalism more workable is right in the word itself: “cap”. There should be a cap on how much wealth any one individual can accumulate.
- Comment on Data Centers Turn to Aviation Engines for Power Solutions 3 days ago:
Now AI can have its own private jets too. What a time to be alive.
- Comment on Can I do VPN + Plex on my hosting server? Do I need it under this circumstance? 3 days ago:
I have OpenWRT on my router running a VPN that my servers and various other devices use. I’d rather do that than have to setup a ”kill switch” with iptables that might accidentally conflict with IPAM for k3s.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 3 days ago:
There are several common refrains on Lemmy that many people find cathartic. If you don’t care to tell us about your preferred Linux distro again, maybe another thread will pop up soon about how streaming services are enshittified and you can tell us about what you’re self-hosting again.
- Comment on Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC 5 days ago:
I see where this is going:
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 5 days ago:
Knowing a game is spying on me ruins the fun.
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 5 days ago:
99% of the population is either too lazy…
Nudges an unopened box of Zigbee door sensors ordered 2 years ago to the back of the shelf.
- Comment on Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC 5 days ago:
the issue imo is a legislative one
Couldn’t agree more. Feels quite monopolistic that everyone buying mass-produced, commodity hardware is also forced to buy a Windows license.
- Comment on Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC 5 days ago:
MafiaSoft is definitely taking their piece of the action, but laptops from smaller companies like System76 end up costing a fair amount more extra for equivalent hardware than the $50-$100 tax you’re otherwise paying for an OS you’re going to promptly replace. I’d say vote with your wallet, but I realize not everyone can afford to do so.
- Comment on Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC 5 days ago:
Making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC
Great, so everything runs locally, making it a self-contained “AI PC”. Otherwise, the headline surely would’ve been, “Making every PC collect data to train Microsoft’s models with little benefit in return“. Right?
that’s why it’s an AI PC? Right?
- Comment on Ruby Central tries to make peace after 'hostile takeover' 5 days ago:
I think IPA where every sound has one symbol would be a lot better than our current barely phonetic writing system. Not sure how to broadly effect such a change, though, so guess I’ll just write in the suboptimal way that everyone already understands instead of being an opinionated asshole and having everyone ignore what I write while rolling their eyes.
- Comment on Windows 10 support has ended, but here's how to get an extra year for free 1 week ago:
I’ve distro hopped back to Mint and stayed on Mint over a year now. I think Mint being beginner-friendly kind of makes it a victim of its own success, because as someone who has been using Linux several years, Ubuntu without Snaps and a better UX is pretty ideal. PopOS has the same value proposition, but I like Cinnamon way better than Cosmic, or even KDE.
- Comment on Is the AI Conveyor Belt of Capital About to Stop? 1 week ago:
Nvidia announced that it would invest $100 billion into OpenAI, OpenAI announced that it would pay $300 billion to Oracle for computing power, and Oracle announced it would buy $40 billion worth of chips from Nvidia.
I can’t help but feel like we both just ate shit for nothing." “That’s not true”, responded the second economist. “We increased the GDP by $200!”
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Given how few upvotes this has, it seems people in this thread don’t like Microsoft’s policy, but also have a moral objection to running a script to get the extended updates free.
- Comment on Custom Firewall 2 weeks ago:
I use k3s with Calico so I can have k8s network policies for each service I’m running.
- Comment on Backup recommendations 2 weeks ago:
I use Restic and also use Backrest to have a UI to browse my repos. I would use Backrest for everything, but I’d rather have my backup config completely source controlled.
- Comment on "AI is an attack from above on wages": An interview with cognitive scientist Hagen Blix 2 weeks ago:
Plot twist: they’re the same.
- Comment on Senate report says AI will take 97M US jobs in the next 10 years, but those numbers come from ChatGPT 2 weeks ago:
AI isn’t taking the jobs, dipshit rich assholes are cutting the jobs. Taking a job implies doing the job, and from that perspective, the remaining people who weren’t laid off are taking the jobs, not AI.
- Comment on kurzgesagt – AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel 2 weeks ago:
Some of their videos are pretty good, but taking funding from billionaires is never a good look.
- Comment on Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration 2 weeks ago:
I normally use ADB anyway, but wouldn’t surprise me if that becomes more locked down as well. For example, I believe Meta Quest requires a developer account with a credit card attached to even put it in developer mode, and I worry that kind of bullshit will become the norm.
