I have a sneaking suspicion we’re going to see a rash of system vulnerability start popping up in Win10 over the next few years. And we’ll get deluged with national news announcements that boil down to “Win10 is unsafe!! Your data is compromised!! Only 11 will save you!!”
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I’ll never understand how people recommend Zorin or Mint instead of the, much more Windows-like, and HUGELY supported Kubuntu or Fedora KDE
I rebuilt an old Windows PC as a host for a Jellyfin server and used Mint because that’s what the guide recommended.
Easy setup. Everything works great. So I told my friends about it. And, naturally, they went with Mint, too, because we all know that setup works.
That’s it. That’s the only real reason why. I have a simple need and Mint got the job done.
1·4 days agofourth world
I’m going to regret asking, but… what do you think the fourth world is? And, what did you think the first three were?
It’s a “heads-I-win / tails-you-lose” system when business can violently extract the value of labor coming and going.
Either the state protects owners of IP (inevitably a business entity looking to collect rents on its use) or it facilitates robbing the original artist (inevitably a talented individual/team that lacks the money for a lengthy legal fight). The legal system never seems to break in favor of the people themselves. It can only exist as a gradient to move wealth from the sweet of one’s brow to the pocket of one’s bosses.
The African invaders
I feel like I’m talking to a guy who was deeply offended by the movie Django Unchained.
I mean, look at India. The Modi government will crawl over broken glass to appease their colonial oppressors. Or, at least, they’ll find some of their lowest cast neighbors to do the crawling for them.
It’s the 1980s all over again. Americans conveniently rediscovering how much they hate Japan, the moment they see the country as a global rival rather than a source of cheap labor.
I mean, good luck. I’ve seen some noise about demanding VPNs be registered by individual. Even that’s going to rub a lot of tech bros the wrong way, so don’t hold your breath.
VPNs have never been more powerful
OpenAI is full of shit, as usual. They want engagement and they need revenue. They’ll do whatever it takes to get those things. Political ideology and sociological ramifications are an afterthought.
Can’t do anything that might negatively impact business.
Very useful for job hunting because it’s swarming with head hunters.
LinkedIn gets you access to humans who will help you navigate the shitty HR AI that most big businesses integrate into their job intake process.
Not a terrible resource when you’re actually looking for a job. But that’s because all the automated HR intakes are a dumpster fire, more than anything headhunters bring in value.
Nice
What if I just use AI to generate all my content and then put an intern in a chair to launder it as original human thoughts?
Companies may be using ChatGPT to grow, but that doesn’t mean they are training AIs.
It’s the MAG7 that’s driving growth. And they’re all fixated on training AI in some capacity
Training a new AI uses a lot of energy. Querying an existing AI uses far less.
It costs $5 for each 10s video generation, based on Azure’s published rates for the first Sora model.
That’s presumably a lot of energy.
Every company uses storage, and every growing company needs more.
You’re comparing mountains to molehills. That’s before you consider improvements in storage and compression relative to demands for space, or the degree to which our storage capacity “needs” are predicated on the voracious appetite of AI models and their unwanted output. Or, for that matter, the inefficient distribution of data and proliferation of spam data that predates it.
very few companies are training generative AIs
Most US Growth Now Rides on AI—And Economists Suspect a Bubble
The expansion in demand is entirely being driven by the expansion in AI capacity.
Thank you