However building a power plant, even a small one, comes with a lot of bureaucratic hurdles in most of Europe. Its not a “build it and they will come” situation like in the US

Easy to explain actually, greed and stupidity. The late capitalist endgame.

“Microsoft changed course” (about shoving Slop into every nook and cranny of their products)

I very much doubt that. When I have to open Office365 (Copilot… Sloppity… WhateverItIsCalledThIsWeek) in a browser they manage to hide the actual apps like Word, Excel etc. a little more behind the giant empty chat interface. Last time I checked my pinned Apps were gone and now there is a tiny button containing some of the apps. To make it worse, this button changed the location on screen almost every time I opened this website in the past months (I’m not using it very often).

Oil wells in a city, disguised as commercial buildings. I’m speechless.

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I would never have guessed that we"d be able to make Idiocracy look like a documentary in my lifetime. What a spectacular decline.

The definition of legal meant here is likely more akin to de-facto legal. If laws exist but aren’t enforced by executive or judicative branches of a system then the crimes in question are de-facto legal. You’re probably right in the strictest sense of “legality”, but that’s not the point here.

I imagine it makes beeping noises and displays a blip on a radar display like the proximity devices in alien movies. Shudders.

Amazing how much shit an unremarkable pseudo distro can stir up. Deservedly. Techbros like DHH are a cancer.

I’m using it for a few months now. Coming from Kubuntu, I noticed that everything seems much faster/more responsive.Love it. Its not a pure gaming distro though. It’s arch-based, but with easy install and configuration, you have access to the whole Arch repo.

And of course as a bonus I can now unironically say "I use arch by the way*

There’s a conflict of interests in there. Nvidia is heavily tied to OpenAI, Anthropic and the US government. The mostly chinese models hosted on huggingface are direct competitors and viewed as enemy tech by the US government.This is going to be a massive shitshow. Probably starts with banning de-censored versions of the models from the platform.

Care to explain? Sounds interesting, my last impression was that SK was a society with massive competitive pressure in education and career. What happened?

He did his part in killing around 600k real people through DOGE (defunding of USAID and other) measures. We’re way past these funny little jokes.

My bet is on exactly that being the plan. Stocks go down, tech companies pay to bribe him, next Tuesday a reversal of tariff plans, stocks go up, rich people make more money. Rinse, repeat

Well, like you said that’s basically the corporations fault. They push “AI” everywhere and AI in the media is 100% LLMs and other GenAI. I wouldn’t blame the public for not knowing the difference. Those data centers aren’t built to cure cancer, but to cause it. Figuratively and literally.

LLMs don’t cure cancer. That’s the kind of AI everyone refers to these days. Not ML projects.

Most of the cheap IOT crap is still insecure, requires a signin and a cloud connection to spy on you and steal your data. Of course there are options to secure the devices (always have been) but for the nontechnical person this is out of reach, not only because doing that requires knowledge but also bc most people don’t even know about these issues or care about their privacy.

Some German bakeries have excessively stupid names for their products too, though. I always refuse to say the name but point to the product in question. The usual answer is “Oh, you want one of the [silly-gibberish-name-of-an-overpriced-thing-that-tastes-like-sawdust-anyways]” - I nod, and that’s a successful transaction done.

Lass ma lieber bis nach der Bundestagswahl warten

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Damn, you’re right. I fell for it this time.