So much comments on just the title … Could come from anthropic directly.
There is literally zero basis on the made claim in the article, just arbitrage calculations over supposed token consumptions under non stable test sets.
I have no idea if/how much these stupid fuckers spend to get more customers - and this “article” wasted a lot of time showing that they don’t know either.
(Stupid is cut out because I don’t think they they’re stupid. Which makes it way worse in my book)
Wait so I should resubscribe instead of staying away if I don’t want to support them?
I’m utterly conflicted now. Not even kidding - purely self hosted is not suitable (even a cheap setup only pays back after 36 months at best - and with development I’m not willing to invest it at this point I’m tine).
“Based on API prices” oh yeah. Sure they’ll sell their API at cost, sure, good calculation basis.
Shit.
I’m experimenting a lot with goose, recently return on by the AI arm is the Linux foundation. It’s not yet mature enough to recommend it as a daily driver for non fanatics though for agentic stuff.
Trying it as a daily driver by now :D
It’s less about the tool though in my opinion but about the process. If you want to be a programmer then you need something integrated into your dev environment in my opinion.
My focus is seeing how far I come with focussing in being a software architect who only has really weird junior devs who read a lot of books but lack any understanding.
Which is … quite close to real life ;)
I’m splitting by now my projects: agentic ones and “my” dev ones, treating trm differently helped me tremendously: different focus and I need a different skillset.
For me: paragraph shapes and colors convey meaning. It’s as if someone chose to have a red exclamation mark ‼️ as their logo and uses it inline.
Without knowing what it is it looks like a call to action.
Many of these comparison images and pages use color coding to quickly convey information. So I searched for meaning that wasn’t there … .
In short l: my brain sees “red” and searched what I was warned against.
The “warning red” is supposed to mirror the brand color?
Because then it would need to be the same color ass the icons. This way it looks like a signal color on top.
I e. This one, informiak mail is something I clearly should not touch, without ever having heard of them.
What is the color code on that page supposed to convey?
I just clicked on “browsers” and found no explanation nor pattern on the color code.
And no: I won’t search for it, this is critique with a question mark not genuine need for answer.
For mobile devices I don’t share that experience. I do not expect others to have USB A anymore. MacBooks alone are so widespread that they were enough to get sna adapter.
It’s the same for displays: if I have to give a presentation I’m making sure I can do next to everything down to and including VGA.
Yes it’s the venues job to take care of that but I’ve been in one place that literally went like “can’t you just connect?” to their apple bullshit.
That Apple is rotten to the core in many topics is nothing I feel needs discussing - this includes specifically their hostile stand and compatibility.
I honestly don’t even see an issue with the adapters though: it’s 5gram, 2(ish) Euro and sometimes I can even be the compability savior and people are forced to listen to me bitching about Apple!
No - but you can get a A to C adapter if you expect that you’ll bring it to someone who might only have USB C.
And from my perspective: if I expect other to being me data id expect from myself to bring such an adapter. That way I’d both parties try to remember chances are one of them have. :)
First off:
Good luck! You’ll get through this ❤️
I’m not claiming I went through a situation like your sentence implies in that extreme, my advice comes from a bit less drastic situation - and I’ll assume no safety net.
The hard truth: you are broke. Not in the future, right now. Treat your money like it. If you can’t pay rent in a few months time you can’t now. Same for all other invoices.
Reason: shit has hit the fan already. Now you’re standing there and wondering which the biggest piece will be to hit you.
If you start with that today then you’ll stretch the time out overall.
Your job is threfold: priority one: reduce spending to near zero. Short term survival beats anything. Including and especially credit score and the likes. The details depend on your situation, laws and standards.
The second is even harder: What can you do to increase cash income? This is a shitty situation and your reaction most likely is “well, yes. Of course dumb fuck what do you think I’m doing??”.
I can fully emphasize if it is. That said: I’m not only talking about applications. Use your social circle to ask for help, both money and job. Reach out to former colleagues or school friends. Use everything and everyone you have in your environment.
The last part is the easiest but very annoying: read your local laws and statutes. What social security structures exist? What are eviction regulations? What about late payment terms? Re education sponsorship? And so on. Most countries have at least something but it’s often hidden in highly formal bullshit. Get your shovel and dig through legalese. And if you can’t do that: the second point automatically applies here as well.
Bambu was the one company I oped to be wrong about when first seeing them. But their communication smelled “we are your future” from the beginning. :(
You miss the consumption pattern behind streaming though: I don’t want (and literally can’t afford to) …
This is not intended to take away from your core point: (direct) purchase is a better way of giving money to artists, second only to direct donations (i can’t talk about concerts because of the whole venue discussions I’ve heard on the side).
Now comes the tough part:
On paper it’s straight forward for me: just donate like 10 or 20 bucks a month to your personal flavor of the month - but … To whom? I just checked, today alone were 20 artists played.
The shitty thing is, and I’m sharing this to perhaps shame me into acting: this is quite easily solvable, but I just don’t invest the energy needed to figure it out for me.
Sorry for the long rant style, tldr is:
I have no use for owning albums, streaming provide a true value for me and I’m (realizing after writing this) obviously too cheap, stupid and lazy to give bak.
What a shit “but both sides” article.
“Bambu said they didn’t do something wrong so we must take that into consideration”.
It’s one of the most transparent and plump “I want to hold my users hostage” in a long time.
I fundamentally disagree on your conclusion.
Codeberg is a non profit under German law. There won’t be openai “non profit but not really” bullshit.
And your point about CI Integration ins good example: There is no “free” CI. GitHub lets you pay with their vendor lock-in and your data.
If that’s okay with you, that’s okay with me - but as a programming community as a whole ,especially FOSS side, this needs to go away.
The best case for me is that GitHub dies and its death is a wake-up call to decouple collaboration layers in a way that keeps them modular enough to not again rub into “too big or integrated to fail”.
And yes, I’m aware that this is 2/3 day dreaming. But that’s my best case association anyway :D
Orwell is a child of his time though. If I recall correctly he went to Spain to report on the conflict (civil war) and was so shocked(?) that he volunteered to fight against the literal Nazis. Then getting told “put down your weapons” is the context I read into this quote.
Or to take your example: it’s about someone telling you to not fight back instead of helping safe others.
While I agree with you in times of peace and between individuals it’s more nuanced: when physically under attack your options shrink.
This is the part where this quote holds true in my opinion: When you’re confronted with a situation that already turned violent. Or, worse for me personally, I’d there is no shared common value system.
How do you mediate with someone who not only is willing to kill but has the conviction that it’s the only right thing to do?
And I don’t mean that as a rhetorical question, I have no idea … And my own moral compass is fucked up by now and spinning in circles.
Oh common it’s not like there’s an org for mountains of code. A codeberg.org basically.
Or a method to forge jo own code repos just like that, just for dev. A … forgejo.dev … No that would be crazy. Let’s rather stick with Microsoft - after all, nothing they ever touched was bad for their user base, ever.
you’re doing good, friend!
thank you :)
oh you’ll get this reply from me in any community that you’ll attack without attempting to join.
MAM is one of the friendliest places in existence and instead of interacting with the people and just asking for help the statement is “you all suck”.
we’re not taking about elitist bullshit but about entitlement. My tone was way more friendly than the one OP chose after all, consciously though.
If they’d said “I don’t know what to do” the answer would’ve been very different.
Your comment is just … fitting. Calling me a representation for a cancerous behavior that I called out in OP: unreflective entitlement “my ways are correct”.
I don’t engage with private tracker communities beyond mam for that reason:
single sentence judgments, no explanations, blaming others…
this is a “you” problem, not a platform one.
not a single rule there exists that’s not rooted in technological limitations and choices.
no, it’s not about “just seeding back”, it’s also about protecting the community from people - frankly - like you who don’t bother to look into CSVs or platform limitations.
What you call “freedom” is a claim to do whatever you want no matter the impact on others.
the shout box on MAM would have helped you with setting up or any questions you might have.
but I don’t see any questions, just complaints qjd entitlement with question marks at the end.
So it generates about 18 Watts of power while transmitting.
Impressive!
I’ve never heard that one but feel it:
I have like a bazillion things to do, like yesterday. They means today is cramped. Tomorrow too. Because of that I can’t even look to next week.
But in a few years I won’t be able to do my job anymore. And several more close (like, two or three years) away private topics that I know will come, because time is marching in no matter my personal opinion.
Months are non existent as a unit of time unless a now is planning for a few months away. Once that’s done it’s back to days and years…
Today, I was one of the lucky 10,000 - thank you!