I have mixed feelings about the team behind the AI that called itself MechaHitler getting tons of taxpayer money

All of the large AI platforms have similar issues.

xAI is the only one opening admitting it happens and trying to resolve it.

So I'd rather give my money to them then a company pretending the well they are drawing training data from is not poisoned.

You are about 8 billion cycles behind on news it seems like, this story should clue you in as to how far off you are.

How much power-that-California-doesn't-have will this AI require?

It seems to me that Linux is easier on batteries than Windoze is... ;-)

My closest facility is also a landfill. I only think of it as a transfer station because the dropoff area is arranged the same way as the transfer stations I used to use. As for wildlife, we have lots of raccoons and the occasional fox roaming around, and our recycling is seldom disturbed. Sometimes two-legged critters scavenging bevvy cans are more of a nuisance than their four-legged food-seeking counterparts.

How many companies used llama instead of paying OpenAI for API access?

If Meta saw OpenAI as a market competitor then denying them revenue is a cunning move.

Especially if llama isn't Meta's core competency but ChatGPT is OpenAI's.

Maybe even legal in that aspect, though they both seem super guilty of not paying for copyrighted material.

Hmm, I guess that tells us that :)

Wish that argument had been made already, sigh.

You certainly cannot, but it's unclear how you can get past the being attacked by people who are trying to kill you stage without doing some of it. I'd love a nonviolent solution, but not if it gets me killed in the process of making the attempt. I'm willing to risk death to some degree, because life is a risk, but most of us have limits.

Nothing I am about to say excuses Fox's obscene weaponization of attention, but this has always been true of all news media starting at least with bards, criers, and orators, and that's assuming that prior primates didn't have members of bands that fulfilled the same function. Sensationalism has always gotten eyes and ears and what news is or isn't reported, and how it has been reported, has always been a means of manipulating the masses.

Sub 10ms pings to bitchute and truth social!

I'm not going to go over the entire list. That would take all damn day, and I owe you nothing.

For me, it's frankly sufficient to say that Trump is a racist, rapist, and pedophile, and Harris isn't.

For a slightly longer statement: Everything bad that Harris is, Trump is more of it. Authoritarian? He's a full on fascist. In favor of genocide? He wants the genocide done faster so he can build a hotel on top of it. A liar? Doesn't even bear inspection, he's one of the lyingest liars who ever lied.

You seem to think that comment was for you, when it was a reply to my own comment.

As I am generally inclined to be charitable to people not demonstrated to be fuckwits, I will assume that you are using Mobile and Slashdot hid this fact from you because they are shit at web design.

That's irrelevant to the legality of the people entering the country to apply for asylum, which is a right granted by a treaty we signed. This makes that act arguably illegal.

I don't see how Google reducing the number of Linux distributions they distribute is an antitrust problem.

They don't really need to unify anything. What they need to do is add a few bits and bobs to Android to make it provide a Chrome OS-like experience, and just throw ChromeOS away. Maybe they will find some use in some of the resources used around booting, or some drivers, but the latter thing is mostly already in Android.

Literally the only reason ChromeOS exists at all is that Chrome for Android wasn't very good at the time, and they needed an OS which could run the desktop version of Chrome. ChromeOS and Android have different device management systems, and Google has been putting their effort into the Android management software lately. Now that Chrome on Android is about as good as it is on the desktop, they can retire their redundant Linux distribution and its management tools and save themselves a lot of duplicated effort.