Boosters are risking their freedom and even their lives. If it was easier for them to find work then they'd do legitimate work instead of boosting. Selling at flea markets is a job itself, so they're clearly willing to work.

This is not news for nerds. This is not stuff that matters.

I know that ship sailed long ago, and slashdot is kinda mid-grade engagement bait these days, but come on, there is no pretense of substance in this one. It's monkeys flinging poo on the front page. Please try to be better than this.

Yeah that sounds suspicious. On the flip side try rephrasing your point:

CEO of memory company on the even of their IPO says thing that all other CEOs of memory companies have already been saying, things that industry analysts have been saying, things that tech media have been saying, and thing that just make sense given current state of AI investment.

Doesn't sound remotely suspicious now does it?

*Commences Imagining*
Procurement: "The ram costs 5x the amount of the server itself."
Department head: "Is that the market rate?"
Procurement: "Yes"
Department head: "Okay go for it.
*Ends Imagining*.

Sorry was there something out of the ordinary that was supposed to happen in your scenario?

Precisely no one is mining bitcoin on equipment that could be easily retrofitted to an AI workload. Bitcoin has for nearly a decade now been something for dedicated ASIC miners that are designed to do a single thing quickly, and AI is not that thing.

At best you may be able to bust out a soldering iron and scavenge the RAM chips.

Errr "shortage" is a "shortage". When you have to choose who to sell something to you, you have a shortage.

How many years in a row has Musk promised FSD? How many people did he actually take money from only to never deliver the feature?

It just goes to show that money can't make someone not a pathetic crybaby.

You can only think in terms of individuals owning individual property for individual reasons. That's where you're broken. You probably picked it up from old Cold War propaganda. If you're not in your 60s you're acting like you are...

United States has gobs and gobs and gobs of land and we have these things called power lines where we can have the power generated in one place and used in another. We could easily build massive wind and solar farms that would be quiet, no matter how many times orange people tell you don't kill birds, and could give you all the electricity you could ever want for so little money that it's effectively free because the economic output from that much cheap electricity far exceeds the cost of the taxes needed to maintain it.

That's the other thing I can't seem to get folks with your line of thinking to understand. Yes it is free. If I do something to cost me $100 and I make $1,000 because of it that's free. The laws of thermodynamics don't apply in A system that isn't closed.

And that is the other problem with your thinking that is being exploited by people who want to steal your property. Rich people who want to steal your property. You're thinking in terms of black and white and simple straightforward cause and effect and results. You've been encouraged to think like this. By the aforementioned Cold War propaganda.

Because the website helpfully provides structured data with tags which make it clear what it is, it's very easy to just use old fashioned and cheap filters to exclude content like that from the training set without losing anything else.

I've seen a lot of different figures thrown around but it's definitely under 20 million in total. Wildly successful game, no Wall Street doubling the budget so they can pocket 20 or 30 million dollars off of somebody else's work.

The problem here is we have parasites who have taken over our economy. Grifters like Elon Musk. The scale of the grift has gotten too big. Kleptocracy combined with kekistocracy. It's not sustainable. You can't have a trillionaire who is never invented anything in his life and has a team of people at each of his businesses whose job is to prevent him from making decisions. That kind of incompetence is basically Nero burning Rome.

At some point we are either going to have everything collapse after everything is taken away from us and our property is stolen or we're going to put adults in charge again. Boring annoying frustrating adults.

Protesting something that doesn't happen is better PR for you than protesting something that does...

It's a holdover from the 60s. It was one part of a much broader movement that included a shitload of effort fighting voter suppression.

The current tactic for the corporations and the Epstein class is to just prevent just enough people from voting to get whatever the hell they want.

Because of winner take off first past the post voting all they have to do is get 51% of the vote and they can have anyone they want running the show and it doesn't matter what you think or what you want.

About 30% of any given country is batshit insane. There are studies showing why basically it's overactive fear responses. Another 15% can easily be confused by propaganda. From there you just need 7 hour wait times to vote, periodically arresting people on minor drug charges and taking away their rights, and a small army of old people with nothing better to do challenging signatures and registrations illegally. Blammo you're at 51%.

So politically it literally does not matter what you do or all you're dumb little protests. But shit those protests are fun aren't they?

I see this from the left wing all the time. They throw a block party and they call it a protest and they act like they've actually accomplished something. Remember those new Kings protests? The only thing anyone remembers from those is they got to work late that day....

It's the difference between professionals and hobbyists. The people in this article are just hobbyists having fun. So they are completely ineffective because they're using tactics from the 1960s that are opposition adapted to in the 1970s.

What's frustrating is the sheer number of people especially around here who somehow think they're in the in group. Everybody keeps forgetting, it's a big club but you ain't in it

Yes they have. Once or twice. Some layoffs happen. However this is just one data point for Microsoft. One data point among many repeated layoffs at MS. One datapoint among full studio closures. One datapoint among Microsoft currently attempting to divest 2 whole studios which they've aquired in said spending spree. One datapoint among the current CEO saying that Microsoft's strategy took them from 30% profit margin to around 4% this year.

One datapoint among the Xbox CEO being replaced this year because despite your "oh please" comment, even Microsoft's CEO agrees they royally fucked up.

So spare me the pity for the managers.

Yes we can tell that by the cuts they are making and the divestments of studios they bought. I think you're making my point for me. If Microsoft's grand plan is to make games then the executives are idiots given how they are executing that grand plan.

No. This isn't a large studio going defunk[t]. This is a large studio bought by a mega studio, bought by one of the largest tech companies in the world, only for then to have massive cuts across the entire gaming division after a double digit billion dollar spending spree all the while shaking up the executive team, changing strategy twice on what an "xbox" and how they distribute games.

You're looking at everything with an insanely narrow lens. If id were independent, or damn Zenimax independent, everything you said would be true, but in context of what is going on at MS it's just not. There's nothing "normal" about what's going on at MS right now.

Define succeed. Do you realise shareholders (specifically a major activist shareholder) recently tried ousting Hidetaka Miyazaki from his CEO position at Fromsoft after complaining that they didn't maximise profits despite producing one of the most critically acclaimed, well and truly financially successful, and wildly played titles of the past 5 years.

Carmack (god love him for his technical skills) proceeded to talk about Minecraft, as if that is the bar we need to meet these days. We may as well give up on the gaming industry completely.

Go on YouTube and technology connections has a good video explaining in detail why a very modest amount of wind and solar can supply energy to all of our needs. Maybe not the rapacious needs of AI slop generators designed to eliminate all of our jobs. But everything that good decent people want.

A very tiny handful of people have had enough of you having access to civilization. They are not content to be unfathomably wealthy. They want to be elevated to the kind of godhood that the Japanese emperor and the Pharaohs experienced. It's not about money it's about power.

Those people never went away we just stopped letting them take over our lives and take all of our property. We are in the process of taking all of our property and giving it back to them for stupid reasons.