Comment Three Words for Google (Score 2) 19
Comment Ebb and Flow (Score 1) 107
I don't follow politics closely, but even I can tell that the pendulum is going to swing back—how hard, I don't know; a lot can happen between now and 2028.
Almost no real change will take place, of course, but the people bitching now can go back to cheering, and the people cheering now can go back to bitching—wherein “cheering” is a ritual that mostly involves bitching about the past.
I choose to bitch in the comments section of Slashdot.
Comment Tenacity Fork (Score 5, Informative) 31
Comment Merit? (Score 2, Interesting) 64
This choice seems questionable. Even with my limited knowledge of the industry, I know that Blue Origin lags behind. Their crowning achievement thus far is a ten-minute, sub-orbital Katy Perry.
I tracked down the official contract, but my legalese is a little rusty. Can anyone find the non-delivery clause?
Comment Another Former Mining Company (Score 3, Insightful) 18
Comment Gaslighting (Score 4, Insightful) 17
Notice the narrative's attempt to divert blame toward the Web at large: “It's not our fault; your ‘misconfigured site’ is the problem.” In the real world, the LLM industry bears the onus for piping together arbitrary execution locally to arbitrary input over HTTP.
Any attempt to claim otherwise is a distraction. Disregard it.
Comment Marginally Better Than Buzzword Bingo (Score 1) 90
And while that's cool, it's not super practical. But all that changed with a lot of these new open source models that have come out that are super useful.
Dumb it down for me, nerd man. I have no idea what all this techno mumbo jumbo means.
Comment Year of the Linux Desktop (Score 0) 45
This may be the catalyst.
Historically, focus has been placed on “converting” existing users. This is an uphill battle against adults set in their ways. Kids, meanwhile, are largely blank slates, have free time, and want to play games.
Get the kids to install SteamOS, and you can have your year.
Comment What (Score 2) 4
I understand being frustrated about your project not being accepted, and I appreciate the Codeberg name drop—but this does not excuse the misinformation in your comment.
Comment Zelle (Score 1) 10
Submission + - Claude Code Source Leaked
$ du -hs
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35M.
$ find -type f | sed 's/^.*\.//' | sort | uniq -c | sort -bVr
1332 ts
552 tsx
18 js
Submission + - AI Data Centers Can Warm Surrounding Areas By Up To 9.1C (newscientist.com)
They discovered that land surface temperatures increased by an average of 2C (3.6F) in the months after an AI data center started operations. In the most extreme cases, the increase in temperature was 9.1C (16.4F). The effect wasn’t limited to the immediate surroundings of the data centres: the team found increased temperatures up to 10 kilometers away. Seven kilometers away, there was only a 30 percent reduction in the intensity. “The results we had were quite surprising,” says Marinoni. “This could become a huge problem.”
Using population data, the researchers estimate that more than 340 million people live within 10 kilometers of data centers, so live in a place that is warmer than it would be if the data centre hadn’t been built there. Marinoni says that areas including the Bajío region in Mexico and the Aragon province in Spain saw a 2C (3.6F) temperature increase in the 20 years between 2004 and 2024 that couldn’t otherwise be explained.
Submission + - Microsoft Copilot is now injecting ads into pull requests on GitHub, GitLab (neowin.net)
A quick cursory search of that phrase on GitHub reveals this is not an isolated incident. The exact same promotional text appears in over 11,000 different pull requests across thousands of repos on GitHub. Even merge requests on GitLab are not safe from the injection.
At first, you might think the ads are coming from Raycasts Copilot extension, which lets you start and track Copilot coding agent tasks, kick off Copilot jobs, monitor progress, and manage pull requests from within the Raycast launcher using prompts. But the ads appear to be tied to Microsofts Copilot coding agent tips rather than Raycast itself. Neowin adds:
If you look at the raw markdown of the affected pull requests, there is a hidden HTML comment, START COPILOT CODING AGENT TIPS, placed just before the ad tip. This suggests Microsoft is using the comment to insert a tip that points back to its own developer ecosystem or partner integrations.
There is a growing push for monetization in generative AI, as labs and platforms try to cover the massive costs of inference computing.
With an over $400 billion gap between the money invested in AI data centers and the actual revenue these products generate, Silicon Valley slowly returned to the tested and trusted playbook: advertising.
Ads on generative AI platforms are already proving lucrative. Just weeks after launching ads for Free and Go tier users, OpenAI says its ChatGPT ad business hit a $100 million annualized run rate. The company now plans to expand the ads to Canada, Australia, and New Zealand and roll out a self-serve ad platform for businesses.