As you can imagine I am 100% against communism and any form of socialism. Bezos and everyone else must have property rights not hindered by government, it is his business to run (or his board) and government must not be in position to dictate how any company hires and fires people, who they hire and fire, why, etc.

I fully expect Amazon to close this warehouse, maybe it will be contaminated with something radioactive for example, to make things easier and then it will shut down. Personally I root for the anarcho capitalist solution and wish Amazon to win this battle for its private property rights.

If it can not do the exact same equally good for closed software projects IT IS NOT CLEAN ROOM.

social engineering used in practice by the parent comment, now sitting at +4 Funny. Still waiting for that 1 autistic moderator.

I have to wonder if this is a first step to abandoning POWER. I can see IBM wanting to get out of the game of trying to build performance competitive CPUs they don't have many outside customers for any longer.

Especially when they could put commodity designs in their shiny black boxes and still charge super premium prices for them.

You don't need OWA in space. It doesn't matter if I'm the only one who believes this, for I believe it enough for the entire world.

So now, instead of taking a moment while the shaders compile to relax and eat some chips, maybe enjoy the local ambience of Mom's basement, you have to pause the game, eat some chips, then unpause? And you don't even get to read any helpful tips while you're eating? Sounds like a pain in the ass.

Can confirm Bazzite. 85/90% there I'd say, which means there's still a bit of "tread carefully" for people. I'm very happy with the running, but I'd be less than truthful if I said it was completely frictionless.

For example, 90% of my gaming is on Elder Scrolls Online, the 'play' button on Steam runs the Zenimax launcher not the game itself and there's also an annoying recent'ish (few months) bug where it seems games launched from a 3rd party launcher don't know they've got the foreground focus. Steam thinks the launcher has the foreground., andn ESO this manifests as not autoswitching to the main game window after you've gone through the Zenimax launcher, no sound and sometimes stuttering frames because the ESO game window still thinks its in the background somehow. Random'ish alt-tabbing and clicking will bring it back, but it means there's a a) a small bit of friction where there was previously none and b) some change or regression because all this used to run fine without that issue.

I played Rez:Infinite. Great game, but it has an "Attack" mode which will crash after the third level or so. Again, friction.

I play Skyrim. Setting both Skyrim and ESO up for modding, including running some Windows binaries required by the mods, was a relatively painful learning experience.

I have a friend who wanted to switch but didn't because of kernel DRM in some of the Windows games. Once again, friction.

I'm very happy with the switch and wouldn't go back, but I'm experienced with Linux (Slackware 0.9 alpha being my first distro, and I'd installed before distros like that existed as well - anyone for Minix on an Atari ST?). I can see people not quite as annoyed with Windows as me not really seeing the benefit. For me, it was one giant Co-pilot advert too far that made me say "right then, done". After I'd told it no god knows how many flaming times, Windows popped up some "Let's get ready in your new Co-Pilot account!" thing that literally just had me hard power off and wipe the OS away. My PC is purely for gaming, I use a Mac laptop for my desktop work, so I get that luxury.

(as an aside, I do wish Steam would ban using launchers when it itself is the launcher. There's no reason for that Zenimax launcher to exist in the Steam version of the game, and it's annoying as hell because it prevents me from using Big Picture mode and just treating the whole thing like a console. That's true for either Windows or Linux, this is a 3rd party launcher thing and not an OS thing).

Speaking as someone who does think we need stronger age, and locality verification on the internet; I too find the whole thing unseemly.

There are plenty of good reasons to want know if someone is over the age of majority whatever that is defined to be wherever they are, and what laws the other party to your interaction may or may not be subject to in terms of jurisdiction.

I also believe this is achievable while preserving some degree of privacy/anonymity. States could as part of issuing IDs for example provide everyone with a set of certificates with various assertions - and you could select select the one you with the those you need to present. - but this a digression.

There are enough good arguments for age and locality verification that lobbing for it does not need to be done in secret. Especially because the broader public, seems to be somewhat receptive even if tech and geeks have their panties fully bunched. Which makes me assume Meta, OpenAI are not really interested in solving the real problems like endangerment of children, trafficking, terror funding, terror recruiting, all manor of contraband distribution, money laundering, structuring, AstroTurfing, public comment stuffing, etc - but are rather just seeking to create an environment that locks competitors out of the marketplace or otherwise creates a situation where they are allowed to occupy a short list of gatekeepers.

All of that is true but I think it is far more about barriers to entry. For all the talk about the need for these massive datacenters, a lot of, maybe most of, the use cases for the the frontier models that actually are worth $$ like code assistants etc rapidly falling into the range where what OpenAI is selling just isn't needed. Qwen is not as good as GPT but it is close, a Mac Studio maybe can't pump out tokens quite as fast as an API hosted on OpenAI's infrastructure but it is knocking on the door (for one human consumer, applications).

Is there going to be market for hosted models, of course not many are going to want to onprem the LLMs running the chat bot on their websites. A lot of companies will want to onprem their RAG tools and anything handling data they care about protecting.

At one point Microsoft people were saying workstations were over, that developers, engineers (not in the software sense), Architects (not in the software sense), were going to use Azure hosted VDIs...Yeah have not seen that, yes I know its possible and someone here will tell us how wonderful their thin-client virtual desktop experience is, but the lion's share of these professionals that I encounter anyway are still buying workstations (or near-workstations pro-line Mac). Point is people are going to want to run their GenAI work loads locally, and they very nearly can. The free and "Open" models combined with affordable performant hardware are going to eat OpenAI's lunch, in a huge slice of the market.

Unless - they could somehow make it impossible to distribute and bundle these things for compliance reasons....Then they'd have nice little moat that would be difficult to cross.

(Well, bacteria, not viruses.)

This "clean room", to draw an analogy to medicine, is like if your "sterile surgical dressings" were made of syphilis viruses knitted together into a fabric.

The summary quotes the article in saying "the open-source WordPress project". If WordPress is already open-source, how likely is it that anyone will switch to this new codebase? Seems like any of their existing reasons for not switching haven't changed a great deal.

I realize this is an uphill battle in a society in which people won't even acknowledge that they shouldn't hit themselves in the face with hammers to make their cheekbones pop, but maybe we should all just live for a while and then die? Maybe it's not so bad? Sure, it's a little bit scary, but so is using the toilet, going to kindergarten, having sex, moving out of your parents' house, getting a mortgage, having a kid, watching your kid do all that. If rich people lived forever, we'd all still be living under Genghis Khan.