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Comment Re:China needs babies (Score 1) 142

Jokes aside, that is exactly why the CCP is banning intimacy with chatbots. Joke's on them, people have been "dating" video game characters/anime characters in lieu of actual relationships for awhile now. Eventually they'll have to go after dating sims and other media aimed at shut-ins (waifus/husbandos) if they want to make a difference.

Comment Re:standard practice (Score 1) 76

OpenWRT only supports a handful of wifi7 routers. I can easily and readily use only two in my market (ASUS BT8 and the Beryl 7 travel router). Most consumers don't even know what is OpenWRT much less how to use it.

There are nifty little $65 routers available that would probably be "okay" if remote administration were disabled immediately on installation. OpenWRT support for these devices would make them even more-desirable. Currently the standard router for OpenWRT seems to be the Slate 2, which is an older WiFi 6 router that is not going to meet everyone's needs.

Not that the OpenWRT developers/contributors are at fault for this. Apparently supporting newer routers has been quite difficult, based on the hardware platforms being chosen by OEMs. But OpenWRT can't be promoted as the solution for all problems related to router vulnerabilities.

Comment Re:good self awareness (Score 5, Interesting) 61

Good question. Their POWER series of CPUs were not insignificant in capability, their chip designers were clearly technically sophisticated, and GPUs are just specialised vector processors with a few extra bells and whistles - stuff IBM is extremely familiar with.

It would not have been difficult to release a GPU or other LLM-specific processor to go along with the POWER11. They'd been working on the POWER11 for 4 years, they knew in 2020 that LLMs had a strong potential to be significant for Big Data processing - an area you use big iron for, they're not rank amateurs, they have plenty of reserve, they could have assembled an emergency team to build a vector processor that was custom-designed for just LLM work, and released an LLM processor card that could run circles around nVidia.

They didn't. Because, as has happened before, their management is simply too stupid and too slow.

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