Go Buckeyes!

None of this has come true:
https://extinctionclock.org/

The amount of CO2 in our atmosphere is 0.03%. It's a trace gas. The climate is warming, because that's what the Earth does over tens of thousands of years. Everything we are doing for "climate change," such as insane amounts of lithium mining, is destroying our environment far worse than just burning coal and petrol.

Most people who believe in man made climate change can't even replicate the maths: https://mathewaldred.substack....

The media constantly lies about "the hottest summer on record": https://off-guardian.org/2023/...

Wind farms are the worst. Not only do many require diesel generators: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/...

They are an environmental disaster. They require a massive amount of concrete to establish the pillar. The generator isn't your car alternator. It cannot be air cooled. It takes hundreds of gallons of oil and they leak constantly! https://www.climatedepot.com/2...

The farms take 3~5 years to put up and the blades need to be replaced after 10~12 years. The farmers who fall for these polys have their land turned into an eternal construction zone. They have to move fences just to get the blades in. Those blades are made out of composite material like fiberglass and carbon fiber, so they cannot be recycled. They're put in landfills: https://www.texasmonthly.com/n...

Melbourne was still using 286 machines for their train systems in 2012. The trouble with this shit is the train literally moves a million people every fucking day from early in the morning to late at night. It's incredibly difficult to upgrade such a massive system while it's running. With train signaling, you fuck up and someone could die. And those systems need to run every day, even on holidays.

You can use a 3rd party ROM line LineageOS and not install GApps (F-droid + Auora if you really need stuff from the store). Sure it's still using a Chrome engine for apps that require it, but you can use Fennec (Firefox fork without the Mozilla bullshit) and UBlock Origin. You can also use Ad Away for additional DNS level ad blocking.

Mozilla has a bunch of tracking by default now. I use the Librewolf fork on desktop and Fennec on Android + UBlock Origin on both. If you want to stay on FF, there are some custom userscripts out there you can add to disable all the Mozilla tracking. Mozilla has fallen far from it's original values.

My bees abandoned their hive this spring. They were coming out at the beginning of spring and I thought they'd be okay, but nope. I had them two years and got some decent harvests. Gonna take a year off; might order a nuc for next year and try again.

Very interesting, and thank you for this. I'm going to check it out. I have huge reservations about CERN. They have creepy marking from years ago, and they literally have 666 clearly visible in their logo. I don't give much credit to Christianity or end times nonsense, but there are a lot of people in these circles who do. It doesn't matter if it's not real, THEY believe it's real; some of them anyway.

Some people don't know this, but a massive super collider was funded and began construction under HW Bush in Texas. There was also plans to build a larger collider that encompassed Houston using part of the old tunnels: https://youtube.com/watch?v=75H8MZNKDuc

This guy is a little weird/esoteric, but I think the beginning of this is also interesting too: https://youtube.com/watch?v=h8W0h7RyHo4

There are already open source solutions for this:

https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/

But what I'm worried about is, what is an "unauthorized crawl?" Is this going to star restricting crawling for all CloudFuck protected websites so that we have fewer choices for new search engine startups? Google, DDG and bing are hot garbage. They can say this is about AI, but it's also about polluting all new crawlers for the big bois.

I hate it when people say Llama and Deepseek are "open source." No, you can download a binary off hugging face that has millions of weights for all the tokens trained. But you don't get the "source." Having the source lets you rebuild the model from scratch. For Llama, it turns out Facebook pirated a Books-A-Billion worth of text. Deepseek likely did the same. If you read the Deepseek paper, they used 2048 machines with Intel nVidia H800 cards. Those cards are $5k ~ $8k a pop! Sure data centers probably get a discount when they put in orders for a few million, but it took them ~4 days using a massive cluster to train Deepseek. Even if you had the "source" material, no one has a spare $8 million+ to spend on the compute power to replicate it.

I'm running Ollama on my one windows (gaming) box since it has a 3080-Ti in it. The Continue plugin works with IntelliJ and open-webui works for general stuff. You can't run the really big models with just a 3080, but it's more than enough for a decent bullshit machine.

Coding I would only trust AI for simple doc lookups. People who use it to do large scale coding are insane. The code looks god awful. Stop that.

If you want to shell out ~$3k, you can get one of the nVidia mini boards with a lot of vram. Some AMD APUs can now split general RAM/vRAM on embedded systems (miniPCs) and that could be another avenue for larger big models.

Did anyone else think of Chegg(It), the torrent/porn site that went offline a while back?

This type of response is from someone who doesn't understand anything about AI training, neural networks, attention blocks of any fundamentals about LLMs. They are NOT intelligent. They will never be intelligent. They're just amazingly good prediction machines that generate strung-together-tokens that looks like something correct to a human, because thousands of people sitting in cubes clicked on the one out of eight responses that looked least retarded for months on end to train the bullshit machine.

Why the hell does that matter for tariffs? We're talking about producing goods in the domestic market. But the factories themselves are massive. They'll likely employee hundreds, if not thousands over time.

You do realize TSMC and Intel are over halfway through completing their new domestic fabrication plants in Arizona, right?

USAID bought grain? USAID didn't help any nation. It was a CIA slush fund used to destabilize nations. I feel like everyone bitching about USAID has just now heard of it. Everyone in alternative media has been covering how terrible it was for decades. Corbett just posted an updated version of his classic USAID video from years ago:

https://odysee.com/@corbettrep...