I've stopped caring. When I had good karma and got mod points I'd vote up all the -1s that made perfect sense and try to fight the deranged one-sided echo chamber Slashdot has become. It was never like this in the early 2000s when I started using it; lot more debate and reasonable people. My karma is sliding back towards terrible and that's a good thing. It's easy to vibe code a user script that highlights all the 0 and below comments to find things that are truly insightful. It's also why you should read from the bottom of ranked comment sites:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech...

It's bullshit. I don't understand how they can claim these kinds of numbers. It's probably to sell you stuff that will give you Alzheimer's, just like how the COVID jabs gave people heart disease and turbo cancers.

Preventative medicine is a scam. They "find" things that aren't real problems, charge your insurance thousands to "prevent" them and it will probably end up killing you. Colonoscopies can cause gastrointestinal problems, and if they fuck up, they can cause damage leading to infection. A biopsy pierces a cyst or tumor over a dozen times! Your body is trying to cover misbehaving cells to kill them and the doctors are literally spreading malignancy by letting them loose. Mammograms squish women's breasts painfully and older women almost always need an ultrasound anyway due to their increased breast density.

It's all a scam. If you need any proof, look at the damn Amish. Modern medicine can be amazing when it comes to reattaching fingers and saving people after car wrecks. But vaccine adjutants are incredibly dangerous and cause allergies. We like to think modern medicine is some type of rational science when it's a lot of religious beliefs and not that much different than bloodletting.

> AI is adding adding trillions of gallons of greenhouse gases

Challenging one religious narrative with another doesn't help. You don't have to believe in the religion of hydrocarbons do understand the tangible and easily measurable impacts of speculative data center expansion.

I do entirely agree with the assessment that we're losing our cognitive engineering skills. That is a real issue. I've written about it here:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech...

We're also nowhere near global capacity for data centers. I doubt any company is even using half of the capacity built. If it wasn't for two decades of moving everything to "the cloud" instead of building local talent and locally hosting all our shit (including security cameras), there would be more demand for local AI hardware running open weight models and all this subsidized speculative token use wouldn't be remotely viable. I'm wondering if Anthropic's recent limits were real or completely manufactured.

These data centers are not primarily for coding agents or making girls with anime titties. There's no way we need this level of capacity for those operations. No, I think there's something more sinister going on. The psychos like Altman (literally: Alternative to Man) are part of an elite Epstein class that honestly thinks the high dimensional space these models operate at will somehow give them access to something supernatural (call it AGI, multi-dimensional beings or whatever). I don't think that's true, but that's likely the real reason behind the tulip mania.

How much of this $10b comes from what they saved via the CHIPs act? Fuck Micron and their murder of the Crucial brand to intentionally drive up prices. It's obvious they're colluding with Samsung and SK to drive up prices (the previous ram company cartels have been found guilty of this in multiple courts over the past several decades, but barely faced any consequences).

Micron can go fuck themselves. I doubt this will help Boise's economy in any meaningful way either. It's just more of these shit companies contrasting supply and fucking over their former customers.

Take Cxmt needs to come off the sanctions list. I know they're output isn't high enough to put a dent in ram prices right now, but we need more real competition in this insane market.

Pluto will rise again

Openrouter doesn't even have the Noromaid model, so probably not a lot to worry about

Jebus shut the fuck up already. NOBODY CARES!

Amazon's total retail revenue is 1%~2% a year. They literally make nearly nothing off retail. The majority of their business is AWS (and most Americans outside tech aren't even aware Amazon is one of the three largest data center companies in the world next to Microsoft Azure and Google's GCP). They don't actually need to make ANY money. They just need to not lose too much. (Amazon's retail revenue fell to -2% the year they invested in Rivian out of that division).

Very likely has nothing to do with Machine Learning. My old mentor worked for a defense contractor where they had 6 SPARC processors in a missile for its advanced guidance system. Thousands of dollars worth of compute, used to guide a missile accurately to the point where it would explode. What a damn waste.

These are likely chips used for missile guidance and thrust/fin control.

Amazing win for people in France. We all know none of these laws have anything to do with protecting children. They're all about digitally fingerprinting every individual online to their citizenship, censorship and prevention of dissent. Age verification laws are the means to technocracy and they should be opposed at every level.

It's the parent's responsibility to instill values about things like social media and pornography, not the state.

You seriously don't think Lockerbee was government, or 9/11? There is just a monstrous pile of evidence. See 9/11 Revelaed: The Unanswered Questions (Morgan. Henshall. 2005. Paperback). 911 Chronicles Part 1: Truth Rising (2008 documentary), and of course the classic Loose Change (2005 documentary).

Pan Am Flight 103 was very likely a failed assignation attempt: https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Pa...

As was TWA 800: https://wikispooks.com/wiki/TW...

You call be a "conspiracy nut," and yet things like Gulf of Tonkin incident, the Weapons of Mass Destruction (Iraq, 2003) and many other things have been proven to have been 100% fabricated by governments. Operation Mockingbird was even a CIA program for manipulating people via news media.

But go head, keep with the ad hominem attacks about me being a nut even though the state of reality and history is against you. Keep believing everything you see on the TV, a major news site, Google AI or an advert. Keep deflecting legitimate discussion by belittling your opponent instead of facing them on even ground. I'm not writing this for you anyway. You're too far gone. I'm writing this for everyone else or has eyes to see and ears to hear.

oh look how smart this guy is ---^

the people who wrote this are much experts. Much wow. They must really be something. I bet no experts in the history or everything have ever made up shit to make a paper that sells.

Also I don't understand jokes either. /s

Canada euthanizes thousands of people under MAID and the UK has several private doctors and insurers. I saw private insurance adverts when I lived in Melbourne in 2012 too. My ex-girlfriend in New Zealand was also a case study in how giving excess steroids to children can stunt their growth (lots of misdiagnosis growing up until they determined she had Lupis).

The probably isn't insurance. It is western healthcare in general. It can do some amazing things like reattach severed fingers, but it also over-prescribes most psychological drugs, has a lot of unnecessary preventative care that just increases costs by "finding" things that wouldn't be issues if left alone. It's about prescribing you GLP-1 inhibitors instead of fixing our sugar filled toxic food system and forcing children to take 70+ vaccines filled with dangerous adjuvants that lead to all kinds of allergies that are not seen at all in Amish populations (who are now being find hundreds of thousands of dollars by the State of New York because the state wants to control what they can and cannot do in their own private school systems).

I'm kinda shocked my accounts have never been banned. I've just had posts removed, been banned from multiple subreddits I never used (because of others I posted in), had safety/suicide warnings sent to me (another abuse of the system) and all manors of other shit for wrong think, all documented here:

https://battlepenguin.com/poli...

I barely use it except for self promotion these days. One my my accounts got marked 18+, but the other is still fine.

Same with systemd. Flatpak was tolerable until they talked about mandating systemd. I like Compiz though. That cube was awesome, but I haven't used it in yonks since I've been in i3. When I do need to use KDE (like on my home theater box), I always turn on Wobbly Windows in KWin. It's the small things that make me happy.