I think I'd spend all day moving my mouse in circles, followed by typing dirty words then deleting them. Train that AI right!

The Williams Company strung fiber optic cables inside decomisiones Gas Pipes, that was Wiltel. first iteration bought by LDDS, second one bought by Level 3
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Quest laid down fiber alongside train right of way, using a special plough moved by a locomotive
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Ditto for laying bahaul fibre in the eguts/sewers of large cities. Or using the actual sewer pipes to bring the access fiber to buildings or houses...

If the rights of ways are aquired for something else already, laying the fiber is easy and cheap, and a nice way to earn additional revenues on your existing rights of way

That seminal paper was published in 2004. Yes here we are, 22 years later
Some people were asleep at the wheel.

AI training need HUUUUGE datacenters. But AI inference may benefit from these smaller datacenters.

Ditto if you can move classic cloud workloads and associated gear (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) to these smaller datacenters, freeing up your biggest datacenters for AI training.

I proposed to do something similar to that a while ago, using container data centers. But this may work even better.

Kid in my hometown just got run over by a train on an e-bike, so bad stuff is happening.

Years ago, I tried to get licensed for a Honda motor scooter, which required doing that figure eight. But the Honda had this enormous square fairing on the front wheel that made it impossible for you to actually see the front wheel, so you couldn't actually tell if it was in the figure eight - you couldn't see the figure eight, you had to guess where it was at in relation to the tire. It was also not very stable, so at slow speeds it tended to fall over. So I failed the test. Twice.
I asked the instructor(who stood by carefully watching as I farcically attempted the figure 8) If I could remove the fairing just for the test. No.
So I simply used my learners permit and didn't ride it at night.

You sound edgy. Perhaps you should have "amerikkka" stenciled on your hoodie? You'll certainly impress everyone with it.

From TFS:

I guess this guy is either hoping for, or actually has other investors ready to provide the other U$D 16 milliard. Probably, those investors will come forward once the deal clears some other hurdles.

When I studied French in Laussane in 1997, you were fresh out of an EU joining referendum. You said no. At the time I tought that was a bad decistion. While I still think that being a part of a greater whole is better than beain a small independent part, it is now evident that the EU as it currently is, does not gel well (or is downright incompatible) with what Swiss is and always has been...

JM2C
YMMV

They are efficient. Never felt the need to privatize...

What do the swiss have that the belgians lack?

Ebiikes are a legal workaround loophole for motorcycles.

"with the current generation of young programmers. They clearly do not know the difference between an operating system and applications. Nobody should be trying to add AI to Windows, or to Linux, or to any other OS. The OS is supposed to add a layer of abstraction to the platform, so applications can be written and then run on multiple systems with hardware differences. The OS is supposed to allocate resources to applications. The modern OS is supposed to allow multiple applications to run at the same time or appear to run at the same time using some combination of cores and time-slicing. If any operating system is having problems doing these things (the basics) then programmers should be improving whichever element is not up to par."

I call bull. Older versions of unix came with apps. An editor (vi), network utilities (mail, gopher, ping, traceroute), utilities like grep, interpreted languages like awk...

Is logical that, as the OS went graphical, vi gave way to notepad++ (recently released for linux).

Remeber all the controversy in the mid '90s about if the browser should ship with the OS or not. Nowadays you would not accept a desktop OS without a browser out of the box.

AI is the next iteration of this. The desktop OS HAS to have AI out of the box. If you want to disable or replace it, so be it, but an enterprise-y desktop OS like ubuntu HAS to have AI out of the box, for the convenience of the corpos that buy support and therefore pay the development that benefits us free users

A cursory read of the comments show that the people on these parts want no AI in their Ubuntu. Which is not what you said

And, on a personal note, i do not think is wise for a generalist and corporate distro like ububtu to ship sans AI integrations in the year of our lord 2026. As long as canonical has a light touch and do not ram it though our throats like windows, everythig should be ok

I know that, you know that, we both know that. But a cursory read of the other comments shows that most people in these parts did not get the memo, an pretend that every single people using linux get a no-ai experience, and has the l337 skillzzz to install huggingface and do the model integration on all the relevant parts of the OS themselves....

I fail to see how accountants, administrators, video editors, photographers and biologists, just to name a few, will acomplish that.

But then again, what does an OpenStack trainer like me can possibly know about the l337 skillzzz of normies to install and deeply integrate AI on a non-AI OS.....

You realize there are a bunch of homes available for sale in all sorts of places for next to nothing. The problem isn't "housing", it is "housing where people want to live". Declining population in places like Italy have created housing collapse where nice houses aren't sold, and sit empty, and they'll pay you to move into one.