Basically what happened to dad when the company looking after his retirement fund lost most of his money in the 2007(?) stockmarket crash, a couple of years before he was supposed to retire. The old boy is STILL working to recover that cash at 72. Wasnt even his fault, the stupid retirement fund was just run by covert assholes.

Or basically any Linux box built within the last 5 years. Save yourself a pile of dough and power.

Are people just dropping extremely high vram GPUs into linux boxes willy nilly now.

Because that seems like a weird move when you consider that outside the Apple silicon chips, there just aren't a lot of options for capable GPUs under the $20K pricetag. I mean, maybe a 4090 if you can live with the very small models?

From a consumer point of view sure. The issue, the thing thats got a lot of people in the industry upset, is the fact that this stuff could cost a lot of jobs if it goes too far, and in an industry thats been absolutely struggling due to the dual impacts of streaming* and the fact covid stopped people going to theatres, yeah thats a lot of folks out of work.. Plus, again, its not clear at all who actually owns the end product since the courts are fairly clear that you can only copyright the creative products of humans not AIs.

*The reason streaming has been such a catastrophe for film workers is under the old regime, people who worked on a film generally got paid a wage plus points, that is a tiny fraction of the profits over time for each 'point'. The end result is that because film and TV production is very seasonal, film production people could smoothe out their income using royalties from points when theres no shows currently in production. It turned it from a part time job into a career. Unfortunately , because tech-bros are ass-hats, the streaming giants generally refuse to pay points, and when streaming rights where sold to them by the studios, the people that worked on them didnt get any points for it. This, by the way, was the real reason for those SAG-AFRA and Writers strikes, the very real sense that the people who worked on all those shows and TVs got shafted out of their royalties.

Its not clear at all that the no-points thing are actually legal, btw, since it does seem on the face of it that its reneging on the contracts signed by the film workers. While its unlikely to be *fraudulent*, judges have a tendency to look dimly on people using obscure technicalities to get out of paying people agreed on revenues when it comes to civil agreements.

The problem is partly that people seemed to have kind of edited memories of what, and who, was promised. Theres a sizeable contingent of people angry that Dr Fauci promised a "100% prevention" vaccine. But he never actually did, and right from the begining said that "sterilizing" vaccines (90%+ protection) are actually fairly rare and most will range from 40-80% efficacy. But people are convinced thats what was promised. even though no scientist ever would make such a rash and improbable promise. Coronaviruses tendency towards immune slipperyness was known long before the SARS viruses ever hit the scene.

The problem is , people are being repeatedly told by political fuckery agents that this was what was promised, and now they are convinced Fauci lied to them. And it just..... never happened.

I like Reddit.

I've literally never even clicked its AI thing in the app or on the website, and I only discovered it was even there a few days ago. My eyes literally gloss over anything that's not the stuff I use regularly (I don't care about stickers, coin, trends, or all the other nonsense either).

Stick to what you know. I don't frequent a barber shop because I hope one day it'll also sell me travel insurnace. I can't see myself using Reddit as a search engine unless it quite literally turns out to be the most amazin search engine in the entire world, better than all the others, and everyone just moves to it like we moved to Google at the beginning. And I very, very much doubt that would happen.

Reddit would do well to meditate on its own Origin story as a site that got big when the very very simmilar Digg started enshitifying and its userbase went "Fuck this, lets go check this Reddit thing out instead". Its not going to take much for someone to come up with a slightly better Reddit, and Reddits entire userbase to give up in frusturation and jump ship to it.

Traditional web forums have always been transient things. . Its a home to a community, until everyone feels either badgered or bored, then everyone moves off sets up elsewhere. Never hear much about Something Awful that much do we? And Slashdot is barely a shadow of its glory years. Forums arent forever. Neither is Reddit. Especially if insane idiot VC people ruin it with weaponized AI enshitification.

Altavista was goddamn terrible. It wasnt just the ease of use, its that pagerank was *clearly* a superior algorithm than the weird fuzzy thing altavista did that sort of ensured you'd *maybe* find a useful result a couple of pages in if you where really careful with your search booleans. Google was ......... magic......... in the beginning.

The whole point here is that as an alternative to BOTH AWS/Azure type monster datacenters *and* the old server-in-the-cupboard DIY approach (that really does need those gigabit pipes to work well in 2025) , something like local datacenters run by the local city or state govt or whatever, run at cost price to provide alternatives to the giant world eating super-clouds.

If we all had gigabit pipes, then the host at home thing could be entirely plausible, would just be a case of a bit of software engineering to provide a decent plug and play environment where you just drop a usb key on a suitable comodity server, like a reconned synology or something. But as you note, without those pipes, its not a complete solution.

Sounds a lot like Asset Phoenixing to me. And yes, that is very illegal cos its a liability and tax dodge. You declare bankerupt, "sell" the assets to yourself, then reopen free of tax debts or liabilities. Excepet its still you and the tax man IS coming for his due, possibly with an arrest warrant in tow.

Honestly this sounds like the company is one angry person away from being sued.

Worse, its one angry commissioner away from getting EU'ed. And the EU doesn't f**k about when companies do shit like this to consumers. They'll take all of your toys if you start stealing from customers.

Yeah thats not how LLMs work.

Something like Stockfish absolutely does do something like that. Stockfish is not an LLM, its entire theory of operation is vastly different to how LLMs work.

For the most part LLMs play worse chess than children.

Yeah I think your right. Oh well, poes law is a bitch sometimes :/

The way a lot of other sites deal with that is to just have a 2-3 minute edit timer. Enough time to fix a borked tag and possible unmangle some grammar (we all do it). Add to that if its moderated, the edit window closes, problem solved.

fwiw someone earlier was claiming that a dude lying on a forum is perjury lol

If you look on Twitter you can see that the person that talked as the spokesperson for the company named Tea actively perjured themselves above, because the actual full database is available for download.
All 57+ gb of it, Including every single ID of every person that is on the app and their selfie pic.

How did the judge react to this perjury? Was it during discovery, witness questioning or arguments?

To make a claim about them lying in a courtroom without giving any sorts of links to this clearly juicy escalation seems a bit unfair!

Kinda seems like Yan Le Cunn is geting fscked over too. Dude is one of the major fathers of modern ML and AI. Aaaaand shafted? Considering Yann is a legit actual scientist and not some feckless prompt guy and was responsible for llama and most of the algorithmy shit i FB, seems kinda disloyal of Zuck. Le Cunns made Zuck a stupid amount of money.