Ran windows 10 on 4 gigabytes. It was an old pc on my attic. Did not use it much. It had 8gb, but forgot to install two sticks. Funny part, it ran ok, so never bothered to install them. Even ran fusion from Autocad in a usable way. Old hardware is very capable these days. (I am rather old, and grew up with computers that did MHz, not GHz)
Got my old Pentium 75MHz laptop out to show the kids last week. 40Mb of RAM, windows 98. Was surprised how smooth it ran. No USB, no internet but it has a floppy drive!

Heard they are thinking of confiscating RAM from civilians. From their laptops, smartphones,... Must... win... the... Ai... Race! (/s)

Off course I can! But I need money. Give me your visa card number and I will make it happen. Glorious returns guaranteed.

There was an interesting video about the subject. If I remember correctly, the channel is called DIY-perks. He bought laptop motherboards for cheap. You know, laptop screen fails, all else still works. He got a great computer for little money.
Would be funny if "the people" raided Ai datacenters to get RAM. Your data center was raided by the the affordable Ram collective.

This.

How long can the people who have invested billions in OpenAI et al keep stringing this out before everyone and his broker finally realizes that LLMs are dead ( in terms of investment payback, not as a useful tool ) and the money goes "poof" ?

CXMT is already making DDR5. It's not the fastest, but it works. Hopefully output can ramp up really fast.

We have samples for 3 asteroids, not just one.

Hayabusa (2010)
Hayabusa 2
OSIRIS-REx

The CNSA has Tianwen-2 currently at 469219 KamoÊoalewa, with sample return scheduled for next year.

It's the classic Japanese fig leaf. Technically they don't have aircraft carriers either, they have "helicopter destroyers" that look exactly like aircraft carriers, complete with a runway and naval jets.

But there is still a lot of opposition to both nuclear weapons and having a military that isn't purely defensive. Aside from the history of the military causing huge disasters for Japan, people see that other countries tend to get swept up in US military adventures, and don't want that.

The conservatives talk a lot about needing a stronger posture with North Korea and China nearby, but I think really what they want is a lucrative weapons industry. Japan has the technology and industrial base, but for political reasons companies there don't get involved in offensive weapons.

Due to climate change we will have to at least start switching the type of trees we plan to ones more suited to extremes of temperature, and higher averages. I don't know if it will be hemp, but probably something will have to change.

Maybe one has you.

I don't think that's the goal of this project. This is more about being able to prove that the original file is genuine, say for legal reasons or so that a journalist can verify it with the person who took it. It's not for verifying social media copies.

Besides, nobody has managed to make a robust perceptual hash. It would be huge if someone figured it out.

Maybe Chrome should be a government run open source project. Non profit but well funded. Dedication to standards compliance. More modular architecture so that all the Google specific stuff like sync can be swapped out at runtime and people have a simple, easy choice of provider.

The market will be flooded with used hardware when the big AI companies start to go bust or sell off their older hardware that is being replaced. It will have had a hard life in a server rack, but stuff like RAM rarely fails due to age or use, and even consumables like SSDs are often for consumers if they are enterprise grade with 5% life left. I've been using some old Intel server SSDs with 5-10% life left for years, for bulk temporary storage.

At this point computer storage is a national security issue and a huge economic problem for governments.

Forcing Chrome to be trashed would be one of the best things to happen to the internet. Google's ludicrous monopoly leading to the entire ad industry powering the majority of the internet breaking down because Google just vibes that AI overview is cool bro gets broken in two, and as a bonus the ignorant like you are forced to discover there's vastly better browsers out there than fucking Chrome. Everyone except the trillion dollar worthless shitholes win, even if it makes some vaguely uncomfortable for 10 minutes in doing so.