There’s already investigations and evidence that they are indeed price fixing, just check the Gamer’s Nexus video on it.

More specifically, they were running a benchmark in a “”“isolated sandbox”“” (sorry, but if the computer is physically connected to the internet, it’s not isolated), and the model escalated permissions in order to look up answers for the benchmark online, which were hosted at the hugging face’s website.

But capitalism operates under infinite growth assumptions, and perpetually seeks increases in value. Any dip, regardless of how much it actually affects the company’s ability to operate and generate a profit, is a problem that spells doom for capitalists.

He is a parasite, obviously.

No need, you just ask the AI to “make no mistakes”, then you spawn a second AI to review the first AI’s output, and then you ask a turdthird AI to review the output of the second AI. Easy peazy. No need for pesky engineers and their stupid human inefficiency. /s

Non-ironically though, I think that’s exactly what they did. I have watched Prime’s video about this, and, although I was second-screening his video, I believe he mentioned that they used this “technique”.

These days, I’d usually listen to either a Dungeon Synth playlist (like Mountain Realm, Atrium Carceri, Witch Bolt…) or I’ll listen to my doom/stoner/psych playlist (Mars Red Sky, Colour Haze, Earthless, Kikagaku Mori, Youngblood Supercult…).

Also, there are a few Diablo Lo-fi mixes made by blizzard that really get me in the mood of writing. Tristram theme Lo-fi is also sick.

That show was fresh. I still seethe for it being cancelled.

Also, if they delist a game you had, you can just sail the high seas easily, and there are even revival projects for always-online games that reverse engineer servers.

My gf was complaining her laptop was slow, even though she bought it new last year and it wasn’t a cheapo. I went to take a look, 8gb win 11 laptop, hammering more than 7 gb of memory while doing literally nothing after being turned on. “Maybe there’s something wrong” I cleaned up her startup apps, uninstalled some stuff that she never used (and came as bloat from samsung), did some optimizations… Restarted, and still at 7+ gb of memory use. Yep, it’s fucked.

I just need a few more billion trillion dollars, bro, I swear. Trickle down economics work, just a few more trillions. I swear, bro, AI will bring UBI, just several more trillion dollars, bro. I swear, bro.

The problem of fighting for democracy using social media, is that the ones controlling the algorithm are precisely the ones that don’t want the “left” to succeed. It is essentially fighting a battle in the enemy’s field, where they control the land itself. At small scales, it might work. But it will never work when it comes to true important positions. I’d go as far as to say that the mirage that it works in cases like Mandani is part of their plan, to keep the left locked in their platforms “because that’s what works”. Here in my country, Brazil, I could clearly see the impacts of the algorithm changes they put in place after 2011, after the pro-democracy movements that started on Facebook. Their networks started to curb engagement from the left, and massively boost fake news, right-wing content, ultra nationalism, and such. It’s naive to think that social media can be used to win the populace back to the left. They’ll never let it happen.

Only in cold/temperate climates, try planting mint in a tropical climate and the thing will just die for whatever reason. I used to have a planter with it, then I moved it a bit, to a spot where there was less shade, and the thing died in days.

Those are insane prices. I live in Brazil and I have gigabit internet for 32-ish dollars.

And thus, debate is dead, and your cozy bubble is formed. I get banning troll users, but banning a whole instance is a step towards killing what the federation is supposed to stand for.

Isn’t this dead? I remember some news about it from last year that this was being sponsored by AMD and then they backtracked from it, so the main dev also dropped it.

Is it still Enshitification if it was shitty from the start?

“Blueberries are fucking purple!!” - Randy Feltface

It’s my anecdotal evidence, but Unity games run like shit. Whenever I hop in an Indie game where they used Unity, performance makes no sense. An example of this is the og Hollow Knight, which needs way more resources than it seems it would. Now that Godot games are becoming more widespread, I have never felt that a game made in Godot was “heavier than I expected it’d be”, often the opposite. Maybe it’s just that most developers using Unity don’t know how to optimize in that engine… But it’s weird. UE5 I can usually at least see where the performance bloat is coming from, but Unity just makes no sense.

Humans are not herbivores. There are a lot of good social and ethical reasons to not eat meat, this is not one of them.

Shit! I’m soon to go Linux and now there’s one more thing for me ro figure out then. I have some stuff (not a lot, but some important stuff) on OneNote, lucky me that I made the switch to Obsidian a couple of years ago.