It’s the UK sky news, not the far-right Australian one.

/c/beholdthemasterrace

What a country!

Right, but then we are back to the question of how these companies are supposed to make money. I suppose hardware manufacturers will be okay with this outcome but I’m not sure how these heavily inflated software companies will profit under a local first world. So we are back to the bubble deflating or bursting.

People will pay $10 a month for chat GPT to write their emails.

They won’t even pay that in many cases but instead rely on the free offerings. Expect those to go away altogether, to be heavily hamstring, or to become absolutely riddled with advertisements.

It’s more likely to go up in price for the foreseeable future.

There’s little to no reason to use esync anymore. Use a recent kernel and a recent version of Proton or Wine and you can instead use NTsync which is faster and more reliable.

It’s just simple logic. Renewables and batteries are cheaper and quicker to build than coal and gas and easier to locate near the demand.

But agreed that the near term situation is concerning with coal and gas still being used and built which is idiotic. And the politics around renewable energy in the US aren’t helping things, though I expect economics will win out in the end in the medium to long term.

Yeah, I always get a laugh out of the tantrums people throw over plastic straws and bags which is such a trivial thing to care about. It’s not even about climate change either, but a different and also serious environmental problem.

On the data center point, it is expected to actually drive renewable investment. Ideally those building data centers should bear the full cost of it and should be prevented from turning to gas as a solution. And that’s my main concern from this, besides all of the other issues with AI.

I’m starting to think that those of us who understand this will probably fair better by forfeiting the semantics battle and making the distinction between LLM-AI and ML.

I’m now picturing a future where the word AI truly becomes universally hated, and LLM lovers start calling it ML again:

No, no it’s not AI it’s machine learning

Or we all just call it applied statistics, that ought to take the magic out of it, since normal people consider statistics to be boring and mundane and certainly not intelligent.

I wanna beat them to death with my laptop, but when I see a new application for AI in cancer research, or a nearly century old math conjecture proven, I do feel a little optimistic, too.

I feel like these are such divergent types of machine learning that they have nearly nothing in common with the generative AI used in chatbots and code generators (especially that used to predict disease). Even if they may use some of the same underlying technologies and theory.

Which is why the overloading of the word AI to mean literally all of it is frustrating. So I guess I don’t have a problem with using machine learning to target narrowly defined problems to gain new knowledge, versus outsourcing all of our thoughts and actions to chatbots and AI agents.

I was never religious, but at around that age I remember confirming/asking if Santa wasn’t real, and then immediately following up with: “And god isn’t real either, right?”

Thankfully, I have atheist parents so I got a straight answer.

Collaborative editing and the like isn’t really easy to solve with other methods. Maybe a P2P approach could be viable.

so you’re much less likely to actually make any money off it unless you’re really steeped in economics and markets

You’re also competing against people with insider knowledge (depending on what you are betting on) which currently isn’t illegal AFAICT.

Home, residential, and business located batteries will help with this. You don’t need to rely on transmission as much if batteries are supplying power physically close to the demand.

Also, I wonder what happens to these companies in the future when there are no senior developers anymore, because nobody hires junior developers to train up.

I think they are hoping they can make a bunch of businesses so dependent on them that they can’t afford to leave. Which could work, but probably not enough for them to become profitable.

On the individual side, maybe they are hoping to exploit a bunch of whales but I can’t see people on average be willing to pay for what it actually costs.

You don’t actually need the official Mullvad program either, although there’s nothing wrong with it.

I prefer to just load the wireguard config directly with network manager (or whatever your distro uses).

They mean on the client side most likely. A reverse proxy will be transparent to the user.

This is a hard one as I generally just ignore games that don’t appeal to me, so I forget they even exist.

But I guess games that have FOMO mechanics that don’t respect your time and push you towards playing every day.