But that’s exactly what Microsoft promised its shareholders and why they invested billions into it. They need world changing revenue to make it worthwhile.

Again, how many people does that affect in relation to food delivery?

Hardly any of your statements make any sense. Are you honestly suggesting that people order food specifically to maintain their medications schedule for medication that has to be taken with food? Really?

Do you really for real think that all these people are physically unable to have, well, a fridge? That’s absurd.

You’re trying to justify being drunk. Maybe that’s why you’re so angry.

Sober.

And you really think so many people are on these medications that they make up a serious percentage of the market share?

How do all those people get to work on their medication?

How about, you know, a grocery store?

Normal people have a stocked fridge and are not constantly drunk.

If being drunk seriously affects your shopping schedule, you have an alcohol problem.

What I find really fascinating here is that obviously openAI, Meta, etc. seem to be structurally incapable of actually innovating at this point.

I mean, reducing training costs by literally an order of magnitude just by writing better software is astonishing and shows how complacent the large corporations have gotten.

Gemma, ollama and many other models are open source too. In fact, deepseeks models are based on Ollama.

Deepseek showed that actually putting thought into the architecture achieves much more than just throwing more hardware at the problem.

This means a) there will be much less demand for hardware, since much more could be run locally on regular consumer devices. And b) the export restrictions don’t really work and instead force China to create actually better models.

That means, a lot of the investments into the thousands of AI companies are in jeopardy.

No. ActivityPub is intentionally open/non-restrictive.

Essentially, tags in mastodon are already what I described, just without moderation.

Moderation is also just an event in the protocol, just like votes or comments. Your instance would simply have to aggregate all those events, just like the current “home instances” do for their communities.

And that’s a problem.

However, there’s nothing stopping a developer from extending the protocol to support it. You can essentially throw a message into the fediverse with more or less arbitrary payloads. Adding something like a feed/community identifier is not impossible.

You could have photoshopped some swifties or Beatles groupies being broken, like the heads of South Park Canadians.

I understand, though, that you’re not a peak performance when overheated. Thermal throttling affects us all.

No! That’s because of the way it is and anyway don’t you know that the flavors don’t fully bloom after reheating!!!

The type of question where you don’t even know what you don’t know.

Or at least not permanent.

I grew up in the early 2000s and while starting somewhere around 2005 cameras and the first social sites became a thing, nothing of that exists today. Myspace and SchülerVZ (German Facebook clone) were super popular, but don’t exist anymore. Camera phones didn’t have an easy way to export photos and most hard drives from back then just died at some point. There’s hardly anything left. And that’s a good thing.

I have no local thrift store, and the speakers you can find here are often too big. I just wanted small cheap speakers to listen to YouTube videos and essentially an extension cord to plug my (proper) headphones into.

I mean, soundwise they’re fine. Not awesome, but for the price perfectly ok. It’s just that everything else is crap for no reason.

I bought a cheap set of speakers for my workshop PC.

They have two buttons. One is the combined mode/on/off button. Short press turns it on, another short press cycles through different modes, which are not explained anywhere, but have different LED colors. One mode (line in) looks almost exactly like the red standby led, it just has a bit of a blue LED also lit. Pressing it long turns it off.

The second button switches between a regular and a “speech bubble” mode. I’m not sure what that’s supposed to do. However, longpressing that button switches between speakers and headphones.

Then there’s the volume knob. It’s extremely non-linear and has a delay of a second or two, so you have to be really precise. The volume knob is also not really synced to the headphone amp, so each time you put on headphones, you have to turn the volume like crazy, and then remember to turn it down again.

And the maximum fuck you: the speakers are so lightweight, that they slip around when trying to press the buttons, so you always need two hands.

Absolute garbage. Why are they going out of their way to create a worse product? It doesn’t make sense.

Well…

People are getting harassed a lot for not supporting their software as others think they should. Look at the xz guy, he basically quit because he couldn’t take it anymore.

It’s emotional extortion, not a physical gun.

It’s the typical basement dwelling no true Scotsman nerd. You’re only a real programmer if you spend 18h a day writing code or complaining on IRC why your neovim doesn’t work.

This arrogance is BTW exactly the kind of thinking that brought us Musk. Tech is great, tech will save us all, I can tech, I am great, I will save us all.