Ai slop announcement, ugh.

This place any good? I’m down to one decent tracker and it’s good to have backup.

Absolutely correct. But I think the republicans are actually in worse state than the IRGC; they are the aggressors and clearly perceived that way by a lot of their base, and there’s still the idea of free elections.

Especially a country run by a threatened regime. If the IRGC give in, they’re dead. They also have established that they don’t care about the human cost.

Well, that’s a lot more sensible but still rather fat. Good reminder not to install Ubuntu then.

I’m not up on the flavours of Ubuntu, but I assume the LTS version is more server oriented and what in the name of whatever you hold holy is there that needs 6 GB to boot an OS? Have they ported bash to electron?

Betteridge’s law defied.

Same, but Gemini was the best of the lot about six months ago and it’s where I go these days for brain dead searching.

I’ll give Claude a go next week. I do try to avoid them, but sometimes I have a question that just isn’t keyword search-able.

To be fair haven’t tried that one. Gemini started bringing in unrelated, previous shit to a recent conversation, which is the first time I’ve experienced that.

This morning

Yeah, they have “memories” but they make Donnie look nearly competent

It’s confusing to me. When I use chat boxes they inevitably “forget” the first thing I told it by the second or third response.

How are people having conversations with them? It’s like talking to a 5 year old that’s ingested Wikipedia.

Wikipedia says 5000 employees. $300 each. On $2.2b sales in 2024.

What’s his personal incentive?

No chipsets from that era that handle 96GB are going to be affordable to run - unless you’ve got excess solar or something.

Ethanol, made from corn, fertilized with…?

Short term thinking got the USA into the mess. More short term thinking is the answer, right?

The issue with serving urban is that they need more satellites with narrower beams to handle the higher density and resulting load. Yes, they fly over, but they don’t have the capacity.

Negative return on investment. ICE teaches people to break up society, rather than come together to improve it.

LEO satellite internet service is life changing for people who live in underserviced, rural, and remote areas - but it’s a tragedy that it’s controlled by billionaires and the USA. Growth at all costs mindset cannot accept that they should exist only as an ISP of last resort, so they’re servicing urban areas and planning data centres.

Is company chit still illegal if it’s a bonus?

Yeah that also is awful. Can’t learn anything about the place without getting accidentally redirected to the App Store.

I prefer Apple Maps because it’s not ad laden but the coverage for businesses simply isn’t there, and it is pretty aggressive about populating businesses that don’t really exist (ie the business registration not the place of business, if they have one eg Plumber who doesn’t have a shop), don’t exist in the category (eg a factory isn’t a retail establishment), or just plain don’t exist. It also likes to ignore the actual road name for directions; instead of “take the exit towards A361 Burford Rd”, it says “take the exit to Diddly Squat Market” because some street view scanner picked up a sign and chose the wrong one.

If they start pushing ads, Google wins in “find me dinner nearby”.

Covid, followed quickly by measles which nukes the immune system’s memory.

Boy, humans are speed running stupidity.