We’re all just beta testers.

Only one. Because he created the board so there’s no need to invite him.

Is it that thing you need to pay $1bn (one billion) to get in?

I understand that media have to report on this, but still: this is sanewashing. This person is unhinged or worse. But if all of his admin fall in line behind his smelly brainfarts, unquestioningly, we must take it seriously. It’s fucked up.

I used to have a static IP at home so I cold run my own physical server. I stuck it under the fridge because there were wall plugs and I didn’t want it in my living room. Hence the name.

It used to serve NFS shares locally, websites and CalDAV/CardDAV globally. A dual-core-but-32-bit stone old intel processor, 2GB of RAM, and never a performance problem.

weird emotional appeals

“I think we’ve done a lot of damage lately with very well-respected people who have painted a doomer narrative, end of the world narrative, science fiction narrative. […] It’s not helpful to people, it’s not helpful to the industry, it’s not helpful to society, it’s not helpful to the governments.”

“Our viewpoint is that we are trying to help consumers around the world. We’re just doing it through different channels. […] What’s going on right now is that the TAM [ed: Total Addressable Market] and data center is growing just absolutely tremendously. And we want to make sure that, as a company, we help fulfill that TAM as well.”

IMHO there’s much hobbiness and fun to be had with creating a second or third life for “outdated” hardware. The current RAM crisis leaves me cool, on a 2014 ThinkPad. My kitchen server was a 2008 HP laptop.

I’m not saying you don’t have a point, but can you back that claim?

https://www.w3.org/membership/list/ => 336 members, only one of which is Google.

This is actually really good - potentially big news.

The Social Web Working Group will work closely with the Social Web Community Group, the organization that has been stewarding ActivityPub and its extensions since 2018. The Community Group will remain the focal point for innovative developments extending ActivityPub into different areas like geosocial applications or threaded forums, while the Working Group will concentrate on the core documents.

Guildford previously denied in December that the West Midlands Police had used AI to prepare the report, blaming “social media scraping” for the error.

lol, as if that was better (assuming they took all findings at face value).

We’ve reached out to Microsoft to comment on why Copilot made up a football match that never existed, but the company didn’t respond in time for publication.

I’d love to hear their response, but the real answer is obvious: “it’s a black box. We have no idea what it’s doing. Yes, we unleashed that on the world. Not sorry though, we just have to keep hoping that it sorts itself out.”

👋

Oof, he gets roasted thousandfold. On X! I had to scroll hundreds of responses down to find the first alt-right comment and I’m not even sure if that was a parody account.

BTW better to use farside.link: https://farside.link/https://x.com/rittenhouse2a/status/2009019649191768113

It’s clearly a critical article.

Subtitle: “Won’t somebody think of the CEOs?”

The shorter the headline the better 👍

“Won’t somebody think of the CEOs?”

That’s WinRAR.

At least in the USA there’s a good chance they’ll get it too, despite The Don’s inability to say “China” without derision.

Me, on a 13yo laptop and a 5yo phone: don’t worry, we still own the internet.

AI companies have basically pre-ordered a fuck ton of components that have not been manufactured yet to be put into computers that haven’t even been made yet for datacenters that are not even built yet all on an electrical grid that hasn’t caught up.

Beautiful. The very definition of a bubble.

Yeah, both the proposal and the tech firms “worry” seem to be double-edged swords.

It is the prevailing idea in both Brussels and Washington: America is soaring, while Europe is falling behind.

No, it isn’t.