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China is laughing because US pensioners will have paid trillions to train all these AI models whose weights can be distilled and open sourced trivially. Giving Silicon Valley polit…

it is a case of socialize the losses, privatize the gains. regarding tax payers, the biggest sins of new data centers seem to be: * driving power bills parabolic due to no mandated…

I don't think we got a full picture of Israel's leverage over US politicians and business people. How many people like Epstein are out there acting as "access agents" to Mossad? Ho…

I have an irrational hatred of someone who believes in "reality distortion fields". Over the last 10 years, I also have come away with an intense impression that Silicon Valley is …

Some politician in Japan pushed zoning away from cities up to the prefecture and national level. So locals do not get veto rights over new construction.

My post was about laptop RAM. I counted server-side RAM as a separate thing.

I do work off of a Chromebook with 8GB of RAM total, but I do keep an eye on how many tabs I have open.

20 years ago there were a lot of peer to peer applications. For example, Skype used to bounce calls across peers. Now, all calls gets routed through big-brother Microsoft. NAT and …

I want to echo this comment. I am on Map-e in Asia and it is very difficult to get an exclusive ipv4 address without paying extra money. And I want to connect to my machines withou…

btw, is it me or is there any justification for anyone including a developer to run more than 8GB of RAM for a laptop? I don't see functionality as having changed in the last 15 ye…

How does Mark Zuckerberg triggering a genocide in Myanmar, among election interference, rank up with your disdain for EU digital policy? Are politicians not supposed to do anything…

The gamble these executives are making is that prosecutors in a different administration will not prosecute them for bribery. If you watch House of Cards (based loosely on real lif…

I started seeing AI slop of US military members celebrating their 1776 USD "bonus".

If companies operated as partnerships instead of limited liability companies, then I guess I could buy into this. But states grant special privileges of capping personal liability …

I want to see if Kei-trucks can break into the market. The last time a new product form broke into the US market, it was during a big recession (japanese auto-makers got compact ca…

Is running the git binary as a read-only nginx backend not good enough? Probably not. Hosting tarballs is far more efficient.

The multiple linear memory is supported in wasi preview 3? I thought it was not supported as of preview 2.

I am pretty confident Lina Khan and many like her will end up back in government and this mergers are going to be reversed.

You ban monetization of the data. The federal government has the power to regulate interstate commerce. States can ban this behavior as well. Furthermore, legislators can create a …

Windows users' relationship with Microsoft looks like an abusive spouse relationship. I don't think the hurdle is so high for companies to sell Linux machines that look like Window…

Don't ISPs now provide ipv6 addresses? Why not just connect directly home via ipv6 address. I think many ISPs in Asia where ipv4 addresses are scarce have been moving to MAP-e, whi…

Just to add to this, customers are paying for a human to take responsibility for getting a job done. An amorphous "AI" cannot take responsibility and therefore does not merit the f…

I most humbly suggest that your finger is pointed in the wrong direction. The ASMR deportation videos from the Homeland Security department and the fetish this maga movement seems …

So the US government does a dog and pony show of ASMR chaining and perp walking Korean engineers constructing a factory vital to our economy and national security? And this after t…

The executive branch EXECUTES what the legislative branch LEGISLATES. Congress is article ONE of the constitution. The executive branch is article TWO. Take this to mean that Congr…