I think that someone already tried (and failed) to make a wrist band thingy in the past, so they probably can't patent it. That is, unless they went out of their way to patent the sensor technology itself, or the UX, instead of the concept of a wristband thingy
Well, I don't use most of their stuff because I mostly run self hosted stuff that either don't need their proxy stuff or violate their content policies (you can't serve movies/video over their proxy, which is reasonable). But if I wanted to I already have all of that at my disposal, without any extra money.
I haven't read the article yet, but I just wanted to say a couple of things.
First of all, I keep noticing people around me with bulky glasses that look like they came out of the DEVO peek a Boo video, and all I can think is that if I where Facebook I would use my power to influence fashion towards bulky glasses and make my glasses look sleek by comparison.
Second, it sucks that the wrist band thing is being tied with bullshit ai glasses. I would love to see that as a regular input device for PCs and smartphones.
I am using my domain. Best 10€ ever spent (maybe after Terraria). For just 10€ I get a .org domain name and all the DNS records I want, and I get pampered by cloudflare all the time...
"Oh, you want a distributed reverse proxy? You want a dislocated cache? You won't TLS without getting a certificate? Block AI on the proxy? Even more stuff? Well guess what, we already make a bajillion dollars from big tech, so you the little guy can have all of that included in your 10€"
Webp is "current-useless" on account of being unsupported by a lot of software, including Google's own office suite. Just the same as jxl.
At the end of the day, any standard or protocol that is not widely supported is de-facto useless. Some examples are: ipv4 multicast, TCP multipath, MIR, hashcash; all of this are technically valid, but nothing supports them, so it doesn't matter
It's an analogy, it must be similar in principle, not in numbers. A subscription to chatgpt also costs less than what gamblers spend in slots. But whatever, I don't care enough to argue much more
I specifically said "full sized", a pc with modern gpu and more than 32gb of vram is not a regular computer that most gamers have access to. If you are running a 7B model on a gtx 1080 or even an rtx 3060, you are not running a full LLM like the ones you would get from a subscription service
If you count only the cost for you, maybe it doesn't consume water, but your toy still guzzled lakes as it was training. Plus, the hardware to run a full sized LLM is expensive, so you bragging about how it costs nothing is like a millionaire preaching to gamblers that it's better to just be rich than try to win at the slots
That's like... It's purpose. Compilers always have a frontend and a backend. Even when the compiler is entirely made from scratch (like Java or go), it is split between front and backend, that's just how they are made.
So it makes sense to invest in just a few highly advanced backends (llvm, gcc, msvc) and then just build frontends for those. Most projects choose llvm because, unlike the others, it was purpose built to be a common ground, but it's not a rule. For example, there is an in-developement rust frontend for GCC.
Even if AIs weren't inherently harmful, the companies that make them are. And by utilising, publicising, and integrating in your workflow their product you are pumping their value and giving them both more means and more reasons to fuck people over. And because making and selling an AI requires a giant mega corporation, there cannot be a free (as in freedom) alternative.
On top of this, the AI is actually harmful. First of all, they are building their value by stealing other people's work. They also use psychological tricks to try to give you dependency, that's why AIs are always overly cheerful, always complimenting questions, and why companies try to humanise the product, they do this to convince you to integrate their AI in your workflow, and once it's done, your business becomes dependent on them, and that makes them money.
And if that wasn't enough, everything you tell the AI is both used to improve the AI, and to profile for advertising.
Yeah, and nobody was forbidden to get out of East Berlin, right? And when the wall fell no one cheered. After all, the wall was to keep westerners out in the first place.
What's the beacon?