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mindbleach

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  • Watching AI companies complain that their intellectual property is not being respected will never stop being hilarious

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  • In undue fairness, there is a difference between turning text files into a chatbot, and exfiltrating that chatbot. One is transformative, and the other is making a megaphone out of some string, a squirrel, and a megaphone.

    But if I don't give a shit about companies doing math on Disney DVDs I'm not about to give a shit about them hoarding their big pile of numbers. I'm jazzed when source code leaks for things written by people.

  • Must hate watch,can't believe its a real film.

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  • They didn't even have David AR White money.

  • Solarpunk's most iconic meme is now real

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  • While not impossible, these claims feel like they're on the wrong side of the AM/FM divide between actual machines and fucking magic.

    "Smaller ground footprint" seems particularly odd, when the above-ground portion of a wind turbine is like a thirty-story shed.

  • Solarpunk's most iconic meme is now real

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  • What is the draw, versus a fan on a stick?

    There's a lot of reasons we don't do blimps in general.

  • Must hate watch,can't believe its a real film.

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  • They made a whole damn industry.

    I recommend the podcast God Awful Movies, where two jugglers and a magician get unreasonably familiar with christian cinema. Mostly. Like obviously they did all four God's Not Dead movies, and way too many rapture movies, but also Battlefield Earth, Plandemic, What The Bleep Do We Know, and - I swear I am not making this up - an orthodox Jewish Spy Kids knockoff.

    High-tier episodes are Loving The Bad Man, a movie where Steven Baldwin is a convicted rapist and somehow not the antagonist, Passage to Zarahemla, an alternate universe where Mormonism makes any damn sense, and Believe, which is Ebeneezer Scrooge apologism.

  • Cutting edge 19th century medicine

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  • His patient satisfaction ratings are incredible.

  • Must hate watch,can't believe its a real film.

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  • "Special-interest venue" is a very polite way of saying "propaganda scam."

  • Must hate watch,can't believe its a real film.

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  • They sprung for the Y-list actors.

  • Must hate watch,can't believe its a real film.

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  • Baby Ruths!

  • Must hate watch,can't believe its a real film.

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  • I want patent-troll lawyers to rebrand and sue all the god-botherers who assume Disney wouldn't sue a church.

    I don't care who wins.

  • Must hate watch,can't believe its a real film.

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  • Kevin Sorbo Dean Cain skills

  • Discord cuts ties with Peter Thiel-backed verification software

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  • I don't give a shit and neither should you.

  • The Junior Developer Is Going Extinct

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  • The fuck are people downvoting for? 8 GB and no CUDA is sufficient for a variety of LLMs. That comparison's from a year and a half ago, which is forever in this industry, but it's not like small models got worse.

    This mildly terrible website shows Min Istral 3B benchmarking above state-of-the-art DeepSeek R1 32B from ten months prior. And also above the 72B version of Qwen 2.5, whose 3B version was top-of-the-list for the ItsFoss guy.

  • Discord cuts ties with Peter Thiel-backed verification software

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  • They only changed providers for the same unforgivable mistake.

    They still want your driver's license, to use fancy IRC.

  • 'Xbox Is Being Sunsetted' — Seamus Blackley, One of the Creators of Xbox, Thinks Recent Shakeup Spells the End for Microsoft's Gaming Business - IGN

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  • In some sense this has been coming since the Xbox One.

    In another sense this has been coming since around 1996.

    The central goal of the Xbox project was always to computerify the console market. This has now happened, to such an extent that platforms are basically interchangeable. That irrelevance wasn't part of the plan. Microsoft assumed they'd own everything. At present they're not even the best way to play Windows games, let alone the leading source of Windows software. Whoops.

    Regardless of those details - there's not much point pretending that console hardware is distinct or important. Sony makes a nice AMD laptop, basically identical to Microsoft's own AMD laptop, for the second generation running. For some reason, people strongly prefer the blue one. Nintendo ditched fifteen years of technological planning to rebrand an Nvidia Shield and print money by making it the only portable with buttons. Still not sure how that market was untapped. Even now, their only serious competition is literally a whole-ass PC. All these machines run all the same games that don't star Mario Mario or John Halo.

    I have been expecting Microsoft to stop participating in the console launch cycle since I thought their next one would be named the Xbox Two. I'm not sure why they're still coy about bowing out of the hardware market. If it's making them money, they can just... continue. But then it's weird for them to let rumors swirl like this. Nobody's come out and said, Xbox stronk, Xbox one thousand years, Xbox forever. In classic Microsoft fashion the right hand knows not what the left hand is doing, and the right hand's not sure either.

    They've sat on the fence long enough that there's definitely going to be a PS6. If they'd called the-- fuck is this one called? If they'd called the Series series the final Xbox, a year after launch, they might've shaken that up. But now Sony's no doubt years deep in planning, and would gladly take a victory lap as the home console. But it's never gonna be like the PS1 again. That's the dream every time, and it kinda worked with the PS2, but everything since has been mere competition. Even that narrative might flop when the alternatives are portable and/or a full computer.

    The argument for Microsoft staying in, at least one more time, is that hardware's kinda fucky. Intel had a great entry into the GPU market, just in time for their CPU division to mortally wound the entire company. Nvidia's convinced their infinite money glitch cannot go tits-up. AMD's making enough on industrial supply that they could almost buy their fabs back, but is somehow still second place in both their home markets. Microsoft may not bet on people's ability to shop for a home computer circa 2028. The console business model is 'I have to sell you this so I can sell you these,' and we might get dragged into another seven years of that, before we can stop pretending the console war still matters.

  • North Korea: Kim Jong Un re-appointed as general secretary at party congress

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  • The runner-up put in a good showing, and will be missed.

  • Dice Time Out

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  • Ork behavior.

  • The Junior Developer Is Going Extinct

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  • A Raspberry Pi can run local models. You don't need 64 gigs and a 5090.

  • The Junior Developer Is Going Extinct

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  • A customer paying a recurring subscription just to do their job.

    Local models will win. They're half-assed, but the big boys only provide fractionally more ass. LLMs will become just another tool you can call on when you'd rather read code than write it.