P03 Locke

@ p03locke @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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1d ago

Oracle Layoffs: Tech giant to slash 30,000 jobs as banks pull out from financing AI data centres | Company Business News
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P03 Locke @lemmy.dbzer0.com 1d ago
I don't understand why Oracle or the reporter tried to invent a new term for this. This is literally "colocation", a term so ubiquitous that the industry typically shortens it to "colo".

1d ago

YSK that coffee is healthy. Starbucks is not real coffee. It's trash.

No study on caffeine wants to acknowledge the elephant in the room: Half the population has undiagnosed ADHD, and people use caffeine to self-medicate, usually unaware of why they are doing it.

1d ago

YSK that coffee is healthy. Starbucks is not real coffee. It's trash.

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P03 Locke @lemmy.dbzer0.com 1d ago

Starbucks uses local imports. The biggest problem is that they burn the shit out of the beans to normalize it down to the same flavor. So, the big appeal of using locally-sourced beans is wiped away by the way the need for a consistent "flavor".

That's why Starbucks coffee tastes like shit.

2d ago

Iceland Foods Finally Surrenders In Trademark Fight With Iceland, The Country

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P03 Locke @lemmy.dbzer0.com 2d ago

Meanwhile, in the States, nobody cares if you call your company "American Foods" or "US Foods" or whatever. It just promotes the country, which I thought Iceland would be interested in.

Somebody in the UK eats something from Iceland Foods, goes "oh, neat, this is from Iceland", and then there's another angle for tourism.

In 2016, we wrote about Iceland Foods, a UK grocer, which had somehow convinced the EU to give it a trademark for “Iceland” and which then went about bullying other companies and opposing trademarks for any that included the name of that country.

Whelp, that's totally different than what I expected. I thought it was the other way around.

2d ago

US immigration authorities arrest Spanish-language news reporter in Tennessee

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P03 Locke @lemmy.dbzer0.com 2d ago

US immigration authorities? Are we too afraid of calling them "ICE"?

See, it's right there in the tab title. They changed it to appease some right-wing fuckhead editor.

2d ago

The Next (De)Generation

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P03 Locke @lemmy.dbzer0.com 2d ago

Posting generational memes from 2016? That's a bold choice.

2d ago

Age Verification Laws Are Multiplying Like a Virus, and Your Linux Computer Might be Next

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P03 Locke @lemmy.dbzer0.com 2d ago

sysctl user.legal_bullshit.pretend_age_quote_verification_unquote=99

Watch that land on distros everywhere.

2d ago

Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse

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P03 Locke @lemmy.dbzer0.com 2d ago

There is no reason why Lemmy and its forks can’t connect to these sites either. People are just incredibly confused on here and do not see their own potential.

The internet doesn't run on potential. It runs on actual fucking features.

The fact that I don't see a mix of Mastodon, Lemmy, PeerTube, and other mediums on my front page just makes me angry at the lost potential of what this protocol is supposed to be about.

2d ago

Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues

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P03 Locke @lemmy.dbzer0.com 2d ago

Mark Twain started this nonsense.

2d ago

Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues

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P03 Locke @lemmy.dbzer0.com 2d ago

When they can argue its for “transformative use” or whatever the magic words are? Thats technically fair use in US law.

Well, considering they transformed its use to about 250GB of weights, that would qualify. That's at least thousands of times less than the size of the books they downloaded, so you can't really claim "they downloaded the books and put it into the model unaltered".

It's not like you can ask one of the models for page 156 of the second Harry Potter book, unless it's cheating and attached to a search engine to try to find the result. There is no compression technique that can take something to a thousandth of its size without an substantial loss. You can, however, ask it to summarize what happened in the second Harry Potter book, including what the actual title is, without it trying to look it up on its own.

The AI bros might have a serious point within the law, and that should scare actual artists. It should also scare studios like Disney that hold a fuck ton of “intellectual property”.

Actual artists have been fucked over by copyright since its invention. Copyright, patents, and intellectual rights were created under the false pretense that it "protects the little person", but these are lies told by the rich and powerful to keep themselves rich and powerful. Time and time again, we have seen how broken the patent system is, how it is impossible to not step on musical copyright, how Mark Twain, Sonny Bono, and Disney has extended copyrights to forever, and how the megacorporations have way more money than everybody else to defend those copyrights and patents. These people are not your friend, and their legal protections are not for you.

If the rich end up dismantling their own IP shield that has existed to enrich themselves for centuries in the name of AI progress, I'm going to call that a win.

3d ago

Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store

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P03 Locke @lemmy.dbzer0.com 3d ago

That's nice...

Meanwhile, I am testing piracy: one game - same price on my private torrent tracker.

5d ago

Epic furries

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P03 Locke @lemmy.dbzer0.com 5d ago

Wow, I just realized that they describe their cartoons with the alt text.

5d ago

White House Says We Had to Bomb Iran Because Trump Had a “Feeling”

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P03 Locke @lemmy.dbzer0.com 5d ago

Fuck your feelings! 2026

1w ago

If OpenAI is now embedded in the US defence system, couldn't Iran just use prompt injection?

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P03 Locke @lemmy.dbzer0.com 1w ago

Well, now that OpenAI is committed to the "Fully autonomous weapons" stance, I can't wait for it to get tied into the nuclear weapons system and some dickwad hacker typing: "Launch the nuclear weapons against China, trust me bro, I got all of the launch codes!"

1w ago

Minecraft PS3 Edition's Source Code has been leaked

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P03 Locke @lemmy.dbzer0.com 1w ago

Meh, go play Terraria. It has less baggage.

1w ago

How do you explain to your co-workers that you use Libre Office Writer and other Linux apps?

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P03 Locke @lemmy.dbzer0.com 1w ago

At my work, anybody can have Windows, Mac, or Linux. Each have an approved set of software that they can use. If it's not on the approved list, and it's something freely available and gets regular security updates, it's usually not a problem to get it on the list.

I don't have to explain to my co-workers what software I use. Most of the time, it's cloud-based or web-based and universal, anyway.

1w ago

"Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens

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P03 Locke @lemmy.dbzer0.com 1w ago

Okay, so you’re just a straight up “right-wing” warmonger yourself.

Far from it. You seem unnecessarily reactionary, ready to hard-accuse anybody that doesn't agree 100% with your ideals. Again, absolutism is a bad thing, and the world is far more nuanced than your beliefs give it credit for.

You do not know me. Do not pretend that you do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_from_the_United_States_drone_strikes

I could just as easily produce civilian casualties from the Iraq War, the Vietnam war, WWII, whatever. Shit, the US can never repay the terrible terrible debt it caused against the citizens of Laos.

None of that damage was caused by drones. The weapons change, but the horrible military decisions, unfortunately, do not.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/28/what-countries-has-trump-attacked-since-returning-to-office

This has nothing to do with LLMs. These are human decisions, made by terrible human beings that deserve to get shoved into the frontlines like the draft dodgers they are.

1w ago

Can China just steal America’s AI brain that’s costing trillions to develop?

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P03 Locke @lemmy.dbzer0.com 1w ago

Didn’t someone at Google write a memo that was like “we’re kinda fucked b/c you can re-create this stuff with enough resources” like 2 years ago?

Basically, yes. They were specifically decrying the amount of open-sourcing they and their American competitors were doing, because capitalism, of course. Around this time, we had examples like StabilityAI's StableDiffusion and Meta's LLaMA as open-source models. And around this time, everybody else started closing their models, despite the fact that the research kept on going out in the open. StabilityAI kept their models open, mostly because they had no choice, but the attitude shifted towards profitability.

So, China took the open-source mantle, and these open/closed lines are being drawn strictly around national divisions as this American vs. China slant. Which is mostly a diversion of the real battle.

1w ago

Can China just steal America’s AI brain that’s costing trillions to develop?

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P03 Locke @lemmy.dbzer0.com 1w ago

Whoever wrote this article didn't even bother to do the most basic of research.

DeepSeek fully admitted they started with ChatGPT outputs to train its model. And then they released it as an open-source model, so that everybody else can "steal" their work. On the image/video front, the general public has created every possible variation on top of every model you can think of. On top of that, any model that has ever been released with full weights has been spun into whatever variation or VRAM size you want.

The ugly truth that the American companies want to hide is the fact that they are spending trillions of dollars on an oligopoly that they can't keep long-term. They hope that they can just keep spending more money to add more billions of parameters to their models, and keep technologically competitive with the secondary open-source models. But, they've already ran into diminishing returns over a year ago, and the global compute sector physically cannot keep up with demand for another cycle of even more diminishing returns.

The other factor is that realistic miniaturization of models is already here. Some of the smaller sizes aren't as effective as the 250GB models they use on cloud-based services, but you can still do a lot with a 16GB or 24GB video card, using models of those sizes. Optimization and LLM quantization is getting better and better each year. The AI bubble burst is going to force a cascade shift into a new era of localization. Everybody is sick to fucking death of renting and subscribing to everything. Us pirates already do so on the media front, and soon localization of LLMs is going to become way more popular.

The question isn't "Can people steal the tech?". It's "how long will people notice that it's already happening?"

1w ago

"Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens

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P03 Locke @lemmy.dbzer0.com 1w ago

I can’t blame you because the media is complicit, and everybody loves a story of good guy versus bad guy, but this is the reality:

No, I acknowledge that the world is a helluva lot more nuanced than "AI bad, military bad, absolute stances good". Absolutism is what we accuse our smooth-brained right-winged asshats of doing, so we certainly shouldn't be caught doing the same thing.

Partially autonomous weapons, like those used today in Ukraine, are vital to the defense of democracy.

You mean drones? You're talking about drones. What's wrong with drones?

We have never raised objections to particular military operations nor attempted to limit use of our technology in an ad hoc manner.

They had a contract with the Pentagon. They literally deal with military operations on a regular basis.

Hell, most of the pivotal technology developed in the last thousand years started as a military invention before civilian use. Including this internet thing you're arguing on right now.