I know this is the hot thing right now all over the internet, but I think it was mostly taken out of context. That podcast that Sam Altman did, he was talking about people running local models on their computers. It wasn't him saying nobody should have RAM or whatever hyperbole it's ballooned into. With that said, as someone that runs local models, I disagree with him regardless.

Out of curiosity, what software? It won't run with Wine? Maybe there's a decent enough alternative?

You don't even need to "pirate" Windows anymore. You can download an ISO from Microsoft's website, install it, and when it asks for your license key, you click "I don't have one", and that's the end of it. If you look in the activation settings, it'll say "not activated", but nothing will ever become of it. This even works if you install it as Pro. It's not like the Windows XP/7 days where you'd get a 60 day scare timer. They just don't seem to care anymore, or maybe all that telemetry they siphon up from you is just that much more valuable.

"WEB page"

Is that a jab about all the forest fires CA keeps experiencing? If so, well done. I chuckled.

The new thing seems to be "clades". I'm not sure if it's a complete replacement of the traditional taxonomy, though.

What's causing that round-trip time to be so high?