It really was isreals 9/11.

Which is doubly weird in my opinion considering his wife isn't. It's a very confusing omission since obviously that's like a front and center obvious missing, but if it's a MAGA hit piece they shouldn't have included Melania.

The point is, they are using the functional specialized machine learning systems, as a way to justify building thousand of data centers to build LLMs.

Come to think of it maybe we are fighting flock the wrong way.

What if instead of pushing to remove them, we push to make them open access to all, IE we push to allow anyone to do lookups for a small cost (because that's the way to get flock to walk into the trap). Hail it as a tool for police accountability, and let the police unions shut it down for us.

I think slashdots also most useful for if I recall, basically no ability to vote.

IE If I remember right, as a lurker you get no votes. You basically have to participate, and if you get votes on a post, you then get a handful of votes you can use on others. I do wonder how a system like that would work on other sites. If a modernized form of it could work on a reddit like site etc... Would on the surface appear to be a way to counteract bots, but also run the risk of say one bot getting votes and automating a circle jerk with it's clones.

from what I've seen yes, at least in spectrum's case they basically give you ad subsudised for free, and for something like 8.99 you can upgrade that to ad free. I think most give that option.

I mean both in reddit and lemmy the concept of downvotes was never meant to be a "agree" or "disagree", even "like or dislike". It's meant to be a "good for discussion" vs "hinderance of discussion". AKA lets say we're discussing linux distributions, I come across this.

Person A: I like linux mint, it's much easier to install, I like the defaults and my printer just works with no setup.

Person B: "Linux mint is for noobs, arch ftw"

Within that, as I am personally a die hard fan of archlinux, so in the agree vs disagree system, I should downvote A and upvote B.

But in a discussion based voting, I'd perhaps respond to A with my pro's or cons of arch (though in this situation probably agree if the user in question sounds to be a newer user, though I may still make a case for possibly the pro's of using arch even as a starting distro.

Meanwhile person B, is hostile, gives zero details for WHY anyone should use arch, does absolutely nothing to open discussion or actually help anyone make an informed decision.

They absolutely do suck, but I can see some practical uses for them. IE I can see LLM's as useful in localized specialized uses. for me I'd really like basically LLM as a like calendar, scheduling kind of thing, also say translating home assistant commands through a voice assistant to make it figure out actual intent etc..., nothing super mission critical, but also mostly things I wouldn't want any 3rd party service that could change the rules for me, share them to others etc...

I mean I think they figure those things out off sight and initial body language etc... generally they do the sniffing asses after they're already pretty confident it's a dog. I think more of "how's your mood right now, are you healthy, what are you up to". I don't now fully what information they get, but it's stuff we don't really think about.

I find this unlikely... IMO I think they are hedging in both directions.

Personally I like the idea of local AI. open source models that you an control, decide, and use smartly, sort your things etc... and not pay an absurd cost or link up.

Personally I think MS is actually betting on the opposite. IE they had a prototype windows that was basically just an AI prompt, no start menu etc... and applications just "streamed".

IMO I think that's more of the goal, use the data center buildout to drive up hardware prices, until people cannot afford a basic PC. Sell thin clients... then sell us "access" to compute in a form where we own nothing, but pay by the processes used etc...

It’s a tragedy that pop country music has become Republican radio.

Now it’s all jean-shorts, parting, and trucks. Bring back the alcoholism, divorce, and murder please.

I think bo burnum's "pandering" song is dead on the money. In short I think that's really it, Country music has a strong tie to a very uneducated population. As a result a very rich corporate machine realized they can mass produce it using the right key words to basically sell low effort music. The tiny handful that actually make it into the top by actually being talented and writing because of passion. Will inevitably trigger controversy by seeing humans as humans. Same thing happened with the Dixie Chicks a few years ago.

On the whole, while at the start of Covid 19 alchohol sales went up, it overall decreased (most likely due to the lack of social drinking, and bars), Plus marketing etc... "Hey we did our part to help out in this time of need, become a loyal customer". Would take a lot more analysis to see if it actually made less money, or if they were making less money so it made sense to use their unneeded capacity to sell a normally less profitable item and possibly earn some long term good PR.