The problem is local compute is absurdly front loaded cost wise. The big Nvidia cards that can run the larger models (And no a 5080 isn't even close) the costs can run in the tens of thousands for just one. If your needs are modest a Mac Studio MIGHT cover inference (256gb unified memory goes a long way, and most of the key libraries now support metal) but for serious work you gotta go Nvidia, and that aint cheap.

It's no good preaching to the choir. In the real world people do take them serious cause they paid money for one a them therapy sessions. And the liar bot took the money and pretended to be a doctor. That's fraud, on top of everything else that's wrong with this.

If you want government to make you a safe internet you are going to be disappointed.

KK, meet China. Soon to be available in a country near you. Where there's a will there's a way. (and other phrases)

Its this thing that I assume is screwing up the universities. Universities usually have giant pools of people working in various capacities, from admin full timers, to academics, t ground staff, professors, and more often then not a huge number of postgrads not exactly on the payroll but still working on research projects whilst living off scholarships and grants. Even a small university could have upwards of 5000 employees, contractors and postgrads.

I *dont* understand why universities would tolerate this sort of corporate bullying from Oracle, when alternative JVMs and DBMS are *right there*. Though I strongly suspect Oracle Financials are the sticking point.

That stuff's not even the most pressing problem with YouTube's content censorship. The larger issue is that content that directly crosses the CCP's party line, keeps getting flagged in all kinds of objectively counterfactual ways. Nobody with more than a couple hundred subscribers can talk about the history or culture of Tibet, for example, without running afoul of this.

If it's doing auto-transcription it's probably training an AI with your information, This could be a major security problem.

Instant apps created a lot of complexity and awkwardness in the Android platform. It has consistently been painful to deal with and work around, and been especially challenging for the security team, for a feature with very little user or developer interest. Killing it is definitely the right call.

I'm not paying any company that forces ads on me jack shit. I really don't understand why anyone would pay for that - the only reason to pay for Prime right now is the fast delivery, not the TV service. If you're paying for TV from Amazon, and not the delivery thing, you're being ripped off. You are literally subsidizing advertising. Not just directly, but also by helping fund content that's been blessed by our corporate overlords and preventing content from being made that isn't.

FWLIW, the only streaming services that I have with ads right now are those that are either free or bundled with something I buy anyway. The only ones I actively pay for are three that are part of a $30/month bundle ($10/service doesn't seem bad to me.)

Don't pay for ads. Please. For the love of everything holy. The country's fucked up enough as it is. Paying for ads isn't doing anything other than cementing the power of the people who fucked it up.

It's annoying, but good, because "there's a sucker born every minute" means there are always new victims who haven't been warned.

Unfortunately Mel Brooks is 98. He's not gonna be around for long. Statistically it'll be a minor miracle if he makes it 3 more years. If he lives long enough to finish this, it'll almost certainly be his swansong.

Yeah this sounds fun.

Honestly, I thought old Mel had passed away. So, it's a bit of a delight to hear that at 98 he's still going strong and directing films. Though, we'd definitely hope this one doesn't get stuck in development hell. Even optimistically, he wouldn't have much time left.

I'm as much a fan of the original as plenty of people here, but I suspect it won't be the same this time around. The kind of slapstic and risque humour that Spaceballs depends on doesn't work any more with modern audiences. On top of that, Mel Brooks' immense talent specializes in Jewish themed comedy, and the political climate will not do him no favours. History of the World Part I was great, though.

No, there actually is a genuine concern here, and it might be unsolvable, one of those "contradictions in capitalism" the marxists used to complain about.

Heres the problem,

On one hand, the basic physics of resource consumption is that theres a hard limit on how much stuff we can dig up/grow/etc and its pretty clear we are pretty close to that limit. At least if we want to have a planet we can actually live comfortably on.

On the other, populations around the world are ageing and once people hit a certain age they need to stop working because of health, capacity and frankly dignity. Nobody wants to be a 90yo working in a factory. And frankly its almost certain by that point the body just isnt capable of that at all. So as people retire OTHER people need to produce items for them to consume so they dont starve and die (and get medicine etc). I read somewhere you need 3-4 working people per retired person to have a situation where everyone can get food and shit. And that means if were not replacing people at a high enough rate with children, the economy will collapse (For an accessible example of this watch this video about south korea https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F... ).

I dont know if this is fixeable outside of massive automation. And unlike the earlier mentioned marxists, I dont think a change in economic system would actually fix this (Though it might solve other problems). We're kinda fucked unless we can throw a LOT of robots at the situation. All of us (Japan is not alone in this problem. Far from it)

Out of curiousity I grabbed one of those steamdecks. And heres the thing, its played every game I've thrown at it flawlessly. Oh some things aren't quite as pretty as they are on my desktop gaming PC, but thats because the desktop has a 3060. But the point is, it runs. The only real hickup is sometimes the controls dont translate well to the handheld controller format (though weirdly, dwarf fortress is ...... intuitive?..... on it)

The old TiVos had this 15 years ago. Those things where great, well at least until they where abandoned (at least in australia, I heard somewhere they still exist in the US?) and we discovered for the first time why the cloud sucks.