That's the fun thing about Bitcoin.... it can be a both a pump and dump scam AND a highly profitable investment.

It just depends on when you bought it and when you sold it.

I don't think that Slashdot has an AI editorial slant one way or another. They just want to keep posting clickbait articles in either direction to get that sweet engagement revenue. I mean, there still has to be a few people still not using ad blockers, right?

Yeah... I think that the headline there is "Guy selling picks and shovels to the AI goldrush wants the goldrush to continue"

I'm sooo looking forward to the AI crash, so I can start buying graphics cards for around their original MSRP again.

Yeah, I have no idea who would be crazy enough to push for 50% (or ANY %) tax on Bitcoin sales. The people who founded Bitcoin are Silly Valley tech bros who are mostly Democrats, and the largest holders now are institutional investors who are mostly Republicans. So, you'll have bi-partisan support to kill any such legislation, and to launch a primary attack against anyone dumb enough to propose it.

You mean that every major company WAS working on blockchain projects back when blockchain was the cool buzzword from 2018 to 2021.

Most of those projects failed, and now the cool buzzword is "AI Integration" so all of the major companies are working on that instead.

Or, maybe they're hoping that the US will become less interested in Greenland once we see how much smaller it looks on the new map projection.

Bah... who am I kidding. The only changes we're going to be making to our maps for the next two years will be adding "America" to the names of places.

They used to do their own white label distribution of RHEL called Scientific Linux with lots of cool add on packages. I'm not sure why they stopped doing so?

Why not show both names in the US as well? Is Apple REALLY that afraid of the Trump administration?

Musk gets bonus points if he uses a Starship prototype to launch the rescue mission. Sure, it's totally oversized for a project like this, but Musk loves a good show for the fanboys and the SpaceX shareholders.

You're acting like this is the first ever RAM shortage. It's not. These things are cyclical, and things will get back to normal eventually. The AI tech bubble will eventually burst (but AI will stick around), everybody and their grandmother will stop trying to build data centers in everyone's back yards, and RAM and storage supply will return to normal.

Oh, and Nvidia will pretend to give a shit about gamers again for a few months until the next tech fad that requires GPU acceleration pops up.

If anything, we're eventually going to end up with a glut of specialized AI accelerator cards that someone will find a way to repurpose when they become obsolete and everyone is trying to unload them on eBay for $50 each. We've already seen that happen with crypto mining hardware.

At this point, I'm thinking that AI is really just work outsourcing in another form.

Really, that's what the last 25 years of IT has been about... outsourcing the boring repetitive coding and tech support overseas, outsourcing in-house data centers to cloud computing data centers, replacing locally installed software with SAAS solutions that run in a browser, and getting AI agents to (once again) outsource the boring repetitive coding and tech support to someone else.

A lot of Google Search results automatically go to their AI chatbot. Seems like an easy way to inflate your user numbers.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fxkcd.com%2F927%2F

I mean, we shouldn't shame the guy for making his own custom Linux distribution. But did we really didn't need yet another one? Why can't these things just be an add-on package to an existing distribution, instead of fragmenting the Linux ecosystem even more?

It seems like the only the dramatic Flock camera destructions where they're being cut down or dragged away by a truck are really getting reported. The ones where they are being silently destroyed by pointing a high power green laser at the camera sensor are not.

I can imagine that Flock doesn't want people to know about how easily they can be disabled, so they aren't really reporting that on the news.

People also seem to forget that Tesla also did this awhile back with a Tron movie promotion, but people didn't complain about that for some reason. Not to mention that they added the Grok AI assistant to all of their cars as well. I'm shocked that the AI haters didn't make a big deal about that one.