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Umm… I am an American, and never said anything about hating the place. I dislike the American attitude I encounter daily that everything happening here has more importance and everywhere else is irrelevant.

FWIW, Apple has 28% of the global market share compared to Google at 70%. By the numbers, one is far closer to being a monopoly than the other.

40%+ of the world

That’s dillusional American-centric thinking. Apple only has a 28% market share globally while Android still dominates over 70%.

It’s actually a “test things first and have a proper change control process” thing. Doesn’t matter if it’s open source, closed source scummy bullshit or even coded by God: you always test it first before hitting deploy.

VLC can play analog tape?

Yeah, I totally get that, but how are there FOSS applications on iOS that aren’t side loaded? At best you can get paid ports/skins of open source software through the app store, but Apple changes developers a small fortune to put apps in the store, which generally equates to no free apps that don’t rely on ads or in-app purchases.

Please excuse my non-iOS using ignorance, but isn’t FOSS antithetical to Apple’s closed ecosystem and extreme limitations on side-loading?

Keywords there are ‘old Android’. I haven’t had a phone do that classic android slowdown in years.

Wow what a false equivalency strawman argument.

If he’s just making videos for entertainment, then stop putting up false benchmarks and bad data. People are using his videos to make expensive buying decisions, and I don’t see any disclaimers on said videos saying “this is just for entertainment purposes”.

It’s a business completely built on reputation for impartiality and thruthfullness. The second they take money to tilt their findings and it’s discovered, their whole business it dead.

Having worked at a company that had to hire a similar firm, I can tell you they had a huge contract up front that stipulates that they will find everything, they will be impartial, and if you, as their customer try and obfuscate or hinder their findings, they’ll terminate the contract, and report any actions they’re legally required to report.

Yeah, same for me. Linus’ response was so stereotypicaly defensive, dismissive and shitty, I lost all trust. Couple that with GN’s fact checking of LMGs sloppyness, and I was done ever watching their channel.

These firms build their business on a reputation for thorough, truthful investigation, and they put a contract in place that says that when they’re engaged by a company. It would destroy their own business if they took money to tilt their findings.

Same for me. Watched our whole house at the time slide off the foundation.

I hydroplaned for over a half mile on a straight section of highway doing 100kph. Thought I was going to die, but somehow the car got traction again just before I went off the road. I had 4 friends in the car who all slept through the whole thing.

Vote for the mediocre guy who won’t stop funding a genocide abroad, or don’t vote and watch your rights get stripped, the EPA get demolished, and the funding for Israel increased.

This is no longer an election about voting for the candidate that makes you feel good about your choice, it’s a vote for our own collective survival.

And what is the energy and resource usage per hour for a therapy session compared to a real therapist, including all the development and training time?

Report it to HR and ignore both of them, or if you really feel a need to make an effort to communicate with either of them, respond from your professional email and say, “I would prefer if we keep our interactions professional” and leave it at that.

If that’s not enough of a hint for them, you definitely need to escalate with HR.

Emad has a history of lying his ass off and grifting. I wouldn’t trust a word out of his mouth. He basically stole the StabilityAI company from the original creator by convincing him it had little value, meanwhile he was courting investors to buy StabilityAI by exaggerating the capabilities that didn’t exist.

He also used company funds to pay for his luxury apartment in London, and then tried to claim it was a accident and he would pay it back after he was caught.

He directed StabilityAI employees to take over control of the Stable Diffusion sub reddit and kicked the creator and main mod, who was a Dutch teenager.

There are too many alleged and confirmed incidents of his dishonest behavior to list them all here, but the most telling for me was when SD1.5 way released without StabilityAI’s knowledge by RunwayML, who actually developed Stable Diffusion and thought they were working in an open partnership with Stability.

There’s so much more drama surrounding Emad than what’s in this Wikipedia article, but it hits some of the major issues. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emad_Mostaque

(Source: the Stable Diffusion discord server from August 2021 to now, most of which has since been scrubbed)