I knew a couple of people who studied in continental Europe under the Erasmus scheme before Brexit, and the far right were always claiming during the referendum campaign that the EU would never chuck the UK out of anything because we’re so awesome and they need us and our money so much. Turns out there’s a limit to how much a club misses its most loudly critical influential member.

So amongst Europhile Brits, Erasmus means young people’s opportunities to study abroad first, and name from history that it honours second. I might not have heard of Erasmus if it weren’t for the Erasmus scheme, and I had to check just now whether he was a historical figure or someone from Greek mythology. Awesome surname for a person in real life to have, though.

First I’ve heard of it. Glad it was from this article. Although that list of values on the home page would have put me off before the end.

Except that the point of the article is that it’s not just a distro, it’s funding channel for funneling money away from general open source and only to open source projects run by like minded far right nutjobs.

TL;DR: Omarchy is just a modified arch distro run by a fascism-loving millionaire and used to fundraise from people who don’t know better and funnel it away from general open source projects and towards open source projects of like-minded fascist sympathisers he knows or has come across.

When the lion is explaining what’s best for the giraffes, do the opposite.

Yep. Me too.

Fuck that.

That’s a clickbaity title.

I turned off “ok google” detection in my phone. Still it triggers incorrectly from the car radio sounding similar to “ok google”. In theory turning off the detection should mean that the assistant only starts when I tap the microphone icon, but that’s not my experience.

I can confirm, google is always listening, and it’s not even very good at pretending not to.

This one right here, officer.

What a way to live. I salute you.

How else are they going to begin to recap their billions and billions of debt? Someone has to pay for all those data centres, all that hardware, all that power, etc etc etc. It will be the companies that have come to rely on AI.

Sure, for now, AI is a lot cheaper than an intern, but it doesn’t become an expert like a human does. And Amazon used to be cheaper than other retailers right up until they had achieved vast market share.

This cannot be the last 10x price multiplier they pull. Not even close. Firstly they’re way, way, way off from recouping their costs, and secondly, they’re still way, way off market value for an incompetent human intern who isn’t learning much.

Uber didn’t enter the market to open up taxis to new drivers and bring down prices, that was marketing. They entered the market to take a cut out of ever taxi fare in the world, and drive up prices at peak times to many times the agreed fares, especially in regulated areas.

Similarly, AI didn’t enter the coding market to drive down prices and enable greater access for folk to generate code. They entered the coding market to receive the wages of programmers and drive up prices in in-demand fields. They are not unaware of how much companies pay devs. Why else would they have spent all those billions in advance? Where is the payback coming from?

Your brain.

I assume those costs are closer to the real cost to provide the service, ouch!

Not even close. Most AI companies are making something like 95% loss according to an article here a bit ago. So if you’re an AI provider, you need to multiply prices by 25 before you even begin to eat into your insane levels of debt.

I was going to guess that it was one of Trump’s idiot corrupt collaborators or AI, and here it is, Elon Musk’s idiot collaborators.

You’re right, of course, but I really enjoyed “fubuciary”. It’s a deliblicious misplomuncitation.

Yeah, the idea of Amazon running my home security did NOT appeal to me. I went with another brand.

hmmm

Why would musk stop his pet ai doing what he wants it to do? He’s never done that in the past.

I’m not Chinese, but in Mandarin, he and she are both pronounced “ta” (first tone, flat intonation), even though they’re written differently.