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DupaCycki

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  • Microsoft doesn't know what to do about the memory pricing crisis Microsoft is causing

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  • The problem is artificial, because 95% of all this 'AI' is useless, pointless, and a massive waste of resources. Nobody asked for it, and practically nobody is using it.

    Even in cases where a chatbot is helpful, a small, local model is more than enough. Not a single soul needs a 50T parameter model for anything. Nobody on the planet uses AI image enhancement or item removal.

    Almost all of this shit is purely made to inflate the bubble, and serves no other purpose. All the while ruining many other industries, people's hobbies, ease of finding factual information online, etc.

    The problem is artificial, because it was created pretty much deliberately, for no particular reason other than profit.

  • Microsoft doesn't know what to do about the memory pricing crisis Microsoft is causing

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  • Episode 7893 of corporations artificially creating problems to make profit by selling the solution. Just to then fail at solving the problem of their own creation.

    Brilliant economic system. You can marvel at its ingenuity and just get lost in it.

  • Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers

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  • Everybody with some sense knows AI's can excrete total hogwash and it's answers need to be fact checked down to the most minute detail. Some people take what they get from AI's as gospel anyway, but that is a them problem.

    The vast majority of people have less than zero idea of what an AI chatbot is. They're purposefully marketed to ensure it makes as little sense as possible to anyone who doesn't do a good bit of research.

    People hear or read 'artificial intelligence', and picture the batcomputer or C3-P0, which were, for the most part, always 100% correct.

    But Google a: calls these summaries, and b: presents them as the top search result.

    Also c: gives it a colorful, more pleasant looking window to manipulate users into subconsciously prioritizing it over 'plain, ugly' results below.

  • SpaceX has to grow 60x in a decade to justify a $1.75 trillion valuation. It's an impossible bar | Fortune

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  • Tl;dr - Not a single person would be investing in SpaceX. Americans' retirement funds would be invested into it, without their knowledge or consent, regardless of how obvious the outcome is.

  • SpaceX has to grow 60x in a decade to justify a $1.75 trillion valuation. It's an impossible bar | Fortune

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  • Here's the twist. SpaceX doesn't have to do anything at all. It can go bankrupt tomorrow and its valuation will only go up.

    The stock market never made any sense whatsoever, and this is just peak stock market behaviour.

  • Transgender ballot initiative could require genital exams for WA secondary school students

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  • Some cis males also produce little testosterone. Look at Clavicular.

  • Absolute insanity

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  • Normalize not buying useless $2000 USD pieces of junk that starved children in Congo had to dig with bare hands, just to marry your soul mate.

  • California Passes Backdoor Bill to Control the 3D Printing Hobby and Spy on Small Designers, Prototypers, and Hobbyists

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  • Same California that is supposedly against the federal government's assaults on people's rights and freedoms...?

    Same California governor that wants to run for president to end fascism in the country...?

  • All Hail Gamblor [PizzaCake]

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  • In case you still thought the sports industry isn't evil...

    Practically all sports stars are perfectly happy to advertise and work with scummy companies (like aforementioned gambling companies), and countries like Israel or UAE. As long as they're paid nice money.

    Same for sports events. They'll all happily take money to advertise billionaire pedophiles' companies or terror states.

    It's almost impossible to spend any money on sports-related events or merchandise without supporting gambling or contributing towards genocide. Maybe some local ones? Maybe...?

  • Microsoft builds its ultimate MacBook Pro rival with the NVIDIA powered Surface Laptop Ultra

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  • I mean, of course. If it was extremely powerful at a low price, then hell yeah. But personally I ain't paying double premium for that performance.

    Fex is making decent progress every week, so I wouldn't worry about it too much.

  • Heaven [Sarah’s Scribbles]

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  • As a person living with cats my entire life... Yeah, absolutely deserved.

  • Microsoft builds its ultimate MacBook Pro rival with the NVIDIA powered Surface Laptop Ultra

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  • Too big, too heavy, too powerful. Honestly I'd prefer a Snapdragon 870 tablet if I could install Linux on it.

    Technically Xiaomi Pad 6 meets these criteria, but unlocking the bootloader is a gargantuan pain in the ass. Hopefully I'll manage by the end of this year...

  • Microsoft builds its ultimate MacBook Pro rival with the NVIDIA powered Surface Laptop Ultra

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  • Very cool devices, but the Intel-based ones are kind of pointless. They overheat during tasks like watching YouTube or Netflix. Surface Pro X was very nice, with its only downside being Windows. Not sure about the new X Elite ones.

  • Microsoft builds its ultimate MacBook Pro rival with the NVIDIA powered Surface Laptop Ultra

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  • Dekstops - no. Phones - not anymore. But Microsoft does in fact 'build' laptops and tablets, with this new Surface Ultra being one of them.

    Admittedly, 'build' may not be the right word, since Microsoft's input is very limited. The same is true for a lot of OEMs though.

    At the very least, Microsoft did help Qualcomm with designing SQ1 and SQ2 for the Surface Pro X gen 1 and gen 2.

    Personally it's my favourite device ever made by Microsoft, and among my favourites in general. If only we could install Linux on it. Even the newer SQ2 is on the slower side, and just barely manages a mostly smooth experience on Windows 11.

  • Microsoft builds its ultimate MacBook Pro rival with the NVIDIA powered Surface Laptop Ultra

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  • I'm sure there are people interested in this laptop, and it's good to see there indeed are. Although, they're making it sound like it revolutionizes mobile computing. Perhaps the issue here is with marketing, and not with the device itself?

  • Microsoft builds its ultimate MacBook Pro rival with the NVIDIA powered Surface Laptop Ultra

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  • The weight might be a problem here. MacBook Pros weigh about 1.5kg, while the new Surface Ultra is going to weigh just a little over 2kg, which is almost as much as gaming laptops. Would anyone want to carry this around?

  • Microsoft builds its ultimate MacBook Pro rival with the NVIDIA powered Surface Laptop Ultra

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  • Personally I think this is a massive flop. Are there really people who want a [likely] more expensive and heavier MacBook Pro that runs Windows?

    What I think most people need and want is just a small laptop with a moderately powered Snapdragon, just enough to browse the web, watch videos, and run lighter games.

    Who is this for?

  • Lini Wants to Be the Portable Workstation Developers Actually Carry

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  • Well... Ideally we'd all switch over to RISC-V, but that's not happening any time soon. At least ARM is very popular and growing even more popular every day. Plus, it's very similar to RISC-V, so maybe we can get cross-compatible software without too much work in the near future?

  • Lini Wants to Be the Portable Workstation Developers Actually Carry

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  • The sooner we ditch this dumpster fire of an architecture, the better.

  • The Democrats Are Determined Not to Learn From Their Failure

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  • What failure? They've done their job perfectly as controlled opposition. The real failure is people expecting anything else from them.