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Avid Amoeba

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  • Not quite, they're more like pro-business Democrats. Promise nice things, deliver for big business and weaken labour instead, give you more pride flag zebra crossings as consolation.

  • US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows

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  • Soon as people's push against Big Tech threatens profits.

  • 99% of CEOs Expect AI-Driven Layoffs in the Next Two Years

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  • I ask again to consider that AI does not have to replace human labour to lead to layoffs. All it has to do is help existing labour to produce more in the same amount of time. In an economy that doesn't suddenly want to buy more product than it previously did, that means letting go of the people whose labour is no longer needed to produce the same amount product it previously had. Whether or not corpos are using AI as cover for layoffs, if today's AI increases productivity, it very likely will lead to layoffs. And there are signs that it does indeed increase productivity in some tasks in certain sectors.

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  • Doesn't have to bother you. People experience material changes first and foremost, which means they have to be affected by them. We're in this context, have much more information about the pace and impact since it's hapoening to us as we speak, in a high information environment where we hear our bosses talk in no uncertain terms about it. I don't know if its effect would be worse than deindustrialization. I don't personally put the previous events as less important, but I won't blame impacted people who do.

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  • The system we have pretty much guarantees it won't be done right and you know it. I can safely assume that. Then I don't have to be too bothered by the distinction. If there's two options in theory but only one in practice, then why bother uhm-akshually it myself? No point - "fuck AI" is good enough. Don't mean I won't (have to) use it and navigate the landscape. I just bought a couple of R9700s for local inference for family and friends, to fuck AI.

    AI can bring enormous societal benefit in non-capitalist systems. The AI we have today. That won't be us though. We're in for pain.

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  • The difference between this and computers or any innovation and what its prior is the pace of change which determines the social cost. Few would object to innovation if the innovation replaced them as they retired from the workforce instead of forcing them to bear the social cost mid-life. A family, a community, a region that goes through serious deskilling event is't a happy place. All sorts of real measurements of misery and illness go up. So this process isn't popular and frankly it shouldn't be acceptable. The situation we find ourselves in North America, prior to the AI shift, is to a large extent the result of a string of such events. A situation where nearly half the population wants to see the other punished. AI is promising to do a massive shift and quicker than many previous events, including at the uppet end of the payscale.

    So yeah, it's not the technology, the innivation. It's how our capitalist systen rolls it out. At what social cost, borne by whom, and whom reaping the upside. AI promises a fast, painful change at a time when everyone is already struggling, without welfare to soften the blow, while concetrating the benefits in fewer hands. Benefits that also translate to power, economic and political. So people rightfully reject this proposition. The tech is getting tarred with it.

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    Memory prices tipped to fall as China starts flooding the market with DRAM and NAND chips

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  • People trained in Marxian economics tend to understand capitalism better than stidents of mainstream capitalist economics. China's using capitalism for what it's good for - expanding the producive force of the economy, figuring out how to make new products efficiently, and making wide variety of consumer goods. The state still retains control over the capitalist sectors throurh various means. It also owns strategic sectors like banks, etc. The state is controlled via the CCP with membership of over 10% of the pop and growing. It's an open question whether they're gonna lose control over the capitalist sector or not but so far it's subordinate to the state. In capitalist economies the state (and democracy} tend to be subordinate to capital.

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  • I think you're getting downvotes because you don't quite see how the increased productivity is the mirror image of layoffs. AI doesn't have to replace people to decimate a lot of people's lives. All it has to do is make some people more productive. Firms will layoff the remainder over the headcount needed to deliver with AI. That's the promise AI companies are selling and the layoffs are already happening in junior roles that. There's absolutely no guarantee that new demand for more software product would appear in the economy which would create jobs for those people. You think there would be but that's a bet and plenty such bets have ended up with permanently deskilled and downwardly mobile parts of the population in the past.

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  • This is what happens when mfkers don't read any Marx.

    American capitalism would be doing way better at profit maximizing if people in positions of power across the private sector had studied Marxian economics. Giving away your means of production as a software business would be an obvious no-no.

  • Llama.cpp MTP Support merged - up to 2.5x speed increase

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  • This does 18tps on 2x R9700:

     
        
[Qwen3.6-27B-Q8_0-Code-256K]
m = /models/Qwen3.6-27B/Qwen3.6-27B-Q8_0.gguf
mmproj = /models/Qwen3.6-27B/mmproj-BF16.gguf
chat-template-kwargs = {"preserve_thinking": true}
ctx-size = 262144
temp = 0.6
top-p = 0.95
top-k = 20
min-p = 0.0
presence-penalty = 0.0
repeat-penalty = 1.0

    This does 39tps on the same hardware:

     
        
[Qwen3.6-27B-MTP-Q8_0-Code-256K]
m = /models/Qwen3.6-27B-MTP/Qwen3.6-27B-Q8_0.gguf
mmproj = /models/Qwen3.6-27B-MTP/mmproj-BF16.gguf
spec-type = draft-mtp
spec-draft-n-max = 2
chat-template-kwargs = {"preserve_thinking": true}
ctx-size = 262144
temp = 0.6
top-p = 0.95
top-k = 20
min-p = 0.0
presence-penalty = 0.0
repeat-penalty = 1.0

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    Mistral AI's CEO says Europe has 2 years to stop becoming America's AI 'vassal state'

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  • And he thinks the US will control the energy, chips and computing infrastructure in the future? Sure Europe isn't in a great position at all, but the US'es future leadership isn't all that obvious.

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    People Would Rather Have Nuclear Power Plants In Their Area Than AI Data Centers

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  • It's not mindless rejection. It´s just the argument taken one step further - the system we live in will put the fruits of AI into corporate and therefore capital's (the bad actors) hands, along with the power and control that come with it. We won't reap much of the benefits and we'll suffer the costs. Without a fundamental change to the system we take that as the almost certain outcome. Hence the rejection. I think the rejection would change with a material change in the system.

  • Bitwarden New CEO has extensive M&A, Private equity experience, Removes Transparency from its Motto

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  • Run.

    ProtonPass is run by a non-profit if you have to move to another hosted solution.

    Otherwise there's multiple self-hostable options, including plain file sync options.

    Use this example as learning experience that the type of the firm you're buying a service from is very important as it changes whose interests it puts first, second and last.

  • Meta workers revolt against mouse tracking technology — flyers ask if they want to work at 'the Employee Data ​Extraction Factory'

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  • If they aren't signing union cards, they aren't revolting.

  • Ford Energy plans to deploy at least 20 GWh annually, with first customer deliveries planned for late 2027

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  • This plant was supposed to make EV batteries. Then Trump got re-elected.

  • GrapheneOS says Google is making life harder for rival operating systems and devices

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  • This is just looking at the material reality of the problem. I can't effectively threaten someone who I'm heavily dependent on without present alt. Kinda how Trump got slapped when he tried economic coercion on China. If the EU has a domestic alternative to Big Tech's cloud services that's in wide use and easy to scale up, the they can legitimately threaten Big Tech. That said even then that would not be enough given the newly developed dependence on US - LNG. Threaten Big Tech and the US threatens cutting off the gas supply. A gas supply shortage topples governments.

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  • The technically lirerate people aren't exempt from the power dynamics created by the vast market share of Chrome and Google, created and reinforced by Google. Even if they/we have some more freedom to maneuver. We still only test our web app features on Chromium because there's limited time for testing, if any, and we can't convince product that making sure the feature works, or fixing bugs on a 2-3% browser is priority. If all the developers in the world used Firefox, it would still not change this power dynamic.

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  • This is of course thanks to all the people shitting on Firefox over the years and saying that Chrome is just better and that there's nothing wrong with giving Google control over the web. So yeah, thanks.

    No it's not thanks to those people. Blaming individuals for not stopping what a much bigger, infinitely more resourced, organized actor has been/is doing to maximize profit is shifting the material responsibiltiy from the actor with real power to the actors without. It's like the personal carbon footprint oil&gas came up with to shift responsibility for climate pollution from themselves to individuals. Or plastic and recycling. It feels good to lay blame on those people who did something we did not but it doesn't help change anything material beyond that. Divides us into camps which prevents us from organizing against the profit-driven culprits.

  • Rolling my First Self-Made Router

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  • Probably. If you use the WiFi on it, make sure to check if its WiFi is supported.