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  • Google To Pay SpaceX $920 Million Per Month For Massive AI Compute Power

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  • Doesn't even need that, the physics of it just doesn't work. There's basically no way to cool it and no way to power it. Anyone who thinks a space data center is a good idea has failed high school level physics.

  • AI agents lag far behind human workers. Why are tech companies laying off the humans?

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  • Except for the slight problem that those 5 AI agents cost the same as 3 people so you could have skipped the agents, just hired 3 people and gotten 400% output instead of 120%. Yeah it takes longer to scale up and down, but exactly how volatile is your industry that demand is fluctuating that much month to month?

  • Valve antitrust lawsuit reportedly reveals lengths Steam owner is willing to go to prevent cheaper prices elsewhere

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  • The crux of the case is whether Valve is applying that rule to non-Steam keys or not. Lawsuit says they are, Valve says they aren't. If Valve is telling the truth, they've done nothing wrong. If Valve is lying however that is an anticompetitive practice that should be punished. We won't really know until the trial concludes though.

    Personally I think the most likely answer is that some junior support people at Valve misunderstood the policy and told some people the wrong thing. There's a decent chance that when those accusations first surfaced a decade or so ago (yes this has been a thing for that long) Valve probably sent some internal memos to clarify what the rule actually covers and what it doesn't and hopefully that was that.

  • Women in Brussels 'filmed without their knowledge' by men wearing Meta smart glasses

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  • It almost entirely comes down to porn preferences. Women tend to prefer pornographic stories while men tend to prefer pornographic images and videos. There's a reason "romance" novels are one of the absolute largest genres for books and that their demographic skews heavily towards women. I would not at all be surprised to find a certain number of women using LLMs to generate erotic stories possibly featuring acquaintances or celebrities in them. Same impulse, different medium.

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    Gabe Newell on Steam monopoly accusations: Gamers have 'enormous choice' about where to buy games

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  • Primarily their review system which is hands down the best in the industry, as well as the laundry list of shady practices they've banned companies from employing. They're not perfect by any means but they're still head and shoulders above the competition. They're also at least somewhat responsive to the community with them either implementing new policies to protect consumers when major scandals happen and even occasionally being proactive and banning bad practices when companies start talking about implementing them.

    As for GOG they're a bit of a mixed bag recently. They started carrying games with DRM at some point so they're no longer the DRM free zone they once were, although the majority of their catalog is still DRM free. I believe they do warn you when a game has DRM though. On the plus side though they recently committed to improving their support for Linux which many people will be happy to see.

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    Gabe Newell on Steam monopoly accusations: Gamers have 'enormous choice' about where to buy games

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  • Multiple companies have tried to become the de facto games store and every last one of them has failed not because Steam uses its dominant position to crush them, but because not a single one of them has been willing to invest in the features, capabilities, and pro consumer policies that Steam has. Every single one of them thought that doing the bare minimum and then throwing cash at ads and publishers would be the path to victory. It wasn't. Yeah, Steam may be effectively a monopoly, but it's because nobody else really wants to compete with them at their level. The closest anyone has ever come is GOG.

  • California’s Universities Went All In on A.I. The Result Has Been Chaos

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  • It's not a question of how good or bad the LLM is, it's a question of watt hours and bandwidth. It takes a certain amount of electricity to run so your prices and profit margins are directly correlated with the price of electricity.

    LLMs run out of data centers with cheap electricity and cheap bandwidth are going to be the cheapest ones on the market. For electricity this would typically be places with cheap renewables nearby like large hydroelectric plants. Bandwidth is a little trickier as there's not as obvious an indicator of where bandwidth is cheap and plentiful but typically it's going to be near major population centers. Putting those together there's probably only a small handful of locations in the world where it's economically viable to run these data centers.

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

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  • Which is of course impossible, so what this bill is really about is stopping people from owning 3D printers.

  • Trump appointees push $250 banknote with his portrait

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  • So I guess they're prepping for that hyper-inflation now. Can't wait for a cup of coffee to cost $75 and a month's rent to be $20,000. But hey, look on the bright side, I'm sure the stock market will look amazing breaking through all those all time records.

    Speaking of, that would be an interesting exercise. They always talk about how various funds and stocks are up or down some percent over the previous day/week/year or whatever. It would be interesting to see that same data but adjusted for inflation. Like is the dow jones up 2% from last year or is it really down 0.5% due to inflation?

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  • Anyone even slightly surprised by this hasn't been paying attention to Trump and his family for at least a couple decades. It would be far more shocking if this hadn't happened.

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

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  • Just thinking out loud but going after the power seems like a bad approach. Instead you should target the cooling infrastructure. Not sure what you could throw in the air intake to do maximum damage, but I think that's going to be a lot easier to damage than the power would be. Either that or you get clever on the power side. Don't try to do a big spike, instead stress the failovers. Rapidly alternate between low voltage (maybe connecting a massive power shunt across the incoming line) to trip the backup power and normal voltage to get it to switch off of the backup. I'd bet it would handle rapidly swapping back and forth a lot worse than one big spike.

    PSA, it's a really bad idea to mess with the kind of high voltage lines that feed these data centers. That's a really good way to end up dead in a very painful manner.

  • Trump to get 'routine annual' medical exam 7 months after last visit to Walter Reed

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  • I'm 6'1" and 250 lbs and in way better shape than him. It is physically impossible for someone with a body like him to weigh 215 and be 6'3", he's either lying about his height, his weight, or both (it's definitely both). I'd guess he's probably like 5'8" and 300 lbs.

  • Kobo ereaders are integrating with Goodreads alternative StoryGraph

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  • The biggest problem I have with Kobo isn't even really something that's their fault or that they can do anything about. Amazon through their Amazon Unlimited program has locked a bunch of major authors into exclusivity contracts where they're contractually barred from distributing their ebooks on other platforms. That in turn means a bunch of major authors are just completely unavailable anywhere but Amazon, and of course Amazon ebooks exclusively only work on Kindle devices. It's a vicious feedback loop where authors refuse to leave Amazon because it's the market dominator by a large margin and consumers refuse to use anything else because all the authors are only on Amazon.

    If you can make do with non-Amazon sources of ebooks it's great to do so and we really need more people doing exactly that in order to convince authors that the Amazon shackles aren't worth it, but it's definitely a struggle sometimes.

  • Fox News Poll: As economic pain deepens, disapproval of Trump hits new high

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  • If Fox had any balls at all they'd also ask if any of those people would vote for a non-Republican. Being pissed at Trump means fuck all if they are still going to vote for literally whoever the Republicans run next.

  • Tucker Carlson Says Trump Has ‘Diminished American Power’ in ‘Unimaginable’ Ways

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  • Oh, is it that time of the year where Fucker Carlson says something true before going back to slinging Russian propaganda again?

    Dude is one of the biggest traitors to the US and bears significant responsibility for the current state of things (like most of the human trash that's appeared on Fox News). He's likely only saying this now because Russia finds value in stirring the pot over here.

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    Barnes & Noble CEO backs selling AI-written books in stores

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  • Every day we get a little closer to Idiocracy being real.

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    New Nightmare Just Dropped: '3D' Animated Ads on Trucks in Traffic

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  • Nah, it's just velcro backwards. Or if you're british hook and loop fasteners but Srenetsafpooldnakooh doesn't quite roll off the tongue as well.

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    Americans overwhelmingly believe the cost of living, from groceries to housing, was lower under Biden

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  • Because if 40% of people believed the Earth was flat you'd probably want to know that. It shows what a disturbingly large chunk of the US is just straight delusional and to a certain extent how we got into this situation in the first place. Decades after decades of propaganda and the constant stream of bullshit from places like Fox News and then Facebook has reduced a significant chunk of the US population into idiots that are literally incapable of just observing reality and coming to a reasonable conclusion.

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    Americans overwhelmingly believe the cost of living, from groceries to housing, was lower under Biden

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  • Something can be a fact and a belief at the same time. E.G. some people believe the moon landing was faked or that the Earth is flat. It's a fact that the cost of living was lower under Biden yet some people believe that it's lower under Trump. Those people are just as crazy as the flat Earthers, and yet they still exist. The real concerning thing is how many of them there are though. The fact that it's not something like 1% or fewer that believes Trump is better is really concerning but sadly not surprising. Your average Trump supporter is really dumb and ignorant.