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This shows the US is falling behind China, so you gotta give OpenAI more money!

Fear of a "bullshit gap", I guess.

Oh, and: simply perfect choice of header image on that article.

As a fan of physical media, I recently bought another drive as a spare, currently is IMO a good time for that. They still make really good drives in large enough quantities so they're cheap, but that could end any time. Once production stops, they will vanish silently. Learned that lesson back then when floppy drives were suddendly gone... kinda wish I had stocked up a few new ones (for retro computing purposes) when they were still available.

Sooner or later the only remaining source of reliable digital information will be 1990s multimedia CD-ROM encyclopedias.

various topics (e.g., AI news, crypto, fitness, personal finance)

That sure is a specifc selection of topics.

Thank you!

Same. They've been a staple in my RSS feed list for so long (and they are one of the few sites where the RSS feed isn't just the headlines). But recently I've been thinking several times already about throwing them out.

"Shortly after 2027" is a fun phrasing. Means "not before 2028", but mentioning "2027" so it doesn't seem so far away.

I interpret it as "please bro, keep the bubble going bro, just 3 more years bro, this time for real bro"

PSA: the domain shown in a google search result is not necessarily the domain it will actually link you to.

Maybe this is common knowledge, but I had no idea before. What an absolutely horrible decision from google to allow this. What are they thinking?? This is great for phishing and malware, but I don't know what else. (Yeah ok, the reason has probably something to do with "line must go up".)

So much wrong with this...

In a way, it reminds me of the wave of entirely fixed/premade loop-based music making tools from years ago. Where you just drag and drop a number of pre-made loops from a library onto some tracks, and then the software automatically makes them fit together musically and that's it, no further skill or effort required. I always found that fun to play around with for an evening or two, but then it quickly got boring. Because the more you optimize away the creative process, the less interesting it becomes.

Now the AI bros have made it even more streamlined, which means it's even more boring. Great. Also, they appear to think that they are the first people to ever have the idea "let's make music making simple". Not surprising they believe that, because a fundamental tech bro belief is that history is never interesting and can never teach anything, so they never even look at it.

Ah, so Google Search runs on UDP, interesting, that must be why it's so unreliable now.

Thanks for the heads-up. I couldn't finish reading through all postings in that forum thread, it's all just making me so tired... always the same shit.

It is very disturbing and scary.

They're explicitly carving out an exception to target sexual/gender minorities. And I wonder, given how they are often among the first groups being targeted, and then other groups follow, how long until they add more exceptions? How long until Meta modifies the rules further to e.g. explicitly allow racism too?

Meta/Facebook has never been a good company. But the path they have actively chosen now is so much more evil than before.