Except, in this case, it’s more like the pickpocket calling the murderer wrong. Which is appropriate, in this circumstance.

This was always a catch and kill project.

I don’t think we want 50% stake, where things are going. This sounds like we’ll end up bailing them out one way or another…

One step away from being relocated to their actual destination: the bin.

Nvidia is only begging because they didn’t realise that putting out a free product that essentially makes most work redundant would bite them in the ass as it would mean less people able to buy their products.

Oh, and because they’re worried about what happens when they start charging the companies who fired everyone the real price of the AI service they’re currently providing for free.

I thought I was having a stroke during the 2024 debate. It went that badly.

Where do people who use kobo readers buy their ebooks? Is there a reliable non Amazon e-reader shop that sells from free books? (Besides humble store)

What AI profits?

Shit like this will continue to happen until governments start enforcing interoperable open standards and resume enforcing antitrust laws, which were, in practice, suspended for a long time, for whatever reason.

Which will never happen if we keep ending up with republicans every 4 years. Sad state of affairs, but technology will remain corporate as long as people are awful putting their money where their mouth is (or time, in the case of social web)

Electricity production vs electricity waste, the choice is pretty obvious honestly.

Ignoring the fact that I also don’t think I could trust any company in 2026 to maintain a nuclear power plant well, it feels like we’ve actually gone backwards in that front specifically.

No, believe it or not it used to be Netflix because it was so high in the stock market value.

By design, too.

Ah I’ve been noticing some weird youtube behavior lately. This probably explains it.

Crazy something like this passes a company as large as Google’s eyes.

I was thinking this as well. You would have thought they took the “Jeeves” as an agent name.

I had always heard “binary blob” said when it came to opaque code, but I see that blob is what is used to describe unexplained binary data as a whole in database lingo, so I’m willing to say your usage of it is probably more correct than mine here, assuming the binary data isn’t an actual program (afaik there’s no elf-file like characteristics but who knows.). 😇

It’s a bit strange that this code requires a binary blob to verify, I think people who want to experiment with this should take some caution as it could be an exploit-in-an-exploit (user is highlighting a real exploit, but also trying to take advantage of people testing by effectively installing a back-door.) I won’t say that’s happening for sure, but take running this yourself with extreme caution.

More cases of “rules for thee and not for me”, of course. You won’t see the DOJ arresting anyone in the Trump family making the same kind of bets.

If this guy’s lawyer is smart about this, they should ask for discovery on specific instances of insider trading that we know about like the Iran bombing bets made on Kalshi or similar platforms. It would probably be a quick way to get the case dismissed or at least settled out.

The age verification is really just an alternate means for these companies to try to find out which of us are real people or not with the intent to scrape AI training materials more “cleanly”. But it’s all moot in the long run, as it turns out that it will be easy for anyone who wants to break the law to pretend to be someone they aren’t.

In a world where identity theft is more rampant than ever, you’d have to be some kind of numbskull to think that this will be effective at doing any of the intended affects. It’s literally a complete waste of time & money.

This is a really good change. Sticking video editing files inside the “Videos” folder always felt nasty, so I usually changed this anyway.

I wonder what this will mean for Apple and whether this is an ominous foreshadowing of the ongoing hardware crisis. It seems to me like this would only be happening if the Macbook Neo has a difficult coming year or two down the line and he’s taking the fall preemptively. Either that or perhaps undisclosed health issues.