Thanks! (still up xD)

Pretty well. Work is kicking my butt as usual, but my cats and partner are keeping me sane. Not solving my insomnia tho (3:45am as I write this).

It’s literally antivaxxers, but for computer viruses.

It’s super awesome. One modicum of power shifts to consumers to control the products they buy, and the corporatists come running with their “think of the devs” arguments despite devs not being paid in royalties/residuals.

You mean you dont need your machine to tell some ad brokers to contact you about needing to buy more coffee soon?

You don’t want them thinking they can take that attitude into the workplace! Imagine if they start thinking they can just demand more pay, or better working conditions! Madness!

The person taking the video is literally prompting it by saying ‘la la la’ themselves. Why would they be surprised that it’s response is to sing it back?

You’re looking for the populace as a whole to have some kind of sit-down, coordinated evaluation of what has maximal climate impact, but that’s not how protest movements work.

Small groups can be tactical like that. Large protest movements have to seize on whatever momentum happens, when it happens.

If people were out there protesting golf courses, I’d be there too, and I’d be encouraging it, but I’m not going to waste my breath as someone with zero meaningful platform trying to foment a mass protest movement out of thin air.

And there’s something more important to this movement than just directly addressing the environmental impact of datacenters, which is the anti-large-corporation sentiment it’s feeding (both from, and into). That is very important for climate action. And I’m not sure if you’ve been going to any (climate) protests, but there are definitely signs at all of them protesting oil and gas companies.

It’s hilarious they are like, “but golf courses are worse!”

Yeah. Get rid of them too.

One thing that’s important to understand is that this is going to be a non-starter for a FOSS project that isn’t a 501c3, for most companies, for legal reasons. Charitable giving to 501c3s is defensible spending because of the impact on taxes. (Yay Crapitalism!)

You’d probably have more success onboarding them as a contractor doing “implementation support”.

Also, imo big projects like Linux and postgres are doing fine, and it’s the small tool creators that need support.

I feel like this article is trying to insinuate dynamic or different pricing, rather than just the “personalized recommendations” that is what’s actually happening?

This makes perfect sense, and they already do it outside of sales; I don’t need to see the cleanup-a-shop-or-library-a-wizard-trashed games, and my wife doesn’t need to see Total War: W40k.

Aloy’s physical scan model was Hannah Hoekstra, and her voice and mocap was Ashly Burch, according to the wiki.

Is it going to be called the Ministry of Truth? Or did they at least have the self awareness to come up with something less on-the-nose?

“My wife taps my shoulder, and I pay!”

ba-dum-tsss

I chuckled, but it was a despondent one.

We’re way beyond usage statistics. That’s for startups trying to get a Series A. OpenAI and Anthropic are playing at the Fortune-100 level already, influencing elected officials and making deals for government contracts. They’re not rolling up to the DoD with their MAU counts.

Fetterman’s chance to cure his conservatism!

As someone with no 3d printing experience, but a lot of firearm experience, I’m surprised that PLA holds up as a comp.

It’s one thing to have a printed frame of course, but comps are right past the barrel and get the worst of gas and heat (by design). Hell, I have a very heavy comp on my HK P2000, and it gets absolutely scorched.

Sadly, they exist irregardless of our little projects. Financially supporting them is one thing, and if your own ethics prevent you from using a weapon of the enemy, as it were, that’s fine, but abstention is not actually doing anything to oppose them.

The water consumption of any LLM compute time I’ve used is almost assuredly less than a single bath, and I’ve certainly skipped more baths in my life than I probably should have. :P

And more importantly, an hour of Netflix uses SIGNIFICANTLY more water than an hour of text LLM generation, so most people are not actually having the impacts on water consumption they likely think they are.

There’s another type, which is like me, who develop as a means to have a tool I need.

I wanted a better way to manage my cross-device libraries (desktop, laptop, NAS), and the multi-pane file managers didn’t work great for me, so instead I used Claude to build one that has native per-pane ssh support, streamed video and music preview clips, etc etc.

Capitalism is always gonna Capitalism, doesn’t matter what type of tools are at play.