$15.5B dollars, invented out of ether, and bestowed on the lucky gamblers. The stock market is so efficient that it can create wealth without bothering with economic activity. No jobs created; no products produced; and nothing to trickle down.

Elon mad because he’s being exploited for other people’s profit. Delightful.

Reading the article, the reason proprietary “AI” models didn’t work is because they block the kind of code used in attacks to protect themselves. The Chinese models weren’t superior, they were just able to be run locally without restriction.

The real story is that agentic attacks live and in the wild.

Microslop is confused that the people forced to pay for shitty software won’t pony up for the optional shitty software.

This is good actually. The current standards assume that exposure to ionizing radiation is always bad no matter how small. The evidence suggests that small doses are absolutely safe, and arguably beneficial.

Panicking about small radiation doses has absolutely caused public harm and even death. Many people argue that some of the evacuations around Fukushima were overly conservative and ultimately more harmful than doing nothing.

My mother, who used Office software her whole working life recently asked me, un-prompted to help her switch to something else. She was tired of the always online, always signed in obnoxiousness of Office 365. She was tired of looking for stuff in Onedrive. And the software had changed so much over the years, that she figured learning a new office suite wouldn’t be any extra effort.

I’m confused, why is Google telling customers they can’t use it’s AI? Can they not keep up with demand?

That seems way more interesting a story than Meta relying on a competitor.

IDGAF if Newell is a Epstein-class helo-pad yacht billionaire. Valve’s success is built on the recognition that customers are the source of success, rather than a resource to be extracted. Valve is bringing PC citizenship to console subjects. Just in time for the 4th of July.

2 birds one stone. Not only will this effect the supply chain for weapons, it also contributes to the ongoing campaign of forcing Russia to move air defense further and further away from the front.

I can’t wait to see the launch of the next generation of consoles. Valve has been absolutely battered by being the first out the gate in this hardware market, and I’d be surprised if the next gen consoles are not anemic and expensive.

Water consumption has been way overblown. Sure if you’re in the Colorado River basin, water is absolutely an issue. But if your concerned with wasted water usage, all data centers combined would be a rounding error compared to what we throw away on turf grass.

Kyle Hill and Hank Green have both made videos about this I’m not crazy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx7ToT0G0qo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_c6MWk7PQc

Windows11 sucks so bad. I was so excited to learn that Explorer and Notepad were getting tabs & Paint was getting layers. Only to find out that these core features weren’t being updated for users, but in the process of adding slop to the OS. Explorer was the worst, my address bar became an ad. And everything was buggy and broken.

And I know this isn’t just the Linux fanboy line because Microslop themselves had to apologize and walk-back some of the Copilot obnoxiousness.

One positive of AI is that the ownership class is getting a lesson in just how complex, flexible, reliable, and capable “unskilled” workers are. You can watch them realize in real time that a model capable of running a dinner-rush drive-thru would be a trillion dollar quantum leap.

The no1 reason to self-build is to save money. Obviously, this thing isn’t going to appeal to that crowd. For a pre-built, this price isn’t crazy. And the performance is fine for 1080p/1440p gaming.

So if you’re the kind of person who knows the GPU nomenclature by heart, you probably won’t buy this, but I still expect the thing to sell-out by virtue of being Valve.

I’m rooting for Valve’s success because that means wider Linux adoption.

One of the biggest Windows habits I’ve had to break is using file explorer to open documents and files. This was because memorizing file paths is way faster than using search. Search in Windows has never been good, because it’s always been weighted toward what Microslop wants you to find. And the index goes to shit if a user does something unexpected like saving, moving, or deleting files.

Linux search just works. If I know the file name, there is no reason to open a file explorer at all. Just mash the power key and start typing.

This is clickbait. Having hibernation and writing 32GB of RAM to the SSD are not “Windows 11”, but standard behavior on any OS with hibernation.

In my experience, the fragility and unreliably of M.2 and SSD has been greatly overstated.

When financial publications are giving advice on how to trade inside a bubble, that’s a leading indicator that the bubble is about to pop.

Israel’s popularity in the US is at an historic low. The VP not only acknowledges that, but uses the fact as an implicit threat to keep Israel in line. Meanwhile Democrats are pledging not to accept money from AIPAC, with the mayor of NYC calling that lobbying group “monsters”.

Rational people would view this as Israel’s influence eroding. But conspiracy people continue to insist that Israel is secretly in charge somehow.