A lot of my colleagues are concerned that #XMPP could kill all of humanity by the end of this decade. This is not a marketing stunt.
this is real capitalism, practiced by real capitalists
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James Schneider
Senior Equity Analyst, Goldman Sachs
Yeah.
Jensen Huang
CEO, NVIDIA
Yeah.
James Schneider
Senior Equity Analyst, Goldman Sachs
The returns.
Jensen Huang
CEO, NVIDIA
The returns are too great.
James Schneider
Senior Equity Analyst, Goldman Sachs Yeah.
Jensen Huang
CEO, NVIDIA
It's too good.
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James Schneider
Senior Equity Analyst, Goldman Sachs
Now, Jensen, last year, your prediction of $3 trilion-$4 trillion in Al infrastructure spending by 2030, I think, raised a lot of eyebrows in the investor community. But it seems like we are actually really rapidly progressing toward that figure right now. What technical advancements or market developments with respect to Al-
Jensen Huang
CEO, NVIDIA
I just think we should just take a pause and acknowledge that I was right.
James Schneider
Senior Equity Analyst, Goldman Sachs
We're doing that.
Jensen Huang
CEO, NVIDIA
Just take a pause. Take your time.
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Jensen Huang
CEO, NVIDIA
Everything's coding. When you buy a cookbook, you see the recipe, that's just an American word for coding. When you ask somebody how to do something, that's coding. When you codify a business process, that's coding. Everything's coding. If you want to do something, if you want to discover the best way of doing something, and then after that, repeat it over and over again without anybody deviating from that process or that methodology or that best-known process, however you guys. Right?
There's a lot of words about it. It's all coding. We code in a lot of different ways. We code to make omelets.
We code to repeatedly close our books and manage our supply chain. We code in order to communicate with each other in a consistent way. The connecting fabric, for example, the supply chain, is one giant large piece of code.
Not one code, but trillions of pieces of code.
Everything that we do is in fact coding. It's a sensible thing. It's also the easiest thing for Al to learn, and the reason for that is because there's a right answer. The best answer is hard to find, but the right answer is not hard to find. Coding is an important part of it. A derivative of coding is, of course, bug finding, and a derivative of that, which is a very large market, is called cybersecurity.
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when your cat opens and closes its mouth and makes a little chittering noise and it looks like talking? that’s just an American word for coding
when you cook cod for dinner? that’s coding
this is so easy for AI because famously in code there’s exactly one right answer and it’s not the best answer(??). coding is an important part of it (????)
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the trouble with roguelikes is even if you force yourself to go through their bullshit long enough that you get to a good part and start enjoying yourself, as soon as something goes wrong all the fun will completely vanish and it will demand you waste more time doing the shitty part again for no reason, and you'll feel more bored and annoyed than if you hadn't bothered
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roguelikes are the most English of all game designs, because their top priority is in stopping you from having a good time
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I like long games sometimes, long games where I can experiment, rather than use the one thing I know works for fear of having to start from the beginning again.
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@uoou i already felt like this by early 2018 😑
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I really like non-JRPG turn based tactics games. And 99% of the new otherwise-cool looking ones are fucking roguelikes.
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@uoou it just adds so little to most things it's shoved into. and half the time it's just there because that's What You Do
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To an extent I get it. If you're a single dev or a small group it's a way of stretching less material over more time. But when it's working against the qualities of your game, I dunno, think a bit harder.
I've also seen a good few games marked as roguelike by their devs, cos I think it's still seen as a selling point, which aren't really - they just have a permadeath option or an overmap that works like some popular roguelikes, and that's frustrating too.
https://friendship.quest/minoltacos
it's still older content as I just finished reposting my pixelfed posts, but I have a big backlog of negatives to scan and upload!
Compare that to Omarchy: dot files for Arch, backed by billionaire patrons and marketed as the future of Linux, with a founder who's spent years publicly campaigning against DEI, disbanded his own company's diversity committee, cheered the end of race-conscious college admissions, and recently wrote a blog post comparing Romani people to wolves that need culling and ending with "when gypsies take over public spaces, you deport them."
If you want to put money or attention behind open source projects, consider those who are actually improving the space and not the guy with the biggest megaphone...
Here's Patrick's patreon if you feel like giving him some love: https://www.patreon.com/c/slackwarelinux/
Alles Gute zum 45. Geburtstag, lieber Chaos Computer Club! Gut, dass du noch existierst und gut, dass du dich auch sehr verändert hast in den letzten 45 Jahren! Länder, die kein digitales Korrektiv wie den CCC haben, sind schlechter dran. Dankeschön dafür. #ccc
Lendas do software livre brasileiro
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Mesa redonda da CBSoft 2026 com Beatriz Tibiriçá, Jeronimo Pellegrini, Valessio Brito, Rodolfo Avelino, Sergio Amadeu Silveira, eu, Nelson Lago e Alexandre Oliva, com moderação de Antonio Terceiro.
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My Brazilian peers already know this (and this was discussed in the context of Brazilian elections), but I’m going to post it in English for my international crowd:
You feel like free software is crumbling? Well, that’s because the world—always crashing and burning for the most vulnerable and oppressed—is crumbling at a rate you can now perceive.
You know what will help? Pick a fucking side. Or admit to yourself that denying a fact (tech is politics) is actually picking a side. The bad side.
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For years I've talked about the decline in the quality of search engines. Google, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Qwant and many others. I've tried many search engines and all of them have the same problem:
The top results for far too many searches are AI-generated SEO boosting fake information pages with a high density of text and very low quality images and information.
Every time I bring this up I get a new suggestion for a search engine, and I take those suggestions, but the problem persists.
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Do you know what won't give you an AI generated page as a top result? An LLM.
I don't know if the AI generated SEO slop is just hard to filter, or if it's just that no one cares about improving traditional search anymore, but the vectors are aligning to push people away from using search and towards using LLMs.
It is true that the design of a LLM doesn't really make sense for a search engine and the marketing play here is obvious. But most search engines are just that bad.
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Naturally we have all learned what will happen once the search market is captured. The higher quality results that attracted users to these tools will be eroded by advertising, new SEO spam and junk. The circle of life. Or death?
Is there any non-profit group working on making better search to help us navigate this internet filled with so much trash?
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And yes, it is for pay. Servers have to be payed and since you're not the product that is sold, search is not "free".
I've come to think of web search with integrity as a probably unsolvable problem. Maybe a heavily publicly funded public option could put a dent in the problem, but of course the current climate has turned me against even the public sector.
Decentralization of a spidering operation or a database operation, I would think, would make it impossible to deliver a search result promptly. Best I think can be accomplished with a decentralized or defederated effort among noncommercial participants would be offering the end user search agents rather than instant search results. A search request would propagate throughout the network of (I would think) shards of database over the next few minutes, and search results would come back to the initiator (by email perhaps) over the next few days, with a few stragglers over the next few months or even years, with cancellations of search request probably also taking some time to propagate.
I'm imagining something that only indexes high quality sites in the first place. And the more limited universe of site to index could make this project small enough that it could be accomplished by some kind of user sponsored hacktivist funding scheme.
It could start with the academic web because I think it's academics who are feeling this the hardest, and this group might be willing to pay for a search engine that didn't try to seduce you and fix your marriage.
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@futurebird I really don't think the biggest issue is what's out there on the internet. It's that the search engines refuse to return results for the terms typed in.
In addition to YaCy, there’s Hister, a project that essentially crawls browser history, saving users the effort of manually compiling lists of sites.
From my perspective, the issue with commercial search engines is that they primarily return results from the "white" or highly commercialized web. This aligns with your viewpoint.
Edit: There is a list of public SearXNG and YaCy instances you may try:
https://blog.fallible.net/it-breaks-a-village/
this is an extremely important read, even if you don’t care about the Rust game engine Bevy.
anti-AI policies are broadly popular, and pro-AI policies destroy communities. this article is an excellent summary of a project going from an apparent (but not actual) anti-AI stance to a pro-AI one, on the false pretenses that AI boosters were subject to harassment and witch hunts. those false pretenses are already common, and you’re going to see them a lot more soon because this is a playbook.
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Yes, all crimes are essentially unenforceable if the criminal is not caught! The answer is obviously not to legalise all crimes. (And besides, most of the time it is blatantly obvious when someone has used it)
The point of a policy is really to outline a set of expectation and a group ethos. If someone chooses to deliberately break the policy, they must be conscious of the fact that they do not align with the group and should probably fuck off
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Always forget to post farm updates. The grow shed is definitely finally in swing and we've already had a few good harvests of lettuce on top of the micros
Also have our tomato starters and kale starters for the winter.
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https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2
#fediverse #fedi #fediverseNews #fediverseCommunity #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Snac #Pleroma #Akkoma #Misskey #Firefish #Pixelfed #PeerTube #Lemmy #Mobilizon #Friendica #GoToSocial #Hubzilla #WriteFreely #BookWyrm #Microblogging #OpenSource
https://studio8502.ca/@mos_8502/117231188233431841
People could just say they don't want Copyleft. That would be perfectly okay. No need for bashing. ✌️
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"What is a boy to do?"
Nowhere to go, don't wanna spend money, hmm...
Of ALL things,... I'm installing #gentoo, lmao. No foolin', my Thinkpad is running emerge rn as I go through the install steps.
I'm a #Debian faithful since around 2012, but I've always wanted to go down the gentoo spiral. My Thinkpad is my usual toy, so I picked OpenRC and KDE, I'm at the initial system steps, I have yet to reboot, still chrooted. We'll see! 👌
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So... I can enable binaries if available, but if they aren't available, it builds the package from source on the spot like how people classically think Gentoo does.
The install process was a bit head-scratchy just because I'm new to Gentoo but overall, this shares a ton of parallels to installing Archlinux without an install script or helper.
The cool thing about gentoo is that you almost have to learn about how the system works to install it to start with. Your choices, and they have to be your choices, this is a very 'elect' system - make the system what it is, literally. There's nothing in the pot that you don't throw into it. It has a few defaults and some config files are set up well enough for any standard desktop, but for the most part, you're about to find out how OpenRC, Wayland, SDDM and KDE work together.
It's flexible. I didn't make brand new filesystems or nuke my old drive. I blanked the partitions I had then adapted them to Gentoo. I had an efi/main partition/swap setup already and it was easy to translate that to Gentoo's layout of... the same layout lmao.
That's one of the cool things, here. Gentoo's guide doesn't MAKE you do anything. There are so many "ifs". It's extremely flexible and you wrap your system around it every step of the way. Everything fits and there's a "oh, you have X? Then do Y" for everything, seems like.
Where are we right now?Right now I've rebooted, grub successfully has my kernel loaded and we're going forward with installing KDE, SDDM and making sure Wayland and X11 both do their thing for getting me logged in... then I'll move towards solving any sound issues and from there, packages and getting the desktop set up.
So far so good, and no real errors to back up and deal with, believe it or not. Things have been pretty buttery, but I have had to go looking for clarification on a few things like make flags and such.
In the future, as I think most people running Gentoo do... it would probably be smart of me to copy these files for use if I ever have to restore this system from scratch. Having it all canned would save on time.
As of today, I believe NetBSD is one of the most important operating systems to consider for your deployments.
With hardware costs rising dramatically, portability and efficiency have become more important than ever. If prices do not come down, we will probably have to adapt and create new kinds of hardware, at lower cost. And NetBSD, by its very nature, will be very easy to port to that hardware.
Does it run on your modern PC? Maybe. Maybe not.
But it runs on your server. On your VPS. On your SBC. On your old computer, which may still have a lot to give, especially if you want to keep ownership of your own data.
And I know something about old hardware still having a lot to give:
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2023/08/27/that-old-netbsd-server-running-since-2010/
No jails or containerisation? smolBSD has already shown that a reduced NetBSD kernel can be so small that it can be started in milliseconds, while also adding the security benefits of virtualisation. A different concept, certainly. But one that already exists and can already be used.
Linux itself has opened up to AI. That is a choice I will not comment on.
But from now on, for those who do not want LLM-generated code in their operating system, there are essentially two options: fork Linux (!!!), or choose something different.
And NetBSD is that something different.
Already in 2024:
“...code generated by a large language model or similar technology (e.g. ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot) is presumed to be tainted (i.e. of unclear copyright, not fitting NetBSD's licensing goals) and cannot be committed to NetBSD.”
#NetBSD #RunBSD #smolBSD #IT #SysAdmin #OwnYourData #ModernTech
I want salesmanship to be an obsolete skill.
I want economic self support to be a lower hanging fruit.
I want an allocation system that is like the market in being very good at optimizing for economic efficiency, but able to do so for criteria of efficiency that are person-weighted rather than dollar-weighted.
Does your home page work in Dillo, Links, Netsurf?Even more: #snac, an ActivityPub server I develop, works totally well with these browsers.
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Anybody compared the two? If so what's your verdict?
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@justine it could be implemented (we already have a test implementation from akkoma, that I used to migrate my old broken instance). But we won’t implement it because snac is great, and I could never do anything to harm that project, because I love it and the dev is a very nice person.
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Gentle reminder, when someone is sharing some small piece of resistance they have done, DO NOT SHIT ON IT. Do not tell them it isn't enough or it's still bad because blah blah other stuff...
Everyone is tired and overwhelmed and trying to find some accessible way they can push back. Cheer that!
Celebrate the small; celebrate the imperfect.
No single action is gonna solve everything, but a whole bunch of small actions start the sea change.
Don't punch down when we all need lifting up.
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☝️Two follow up thoughts from the conversations on this thread:
Patience.
For a lot of people, this is their first foray into non-compliance. They are going to start with small things within their comfort zone. This isn't a failure to do bigger things, this is training for it.
Self compassion.
If you are finding yourself angry at how little others are doing, you may be burned out. Rest is resistance too, as is pivoting to joy or humour in how you protest.
