turns out all that shit about open markets, free trade, competition was just while they had no competition to exploit it after WW2 left Europe and Asia devastated, now that China (with their own protectionism) is doing it better than the US…back to protectionism and fascism.

I wasn’t gonna, but now I gotta…

I thought CUDA was NVIDIA-specific too, for a general version you had to use OpenACC or sth.

But what could there be to liquidate? Server racks? They don’t even own the offices, it’s all rented.

Piracy is a response to various kinds of market failure, inequality.

Shame, innit? They could be the n1 Solar panel producers per capita and panel exporters…oh well. This is why the charge against fossil fuels has to be led by net consumers (in the name of defense against geopolitical risk) and the producers will inevitably reduce extraction for export…but local consumption of coal probably will never disappear completely unless locals complain about air pollution and lag in exportable tech.

For anyone who is interested in a detailed view of these stats worldwide in real time and cross-border with carbon intensities and individual breakdowns by electricity source: https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/72h

I’m not sure about beer (hah, I got it, the survey name), but vodka for sure: there are giant clouds of ethanol in space https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/51271/there-are-giant-clouds-alcohol-floating-space

Discovered in 1995 near the constellation Aquila, the cloud is 1000 times larger than the diameter of our solar system. It contains enough ethyl alcohol to fill 400 trillion trillion pints of beer. To down that much alcohol, every person on earth would have to drink 300,000 pints each day—for one billion years.

Sadly, for those of you planning an interstellar pub crawl, the cloud is 58 quadrillion miles away. It’s also a cocktail of 32 compounds, some of them as nasty as carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide, and ammonia.

Ok, so this vodka smells like old pish and bitter almonds :D

🎄 🎁 🥰

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Maybe Jack will sell bluesky to elon again for 50b and create another network called “freebird”, lol

It’s full of dodgy VPN ads and the links I tried too.

Not just students…postdocs too :/

…the only way this would have fought them was before the election, now they’re in the walls, that is palliative care.

But do they have “canaries” that allow the user to verify they are indeed doing that?

…but why? What do they gain from it?

Good, I was starting to think it was only China spying on everyone :D

Web 4.0: I can actually safely tip every dude who made a useful video/website 0.01 cents and neither side will have to pay any extra fees so it is actually worth to tip, it will just be p2p money using the processing power of the sender and the receiver without buttcoin vultures trying to fuck with it. That was what web 3.0 was supposed to have been 13 years ago, but between the technical limitations and those web3 shitasses’ greed, we’re left almost where we started…

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This is not like reading a book from a library…unless you want to force the LLM to only train one book per day and keep no copies after that day.