Dead_Lemon

Plants do all these things too, hard to call them sentient.

I feel people have forgotten how aggressively Google push chrome in the early days. Using Adware distribution tactics, where if you forgot to uncheck a box, while installing some free app, you'd end up with Chrome installed.

Why does AI need to be involved in such a migration. The original game was made by one guy. Its a small team with a deep understanding of their project, it seems counter intuitive to outsource this to AI.

Reading Jurrasic Park, it as bit of fun hearing of how the island purchased multiple Cray super computer to help with genetic research. Fun even if its a bit of fiction.

Sure, open models will definitely be an alternative once the frontier models hike prices to match costs. But that will be a minority, and people will start to switch, but people use the frontier models for a reason and these AI labs will extort that, once the easy investor money dries up.

All LLM are heavily subsidized by investors. No one is paying the true cost of tokens at the moment. The rug pull is to get as many people defendant on the tool before they have to massively increase prices.

Considering the reach of a HAM radio, the limited frequencies, and the consumption of airtime while transmitting, someone needs to enforce etiquette.

Its also likely the older folk operating in HAM radio space, have a background in communication operations when HAM was a far more common communication device.

HAM is still awesome, I find it very interesting with the long distance, remote, communication challenges some people partake in.

The network was basically point to point serial, with a phone number for routing.

Some BBS hosts were quite sophisticated, running multiple computers and banks of modems to handle multiple user connections.

Even GOG has some oddities were the available copy is not the original experience. My recent experience of trying to play the original Mafia game. Booting it up a GoG copy, I found that there was no music while driving (a core memory of my original play through). This music has been removed... This also affected small radios you'd find playing music, they now dead.

It really took away from the game experience

I ended up scratching out my original CD copy of the game, installing version 1.0 of the game. It had all the music and better visuals

The patches removed visual features for performance, not GoG's fault here, not sure why GoG hosts an inferior version, its quite a downgrade. The music removal I do not understand.

(This all was particually obvious in an early mission, where you have to beat up some parked cars with baseball bats, the patched version show minimal dents and zero scratches, and the radio sitting in the corner make no sound. This completely changes in the V1.0 copy, so much more atmosphere)

Raspi is likely going to continue making moves like this, since they have gone public. You can't just have people buying the cheaper 1GiB boards and upgrading them to 4GiB, that's taking potential profits away from the investors...

I doubt many are doing this upgrade, and I think its awesome someone has the tooling & skill to do so. I cannot fathom how this is a threat to RPI. I would assume a community firmware patch will likely release & resolve the limitation (until it becomes a signed binary)

Break up the multi trillion, multifaceted companies into the their separate facets. These companies all thrived on far significant smaller portfolios in the past. Cap the size a company can grow. Regulate the amount of compute they are allowed to use.

Considering we cannot keep up with energy demands, and fuel costs are increasing drastically, while data centers are partially powered by diesel generator fleets, due to electrical infrastructure limitations. Are these companies even going to be alive in the next 5-10 years? So much of this is being floated by investor money, with customer revenue way below threshold.

The more the models dog food the internet, the wackier they will get, with the amount of slop being created at this point in time.

Let not forget that google heavily relies on opensource software. The Linux kernel being the obvious one in this discussion, which they make extensive use of.

Considering how similar the output of a model is, artists are going to still have to do most of the work, if they want a style over the template the model is trained on.

Artists also enjoy creating and the process of creation.