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All of this has made me really appreciate that the people I work for, and with, aren't childish assholes. People need to realize this is not normal behavior from an executive or anyone in any sort of management position.

My wife is also a teacher and also loves the touch screen on her notebook, she will instinctively touch to scroll whenever she's on my macbook.

Did it give you the source(s) so you could double check?

Ok, but I don't want Anthropic to be worth 2 trillion. Because then I'm just breaking even. I want, lets say, 5x that. I don't think anyone would buy it for only that - but even at 5x they need to be making $400-500B a year, 3x what Microsoft is currently making.

Regardless of how you felt about Amazon as an investment when they went public my point is - they actually the potential to grow as much as they did. I don't believe Anthropic has the potential to grow even a fraction as much.

They're not really a "good investment" unless they are literally worth more than combined GDP of the entire planet, multiple times over. I don't think I'm buying shares of Weyland-Yutani here, but they sure are acting like it.

Oh I'm certainly not betting against them in the short run. I mean people are out here buying Tesla and SpaceX still.

My main thing is - why would I buy their stock at the rumored valuation? Regardless of anything else that valuation is basically saying all their growth has been captured, unless they literally take over the world.

If you could go back in time and buy $1000 worth of Amazon when they IPO'd, it would be worth 3.3 million today. Because Amazon's stock value has grown on average 30% year over year for 30 years. Amazon's valuation when they went public was around 400 million.

How much can Anthropic reasonably grow from a 1.5 or 2 trillion dollar valuation? If we want them to grow even half as much as Amazon they'd have to be worth 5.9 quadrillion dollars by 2056. That's 5,900,000,000,000,000, a 16 digit number.

Question for Jellyfin users - how's the support for non-tech people that were using your library? Like my parents use my Plex, and getting them switched to something else is going to be a hell ride.

I think the comment has been completely deleted now.

Well I think its mostly both we, and the original meme, are mixing up two different things.

I assume, I think correctly, that if you're running some sort of propaganda network you do actually want to appear to be living in/coming from that part of the world. So therefore showing "bot" traffic from the Yandex ASN dropping and correlating that directly with "bot" accounts going silent is incorrect. That "bot" traffic is not the propaganda network, its mostly just Yandex's own web scraping bots (which again, anyone that uses Cloudflare and has managed bots on there would tell you)

Now if you want to say that the infrastructure lives there, and is using proxies, VPN etc to appear to come from somewhere in the USA, Poland, etc - then OK. But that's not what the original meme was attempting to describe.

I really ought to do something like this rather than just allowing our logs to endlessly fill with requests for wp-admin.

Anyone that actually uses Cloudflare and manages their own bot traffic saw those graphs getting passed around and cringed. It has been an interesting thing to watch though as it was disseminated, echoed, and remixed with all sorts of "evidence" of this or that engagement dropping.

Russian state actors and propaganda networks literally using Yandex's ASN is like the CIA calling you from a payphone in the lobby of Langley.

Now you could say that parts of their infrastructure were hosted in there, and I'm sure it was, but the "bot" traffic narrative was pretty stupid.

Meh, I wish Cloudflare would break down its "bot" traffic a little more. I assume most of that is just Yandex's scraper going down. Which is good for disrupting Russian daily life but its not like their propaganda machine is knocked out.

Depends on the datacenter. If SpaceX etc weren't intent on cutting corners with illegal natural gas generators and trying to trick locals there wouldn't be any push back. Its not like we started building these things in the last couple of years. I've been to plenty of data centers that no one even knew were data centers because they weren't the size of Manhattan and spewing out tons of noise pollution.