misswaterfairy

> News of ASIC’s inquiries broke hours after Firmus lodged its annual financial statement with the regulator. It posted a $US77.3 million ($110 million) loss before tax in the 2026 financial year, and spent $US1.5 billion ($2.1 billion) on construction, property costs and equipment to develop its network of data centres.

Microsoft are currently being sued in Australia by consumer protection (ACCC) over this practice.

Though the onus is on us to improve what our forebears wrote, for the sake of our own and others' future.

It's worth considering that it might not be 'Enron-style' fraud, because that's the best comparison have at the moment.

What event did people compare Enron to, before Enron became 'Enron'?

It's probable we're witnessing an entirely new fraud, we just don't have all of the details yet.

Or just not use acronyms for standard sentence structure and non-specialised terms?

For example: "AFAIK the TLA is NFG for well written prose FWIW, NGL."

It is awkward to parse them and is infuriating when the author can clearly write well otherwise, because they don't use three- or four-letter-acronyms to replace standard sentence structures for the rest of their prose.

With a number of high-level departures in recent months from OpenAI, one wonders just how much money they have left. And how close they might be to collapsing...

For a company that wants to have a massive IPO that would be worth multi-billions, if not trillions, is this the cue to leave the party before the music stops?

Check out BF2Hub. The community isn't big, but you can generally find a server or three with real players in it (just look for players with a ping; 0 ping means a bot).

> They are using Microsoft formats instead of the open-source one.

They will need to focus on Microsoft's formats for the foreseeable future because of the sheer amount of archaic, but still vitally important, government processes which depend on them.

Once Euro Office gains a significant foothold in those government processes, then they'll have the market power to influence. And, hopefully, force change in Microsoft's behaviour by forcing them to compete against a cheaper and just as capable open product suite.

I'm astonished just how quickly LLMs have eroded critical thinking, perhaps exposing my own biases and assumptions about just how much I believed or understood others critically evaluated and critically judged something.

I also wonder how much of the population is truly introspective. Maybe that's some of the root cause here?

I am deeply, deeply concerned that LLMs are creating a generation... no... zombifying several successive existing generations into intellectually-devoid vassals completely unable to think for themselves, or approach novel and difficult problems without hallucinated assistance.

I'm also astonished, maybe I shouldn't be at this point, how a significant portion of people I know - some of them I would have expected to know better - don't realise that an LLM is a statistical word generator that is in no way equitable to the intelligence of a human being.

Then again, human intelligence exists on a bell curve; I really start to wonder exactly where the peak of that curve actually lies...

> those who called themselves "consultants" often did the same thing

Still do, but merely parrot what the stochastic parrot squarks these days.

It had help, to be fair. XD