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Load the art from a flash stick and never connect it to the internet?

The trees are part of an ecosystem. Even though they can be planted elsewhere, who knows how many endangered species this will affect.

How many times do you think the average programmer have noticed that their compiler have introduced a bug? And how many times do you think the same developer have found a bug in the code that their AI have implemented?

Stop drinking the cool aid and compare compilers with ai models.

There have been collisions in Sweden, but that was due to lots of immigrants coming from the middle east that did not know when they where born. So many of them picked first of January. They “solved” it by overflowing to the next days.

It was not THAT bad, but it really feed my impression that there is an institutional god complex at Oxide.

Brian, you need to step off your high horse. Few people can go around saying that they are the best, and you’re not one of them.

It was also embarrassing to listen to the podcast episode where you humiliated that Eastern European guy you had invited. All very off putting and it really tarnish the brand.

I was on a consultant-assignment at a company that got raided by the police in the EU. The police was extremely careful not to scan any data that where stored on US-servers. The company used Google for mail and file storage, so all computers had to be taken offline before they could scan them.

While I don't doubt they have a way of getting permission to access that data, I don't think they will put in the effort unless you're a relally big fish.

So I’ll just automate failed verifications for everyone I want to lock out?

Yes, it’s the biometrics they’re after.

> No downtime recorded on this day.

Neat. Didn't have a single request go through for 2 hours. Guess they need to improve their metrics before the IPO...

> - I can't pay with my credit/debit cards there so I need to get their alipay pay app. There is KYC required to upload my government ID.

It's not so odd that the Chinese choose to use their domestic payment system over a US one. You probably needed a government ID to get your credit/debit card too (at least when you opened your bank account).

I'm not saying the Chinese surveillance system isn't horrible, but the western ones are catching up quickly with the adoption of Flock cameras everywhere and Palantir analyzing every bit of digital footprint you leave. Is there anyone who think there isn't a non-negliable risk that people will walk around with a "jew star" marking in the US in the coming 5-10 years?

Same here. I tried different EU providers before I migrated our servers off the US clouds and Hetzner demanded my passport and webcam live verification. Thats a HUGE red flag and we went with Scaleway instead. Happy I found out what a shitty company Hetzner are before I invested more time in them.

In Anthropics defense they make sure that no company can rely on them by being down all the time... And LLMs have become a commodity these days, so you can seamlessly just fail over to another supplier WHEN they go down.

Someone should add Sam’s face to the targeting training data as an Easter egg ;)