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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[–] nightsky@awful.systems 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is it too early to hope that this is the beginning of the end of the bubble?

Also, does someone know why broadcom was also hit so hard? Is it because they make various networking-related chips used in datacenter infrastructure?

DeepSeek R1 is wildly overhyped, but you can try it at home in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[–] nightsky@awful.systems 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

And people believe this … why?

Maybe people believe that all the AI stuff is just magic [insert sparkle emoji], and that can terminate further thought...

Edit: heh, turns out there's science about that notion

DeepSeek R1 is wildly overhyped, but you can try it at home in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[–] nightsky@awful.systems 5 points 10 months ago

screaming about “theft!” and “hacking!!”

Sounds plausible. Or maybe they will go with a don't use it, because privacy! take. Funny thing is, I actually agree people shouldn't give them their data. But they shouldn't give it to OpenAI either...

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[–] nightsky@awful.systems 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I had to read “Uber for AI code data” so now you do too.

Wow, what a fractal of cursed meaning. I don't even understand what it really means, but it feels like understanding it any further would cause considerable psychic damage.

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[–] nightsky@awful.systems 17 points 10 months ago (3 children)

This shows the US is falling behind China, so you gotta give OpenAI more money!

Fear of a "bullshit gap", I guess.

Oh, and: simply perfect choice of header image on that article.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th January 2025 - awful.systems - awful.systems in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[–] nightsky@awful.systems 12 points 10 months ago (13 children)

Sooner or later the only remaining source of reliable digital information will be 1990s multimedia CD-ROM encyclopedias.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th January 2025 - awful.systems - awful.systems in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[–] nightsky@awful.systems 12 points 10 months ago (5 children)

various topics (e.g., AI news, crypto, fitness, personal finance)

That sure is a specifc selection of topics.