Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears so determined to win the AI race that he is willing to sacrifice some employee privacy to make it happen.

“Some of you will die but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make”

“Now it’s your time to realize your dreams,” he told graduates. “The timing could not be more perfect.”

My dream is a world without ultracapitalist CEOs.

Ehh HBM3 memory is definitey very useful in consumer GPUs. I have a prosumer one with HBM2 and it helps. The bandwidth is several times that of GDDRX!

This is not bad at all. Go for it 😍

I thought it would take yeeeeeaaaars to build new factories. That’s what they were saying when it started.

If you “just care about printing stuff” then why would you go with the walled garden that relies on userlocks, proprietary formats, and forced network connectivity to function? Not to mention the fire risk and rug pulling…

Because I don’t care about the walled garden. The only thing I would mind is locking down filament but they don’t do that. So these things aren’t a negative to me. Not a positive either, just a neutral.

That Kobra looks nice, all the Anycubics I’ve seen in our makerspace are all the old ones that are basically Prusa Mk3 knockoffs. And it’s affordable, it looks basically like an A1 but with 4 colour printing without the ams. Nice! I’d consider that for my next printer.

I’m not saying it’s the only option but it’s a good option for the price if you just care about printing stuff.

And the options you mention aren’t real alternatives. For €180 my A1 mini is really great value, and so was my P1S. I haven’t seen anything that comes close to the print quality and printer design for a similar price. An ender would be of similar price but it looks like a science project and it’s not nearly as capable without a lot of manual tuning and upgrades.

Prusa is way too expensive for me. Anycubic and Creality are cheap Prusa knockoffs that need a lot of tuning to perform well. We have a lot of CR-10s and Enders in the makerspace but they’re always out of order for maintenance or some upgrade.

And regarding the slicer I really don’t care which slicer I use. It just has to do its job.

Me too :) I even had a Usenet account at work in the 90s. It was pretty great at the time and more social than current social media.

I like my Bambu printers but I’m not shitting on Prusa. They do a good job. They’re just too expensive for me.

Not exactly. You can use any filament (analogous to the ink) and they have said they won’t limit that. They have rfid tags in the filament but the printers without AMS don’t even have the ability to read it.

Until they go back on that I don’t really mind them. I don’t want to use other slicers etc. I didn’t buy this printer as a tinkering project but to print stuff and at that it really is very good.

I mean I really wish they were more open but I didn’t buy this printer because I thought it was open. I bought it knowing it was not. I’ve had many printers over the years and I’ve always hated having to mod them to make them usable. I just want it to work out of the box and Bambu is the first one I’ve had that really delivered on that.

I’m not a fan and I’ll move to other brands when I can (my latest printer is a snapmaker) but I think they do still offer good value for money.

Oh yeah I never really liked Flickr. I used to do photos as a hobby but it was too serious for me and not social enough. I mainly follow photographers that have shot at cosplay parties I’ve been at. They’re all on Instagram somehow. And all the cosplayers too.

Of course the community blocked it. They didn’t even try to disguise their EEE attempt (Embrace, Extend, Extinguish). Duh.

And this isn’t the first time. Back in the day Facebook messenger was actually fully XMPP federation compatible! But they pulled the plug on that.

One thing I don’t understand is why they just didn’t buy vrchat or one of the others that are even better. Like spatial or viverse.

Would have been a lot simpler and effective than throwing billion after billion at it.

I mean Microsoft did buy altspacevr and completely screwed it up when they made ‘mesh’ but Microsoft screws everything up, that’s just what they do. It would have been easy to do better than that.

How do they manage to always find the creepiest photos of Zuckerberg? The skin around his eyes is light green lol

And yet at the same time playing the “we’re federated, trust us!” game. While holding all the important strings to themselves so it’s federated more in name than in actual practice.

Oh photographers? Most of the ones I know are still on Instagram. Same with artists etc.

I can’t really leave that because of that.

You know several of these exist right? Like the uconsole

Yeah I’d love to get away from my fire TV which has become a piece of adware shit over the last years. But I don’t want to pay top dollar (150€ more or less, 230€ for the pro) for a shield with 7 years old hardware that doesn’t even support AV1.

I wish there were other decent options. The apple TV is also ancient hardware for today’s price and I don’t see much else on the market that isn’t riddled with ads.

The people driving AI are the kind of people that have amassed hundreds of billions while paying their workers as little as possible.

Do you really think they will work towards a universal basic income?

They’re even admitting it. Sam Altman was saying something like “yeah big disruption is coming and society will have to find a way to deal with it”. In other words “I’ll profit but good luck with your fucked up society, no help from me there”.

Well yeah it has but it really sucked at it till things like Whisper came along. You really had to train it to specific speakers and even then you’d have to manually go over everything.

Now running the heaviest whisper model and then an LLM to fix obvious mistakes and you have the same quality a human contractor would deliver. Except it can do a day’s work in 5 minutes.

Will there be enough jobs for all those displaced in those ‘other areas’? And how long is it going to take for those to materialise?

Traditionally society has overcome these type of changes. But they weren’t as wide as this one (AI has a huge range of usecases) nor was the change as rapid. And as AI grows into new areas it will continue to displace jobs and human activity.

I really doubt this will turn into a net positive for society and if it does it will still be a very hard transition for at least a decade.