Yeah, 3,000 data centers aren’t being built in the U.S. to generate profits from slop. They’re infrastructure for the digital cage.

DDG is not too bad, but when I click the sources from the AI search results, they often don’t contain the info from the search summary, so why even have it if it’s mostly a hallucination?

Flimflam Sam says…

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Tried to sign up once, but it wanted my real phone number and a fake one from a temp SMS site wouldn’t work. Private messaging? Sure, Jan.

insider traitors

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Correction: 99% of CEOs are planning to use AI as an excuse to layoff employees to juice quarterly profits. They have zero accountability and golden parachutes, so no skin off of their asses.

Ah, hadn’t heard that, and I see there’s a TechCrunch article about it: https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/22/cursor-admits-its-new-coding-model-was-built-on-top-of-moonshot-ais-kimi/

Only 1/4th of the training was from Kimi, though, even though the model id evidently says it’s Kimi. 🙄

Nvidia’s middle finger to China is the reason they’ve developed open weight models like Qwen 3.6 27B that have modest compute requirements with performance catching up to frontier models. They have plenty of motivation to give Nvidia the middle finger right back, and I fully anticipate that a couple years from now, we will see Chinese open models on par with frontier models while also having inexpensive Chinese hardware to run them.

A pillory would be a good start. Then all the Amazon drivers can line up and dump their piss bottles in his face.

It Is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It

I’d imagine this applies even more to billionaires who make the average person’s salary every minute.

Yeah, whatever bias and censorship Micro$lop’s search index has, except supposedly without the tracking. It’s a step up from Google and Bing, but not the perfect solution.

I wouldn’t know because I mainly use DuckDuckGo and haven’t had a reason to use Google in a long time.

I think software subscriptions are a scam, but I don’t mind buying a perpetual license that is only good up to a certain version with additional fees for newer versions. It’s also fair to charge a recurring fee for something that has recurring hosting costs like a VPN, cloud storage, etc.

If they weren’t such dipshits, the “lifetime pass” should have been a perpetual license you can keep using as long as you want, but charge an optional fee for newer versions if you want to upgrade and get more features. They should also have offered a hosted service to make your instance available to others and charge a monthly fee for that. I think people would’ve been fine with all that.

Good point, although on the local scale you mention, wildlife could still be impacted. Hopefully, the overall impact on the ecosystem will be monitored and studied before expanding these data centers more broadly.

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I guess anyone who uses ShitLocker is shit out of LUKS.

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I run Mint on a HTPC currently, but it might be worth switching to a different distro for this.

We are planning to join the Plasma release schedule starting with Plasma 6.7 (in June), which will make it possible for distributions to ship it in their repositories.

I’m imagining it will only be available in rolling release distros for a while.

I assume Valve would prefer everyone use Steam.