Chinesium is still no match for Taiwanesium lol

In a way it has actually.

Deepseek was big because not only did they publish the full model for everyone to use, but the MoE structure significantly brought down the hardware requirements in terms of processing power. As long as you have enough VRAM, you can run it on older hardware with no need for the latest Nvidia stuff.

Now they got v4 which many have found to be within a 10% margin of Claude and ChatGPT.

On top of that, China has cheapo VRAM GPUs available or soon to be released, like the MTT S80. Yeah it sucks as a Graphics card because the chip is behind, but you get 16Gb of GDDR6 for much cheaper than anything else.

But its not a conspiracy to fight China. The infinite scaling was just Nvidia solidifying themselves as the monopoly because they want all AI infrastructure to be dependent on them, which is why they still illegally export to China, despite an export ban attempting to reduce their potential competition.

Moore Threads (MTT) already has their own CUDA like system called MUSA, and I’m sure they’ll be happy to put in proper hardware support for new stuff like Bf16 and FP8/4. It’ll take a few years, but eventually China will catch up to the point where Nvidia gets shanked by cheaper hardware.

Lol please. America already gutted its entire industrial base to the point where there’s a permanent shortage of blue collar jobs, and most people are working crappy wages in a service role for whichever megacorp owns the entire market.

AI could take over tomorrow and there wouldn’t be enough people to care, despite getting utterly screwed over.

It might only get ugly if purchasing power collapses and causes solvency. Otherwise it’ll just continue to degrade into an infinite debt economy which is basically just generational slavery like a significant portion of exploited labor and human trafficking already is.

Don’t worry though, there’s a million other problems that’ll probably pop the bubble first anyway lol.

Seems more like China trying to prevent growing their existent reliance on Nvidia, even with a watered down card.

Deepseek was big but they basically made a hacked Nvidia driver allowing them to use NVLink, which Nvidia had software banned similar to this export GPU.

I don’t think China has the domestic production to fill the gap yet, but they don’t want everyone vendor locked so they’re willing to give up faster compute for a while if it means their businesses will use something local.

This is why glass, metal, and paper recycling will always be superior lol.

Also Proton: “metadata logging does not count as logging, and handing our logs, I mean non existent logs that only contains totally useless metadata, over to the Swiss government is fine because its the Swiss law”

I thought they were making complete bank by getting rid of their exclusives and going the open platform route (which everyone complained about)?

They did so well that Xbox became an irrelevant choice between PC and Playstation.

Plus they were doing delayed PC releases, so I don’t really see how that would affect PS sales since the port would come out much later.

GitHub gets autoscanned by thousands of malicious actors for keys and credentials on every commit, including the comments lol.

The fact that CISA themselves never saw an automated breach attempt only minutes after pushing to github is the more interesting story here.

Either the contractor is so incompetent that they didn’t have any logging set up and the breach went completely unnoticed for 6 months.

Or this really is some fat honeypot that they won’t admit is a honeypot because they’ve been using it to watch or bait APTs.

Currently, there is no indication that any sensitive data was compromised as a result of this incident

This is literally impossible unless it really was a honeypot. You can demo this yourself in real time. Make a throwaway cloud account on your favorite provider, commit the cloud auth token into a repo, and you will see an automated bot login within minutes.

Commiting any secrets to a public repo should just be considered auto compromised because of how potent it is.

That stuff ususlly gets exposed via poor CI/CD permissions where credentials are required, but straight up file commit is like publicly announcing exactly where you left your house keys lol.

Nothing will top lawn dart and the slick F-86 haha

Cuba should just announce their intention to join the US as the 51st state and watch the administration do an overnight 180 just for shits n giggles lol.

There’s no future where the US invades and doesn’t just keep it as an occupied territory.

completely remote teams.

There were actually a lot of these in startup type companies before covid hit.

The best ones were the ones that treated whatever comm app they used like an open discord channel and not virtualized meetings lol.

The former generates the same social relationships as an office because its your typical meme/gossip/rant/catchup/work talk you would otherwise have with your coworkers.

But if it’s the latter, every interaction is treated like a meeting which very quickly removes that type of communication, which is defnitley unhealthy for both you and the company at large since everyone gets treated as homogenous.

They’re fun as fuck.

Some of the best pics I have are from an air show! f35

F-22 for life lol, 2000s era Lockheed tincan doesn’t even look good after they threw all my tax money at it.

Part of the Snowden leaks showed that the NSA had made exploits for a ton of vendors that abused vulnerable SMEs with special versions for various servers.

I think it was shortly afterwards that Intel downstream OEMs started offering a reduced/partially disabled ME for general government purchases only, which is how some of the custom ME disable projects work.

But the fact that neither Intel nor AMD bothers to explain why the ME needs to exist is insane, especially since it runs at ring -2 above ring -1 where the original boot process starts.

IME having a full network stack is crazy. Imagine telling people they have a complete hardcoded OS running on every machine with complete host and network access.

Someone has paid fat stacks to keep the media quiet, even after the massive vulnerability disclosures.

I heard nonstop reports about spectre and meltdown in the general news for a year, but I never heard a peep about SA-00086 or even the IME much later after its introduction.

How much does colocation end up costing?

I doubt it’d be worth it, but it would be funny to move my dated homelab servers next to some shiny new stuff and get SLA level internet.

NIMBY is usually more to do with perceived loss in value though no?

People don’t want AI datacenters because they are directly offloading energy costs to neighborhoods via substantially higher power bills. Which is happening because the demand is so high, they can’t compensate by building more power sources in the same time frame.

That and the poor reception to the AI market, which is wrecking jobs, the economy, etc.

Otherwise, datacenters were pretty well known for being built with very little resistance before this, especially since lots of providers, like Google, would fund geopower sources to power their datacenters which would add power to the grid with surplus.

I know people are reacting like its expected anyway because of the amount of espionage that goes on, but this is honestly more of a cold war era tactic.

Why would China risk souring relations right after a major diplomatic trip with some throw away gadgets that any competent military security would find immediately and proceed to document it?

China can just get that high level information via a million other ways including Trump himself. They probably have a truthsocial scrapper that automatically tells them exactly what Trump is gonna do next by deciphering his insane posts lol.

Switch was what made me realize golden era of gaming was over, but it took about a year to set in because of the disconnect between the NX presentation and the actual product.

Seriously, go take a look at the original NX Switch presentation and it would almost seem that Nintendo was selling a completely different product.

All of the Wii era inspired hardware went mostly unused because the Switch couldn’t play Wii games, and Nintendo didn’t bother to even port their own titles outside of recycled Wii U content that didn’t sell well on the original console.

The software similarly was a joke. I have more functionality on a Nintendo DS than a Switch, and that isn’t even including “unofficial” homebrew. You can’t even voice chat with your friends without using an external app, which is insane considering the DS, DSi, 3DS, Wii, and Wii U that preceded this.

Major features that gave Nintendo the edge were gone. DS Downlaod Play, Streetpass, included minigames & apps, themes, free online, eshop points, wifi events, etc.

On top of that, the library was just not interesting enough to warrant paying $60 a pop for single player games, and the multiplayer selection was sparse, despite the main feature of the console being joycon controllers.

I got bored of it after only a year, and ended up having to change the joycon c-sticks a couple years later because of the drift issues.

IMO it was a massive success just because of the portable format allowing you to play big name games on the go, but it absolutely fails as a handheld console when compared to the DS line, which did so much more for so much less.

Now that other handhelds like the Steam Deck, AYN stuff, Legion, etc exist, there’s really no need to buy a Switch (2) for third party titles, which makes it a complete Nintendo only buy in.

The kicker is that Nintendo made absolute bank which is now why the Switch 2 is going for $450 (soon to be $500) and bumped their game prices to a whopping $70-80 because they know people were fine with it.

If I had more time on my hands, I would legitimately go make a modern version of Streetpass and download play for modern handhelds because that stuff was so cool and useful.

TPM microslop magic.

What’s even funnier is that we already have TCG, ISE, and SE drives that hardware encrypt AES256 by design, so you still get at least an instant delete option if you never bother to set a key.

Windows wants to double screw you over by never telling you it added a key, and then leaving you dead in the water if your TPM breaks, and then also failing to maintain their own TPM requirements making it completely useless lol.

“They’re laying us off to boost stock price” and “After earnings call, they’re rehiring us”

https://youtu.be/WAUnmQt2Z7Y

Forget US and China, Pakistan next door forces their hand every 5 years lol.

Which is an insult considering its a military regime state built on IMF loans and an economy that has been kaput for nearly 2 decades.

India actually has serious geopolitical leverage but Modi doesn’t use it like former PMs have because he traded it all away in exchange to be a suck up to foreign powers, especially the US, despite India historically being a close Russian ally.