It seems unlikely that it’s all that mysterious

OpenAI/Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Google

There you go I solved the mystery

The interfaces are relatively modern too, with VGA and a PS/2 keyboard.

The prospect of cutting out all those $130k salaries is a hell of a drug

Also, export your DBs first, and snapshot the export instead of the raw DB files

borg

I once watched a depression era family member of mine dismantle a Chinese take out container, flatten and wash the cardboard part of it and then put it in the paper recycling, and straighten out the wire handle to put into a little jar with other wires and bits of metal.

Same family member once showed me a stack of paper grocery bags she had taken into her place from her building’s paper recycling, upset that someone had thrown away perfectly good paper bags.

A lot of the best communities to be in have a barrier to entry

The community of pilots, the people who work in medicine or on floor X, the people who are proud of what they can accomplish and recognize automatically that the value of the interactions they have are not worthless.

Idk how you bring that to the online space. But it is missing, yes. I like this essay.

You need to read again the thing that was described, more carefully. Imagine for example that by “a page,” the person means a page called /juicy-content or something.

I know this because i wrote a page that IP bans anything that visits it, and l also put it as a not allowed spot in the robots.txt file.

This is fuckin GENIUS

Many of their talented engineers have moved on to other companies, some new startups and some already-established ones.

When did this happen? I know some of the leadership departed but I hadn’t heard of it from the rank and file.

I’m not saying necessarily that you’re wrong; definitely it seems like something has changed between the days of GPT-3 and GPT-4 up until the present day. I just hadn’t heard of it.

There are a lot of folks in tech who really just want to build neat things and it feels oppressive to be in a company that’s likely to lock away the things they build if they turn out to be too neat.

I’m not sure this is true for AI. Some of the people who are most worried about AI safety are the AI engineers. I have some impression that OpenAI’s safety focus was why so many people liked working for them, back when they were doing groundbreaking work.

If they closed down, and the people still aligned with safety had to take up the mantle, that would be fine.

If they got desperate for money and started looking for people they could sell their soul to (more than they have already) in exchange for keeping the doors open, that could potentially be pretty fuckin bad.

They don’t care if the cat videos are on a banana sub.

I don’t know why but I can’t stop laughing at this

Your Lemmy posts are already being scraped for AI

The level of effort it would take to prevent would be infeasible to ask of even a non volunteer admin let alone a volunteer let alone literally all of them

The cycle continues:

• Hey you guys can have everything for free
• WTF this is expensive to provide, I think I’m gonna start taking advantage of you guys which someone will pay me to do
• WTF where’s everyone going
• WTF I’m still losing money and always have been
• Screw you guys, screw everybody, I didn’t want y’all anyway
• (fades into irrelevance, gets bought by someone and stripped for parts)

Idk it’s not as pithy as Cory Doctorow’s version I guess

Anyway we’re at step 5 at this point

I kinda doubt there’s gonna be any level of shitstorm

This is, however, hilarious.

I was imagining things, as is tradition

I thought it was confirmed to be Piefed once that is complete enough to be useful. Idk, though, maybe that is me just imagining things.

Edit: I am imagining things, it is Sublinks

Oh, it might be that. That actually makes more sense.

I just know that I always heard it as so you wouldn’t electrocute yourself, and that the first time I opened up a monitor for something and actually found one, I was beyond delighted

I, too, miss the days when you could write literally anything in XF86Config and that’s the signal it would send to your monitor. There was a warning in the docs that you could easily fry your monitor by sending a signal that it couldn’t handle that would cause physical damage so please be careful.

Also, the good monitors came with an all-plastic screwdriver attached on the inside of the case, so that you would have one available that you couldn’t electrocute yourself with on the big capacitor since at that point you’d already revealed that you planned to open the thing up and start fuckin with it.

It was wonderful days

Honestly? If you’re still on Twitter at this point, that’s on you.