The mid 90s to early 2000s gen on gen gains are rolling over in their grave.

For some reason this reminds me of the “effective altruism” movement (if you can call it a movement).

Should a program like that be initiated, they will admit that they are edgelords / demagogues and they don’t actually believe in any of this (the NK stuff in particular is strong evidence that this is all online roleplay).

A democratic society? Since when does a democratic society have a leader for life and organises mass killings and torture of citizens?

Iran is aiding russia in its genocidal imperialist invasion of Ukraine, or does that not count?

Is this a satirical comedy account? A parody of “Lemmy leftists”?

If you read the article, it wasn’t because of torrents, but sanctions on Russians.

I am referring to the use and marketing of Grok for making nude deepfakes and CSAM.

Further in this thread you claim that people are allegedly detached from reality. The reality of the matter is that Apple’s app store policy is not consistent and there are special rules for certain entities.

Surely CSAM generation and involuntary nude deepfakes are a bigger deal than piracy, I think an average person on the street (in any country, doesn’t have to be the US) would agree with me.

I also don’t see where judges come into play? Has Rave been sued in court?

2016 was a pretty good year by PC component standards, just before crypto got big, and then the COVID spike and AI now fueled priced increases.

We also got the 1080 in 2016 which I would argue is probably one of the best high end GPU products from both an absolute performance and price to performance ratio.

This reads almost like a parody.

I see. Agreed, the root cause for the rise of oligarchy is arguably a much bigger issue than any given individual oligarch.

Did Apple remove Grok? A quick web search suggests they did not…

I will quote your post since it’s worth sharing with other people (this was news to me, but I am not surprised at all)

Are we supposed to bring back the whole history every time Rimu comments anywhere?

• an anarchist.nexus admin calls for murder of Zionists in their username
• a LW admin and Rimu gets qualified as Zionists in dbzer0 community modlogs
• LW defederates anarchist.nexus
• Rimu bans that admin
• that anarchist.nexus admin changes their username and steps down as admin
• LW refederates anarchist.nexus
• Rimu asks the dbzer0 staff to act on the modlog calling him a Zionist, no action is taken, the dbzer0 staff advices him to ignore that
• Rimu discovers that a dbzer0 mod has been using a LLM for moderation. That mod has been somehow pretending to use OpenAI to upset the !fuckai crowd, actually it was a local freeware model. He posts about it.
• a dbzer0 admin reverts the ban calling Rimu a Zionist after I asked
• Rimu is still upset, doesn’t take the previous action into account and keeps the post about LLM moderation up
• You bring it up here

Really goes to show how “leftists” on the Threadiverse are committed to acting in good faith.

anarchist/pro-trans stance

This sounds like you are fishing for sympathy. Do you have anything to back up the claim about opposition to a pro-trans stance?

I don’t doubt it will provide generational upgrades relative to their own SoCs, but how will it compare to Qualcomm?

I am curious what do you see as being disease? What’s going on in the US seems like a pretty typical oligarch takeover of political parties, judiciary and media (this is not even something unique to the US, can and does happen in many places).

Solving the disease of course depends on the given local context, but more often than not you will have to prosecute oligarchs in addition to a broader package of anti-corruption and judicial reforms.

No need to shoot him, we just need an independent court to put him on trial for enablement of the Rohingya genocide and knowingly gaining $14 B in commissions from fraud (while developing a “playbook” to claim that this was legal).

Don’t even need to shoot him, it would be much better to give him 50 year community service as a junior janitor on the Rohingya refugee camp on the island of Bhasan Char should he be found responsible. If he is too good for that, than he can do 50 years in prison instead.

This should also apply to any other senior executives involved in these two cases.

And these are just two cases, there are definitely other, less well known, “regional” cases involving Meta goons and Zuckerberg.

They are going to keep working on proprietary features, it’s essential for undermining price competition (I am taking Nvidia’s perspective for the sake of argument).

something like 15% of Taiwan’s total electrical power usage goes to chip fabs

IRL cyberpunk

The only real competition is coming from China.

That being said, Japan might offer a competitive option with Rapidus, but it’s tough, they’ve been building out the infrastructure and ecosystem since 2022 and they have yet to show any results.

Europe should have started a initiative like Rapidus many years ago, especially with the extremely high likelihood of the US turning into a corrupt, chauvinist oligarchy for the next 20-30 years.

But European leadership is subpar (look at Merkel) and the European population needs to wake up. I don’t mean this in the American pompous polemical sense, I mean this in the Ukrainian (or Georgian) sense.

Grimes County; what an interesting coincidence.

This is a fair take, but an arguement can be made that modern semiconductor manufacturing is so complex that there is some truth to the framing of the article.

That being said, I strongly disagree with the notion that there is anything to admire about SpaceX employees.

From my perspective, these people are employees of a cruel, murderous American oligarch. Just because they overcame very notable engineering challenges, one should simply dismiss that?

I would have no issue if they got to experience the same thing their oligarch leader did to others (with the same level of public callousness with respect to their well being).

Someone like Andrei Sakharov is worthy of admiration (if we are focused on the engineering domain).

SpaceX engineers (or really any American-style careerists) are just self-interested regime apparatchiks; albeit ones with great skills.