Cheers.

Yeah, I am aware they launched.

I am sticking to the my [email protected] instance, sub and engagement growth is decent and it’s a topic of interest for me. :)

Makes sense.

Perhaps the ad-free prime video subscription could be a viable option if prime has a lot of your favourite shows and you are opposed to piracy?

Not judging or telling you what to do. Just thinking out loud.

I would just go with piracy if you don’t want to pay the ad free tier.

Depends on what kind of games you play. Economic strategy games (tycoons, city-builders, large scale simulation games) can easily bring even a modern CPU to it’s knees.

Cheers, been looking for something like this (used pushbullet back in the day, but stopped after they changed their policies).

It seems that the ~$3.7 billion revenue figure is from this NYT article.

Some interesting background:

Roughly 10 million ChatGPT users pay the company a $20 monthly fee, according to the documents. OpenAI expects to raise that price by $2 by the end of the year, and will aggressively raise it to $44 over the next five years, the documents said.

It will be interesting to see if their predictions turn out to be true. $44 a month seems steep for a LLM, not to mention there will likely be a lot of competition both from cloud LLM providers and local LLM initiatives.

His involvement in the infamous WorldCoin provides useful insight into his character.

An oligarch and a degenerate (outside the US many oligarchs have a more or less sober understanding of who they are, although degeneracy among oligarchs is a global issue).

We are all waiting. If they don’t come up with proven revenue opportunities in the next ~18 months, it’s going to be difficult to justify the astronomical capex spend.

I was curious about their methodology for counting “internet shutdowns”.

I live in Ukraine and I have not experienced government run internet shutdowns since the full scale russian invasion. We do block russian resources (pretty easy to overcome via VPN), but that’s understandable as they spread genocidal propaganda.

The internet does go down for some providers when there are longer brownouts, but that’s related to the russians targeting the energy infrastructure. To my knowledge even frontline towns (i.e. 10km to the front) still have internet if there is capability to provide it. I believe towns ~20 km from the frontline are actually exempt from planned power shutdowns when there is too much load on the system (due to russians destroying ~60% of our electricity production capacity).

So I looked into their dataset (direct google sheets link).

And low and behold, this is what I found:

They do explicitly state that “Shutdowns were imposed by external parties in Palestine and Ukraine”, but it seems strange to include such cases considering this is different from the approach used in India.

Committed fans.

It’s not like he will be spending the cash exclusively on blow, model escorts and yachts.

Part will go into real investments. And he is well positioned to time an AI pump and dump.

I have zero knowledge about the details and processes involved in security issue disclosure and even I get the feeling something is off about Margitelli’s post.

He can let his findings speak for themselves when they are responsibly disclosed (and then start the sensationalism).

Oh, I think Altman is smart enough to develop contingency plans to maximize benefits for himself at the peak of the hype and leave someone else holding his bags. He is a grifter, a conman, he will say his grandmother is fat ugly whore is he think he can benefit from it while “managing” the PR impact.

That being said, the contrast between the comically bombastic statements about AI utopia (that clearly benefit him financially) and the teenage-level presentation and research (the topics he brings up is serious, it is not enough to shit out a low effort blog post) is a sight to behold.

In principle, I agree with you.

Considering Lemmy/Threadiverse’s DAUs/MAUs, an argument can be made that discoverability, user engagement and on-boarding needs work.

American oligarchs really believe their shit doesn’t smell.

While I was not able to confirm that this does indeed run linux, considering it’s based on a Raspberry Pi, the probability is very high.

This really is the only way if we want competition (lower prices) and choice. All actual revenues would be derived from service provision (consulting, customization, tech support, certification).

From a “small c” capitalism perspective, it is not normal that MS, Nvidia, Apple have such insane margins. Competition should have forced them to lower prices while offering the same level of products/services.

Did not know that. But that that’s exactly how it is supposed to work.

Mastadon has a huge far right population?

I do believe industrial scale sodium battery systems are ramping up.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/03/next-gen-battery-tech-reimagining-every-aspect-of-batteries/2/

There is likely some level of industrial inertia and ramp-up impact.