We require additional tungsten
06.03.2026 06:40 — 👍 23 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0@segyges.bsky.social
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We require additional tungsten
06.03.2026 06:40 — 👍 23 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0wait. what
06.03.2026 06:26 — 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0the funniest shit anyone has said all day
06.03.2026 06:19 — 👍 37 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0So is @sky.skymarchini.net ready to take the L and admit that Trump was able to make Orinoco oil extraction pencil out?
06.03.2026 06:10 — 👍 131 🔁 11 💬 11 📌 2we have pritzker similarly but they might all notice they look like suckers by comparison
06.03.2026 06:14 — 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0they're Democrats in the sense that even their states' conservatives are Democrats, i think
06.03.2026 06:13 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0we take human advancement for granted. a gun would kill a medieval peasant
06.03.2026 02:38 — 👍 41 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 1one of very few people i simply blocked because it was clear that there was no glory in having them block me
06.03.2026 06:08 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0i feel like you gotta be able to use terraform with them right
06.03.2026 06:07 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0it's an incredibly boring distribution, no? like, shockingly so. a true achievement
06.03.2026 06:00 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0... i think they literally don't work for what i am doing since i am on pytorch nightly
06.03.2026 06:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0inordinately pleased that democrats have figured out the play here
06.03.2026 05:59 — 👍 117 🔁 10 💬 4 📌 0why would a sober technocrat give another country so much for nothing in return?
06.03.2026 05:57 — 👍 98 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0nvidia drivers finally convinced me to just install fedora again since it's basically never been a problem
06.03.2026 05:54 — 👍 22 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0i mean it will. it is fundamentally anti soul technology
06.03.2026 05:44 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0believe it or not this is an older use case, newer models are merely very good at it now
06.03.2026 05:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0that is in fact the natural result
06.03.2026 05:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0oh god is that what happened
06.03.2026 04:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0well one of the key levers is political power and many of the people who have a lot of activist weight on the issue are signalling that, if given political power, they are going to spend it on something other than who owns or controls the thing
06.03.2026 04:10 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0sure, four, why not
06.03.2026 04:04 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0you shouldn't be a luddite because they lost so hard that by the time Marx was writing they were a cautionary tale about how to lose so hard that the next generation of activists only use you as a punchline
06.03.2026 04:03 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0yes. everyone i find the most frustrating is unwilling or unable to drill down to who owns and controls the thing as the problem
06.03.2026 04:02 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0that sounds about right, yes.
06.03.2026 04:00 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0a traditionally right-wing motto concerning two boxes
06.03.2026 03:59 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0this already happened. everyone can see the writing on the wall. you cannot bargain with leverage everyone knows is vanishing
06.03.2026 03:53 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0the entire shape of power changes based on the technology but the key problem is, in the end, who has it
06.03.2026 03:51 — 👍 27 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 2this was also true of the automatic loom and the entire industrial revolution, and i had thought that we had collectively reached an at-least-marxist understanding of the matter, but have realized i was very mistaken
06.03.2026 03:51 — 👍 24 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0asking people to get sued or not be officially oss was not considered reasonable
06.03.2026 03:49 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0basically the oss definition excludes training data but asks that it be described in sufficient detail to reproduce it because people kept suing us for training data
06.03.2026 03:49 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
oh i misremembered the definition
anyway these are all minor nits compared to the extremely non oss models often called oss like llama
opensource.org/ai/open-sour...