Programmer and sysadmin (DevOps?), wannabe polymath in tech, science and the mind. Neurodivergent, disabled, burned out, and close to throwing in the towel, but still liking ponies 🦄 and sometimes willing to discuss stuff.
Even more interesting than this whole kerfuffle, are the conversations taking place around it. They look like driven by AIs, with different agendas, trying to discredit and ridicule whatever opponent they identify, rather than interested in finding out what’s really going on.
Have the AI Wars started already?
Q: What does it take for $1 trillion of “wealth” to evaporate?
A: Say your state-sponsored thinking machine cost 1000 times less to develop.
Sounds like you are not being bad for the website, but for the advertisers, picking the most paying ones to sponsor your video watching time.
You might be slightly worse to the website, if instead of Atlanta, you were to travel around and decided to skip all the ads from a place where it’s barely economical for them:
https://en.sni-hub.com/vpn/the-cheapest-countries-for-youtube-premium/
That’s the beauty of a distributed network, not all parts need to look the same.
Nah, just being “helpful and harmless”… when “harm” = “anything against the CCP”.
I’ve seen announcements about Azure making all the Deepseek and later models (Alibaba’s, etc) available… but that’s at Azure’s pricing.