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[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 112 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's not a theory. A theory would have some evidence or reasoning behind it, even with the colloquial version of the word.

No, what's actually happening is a propaganda campaign. A really obvious one. And the same rich people proposing this "theory" are the ones directly and intentionally funding it.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The market is insane. The valuations for stocks connected in any way to "AI" have no connection to reality whatsoever.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago

Hey, could you edit this to not have the entire body of the article?

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

As others have pointed out, the compute cost of inference is only one small part of the puzzle. All the frontier model providers - which OpenRouter gives you access to - are massively raising their prices in desperate bids to recoup the cost of model generation in the first place.

There's really no hiding from the token apocalypse unless you're running a model on your own hardware.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 61 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

The unique thing about GitHub Copilot (and all the other vibe-coding tools) is that they're speed-running the playbook because this shit is not profitable. It can't be. Their costs scale up with usage, unlike every other business that can take advantage of economies of scale, so they've skipped the slow, steady enshittification phase and jumped directly into the "squeeze blood from this stone to keep the scam going a little longer" phase.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 47 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, my completely non-techie family members could become "hackers" easily that way.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Fun pattern with 8s

  • 8x1 = 8. Add digits, you get 8.
  • 8x2 = 16. Add digits, you get 7.
  • 8x3 = 24. Add digits, you get 6.
  • 8x4 = 32. Add digits, you get 5.
  • 8x5 = 40. Add digits, you get 4.

Now from there, you'd think the pattern breaks, but it's actually just the first sequence in a larger pattern.

  • 8x6 = 48. Add digits (second sequence): 12. Add again: 3.
  • 8x7 = 56. Add digits: 11. Add again: 2.
  • 8x8 = 64. Add digits: 10. Add again: 1.

Then it gets interesting:

  • 8x8 = 72. Add digits: 9. And now you finished the first sequence (from 8 to 0).
  • 8x10 = 80. Add digits: 8 (second sequence).
  • 8x11 = 88. Add digits (third sequence): 16. Add again (second sequence): 7
  • 8x12 = 96. Add digits: 15. Add again: 6.

And it keeps going like that.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

Yup. Money is important only in that it leads to control and power.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago (13 children)

True, but misses the point. The user interface is basically broken now, and the fact that you can scroll down to something useful doesn't mean the broken bits don't matter.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Should actually be "Trouȝt."

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 30 points 3 weeks ago (14 children)

Why are you like this?

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 117 points 3 weeks ago

It's listed as medium severity and appears to require the hacker to already have terminal access to the system. It's also already patched and there's a quick and easy workaround if your distro doesn't have the fix yet.

 

Look, I get it. The gargantuan shit-show that is U.S. politics and the American descent into fascism is on everyone's minds. It's certainly on mine.

But the point of this community is to highlight weird news stories that make you go, "By golly, I thought I was reading a headline from The Onion. You know, America's finest news source." A lot of stories being posted lately don't even remotely fit that.

That doesn't mean political stories aren't allowed here, but they must have headlines that would make people pause and wonder if it's a story from The Onion. Straight up regular, non Onion-y headlines don't fit.

 

Hi everyone,

News is weird. When it's weird enough, it reads like articles from The Onion, and that's what we're all about. But as the community grows, there's more and more content being posted here that just isn't very Onion-y.

Jimmy Carter Becomes Second President Convicted Of Felony For Sticking Up Waffle House

Take a look at that headline from The Onion today. Or this one:

World Series Of Poker Entrants Play One Hand Face-Up So Everyone Can Learn Rules

Or this one:

New Hormone-Free IUD Wards Off Sperm With Steady Emission Of Police-Grade Pepper Spray

That's the flavor we're going for. We want real, credible news articles with headlines that read like they're from The Onion.

This is not the community for:

  • Non-Onion-y political news (it's gotta be absurd enough to look Onion-y)
  • Non-Onion-y regular news (it's gotta be absurd enough to look Onion-y)
  • Satire (it's gotta be actual news)
  • Fake news from fly-by-night "news" sites (again, it's gotta be actual news)

That means not every ridiculous thing a politician does qualifies as appropriate content here.

I need your help, though... I need people to report content that just isn't Onion-y, and I need people to try not to post non-Onion-y content in the first place.

Finally, I need help moderating, so this is also a formal call for new mods! Post below if you think you're ready to take on moderation for one of the larger Lemmy communities! Tell me why you'd like to mod, and link to a news story from any time (it doesn't have to be current) that has a properly Onion-y headline, to show that you really get this community.

I'll pick two people to become new moderators for the community from participants. Good luck!

 

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida man was arrested last month after admitting he sent a bomb threat to himself to get “revenge” on someone, according to a criminal complaint obtained by NBC affiliate WBBH.

 

Democrat Tom Suozzi has won the New York special election to the U.S. House, according to an AP race call. Suozzi will serve out the remainder of the term for former GOP Rep. George Santos, who was expelled from the House last year.

 

A Florida man was arrested Tuesday morning after he drove through a closed beach and into the ocean in Volusia County.

According to the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office, shortly before 9 a.m., deputies were called to New Smyrna Beach after a vehicle drove around a closed gate and accessed the beach without paying the toll fee.

 

In the first day they sent out flyers, the After School Satan Club already has three students signed up for the new year.

 

We've been getting some weird posts lately that... Well, they're not making me think it's gotta be an Onion headline, that's for sure.

So just a little refresher. Posts should be:

  1. Links to news stories from…
  2. …credible sources, with…
  3. …their original headlines, that…
  4. …would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

If it's not Onion-y, it doesn't belong here. Bizarre, horrific, and violent news can be here if the headline reads like something out of The Onion, but if it doesn't, it's going away. And if there's too much non-Onion-like content from an account, that account is going away, too.

If you're not sure whether the real news headline you've found is like The Onion, here's a few sample Onion headlines from today:

  • "Visiting Friend Pleasantly Surprised By City’s Open Hostility Toward Homeless People"
  • "Increasingly Powerful Trans Person Capable Of Using Every Single Bathroom At Once"
  • "Man Feels Like Bystanders Are Arguing For Him To Put Gun Down In Bad Faith"
  • "Wally The Emotional Support Alligator Went To See The Phillies"
  • ‘New York Times’ Issues Apology For Reporting Palestinian Deaths

See? Find headlines from real news outlets that remind you of headlines like those. And just to prove my point: One of them is real.

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