Elon Musk bought Twitter.

[Slick]

It's a bad idea, but I imagine there'll be some painful job losses before the higher ups (Zuck) accept it. Look at the metaverse flop and the bizarre attempt to bring back smart glasses in partnership with Rayban.

Trump isn't even in the door and the tech oligarchs are falling over themselves too outdo each other in pseudo Randian cuntiness. We might laugh but this will embolden others in attempting to ape that cuntiness.

What is their end game here?
99% of the globe living like this and the remainder buying their produce?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdrylgvr77jo

It's remarkable how they are all falling into line, and all the time the true MAGA are getting slowly screwed.

[Tichtheid]

It's a bad idea, but I imagine there'll be some painful job losses before the higher ups (Zuck) accept it. Look at the metaverse flop and the bizarre attempt to bring back smart glasses in partnership with Rayban.

Trump isn't even in the door and the tech oligarchs are falling over themselves too outdo each other in pseudo Randian cuntiness. We might laugh but this will embolden others in attempting to ape that cuntiness.

What is their end game here?
99% of the globe living like this and the remainder buying their produce?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdrylgvr77jo

It's remarkable how they are all falling into line, and all the time the true MAGA are getting slowly screwed.

Which would be fine if they were the only ones getting screwed - they voted for it after all, but just like the Brexit twats, everyone suffers because of their inability, or unwillingness, to see through the con.

[Insane_Homer]

[Insane_Homer]

Musk gaming boasts picked apart rather nicely

[fishfoodie]

Meta want to replace mid level engineers with AI.
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2521499/zu ... -this-year

<nerd hat on>

My day-to-day programming IDE recently got an AI helper bolted on, & I have to say it is very good at code completion, & saves a fair bit of typing, & I've used co-pilot a few times myself to get blocks of code to get me started on something.

The problem is generally when this AI code meets something written by a human !

I work a lot with AWS APIs, & every fucking one of them has a slightly different syntax, & the data structures returned are different, & that's before you take the churn in versions into account. So while the AI can do a decent job writing code for 80% of the time, it won't be good enough for the 20% that counts, & that's where humans are needed.

The AI also seems to never have considered the coding standards that the rest of us have to adhere to, so simple stuff like decent, consistent, variable naming, & comments etc don't exist, so code maintenance on anything written by AI is a bloody nightmare.

[Calculon]

good piece on Elon

https://samharris.substack.com/p/the-trouble-with-elon

[Sandstorm]

BBC are going all-in on Musk. I watched 2 different news bulletins and heard 1 radio show and each time the BBC host tried to bring Musk into the conversation when he had absolutely nothing to do with it!

Fortunately 2 of the 3 guests just batted it away.

[tabascoboy]

Well then...
(play the video, it's not just a single "unfortunate" frame capture)

[Hellraiser]

He's completely off his tits on ketamine.

[Niegs]

[Hellraiser]

[Insane_Homer]

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[Hal Jordan]

BMW UK have left Twitter.

[Biffer]

Might be a lot of German companies doing that in particular

[tabascoboy]

Is his mental age about 13?

[inactionman]

Displayed against the side of the gigafactory in Berlin

Done by activists, but it says something when I was prepared to assume he'd done it himself.

[Guy Smiley]

Displayed against the side of the gigafactory in Berlin

Done by activists, but it's says something when I was prepared to assume he'd done it himself.

Led by donkeys. I think.,

[dpedin]

BMW UK have left Twitter.

As soon as the SRU, Embra and the Weegies move to Bluesky then my Twitter account is closing down!

[Biffer]

BMW UK have left Twitter.

As soon as the SRU, Embra and the Weegies move to Bluesky then my Twitter account is closing down!

There are people making the point to government that by only posting on twitter, they're giving a competitive advantage to a private enterprise.

[inactionman]

RFU - as England Rugby - have a bluesky account but nothing posted on it as yet.

[dpedin]

RFU - as England Rugby - have a bluesky account but nothing posted on it as yet.

Hopefully the SRU will be getting the message soon! Bluesky is a bit like the old days of Twitter - it's a bit like coming here after the shitshow of the other place we used to belong to!

[Biffer]

RFU - as England Rugby - have a bluesky account but nothing posted on it as yet.

Hopefully the SRU will be getting the message soon! Bluesky is a bit like the old days of Twitter - it's a bit like coming here after the shitshow of the other place we used to belong to!

Yep. And most people over there seem incloned to just block rather than argue with trolls and/or fuckwits. And the algorithm doesn't reward engagement, so doesn't over promote the arseholes.

[Guy Smiley]

[Yeeb]

German authorities will allow those protests right up until he shuts that factory in a fit of pique

[laurent]

German authorities will allow those protests right up until he shuts that factory in a fit of pique

It's not open AFAIK

You should all try mastodon if you want the old day twitter without adds or algorithm.

Bluesky already has harassment issues. (a belgian journalist / fact checker I follow got hounded of twatter then of bluesky...)

[Slick]

German authorities will allow those protests right up until he shuts that factory in a fit of pique

It's not open AFAIK

You should all try mastodon if you want the old day twitter without adds or algorithm.

Bluesky already has harassment issues. (a belgian journalist / fact checker I follow got hounded of twatter then of bluesky...)

I lasted 48 hours on BlueSky, full of smug arseholes, just a different type

[Yeeb]

German authorities will allow those protests right up until he shuts that factory in a fit of pique

It's not open AFAIK

You should all try mastodon if you want the old day twitter without adds or algorithm.

Bluesky already has harassment issues. (a belgian journalist / fact checker I follow got hounded of twatter then of bluesky...)

I lasted 48 hours on BlueSky, full of smug arseholes, just a different type

Ah thought you’d be fine there



*smug*

[Slick]

It's not open AFAIK

You should all try mastodon if you want the old day twitter without adds or algorithm.

Bluesky already has harassment issues. (a belgian journalist / fact checker I follow got hounded of twatter then of bluesky...)

I lasted 48 hours on BlueSky, full of smug arseholes, just a different type

Ah thought you’d be fine there



*smug*

[Hellraiser]

[Uncle fester]

BMW UK have left Twitter.

As soon as the SRU, Embra and the Weegies move to Bluesky then my Twitter account is closing down!

I've been busy transferring follows from my xitter to blue sky and I've noticed that a lot of rugby accounts don't seem to have a blue sky presence.

[laurent]

BMW UK have left Twitter.

As soon as the SRU, Embra and the Weegies move to Bluesky then my Twitter account is closing down!

I've been busy transferring follows from my xitter to blue sky and I've noticed that a lot of rugby accounts don't seem to have a blue sky presence.

Well I am on mastodon (rugby community is thin there but it gets more busy around the internationals )

[Yeeb]

Lolz, I am so shit, have never heard of those platforms and only heard about mastodon the band.

I’ve long since run out of exes to laugh at weight and age gain so not that fussed about moving to any new social media. Anything worthwhile eventually gets tagged on Facebook anyways, like those wipe wipe wipe it down wipe videos, or the ones where the skateboarder crashes his bollocks into a post

[Hellraiser]

Unfortunate but apt picture.

[Uncle fester]

Unfortunate but apt picture.

Content of his speech is something else.
"Stop feeling guilty for the past"

And a hint as to what he's really really looking for in a rant about the EU.

[Biffer]

OpenAI complaining / alleging that DeepSeek used their model to train its own AI is delicious.

[dpedin]

OpenAI complaining / alleging that DeepSeek used their model to train its own AI is delicious.

I heard that on the radio and burst out laughing! does that mean I can sue any big tech company that is using my personal data, without my expressed authority, to train their AI?

[Raggs]

No idea of it's truth, but there's suggestions that deepseek actually has a lot better hardware than reported, it's just they can't say they have it as they're not supposed to, due to sanctions or something.

[Sandstorm]

OpenAI complaining / alleging that DeepSeek used their model to train its own AI is delicious.

I heard that on the radio and burst out laughing! does that mean I can sue any big tech company that is using my personal data, without my expressed authority, to train their AI?

The next USA Tech bubble is about to burst and lots of shares are going to worthless. Sux to be them.

[I like neeps]

OpenAI complaining / alleging that DeepSeek used their model to train its own AI is delicious.

I heard that on the radio and burst out laughing! does that mean I can sue any big tech company that is using my personal data, without my expressed authority, to train their AI?

They likely do have your expressed authority as you'll be bound by their T&Cs which will cover this...

[fishfoodie]

No idea of it's truth, but there's suggestions that deepseek actually has a lot better hardware than reported, it's just they can't say they have it as they're not supposed to, due to sanctions or something.

After working for 20+ years in a tech multinational I can tell you that any break through announcement, or performance claim should be taken with enough salt to kill an entire village !

Deepseek's claims are just too good to be true.

They do appear to have done some clever things to optimize, but stuff like claiming it only cost $6M, are just risible; I mean sure, if you use slave labour, & older GPUs that used to part of one of the crypto server farms that various PLAN Generals have, & you don't pay for electricity, then sure, you too can develop for buttons

This was a calculated slap in the face for the Orange traitor, wiping billions off the NASDAQ, to show him the consequences of messing with TikTok