Pennomi

China has a big problem with selling an identical product fifteen times through twelve different companies.

I think it’s an SEO strategy for Amazon, where they edge out any competition by being everywhere on the first page of search results. They also have the ability to game reviews by killing any products that get bad reviews and recreating them under a new brand.

I think we all know the answer is zero. No way Trump can run.

In a way, streaming platforms aren’t truly competition because they’re founded on the idea of exclusivity. If they all had the same content, it would be good for the consumer.

As always, copyright rules cause innovation to be slowed, exactly the opposite of what capitalists claim.

Algae is also more efficient per cubic meter, if I understand correctly.

It is, but it’s a very nice cult.

But how do Linux users handle the crippling loneliness of their operating system not pestering them with ads on every update? How else can you know if your computer loves you? Where is the warmth of the corporate embrace?

No but it is tone deaf (heh) to use Claude, a non-self hosted AI, and Suno, another non-self hosted AI to literally sing the praises of why you shouldn’t use corporate software.

Especially when open source and open weight models exist to do both of those things, albeit at a lower quality.

Honestly gaming on Linux is so good these days, it’s almost on par with Windows there. Really the only major games that can’t be played are due to anticheat rootkits… which are a security nightmare anyway.

These days I suspect most Linux users would like to distance themselves from the term “musk”.

Check out Ollama, it’s probably the easiest way to get started these days. It provides tooling and an api that different chat frontends can connect to.

Locally run AI: 0

He didn’t have the time to draw, he was compiling his own OS before breakfast.

Right. The problem is not the fact it consumes the information, the problem is if the user uses it to violate copyright. It’s just a tool after all.

Like, I’m capable of violating copyright in infinitely many ways, but I usually don’t.

It’s only theft if they support laws preventing their competitors from doing it too. Which is kind of what OpenAI did, and now they’re walking that idea back because they’re losing again.

Right, the offline version (if you have the hardware to run it) is completely under your control, and no one can take that away from you. Honestly nice to see that happen, I thought it would take several years.

If the government thinks health insurance companies are the only systemic failures that drive people to violence, I suspect they will have a rude awakening in the next four years.

Damn, that was a lot more intense than I expected, but the man speaks the truth!

Bet you could hack one of these together with a Raspberry Pi plus camera module. Not exactly a low effort project though.

It’s not hard to max out when doing simulations in Blender, but I know I have a niche use case.