Interesting that it’s NetBSD on the receiving end of this, I thought it was effectively extinct compared to FreeBSD and OpenBSD

Perhaps the other sets of maintainers signalled differently or something?

Glad to see it of course, just curious

Edit: read again that they’ve explicitly said NetBSD is AI-free

Well they can outright remove personalised recommendations no problem, a flat curated list can be generated pretty easily, they could even employ an editor (lol, lmao even). I’m assuming non personalised recommendations should be fine given the alternative would be overly broad by quite some margin

UGC is going to be an interesting one depending on the rules they expect to enforce on them. Human moderated content is probably the most likely thing that would probably be a deal breaker for them continuing it

Oh really, I just assumed it was more of a content filtered mode

I wonder what aspects fall foul of the law then

They’ll just remove social media features for those users

No company is going to pass up the opportunity to advertise to kids

Yeah, regular data centres have existed for a while and don’t come with a fraction of the drawbacks that come with AI data centres

Amazon and Google’s cloud businesses are probably loving this because it soft locks out any new future competitor to that business

Centre alignment is pretty poor typographically for any paragraphed text, your eyes need a consistent place to snap back to at the start of the line unless the point is to fatigue the reader

Left align or justified are pretty much the only valid options for body text and I’ll die a thousand times on that hill

Not a stretch to assume Musk has known all about this and has been taking full advantage for a while

Entertained by the thumbnail that makes it look like we fired him into orbit

I’ve also noticed the HN community has been on an accelerating train of lower quality discussion since some time before COVID.

Some of the community has always had a bit of a silicon valley libertarian brain rot, but it used to be balanced out by the open source crowd and just normal professional engineers across the world. The latter demographics have mostly evaporated leaving some of the most braindead takes completely unchallenged, until they’ve become the only noise in the room.

It’s a bit of a shame really, because it used to be a pretty good resource for keeping on top of the comings and goings of the software engineering industry. Combined with Reddit shitting the bed just after COVID, I’ve yet to actually find a decent replacement for what I got out of browsing it, really. Here does a fairly decent job, but as with many subjects, the breadth of content and opinions isn’t quite the same.

Perhaps I need to give Mastodon another go despite not really enjoying microblog social media as a format in general (any recs for follows are greatly appreciated)

I’ve yet to see any “protect the kids” legislation that isn’t either thinly veiled surveillance overreach or corporate collusion

My terminally online brain initially saw the first image in the thumbnail as a 3d version of the mental gymnastics meme for some reason

I need to go and walk in a park or something

I can’t imagine anyone running server farms is particularly hyped about this

Didn’t a load of them get burned pretty badly by apple killing off the last server line and Steve Jobs just told them to cry more when challenged about it

“premium users”

It’ll probably work like YouTube premium, a cut of that users sub will go to the artist

Anecdotally, creators seem to make more from premium viewers than ad supported ones

AI? Sure that probably contributed

But Reddit has been pushing its users away for way longer than that though

Wait, so now the meta is that you have to have a model you can’t control to keep the bubble going?

Not strictly my rarest

But I remember taking a good while to actually achieve it (FTL)

Oh hey

A GDPR style carbon fine needs to be a retroactively applied thing to these hyperscale companies.

Every thousand tonnes of carbon they put into the atmosphere should be taxed at 1% of their year’s revenue, not profit.

You want to put 100,000 tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere in a given year? That should cost you everything you make.

For scale: Elon Musk’s XAi data centres are currently puking 6 million tonnes out a year. That’s double the carbon output of the UK

It’s not every day you get to use a word like dilettante, so I figured I’d make a salad

Flukey dilettante regards stochastic parrot as unfathomable prodigy

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