got a question (brought on by this). anyone here know if zitron’s talked about his history of how he got to where he is atm wrt tech companies?

there’s something that’s often bothered me about some of his commentary. an example I could point to: some of the things that he comments on and “doesn’t seem to get” (and has stated so) are … not quite mysteries of the universe, just some specifics in dysfunction in the industry. but those things one could understand by, y’know, asking around a bit. (so in this example, I dunno if that’s on him not engaging far/deeply enough in research, or just me being too-fucking-aware of broken industry bullshit. hard to get a read on it)

but things like what’s highlighted in thread do leave open the possibility of other nonsense too

nod, I get what you mean. probably 70/30 (although I wish it were closer to 50/50) on whether oracle goes for it, but boy how fucking funny would it be if if were the 30 and openai was suddenly scrambling to find a home for their bullshit

haven’t really had the headpsace to read into the stargate mess whatsoever! it is funny to hear that the borderline-ouroboros is still hungry but I’m not sure if it’ll, y’know, Learn From This

plausible undeniability

kinda wonder if the pushback about the nyt article contributes to this

“intelligent” people make the best marks, donchaknow

first I hear of the notion that oracle would pick up and carry that. is it your hypothesis, or also from whispernets or so?

(not doubting or whatever, just curious. Oracle seems like it’d be allergic to saltman’s nonsense but given how well he can grift maybe he sold them…)

this archive has it without paywall

irl flinched

downrounds in AI venture funding

dunno, I think it’s a great contribution. not to his case, mind you, but to the collective human experience. as a warning to others, and entertainment.

OpenAI buys services from a pile of Altman’s other portfolio companies

which reminds me of one of my actual favourite parts of the bayfuckers playacting building companies: how absolutely self-cycling a lot of the funding ends up being. shartups burning fucking piles of money on other, also-VC-funded, shartups. totally normal and healthy way for money to flow.

looks like they felt that chatgpt pro wasn’t losing money fast enough, you can now get sora on the pro sub

digging around in the the issue linked to that, it seems like the person who closed/approved this is someone from a different, external agency who lists moz as a client (her hachy profile also lists that as her employer)

this pr was closed “because we have new copy”

there’s probably some questions to be asked around how this decision/instruction got made, but one would have to wade into moz’s corp and discussion systems to do so (and apparently they also have a (people mostly communicating on) Slack problem - nfi if that’s open to community joining)

none of them look good tho tbh

I think it’s a nonsense nothingburger “clarification”, esp. given the defaults firefox sets a priori on a fresh profile. even with the “no, don’t turn $x on” choices for things that it does offer those for, there’s still some egregious defaults being turned on

the cynic in me says it’s intentionally vague because they’re trying to, in advance, lay the legal groundwork for whatever the fuck they push on by default. my motivation for that thought is because of seeing the exact playbook being used by other services in the past, and it tracks with the way they’ve been pushing other features lately

did some digging and apparently the (moz poster) it’s this person. check the patents.

mega groan

wow if only any of this happened before and we could learn from it

naturally, at some point (when discord is no longer willing to carry them for free) the communities will move, and find some other way to comms. but what sucks is just how much will be locked up inside those discord instances. fucking walled gardens.

where you literally told it to do that

bit of a theme with these people

please excuse me while I make incoherent screaming noises (archive)

[tgp-janice.bel]

“hi, please excuse me for the interruption. I want to know if you’ve heard of our lord and saviour, Quiet Electronics?”

how can you mention kernel module blocks and not include pcspkr in your list

v sus