Some_Emo_Chick

joined 1 month ago
sorted by: new top controversial old
10
Why Stone-Faced Fascists Keep Getting Antiquity Wrong (www.thebulwark.com)
 

Online bigotry masquerading as a love of history in the fever swamps of Elon Musk’s X.

Meta putting up tents across the US to house AI servers, like ‘a scene out of the movie Mad Max’ — structures take three months to build and use jet engines for power in c/technology@lemmy.ml
[–] Some_Emo_Chick@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Really, my only guess is a cold war style arms race with other AI companies. I can't tell if they are getting any value from the extra compute or if it is just PR to say "look at all we have."

42
Meta putting up tents across the US to house AI servers, like ‘a scene out of the movie Mad Max’ — structures take three months to build and use jet engines for power (www.tomshardware.com)
 

Putting AI servers inside tents, officially called “rapid deployment structures,” is one of the more unique approaches to the AI build-out, Thomas said. They’re certainly not as sturdy as physical buildings made from steel and concrete, with one commenter comparing it to the “classic $10k racing bike with a $9 lock” situation.

Can't see this situation going wonky anytime in the future...

Brave is charging $60 to remove features it added in the first place in c/technology@lemmy.ml
[–] Some_Emo_Chick@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

In the sense that they are both Chromium? In that case it's just Vivaldi as well.

111
Brave is charging $60 to remove features it added in the first place (www.xda-developers.com)
 
  • Brave sells Origin to strip added features—a $60 one-time fee (free on Linux).
  • Origin removes email aliases, Leo AI, VPN, Wallet, Speedreader, and more via a toggleable panel or standalone client.
  • You can buy Origin on Brave Premium or enable the panel at brave://settings/system.
19
Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search (www.404media.co)
 

Peptide companies have been doing AI-engine optimization by spamming the biohackers subreddit to manipulate ChatGPT and Google.

22
Claude Got an ‘Honesty’ Upgrade. Some Users Would Rather Live in a Web of Lies (gizmodo.com)
19
American laws are normalizing discrimination against transgender people. Who’s next? (www.advocate.com)
 

From voiding Kansas driver’s licenses to policing bathrooms, anti-trans laws are turning transgender Americans into legal scapegoats, writes Suzanne B. Goldberg.