Flying Snake

TIL.

These are gorgeous photos, by the way. I wonder what camera/lens they were shot with?

Well, he tweets many times a day, many posts like this:

…Seems like a “Tech Bro” type to me. He’s just engagement farming; I don’t care what he says, there nothing valid about that.

In fact, I’d wager some of those posts are automated.

…Seriously?

This guy has no leg to stand on; that’s the Mildly Infuriating part.

EDIT: Am I the only one on Lemmy who discounts the whole post the moment I see a blue checkmark?

Especially this one. It’s so hypocritical it hurts.

You can still do that in many games.

It’s just organized unofficially in Discord groups. And… yeah, Discord is mandatory :(

¡Gracias!

Sadly, that all sounds familiar.

I don’t know what y’all use in Columbia, but I would bet money social media played a huge role, in Abelardo’s favor.

Yeah, the shame is weird.

I’ve been playing with LLMS since 2022 or so, and the transition from being able to talk about them as something neat to the (well deserved) hate was… surreal.

I’d point to trying to use local or open weights models first, but other than that you shouldn’t be ashamed of reasonable use.

Zuckerberg has objectively made terrible decisions after terrible decisions.

He’s so insecure he FOMO piles on one bandwagon, and jumps to the next the second he feels a little nervous. After Facebook, won’t commit to anything, even good teams.

…Yet he’s still in charge.

It’s mind boggling to me. He feels zero consequence from any of his failures, and somehow the stock market rewards him for it, too. I guess because Facebook is still Facebook, but still.

It was like this from the beginning, with Google and early digital services being protected from lawsuits because they are ostensibly middlemen.

The thinking was that they’re garage startups that need protection, and… we kinda just never changed that.

I’m surprised people think $1,100 is expensive for a gaming PC, even outside the crazy memory market now.

Same with the $500 Commodore phone.

These are not the 2000s. The dollar has inflated. Technology is expensive. I think cheap junk has desensitized folks to that, but you pay an externalized cost for that stuff.

And of course salaries haven’t gone up so anyone can actually afford it, but… that’s a distinctly separate problem. They should have, as corporate revenue and profit per worker has certainly gone up.

On Lemmy/Piefed?

Usually because they’re Tweets reposted from somewhere else (hence OP would have to transcribe to post as text).

The question I have is why post Tweets at all.

They don’t even need to dampen, just redirect. Pay engineers to make them specialized tools, don’t waste so much money on GPUs, and give part of the compute to the community to tinker with, instead of hoarding it and doing squat.

No, they don’t.

They’re surrounded by yes men. And from everything I hear them say, they don’t understand the first thing about how LLMs actually work.

I wouldn’t say all “AI” was a grift. Machine learning is a useful tool, like a hammer, it’s just not a magic genie for everything. Always has been, always will be.

Same with blockchain, albeit in a much narrower niche. I do think it’s a terrible system for a widely-used currency, though.

Same with quantum computing. It’s a niche.

The pattern is that Tech Bros inflate something narrowly interesting into a “it’s going to ascend the human race if you give us enough money” FOMO thing.

…And, currently, the next target seems to be space travel.

Again, I emphasize. Very useful in certain niches, like science. Stupendously impractical outside of them.

More GPUs =/= better AI.

More data =/= better AI.

More tech bro “superstars” =/= better AI

This is what people like Musk and Zuckerberg don’t seem to understand.

Training scales very poorly past a certain cluster size, especially if you go for new architectures to actually pursue improvements, hence reports of GPUs being tasked with busywork just to meet utilization quotes. Increasing data size and training scale hits diminishing returns, quick, or even regresses models because the bulk data is shit and the model is too inefficient. A prime example: Llama 4. “Superstar” AI engineers are better and Tweeting and sycophantic gaslighting than coding something interesting.

In other words, I’d argue there’s a much smaller “sweet spot” for pure LLMs that these billionaires are way, way past. And no one is telling them no because they’re too rich to hear it. It’s all going to collapse on itself because scaling like that just does not work.

All part of the plan, so you subscribe to game streaming.

7900s, 4090s, and 5090s will become “forbidden technology” like you see in post apocalyptic fantasy where tech is magic. But also “idoocracy cyberpunk,” as human production is diverted to launching GPUs in space which engineers… awkwardly task with busywork.

You think I’m being hyperbolic. I am not.

I think he was… wrong-ish?

I think he didn’t see the forest through the trees.

He was scared of government abuse of surveillance, as he should be. He was scared of a North Korean style surveillance initially justified by fear of terrorists, basically.

But, IIRC, he didn’t fear corporate abuse enough.

He couldn’t imagine the consolidated attention trap the internet would turn into, but I think the signs were there. I guess he couldn’t imagine that all this would come out and people would choose to trade their privacy for instant convenience instead of fear of terrorists, the justification of the time…

Especially at the scale we do in corporate software today.

In other words, I think he should’ve been more worried about a post-truth corporate state than a censored, oldschool dictatorship, as the former seems to be what the US is barreling towards.

So maybe he was a hero. But, sadly, I think he grazed the mark on what to warn us about.

To be fair, 100MW is pretty big.

AI doesn’t actually need that much. I’m pretty sure entire models like GLM 5.2 or Deepseek v4 are trained (and served) on a much, much smaller scale than a 100MW cluster.

But if that’s the case… why even invest in orbital data centers in the first place?

Why not desert ones? Why all this cash there instead of actually improving LLM architectures!?

There are so many nested levels of absurdity here. It’s all just total mania, with zero punishment to those doing the funding because they are too rich to feel any consequences.

Nothing surprising about it:

https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20250820PD236/meta-infrastructure-development-staff-llama.html

https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1m14a9j/metas_new_asi_team_discussed_about_abandoning/

The moment Llama 4 failed as an experiment, I knew Zuck would kill the team that literally put them on the map because he’s so unbelievably insecure.

Hence, he installed a bunch of Tech Bros and paid them billions to feel good about himself.

And this is what he got.

800K is 526C! You can’t run a datacenter at that.

80C (still very hot for datacenter hardware coolant) is 350K. And there are other challenges, like effects from being in LEO, or proximity to wherever the solar array is.

And this is just one of MANY ridiclous engineering challenges. Another great example is that GPUs, memory, and SSDs get random bit flips in orbit, and the issue gets worse with smaller lithography: https://www.itpro.com/server-storage/high-performance-computing-hpc/367323/hpes-supercomputer-helps-iss-astronauts

There’s tons of spam about “solving” this after the Tech Bro boom, but I don’t really buy anything I’ve seen. Nothing but a bunch of lead (or the Earth’s atmosphere) is going to stop fat gamma rays or extremely fast nuclei.

It already has.

This is misleading.

UBlock has been deprecated on Chrome, for a long time. UBlock Lite is its replacement and will continue to function (albeit with more limited efficacy).

What they are talking about is a complicated series of command line flags to re-enable Manifest V2+installing UBlock from source… But who in their right mind would still be using vanilla Google Chrome and jumping through all those hoops?

It will be an issue for forks like Helium or Ungoogled Chromium. They’ll just have to patch in a native blocker, I suppose.

TL;DR: Headline is wrong.

Chrome users will notice nothing. The end happened a long time ago.