@nigelharpur Even if they're not grey cubes, the colours are so bland. And they're always cubes. There's been a lot of buildings going up here for a while, which is good because we desparately need housing, but, like how hard would it be to make them a little bit interesting.

Also how classic is this. Kress calls bullshit on the circular financing and massive $250B #OpenAI deal last year, Huang "lays into" her "calling her a 'deer in the headlights."

Now Huang is out and Kress is on the proverbial "glass cliff."

It's her job, like so many female CEO's before her, to clean up after the complete debacle that the male #CEO left. She'll be the one holding the bag when one skeleton in a closet after another is revealed and as the share value deflates.

It will continue to look to all the world like women can't run companies-- as opposed to the fact that these "charimastic" (i.e. sociopathic) male CEO's can't run companies for shit.

Plus ça change ...

#Gender #GlassCeiling #GlassCliff #AI #Nvidia #Sociology

For more on the "Glass Cliff" phenomenon well documented among female leaders: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_cliff

https://www.techpowerup.com/354814/nvidia-allegedly-engineered-scarcity-by-funding-ai-startups-to-buy-its-gpus

https://www.wsj.com/tech/jensen-huang-colette-kress-nvidia-ceo-eb289097?

@RickiTarr Hello Ricki. Having it not work well is sometimes the best solution...

Airports in general have functional issues. With this use of AI (preferably the one that monitors passenger movement) it really doesn’t seem to work that well because airports can be crowded as heck, and still remain hectic... Don't even talk about flight delays...

-Have a great weekend.

The news that there's an oversupply of Nvidia GPUs convinced me that the AI bubble is bursting and it'll burst *hard*. So here's a thread where I go over the financial, technological and hardware implications of this. Strap in because this is going to be long and probably a bit rambling too. 🧵 1/

@doktorzjivago Haha!

Training LLMs requires a gigantic amount of hardware, brute force calculations, storage, memory and power. Enormous amounts of data whose scraping is not being paid by the companies involved, it's a cost they've spread over the entire internet. As models get larger training gets more expensive. But even as companies sink more money on training LLMs have already reached a plateau in term of functionality and in some cases are degrading in a process called model collapse. 10/

@lindasgoluppiart No just Gandalf and a few others who keep the orcs at bay.

@daringfireball The chance to remake a company in your image is a difficult one to step away from. Nvidia’s weak upper management layer makes it ideal for that.
Also the internet tells me Srouji makes $24m/year. I bet Nvidia would be willing to shell out much more than that to have him.

And this is when we start talking about the tech itself and why it is unsustainable. Every single company in this space is losing money, every AI startup, every AI division in an existing company, everybody. They're losing money because the costs of running an LLM - inference - are large, and it's unclear if anybody has been profitable there. But even if they are nobody has been able to cover the escalating costs of training LLMs, which is of course a prerequisite to running them. 9/

We are starting next two releases of Normals to allow users to create audio streaming for their communities. However we still are unsure if allowing video streaming can be possible. Unfortunately our infrastructure does not allow it for videos. The idea is to find an alternative (not YouTube) for them to upload them after it finishes.

Though, closer to Youtube, afaik only Odysee and Rumble in size and premise, and Nico Nico and Peertube just in premise. Also on Peertube specifically, as mentioned before, it uses ActivityPub, so people on compatible softwares can follow either the channels (e.g. from Lemmy), or the people posting the contents (e.g. from Mastodon).

@IrrationalMethod @ai6yr but modern society demands that all of our hobbies must be monetized 🥺

USSR had both Yuri and yaoi

RE: https://zpravobot.news/@eastblocvisuals/117603948497914773

adds a 'controversies' section to your wikipedia page

This is where we have to thank Ed Zitron for its excellent reporting on the finances of these companies and his remarkable work in connecting the dots whenever some CEO talked bullshit to investors while the rest of the press was looking the other way. This is also why the Gamers Nexus investigations about GPU smuggling where so important: the demand could not slow down, by all means necessary, so a little illegal smuggling on the side is OK, say a few tens of billions of it. 8/

This year we're adopting goals 🥅!

#KDEGoals are objectives the #community sets itself as a whole. In our #fundraiser you too can express support for the goal you consider the most interesting:

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2026/#donate-50-and-adopt-a-goal

Pick the goal you like best from "KDE for Enterprise and Deployments", "Better Documentation" or "Next Generation Styling for KDE", #donate €50 or more and adopt it.

Your name will appear under the goal and you'll get a shout out from the Champions on social media.

Do you want to find an audience for your content, or do you just want to upload your content?

The former can be achieved with where we are right now, the latter with a number of file uploading sites that allow hotlinking their uploads.