Yggstyle

I imagine the feat itself is possible and plausible - though I couldn’t speculate further without digging into the specifics.

What left me feeling wary was, at least in the US, theres been a massive push to limit the spread and use of renewables… and normally when sowing fear and doubt you generally want to tie in your preferred boogie man. Presently that would be China.

Misinformation campaigns and astro turfing frequently will rely on half truths as it is FAR easier to sow dissent in a community. A half truth becomes opinion - an easily disproven lie can backfire and unify communities.

Tons of Chinese equipment is exploitable. Most of the time its simply a product of “cheap, fast, stable/secure” pick 2. I promise you it won’t be the thing that costs time and money.

I won’t speculate further on something I noticed in passing but… very frequently the third play in the trifecta is to accuse your boogie man of something that you are doing as well. It weakens the opposing observation, true or not, by increasing difficulty in finding data (similar search terms… two different parties) and lizard brain “feels” like your arguement is weaker because its copying the opposition.

Either way - I’d hesitate to take an organization seriously if they fucked up their own.distribution platform that badly and didnt IMMEDIATELY fix it. Either they are inept or unaware… and unaware implies lack of traffic who might @ a dev.

It read like it was laser focused on pushing an idea while ignoring too many obvious parallels. The fact that the site is basically all facade - no function … kind of provides a physical representation of this entire movement. Its practically modern art.

That said - it really does drive home how this virtual snake oil is literally sending us in the wrong direction.

Thats some impressive reporting from a news org utilizing an AI stock image that has no apparent ties to the content. To be fair I can’t think of any obvious choices either.

I’ll just take a peek at their publishers:

Damn. 404. (not that one)

No worries - follow the money! Let’s see who your advertisers are…

404? The plot thickens.

About us! Surely they are going to describe their attention to detail, their quest for truth, and their refreshing lack of baises at this establishment…?

404. Very well then. Keep your secrets.

There can only be one explanation for this. Obviously.

The dangerous hacker known as En Jin X. This would have never happened if everyone needed their ID online!

And we hope they go broke, dont pay their bills, cause a panic sell on AI services, which causes private equity to panic sell everything… which pops the bubble… and leads to the literal version of ‘its raining men’ on wall street as executives and profiteers have their horde of ill gotten gains evaporate in seconds.

… too much?

They wouldn’t steal a… oh wait they did.

Turns out some of this is showing up at other datacenters… Now weve already set precedent that stealing intellectual property isnt stealing if its for training models or some such bullshit… Time to find out if we can legalize piracy in the physical sense as long as were ‘using it differently.’

Turns out were just a few small steps away from the east india company era again.

You joke but I’d put money on them penning at least one script where they fight ai / big bad datacenters

Look, I generally agree. But you almost have to appreciate the simplicity in the spectacle. Its like an 80s/90s action movie… they practically look at the camera and wink like: yeah… we know. just enjoy the ride.

Also its really just functionally the equivalent of (pop) country music in video form. Family, machismo, vroom vroom, eye candy.

I’ll admit I let out a pained chuckle while reading that. We all have at least one like that who, almost like a savant terrorist, can pick the worst time after being ‘just dangerous enough’ to inflict maximum pain for minimum effort. And then youre left with all that energy from exasperation just bouncing around inside.

I feel that. Theres a strict requirement of fortitude in this industry. Fighting against an unknown bug/challenge is draining and requires admitting you lack knowledge and being willing to persevere in the face of a fruitless result. Shits hard and will beat you down if you let it.

In a shock to absolutely not a single person who has had to “hand craft” and maintain code… Its hard enough maintaining shit you wrote last week let alone adapting or collaborating on stuff you didn’t.

… so people who shit out recycled code from other people passed through a randomization algo are totally lost from step one. And easy come… easy go.

Oh I need to maintain this? Oh the magic box can’t do it? Technical debt?! Oh, I’m bored now… guess I’ll go inject my brilliance somewhere else.

Now do: thieves are flooding the secondary market with HBM.

Is this also because they didnt use enough glue?