Yeah and they will keep begin bought by AI companies, even if the production sags. If the prices were unaffordable now they will be even more so if there is a real production choke. They can keep tossing few extra billions to keep the bubble going, you and I cannot compete with that.

It’s not like its really used on AI inference, but it’s used in high grade semiconductor manufacturing. so helium shortage will hit anything with a modern semiconductors in it. So it’s not “whatever”.

I for one are going to go shopping for used parts.

Don’t worry, it’s not like this AI bubble is dependent on cheap energy prices or anything.

Duopoly, baby!

Mozilla doesn’t say what happens if you go over.

uses your saved credit card info to charge you in secret, of course.

I was half expecting for him to end with remarks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki as another examples of surprises.

In general knowledge is a one thing that multiplies when shared.

I feel like this just another one of those: “hey look also this bad thing correlates with poverty” type of studies.

I think they know that they have a shitty product that nobody asked and everybody hates, but they also know that corporations and institutions have their workflows and custom software stacks built on top of windows and therefore them and their workers are not very easily going to jump ship. Only thing they need to make sure of that they don’t break 40 years of backwards compatibility. Understanding that, why the fuck not just milk people? If it backfires, then it backfires, but even then Microsoft makes more money on Office 365 alone than they do from Windows.

Who do you think owns Ukrainian government at this point? They funded their own twilight by selling government property, land, resource rights and legislative favors to multinationals. Zelensky et. al knows who brought them to power and has kept them there.

the real misdirection is focusing on individuals and their blame. The real question is why does UK political system produces these people rule and how do they keep ruling.

What is the fundamental difference. Evil men and arrogant idiots might as well be the same thing.

The Chinese could do some coordinated push to take marketshare if they have state backing and are willing to accept medium term losses.

They mostly do that because they want control and maybe slowly reach their tentacles into projects. Like Chromium and Android are in theory open source, but in practice both are locked down by google and used for their business and mass data harvesting and advertising empire.

at some point the whole manipulative algorithms should be addressed (but by who and when are the biggest questions)

I have long since been of the opinion that all the big social multinational media should be seen as global technical, communication and media infrastructure. All the companies should be seized and put under some global foundation or the UN, everything open sourced, costs paid by member states and the platforms forced to remain impartial and to be organized for improving human condition, development, communication and understanding. If there is no need for profit then there is no need for entrapping users in toxic swamps of algorithm hell for more platform engagement.

They are going to play the same old “freedom of choice” defense… aren’t they.

It’s not our fault we made it purposefully addictive, you could just not watch it. Hasn’t this been the case with every tobacco-, soda-, fast food-, etc company. For example: the whole mainstream idea that weight gain is about caloric imbalance and not consuming what you eat. That is the mainstream because is helps the food companies sway public opinion for their cause. It’s not our food that is horrible slop, disruptive to metabolism and engineered to make people eat more and more and still crave more, it’s the people who could just not eat it and if they do eat it they could like run 10km to sweat off the effects of like one sandwich.

They always shift the responsibility to the individuals when they are pressed on their wrongdoings. “The freedom of choice” at large is the great lie that at large keeps society running and is the main defense against any complain why something is systematically shit and fundamentally inhuman, from food to labor markets.