- dev1ycanYeah let's helpt he govt redact pdfs (literally).
- I recently bought a $250 Zojurishi rice cooker because I wanted quality, durability and no "trade offs" I am going to start buying more and more Japanese electronics if US and South Korean companies keep colluding with each other in inserting garbage.
Samsung is already preloading intelligence service software and "365 copilot" into their phones to trick old people into paying for a subscription to open a PDF (it sets itself as a default app).
At this point it's a war against the consumer.
And it's not just this, they are slowly phasing out consumer hardware (GPU price increase, RAM, non NVME SSDs, etc.) in an effort to make hardware ownership impossible thus creating a "Market" for the post bubble burst of AI where they will be renting out PC hardware (all these datacenters that they are building which will be useless).
This is US led and also conveniently both the US and South Korea are involved, as they shut down China (both GPUs and RAM manufacturers in China were blacklisted).
It's not a coincidence, I Imagine the threats of potential tariffs if they do not comply does not help with their "independent thinking".
- How many years of the world's DRAM production capacity is it this time?
- But that would burst their valuation bubble as investors would realize it's a technology that already hit its realistic ceiling in usability.
- What did anyone expect? really, many children especially in the Andes suffer from lead intoxication from mining, fruits and vegetables for export are premium quality while the ones for local consumption are bathed in pesticides and other chemicals, kids in the amazon suffer from parasites and other illnesses, tons of regions have malnutrition... etc.
Then there's the fact that Peru is massive (compared to Europe) and most of it lacks internet connectivity, only just recently Starlink started giving newer phones SMS capabilities outside of coverage, but that's as far as it'll go and only for modern expensive phones.
Those kids are not going to open a laptop and have a good time attempting to learn something (if they can even reach the internet), I myself have ADHD and it took me so long to even search and discover khan academy (let's not even begin with how much worse sites like Khan Academy are when you don't have the primary instructor, giving said lessons), add in low energy/inability to concentrate or want to do academic work with memory issues due to intoxication and or malnutrition and... yeah, good luck with that.
There is high amount of talent in Peru, you can tell because there's government programs to give gifted students from public schools free scholarship to private universities and they all end up top of their class, the hardest university to enter into in Peru happens to be a public university too (national university of engineering), it's exam is pretty fucking hard for someone who just graduated high school and even then the vast majority of students who enter come from poor backgrounds.
- Stop vibe coding on critical infrastructure :)
- Give it to HN to have a bunch of comments defending the creation of a monopoly.
- The US put YMTC in a black list just so that they wouldn't outcompete Micron... and now Micron just gave up by itself, and YMTC was set back so now it can't supply the RAM market either, great job guys!
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- Can't wait for the day we can trap more antimatter so that governments that right now pretend this is for science weaponize it into a bomb way larger and harder to detect than nukes
- The AI bubble is so big at this point that this just feels like coercion/bribery induced.
- The ONLY thing keeping people in WIndows anymore, is propietary software, that is how TERRIBLE Microsoft has become.
- Follows suit on my other comment about how every site with information be it legal or not is being actually pressured now to take down their info after "AI" (LLMs) mafia bosses used the info to train their AI already...
It's sickening to see people okay with the destruction of the "real" knowledge filled internet in favor of a dystopia.
- "AI" keeps destroying free sources of information.
First it was library genesis and z-lib when meta torrented 70TB of books and then pulled off the ladder, recently it was Anna's archive and how they are coming for it (google and others), weird behaviors with some other torrent sites, now also Wikipedia is being used as a tool to defend LLMs breaking any semblance of copyright "law" unpunished.
All these actions will end up with very bad repercusions once the bubble bursts, there will be a lot of explaining to do.
- This is just lies spread by the very own people that created this system in the first place, if PCs can have apps without "verification" then so can a phone.
- Yeah this is a dealbreaker, same with when I found out my sennheiser headphones made me have like 500ms reaction time on audio cues, I get it was an older bluetooth protocol but yeah... no, I'll stick to wired for my pc.
Oh yeah I also LOVE Teams and Meet completely breaking my mic forcing me to use some other mic because it doesn't work with the one on my headphones half the time
- Oh wow just what I said would happen, happened... first libgen and z-lib after META trained its model with 70tb of torrented content and now Anna's library.
Meanwhile REAL human students and researchers lose access to acadeemic work
- if my ISP refuses to hire a human for customer service I will just replace it
- Yeah, for now, Meta torrented 70TB and right after that they cut the rope for everyone else, mysteriously their hitman (US govenrment) hit both Libgen and Z-Lib shortly after.
- Starship was the big scam, Elon sold a lot and in the end it became clear over time that really the entire point of Starship was never Mars, or even the Moon... or Space Tourism, a different type of vehicle would have probably been better for that, it's about reducing the cost of launch missions to maximize profit and take out the primary source of income of competing players so they can have a monopoly of space.
Are they ahead of everyone else? yes, sadly, but Starship is a questionable design for a lunar mission, starting with the fact that it'll require an elevator to go up and down... 50 meters down.
And for Mars it's even worse, no real way of refueling and even if there was, it's also hard enough for them to get off Earth imagine winging it from Mars with all the potential hazards such as dust.
Well at least Musk will make good money from space launches, hopefully Starlink is declared illegal for the potential future atmospheric catastrophy the massive launches of LEO satellites might cause.