Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.
Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.
Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."
Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."
Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.
They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.
One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."
Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.
That's the metered intelligence business model.
And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.
@pizzaboy@Affinity I moved away from this criminals 3 years ago, didn't regret one day. Every software is replaceable. Affinity is a very good alternative for Photoshop , Illustrator and InDesign.
@itsolelehmann@antepeov Ole, Du warst wahrscheinlich noch nicht geboren als wir in den 80ern wegen des Radioaktiven Niederschlags nicht raus gehen konnten. Pilze sind immer noch stark mit Cäsium von damals belastet, aber hey sieht man ja nicht🤪. Mal ganz abgesehen von der Endlagerfrage ...
@itsolelehmann I can´t blame the public who are voting against datacenters. Do you want something like that in front of your house? Ok this is the worst scenario in this video but people see that and say F*** off
https://t.co/2VqRxPWdRg
Here’s how this Data Center’s generators starts up in the morning in Florida
Notice the constant stream of heavy black smoke
Remember just a couple years ago when using electricity and diesel caused climate change, now data centers use as much power as cities and its no problem
You have an old Android phone in a drawer right now. Collecting dust. Worth nothing.
Someone built a script that turns it into a full Linux desktop. Or a smart home server. Or a development machine. For free.
It's called linux-android.
One script. No root required. No flashing. No risk of bricking your device. Run it in Termux and your old phone becomes a Linux computer.
Here's what it installs:
→ Full Linux desktop. XFCE4, LXQt, or MATE. Real windowed desktop on your phone. Connect a monitor and keyboard via USB and it looks like a PC.
→ Smart home server. Home Assistant runs on your phone. Control your WiFi lights, plugs, and smart devices from any browser on your network. No cloud needed.
→ GPU acceleration. Snapdragon phones get near-native GPU performance through Turnip Vulkan drivers. Mali GPUs use software fallback.
→ SSH server. Access your phone from any computer on your WiFi. Full terminal. Transfer files. Write code. All from your laptop keyboard.
→ Wine support. Run basic Windows applications on your Android phone through Box64 translation.
→ Audio support. PulseAudio configured automatically.
→ Works on any Android phone with Termux support.
Here's the wildest part:
A Raspberry Pi 4 costs $35 to $75. A used mini PC costs $100+. A VPS costs $5/month forever.
That old phone in your drawer? It has a faster processor, more RAM, a built-in battery backup, WiFi, and a touchscreen. All for $0. You already own it.
A Snapdragon 855 from a 2019 phone still outperforms most entry-level server chips. You're throwing away a computer every time you upgrade your phone.
Not anymore.
One command. One old phone. A full Linux machine.
100% Open Source. MIT License.
@BobLoukas Americans enjoying Europe while their president and Vice president destroy Europe and the rest of the world. Sorry to say that @BobLoukas but that's the realty right now
A truck carrying antiprotons will drive across Europe. A team at CERN just transported antimatter across the laboratory's campus in a truck. Literally. 92 antiprotons packed into a portable trap weighing one tonne. As everyone knows, antimatter annihilates on contact with ordinary matter - which is basically everything. The final destination is Germany: Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf. An extraordinary delivery in the history of road transport. https://t.co/3Gb1HCHszA
@Amy_Siskind@Kasparov63 The whole fucking EU can't understand why this orange idiot is still president, and hey where are the masses demonstrating all over the us??? Guess for most of your all this is ok
@GrafKorina Die restlichen EU Staaten (ausgenommen Slowakei) sind mir viel zu lasch im Umgang mit Ungarn. Sie sollten die maximalen Register ziehen auch wenn sie in einer Grauzone liegen. Es geht um Alles gerade.
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