Everyday Cyborg

The dumbest take I've ever heard is "but what if I harm them further while doing CPR?" A person who needs CPR is functionally dead. If they come back to life, a couple of broken ribs is a small price to pay.

To say that everyone involved in Anthropic, OpenAI, nVidia, Oracle, and the rest of the spicy-autocorrect bubble that surrounds these scum should be burned alive is AN INSULT TO FIRE

If there were any justice, Sam Altman's impact on the world would be measured in mass graves.

I know there are technical definitions of "dead" and "alive" that might not quite be the same as the ones I'm using here, but that shit only matters to the doctors who would pronounce time of death anyway

@fuzzygroup I have, and that increase is across the board for all vendors on the UK academic purchasing contracts. This server needs a reasonable amount of RAM — 4TB+, a lot by consumer standards, but mid-range for the compute we're doing.

@toddz @davidgerard @eldersea @firefoxwebdevs @josh @jaffathecake That's only accessible if you put your laptop in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'.

@AnachronistJohn I do not see the relevance of what you are saying, since it appears at best tangential to what I posted. My research group _is_ buying the hardware and I am managing it, there is no "cloud" involved (except for the AI-boosting scum). It's a matter of timings, research grants, and budget approvals that we have to buy now rather than back in September.

inspired by, but not necessarily in direct reply to, @Tattie@eldritch.cafe hence not a direct reply

@fluffykittycat We study cognitive and neurological factors over a long-term population (the first lot recruited in the 1920s). A lot of the results are into markers of Alzheimer's and various kinds of dementia, both potential ways of reducing effects and early detection.

@1a1nC@mastodon.online I'm in Scotland. I was at my partner's flat when it happened, so no defibrillator close but the amount that are available in public spaces is encouraging

@AnachronistJohn It's all good. Apologies if I was a bit sharp there, I've been arguing with techbros on various platforms. And yeah, this is in some ways just the latest way that research funding has found to make things as inconvenient as possible.

@noodlemaz@mstdn.games That sickens me to my core.

@cstross@wandering.shop Haven't yet played it, but I've got it from a charity RPG bundle a while back, should give it another look

@Geri When a law is unjust, a just person has a moral duty to break it.

@mcalel@tech.lgbt Swap FPU and GPU and you've got a computer component alignment chart

@manux LLM bros and their bubble in particular. To blame all oligarchs (and there is a lot to blame them for in general) absolves the LLM shitheads from specific responsibility.

@adx We are seeing similar, quote lifetime is down as well as prices being up.