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Re:xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B on Friday March 28, 2025 @09:23PM (#43511849)
> valuation that he himself assigned to that company but that was less than what he paid for it

It’s more than he paid. There’s 12 billion of debt you’re not accounting for.

Windows 7 was legitimately pretty good. It’s been downhill ever since.
Re:AI models miss disease in Black and female patients on Thursday March 27, 2025 @04:01PM (#43497529)
Yeah, racists always make excuses.
An 800 page lawsuit full of conspiracy theories? Sounds legit.
Middle out?
They don’t on streaming. I’m always having to google it.
Civil asset forfeiture needs to go.
Re:SoftBank Group to Acquire Ampere Computing for 6.5B on Thursday March 20, 2025 @06:51PM (#43429983)
Puts on Masa.
I hadn’t heard that he died, sad.
I’m kidding. Slightly.
You can’t buy them in the US though. They might as well not exist.
It’s useful only to let big tech companies listen in to everything that happens in your home.
Ehhh but I just bought one of the M4 Mac minis. And it’s pretty nice.
It’s almost enough to make me try Linux on the desktop again.
Throw your wiretap in the garbage where it belongs.
Re:When Oregon blew up a whale with 20 cases of dynamite on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @11:42AM (#43400793)
I bet it would burn just fine. Lots of blubber.
Re:Occupry your next lease to negotiate a better deal on Monday March 17, 2025 @09:39PM (#43394895)
I can’t really explain why (there’s no L!) but the name struck me the same way for some reason.
Ok.

Look, I’m not saying the cranks should be dragged out back and shot, just that they are a net negative.

Sending them manuscripts, publishing nonsense on the arxiv, reducing the overall SNR of research.
It matters because they waste the time of serious researchers.
There’s some truth to that. But there are also a LOT of “self-taught” cranks out there who think they’ve discovered an amazing new theoretical framework… but if they’d done any background reading, they’d know it’s been tried and didn’t work.
> I was able to disable the "telematics" in the same vehicle

This is only sufficient if you trust software, which you shouldn’t. Hardware disconnects are reliable. Cut the power.

This is a laughably bad take.
YouTube. I think in most cars it’s gonna be a discrete component that can just be unplugged. The big question is what functionality you lose, and whether you can live with that tradeoff.
Re:A Look at Firefox Forks on Friday March 14, 2025 @03:30PM (#43366323)
Exactly my point! They wouldn’t, and shouldn’t.
Just get a receiver and some standalone speakers. It doesn’t need an OS, and there’s no reason for it to talk to the internet.
Before I bought my most recent vehicle, I did my research and figured out how to physically disconnect the modem / telemetry unit.
Why are these things connected to the internet at all?

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