Those aren’t full prices though. You are aware of that, aren’t you? Nor are the current “full API” prices necessarily truly enough to cover full costs. It is not unlikely that even those are far away from profitability. If they weren’t, why all the financial gymnastics?

The real costs will only be known after the bubble bursts and the venture capital billions are going to dry up and the whole circular financing schemes are falling apart that are massively distorting numbers.

If the current subsidised rates are a good deal for you, nothing wrong with that. Just don’t make decisions that are binding you to what is doomed to explode in prices in the foreseeable future. Also, if all that productive is going through the roof with AI, why is software generally getting worse and buggier. Are all those big tech companies getting suddenly more incompetent, just when they are all moving to processes that are heavily using LLMs?

“Gleichschaltung”. Look it up if you don’t know.

I have not had any issues with ublock for a long time, other than a few sec loading delay at the start. In any case one could turn off the blocker anytime, with a single click. None of that is more of a hassle than even watching a single youtube video with ads. That is absolutely unbearable. On Iphone you can simply usd Brave, does the job out of the box. On Android and PC ublock.

“stochastic slot machine” What a great description. I have to remember that one. :)

Why are you watching Youtube ads then?

I think you did not get the analogy. The point was that there was a canal bubble in the US which was mostly a huge waste of effort because the technology was outdated before a network could be completed to turn useless parts into a useful network. This was neither the case for rail or road networks. Both technologies experienced bubbles and overconstruction but they yielded large networks for generations to come.

Tokens are what an LLM actually predicts, one after another. If you have very slow models that produce less than 5 tokens/s or so, you can easily follow it with your own eyes. A token is what appears at once. Often it is an entire word but it can also be parts of a word or individual letters, digits, special signs for uncommone words or special formatting, number stuff.

Makes me wonder how the Chinese and European power grids can handle it just fine so far, with Norway being not that far away from full transition for example.

If the network is a limiting factor, why not push for dynamic pricing in combinatio with wall boxes that automatically use targetted loading during better prices. If that is implemention on a large scale, they would stabilise the network rather than destabilising it.

Curious, back in the early days they did not have to force young employees to embrace the web. Now with AI they have to.

Source? Has it progressed so much? I remember substantial double digit percentages.

I know, US style capitalism doesn’t put much value in it but loyal employees can be a win for a company, but you only get them if the companies are rewarding that loyalty. The cost of having disposable employees is often extremely high. In the worst case not only a lot of informal knowledge and skill is lost but sooner or later it will end up with the competition, no matter the clauses in the contract.

Currently, yes. However, if you build your business on highly subsidised temporary prices, you are probably like the CEOs that can’t think further than their shareholders. If you believe there will be flat rates in the end I have a bridge to sell to you.

I am all for the backfire but Bambulab can’t be already a “multi-billion” dollar company, can it? Is the 3D printer market so huge already?

If startpage is not listed as option anymore one can simply go to the site and by right clicking on the address it should be possible to add it as search engine option.

If you wan to know if a bubble pop just look at the fundamentals. Yes, I know, especially during bubbles people tell you that fundamentals don’t matter but they always win in the end. The thing is that you cannot bet on them because the market can always stay longer irrational than you can stay liquid. Eventually however it always corrects on the fundamentals again. Those can change of course over time but looking at the insane amounts of money flowing into data centers with no possible way of recovering that cost, I think the picture is clear. We also have wonderful highly circular money flows that to a large extend do not even exist but are all taken for full.

The only question is when it implodes. Within a year, within three? Who knows.

I am not a lawyer either but I have yet to see a single expert side with Only Office on this. Among others the FSF aggrees with Nextcloud’s interpretation and disagrees with Only Office’s and they should be experts on AGPL 3.0, shouldn’t they?

If Only Office were correct it would not be Open Source and then it would violate numerous licenses itself. If Only Office really go to court with this they are risking a lot.

Yeah, isn’t it that they require everyone forking only office to include all the trademarks while forbidding everyone to use their trademarks?

I mean at least in their grotesque interpretation of the AGPL license at least. Luckily they can’t intimitate Nextcloud any Co.

I wonder if Windows players will now argue that Windows is not a viable gaming platform because one cannot “play all the games”, like many like to do towards Linux.

Probably both. Also, it is all fun and games as long as the lunch is free (or at least heavily subsidised by venture capital). Let’s see how enthusiastic people will be when it all operates on real costs.

It is easy to be a cynic and call other stupid. Reality isn’t so simple and one has to make priorities. The important thing is the legal, software and facility layer. Is that water tight? Of course not, but it reduces the ability of a hostile US to simply pull the plug or get the data via judicial coercion.

Getting a fully sovereign IT base is so difficult not even the US has it really. If we wait for that, we can just forget about it for the next decades minimum, is that what the author would like to see?