This is why tn EU needs to invest all into developing a RISC-V hardware chain asap. Proprietary CPUs is the ultimate chain and shackles.

Read the article. That is not what is happening.

This problem stems from the way OneDrive handles synchronization between the cloud and a user’s local system. Disabling OneDrive Backup without explicitly restoring or relocating local copies can, in some cases, result in files being removed from both environments.

Pargin noted that the only way to remove files from OneDrive without also deleting them from the local machine is to follow a detailed, step-by-step guide “There is no intuitive way to do it,” he said, accusing Microsoft of deliberately burying the necessary controls deep within menus.

It is a dark pattern, it is meant to scare or annoy the users into paying a subscription or leave the system as is. There’s exactly one cloud service that deletes all files without warning as soon as it is disabled. There’s only one service that deletes local files without telling the users, there’s only one service that deletes both originals and cloud files when disabled, and it is only OneDrive. Every other service warns users and give grace periods for the users to download their data before deleting the files for good. It is absolutely not the user’s fault.

At work they forbade the use of one drive. It literally was consuming hundreds of terabytes of data and many more on bandwidth because they activated auto sync on thousands of laptops after an update without telling anyone. It was synching entire hard drives of confidential information without our consent. By the time our IT realized, they were trying to charge us for it (web do have SharePoint on azure). Turns out there’s some you can disable by group policy, but the shit is so embedded that it cannot be completely turned off. So they are just instructing workers how to avoid it now and warning everyone that, although we do have a quota per install of one drive, any loss of data is the worker liability as we are being told not to use it. Microsoft is such a joke.

We are facing similar issues with copilot by the way.

Stop talking.

Please. You don’t get it, you’re not Venezuelan. Then shut up.

Your comment was awfully racist, xenophobic and classist. Just stop.

If you disagree about the US dictating what Venezuela does through violence and threats. Then lead by example and stop being the dumb gringo that pretends to know what foreigners think and do better than them. Stop.

Well, she already announced she is ready to cooperate with the US to ensure peace.

I could argue that he is just as horrible as Hitler but just to a smaller set of people and that it is justified. But I also bet that wouldn’t change your mind. That’s the problem with crimes against humanity, suffering can’t be quantified. And it never would feel justified until it happens to you.

I like that line of thinking as much as the next guy, but it strikes me as wildly misguided that the US politics has reduced to that. Like, I get the symbolic aspects of the Epstein’s files for politics, but still think it is mindless engagement.

An indisputably genuine video of Trump raping a literal toddler could be released tomorrow and nothing would change. Their support base and the gears of power are already too deeply entwined to his personality. No amount of public rage or national indignation changes governments.

“I didn’t say it, I declared it!”

But seriously, declaration of war is a legal term specific to each country internal law system. War, as a legal term, hasn’t actually been a thing either in international law since the 50s. It was changed to armed conflict. Which, before you think is stupid and why not call a spade a spade, is actually not that stupid. It created a well defined but much broader concept that (this is the important bit) is independent of a country’s internal law standing or diplomatic declarations thereof. If a situation fulfills the criteria, then it is an armed conflict whether the countries involved like it or declared it. It gives tools to nation states and international organizations to do certain things on the international stage more freely in these situations even when the countries involved don’t want them to.

It is comparing height paw to the shoulder, not the length. It’s the standard way to measure quadrupeds.

It’s all about composition

Alca torda, aka razorbill.

Entirely different things, and I think the meme actually correctly corresponds to orthopedics. It’s a pediatric specialty, and unfortunately, most of the treatments are some form or another of restraining body parts so they grow straight. Hence the snake tied to the rod in order to remain straight instead of wrapping and slithering around.

Yes, the world is only the us, UK and the EU. No one else counts.

Which country’s?

It is awfully priviledged and insulting to imply such horrible things and wish harm on others because of your xenophobia and limited experience with diverse contexts.

Lol, tell me you’ve never step inside a data center in your life without telling me.

Just because the US dominated market is wasteful and destructive doesn’t mean it is like that everywhere. You buy a server today and the offerings will be the same CPUs that were available five years ago. Servers are mean, powerful beasts, and upgrades have been slow and incremental at best for almost two decades. While manufacturer guarantees might last 7 to 10 years, operators offer refurbishment and refreshment services with extended guarantees. A decade old server is not a rare sight in a data center, hell we even kept some old Windows servers from the XP area around. Also, mainframes are most definitely not legacy machinery. Modern and new mainframes are deployed even today. It is a particular mode and architecture quirk, but it is just another server at the end of the day. In fact, the z17 is an AI specialized mainframe that released just this year as a full stack ready made AI solution.

A business that replaces servers every 3 years is burning money and any sane CFO would kick the CTO in the nuts who made such a stupid decision without a very strong reason to do it. Though C suites are not known for being sane, it is mostly in the US that such kind of wastefulness is found. All this is from experience on the corporate IT side, not at all hobbyist or second hand market.

Cool, the best AI has to offer is worse than the worst human code. Definitely worth burning the planet to a crisp for it.

Comparing AI to the Saturn V is morally insulting. Sure, servers do have a lifespan. There’s a science to the upgrade rate, and it was probably 5 years…back in the 90s. When tech was new, evolving fast and e-waste wasn’t even a concept. Today, durability is measured in decades, which means provision is typically several decades.

There are many servers with chips from the last 20 years that could be spun today and would still work perfectly fine. They were furbished with proper cooling and engineered to last. In 2020 I worked in a data center where they still had a 1999 mainframe in production, purring away like a kitten and not a single bit less performant. It just received more network storage and new ram memory from time to time. This is not what is happening with AI chips. They are being planned to burn out and become useless out of heat degradation.

All based on the promise from NVIDIA of new chip’s design breakthroughs that still don’t exist for new models of LLMs that don’t exist either. The problem is that, essentially, LLM tech has reached a pause in performance. More hardware, more data, more tokens, are not solving the problems that AI companies thought they would, and there’s a development dead end where there’s very few easy or simple improvements left to make.

I dare to wage that the top 1000 most popular artists entire body of work is already freely available in torrent form. The remainder of artists will benefit from an independent archival point of view.

All those data centers will be of little use. The components used are deliberately e-waste, designed to die in 5 years or less. The rack space is the cheapest part and if there’s no demand, they will be quickly deprecating real state. Anything built will be demolished and sold as soon as the bubble bursts. That’s their usual destiny, as data centers are not a very profitable for lease space.

That’s why they’re making it expendable. Those chips are designed to survive no more than 5 years of service in data centers. An unprecedented low level of durability provisioning. They are intentionally making e-waste.

Simply because they can read the writing on the wall. Corporate made every single decision possible to signal “use AI or get fired.” With mass layoffs being driven mainly by whole industries pivoting to AI, people are fighting desperately to stay relevant. Every pundit and tech guru is singing “learn AI or become unemployable.” It is a strive for survival, not a heartfelt trust or belief on the tech. Hell, they might not even understand how it works, people just know they need it in their CV to keep their meager income coming.