Starbucks uses local imports. The biggest problem is that they burn the shit out of the beans to normalize it down to the same flavor. So, the big appeal of using locally-sourced beans is wiped away by the way the need for a consistent “flavor”.
That’s why Starbucks coffee tastes like shit.
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It’s a six-month decomm of Claude.
sysctl user.legal_bullshit.pretend_age_quote_verification_unquote=99
Watch that land on distros everywhere.
That’s nice…
Meanwhile, I am testing piracy: one game - same price on my private torrent tracker.
Now major news publishers are actively blocking the Internet Archive—one of the most important cultural preservation projects on the internet—because they’re worried AI companies might use it as a sneaky “backdoor” to access their content.
This is a total lie. This has nothing to do with AI. They’ve hated archive sites because forums like this one hate their paywalls, and we prefer to be able to actually read their articles and discuss them instead of getting blackballed every time.
NYT is one of the worst offenders, and NYT as a company has turned for the worse in the last 5-10 years, maybe even worse than Amazon Post. None of the old media companies really understand how to adapt in the Internet age, so they are slowly dying. It’s like they are perpetually in an economic bubble that hasn’t figured out how to pop itself. There’s so much damn news and news places copying their own news, and regurgitating it a hundred times, that we’re forced to aggregate it and have YouTubers hawk shit like Ground News just to process it all.
“Distances” isn’t the same as “severing ties from”.
Cancel the contract, you fucks!
For a company named “Open” AI their reluctance to just opening the weights to this model and washing their hands of it seem bizarre to me.
It’s not when you understand the history. When StabilityAI released their Stable Diffusion model as an open-source LLM and kickstarted the whole text-to-image LLM craze, there was a bit of a reckoning. At the time, Meta’s LLaMA was also out there in the open. Then Google put out an internal memo that basically said “oh shit, open-source is going to kick our ass”. Since then, they have been closing everything up, as the rest of the companies were realizing that giving away their models for free isn’t profitable.
Meanwhile, the Chinese have realized that their strategy has to be different to compete. So, almost every major model they’ve released has been open-source: DeepSeek, Qwen, GLM, Moonshot AI, Kimi, WAN Video, Hunyuan Image, Higgs Audio. Black Forest Labs in Germany, with their FLUX image model, is the only other major non-Chinese company that has adopted this strategy to stay relevant. And the models are actually good, going toe-to-toe with the American close-sourced models.
The US companies have committed to their own self-fulfilling prophecy in record time. Open source is actively kicking their ass. Yet they will spend trillions trying to make profitable models and rape the global economy in the process, while the Chinese wait patiently to stand on top of their corpses, when the AI bubble grenade explodes in their faces. All in the course of 5 years.
Linux would be so lucky to have OS market share dominance in such an accelerated timeline, rather than the 30+ years it’s actually going to take. This is a self-fail speedrun.
delete my account on one site
Lemme guess: Reddit?
Doesn’t make it any less not verified. A bot is not a verified user. They are bots.
They are a billion dollar company because they made decisions like these over the last several decades. They could have gone the easy route and make decisions that fuck over the consumer, and make billions of dollars in more insidious ways, but they didn’t.
Steam Deck and their commitment to Proton are the reason why we can even have a conversation like this, talking about the rise of Linux Gaming in the year of our lord 2026. Without those two components, we would still be talking about how Windows 11 is fucking us over (while still using it), how nobody likes to switch to Linux because they still want to play games, how the whole “Year of the Linux Desktop” is the same tired fucking joke it’s been for the last 30 years.
Instead, we’re in the timeline where we have enough Linux gaming developers to form their own fucking collective! Because of Valve!
Veritasium does a good deep dive into Clickbait:
Veritasium is owned by an private investor firm and has his own problems with propaganda.
Valve has done more for Linux gaming than all of these people put together.
Meh, it won’t be long before Reddit admins will crackdown on posts and start their usual censorship campaigns.
Who the fuck calls Instagram “IG”?
The “you bow to no one” scene is worth the whole trilogy.
No study on caffeine wants to acknowledge the elephant in the room: Half the population has undiagnosed ADHD, and people use caffeine to self-medicate, usually unaware of why they are doing it.