@lucp That must be incredibly rough 🫂 It's inspiring that you manage to find positivity despite everything

@matthiasott Love the new altcoin logo

@bert_hubert Behold this gigantic man-made horse that spawned beyond the gates, definitely not housing a Trojan army waiting to strike!

Some friends and colleagues who shared token usage use something in the range of €300 to €1,000 a month. The twentyfold of the lower end makes a pretty good junior-medior salary at companies that hire regionally. I can’t wait for the bubble to burst, honestly.

@sarajoy.eurosky.social I can’t remember the source, but I’ve read a couple of posts calculating the costs of purchasing the hardware, running inference on the hardware (at 80% capacity or so), and infrastructure. Without the costs of running a data centre and without the staff, they concluded subscription costs would have to increase 20-25 fold to break even. The hype, false promises, and efforts by AI companies to become the main ingredient, it all clicked then.

@michaelmosher @molly0xfff Great stuff. This is one of my biggest annoyences of the Dutch tax-funded news outlet, NOS. They try to be factual and articles tend to be narrow in scope, so they often fail to add meaningful context, fail to point out mixed statements, and are hesistant to label things for what they are, like dictatorships, facists, genocide, "climate scientists say" instead of "we're screwing up", etc. The bland reporting seems to mostly benefit the bad in this world.

@zachleat Neither will know why it exists, they have no long-term memory.