Of course I am influenced by various things, we all are. I am not implying otherwise.

On a personal level, I don’t see the connection between posting on a forum about articles on the possibility of an AI bubble and investment decisions.

I am not necessarily disagreeing with you. I thinks people are a bit more complicated than that and circumstances can be very different.

That’s fair. For me personally, I don’t see a connection with forum posts and investment decisions (in aggregate, retail investors to my understanding make a small part of the market).

Perhaps, but how do you know that this is an actual trend?

An argument can be made that there are more people with your sentiment or perhaps the news about a bubble will attract short terms investors (trying to cash in as the wave is rising).

Generally speaking, discussion on Threadi, even ones that mention bubbles in context of AI/Nvidia, don’t mention investment strategies.

I was referring to the general concept behind the quote.

I originally want to post the OG (apocryphal?) variant:

Owe Your Banker £1,000 and You Are at His Mercy; Owe Him £1 Million and the Position Is Reversed

But it sounds rather quaint these days.

They will be fine either way…

What’s investment got to do with the article (or even the comments or people’s sentiment on the Threadiverse)?

There are a wide variety of investment strategies depending on your situation and other factors. I don’t see how these are related to tech news discussions.

I am not saying your are wrong or right, just an observation.

If you owe the bank $100, that’s your problem; if you owe the bank $100 million, that’s the bank’s problem.

Thanks.

I think just need to “train” myself to ignore AltWorldCoinMan spam. I don’t have Elmo content blocked and I’ve somehow learned to ignore Elmo spam (other than humour focused content like the one trillion pay request).

I might use this for some other things that I do want to block.

I am starting to find Sam AltWorldCoinMan spam to be more annoying than Elmo spam.

I don’t do software development, but I am enough of a nerd to know what python.

Good on them. The American far-right (and it’s proxies) need to be shown that they are compromised individuals that lack integrity.

Any more info on this?

From reading their FAQ if seems like an ActivityPub implementation for Micro-blogging but with other features and integration with other Fedi networks (sort of like mbin?).

A quick scan of their main public instance shows higher than average amount of far right content, but not overwhelmingy so (and the examples were from other servers, not clear if its Pleroma instances or smaller mastodon servers that get blocked on major instances).

What am I missing?

I would say this is true of most (all?) countries/cultures.

My issue with this thread’s OP was the portrayal of some US TOS scheme as having legitimatcy. It does not, it’s just a local criminal/corruption scheme (every country has them to one degree or another).

I am assuming the individual described in the article is based in the US, but nevertheless, many countries do not allow spying, fraud and criminality as long as you have a TOS that says you are allowed to do so.

This is a very provincial manner of thinking and shows how deeply tolerance of corruption and criminality dominates the American mind.

Same with the kill switch, it is essentially a fraudulent scheme, a criminal activity.

I could totally see this happen.

Not in a direct manner, but something about “OSM not living up to Apple’s high standards of privacy” or similar strategy.

I am starting to dislike Altman spam more than Elmo spam.

Regarding the philosophical points, there is some truth to the arguments, but one thing is absolutely certain (you can have zero knowledge of “AI” services to know that), you can’t trust Americans in such matters.

Don’t know why this article is getting downvoted, it’s a solid article that feels relatively balanced.

I say this as someone who doesn’t trust AI conmen (while recognizing the enormous potential of LLMs and ML systems such AI upscaling of older SD/VHS videos), especially American AI conmen.

AV1 content is rather rare and encoding even 1080p content (from BD) is pretty slow unless you have a 9985WX Threadripper Pro (which costs over $11 K retail where I live).

And AV1 client support (HW decode) is lacking compared to HEVC/x265.

Don’t know which country you live in but $160 for a 14 TB HDD is a good price. It’s been a while since I lived in North America, but from memory this is a good price for US/Canada.

One general tip for saving space is to get x265/HEVC content, as it tends to be most space efficient on both an absolute and a “quality per GB basis” (some caveats of course, but I digress). That being said you may want to make sure all your clients support x265 (I prefer to simply never have to transcode and have all clients support Xvid/x264/x265 and all major audio formats).

Shutting down the legal entity isn’t that strong of an incentive, I agree.

Having to do 20 years community service as a junior janitor at an infectious disease hospital in rural congo and losing all your money (every last cent) is exactly the type of incentive that would work with American VC types.

Not saying that US society (as it stands today) is capable of reforms, but that doesn’t mean one shouldn’t take a sober attitude when evaluating the type of incentives that could work.

I am not a lawyer, so I can’t make any claims about US law.

If, as you claim, pyramid schemes / ponzi / pump and dumps are not legal in the US. , how is it that A16Z leadership wasn’t arrested for investing in Axie Infinity?

A business model like Axie Infinity is mathematically impossible. The same cannot be said of government safety net systems.