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Cake day: February 19th, 2024

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  • INAL and even further away from am American one, but I shall inboke the law of Cunningham . Having the company recognising or just generally being okay with the union formation makes the whole process easier. No hiding your unionisation activities and such. I believe the role of the union-buster is to dissuade the employees from signing up to it, see if there’s any dirt on union leaders to have then fired, and to just generally be a royal pain in the arse for everyone.

    If I got the story right a bunch of Blizzard developers got fired because they shared company secrets/IP in the same discord server they discussed their unionisation work, so Blizzard’s lawyers found an easy way to get rid of them.



  • Like, sometimes these things would be quite useful for me. I’m someone who goes into fight or flight (often fight) when I receive a leas than positive email at work. Having something smart enough to interrupt me before I do something hasty and tell me to puss off for a couple of minutes first would be really useful. But a system like that can’t ever live I’m the hands of someone I don’t trust.

    It’s like immich. The idea of having an AI go through all your images and labeling them is something I usually balled at with google or meta, but when it’s all local on my machine and I can turn it on or off at will makes all the difference.


  • To play devil’s advocate; it might be that the RAM producers see AI as a bubble, and it would be incredibly risky to expand their production now, when it won’t come into effect until a handful of years from now.

    RAM and SSD manufacturers have already seen many many dips and rises in price over decades.

    However, that all of them are deciding not to expand and potentially rake in the cash is more than a little sus.

    I’m not sure how to feel about it personally. I hope the true cost of maintaining these AI models gets passed down to customers soon so that it either crashes and burn, or at the very least stabilises the market.