Properly open source.

The model, the weighting, the dataset, etc. every part of this seems to be open. One of the very few models that comply with the Open Software Initiative’s definition of open source AI.

These people absolutely do not hate the “very rich”

I don’t actually think that’s true. Not because people wouldn’t want it, but rather because yields are good enough that there won’t actually be many 9070s (which is a cut down and lower clocked die).

Because GOG doesn’t want to support it. They’d rather the community do it.

I don’t mean to be an apologist for dieselgate - I’m not, it was scummy and I’m glad VW execs ended up in prison - but all carmakers had illegally high diesel emissions.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_emissions_scandal

VW weren’t even close to the worst for it, either. Fiat, Hyundai, and Renault-Nissan (they partner for engine designs a lot) were the worst, VW was bizarrely one of the least over the legal limit for most engine designs.

We just affiliate it with VW more because they were not only the first to be tested, but the VW executives admitted to using cheat devices, whereas most others denied it. VW took the fall for an entire shady industry.

I, too, think humans become incapable of learning from their mistakes when they become wealthy.

IMO it’s a side effect of money being seen as the most important thing in life and the measure of success. Our culture says the more money you have, the greater a success you are.

With that in mind, imagine you’re a rich person. In your mind, that makes you a success.

You hear people with less money than you giving their opinions of what you should do, and you think “well why would I listen to these people? If they were as clever as me, they’d have as much money (read: success) as me. They do not, ergo their ideas must be worse than mine.”

In the mind of a mega-wealthy person, any normal person trying to give advice is met with the same reaction that a minimum wage toilet cleaner would be if they tried to give life advice to a median earner. “Huh? Really? You’re trying to give me life advice? Lmao. Ok buddy, sure.”

It completely explains why so many wealthy people surround themselves in yes men. It not necessarily that they hate any pushback (although of course it sometimes is this), it’s that they won’t take it seriously from someone who, by their perceived metric of success, is less qualified to call the shots.

And you know what? It’s not actually a completely unreasonable deduction. It’s just based on a flawed and extremely fucked up premise. Any person thinking clearly of course realises that there’s so much more to life than wealth.

Not really. The UK is very anti-Musk and very anti-Trump.

Ireland and the UK being the only ones to grow is likely due to the way Tesla delivers Right-Hand Drive cars - they deliver them as one large batch each quarter rather than constantly trickling them out like LHD cars.

If you look at UK and Irish sales figures across multiple months, they swing between being up and down, depending on when RHD shipments come. Overall Tesla is down (and the UK even before Musk’s recent actions bought far fewer Tesla cars than France or Germany)

Over time as 3D printers go from tinkerer’s toy to household staple, I’d expect them to become more locked down and anti-consumer.

Not just Google. There was a performance “bug” in Windows Defender a while back that specifically harmed Firefox. It had been reported but Microsoft took 5+ years to fix, and Mozilla did the bulk of the sleuthing and proposing fixes themselves.

Now, whether MS were intentionally crippling a competitor’s browser in the beginning when the bug surfaced (which coincidentally was around the time Edge was relaunched as a chromium browser), there’s no way to know.

But after a certain point, a software company with a market cap in the trillions loses any benefit of doubt I’d give them in scenarios like this where it benefits them not to find a solution. And 5 years is far beyond that point.

Unfortunately for Firefox, they didn’t really have the money for a lawsuit against a juggernaut like Microsoft.

It would be more simple to call some things basic, but it’ll never happen for the same reason food and drinks places have started drifting away from calling things “small, medium, large” and towards the much more stupid “Regular, Large, Extra-Large”. Starbucks goes even more pretentious with it.

You’d be more likely to have something extremely dumb like Premium (shit-tier), Premium Pro (midrange), Premium Ultra (actually premium).

Well yeah I don’t feel bad for any big company when bad stuff happens to them (well, within reason, I obviously don’t want massive layoffs and people left unemployed).

My point isn’t to be an apologist for VW, my point is that the others are just as bad, and plenty are even worse, yet they got away with it. They shouldn’t have.

For what it’s worth, all automakers had illegally high emissions (well apart from Tesla I guess). This is something I never see people bring up.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_emissions_scandal

VW wasn’t even close to being the worst for it (surprisingly they were among the least bad). They were just the first to be tested, and their leadership owned up to breaking the law immediately, meaning news media could happily call them out without fear of a libel/slander case.

VW alone took the PR hit for an entire shady industry.