Not really no. While it’s a fun story, there are open source models that are about 6 months behind the frontier models. OTOH, if they pass the legislation to “prevent dangerous models in the wild” I’m sure those models will be shutdown, at which point they can start charging cartel prices. Assuming the AI companies don’t become like the airlines: a cut throat business with almost zero margin, where all the value is taken by the consumers.

I don’t want to protect my children. CHECKMATE TECHBROS!!!

Good news! (For him) Under the current lack of rules he probably didn’t have to give up any of the stock in Liberty Energy! Hope that works out for him (not really) when we start living under the rule of law again.

It’s okay, I live in Ohio and we work like this, but instead of asking what you do we ask which high school you went to, and what you think about <sports team>

Bingo, but that’s not what the legal paper work says.

Too late, already happened. It’s the reason why Ireland is the home for such notable Irish tech companies as Google, MSFT, Amazon, Meta, and others.

True, I’d be more concerned about legislation to be honest. The CAN-SPAM act is just the mildest example.

Also with the computer industry it’s getting pretty rare for any market niche to have more than 1-2 dominant players in it. Generally it’s winner take all. Just see what happened with all the indie ISPs.

Yeah, that’s a good option. However those temps swings also mean that it’s likely to get back down (or up) again the next day, and in the mean time I’m potentially running the thermostat.

I’ve also got an old brick house, which means that thermal mass is a thing in a way that’s hard to explain to people who live in modern buildings, but the easiest way to understand it is to realize the house walls are a lot slower at changing temps than the air, which will also mess with the thermometer.

Literally the worst that can happen to me if I’m really really unlucky is end up tied down to a single provider, same as you.

No, there are a lot more risks you’re running that I am not. Since you control your infrastructure, you’re also responsible for it. Current penalty under CAN-SPAM act is up to $53,088 per email. So, no the worst thing that can happen to you if you’re really unlucky is to die penniless after being sued into oblivious for operating a spam operation.

Before the worst happens, it’s getting increasingly more likely that your domain will end up in a blacklist at Gmail, Yahoo, or Outlook, for which there is no formal appeal process. All that would require would somebody hacking your domain, and sending spam, or just sharing an ip address with a spammer.

That’s before we get into the things that you’re already lost: time and effort maintaining the system, which I have not.

Anyway, I was just being polite, but since you’re incapable of doing so, and need to resort to ad homenium attacks, I think we’re done here.

And you knew 25 years ago that the market wouldn’t consolidate down to 1-2 registrars?

Has been so far, but I don’t feel that was obvious 25 years ago.

LOL. That’s not a bad approach. What I find happens in practice is that we turn it off during season transitions so we can open the windows, and then forget or need to turn it back on again to deal with the fluctuations in the weather. The temps here have shifted as much as 50 degrees in a single day. Hard to program for that in advance. :)

Another perspective. You got lucky that the dependencies you’re working with haven’t gotten as bad as the ones for Gmail and the like. Sure you’ve got a domain, but you’ve also got a domain registrar you’re dependent on. Yeah, you’ve got your own email server, but it’s dependent on open source software, and the monopolists allowing it to still connection, though that’s getting iffy. You’re also dependent on the kindness of a number of people continuing to contribute to Linux, and it not being compromised in some way.

I made a different choice 25 years ago, and went with Gmail, but the idea that you’re smarter because your dependencies didn’t turn to sh*t is as much luck as skill. 25 years is several eternities in tech, and there are no guaranteed outcomes.

Also IT here. I’ve worked with these sorts of guys, also agree not my kind of IT person. Usually craps on anything and everything.

Nor is the journey to the thermostat so arduous that I can’t get up and walk over to it if I should ever feel the need. Maybe I’m just too old to get it.

I live in a three story house, and sometimes only notice when what the thermostat is set to when I’m tired and ready for bed. Climbing a flight of stairs after going down and changing the thermostat doesn’t appeal much. I also got it on sale, which was nice.

Depends on how detailed and respectful they wanted to be of the original material. Lawerence of Arab in Space where a young lord abuses a artificial prophecy to gain control of a planet, unleashing universal jihad where billions die isn’t far off.

It does leave out some of the interesting bits, like when one of his ancestors turns into a worm, marries his sister and gets another man to fuck her, since he’s no longer able to do so.

I’m okay with those guys going to jail. Bill Gates is only on Bill Gates side. Woody Allen is pretty shunned as a creep. Chomsky’s a bit of a surprise to some, but I’m okay with him in jail too. What’s the problem?

Further their prices often aren’t the best, and it’s going to continue getting worse.

No, we know because somebody recorded the video. They’re not exactly the same thing.

Same. It was actually trying things, but all people see is this one image of Sean Connery.