I had to look it up, and after reading a lengthily Wikipedia page on Greek mercenaries, I tried the second result: an XKCD comic I’ve seen before but had forgotten. So today, I’m one of the lucky 10,000 again.

I think the best you could do would be to install a FOSS OS, a FOSS web server, and use a FOSS page builder or content manager.

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I maintain that this was made purely as an income stream for registrars. Every single company and brand should be rushing to buy companyname.sucks. Every town buying yourtown.sucks. Every political candidate getting into bidding wars over candidate.sucks or opponent.sucks.

Yes it’s a bad thing. This legislation gives very broad power to the federal government to ban apps and platforms without any oversight. It might be TikTok today, but it could be Lemmy tomorrow.

You will shit.

Yes mommy. <3

Fair. We’re using 4o and o1-mini right now, because access to the full o1 is waitlisted in Azure. However based on some brief review of their pricing for o1, I’d say we’re still going to save a metric fuckton of money compared to per-user subscriptions.

First I laughed, but now I’m seeing the genius.

I run tech for a midsize business, and consult for several small businesses. Aside from one 4-person company, all of the businesses I oversee found it less expensive to host their own LLM in Azure than to pay for OpenAI’s subscriptions. I’m talking 10% of the cost of subscriptions for the same functionality.

The midsize business in particular has only seen measurable benefit from more specialized/global applications of “AI” tools, such as integrating machine learning into data analytics. There are a ton of people who use the LLM chat, but I think the mishaps caused by the LLM may have undone any efficiency gains. Either way, I’m sure glad they’re not paying hundreds of thousands of dollars annually for it.

This drives me crazy. I’ve commented this before, but I’ll say it again:

People in the US love to cry first amendment (freedom of speech, etc) any time something they say has consequences.

• Sexually harass a coworker? Freedom of speech!
• Business owner says something bigoted and people stop patronizing their business? Freedom of speech!
• Get banned from a Facebook group for being an ass? Freedom of speech!
• Kicked out of a shop for your offensive shirt? Freedom of speech!

Funny how the same people with wE tHe PeOpLe bumper stickers are the ones who haven’t actually bothered to read their own bill of rights. These people also seem to think that “free speech” (as they define it) should only apply to speech they agree with.

Seconded. Data breaches at big companies may be what makes the news, but small businesses (and other organizations) are compromised far more often.

I run an IT team, and if anyone ever suggested buying Windows Home for business use, they’d have a bad day.

Obligatory Poe’s Law mention, since Lenny seems to have agreed that it’s important.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law

Cat.

Wow, that PIN code is really on the honor system, isn’t it?

We’re pressing words here. I can’t think of a way to do that without a mangled heap of PHP, can you?

I think the average family’s net worth is a negative number, so you’re technically right.

A glorious Silicon Valley reference.

That’s hilarious. The Lemmy hive mind is definitely forming.

recital carrots

I don’t know why, but I read this as “rectal carrots”. Like some sort of a carrot suppository.

Brb, I’m gonna try something…

One year later…

Touch bars are old news. We’re replaced them with this amazing new thing called “keys”!