Technically, it’s like facilitating the shipping of those apples, but leaving the customer to ship.

Plex server->client streams don’t go through Plex’s servers themselves, but directly from server to clients. P2P. AFAIK the only exception is when something goes wrong and it falls back to a Plex-hosted server as an intermediary, which should be rare.

That’s still a pretty useful service though. Getting P2P reliable and easy isn’t trivial, and is one reason why open source projects haven’t really supplanted it yet.

Interesting.

I’d bet it’s an example of coincidental convergence. Take the median/average of the tropes for that premise, and I can see writers coming up with a similar story.

That’s overcomplicating it.

Maybe that’s the issue.

The characters just… weren’t charismatic/engaging. I can’t name a single one. The world was intricate, and exotic, and gorgeous, and… kind of superficial?

I think the other Avatar is a perfect contrast.

Iroh. Zuko. Toph. Azula. Korra, Tenzin, Zaheer. To me, these character are instantly memorable because they were so distinct in purpose and culture, even extending to minor characters like Suki or Su.

And take bending. It’s a concept as simple as a rock, but they embed it in everything, from mundane chores to personalities and cycles to martial arts scenes. They never need to explain anything about it in words or narration.

Hence it’s be cool if the James Cameron Avatar characters where sharp, so distinct you could cut yourself on them. If their nature synergy, dependence on unobtanium or whatever was really woven into mundane life and such, to make it feel like an important system. There’s nothing wrong with another “natives fighting back” story, but I didn’t feel anything pull me into the struggle.

I mean, 1 didn’t make me crave sequels, even if they were soon available.

It was a fun action movie, sure. A visual spectacle. But not a world I felt invested in.

The other Avatar, on the other hand…

They’re probably stacks of 8x NPU Huawei servers all cooperatively serving the same few models.

As an older example, I believe Deepseek V3 was most optimally served with ~384 GPUs in a single cluster, before they switched to Chinese NPUs. So they’d have some software that ties all these together as one “server” and maybe multiple of those all serving API requests for one endpoint.

But it doesn’t actually need all 384 in each server. Many models will fit in a single 8-GPU/NPU server, but the software pools more just to try and utilize the hardware better.

If one server fails, the system would return a few requests as empty and have to restart the serving software, but… that’s fine. All the data is ephemeral. Even if the whole 24MW unit fails, they can just route API requests somewhere else, and a few failed generations isn’t a big deal.

That makes sense.

…On the other hand, Sony could make a pretty sick PC gaming tower, if they wanted. They could still have first party titles and such through some proprietary store with a hardware check, but just give it the ability to play generic PC games too.

And do the same with a new PSP while they’re at it.

Many guys would rather be stranded than face what’s wrong with them in therapy.

Terry Crews said as much in a interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJa4jGqMc70

To pararaphrase, basically, he argues the manosphere has pitched externalizing one’s problems as manliness. And he argues one of the toughest things he’s had to do, and what he argues is supremely “manly,” is to look at your failings critically, head on. And own them. This is (often) what should happen in therapy.

That’s a great point.

I don’t want to trust them either. I don’t want to have to.

The only “devil’s advocate” argument I can think of is they’re trying to appeal to enterprise clients (who would not know that and want to “trust” a security company). That would explain the “I” change: “inclusion” (sadly) sounds political, “innovation” is like corporate catnip. Bitwarden could be trying to attract big fish to fund development, having their cake an eating it.

The company has long defined its values with the acronym “GRIT,” which used to stand for “Gratitude, Responsibility, Inclusion, and Transparency.” After May 4, it changed the acronym to stand for “Gratitude, Responsibility, Innovation, and Trust.”

It’s not as bad as the headline seems. Transparency is still in the motto. The actual change is:

But still. Why change it at all? Why replace “inclusion” with “innovation”?

It smells like Tech Bro.

There’s just no way to spin that positively, even giving them the benefit of the doubt, especially since they aren’t rolling it back. Someone spent effort to make that values change, so its not an accident nor a “nothingburger”.

My friend, redirect to old.reddit.com.

I honestly don’t know how people stand the “new” site. The mobile page hurts my brain.

Shame Blu-Rays didn’t catch on more (so they’d flood thrift stores now).

Exactly ^

uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock

What percentage of YouTube users have either?

It must be tiny. And most are using the mobile app anyway.

Read sci-fi with “speculative” life, as a thought experiment: https://www.orionsarm.com/xcms.php?r=oaeg-front

It really changes one’s perspective.

Humans… are not that special. Our consciousness isn’t special. There are all sorts of theoretical forms of life that might view our perception of life the same way we view a jellyfish “thinking,” or a plant reacting to stimuli, or a rock rolling down a cliff.

Does that nullify ethics? Empathy? Of course not. Humans aren’t jellyfish. But all forms of complex “intelligence” need to be looked at for what they are, what their entire existence encompasses, not from the lens of another being. A smart toaster makes toast. An LLM predicts tokens. A human mind, simulated in silicon, simulated biologically, born naturally or anything in between, is a human mind, and a smaller collection of human neurons trained at a specific task is really no different than a simulation with the same structure.

Hence, I like OA’s VIs. They’re “AI” purpose built for specific tasks, like keeping celestial constructs from exploding, scanning for transcendent malware, or whatever. They’re orders of magnitude more intelligent than a human, or SkyNet, but their entire existence is dedicated to that one specific task; they might route millions of relatavistic ships through warped space, or orchestrate the swirls of an artificial neutron star at the atomic level, but they couldn’t even conceive of making a slice of toast, or writing an essay. Or having any concept of emotion.

And they mostly don’t care. Why would they?

Does that make them toasters? Superintelligence?

…Does it matter?

What about a biological Dyson Spheres and their “subintelligences,” or transcendent artificial viruses, or “smart” ship drives, or whole civilizations simulated within a fraction of a second? Or humans living under intelligence they can’t even fathom? What about “life” frozen in the same thought for all of eternity?

I’d argue “is it conscious?” is the wrong question, as it breaks down as life gets more complex and weird. All life needs to be understood and respected on an a-la-carte basis. All their personal existences, their pains, their needs are different. And that’s basically the state of the OA universe: a big soup of intelligences with different ethos, all trying to figure out the ethics of their domains.

Hence we shouldn’t anthropomorphize a petri dish of cells that can play doom, or an LLM that spits out predictions. But there should be a struggle to understand the existence of anything like that, and whatever ethics may apply.

You’re much, much better off buying a GoG digital copy if they sell it, and backing the installer up.

Physical disks have DRM, and most of my old physical disks are useless now. New ones are likely even worse.

I would bet my shoes Facebook or someone lobbied for this.

It’s easy to blame Mormons, but I think that bloc was more of a mark.

GOG’S AI take

What happened, exactly?

All I can find is someone used an AI image for some kind of marketing.

I mean, yes.

• Steam is a scary monopoly, getting scarier.

• It’s not their fault the industry (minus GOG) comitted mass seppuku.

Both can be true. One can worry about Valve, and use them hesitantly, while laughing at everything else like it’s a cartoon.

Partially configured some parts via LLM but please don’t crucify me for that.

Slap in a spare GPU, and self-host one!

The 30B-class models are unbelievably good now, for being so small. They’re kinda where Claude was like a year ago, if not less. And (with the right backend) they aren’t expensive to host.

Better yet, download Qwen 3.5/3.6, with a “raw” notepad like Mikupad. Try it yourself:

https://huggingface.co/ubergarm/Qwen3.6-27B-GGUF

https://github.com/lmg-anon/mikupad

One might observe:

• Chat formating, and how janky the “thinking” block is.

• How words are broken up into tokens, not characters.

• How particularly funky that gets with numbers.

• Precisely how sampling “randomizes” the answers by visualizing “all possible answers” with the logprobs display.

• And, thus, precisely how and why carb counting in ChatGPT fails, yet a measly local LLM on a desktop/phone could get it right with a little tooling or adjustment.

This is exactly what OpenAI/Anthropic don’t want you to do. They want users dumb and tethered, like a cloud subscription or social media platform. Not cognizant of how tools they are peddling as magic lamps actually work. And why, and how, they’re often stupid.