“I don’t like it when people find out what I really think”

What a coincidence, Trump’s loyalty purge email was titled “A fork in the road” https://www.opm.gov/fork

It seems very reckless to have studdingsails out in those conditions… Bad seamanship.

Other than myself I only know one other person who has quit Facebook over this, so I very much doubt that advertisers will stay away. It took a lot more for them to leave Twitter, even after Elon told them to fuck off and sued them for not advertising on his platform.

Hell Nvidia’s stock plummeted as well, which makes no sense at all, considering Deepseek needs the same hardware as ChatGPT.

Common wisdom said that these models need CUDA to run properly, and DeepSeek doesn’t.

I’ve never heard of Minnesota Pride groups before. Are they Minnesotan supremacists?

I use it with aliases for online signups, so the genericness is a feature, not a bug.

It is hard. I made up a name that sounds like it would be a webmail provider (it has “mail” in the name).

I totally get that; I have three domains (work, personal, and one only for online services / aliases)

Email is already bad for privacy, and WHOIS protection solves most of the rest. And obviously don’t buy a personally-identifiable domain if that’s a concern.

Getting your own domain is the best thing you can do, regardless of provider - it means they can’t lock you in anymore.

I’m back with Fastmail too, after having quit to go with Proton a while back. I never ran into a single email where the recipient was encrypted, so I’ve come to see the whole encrypted email shtick as mostly marketing.

Well, it does make sense in that the time during which we have AGI would be pretty short because AGI would soon go beyond human-level intelligence. With that said, LLMs are certainly not going to get there, assuming AGI is even possible at all.

Easily OpenAI, if only because their API is so widely used.

Absolutely, but they should still elaborate on why it being open source is so important, especially when the industry leader is not.

The article mentions in passing that DeepSeek is open source, but completely fails to mention why that’s important and makes regional censorship irrelevant. The model is perfectly able to answer your questions about Tank Man or Xinjiang as long as you run it on a server outside China. https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3

I’m not sure what you mean by that analogy.

Instead of supporting DeSantis on one of his signature issues, lawmakers are holding their own special session this week to support President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda, which they’re calling the “Tackling and Reforming Unlawful Migration Policy (TRUMP) Act.”

Totally normal country, definitely not a banana republic.

Everybody involved at that level knows the AI hype is a sham, so they have their finger hovering above the “sell” button. Open AI’s valuation and cash burn, for example, assume a much higher revenue in the future – but if this upstart can release a similar product with a fraction of the overhead, that cash burn now becomes a massive liability.

Edit to add a source from a real news outlet instead of shitty YouTube clickbait: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-01-27/china-s-ai-deepseek-shows-silicon-valley-s-huge-blindspot

Roe v Wade “race”? Does that refer to the 49 years during which nobody did anything to enshrine that right? Slowest race I’ve ever seen.