yep. just recently interviewed to get out of this horrifying shame spiral. goin back to something more… visceral.

all i can see are human processes being replaced by more reliable automated ones, and the compute required or provided for those isnt going to just disappear because some us-euro-centric valuation bubble.

its a service domain available on every continent and its being successfully and financially beneficially implemented in thousands of ways most people just dont understand.

there is money being made, but the false valuation is masking the reality.

is it over valued in most sectors? fuck yeah. is use of llms/ai or the building of data centers around the globe going to stop anytime in the next few decades? fuck no.

so will there be a financial bubble burst where lots of ai players lose out big time? maybe. will that affect the use of ai/llms in absolutely any capacity? fuck no. it would keep chuggin along with new owners.

i spose. as a data engineer of sorts, the llm use im exposed to is not going to be disrupted by some bubble. its providing real world efficiencies shifting cost centers from messy human salaries to 24/7 b2b services. whole call centers automated. analytical departments literally decimated. human beings are the costliest part of any business, and thats why so much effort is being put to replaces those human resources.

my success every year is based on how many positions i eliminated implementing automation processes.

for every obvious use of an llm, there are a hundred back-end, non-customer facing services being implemented. this is where people are actually currently losing their jobs, and those jobs arent coming back.

its hard to envision any bubble that is going to stop that apart from the american civil war 2.0… and even then, id be skeptical.

meh… thats not what happens when the ‘bubble’ bursts… it just means that the extremely wealthy will be able to purchase all the de-valued ai resources and keep chuggin along.

ie, at no point in the future will the resources required or expended for llm use drop.

sure, everyone loves cookies!

cybil was a great show. deserved more seasons…

Does anyone know of software that already provides topic-level blocking out of the box without needing long manual lists?

yep, reddit, facebook, twitter…

im a firm believer in task appropriate stuff… 24/7 server apps should be on a dedicated server box… network storage should only perform storage tasks. i wouldnt use a primary workstation also as server cuz i want to do crazy shit on my workstation. i wouldnt ever want to interfere with my ‘production’ stuff on the server.

ive been quite happy running a headless server and various nas boxes for storage redundancy… my home related i.t. tasks are very minimal now that everything is solidly automated.

https://fedidb.com/ is good for picking an instance with a substantial user count and shows how long the instance has been running.

ha… hows that ‘decentralization’ workin out for ya over there at AT?

what??? there arent hundreds of servers for you to move to because of the near zero traction on your non-horizontally scaling protocol?? if only someone had seen this coming!!

id love to get that domain and rebuild it with mbin

moooist. i knew i was a trend setter

its a traffic volume issue, not a moderation tool.

yep. trivial to make an account. tons of temp email services out there

yep.

several instances have had to lock it due to ai scrapers.

https://fedia.io/modlog

imagine your mom using an llm to write an app…

not sure why they keep callin it open source.

how bout you start throwin that around after you make the code available

one of the only silver linings of 2025… watchin tesla start to circle the drain