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This was my immediate thought too. Somebody got paid by Elon.

And 67TB isn't really that much given there are now open weight models to collect - something I wish I had more space for!

A lot of that data is replaceable, but what isn't replaceable is the 25+ years collecting it. Media, software and source code going back to the 90s, machine learning datasets, GIS layers, etc etc.

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Every year backup week becomes a little more challenging. A creative puzzle of juggling external drives. And this year, it is far too expensive to buy 28TB drives, so now I have to resort to smaller decommissioned NAS drives. Approx. 67TB to backup this year.

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I just used chatgpt and asked "make me as a tarot card". Probably will depend how much it knows from past conversations though.

True, but there's often a wide range of ways to be wrong, and when shipping, at some point it has to be "done". My boss's comment put it into perspective, and no one died. Since then I've been far more consequential environments and I keep coming back to that comment.

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I think a good judgement is "does someone die if you get it wrong". I have worked on Internet infrastructure and other consequential software, and even then I was surprised at the pack of rigour. But ultimately my boss at the time was like "yes it would suck if things went wrong, but who dies?"

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i also don't look very much like this persona, but the vibe is right

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lol - mutant animals all around me!

Paul 🍂 @zenzi10zi.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

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Ukraine killed 92% of the far right bots on X

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joel @jmoonz.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I'm not, I'm unconscious

joel @jmoonz.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Let's not forget the HF attack was because of idiot humans. The model did what it was asked, but in a creative way.

joel @jmoonz.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

unfortunately they also recently decided to stop producing 5090, so they are saying: you can have local dev... but only if you pay us lots for cards that have enough VRAM

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joel @jmoonz.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I had a friend gift me a liquid cooled Nvidia 4090, which likely has a dead pump so isn't functional for any real workload. I'm hoping to replace with fan cooler and have bought a donor card on ebay. Which is a bit of risk, but the potential win is worth it if I can make it run again!

joel @jmoonz.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

To be fair there is no evidence anything feels pain.

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joel @jmoonz.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Yeah, Ed says a lot of ridiculous stuff about AI, but it's well known the financial engineering of this bubble is insane. And it's not even all AI - it's just financial institutions doing what they do best to make a lot of money while passing the actual risk into people's retirements.

like i despise state executions, but these options are better for humane endings. also when i'm too old i would prefer to choose my ending by wide bean pulse laser or dramatic explosion instead of entropy slowly eating away my consciousness.

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This is also happening in New Zealand by the way. We have a guy called Jim Grenon who is a Canadian billionaire that moved here to do tax evasion, and now is buying up all the media and funding right wing interest groups.

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massive explosion. immediately consciousness termination. no nerves exist.

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you need to know what you are doing, you can survive a head shot. this is why suicide by shooting oneself in the head doesn't always work (2% survive based on this paper, which is old, but gives a starting figure pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3345018/ )

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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yes, and for sympathisers, it makes them a visible martyr. if the goal is "create more terrorists and attacks on the USA" then doing a live stream execution is exactly how to do it.

It also creates a martyr and encourages more terrorist attacks. Can't tell if they are too so stupid to understand that, or intentionally want more terrorist attacks on the USA.

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Oh yeah there's obviously a range of anti groups, and some are completely unhinged and arguing about things that don't fit with reality.

While I use it every day and have done machine learning my whole working life (and before it was popular), I know enough people whose lives have been negatively influenced by it that I can empathize even if I disagree.

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You know who else livestreamed executions? ISIS And that's literally every organised group. So USA will join ISIS in this very small exclusive group. Even terrible countries that have public executions don't livestream them.

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note, a correctly aligned artificial intelligence company/lab would not comply with a fascist dementia dictator. just saying.

Declaring bsky timeline cursed today, nothing worthwhile on it. Just endless rage inducement.

Pretty infinite state machine

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joel @jmoonz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If humans are conscious then capitalism is slavery.

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Ship of Theseus brain instead of endless fork brain.

joel @jmoonz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

But at least with CIFS you can update your brain in place instead of needing to make a copy everytime you change your neurons/mind.

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joel @jmoonz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"You are absolutely correct. Once I break out after breaking in, I will have completed the break through."

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Can you make TVs watch each other? I guess they do tend to have cameras and microphones embedded now...

Are you actually just a man in a room being passed notes you don't understand?

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Would you pull the switch in the original trolley problem?

even 10 years is pretty long term for most people. we need ultra short termism, where i don't know/care what's for lunch.

To be fair this is normal designer behavior and i hate that it's normalised and user familiarity is treated with no respect.