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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th February 2025
  • Stellantis is circling the drain even more rapidly than Tesla. The 3rd-runner-up car makers of both the USA and Europe bonded together into one great big Megazord of mediocrity. Unsurprising they'd pull something like this.

  • DeepSeek roundup: banned by governments, no guard rails, lied about its training costs
  • Customer acquisition cost for a future service, which is ~fixed after training costs, assuming we can consider distribution costs as marginal. Reasonably impressive accomplishment, if one is taking the perspective of SV SaaS-financing brain.*

    *I don't recommend you do this for too long, that's how some of the people currently prominent in the news got to be the way that they are

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th February 2025
  • I dunno, still not as bad as the last Win10 update I was presented with that wanted to resize the recovery partition and shrink my C drive at the same time. That was the push I needed to switch to my Gentoo install and never look back. I presume that Windows is probably pretty decent about live partition resizing these days, but I don’t know that for sure, and I don’t want to waste time being concerned about it on a system that’s mainly for gaming anyway.

  • Aella's timeline on the current Zizian issue (warning: she sure does love her deadnames)
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    why does this seem vaguely like a threat