@kurtsh@mastodon.social2025-11-04 23:33:11
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-03 14:05:49
OpenAI and AWS agree to a seven year deal in which OpenAI will pay $38B for AI compute, including training its models on Amazon's servers and using its CPUs (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-amazon-
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-12-04 16:48:17
I agree with the storyteller: the experience of having a slave is abhorrent, simulated or not, and this story is a window into something •deep• about the present moment. Even without having slaves, we are all in danger of having a •slaver mindset•. It’s a disease that’s running rampant now in billionaire-shaped techno-utopian circles.
I wrote this thread on the topic earlier:
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/113295613785073188
…and even having written that, it’s still shocking — not surprising, exactly, but shocking — to hear those thoughts expressed so baldly by the colleague in the story above.
@fluchtkapsel@nerdculture.de2026-01-07 18:13:44
Nobody asked for my opinion but here it is: I used middle-click when I was still using Windows to scroll in browsers. When I switched to Ubuntu I was surprised to learn that middle-click did something completely different but totally useful nonetheless. For almost twenty years I now use middle-click pasting across several Linux distributions. I love having kind of a second clipboard.
That being said, I completely agree that this behaviour is unexpected for new or inexperienced users, a…
@3sframe@social.linux.pizza2025-10-29 14:37:10
Wow, Oracle Cloud sucks. You know it's bad when I find Azure and AWS easier to use.
Signed up thinking I'd use their "always free" tier and maybe pay the overages.
They lock you in a "home region" and I can't launch the free tier servers because they aren't available in any of the data centers in my home region. Of course you can't check capacity of servers when you're selecting your home region (that you can't change.) So, how are …