Obviously he would say that - “don’t buy from our competitor”. But he’s not wrong, nvidia is pretty much near a monopoly regarding hardware for training and inference. It would be better for [everyone who’s not nvidia] if there was more competition and options.

You can either pick a battle that you cannot win (assuming you’re not the one in charge of the many millions such a migration would cost). You can just deal with it, or you can look for better circumstances.

You say you’re convincing people, management sees a trouble maker who’s spreading unhappiness.

In my opinion, it’s better to save your energy for something where it can make a change, not a futile attempt at trying to make an institute drop Outlook or Teams, or whatever shitty software we’re talking about.

But hey, this is just my advice. You do you.

Uhuh. Let me know how that works for you, out in a real corporate setting.

In my experience you can say all you want (if you’re lucky), but in the end, switching providers on a large scale costs a lot of money. And their money is more important than your discomfort.

But the closest thing to the 6 TB Microsoft offers, would be the 10TB from filen at €400 a year. Whereas with Microsoft, it’s only $120 a year and you get all the other services. Say what you will about the quality of MS products, but they are the cheaper option here.

I’m guessing the vast majority of its users are students and corporate employees, neither of which get a say in which software is used.

Everything is political.

That’s debatable, but it might be in your life. However, not everything political is tech.

And my reason for having high standards is that lowering them would expose me to too much garbage.

The reason I’m subscribed here, and not on lemmy.world!technology, is that that place will allow anything that gets clicks - even if it’s only tangentially related to actual tech.

Hence, the amount of rants about Musk is through the roof.

I had higher hopes for this place, but it does require moderation. Your post, with all due respect, is just political circlejerk clickbait.

If the person who tweeted that was the head of a fertiliser company, do you think this post would be fit for a gardening community?

Hmmnope. Replacing it with Russia, or Trump, or whichever political entity didn’t make it any less political for me.

Let’s face it: this post does vaguely concern a tech company - in the sense that it wants to highlight the political opinion or quote of a figurehead of a tech company.

So tell me honestly - is this mostly about tech news, or is it mostly about politics?

I think you accidentally posted this on technology, but you were looking for politics.

This guy gets it.

For me it’s just generic influencer dislike. Wouldn’t go as far as hate though. It’s just that I pre-emptively don’t care about what they have to say. Clickbaity titles “this is why…” (without explaining why) certainly don’t help.

Full disclosure: I’m only responding at this headline and the blurp posted here. I haven’t seen the - oh lord, 3 hours?! - video. But I’m sure it will be very interesting for someone.

Ehm. So?

Just because [bad people group X] think that [bad thing Y] is bad, doesn’t mean they’re wrong.

There are good reasons to be anti AI (creators rights, for a starter , and at the same time, it’s not going to go away, and it will also improve our lives in ways that we cannot fathom right now. It’ll need (better) regulation for sure.

Having said that, I really don’t think inflammatory posts like these (Y is bad because associated with X) are going make things get better.

If you want to be pedantic about it - if the NSA, or any such agency demands to place a [backdoor of any sort] in an American company’s datacenter, they have to comply.

So, no, they (meta, Google, etc) won’t be handing over the data knowingly. But those devices placed there for sure aren’t running Minecraft servers.

We recognize that our business is critically dependent on sustaining the trust of customers, countries, and governments across Europe. We respect European values, comply with European laws, and actively defend Europe’s cybersecurity. Our support for Europe has always been – and always will be – steadfast.

None of that matters, since they still have to comply to American laws, which means they have to give access to European data if the US government requests it.

It’s kinda like good guy Hitler, because he killed Hitler.

Trump’s major achievement might be that the rest of the world starts relying less on the US.

That’s the kind of nuanced response I expected from lemmy about something becoming less left wing ;)

So… How can you possibly justify that start button?

Yes it is. Although I personally have far less moral objections to it.

To elaborate:
OpenAI scraped data without permission, and then makes money from it.

Deepseek then used that data (even paid openai for it), trained a model on that data, and then releases that model for anyone to use.

While it’s still making use of “stolen data” (that’s a whole semantics discussion I won’t get into right now), I find it far more noble than the former.

Thank you for your insightful comment, it tells me a lot. Mostly about you, but still.

I only know the guy from the thumbnails and dead eyes. But this really feels like reaching for a justification to hate.

If you’ve seen (also past tense) any movie by, for example, Bryan Singer, you have consumed art made by a pedophile.

I’m not defending him (I honestly don’t care about him), all I’m saying is that without any context, these kind of statements are kinda cheap and meaningless.