For shits and giggles, I asked Le Chat to make the case for replacing a tech CEO with AI and, uh, the answer was very much cynical CEO-speak already.

Prompt:

Let’s say I’m on the board of a multi-billion dollar tech company, hypothetically. Make a case for replacing the CEO with AI.

Slopmachine/Future tech CEO response:

Huh, did not know that term. But yes, that’s what I’ve been saying all the time. The CEO is a highly paid fall guy so when the company commits a crime, the CEO can be fired and the company can keep on doing whatever it does. Similarly, if the stock value tanks, the CEO goes bye-bye so investors can be led to believe that things will turn around now.

Of course the Trump admin is so corpo-friendly, there’s been no need to fire a CEO for corporate wrongdoing. Because at this point you can do anything and nothing would happen anyway.

Mine can, but then again, it’s a <50 employee consultancy. Mostly he still does sales and is a project lead for some customers though, he only really writes code when there are no engineers available and one of his customers needs something quickly.

I’m pulling all my money out of American stock indexes, but this whole oil futures bullshit affects all of us. Even those who don’t drive ICE vehicles, because oil going up means diesel going up means food prices going up in grocery stores

This is not particularly relevant to this discussion, but it reminds me of the guy on WSB who made a stupid bet on negative oil and almost had to take delivery of a bunch of crude lmao

It’s a time-honored tradition.

Or USA, apparently

On the contrary, we should keep using clearnet to keep it easy for newcomers.

Authoritarian countries like the US can just fuck off and the rest of us will be fine. I’ve been doing clearnet piracy with no VPN for over 2 decades now.

No backdoors here!

But the windows are all wide open and on the ground floor.

It would be hilarious if she turns on Trump after being fired, but then she’d be admitting she lied in the first place. Plus she probably is a bit too cowardly to do it anyway.

I do wonder if Vance would stop the Iran war if Trump died.

He holds some pretty nasty views, but I don’t think he’s anywhere near as insane as Trump. There was an interview during Trump #1 where he actually disagreed with quite a bit of Trump’s shit IIRC.

That doesn’t mean that I think he’d be a good president or that he’s a good human being. Just that he might be quite different than Trump. Probably continue or accelerate the ICE bullshit, but maybe stop the stupid ass war in Iran?

The only one of those that is locked behind a specific Windows edition is Credential Guard, which only works on Enterprise and Education because it has to do with auth tokens of the domain, not local windows login AFAIK

The rest are locked behind hardware features like TPM and UEFI settings like secure boot.

I hate Microslop as much as the next person, but they do actually try to push their security features on everyone because of the reputation they’ve had as the most insecure OS.

To be fair, a coal rolling Duramax is pretty expensive to feed.

Your linked AI slop post has a LOT of assumptions and it’s kinda expensive. If the total system capex is 50k for 1 kW load, it’ll be 500 million for a modern 10MW data center. Then covering the deficit off employee BEVs for peanuts a kWh: That assumes you have enough employees for that and that they’re willing to wear their batteries for this.

But yes, the whole ethanol requirement is stupid for a country that has its own oil anyway

District courts could still pick up the case I believe?

But yeah, the chances of anything happening are slim as hell

I’m still waiting for evidence.

I fully believe he’s a pedofile, I just want there to be evidence that’s so credible no fucking jury could acquit his ass.

Well the lazy bastard has been working like 40 hours a month for the last half a year saying something about season affective disorder and ADHD!

Financial concerns are separate from what I was discussing.

But they’re really not when we’re discussing the necessity of building a new PC or buying a new console every few years just so you could play the latest games.

If you’ve got the finances to do so, go right ahead and do it. But if you’re broke, like half of Lemmy seems to be, maybe skip on it and play older games that provide just as much entertainment value and look maybe 5% worse… You’ll be able to play the current newest games on mediocre new hardware in 5 years.

They don’t use DDR at all, the datacenter ones use HBM (I think 3 or 4 now) and normal GPUs use GDDR7 or 6/X but GDDR is not the same as DDR and we could even have GDDR8 before DDR6.

Huh?

You don’t need brand new hardware for new movies. A movie will provide you with 1.5-3 hours of enjoyment at a time and it’ll get old quickly when you rewatch the same ones over and over again. There’s literally no reason not to watch new ones as they come out.

If it cost me 2 grand (price of a passable gaming rig in 2026) every 5 years to be able to watch the newest movies, damn right I’d be way more into discovering old movies.