Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!
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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post, thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
an exciting new startup promises to be āairbnb for gpusā! rent out your GPU to run untrusted code for pennies an hour: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40260259
bonus: the company is āpivotingā from drone delivery
bonus bonus: boomer in the comments going on a nonsequiter rant about trans furries
christ and of course itās a YC company. they really should print that on the office entrance wall or something
@froztbyte @techtakes
YC: Where The āTechnologyā Is Just The Bait
excuse you, i render my fursona with my own GPU
Thereās something soā¦ crypto broā¦ about someone mad that influencers spill personal info for profit instead of having it stolen from them by hackers. āHey! That was my payday!ā
āNewā. The crypto bros already thought of this for GPUs years ago (they probably werenāt the first), and the basic idea goes at least as far back as SETI@Home.
Also I guarantee these people havenāt thought about, or donāt really care about, the security implications of GPU rental. It aināt trivial thatās for sure, Iād never connect my GPU to the internet with any program that has thought about this less than web browsers have (WebGL / WebGPU) for that reason alone.
So the top response is asking the painfully obvious question: how is this secure? Some dude (not sure if itās one of the startup employees) responds āLetās just use homomorphic encryption!ā then throws a pissy fit because some people downvoted the suggestion of running extremely inefficient computation on rented hardware.
Uber, for GPUs.
Guuber?
were they selling nfts or shitcoins in the past?
I went looking and was actually surprised not to find crypto links in a 30 second search
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