You see what's happening right?

[mttaggart@infosec.exchange]

@freya @tschenkel I gently submit you were already lucky to have all that!

[freya@chaosfem.tw]

@mttaggart @tschenkel I mean yes, I misworded that, I meant I suddenly feel very lucky, not discounting the fact that I already was, I just hadn't internalised it

[tschenkel@mathstodon.xyz]

@mttaggart @freya

Indeed. I feel like we are the avantgarde with cobbled together IT. Feels like a Gibson novel, and unlike the tech-bros I did not read those scenarios as aspirational.

I just wanted to retire my beowulf cluster (12 old HP Z210 to 240 workstations and a few switches) because the gen7 i7s got a bit long in the tooth. But I may go and update that for a few more years and try to ride out the AI bubble.

[freya@chaosfem.tw]

@tschenkel @mttaggart oooo pretty machines. I'm on Dell R720 and a T340 all running FreeBSD and Solaris

[theorangetheme@en.osm.town]

@mttaggart I am so sick of these fucks.

[raymierussell@mastodon.scot]

@galacticstone @mttaggart
Yeah, all those TV cash-for-gold adverts are gonna get dislodged by cash-for-RAM and cash-for-hdd's/sdd's

[botolo86@mstdn.social]

@mttaggart I still have my Commodore 64. They will never trap me. 10 PRINT “C64 RULEZ” ; 20 GOTO 10 ; RUN #c64

[ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org]

@mttaggart argggghhh

[chillybot@infosec.exchange]

@mttaggart
Wooo compute gouging 😑

[lemgandi@mastodon.social]

@mttaggart

Do not attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity.

[mttaggart@infosec.exchange]

@lemgandi This is actually malice! It's rapacious greed, the purest evil!

[lemgandi@mastodon.social]

@mttaggart Why not Both?

[mttaggart@infosec.exchange]

@lemgandi Then what's the point you're trying to make?

[csolisr@hub.azkware.net]

Guess I'll have to be extra careful of my SSDs, chances are they might be the last ones I'll be able to own for the rest of the decade.

[jerry@infosec.exchange]

@mttaggart cf express and dram prices are already skyrocketing. Hitting the photographers hard.

[npars01@mstdn.social]

@raymierussell @galacticstone @mttaggart

The people funding the AI bubble are creating a profitable point of Chokepoint Capitalism.

Chips, memory, hard drives -- once placed in artificially short supply, ...

... when the AI Bubble bursts, they can hold the non-AI economy as hostage until they get their government bailout.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevebanker/2023/02/17/the-worlds-most-vulnerable-supply-chain-impacts-all-supply-chains/

Monopolies & too few players -- a recipe for a crash & bailout.
https://www.riskhedge.com/post/the-next-big-AI-winners-are

[gbargoud@masto.nyc]

@tschenkel @mttaggart

I have a bunch of mismatched drives using btrfs to build a single raid partition across them all as my desktop's big storage hoard

[rufflandings@infosec.exchange]

@mttaggart I look forward to an upcoming glut of YouTube content discussing home tape library robots.

[longplay_games@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@tinmouth @mttaggart All of my car mixes on CDR still work, so fingers crossed.

[longplay_games@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@galacticstone @mttaggart Same, I have a stack of older machines that mostly got new drives in the last year and got maxed out RAM.

I did it because of tariffs, but it works for this too.