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Cake day: November 8th, 2021

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  • Imagine if didn’t make things that sucked.
    Where I live we had little cheapass gas station cake company called Vachon
    Say what you will, they were a staple and “our beloved trash cakes”
    Some company came in, bought it, and made them suck hard.
    Replaced animal fat and sugar with seed oil and HFCS.
    Nearly all the better cakes are getting cancelled and the company is probably on the verge of bankruptcy.
    I haven’t bought those shitty cakes in years.

    Imagine if we had a trend of doing not-that.


  • It should display what is inside the fridge, without the energy loss of a window.
    It should have a bar code scanner and a complete food inventory system.
    It should be the “kitchen’s tablet” able to show recipes, watch cooking instruction videos, have a high quality curated knowledge compedium in a convenient and easy to access way.
    It should be able to stream outside cameras and answer door bells.
    It should be able to take video calls from Mom on XMPP.
    It should have high precision control and diagnostic systems.
    It should run ENTIRELY on open source software, not damn blob drivers, the display panel should connect internally with an HDMI cable.
    Run Proxmox and all my menagerie of LXC containers, don’t cheap out LG!! I want 64 GB RAM and 2tb ssd and a slot to add an HDD.
    It should auto-doomscroll for me while I peel potatoes.
    It should be able to run a smart voice assistance running Mistral 8x70B medium, locally and OFFLINE but networked and answer my agentic commands with a posh british accent.

    ok, good enough, send it










  • One thing I don’t understand, the clients (and servers) have different features ? So how are they compatible with each other ? I understand the activitypub allows interoperatibility, but if piefed for crosspost agglomeration but lemmy doesn’t, how is that mismatch handled ?

    Are they extensions that are just not supported like on XMPP ?

    I think I’d want to run each of the 3 webui locally, to figure out which I actually like, but does that mean I should runt he 3 backends as well so that all the features work ?

    Is there one backend that basically does it all and I should only run that one ? I do have plenty over ram with many HP G8 DL380 and 256gb ram each so … it’s mostly a matter of “crossing the desert” and configuring each one, which I suspect will be pretty similar but each with their own little gotcha (speaking as a self-hosting veteran, there’s always something)


  • There’s a difference between “AI is a bubble” and “The AI bubble will pop 2025-10-20 05h34:14.115” and “I can stay solvent longer than the market can stay irrationnal” etc… etc…

    We can clearly see, the most stupidest people on the planet (gamblers) throwing money at things they don’t understand because of hype, FOMO and herd mentality, this happens REALLY often in history and even if I didn’t know way too much about how AI works, I could still point at this and say, wow, 90% of AI startup are going to crash and burn totally trying to blitzscale their impossible idea.

    They’re all trying to use the crack uber business model with dotcom exhuberrance, there is no ending that doesn’t end in tears for MOST of us, even the innocent and uninvolved, they will take us all over the cliff with them and I hope we crucify the winners (thieves) before they disappear in their bunkers.

    Until then we will also have to suffer incessant “OMG AI bubble gonna pop articles” EVERY WEEK until it does pop.