This does seem tenuous, yes.

If they want to experiment with AI a bit and try to find a use-case for it, a bit of R&D every now and then can be good, right? But the way to do that would be to temporarily rent a VPS with a GPU. From AWS or whatever. That way when/if it looks good they’ll know roughly what size hardware to buy (way more than a 5070 ti most likely). Also if it doesn’t pan out all you’ve lost is a couple of hundred $ on one month’s rental and you can close it down and move on.

Or just use the OpenAI API, that way you don’t need to figure out how to run a model at all and can just concentrate on the data integration to see if that’s viable.

I’ve travelled all over China, it’s crap. You can’t fool me.

It’s all fake - https://piefed.social/c/world/p/1914864/borrowed-mouths-and-laundered-messages-chinas-influence-playbook-in-europe

You helped by finding a completely different bug :)

Try now :)

I’ve noticed a lot of those big-in-microblogging folks have figured out what gives viral among their audience and just keep repeating it over and over in different forms.

Why? Hooked on the validation? It doesn’t seem healthy.

Ahh, so maybe on Google Maps that’s just a copyright statement rather than really when the imagery was taken. So I’m looking at quite old information.

My Google Maps says 2026 on the bottom of it.

I’ve highlighted the solar panels I could see, around Salloum Hospital:

It’s great to see so many but it’s way more scattered and patchy than in the OP photo.

In Google maps you can use satellite mode to look at their roofs. There are some panels but nothing like this.

edit: satellite mode is out of date, see further conversation below.

PieFed only stores 90 days of read post history.

Now that we have had that feature running for a long time I can see how much space is used by this (430 MB) and I think it’s fine to increase this to 180 days.

I’ve also added an admin option at /admin/misc which will let you increase it to any value. If you want to keep read history ‘forever’ than just put a really big value in there. On a single user instance the amount of data used by this table will probably be much smaller than it is on piefed.social.

I just use it for discussing fediverse development with other fediverse developers and instance admins. If it wasn’t for that I probably wouldn’t use it.

PieFed, Mastodon and Matrix.

Without reading the article I knew it would be Terrorgram.