USians who have a problem with #ICE, a poll. Amazon is an ICE service provider. They're making millions in profit by providing ICE infrastructure.
Bezos is generally bootlicking and aside from that #Amazon has increasingly shown itself to be an increasingly enshittified company. I'm not going to try to list all the reasons.
I'm sure I could come up with additional answers but this will do.
"Microsoft has used OpenAIâs billions in inference spend to cover up the collapse of the growth of the Intelligent Cloud segment. OpenAIâs inference spend now represents around 10% of Azureâs revenue.
Microsoft, as I discussed a few weeks ago, is in a bind. It keeps buying GPUs, all while waiting for the GPUs it already has to start generating revenue, and every time a new GPU comes online, its depreciation balloons. Capex for GPUs began in seriousness in Q1 FY2023 following Octoberâs shipments of NVIDIAâs H100 GPUs, with reports saying that Microsoft bought 150,000 H100s in 2023 (around $4 billion at $27,000 each) and 485,000 H100s in 2024 ($13 billion). These GPUs are yet to provide much meaningful revenue, let alone any kind of profit, with reports suggesting (based on Oracle leaks) that the gross margins of H100s are around 26% and A100s (an older generation launched in 2020) are 9%, for which the technical term is âdogshit.â Somewhere within that pile of capex also lies orders for H200 GPUs, and as of 2024, likely NVIDIAâs B100 (and maybe B200) Blackwell GPUs too.
You may also notice that those GPU expenses are only some portion of Microsoftâs capex, and the reason is because Microsoft spends billions on finance leases and construction costs. What this means in practical terms is that some of this money is going to GPUs that are obsolete in 6 years, some of itâs going to paying somebody else to lease physical space, and some of it is going into building a bunch of data centers that are only useful for putting GPUs in.
And none of this bullshit is really helping the bottom line! Microsoftâs More Personal Computing segment â including Windows, Xbox, Microsoft 365 Consumer, and Bing â has become an increasingly-smaller part of revenue, representing in the latest quarter a mere 17.64% of Microsoftâs revenue in FY26 so far, down from 30.25% a mere four years ago."
https://www.wheresyoured.at/premium-the-haters-guide-to-microsoft/
#Microsoft #AI #GenerativeAI #BigTech #OpenAI #IntelligentCloud
Big Tech, algorithmisation et nouvelle oligarchie : vers une privatisation du commun
Big Tech (Asma #Mhalla) et lâ#algorithmisation (#Rouvroy & #Berns) concentrent le #pouvoir entre les mains dâune #oligarchieManagĂ©riale (#Burnham) et vectorielle (#Wark), imposant leurs #normes, contrĂŽlant lâ#information, captant la #valeur et privatisant lâ#espacePublic (#Zuboff). #BigTech #PouvoirAlgorithmique #oligarchie #centralisation
Ist der #Messenger #Signal »#BigTech« â oder nicht? https://www.kuketz-blog.de/ist-der-messenger-signal-big-tech-oder-nicht/
My most recent talk from #TEDxMuenchen is online â
âThey Hijacked Our TechâHereâs How We Fight Backâ
#TEDx #inequality #authoritarianism #BigTech #Bitcoin #Blockchain #Ethereum #AI #CleanEnergy #Biotech #Biotechnology #monopolies #decentralization #democracy
#collective #collectiveOwnership #participation #collaboration #cooperatives #collaborativeEconomy #platformCooperatives #coop #startup #freedom
Over the years, I've realized how far we've drifted from the original idea of the World Wide Web. These days, it feels more like a corporate, big-tech web. I think there's real value in self-hosting as much as possible while still using major platforms, especially when you can pick more European and reasonable options.
People often forget that YouTube, WhatsApp, and Instagram were once independent companies, not owned by Meta or Google. Google was meant to be ad-free, and OpenAI was founded as a non-profit research organization, etc.
We'll probably never return to that vision, but I'm glad I own most my data and have about half of my tech self-hosted and open-sourced. It's only a dent, but I'm proud of that dent.
I like what Joseph Gordon-Levitt is doing. It's incredibly tough to stand up to big tech.
#BigTech #SunsetSection230 #Section230 #OnlineSafety #USPol #JosephGordonLevitt
"...I felt like I was working behind the AI. For my friends, AI was just ChatGPT. I was seeing what makes it work.â
This is how your chatbot works.
Digital unabhĂ€ngig arbeiten â ohne Microsoft-Software
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/open-source-software-digitale-souveraenitaet-deutschland-100.html
#OpenDesk #linux #privatsphare #datenschutz #unabhangig #DeutscheBehörden #digitalesouveranitat #bundeswehr nutzt #googlecloud #bigtech #lobbyismus #unplugtrump
"LâICE veut multiplier ses sources de donnĂ©es auprĂšs des publicitaires et des Big Tech
Les services de lâimmigration et des douanes sâintĂ©ressent aux donnĂ©es collectĂ©es [...] renforcer leurs pratiques dâenquĂȘte."
#ICE #Data #Données #Sources #BigTech ... https://next.ink/223056/lice-veut-multiplier-ses-sources-de-donnees-aupres-des-publicitaires-et-des-big-tech/
Prinzipiell kann ich dem Artikel nur zustimmen!
Allerdings leiden alle, insbesondere auch die Ălteren unter den sozialen Gegebenheiten.
Ich habe kein Problem mit Verboten. Jede Verkehrsregel beinhaltet ein Verbot. Ohne #Verkehrsregeln geht es aber auch nicht.
#GesellschaftBrauchtRegeln
Und die mĂŒssen gemeinschaftlich (!) aufgestellt werden.
Fakt ist, dass #BigTech sich nicht an Regeln hÀlt, solange sie nicht eindeutig sind.
In der Regierung sitzen auch nicht nur Boomer.
#tiktok droht Strafe wegen Suchtgefahr, aber was ist mit #instagram? Was ist daran so anders? Das denen keine Strafe droht?
Die (tiktok) treiben es doch nur an die Spitze.
#bigtech #meta #alphabet #google #privatsphare #datenschutz
TikTok droht Strafe wegen Suchtgefahr | tagesschau.de
https://www.tagesschau.de/video/video-1553006.html
Hidtil har streaming-tjenesterne fokuseret pĂ„ at fĂ„ sĂ„ mange kunder som muligt (đșđž #BigTech marked-dominans)
Men nu skal pengene tjenes
Og det kan forbrugerne mĂŠrke
Mange streaming-tjenester var i en Ă„r-rĂŠkke kunstigt billige. De accepterede underskud til gengĂŠld for abonnent-vĂŠkst
Men den gÄr ikke lÊngere
Nu stÄr branchen et helt andet sted
https://politiken.dk/danmark/forbrug/art10714477/Streaming-var-en-revolution.-Nu-f%C3%A5r-forbrugerne-prisen-at-m%C3%A6rke (paywalled)
Ich bin kein #Android Nutzer , aber es scheint wenn man #Nextcloud nutzt, man nicht die App aus dem #Google Store, sondern die aus #Fdroid nutzen sollte. Grund: Google nutzt seine #BigTech Macht, und unterbindet den vollstĂ€ndigen Filesync bei Nextcloud (bei Google Drive natĂŒrlich nicht): https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-android-file-upload-issue-google/ #digitalindependenceday
Beim #DiDay bietet es sich an, den Leuten von der Sammelklage gegen META zu erzĂ€hlen. Zum einen können sie damit möglicherweise eine EntschĂ€digungszahlung fĂŒr die Nutzung von #Facebook oder #Instagram erhalten, vor allem aber ist das ein starkes Signal an #BigTech die Menschen in Europa nicht einfach so auszuspionieren. Passt also perfekt zum #digitalindependenceday Hier die Seite mit einer Schritt fĂŒr Schritt Anleitung (Weniger als 5 Minuten) https://www.ndr.de/n-joy/facebook-und-instagram-nutzern-steht-entschaedigung-zu,meta-sammelklage-100.html
Babysitting the LLM to help maximize shareholder value... Wait.. Why is the stock price in free fall?
DI.DAY is a Movement to Encourage People to Ditch Big Tech
https://itsfoss.com/news/di-day-celebration/
#opensource #oss #bigtech #ditchX #ditchFacebook #facebook #twitter
