And they own the compute, as opposed to renting some of it. And they have the engineers to utilise that compute.

it’s very… sad, i guess, watching a lot of software engineering discourse on social media (at least, what I see from Twitter) just become this attention grabbing shitposting. ffmpeg is very much a big player in this field, and it has paid off handsomely - those tweets are often popular on site, and shared across other social media.

> paid off handsomely

Paid off how? Did they get more funding? More contributors?

"exposure"

There is an optional & experimental code formatting tool within uv (that just downloads riff), which is what OP may be referring to: https://pydevtools.com/blog/uv-format-code-formatting-comes-...

> players grinding out matches just to get random loot box drops

I mean... what you have is people operating rooms full of computers running automated bots to farm drops (and presumably accounts to sell later) [0].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3yS6_WDb6w

Right, but they didn’t want that to happen.

It’s just a weird side effect that’s surprisingly difficult to prevent - online games have had gold farmers for pretty much as long as there have been online games with gold.

Coffeezilla makes an interesting series of videos about casinos in the csgo community and also makes a video against Valve themselves.

Worth a watch imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13eiDhuvM6Y

You can not want something to happen but still do so knowing the inevitable result.

I’ve run into idle bot accounts several times while playing and it’s infuriating. Mainly in the arms race mode. Players can leave and join that mode at any time. So the bots will constantly be joining and leaving. if the bots manage to become 50% of the game they will vote kick all the remaining players. I’ve had several in progress matches interrupted because a few of the actual players bailed and the bots managed to take over the lobby.

Off-topic: I found it very surprising the Logical Awesome website still works.

I'll be honest, I did too. No https cert makes it give a warning in Chrome, which I had expected to just be a 404, and was surprised when it actually worked!

Is this a deeply petty article? Yes. Is it wrong? I can’t see anything indicating that.

Either way, I appreciate the opinionated and researched review. It was a good read, and certainly highlighted some of the ways Omarchy is… odd.

(Also, the JavaScript is annoying, especially when reading on a phone which backgrounds the tab when you lock it…)

In 2025, with a Trump presidency, and the majority of mainstream tech at least acquiescing to him, he would have faced massive difficulties expressing this point?

In all honesty, if he hadn’t backed down he would have faced zero important repercussions.

Personally, I use ShutUp10!, and after running it once, it settles everything down and Windows is my preferred OS experience.

no, that's using it wrong.

- "they cooked [hard]" is positive

- "they're [hard] cooked" is negative.

- "let them cook" means let them work, they'll do something positive.

- "someone cooked here" [0] has become a TikTok meme for positive things

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOpadGhGtuA

What model(s) have Meta released since the Lab re-org?

Also, that wasn't based on purely hearsay, Zuck explicitly said:

> We believe the benefits of superintelligence should be shared with the world as broadly as possible. That said, superintelligence will raise novel safety concerns. We'll need to be rigorous about mitigating these risks and careful about what we choose to open source. Still, we believe that building a free society requires that we aim to empower people as much as possible. [0]

[0]: https://www.meta.com/superintelligence/

That has always been the policy. To answer your question, Meta has released ~100 models since the Superintelligence Lab reorg.

https://huggingface.co/facebook/models

The most interesting ones to me are:

- CWM (Code world model), an LLM for coding https://github.com/facebookresearch/cwm

- DINOv3, A vision encoder https://ai.meta.com/dinov3/

- MAPAnything, a 3d reconstruction model https://huggingface.co/facebook/map-anything

- VJEPA v2, Self-supervised video pre-training model https://github.com/facebookresearch/vjepa2

> We believe the benefits of superintelligence should be shared with the world as broadly as possible.

i'd interpret that as meaning "everybody is welcome to be our customer, but we're still control all of it"

You still believe anything that comes out of his mouth?

Is this a trick response? There's no way he ever cared about society in a way that wasn't completely plastic.

Sure, for some variation on the meaning of “society”, or “care”, or “plastic”, and maybe all the best ones, but it’s hard to argue he had never seen value in groups of people before starting Facebook, and arguably a motivator for every human being ever born.