The bandwidth still doesn't quite compare to a GPU, and 128GB doesn't fit DeepSeek R1, however. If they bump it to 512GB for $5000 or so, that will disrupt the market.
It is slower, but I would say fairly usable for just LLM inference (still much faster than you can read). I'd say it's more of a matter of control. You can be reasonably sure that your linux box is free from ordinary forms of telemetry, which is hard to do with a Mac.
You're also going to want some more SSD space, because working with these model files on a 512 GB root is going to quickly become a problem. If you get the 2TB option, that's another $600.
A 3090 often goes for $800-900 on the used market in the US. Two of these would be $1800, and you get a much more versatile machine. However, the downside is also obvious, since your two 3090s can draw up to 800 W, and there's no chance you can carry it around with you. Overall, it's not that obvious where the actual value is, as it depends a lot on what you want to use it for.
Macs that can run it are quite a bit more expensive than a 3090. GPUs can also do finetuning and run other models with larger batch sizes which Macs would struggle with. Also, for the models that fit both, an nvidia card can run it much faster.
32B is a good choice of size, as it allows running on a 24GB consumer card at ~4 bpw (RTX 3090/4090) while using most of the VRAM. Unlike llama 3.1, which had 8b, 70B (much too big to fit), and 405B.
They are paid much less than that. However, American weapons are also far overpriced due to high labor costs, among other things. The Chinese probably have cheaper weapons.
This is likely just a coincidence. 0218 looks like a birthday and jiat is probably the name + initial. 18 years is also too long of a time horizon for this.
I have a better way to frame this. A hostile country is less interested in low profile users and is not as able/willing to use the data it collects against the user. Committed tax evasion / breach of contract / fraud? Russia is much less likely to care than your own government.
Secure boot in practice always become slave boot. The user loses control to even control the operating system running on his device. It is the final nail in the coffin for the already dying concept of general purpose computing.
What measures can the government implement to combat this? AI image modification is realistically possible even on consumer hardware running locally. There is no going back.
I agree with you. Analogously, I find the notion of forced read receipts to be weird. I can accept having a "delivered" status, to indicate that the message reached one of my devices, but a "read/seen" status is intrusive. The physical equivalent of this is sending an internet connected camera and let it send a message back if I opened your box.
I don't like it. It works poorly without JavaScript, but this isn't quite the main problem. The main problem is that it seems to have the same sterile look everywhere just like every single "modern" corporate site, the same as new design reddit, facebook, or goolag, or anything else.
No, it fosters a less safe experience, when the behavior is hidden. For someone willing to spend just about 30 minutes, it isn't hard to have a script log in to your own account to record messages without anyone noticing.
If you want to harm advertisers while possibly support the sites, you can use AdNauseum, which basically does what uBlock Origin does, but will randomly access a percentage of the ads blocked, to waste the advertiser's money.
Most ads are bad. I think uBlock Origin's list leaves most static banners intact. I don't mind seeing ads too much if they are the same for everyone that visits the website and is relevant to the content.
Imagine not being able to have root, uBlock origin, or third party Youtube clients. Oh, and now also, sending every one of your pictures to Apple so they can call the cops on you to cover their asses[1].