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zippo_the_zippo··on AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention
i would kindly like to curse openai for making the rest of world worse for everyone else. boohoo your ai is so smart? make it smaller.
zippo_the_zippo··on 14 Killed in anti-government protests in Nepal
Many news articles have failed to mention that the social media ban in Nepal was a direct response to a viral "nepo-baby vs. regular youth" online campaign, which ultimately backfired.

https://www.timesnownews.com/viral/why-nepo-kid-campaign-is-...

The government framed the ban as a measure against "unregistered social media" platforms. However, major companies like Facebook and YouTube have been registered and paying taxes for years. These companies did not agree to the government's overly controlling bill, which had not even been passed into law. The K.P. Oli government attempted to bypass a public vote and enforce it as a directive, threatening non-compliant apps with bans.

https://www.law-democracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Nep...

zippo_the_zippo··on The “Wow!” signal was likely from extraterrestrial source, and more powerful
Quite similar to the "my cat listening to me making 10 grammar mistakes" meme.

Alien: sends SOS after years of studying human communication signals, as a last ditch effort to mark their existence before being wiped out by supernova.

Humans: Look - the sky people said WOW.

zippo_the_zippo··on Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption
YouTube Kids is exempt from the ban, this one should have been banned first because the sheer amount of smoothbrain content.

Channels like cocomelon and AI-generated songs with weird visuals are played on infinite loop with a mobile stand holding the phone in front of the child's pram while the parents pay no attention- and the children are hooked onto it as if they are hypnotized.

These videos in early stage of childhood has a very strong impact on environmental awareness and vocabulary of the children.

zippo_the_zippo··on Predicting Employee Churn in Python
Interesting Read