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  • It’s because of this bullshit.

    Take a guess how many members this server/example community serves:

    500? 2000? 10,000+?

    Surely, a group of 50,000 needs a ticket system, age verification, moderation, and rules/TOS+registration?

    There are twelve users in that chat/server. Three of the 12 are moderators. One is the “owner”.

    Discord became a “community tool” because Discord moderators/“creators” are a special class of human being who realized their dream model train set could be upgraded with Internet connectivity.

    Medium-to-large-scale-enterprise tooling is available to spin up for anyone, without having to pay for anything. In fact, Discord incentivizes donations through “boosts” where the users of a community pay for server costs rather than the hosts/maintainers themselves.

    As a result, people go ham and never invest in proper training, role division or infrastructure. They cosplay at running a pseudo-corporation and Discord adds their requested features, at a price/donation premium.

    P.S: I run a Discord channel of 223 users with no moderation, we have one text channel and two voice channels. We use the service like Ventrilo or TeamSpeak for a Steam Clan. I’ve literally had these busybodies from disparate communities join just to tell me I was “doing it wrong”.

    P.S.S: I also hate HOAs.





  • TLDR: ROCM is AMD’s variant for general purpose compute on GPUs, like CUDA is for NVIDIA.

    OpenAI being for profit.

    I use ROCM extensively (I write, design and train my own AIs/LLMs) and it’s annoying of an acronym, especially in command lines:

    --rocm-6.6.7.2-dev1  --cuda
    

    But I figure it’s a four letter acronym to match “CUDA”.

    I also pronounce it “Rock’em” in verbal versus “Koo’dah” (Barracuda).

    Everything is about marketing and goodwill. You can just say something has “blast processing” and fail to elaborate.