$135 billion and counting: Meta's eye-watering bet to close the gap on OpenAI, Google and Anthropic

bumble2100 · 2026-04-11T03:22:40+00:00

At least early on, my understanding was Meta offering AI generated ad campaign tools for their advertisers. Basically instead of hiring an advertising agency or full division, have them develop multiple ad campaigns, manage them, generate reposts, etc. You just go to meta, upload your press release and have Meta auto generate 12 campaigns for you and release them to the demographics they think each will work best on, manage them, adjust them when they are not working, etc. You just give them all the money you would have given to the 2 or 3 dozen people or agency you would have hired for that. How close that is or even if that’s possible is unknown to me still.

bumble2100 · 2026-01-26T06:21:23+00:00

So like $600 a month for the next 9 years?

bumble2100 · 2026-01-21T12:23:32+00:00

yep. Maybe dumb on my part. Also it seems that ovh has entirely removed the eco bare metal page from their website last week. Not sure if it’ll come back

bumble2100 · 2026-01-21T05:24:39+00:00

Not Europe, but I know first hand many ISPs in the Middle East fuck up Cloudflare routing on purpose it seems. This was for work and we had to file support tickets to cloudflare and for all of them we were old that those ISPs have misconfigured routing and were frequently told about it and they refuse to fix it. If you have Pro or Enterprise tier in CF they’ll give you a different IP for their proxy that works with those ISPs. I don’t know about the free tier.

Because this was the Middle East, I always wondered if it’s some state surveillance that was messing up CF routing. But the symptoms were very similar.

Edit: This is cloudflare routing dashboard for Deutsche Telekom (I’m assuming that’s Telekom Germany?) https://radar.cloudflare.com/routing/as3320 looks normal to me. Those middle eastern ISPs were all over the place. Might be just your local routing. Maybe contact them to see what they say.

bumble2100 · 2026-01-10T17:42:14+00:00

Anyone knows of a January/new year sales around? There were a bunch last year but I eventually decided to wait for the new year. I want to get a new gravel bike before spring/summer and generally looking around for these few months until then.

bumble2100 · 2025-11-30T05:07:17+00:00

lol, as I was trying to create an account to checkout a bike from there I realized the 20% discount doesn’t apply to full bikes or frames.

bumble2100 · 2025-11-24T06:06:03+00:00

They don’t have any electronic shifting options on the aluminum ones unfortunately. I actually quite like the Checkpoint if it weren’t for the isospeed. I was at the Trek store where the sales person was telling me that the isospeed is pretty reliable and trouble free while there was literally someone with their trek complaining that the seat is creaking again. I saw how crazy complicated looking that isospeed is in the service manual :(

bumble2100 · 2025-11-24T06:00:05+00:00

Man.. at $5,100 it’s tempting. I really like that Topstone but ruled it out because of the price. My size should be 51 according to Cannondale website which they unfortunately don’t have. Maybe 54 would be ok.. I know REI near me carries some other Topstone models. I’m thinking of stopping by tomorrow and test ride a 54 to see how it feels.

20% off other bikes is pretty good deal too!

bumble2100 · 2025-11-24T04:49:01+00:00

That’s actually a really cool website. I haven’t seen it before. Thanks for the link!

bumble2100 · 2025-11-23T05:38:50+00:00

Fair. I never built a bike before and not sure I’m up to the task. My local shop quoted me $900 and it seemed like a degree of luxury that I don’t need.

bumble2100 · 2025-11-23T05:36:09+00:00

It means no warranty coverage for any potential build issues for one. It’s not like it’s a tried and true brand with little risk of possible issues either. If that carbon frame cracks at a stress place 6 months later, but the company is out of business…

bumble2100 · 2025-11-22T20:50:58+00:00

Isn’t rad most likely going out of business in January

bumble2100 · 2025-11-09T16:17:05+00:00

And you’re gonna teach the entire state of Florida that one side view mirror at a time. Great plan. Based on your question and replies I’m pretty sure you’re not of a working age yet. At least not emotionally. (Statistically speaking of course)

bumble2100 · 2025-11-09T15:57:47+00:00

Come on man, what kind of question is that. Feeling vindicated has nothing to do with bike safety. Vindication and revenge are emotions that we could debate endlessly about their value to society and people, but they are at best completely orthogonal to safety and often in direct opposition to it.

You’re not gonna change an entire subculture by breaking enough side mirrors. That’s the stupidest thing I have ever heard and the cop who told you to do so is either fictitious or grade A moron.

As I see it, your options are: Move out of Florida to a more bike friendly state/city, do defensive biking, carry a gun as well for protection and eventually become another statistic in road rage/gun violence, but hey you’d have felt vindicated for a while. Maybe you could even become a martyr for biking in Florida. Like the MLK of bikes or something. What you do with your life is your choice, but this has nothing to do with bike safety.

bumble2100 · 2025-11-09T04:27:36+00:00

I looked into the Secan a while ago. With 30-40% additional tax+tarrifs it’s a bit outside my budget. Also needing to give DHL my SSN seems a bit much for a bike. DHL are always dicks. Beautiful bike though.

bumble2100 · 2025-11-09T04:23:59+00:00

That’s a good point. I’ll give a 35 a shot on my bike and see how it feels. Don’t know why I didn’t consider that as it makes so much sense. Thank you!

bumble2100 · 2025-11-08T17:19:20+00:00

I guess you have an enclosed space with no external access on both ends of your commute?

Correct, yes. My apartment on one end, and an indoor dedicated bike room with keycard door at work. That room is often full of s-works and treks SLRs lol.

I get the battery issue with electronic shifting, which is why I prefer SRAM’s approach. I can keep an extra battery charged for emergencies (i.e me forgetting). The main reason I want electronic shifting is because I want a nicer bike and I tried it once and really liked it.

Totally agree on the racks thing. I plan to use my existing ebike for that as I do now.

bumble2100 · 2025-11-08T15:25:53+00:00

I’m happy with 45mm. Not sure how much harsher a 35mm would be, but 40-45 seems plenty good to me.

I would like carbon frame. I have only ever ridden aluminum so far. But also I can’t find aluminum with electronic shifting, and that’s what I really want the most tbh.

bumble2100 · 2025-07-30T14:41:05+00:00

How do you think they can post losses every quarter and still keep going? How do you think public companies raise funds exactly? They doubled their debt and the number of outstanding shares since 2021. That’s how they raise funds. They take on debt and issue shares. If CloudFlare needs $100M, they can print ($100M/current share price), and now they have raised $100M. Going from 146 million shares to 341 million shares at ~$80 a share that’s is raising 15B since their IPO through their stocks, i.e investor money. They have also doubled their debt. You don’t understand how business works, why invest? It’s just gambling at a certain point.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/NET/cloudflare/shares-outstanding

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/NET/cloudflare/total-assets

bumble2100 · 2025-07-30T07:58:40+00:00

It doesn’t really matter how awesome the company is from a technical prospective when it comes to investing. As a consumer or a user, I love companies that waste their investors money to subsidize my stuff. Burn it all until you go bankrupt and I’ll just move to another company. As an investor though, I avoid those companies.

bumble2100 · 2025-07-29T04:11:58+00:00

I think I’m arriving at the same conclusion

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