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So someone else would work on that massive project unpaid? :)

Someone with much worse skill levels too, most likely… And for how long would they think it’s fun? Open source is like a full time job for a project like this. You have to be unemployed to do it.

I dont care what the devs believe politically. I’m grateful for their software. I dont need them to be Americans or to like the west. Because I understand they grew up in a very different society than most of us did.

People should give the most money to the Lemmy devs but I think most is actually given to the largest server admins.

Didn’t you get the memo that the Chinese and Russians are the enemy while USA and Israel are the good guys?

Pedo Trump and holocaust netanyahu are our idols in the west, apparently.

Guys don’t need to feel insecure to sleep with beautiful women. Its what everyone wants to do.

Comments like yours are typically coming from women.

Its like 1 day when Trump idiocracy isn’t dominating the news. Since he needs constant attention, I’m sure there is a tweet building…

I dont think pedo Trump has any moral high ground here… :)

Exactly, yeah.

It’s the same everywhere in the west I think. We are fighting eachother instead of grouping up.

If there was a political party who represented sane human values, I would support it. But today it seems the majority of humans are very confused and don’t know what is right and wrong anymore.

To be fair, there are protests around the world about everything from social inequality to datacenters.

It has zero effect on decisions being made. So at some point, people will actually have to do something and not just stand around with banners.

Its necessary since current leaders don’t fear the people and in fact are laughing at them.

Actual change comes from people having enough power to say no more. This is a fact, and it’s needed in this very special time when peoples wishes are ignored completely.

Precision engineered hype and sales.

It’s actually amazing that Microsoft has been able to keep their users inside their walled garden for so many decades. When I was a teenager in the 90s, the same argument was used… That their users don’t care to look for other options. And it’s as true now as then.

Are these really able to be as good as chat gpt? Because every time I’ve tried a model like that, it has not been able to be nearly as good. I have 48 gb memory on my machine so I can’t run this particular one though.

I would buy more ram and a whole new computer if the market wasn’t insane.

Pretty much. The engineering teams ive worked in had maybe one actually good guy, and the rest were awful engineers. I’m not saying I’m super good but I grew up with Linux and networks at home, and was programming from a young age. So im pretty decent. But most engineers had no experience with computers and was in it for the money, obviously.

I dont know, maybe, but I think either way, local models will be a fringe interest for technical people, and not something that will affect the income for these big tech Ai corps in any significant way.

Because you simply can’t run a model with all the worlds knowledge on your home computer.

Someone said that maybe there will be small specialized models that only know about a certain thing, and sure, that’s possible.

I dont think a local model will do 99% of what the big ones can, and even if it could, it would require an enormous amount of memory and cpu to do it.

People pay for a good user interface and convenience, that’s well known. Netflix and Spotify are built on that idea and people starting using them even over free pirated stuff :)

Sure, but there are a lot of bad places. I bet the majority of engineers work in bad places like this.

Yeah I think a lot of us share this experience. All the stuff we are tought in our educations about clean code and architecture… Once we come out and work, management don’t want that stuff if it takes extra time. They want features shipped as soon as possible, and every meeting is about “how fast can you do this feature”.

And now of course embracing AI since it’s so fast. When things break, engineers will have to figure out the problem when the entire system is down, not management. :)

And then they can have a post mortem where they say that engineering must have better routines…lol.

I no longer work in tech but I quit at the top I think, before Ai was a requirement. And when consulting salaries was still good. Now they are awful.

I liked writing efficient code but every place I worked didn’t care at all about it. All they wanted was a finished feature and a kanban note moved to finished.

This, together with datacenters, will be dystopia. I suggest you spread this information to ordinary people who work in congress, and go on news and talk about it. If you can.

That entire thing with filling in a form and requesting a demo is ridiculous. So typical of Mozilla to copy the most cringe corporate shit they can find.

The company has no technical soul anymore. It’s all corporate bullshit and gender politics.

It’s like Microsoft now, just corporate shit.