Em Adespoton

Your read on that was very different than mine.

Linus controls Linux. Anyone who disagrees with how he runs it is free to fork it because the source is open.

But good luck maintaining a Linux kernel fork for any length of time unless you’ve got lots of contributors lined up and a solid maintenance structure ready to deploy. It worked with LibreOffice and OpenJDK, but it’s failed with far more projects than it’s succeeded with.

You forgot the other bit: the people who already wrote like that, and AI learned to mimic their style.

These multi-negative headlines really annoy me. Is “Judge upholds California’s voting rights against attacks by the Federal Government” that difficult?

I really wonder why they’re being called GPUs and not NPUs — they aren’t primarily designed to process graphics (although they can).

The problem is, the places where it could be the most effective are places where we already have processes in place, like the medical field and engineering.

I’m sure LLMs are helping sift through ideas in those fields, but they don’t reduce the amount of work that needs to be done by actual people to produce actual results; they just help select the best potential new idea.

Most stuff in life is already solved, and so AI can’t contribute there.

And yet… it’s orders of magnitude better than anything that came before it, and nobody’s found a better way to do it.

I’d like to know which non self-hosted service they’re recommending that can serve files to my classic Mac collection for less than my $200 mini pc.

Or which VPS they recommend that would have taught my kids how to set up services and repair/select hardware.

Unless you’re purely a technology consumer, starting off with self-hosting is the only way to learn all the skills you need to determine what needs to be self-hosted, what needs a VPS, and what needs to sit on someone else’s technology stack.

Realistically, self-hosting has cost me around $150/year for the past 20 years. But that money has provided services and experience that either isn’t available or is MUCH more expensive to do any other way.

Generally the costs in self hosting are in paying for lessons learned as you make mistakes and have to pivot (hardware selection, software gaffes, etc.) and time. But those are costs that are easily recouped through personal development over time.

Other Chinese models aren’t on the list though, like Qwen or the ones from Xaiomi.

Is there reasoning posted anywhere?

LLMs generally don’t create anything new; they just amplify and sometimes clarify the inputs.

An infinite number of. With models, the concept of backdoors becomes a bit fuzzy.

It’s often a bot.

I mean both, for different purposes. They are definitely very different.

It’s worse than that even… frontier models now have guardrails restrictive enough that I can’t use them for legitimate work. And the ones that DO work have token prices at exorbitant rates, and chew through them like there’s no tomorrow.

Meanwhile, I can download Qwen3 and run it on my own hardware, and it’s about as good as the last generation US model without the annoying guardrails.

Hmm… which model am I going to choose to use?

“Personalized” means “allow ad network to run scripts on your device without notifying you further.”

It’s related.

“Zero click” means you’ve already given something permission to run on your device.

In this case, the ad network had permission to run scripts on the device, and they abused that privilege to run scripts that could install spyware.

People like us who have always blocked active scripts and ads aren’t vulnerable to most of these “zero click” attacks because we already distrust the mechanisms they abuse.

It’s why I prefer my email and texts to be pute text too, with no automation set to take action based on incoming unvetted content.

Trump isn’t running in the midterms; he’s supposed to not have a horse in the race.

Congress though? THEY could lose the midterms. Congess isn’t supposed to be a bunch of presidential yes men. Trump isn’t supposed to be the party leader.

And this is why I block all ad scripts. Sure, I might want to support the website, but I’m not going to run an unvetted third party’s scripts. Display passive ads and I’ll give them my views. Curate them appropriately and I may even click through.

https://lemmy.ca/comment/25786053

I’m wondering about the legally bit though. If the things are there illegally, removing them without damaging anything they’re connected to… someone’s going to have to say “Hey, that’s mine! I’m the one who illegally installed that thing! It belongs to me!”

Since they still have them there and haven’t claimed them, couldn’t they be claimed by anyone as abandoned salvage?