There is an over arching issue with most of the extant models being highly unethical in where they got their data, effectively having made plagiarism machines.

It is not ok to steal the content of millions of small independent creators to create slop that drowns them out. Most of them were already offering their work for free. And I am talking about LMs here, writing is a skill.

Say what ever you want about big companies being bad for abusing IP laws, but this is not about the laws, not even paying people for their work, this is about crediting people when they do work, acknowledging that the work they did had value, and letting people know where they can find more.

Also, I don’t really buy the “it’s good for disabled people” that feels like using disabled people as a shield against criticism, and I’ve yet to see it brought up in good faith.

It’s absurd because Biden wasn’t doing anything, like he was upholding the status quo, with limited efforts to patch up some issues.

Trump is straight up trying to gut the federal government and sell it for parts as well as legitimately trying to take away people’s rights, if not straight up make their existence a crime.

He’s also trying to do this with a pretty weak mandate. Most people who did want him wanted him for a specific policy and ignored the rest.

So he’s creating a huge amount of backlash while only appeasing a small group with each action.

I’d highly recommend:

Technology connections; he does in depth videos about the engineering of household appliances we often take for granted.

Bernadette Banner; she does videos about historical textile arts, weaving, sewing, ECT.

Lindsey Nikole; she does videos about ancient animals, Zoology, and Paleontology.

Ze frank; he does irreverent videos about interesting species of animal.

There is a … massive Asterisk on tik history. He’s does great research on historical operations and battles, but, uh, keep away from anything outside that, he has a super weird ideological agendas and misquotes references or makes stuff up in side videos. Some side videos are fine, even good in their sourcing, but many are low key unhinged.

basically not in any public space, with rare exception.

Q.E.D

This is a huge thing the Democratic Party needs to internalize unless they want to keep losing.

Support and work with local groups doing actual good on the ground outside of election season, maybe, like, I dunno, fund them a little with that massive fucking warchest? Be a much better use of the money than a deluge of YouTube ads.

Aggressive quotas for arrest are a notable element of the the NKVD during the Soviet purges under Stalin.

The goal of it was to create pressure on low levels to find reasons to arrest people. To cut corners and make up nonsense reasons. To create a sense of terror that scared the target population. Even those who had no good reason to be scared found them selves taking precautions and acting overly loyal.

There is a strong argument to be made that the goal was less to arrest dissenter but to increase the number of people being sent to labor camps to do free labor for the state.

eyes prison industrial complex and prison labor system of the US

It was never about releasing a functional product, it was always about saying what ever the people they answer to wanted to hear.

In this case, telling shareholders they released an AI feature, because the investors and share holders want AI to be a thing.

Companies will get there eventually. Everyone thought IBM machines were irreplaceable until they weren’t.

Definitely, just to prevent it from being normalized. Just like crypto, flying cars, psychics, MLM businesses, this shit will fade in to the into the domain of low skill grifters.

I remember so many examples of windows doing stuff like this.

Specifically the most annoying I ever ran in to was Microsoft office click to run, like, as far as I understood it, it was a background service to update Microsoft office, it always ran in the background and would routinely eat up system resources, not a ton but way more than something like that should have been. It kept ignoring my instruction to not start on system start up, and kept getting reinstalling when I resorted to just ripping it out.

Now why, you may be wondering would I want to get rid of a program meant to keep office up to date? BECAUSE, I didn’t use office, I didn’t have a license even, I had uninstalled it in fact, but for some reason click to run was still there like a weed. So many other annoyances with attempting to remove other programs I didn’t want or need but windows would just keep reinstalling.

“eDgE Is A cOrE pArT oF tHe Os” y tho

Anyways, that’s why I replaced windows as the OS on my computer.

And going to server farms and just ripping out random cables until something visibly fails. Then assuming that any cables pulled out that didn’t cause an immediate failure were not important.

I mean, maybe someone could have told him what everything did, but you know, they got fired because they refused to sacrifice their work life balance.

SMH, no Noresex

2038, Y2K’s cooler sibling.

And more importantly It reveals his character in a way that some of his die hard supporters might actually care about.

He’s been shedding fans for a long time now, but way slower than he’s been going off the rails, because the things he’s done have rarely been directly contradictory to the image his fans have of him. Sure taken as a whole they are, but individual actions can be written off as haters using cult logic.

This though, this is… just so pathetic… so blatantly approval seeking and manipulative tendencies.

Other things beyond that can also be cheating. That is one kind of cheating but other things can be cheating as well.

I can second the framework laptops. I got the 16 inch one about 9 months ago. I got it pretty bare bones (one stick of 16gig ram , no GPU, ect) and have been slowly buying parts as I have money for it. Got 32 gigs of ram and the dedicated GPU now.

Been running Linux mint on it since day one, had no issues with it at all, runs like butter, I even got the finger print scanner on the power button to work with a couple commands in the terminal.

The 13 inch doesn’t have a dedicated GPU, but the 16 inch has a slot for one. They’re only on the first gen for the 16 inch, but they’ve had 3 or 4 the 13 inch, and so far people have been able to swap in the new components in to the old frames, so it seems likely that trend will continue with the 16.

The greatest bane are huge “off road” vehicles that never leave a suburb or city and just waste space there. This is like the opposite of that, it’s a small car that actually is used off road.

Just down load more ram capacity. It the button right under the down load more ram button.