UwU~

Perhaps people can still sell their homes to fucking Aquaman.

You should apply for a job at the Latestage Capitalism Bullshittery Department.

Wouldn’t even be a far fetch to believe one of the reasons nothing happens around the Epstein papers are the assassinations of journalists who investigated the Panama papers…

That’s exactly the reason why I (with individuals I believe to require it) try to point out a tiny detail that still somewhat sound like it formerly supported me while admitting it, or explaining in great detail what got me bamboozled. Just to distract the other person, which I do not trust to not immediately use my mistake against me, to such a degree they can’t do it. Alternatively swing it like “ooh, this is like when you got XY wrong!” so the playing field is somewhat even already before the other realises you just admitted something.

It sucks, but it’s better than not admitting it at all. Fortunately not a lot of people I know in my life require this.

I don’t even have to ask if it’s a Boeing, do I?

Make it 19 and I feel comfy.

If you like the default GNOME way of doing things, it’s alright. If you don’t - no amount of extensions will help.

Not to mention Gnome is monolithic, so any bug will immediately crash the whole desktop. Other than basically any other desktop compositor, window manager and desktop environment are tightly intertwined, so any extension (which still monkey-patch code directly into gnome-shell) can utterly break the whole thing to the point you don’t have a graphical interface anymore.

Compared to KDE, Cinnamon and others (who can have their whole desktop crash without taking any applications with it as long as the window manager etc. and drivers remain unaffected, usually trying to restart the DE and spawn e.g. Dr Konqi) Gnome loves to be unstable because of this. If Gnome crashes it takes everything with a GUI with it.

I didn’t read that wrong, you did

DR. OCTOGONAPUS, BWAAAAH

I always love when someone thinks the answer to problems usually being replied to with overly simplified (but wrong) answers is another equally simplified answer that surely explains everything.

Bambu also is a no-go for quality reasons by now, they didn’t care for their printers catching fire for way too long.

That article, while technically being correct on many things, is also a little bit hyperbolic (that picture with “Who’s copying who now” is just laughable at best and utterly misleading). Prusa is still the best choice in what we call this “open market” (which repeatedly fucked them over), including openness.

Viable alternatives, including cheaper ones, would be Snapmaker’s U1 and printers from Qidi Tech or Sovol. Mind that Qidi Tech and Sovol are somewhat known for sub-par customer support (they have to save the money somewhere I guess). Qidi Tech is better for “set up and use”, Sovol is a good baseline to tinker with the printer itself as well.

Keep in mind that Prusa printers absolutely excel in longevity though, and they’re the only ones known to offer upgrade paths. Not to mention data security when using their services… just saying there are good reasons their printers are more expensive. You’ll most likely have more from them for longer. Not the MK4S though, that one is very much last gen by now.

No, they fucking don’t. These differences matter a lot especially because LLMs behave so human-like (as it was trained on us) and we got way, WAY too many people already treating them like equals, work buddies, friends or even fucking falling in love with a tool (ever heard multiple people genuinely fall in love with a power drill or a toaster, or killing themselves because the table saw told them they’re the messiah?). Words matter, especially in regards to what we call “Medienkompetenz” in german (lit. “media competency”, meaning bring educated in how to safely consume and use any kind of media or digital tool). And even more especially with AI, where not just the salesmen but even the tool itself tells us it can do shit it certainly can not while trying to abuse our emotional weaknesses.

Collaboration (merriam-webster.com) “to work jointly with others or together especially in an intellectual endeavor”

You do not “collaborate” with a fucking toaster. If you think you do with an AI then your Medienkompetenz is lacking and you will eventually, even accidentally, put too much trust in what is essentially a game of chance and the machine will fuck you over, on which it will just say “You’re absolutely right!” while you have to witness all the consequences of your action (an AI can’t take responsibility because it’s just a bunch of complex math). The fact this tool uses natural language doesn’t change anything except your impression of it.

Stop subtly treating LLMs like a god damn entity, you’re fooling yourself.

I don’t agree with your take on AI and the comparison at all, however if you want to use them and stay independent in the future it’s probably best to use Mistral. Their models are available for download and (mostly) licensed under Apache 2.0. You only have to pay for commercial use. Also they’re basically the only big EU-company in that space and the only I know of where the web interface isn’t infested with trackers and shit. However they are also involved in the military (guess which edge models are running on those semi-autonomous drones in Ukraine).

All I need to know is does it solve a problem I have, does it work, is it stable, and is it secure.

You have to be aware that

• LLMs are recreating licensed code without telling you, which WILL fuck you over eventually
• They do not produce secure code on their own. Keys end up client-side, in widely opened S3 buckets, encryption falsely implemented etc. Widely known, no link needed.
• It is not faster, in fact you’re slower while merely feeling faster. By now even the techbros themselves just recently finally admitted that.
• There’s no point to mention the immorality of the tech, everyone should know by now.

So yeah, your choice how much you use it. But it’s pretty obvious why nobody trusts vibe-coded stuff, and the metric ton of low-quality projects even forcing the de-facto App Store of a whole ecosystem to completely ban AI code reeeally doesn’t help.

You can not “collaborate” with an LLM as it has no agency on its own, merely the simulation of it. You use it as a tool, that’s it. It also has no inherent expertise on anything (let alone a deep one), it merely generates the closest match which is why it will confidently do total nonsense so often. To use AI as tool safely and correctly you can only ever use it in domains you already know enough to understand when the LLM completely derails. Therefore I (as an example) can use and understand it for research on coding (but not letting it generate code for production, oh my god), but could never use it for finance advise as it could tell me any kind of nonsense without me being able to pick up on it.

You’re right on some things, like that AI is marketed and used the wrong way. It’s also made the wrong way by stealing literally the collected works of mankind, so to have reasonable approach to AI / LLMs as tool you have to be really cautious, use it carefully and quite frankly skip the media (pictures, audio) generation completely. That one is morally corrupt even in small amounts, plain and simply.

You’re not supposed to stomach thoughts, but whole people.

I’ve read up a little bit about it, fascinating indeed. Although one could argue that it sounds more like anarchism, and that apparently there indeed were groups that had various kinds of class division / hierarchy (age, gender, status etc). Aspects found in Communism and Anarchism seemingly were most prominent though. I guess my view on it is tainted by what I unfortunately see most (which is glorification of the USSR, Mao Zedong, Cuba etc. - unfortunately way too many of those nutjobs are running around in Germany’s CCC as well). Now that I think about it I remember how euro-centric as fuck school history class was… So thanks for the insight.

Old white guy with name and face is still an upgrade over “random person on the internet”. For all I know you could be an LLM (no offense).

Are you 8 Bit Communism?

We had communism for 60,000 years here in Australia

Lol, that’s a new one. Surely you have extraordinary proof for that absolutely wild claim. :D

And “social” algorithms once again reinforce that shit…