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Dear Linux community,

In these shite times, we need to remember to see the human in all of us. So I address the humans of this community:

  1. To the Stallmanites. SCREW CORPORATE YEAHHHHH! Each day humanity grows smarter, no matter how many iPad kids or mass media diatribes there are, so celebrate how far we've fucking come. Look at your oldest machine. You're a million times better. My old Slackware was full of SHIT! FUCK YEAH

  2. To the pragmatists. Linux doesn't get in your way. People get in each others' ways all the time. But most importantly, don't get in your own way. If you're feeling like shit -- the human capacity to hope beats everything to a pulp. You know what we do when shit fucks? We submit a fucking pull request. FUCK YEAH

  3. To the hobbyists. Life is a bundle of fun so feel every moment. When you're old, and you'll be old as fuck, you'll be like "fuck yeah I lived every moment of my life up to now." So fuck another segfault up. Learn C, and call C the best language. Then learn Rust and call Rust the best language. Make a homelab then call homelab the best language. FUCK YAML HOLY SHIIIIIIIT

Flaming hot wishes,

Your fellow fucking human.

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[–] fool@programming.dev 77 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Made with no blood, no sweat, and no tears in fucking GNU's Not Unix Image Manipulation Program.

[–] Sekoia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 2 weeks ago

If you haven't already, try out KDE's Krita. Incredible piece of software, much better for drawing imo

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 9 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Basest of Based.

Personally, I try to mainly use locally hosted Open Source LLMs, and mostly for research purposes.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 weeks ago

Are they free range and GMO free? 🙄

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"Open Source" is a misnomer for LLMs. The weights are comparable to binary blobs.

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The difference is nobody knows what the binary blobs are made of

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You could recreate them if you had the training data, which is pretty much never disclosed.

[–] RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You could of course use one of the models that are trained on open data sets. Maybe a little worse than those directly from Mistral etc but truly open source

[–] exu@feditown.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

I decided I don't care for imaginary AI copyright and will use Llama as if it is public domain.

[–] azron@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Got any good tutorials that you've been happy with?

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 4 points 2 weeks ago

I just use GPT4All

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 weeks ago

That's why it's... The way it is lmao

[–] 2kool4idkwhat@lemdro.id 31 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Lmao, I love the diss at that AI post. Merry GNU/Christmas 🎄🎁🎉, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Christmas 🎄🎁🎉

[–] fool@programming.dev 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Alpine: musl + Christmas 💪🎄🎁🎉

[–] callyral@pawb.social 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] fool@programming.dev 12 points 2 weeks ago

Merry chrisatms

[–] Kena@lemm.ee 12 points 2 weeks ago

Happy holidays and thank you for the art

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 weeks ago

Filthy, janky, lovely! Merry Christmas and happy holidays you stinky lil' penguin! 🎄🎉🎁☃️❄️

[–] starbrite@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] jdnewmil@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Totally lost me. Why the hate on YAML?

[–] starbrite@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

For me personally when i set up my nextcloud server i had to edit yaml files, they wouldn't open in vim or nano and it was just a general headache

[–] jdnewmil@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

They are text files. If there is anything weird about them it is that they are indented with spaces and if you are inconsistent with indentation they won't read into the yaml import function, but I can't imagine why vim or nano would have a problem with opening them. Maybe the ones you were using were not actually yaml.

[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Merry Christmas! I don't know about all of you, but I'm enjoying the holiday music today.

[–] fool@programming.dev 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is that 7/8 time? (12) (3) (12) (12). Stallman's taking his own path even when compiling a song

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yup. Though it's really a "fork" of a Bulgarian folk song.

[–] lukewarm_ozone@lemmy.today 8 points 2 weeks ago

No linux user ever leaves home without their... piss minigun??

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

I feel like this could be applied to more than the Linux community. Regardless, this was a heartwarming read.

[–] foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago

Merry Christmas 🐧

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

Fuck yeah! 🐧🎉🎄