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My brother in Christ, a LLM is a tree

This always happens when something new and novel has “potential”. VC money has been funding loss-leaders for two decades and they wanna cash in on the next gold rush. Just like blockchain, expect to see this beaten to death and shoehorned into places it really has no real use. They’ll be a few really solid things that are found for it to do though, and it will excel in those places. Then we’ll all laugh about “remember when they thought LLMs were the next big thing? What a bubble that turned out to be, like pets.com all over again”

I mean that depends? Does it actually work? Does it record all my data constantly and send it to Apple in a continuous stream, or is it fully local? will it actually provide some useful service like better search, will it be able to bootstrap projects for me? Learn my workflow patterns and assist by preparing stuff preemptively, or make intelligent suggestions on how to improve efficiency? Can it attempt to organize my awful, trash filing system of pictures, movies, half-started projects into something less painful to look at? Can it help my computer get out of my way when I don’t feel like being all computery (which I love but sometimes it shouldn’t be the focus)? Can it do these things well and without leaking them to some cloud?

Because that’s what we’ve been trying to make computers do since the PC first came along and I’d fuckin pay for that.

EDIT: to more directly answer your question, no one wants SaaS AIs by the FANG because they’re labor-replacement machines aimed at the ultimate grift; extracting capital out of the capitalists at the expense of the everyday workers. But that doesn’t mean that every AI is a speculative language model trained on the stolen data of all humanity to be used as a tool for class warfare; if they can create a neural net that can focus on other things besides language (or hell? Even language) that runs locally- if they can eat Microsoft’s lunch and create an actual co-pilot; they’d charge a premium as they always do but if it works well enough, it might be worth it.

Literally the only advertisement that most people still tolerate and these fuckers are like “no! We didn’t spend money on it, it can’t be good!”

Exploits were removed. Maintainer who committed them still banned. xz is a critical piece of software.

What about all the unknown back doors in the old versions 👻

no one will ever attempt to hack you

My brother in Christ, how do you think botnets get built?

It means any place where total oligarchy is resisted in any way whatsoever.

It sounds like a stupid comment to rally the hogs, but in reality these types of things are a mask-off moment.

“We hate it when people attempt to better their lives because it threatens our wealth”

EDIT: I mean yes, it’s all those other things too. America’s Mayor would, be definition, have to be a dumbass bootlicking yes man who swindles for votes AND also be a fascist culture-warring capital defender.

Could it be this AND block size vs actual used size?

You don’t need widows to game anymore (Proton the game software for Linux, not Proton the VPN/email provider)

Hey hey; discord is rumored to be doing ads now. No talking good about them!

Sometimes it’s multiple presses. Around here for example I find that at my local Shell station it’s the second button down on the right side, two or three times.