I’ve been using DietPi on my SBC home servers (NAS, media service, pi-hope, etc.) since 2017 or so.

It’s an excellent distri for headless operation and makes CLI easy to use for somewhat casual users.

Pretty good article; a nice overview of recent developments.

I also agree with their conclusion; avoid American commercial entities whenever possible. The culture of corruption and criminality is simply too deeply rooted among the executive class and it is highly unlikely that there will be any true anti-corruption reform in the next ~20 years (I hope I am wrong).

No idea who the Maguire fellow is, but since he works for a large American VC firm, the piece about “coming from a culture of lying” is clearly projection.

I see where you’re coming from and I generally agree.

That being said, there is a time and place for everything and this is not a serious thread.

It’s the truth though.

How is OpenAI going to pay $30 B a year, Oracle agreed to get paid in OpenAI shares?

What’s not clear about this comment?

This is all bullshit. Greenwald is a fascist oligarch shill.

I have a very negative view of American oligarchs (technology or otherwise); that being said I don’t see what they have to do with the degeneracy and lack of humanity of the Lemmy devs and tankies roaches more broadly.

These are two separate things and I don’t see how “a lack of power” justifies their support for genocide and obvious demagoguery (no is being their pitch that NK is actually a great place to live, everyone knows that they are lying).

All American oligarchs are involved in large scale fraud, corruption and organized crime activity. Not to mention many of them are involved in enabling mass scale killings/deaths.

We need judicial and criminal justice reform (Americans specifically, but this is a broader issue) that would allow for independent judicial proceedings, meaningful incentives to avoid a life of crime and real world rehabilitation.

Incentives should include any scheme with more than X10 annual median salaries would require full asset seizure (everything, every last cent) a mandatory 20 years live-in community service program in positions such as junior janitor at an infectious disease hospital, junior de-mining specialist, junior assistant at a waste site renewal project.

IT access outside of work channels would be restricted. One wouldn’t be allowed outside of the location of their community service program outside of perhaps grocery and a trip to the library.

No one should be forced to do this. If they don’t like the terms, they are free to do 40 years in prison instead.

To make sure that there are no schemes to avoid asset seizure, all family members, business partners or comparable persons of interest would be required to sign affidavits stating that they understand that if it is ever found that they aided in helping/not reporting such schemes, they will have all their assets seized, be required to do 20 years community service (or 40 years in prison) and all their family member and business would be required to sign similar affidavits.

This is only for large scale fraud and corruption. Crimes around enabling mass killings/deaths (e.g. Zuckerberg and other FB executives enabling genocide of Rohingya people) would be best dealt with a public execution via guillotine.

I am the same age as you and I feel you.

But then again, I guess it’s up to us to make a contribution to a better world (like the one from our childhood imagintations).

Nothing comes easy.

I remember the 90s early 2000s when it felt like we were sort of all going in the right direction and technology would help build a better future.

But then again, history always goes in cycles and it would be reasonable to expect information technology to (initially?) lead to really bad outcomes, just like with industrialization and WW1/WW2.

It took the horrors of the two world wars for people to get out of their stupor.

I could have been more clear, but it wasn’t my intention to imply that this particular case is the turning point.

I am not a lawyer. I am talking about reality.

What does an LLM application (or training processes associated with an LLM application) have to do with the concept of learning? Where is the learning happening? Who is doing the learning?

Who is stopping the individuals at the LLM company from learning or analysing a given book?

From my experience living in the US, this is pretty standard American-style corruption. Lots of pomp and bombast and roleplay of sorts, but the outcome is no different from any other country that is in deep need of judicial and anti-corruotion reform.

I will admit this is not a simple case. That being said, if you’ve lived in the US (and are aware of local mores), but you’re not American. you will have a different perspective on the US judicial system.

How is right to learn even relevant here? An LLM by definition cannot learn.

Where did I say analyzing a text should be restricted?

And this is how you know that the American legal system should not be trusted.

Mind you I am not saying this an easy case, it’s not. But the framing that piracy is wrong but ML training for profit is not wrong is clearly based on oligarch interests and demands.

It would make no difference at all.

The world isn’t that simple. It’s possible that things could have changed since the regime formally took over VK.

I would be surprised if they banned Telegram.

The nature of these discussions and the fact that MS described AGI as “an LLM service that reaches $100 B per year in revenue” is evidence that much of the marketing around “AI” is basically fraudulent.

Clearly LLMs specifically and ML models in general have many powerful use cases, but that doesn’t mean the people involved aren’t running a scheme to profit off the hype.