We’ve tried to educate, but the general public is just so fucking stupid and won’t learn any lessons at all. How many pre-orders does it take before they realize it’s a scam? Fuck, there are still idiots that buy the latest FIFA game at full price every single year.
It’s not even victim blaming when they repeatedly don’t learn they are being shafted over and over again.
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I taste no appreciable difference between the brands,
Either you don’t have any taste buds, or you don’t order pizza that often. A statement like this is like saying “I taste no appreciable difference between Coke and Pepsi”.
You post this on a piracy forum?
Sorry, I don’t get any ads on my downloads.
Yo, stop fucking using Plex and switch to Jellyfin. I switched over months ago, and it just works.
Plex became the enemy when they forced their users into a subscription model. Support bullshit-free open-source software instead.
If I build a wheelchair ramp out of the flesh and bones of orphans I’m still not a very good person.
Comparing copyright, a bullshit concept that was designed only to protect the rich, to building with “the flesh and bones of orphans” is so extreme that it’s not even worth arguing about.
Even if we called them LLMs, which we should, people will keep having these negative connotations to the technology because of overmarketing. This feature is still using LLMs, and that’s not supposed to be a bad thing.
Stop blaming the technology, and blame the corpos pushing it to the moon. This is “BitTorrent is only used for piracy” bullshit all over again.
Did you download the source code? It’s on GitHub. It’s literally on GitLab. It’s on Bitbucket with ads. It’s literally on SourceForge. You can probably find it on Savannah. Dude it’s on Azure DevOps. It’s a Codeberg project. It’s on Gitea. You can download it on Gitea. You can go to Gitea and download it. Log into Gitea right now. Go to Gitea. Dive into Gitea. You can Gitea it. It’s on Gitea. Gitea has it for you. Gitea has it for you.
Imagine two glasses, both 8 oz. One is titled usability and the other titled security.
And one is the dumpster fire that is Windows 11.
I feel like these security arguments are overblown. Linux is still pretty damn secure, and the Linux community is still tough on fixing security bugs.
Would you rather be using a UNIX-based secure OS, or Windows update-and-crash 11?
I don’t see any open-source forks of a BSD spinoff (only proprietary ones like what runs on the PS5)
I wonder why. Maybe if they were GPL, they wouldn’t have that problem.
Depends on what you mean by “fanboys”. No, the hype isn’t as real as these rich assholes make it out to be. LLMs aren’t going to replace all human workforce everywhere ever, like some of these techbro dipshits quickly find out.
But, I’m still going to use technology that produce a tool in two minutes what would have normally taken me two hours to do. Sure, I have to code review it, but that doesn’t take nearly as long as the work itself.
Slop that produces inaccurate results and then tells you it did no such thing.
I use Claude at work and local LLMs at home, and they all produce good code. The Kagi agents work pretty well at searching for information that would have taken me 30-60 minutes to find. Although, I generally favor thinking models because they are good at edge cases.
You have to know how to provide good context for the situation, like examples, prior art, documentation, etc. Many people have a hard time even expressing an idea to a group of humans. Imagine your (pointy-haired) boss shows your department a picture in the next meeting:
B: “Go make this thing!”
D: “What thing?”
B: “Here. This thing. Make something just like it for our company!”
D: “Well, we can’t just copy it outright. What color should it be? What do we want to improve on? How do we tie it to our existing software?”
B: “I don’t know. That’s your job to figure out, right?”
That’s how most people treat LLMs. Garbage in, garbage out.
People seem to forget that, 15-20 years ago, 95% of email was spam. It’s gone down since then, but only because email isn’t that important of a communication platform nowadays.
Bad actors attack with the tools they’ve got. If it’s not protected, it’s exploitable until it is.
No mob is good at nuance, which is frustrating. Black and white mentality bullshit.
Yes, the sociopath, narcissist and billionaires have taken over. There is no more democracy. There is no more rule of law.
And what do you do to those sociopaths, narcissists, and billionaires? Talk to them to death? Your words have no meaning to them. You can’t expect empathy from sociopaths. That’s literally in the definition of the word.
There is probably no way, at this point, to end the corruption peacefully. Possibly no way at all.
No, there isn’t. We were past that about 10-20 years ago.
You’re going to have a pretty tough time with DB0. I don’t think any of us want AI bots posting fake posts or lazy slop bullshit, but many of us just see LLMs as a tool. It’s not the technology’s fault that a bunch of rich assholes want to drive the economy to the ground over it.
How have you been able to manage the issue of unreliability with the volumes of data you’re dealing with? Is the kind of data which you’re dealing with less likely to be unreliable since it is of a kind the LLM is more likely to process correctly?
The same way for any other information resource like Wikipedia or some random Reddit post: trust but verify. Always review the code, point out mistakes, call out potential edge cases. Especially with newer thinking models, the hallucinations are minimal. It’s mostly just miscommunication in the request, which you can detect in the Thinking stream, stop, and re-correct. Rubberducking makes you better at communicating ideas in general, and providing enough context for the request is everything.
A lot of it has to do with the type of model you’re using, too, and having a decent global rules file tailored to how you want it to respond. If you don’t like how the model is responding, try out another one. If it’s some repeat mistake it makes, put it in a global rules file, or ask it to make a permanent memory.
Claude Opus does well at work, but is rather expensive for home use. I use Kimi reasoning models in Kagi for searching questions, and Qwen/GLM hybrid models for local use. It takes a bit of setup and tweaking to get the local stuff working, but LLMs are good at knowing how their own models work, so I just had Kimi help me out with some of the harder troubleshooting.
Holy shit… I finally found one of the screenshots for these loaders:
You could load up a disk full of games and tie it to a boot loader menu like this.
I mean, that’s how we ultimately got them. We must have had most of the popular ATARI XL games in two wooden floppy boxes.
But, you gotta respect the networked distribution even back then. Pirates would create their disk packs, upload it to some national BBS. It gets picked up by more local BBSs, and tech-saavy modem users would download it to floppies. All the while sneakernet would carry it down the last mile to fill in the gaps. Some of this shit even went international, as long as somebody dealt with the long-distance fees (or phreaked their way out of them).
EDIT: Just to give you an idea of the network we were dealing with.
Meanwhile, pirates are still doing the public good, in the name of digital preservation, a lack of physical media be damned.