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Thank you. Came here to say this, or at least find it being said.

8! 13! No, wait, 5! I mean 3?

Nevermind, let’s just mark this “won’t do” and move on to the next ticket.

The thing that you have to keep in mind is that Canadian roads (and, presumably, American roads, too) were designed for a very different transportation culture than the one that exists today. In many cases, they were built for horses and carriages, and retrofitted to motor vehicles that grew up in a much less populated country. No, they didn’t work well in the 50s, either, but the density of cars was low enough, and the kinds of people who drove were different enough, that it kinda sorta worked. But as the populations have grown, and as the culture has become more high strung, and driving has become a necessity for many people (and as vehicles have gotten larger, taller, and more fortress-like), navigating the streets has gotten riskier for all involved.

And no, it won’t get fixed, because North Americans hate change, and we would rather give a small number of millionaires and billionaires tax cuts than actually spend money on social infrastructure in any kind of meaningful or thought out way.

I’ve noticed a sudden spike in the number of websites that send me into a Cloudflare spiral whenever I have my VPN active. I think we might see this happening on a lot more sites soon, unfortunately.

The thing is, what a lot of people mean by “the old, weird internet” is Twitter in 2012 and YouTube before it became professionalized. They don’t mean usenet, Geocities, and perl-based chatrooms because they didn’t experience the Internet prior to the iPhone app store.

No, no. There’s little evidence that LLMs could do your job. That’s very different from the LLMs “taking” your job. All business owners need is the belief – grounded or not – that the LLMs will eventually be able to do your job, and for way less than you were being paid.

Neither will be true, of course, but business decisions are not based on truth.

Is Brave actually blocking ads noe, and not just inserting their own?

Are they still installing crypto miners on people’s computers?

You mean the AOSP project that only supports hardware sold by the assholes we’re trying to get away from?

Hard pass.

It’s going to be bad, too. These companies are repportedly selling tokens for 1/10 - 1/15 the actual processing costs. Companies are already spending significantly more than they would junior developers (to generate an un-revewable amount of code). Raising peices by a factor of 20 will kill the whole project dead. They’ll need to hold out until there’s no one left who knows how to write anymore to survive that kind of price hike.

Yes, but federation isn’t really about enabling one singular discussion space. Network splits are ultimately healthy for the communities, because it allows for self-governance and actual community building, rather than unmanageably large masses screaming into themaatically named voids, controlled by a handful of super-mods and super-admins.

Distributed networks are meant to be, well, distributed, not quasi-centralized with some fun URLs used as dumb terminals.

Yup. And costs right now are rising while they’re still in the “get everybody hooked” stage of things, in no small part because they can’t survive at current prices. Anthropic is desperate to get to their IPO so they can have the warchest they need to actually become an established integral part of development pipelines and not just a fad.

My Haswell 4770k died last year after 13 years in service. I replaced it with a used AMD 5800X with 32GB DDR4 for $100. As soon as I heard about the RAM shortages, I grabbed another 64GB.

Not only am I ready to ride out this bubble, buy I’m fucking around with local LLM models just to be a snot about it.

Yes, yes, not all men or whatever.

Fix your flock if you don’t want to to be branded.

It’s true. I’m sorry I definitely said we should all hide in the corner. I should have probably have not said that using real words that actually came from me and have not been inserted into my fucking mouth by some finger wagging bystander looking for a soapbox to well-akshually from.

Awesome. Something to keep me away from big wrbsites and on the small web.

It’s amazing how passionate bootlickers are about text prediction and the capturing of the commons.

The billionaires aren’t going to love you backv bro.

That’s a problem, but the bigger issue is how the commercial models are tuned to tell you that you are never wrong.

Or, more to the point, telling people who don’t know what they’re talking about that they’re never wrong.

There are so many options. Why is she being so insistant on having that hole?

It just agreed with the accusations, because these models do what they’re trained to do: Agree with the prompter.

Nor have organized politicall movements designed to vulnerable populations.