Oh, nice!
I’m still on TrueNAS CORE and thinking about where to move next.
So far, I’m very impressed by Sylve, but I’ll keep an eye on this too.
PS: While preparing to move to TrueNAS CE, I converted all my jails to VMs, so I could just import them after migrating. But by doing that, I removed my need to move from CORE, as I don’t have jails based on out of date FreeBSD anymore!
It might be a tool, but it is naïve not take all of its externalities into account.
From tante’s piece:
Usefulness is not an objective, fully abstract property: A thing is not useful for everyone or in general but mostly just for specific people in specific contexts. And useful never comes for free.
But let’s take a step back and use a different example: Child labor. Child labor is very “useful” if you want cheap labor. It’s 100% deplorable to use it or accept it.
Edit: a good source of said externalities: https://codeberg.org/ethical-foss/open-slopware/src/branch/main/why_not_llms.md
Who? Oh, that climate denier guy? Sorry, can’t be bothered.
“it’s literally 2020 already. look at climate change headlines from the 1970s then look around. nothing is happening, use your eyes,” the account wrote in March 2022.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/old-tweets-appear-anthropic-employee-quit
Whatever’s the outcome, the anthropomorphization in that message stinks 🤮
I think this bit makes it clear that shipping LLM code from the kernel that wasn’t contributed by Gentoo is fine:
This policy affects Gentoo contributions and the official Gentoo projects. It does not prohibit adding packages for AI-related software or software that is being developed with the help of such tools upstream.
Alright, what are the alternatives folks?
Gentoo? Gentoo!
(But I’ll keep watch to see of they don’t revert course because “the models are now too powerful”, since it is a policy from 2024)
The policy
Gentoo Council has voted on 2024-04-14 on the following policy:
It is expressly forbidden to contribute to Gentoo any content that has been created with the assistance of Natural Language Processing artificial intelligence tools. This motion can be revisited, should a case be made for such a tool that does not pose copyright, ethical and quality concerns.
This policy affects Gentoo contributions and the official Gentoo projects. It does not prohibit adding packages for AI-related software or software that is being developed with the help of such tools upstream.
One shouldn’t talk about Omarchy and/or DHH and not bring up fascism (among other issues, but let’s stay focused), self-professed: https://world.hey.com/dhh/three-sacred-cows-that-must-die-so-europe-can-live-1afb203d
At least one Arch maintainer says Arch won’t be associated with them and calls Omarchy “just vibe-coded dotfiles and bash scripts”: https://floss.social/@serebit/117162401397324439
I use mTLS with Caddy to expose some of my services. It is quite manageable, and I only use if for myself and my wife.
We both use Android phones, and I configure access via apps for the services, that use the devices’ certificate store. It seems like the iOS way is to provide the client certificate and password to each app that’s gonna use it. I’m happy we can avoid that.
Big plus side for us is the simplicity of it all, there is no “always on VPN” requirement, and things “just work” with acceptable security.
I also sometimes access the services via Firefox, which is also able to use the device’s certificate store, although I have to keep selecting the same certificate each time.
And don’t stop there!
Add badges to songs (or options to not play them at all) if genAI was used during its creation.
Funny how the “Top Economist” just parroted what Ed Zitron, also quoted on the piece, has been harping on, since… checks notes always.
Edit: Zitron, the name. Not Zitrone, The German word for lemon.
That ough to be one of the laziest genAI slop images for a “Chinese router with a backdoor”.
Damn, it’s bad.
Top reasons I love PCIe NVMe storage:
Sure thing, if I need to add/replace/remove one it is a bigger hassle and probably involves removing the GPU as well, but it is rare for me to need to do that, so I prefer the simplicity of doing away with SATA.
Looks like someone bidding farewell via a military salute? 🫡 o7
Is that channel really his?
Couldn’t (quickly) find a reference to it.
What a choice of words… 🤦 Deliberate? “Better”? How about “worse” instead?
I think that this would be too rational and scientific to cause an irrational market to correct.
I’m leaning more towards a money related confirmation. Maybe an OpenAI or Anthropic internal shared numbers.
Or, one of the four horsemen of the AIpocalypse?
https://github.com/chenxiaolong/BasicSync#permissions
ACCESS_WIFI_STATE, ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION, ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION, ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATION, FOREGROUND_SERVICE_LOCATION
Optionally used for stopping Syncthing unless connected to specific Wi-Fi networks.
And location isn’t a permission granted by default on install (unlike Internet access), the user has to approve of it explicitly.
Nice!
https://github.com/kristapsdz/openrsync
This is an implementation of rsync with a BSD (ISC) license. It’s compatible with a modern rsync (3.1.3 is used for testing, but any supporting protocol 27 will do), but accepts only a subset of rsync’s command-line arguments.
But also:
The actual work of porting is matching the security features provided by OpenBSD’s pledge(2) and unveil(2). These are critical elements to the functionality of the system. Without them, your system accepts arbitrary data from the public network.
rsync has specific running modes for the super-user. It also pumps arbitrary data from the network onto your file-system. openrsync is about 10 000 lines of C code: do you trust me not to make mistakes?
Rao’s low revenue word choice matters here. He said “exceeding $5 billion” and not “nearly $6 billion,” not “approaching $6 billion.”
In a filing where Anthropic was trying to impress a federal court with its commercial scale, Rao is expected to use the biggest number he can. “Exceeding $5 billion” tells you his real figure is much closer to $5 billion than to $6.
Look, I have a genAI aversion as much as anyone on this community. But…
Is that what was stated in a federal court arguably true? I think so. Trying to define what someone is “expected” to achieve with a statement and using that as some kind of proof? That’s too rich for my taste.
Thanks for ruining it for me now.