That essentially wastes electricity for OpenAI (assuming you aren’t paying for the response), and its “filler” data for training on.

I would contest this and say that Europe (Mistral) and other US companies (like Meta’s Llama series that seeded everything happening in China now) were chasing ChatGPT very closely before Deepseek/Alibaba. Even S Korea (LG Exaone) and many smaller companies are putting up competition, often building on international work.

Also, locally runnable Deepseek is nothing like GPT4. The 32B is smart, but it just doesn’t have the world knowledge the 671B model has, which is not practical to run locally.

…Sorry for being so nitpicky, as I agree with the sentiment.

Right now.

The hardest part is the dataset (aka labeled pictures of undercover cops). Give me some of those (A thousand? The more the better,) and I could train a small model for free, in a few days. Or a bigger more reliable one for a few bucks. I can explain specifics if you want.

AI is not some mystery box like Altman would lead you to believe, it’s hackable and totally usable by regular people.

It’s not a secret, tons of open source models are locally runnable.

Give me more pictures like this, and a few days, and I can teach a vision model to sniff out cops on my 3090. Or with like $40 in cloud costs.

I think it’s about respect as much as convenience.

If security guys told Biden, or Bush, or maybe even 2016 Trump he had so do something, he’d nod his head and do it.

Now? They don’t trust them. They actively rejected protocols and norms when transitioning because they didn’t trust the Biden government. They very explicitly don’t trust the US Intelligence community. They don’t trust scientific institutions or other parties in their own government.

That’s different than being corrupt. That’s drinking the kool aid of a very toxic information environment, and I think that’s even more dangerous, as it compromises their own incentives for survival.

This is just a small example of that.

Yes of course. Trying to dig up people’s skeletons before spies do has been happening way before the internet, and I would have assumed the government would have tried to “sweep” their personal accounts for vulnerabilities.

But… well, there were some warning signs of resistance to this just after the election:

https://www.axios.com/2024/11/26/trump-transition-white-house

They don’t trust the institutions they run.

They’re human. All sorts of people have personal accounts compromised, they don’t need flak for that.

What’s bonkers is that they are using at least some of it, casually, for sensitive professional talk. If you are anyone close to this position, you do whatever the heck security tells you without question, and it’s not over public signal or Dropbox accounts.

An analogy is trying not to get sick. Sure, people try their best in their personal lives. No one is perfect. But you would act very different in, say, a CDC lab working on Ebola. This would be like someone walking out with a Petri dish splattered all over their suit, and shrugging when someone with an accent scrapes it off your suit. It just screams “I have no regard for this institution’s protocol or the consequences.”

…But it’s worse than that. Like, I cannot describe the billions spent on even slightly influencing or penetrating these people’s spaces, and it turns out they are operating like your boomer grandparents, apparently ignoring the direct instructions of the largest security institution on the planet like they know better.

10% is still a wild fluctuation for a company with the market cap of Tesla. In this case, I think its not “that” deceptive, as zero is not usually a reference in this case.

This ^

It seems like a dismissive statement, but Tesla is the embodiment of this era’s “hype” investing. So many players have it leveraged like a big casino game, and the end result is (mostly) that non professional or “slow” investors (like you, or your retirement fund) get screwed over.

This will get shot down faster than there can even be controversy. Founding fathers would be rolling in their graves, and there‘s no way the Supreme Court can squeeze that kind of interpretation out of the Constitution.

That being said, it may give some state legislators cover to go with it.

And now I feel old.

Yeah, it’s like night and day. btrfs and ext4 clog up and stall on the PNG workload, it’s why I switched in the first place.

This is on a PCIe ssd though. On an HDD or maybe a big SATA drive, features probably win out over the overhead.

It’s like this in corporate world too. They’re trying to get people to resign so they don’t get severance or bad PR for technically firing people

Oh thanks for this.

Yeah I meant no harm :P

Spacebattles is still alive.

Nexusmods “forums” and pages still have some social activity.

TBH it’s pretty barren. I noticed that even comment sections are drying up.

IDK what they mean by better ssd I/O performance, btrfs was the worst FS I tested for some heavy SSD workloads (like writing thousands of little pngs in short time, file searches, merging huge weights with some paging)…

The features are fantastic, especially for HDDs, but it’s an inherently high overhead FS.

ext4 was also bad. F2FS and XFS are great, and I’ve stuck with F2FS for now.

Yeah, so many projects and companies using Discord for support seemed like such a bad idea.

Thing is it’s kinda too late, and the, uh, “commercial net” has all but taken over society.

Whatever happens, it would be nice if that part burns down. And I think yanking the techies from the space with the Fediverse will help.

At risk of rambling… It feels like attention spans have shortened, too.

https://www.axios.com/2024/11/29/gen-z-kids-reading-tv-songs

People don’t want to dig through long discussions and documentation, they want a quick fix in a YouTube Short, or for it to be fed to them shooting the breeze in Discord.

And this sorta works short term, until the “old” information well those shorter systems rely on dries up.

It’s already a serious problem in newer topics. I’m part of the “localllama” community, for instance, and it feels like any central organization of knowledge has completely collapsed, and there is no old info to fall back on because everything is so new.