Ah my bad, misread your original comment.

It can be converted to a small SUV with an extra kit from the factory, so it can accommodate more passengers if needed.

Inversely, less comments means it’s far more viable to actually engage in the comments yourself even hours after a post has been made, whereas on Reddit if you don’t make a comment within the first hour, your comment is often buried.

It’s a guide on how to begin self hosting, with the ultimate goal of lessoning dependence on centralized big tech owned websites. Lemmy/Piefed is an example of a citizen owned decentralized platform, which we need more of.

Codeberg no longer allows projects that code with AI.

Become the thousand servers

It’s our only way out.

Big oof on using LLM code for a fediverse project. That’s not going to do any favors finding motivated devs to chip in, especially with all the social, ethical, and potential copyright issues they bring.

Become the thousand servers

It’s our only way out.

Something to keep in mind; virtually all commercial tea bags release insane amounts of microplastics in every cup (like millions). Recommended to cut open the bags and put the tea itself into a stainless steeping ball to avoid the plastics.

The only commercial bags I know of that are actually made of wood based paper and are safe are Yogi tea bags.

More RoboCop than Skynet.

Vivobarefoot shoes have some waterproof options, such as this one. They can be a bit expensive, but they’re well made and have a very wide toebox due to the barefoot design, which also means they do not have an arch support.

They also have a refurbished section called Revivo with lower prices, but some options may not be in stock. You may also be able to find a deal for a pair on ebay.

If you’re unaware, using a corportate LLM like Claude brings with it some significant external societal costs, which I believe most AI users are not aware of or taking into account.

1. Simply using an AI that’s run on a corporate data centers encourages the construction of yet more data centers, with all of the environmental/climate negatives they bring, as well as local harms they induce on the people living near them, such as increased electricity rates.

2. Using corporate AI directly helps the financial situations of those giant corporations (by boosting usage/user numbers, they are able to attract more investment capital), most of which are ran by right-wing CEOs who are more than willing to collaborate with and fund fascist governments to ensure that they are not regulated in search of both maximum profits. Some of these companies, such as Nvidia, Palantir and Oracle, genuinely appear to be seeking to use these tools for what would previously be considered crackpot conspiracy theory levels of public control and surveillance.

3. I’m wary of the potential effects of AI usage resulting in declining or stagnating critical thinking based on some preliminary studies (example 1, example 2).

I personally think that the external costs of AI use far outweigh any potential benefit they can bring, but if you ultimately decide you are going to continue using them, please consider at least using a self-hosted LLM, or using something like AI horde instead, which has volunteers hosting AI, and avoids directly benefitting the fascist corporations such as openAI, anthropic, ect.

Greg KH (the second in command of the Linux kernel, below Linus) in a recent talk said anything uploaded to a corporate AI is going to be used for training, and to assume anything uploaded or pasted into it is insecure and certainly not private.

The capitalism problem is also responsible for an inability to regulate AI, as the very people responsible for the regulations are lobbied to fuck by the AI corps to avoid that regulation.

That means the only power to fight back against them rests in the hands of individuals, who can refuse to use the corporate owned tools.

Most people I know are using corporate AI, and appeals to try local LLMs fall on deaf ears in my experience, with claims that they aren’t powerful enough or that the hardware to run them is too cost prohibitive. If most of the people you know are running local models, I think that is an exception to the norm.

Would you support FLOSS projects officially restricting any AI contributions to those only made with locally hosted models? As I said, most times I’ve mentioned that idea in other threads, the pro-AI side was vehemently against it.

Your response to my comment mentioning that AI is contributioning to climate change was to suggest it was equivalent to HVAC workers being afraid of heatpumps, which is ridiculous.

If you think climate change is an impending global disaster, do you think building giant data centers that require extremely polluting on-site power generators is not a particularly bad idea, and should factor in heavily on how this technology is used or promoted?

It seems like most users and advocates of LLMs find the idea of limiting its use to just locally hosted models to avoid the majority of the negative externalities to be unthinkable.

You don’t think climate change is a massive threat to our habitable biosphere?

Redox or Haiku, if the Linux kernel is unable to be successfully forked.

There’s no such thing as ‘just a tool’, especially if that tool is accelerating climate change when we’re already on the knife’s edge of irreversible domino effects.

There’s a fork of KDE 3.5 called Trinity that’s still maintained.

AFAIK System76 had issues with the Gnome devs not wanting to accept some pull requests from S76 which they wanted for their own functionality, so they eventually decided to build their own DE in their preferred language; rust.

Cosmic is now the only major DE that is entirely rejecting AI generated code, so I’m rooting for it to succeed.