We don’t have small scale LLMs running on personal machines (even if we could, that’s not how it is now)

Uhhh, it’s pretty trivial to set them up. I have a local Ollama instance set up on my PC with several different open source models available right now. Just because not everyone is doing it doesn’t mean it’s not possible. I don’t even have an especially fancy computer, either. Ryzen 7 3700X, 32gb RAM, Radeon 6600XT 8gb video RAM, not exactly top of the line. I struggle with programming logic sometimes, so I use it to help me figure out if I’m doing something right or not when I can’t find an answer online.

I also wouldn’t consider a shrapnel bomb a tool, it’s strictly a weapon just like a gun is strictly a weapon.

Oh of course, I’m not saying we should dump open source, closed source is so much worse, it just sucks how much the great ethics of open source are exploited by those with no ethics.

It always horrifies me a little bit how much open source has been exploited by large corporations for profit while much of the open source tech they rely on they do not invest in. Meaning by and large it often feels like open source has been unintentionally the largest transfer of the wealth created by labor to the corporate class in human history because labor had lofty ideals and capitalists are happy to exploit that.

Linux has the majority share of corporate servers and has for a long time, and yet is barely cracking 3% of the desktop (consumer, laborer) market. Corporations profit wildly from open source while the general public has not.

I mean really they despise anyone with skills because the reality is they have hardly any themselves as they’ve spent their lives paying for everyone else to do everything for them. They can’t make a meal, they can’t drive a car, they can’t do basic appliance repair, they don’t know how to actually use a computer other than social media, they can’t wash their own clothes, they can’t do anything for themselves. They despise every skilled person because it betrays their egotistical view that they are simply born better than everyone else and deserve to never have to know how to do anything at all. It reveals they know nothing and are useless to society at large, just a drain on the rest of us.

Secondly, I did say “knowledge workers” and I personally think authors and artists are a type of “knowledge work” as they require knowledge coupled with skill to do the work, just as people managing servers and databases also require a combination of knowledge and skill. Poetaetoe pohtahtoh.

Thus it’s also why they are all pushing hard for humanoid robots because they want to automate the human body after they have automated the human mind.

I mean… it seems painfully obvious and doesn’t need much of a thesis behind it.

The wealthy want their slaves back, but they want slaves that don’t push back, never ask for more, never need a day off, don’t need sleep, don’t need breaks, and are needlessly sycophantic to stroke the egos of the wealthy. It’s no more complex than that: the promise of LLMs was that they could have deeply exploitable knowledge workers without any of the fuss or mess of humans who want a life outside of their fucking jobs.

Like what else has this ever been? It’s been transparent since day one that this is why every business pushes AI adoption so hard, for them it has to work, they’re willing to bet the future on it because they think their sheer belief in it and throwing money at it will eventually “make it work.”

On the plus side, anyone who understands LLMs understands their limitations and the problems that are baked in to how they work and how those issues can’t be “fixed.” So this dipshit ass all-in plan that the wealthy have is doomed to crumble because it’s never going to work the way they want it to. So we’ve got that going for us.

Anyway I hate tools being described as “tools of the ruling class” because it often misses the point of how such tools can be useful to the proletariat as well. Class solidarity is a tool of the ruling class, but class solidarity would be golden in the hands of the proletariat, who vastly outnumber the wealthy class and ruling class. All tools are useful, what makes a tool dangerous is who wields it and what they choose to use it for. A hammer can be used to build and it can also be used to smash in someone’s skull. Tools aren’t the problem: specific dangerous humans are. I don’t actually have huge problems with AI LLMs providing they are open source and rolled out small scale on home PCs, I just have an issue with their industrial applications at scale and the attempt to use them to consolidate power and control. They don’t have to be used that way.

cuttlefish.

Yes, I do like Primus.

*crying in IPv4 subnet calculations

Do you have any suggestions for a Taimi replacement? I tried Hinge but nobody is on it in my area except “non-political” Christians and it makes me want to die. On the plus side unlike Taimi, Hinge actually has a “gynesexual” option for sexual preferences.

They actually just changed this. I have been on Taimi for a year as an unpaid member and I could see things like gender, location, actual profiile info and such and as of last week all that info is now hidden…

But I am not even entirely sure that it only applies to unpaid members because I had a gold membership for a week and that info stopped showing up about three days before the gold membership ended and two days before I cancelled the membership.

I want to like Taimi more but god damn they are pricey just to see basic ass info about each other.

And for what it’s worth, yes, you absolutely are a woman, and would be even if you didn’t “pass.” I am glad however that it helped boost your self confidence.

Finally… If you’re entirely straight and on Taimi what the fuck are you even doin (not you-you, but the guy who had the audacity to say something as stupid as “you’re not a woman”)? I’m only “straight” in the sense that I am attracted to women and transwomen are women so you get the idea.

I wouldn’t know I prefer old and grizzled turians.

When you unintentionally(?) promote sex doll positivity.

Although to be fair sex dolls can also be synthetic men, turians, elves, etc. as well.

Also a sex doll won’t tell you they’re busy doing calibrations.

These mods hate freedom!

Always choose hardcore.

Enough projection for an IMAX theater.

If it hadn’t been for Sharp-Hand Joe
I’d been married long time ago
Where did you come from? Where did you go?
Where did you come from, Sharp-Hand Joe?

For real, that’s actually the opposite of helpful. Documentation should be based on experience from use combined with discussions with the devs (providing they have the time).

Documentation documentation documentation! One of the most often overlooked and wildly important aspects of many major projects is accurate, up-to-date, and detailed documentation. If you’re not a programmer, one of the number one ways you can contribute is to help draft and produce documentation for applications you enjoy! It’s still a contribution to the project!

I always wanted to start an all-man all-theremin band called “ThereMen.”

One of my favorite memories was seeing The Octopus Project and Man or Astro-Man? live and at the end of the show the two bands had “dueling theremins” and the guy from Man or Astro-Man set his theremin on fire.

That’s all I really have to contribute here. Cool project though, I’d still rather save a hell of a lot of money for a Moog.

Potentially even one or two tech companies that have been around for decades depending on how large it gets before that burst.

Please be Microsoft, please be Microsoft, please be Microsoft.