Why would they go after their friends and bosses?

I have a script to lookup the whois info for the sending IP address. Forward the message, with headers to them, saying “unsubscribe”, then block that IP with a firewall.

At a previous job, I had to build laptops that would multi-boot DOS, Win95, Win98, and XP, all on one laptop. Our field-tech’s software had to have those specific versions of windows for the machines that they serviced, because of how the software interacted with USB and embeded floppy drives.

If you want to scare yourself:

As a hard-of-hearing person, I need either subtitles, or super-loud volume. But bad sound-mixers in todays movies make everyone mumble right before giant explosions.

And I really hate that Meta fucked up smart-glasses for everyone. We could have had IRL subtitles for people like me on local-only glasses, that don’t record people, but they had to make it creepy.

Although I agree with you, I had that issue well before AI was a thing:

“I dunno, I just copied it from this StackOverflow post…”

<cut to me raging that someone would do that>

Agreed. I think they should have pushed for stronger disclosure requirements, but I also realise that isn’t actually enforceable.

I also find it very telling that people will talk about the negative parts of AI, but not acknowledge other automation tools that perpetuate the same problems. My experience is that most people’s complaints have a real basis, but they are just mis-diagnosed.

The problems seem to be our economic and societal structures, and AI is the new fancy tool that exacerbates those problems. But I’ve not heard a good reason why AI itself is that problem.

Can you at least try to answer my question?

You laid out a set of criteria: “…wage theft, human suffering, environmental destruction and empowerment of the oligarchies”

All of the examples I gave meet that criteria. Why is AI different?

Come on, be honest.

Most of it worked fine. I only ran into trouble once I started trying to run it on Raspberry Pi’s (which they have since started supporting).

But my laptops and desktop-servers didn’t have any driver issues that I remember.

Then why are you mad at AI? Those fit all of the same requrirements that you listed above. Why do you think one is bad, but not the other?

I think you are starting off with an incorrect premise: In the US, the role of the cops is not to keep people, or society safe. It often also has very little to due with “the law”.

The role is to keep the rich and powerful, rich and powerful. They are meant to oppress people, and keep the slave-machine running. Cops shooting people, stealing from them, escalating situations, and not knowing the law is the intended situation.

In that sense, the cops are doing their job to great effect, and don’t need any more training.

I did for a few years. It was awesome. So simple, and clean, and reliable

So are you mad at power-tools? The internet? Cars? Because they are “building on the base of wage theft, human suffering, environmental destruction and empowerment of the oligarchies.”

Why are you mad at one set of tools, but not the other sets of tools?

“permanant”

Brought to you by the same companies that “accidentally” re-add you to their spam lists.

No, not really. There are models based on freely given training data. There are models used without wasting large amounts of electricity. There are models that aren’t used to empower the oligarchs.

It sounds like you are mad at our economic and societal structures, but taking your anger out on the tools.

That’s… not too far from how I got into it. My parents didn’t know how to find porn, music, or tv shows my my linux systems

<Cut to me listening to my fundamental-religious, right-wing, sports-ball loving family, and trying not to explode>

It’s just a normal sticker, so it would work on pretty much anything. I think of it more as a way to donate to a group that I like, as well as good advertising for them.

I’ve been covering my cameras with tape for a long time. If you wanna get fancy with it, the EFF sells laptop camera stickers: https://shopeff.org/products/laptop-camera-cover-set-ii

$ life --help

-bash: life: command not found

I’m pretty annoyed at how ollama has gone deep in the paint as basically being a tool for accessing cloud models.

Can you expound a little more on what you mean by this?

I like ollama, but I only really use it to load models and then hit the API. My current issue with them is that they don’t seem to support non-text base interaction very well.