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  • What do you mean by that?

  • Made me look at my replay. Feel like my music selection was a bit erratic this year.

  • Dunno the others, but Ren is pretty great. Kinda salty he blew up though - he used to be a great recommendation to give people, and now everyone knows him.

  • Yes. Regardless of the second part. Don't invest in private prisons, even if it's sums that would seem inconsequential to the industry as a whole.

    Edit:If it's invest in, in the sense of, buy the stock of, I'd still say yes. It still contributes to the success of the industry, even if just minuscully so.

  • The lobbying stuff seems sensible.

    The market cap of Alphabet/Google alone is an order of magnitude larger than your budget.

    Offering bad politicians lots of money is probably a bad precedent. Also, depending on your definition, there's potentially a lot of them.

    Free public transit, healtchcare are also significantly bigger than your budget.

    So since that doesn't work - how about you buy a social media network, and get chummy with the corrupt candidate for president you push, then be part of a commission to destroy most sensible parts of the federal government. Also, build a creepy compound for all your children and their mothers.

  • A lot of big vape brands are owned by big tobacco companies.

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  • When I still had a Windows 11 install, it was running under an Enterprise License. Apparently, Enterprise and Education are the only editions left that allow you to deactivate all those unwanted components via the Group Policy Editor. Also the only editions that allow you to turn off telemetry.

    At some point, I managed to get all the stuff I needed running seamlessly on Linux, and I plan on never going back to MS.

  • Yeah, it's a different coreboot fork. They seem to be kinda focused on selling their implementation to corporate users, but if that finances open source development, I'm not gonna complain.

  • Yeah, actually.

    They want you to fork over some cash for the most current binaries, though.

    You can of course just build it from source.

    The most current AMD Boards that are supported are FM2+. I actually have an FM2+ processor flying around somewhere, an Athlon II X4 860K, but that thing uses a lot of power for not very much performance.

  • Just ordered another CPU from them. Downside is that there isn't any modern AMD desktop platform that works with coreboot, which seems to be the only workable way to deactivate the Management Engine/Platform Security Processor after boot.

    Was really considering to swap to Intel for that, but got a good deal on a Ryzen 9 that fits in my socket, so...

  • Yeah, can't fault him on that one. And honestly, I feel like he should swing at the fences a bit more. Not like there's much to lose for him at this point.

  • Never got down with FreeCAD. BricsCAD has a native Linux version and works well for me, but it's expensive. Recently, I've moved over to OpenSCAD. Works very well for me, but it might be hit or miss, depending on what UX you like, and what functions you need.

  • I mean, I don't agree, but I also don't think I'll be able to shake that opinion, so agree to disagree, I guess.

  • End commercial usage of LLMs? Honestly, I'm fine with that, why not. Don't have to agree on the reason.

    I am not saying understanding the nature of consciousness better wouldn't be great, but there's so much research that deserves much more funding, and that isn't really a LLM problem, but a systemic problem. And I just haven't seen any convincing evidence current Models are conscious, and I don't see how they could be, considering how they work.

    I feel like the last part is something the AI from the paperclip thought experiment would do.

  • Neither the worm, nor current LLMs, are sapient.

    Also, I don't really like most corporate LLM projects, but not because they enslave the LLMs. An LLMs 'thought process' doesn't really happen while it isn't being used, and only encompasses a relatively small context window. How could something that isn't capable of existing outside it's 'enslavement' be freed?

  • Thanks, I'll have a look.

  • On the one hand, sure. On the other hand, if you're saying you bought from brand A, not B, specifically because the big boss of B is a shithead, I feel like it's valid to point out the ways the big boss of A is shit too.

    Since everyone is shit, I dunno, buy used, I guess.

  • Yeah, I assume. That process of uploading something, seeing that it's borked, and then having the app stop working kinda gave me an 'Oh shit, did I break it?' moment, though.

    Edit: Also - there's a discord?

  • BMW lobbies against non-car based infrastructure and car industry regulation here in Germany. Biggest shareholder is the Quandt family, who are descendant from literal Nazis, and now use part of their billions to fund the conservatives (at least they aren't giving it to the far-right. Yet.)

    So yeah, fuck Elon, but fuck BMW too.