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  • It does not mean that at all. Nothing about choosing to release a model for free or not has any bearing on whether or not the app will respect the privacy of its users.

    OpenAI could feel like they're making enough money off of their proprietary model that they don't need to collect data (I'm not saying this is likely), while DeepSeek could have released the model for free hoping mass adoption leads to more app downloads and more data to harvest. I don't assume either has good intentions.

  • You think them already invasively farming user data from tiktok somehow makes them less likely to do the same thing with another app, and not more likely?

    If someone stole $1000 from you and then asked to borrow $20, would you give it to them? Surely they won't steal that too, they already have $1000.

  • I run deepseek locally so obviously I appreciate that they made that decision, but let's not pretend that something can't be given away for free with bad intentions. People running LLMs locally are a drop in the bucket compared to people just downloading an app.

  • I'm not sure why you added a question mark at the end of your statement.

    I was questioning whether or not you would see that as a benefit. Clearly you don't.

    Are you also against libraries letting people borrow books since those are also lost sales for the authors, or are you just a luddite?

  • Has being non-profit been a legal defense used somewhere before? At least in the US the case law is based on commercial, profit-driven emulators being explicitly ruled as legal when Sony tried suing them. I see this said constantly and I think it's genuinely just the result of propaganda from Nintendo or something.

  • Though they seem secure behind a paywall, swiping content creators’ explicit photos and videos from subscription-based platforms such as OnlyFans, Patreon, and Fansly is relatively easy. People can download third-party apps for the task, and if those don’t work, a few basic coding tutorials can teach them how to surpass anti-theft technology. These images and videos then proliferate across the internet, on niche forums, Reddit threads, Discord servers, and Telegram groups with tens of thousands of participants. Today, a growing legal consensus considers this activity to be sexual abuse.

    I think you deliberately skipped this part.

  • I think the risk of losing data naturally leads to people seeking out the most robust storage solution possible when 90% of those people would probably be better off with something simpler with less that can go wrong.

  • I can't answer each bullet (and a couple are dependant on other things like drive speed, activity, and network throughput) but I've been using shucked external HDDs for over a decade and would recommend it. I used to use OpenMediaVault running in a VM on Proxmox and briefly tried TrueNAS, but I've since migrated all of my VMs to LXCs, so now I just have the drives mounted on the Proxmox host directly combined with mergerfs (not managed by Proxmox's storage pools) and I pass it through to a Turnkey Linux file server LXC via bind mounts to share over SMB/NFS. Less overhead and LXCs can share CPU/memory dynamically while VMs can't.

    You should be able to replace that /mnt/external directory with no issues as long as the structure is the same within.