whereisk @ whereisk @lemmy.world

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That's scamming. Modern political misinformation's goal is maybe to convince but primarily to flood you with shit, muddy the waters such that you lose your ability to discern the truth in a reasonable time frame and abandon action, jam the machine, - "eh, both the same", "eh, middle ground", "eh, who knows who's right", "don't want to get involved".

Kleptocracy loves that. It's very successful too - see climate change action, public transport, the current supreme court etc.

That's the point! It doesn't come with bash as a shell, it comes with ash - even if you install bash and switch to it, bashrc is empty. It's a bit bare bones, which is kind of charming, until it's annoying. Haha!

I've only installed it a couple of days ago in a vm and It's pretty good but a couple of things are a bit startling if you're coming from debian.

Eg. The lack of niceties like the ll alias. Or The config you have to go through to allow SSH Some utils I'm used to like broot refuse to install properly even though the apk exists. Fz-find doesn't exist in the community repository.

But you can't argue with apk - so much better than apt or how frugal it is re resources.

Looking forward to getting stuck into it a bit more.

Stylus also super cool to get old non responsive websites to behave well enough on mobile.

Tankie = nice useful idiot for effective pincer maneuver from the right.

While the right galvanizes their voters with "these very limited interventions is communism"

Tankies undermine the left's enthusiasm: "Not left enough" to make a difference.

Oh yeah? Enjoy the current supreme Court.

a "flatulist (professional fartist)" hahahahahahaha, I'm dying.

I would never have thought I'd read these words anywhere, let alone Wikipedia.

He does appear to have their loyalty, if reports are to be believed.

However even every single one of the OpenAI employees on board with him, they're not taking existing IP with them. And to recreate it from scratch, it seems, would put them so far behind as to not be worth it. Otherwise why freak out about the workplace?

Re Microsoft, they do seem to have the least amount of risk, where at minimum they'll keep what they have, while the max upside is 100% of everything.

Although even for that, there are some uncertainties that only people with inside knowledge might have. E.g. if MS were instrumental in Altman's subterfuge that caused his firing, if the board doesn't want MS involved if they can force them to divest their 49%. Doesn't seem likely.

Or if the board can create a different for-profit where MS doesn't have a part and let the other one wither.

Or the risk of massive lawsuits from OpenAI against MS if they wholesale take their employees re IP theft (we've seen it between apple, google and Amazon).

Good points for you also.

However, as the situation unfolds.. from the amount of effort being put in trying to get a hold of openAI by Altman/Microsoft..

It seems to me that there's a lot of claimed real-estate (eg training data and weights, ongoing subscriptions, income streams, exclusive agreements etc) that would be nontrivial or impossible to be gotten hold of or recreated from scratch.

And as we know Altman is not involved in the nittty gritty, aka doesn't know shit about shit in recreating what was there - so the initial bravado of "I'm just going to do my own" - was clearly a bluff that didn't pay off.

Hence now is trying different ways to get back on the ship / get another hold of the golden goose.

To be honest the more I see his frantic manoeuvring the more I think he's inconsequential to the endeavour and he just happened to be lucky - and these jerky moves, to me, demonstrate that he's well aware of it.

My little theory is that he was in cahoots with Microsoft re some product roadmap, against the wishes of the board.

1. Microsoft was not consulted re his firing as not to alert him or because there's no point asking the revealed adversary.
2. Microsoft was "furious" and desperately tried to reinstate him.
3. Immediately offered him a job. Effectively undermining their investment in open ai.

Immediately stinks because it's clearly self-serving dishonesty that treats the others as second class humans - they wouldn't accept the reverse of it.

Should kick themselves out to a different land if they're so keen on it.

Insert Bilbo "after all, why shouldn't I" meme.

Hallucinogenics were pretty easy to cultivate though and when you get the itch.. (I mean, probably)

He's lying, and playing that "back in my day we weren't snowflakes like those liberals are today" card that plays well with fox news audiences.

Doesn't have to be remotely true, just has to paint a picture that confirms the bias.

Of course when push came to shove to actually confront someone to protect people he hid like a little bitch behind the chairs..

..and now he was waiting for someone to hold him back from his bravado - it ended up being Bernie who couldn't hold back a feisty kitten if he tried.

But it's ok this guy learned how to act tough convincingly in wrestling - so he went on the media circus.

Yes, but aren't you now even more positively inclined towards "reunification"? /s

Half of them have rhetoric involving how bad getting the vote, equal rights, and ability to initiate divorce have been for women and society in general.

Guess what they are really after..

A few died on Jan 6 - yet the orange clown is still out.

It's a pinch maneuver: Undermine the left's confidence, while solidifying the right's opposition.

It's quite effective too - it gave us Trump because potential left voters get the impression that "they're both the same", "Hillary had baggage", "Bernie or no reform is possible", - that kind of shit.

It doesn't engage with preventing the enormous harm of right wing policies until they are in place eg abortion access, money is speech etc.

No. I had all the links from the beginning.

Lol.

"I'm sure all these people sacrificing goats to the gods haven't seen their prayers answered all the time and are wrong - can't you see how successful the Greeks and the Romans are, you idiot? /s" << you are this kind of person.

"Multiple countries" that "have a fixation" - therefore it can't be - hahahaha!

Are you against scientific evidence?

I gave multiple sources, you gave arguments from incredulity, popularity, and your personal perception of reputation of whole countries - collectively.

Meh Hillary has baggage, I'll let the quasi authoritarian nutjob win instead. Democrats 2016.

Meh, Biden is not exciting, I'll let the proven kleptocrats promising they'll destroy any checks in government win instead - they should have served me a better candidate.

Hopefully not 2024.