This is certified misinformation. Here’s the fact check destroying it.

What Baikal stuff? The thing’s dead and gone.

Do yall think they’ll come back eventually?

The incorrect answer on Stackoverflow can be downvoted and commented by the community. With a LLM the incorrect answer is perfectly formulated and you’re alone to recognize it. I’ll favor a large community’s advice (cultural quriks and all) over a LLM’s any day.

Imagine the unfathomable power of a company who would harness the velocity of rapid AI advancement or somesuch AND keep their employees. The world isn’t ready for such raw productivity. It would be too easy to get ahead of competition. Understandably they steer clear of such lawless behaviour. Gentlemanly sportsmanship, truly.

bro it’s volunteers all the way down

Hey, good to know Apple’s music has been DRM free for a while! I’ve bounced off iTunes many, many years ago.

Look. We already have a little computer in our pocket. Besides Apple can go fly a kite with their DRM audio files. Just let me own my phone.

EDIT: iTunes used to sell DRM music a long time ago and then I stopped paying attention. They’re DRM free now, my bad.

There are massive issues with AI tech, but those are caused by our current capitalist culture, not the tools themselves. In many ways, it couldn’t have been implemented in a worse way but it was AI that bought all the RAM, it was OpenAI. It was not AI that stole copyrighted content, it was Facebook. It wasn’t AI that laid off thousands of employees, it’s deluded executives who don’t understand that this tool is an augmentation, not a replacement for humans.

Generative LLM needs to steal a gargantuan amount of work to produce unreliable yet convincing output. This is the nature of the beast. “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people” vibes.

Anyway, I was suspecting that this “issue” might come up so I’ve removed the Claude co-authorship from the commits a few days ago. So good luck figuring out what’s generated and what is not. Whether or not I use Claude is not going to change society, this requires changes at a deeper level, and we all know that nothing is going to improve with the current US administration.

So it’s fine because Trump sucks? Holy deflection, Batman!

I’ve used Mint for a while and then I started getting curious about all these sexy Arch setups. I was intimidated with the install process though, so I tried out CachyOS and Endeavour. I ended up staying with the latter. It’s got that bleeding edge Arch flavour while easing you into it. I prefer Endeavour’s approach (we’ll help you learn) to CachyOS’s one (it just works).

This would be meaningful if the findings were not produced by the corp trying to sell you the product being hyped. Big tech has a history of “faking it till you make it” and I can’t help but doubt that this is really just Claude Code mostly autonomously finding issues.

In Soviet Russia, nature desecrate you.

That’s so much fun! Even though some of those works use cutting edge browser features, their free spirited mindset brings me right back to the primordial web.

FOSS provides a way to exercise digital freedom in a digitalized world.

For example the Canadian Charter of Rights considers these freedoms fundamental:

• freedom of conscience and religion;
• freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication;
• freedom of peaceful assembly; and
• freedom of association.

These can all be threatened through centralized, authoritarian digital mechanisms.

While FOSS can be used to oppress, FOSS is most importantly a useful tool to fight against oppression by escaping control and as such it is precious today.

Corporations are the opposite of private property and that’s the problem. Their modern form was born in 19th century imperialist England and conviently evacuates all responsibility into the black void that is a moral entity or whatever that’s called. The ownership is zombified into a creature hungry for nothing but abstract profit, everything else be damned. I trust many businesses, but never a corporation.

HGModernism has a video about “lying” LLMs which is interesting. Basically an LLM is calibrated to find the shortest route to a an answer. It has no conception of obedience. Say you tell the LLM to use your script to solve a problem. Say the LLM will spend more energy figuring out and using your script than whipping up its own one. The LLM will therefore pretend your script is broken, generously make a new one and use that instead.

No problem, have a good one!

No, Sora is over as an app and API. An OpenAI spokesperson has said:

We’ve decided to discontinue Sora in the consumer app and API. […] As we focus and compute demand grows, the Sora research team continues to focus on world simulation research to advance robotics that will help people solve real-world, physical tasks.

Personnally I’d argue that there is no hard limit to the size of a community and to the number of communities a single person belongs to. Neighborhoods can have community gardens and kitchens, hobby farmers can share their crops with family, etc. At the provincial level, I find supply management to be alright for cutting speculation out of the equation and insuring a livelihood to local professional farmers.

less parkings more community gardens