I wiped macos and installed proxmox on it. The wireless didn’t work well, but I had a dock laying around with a cat5 plug that worked just fine. Has been going strong for a few months now.

I use a 2015 MacBook pro. The screen was busted so I removed it and disabled the lid switch. Works great.

Downside to laptop as your homelab: got that spicy pillow now permanently plugged in. Maybe consider pulling out the battery.

Let’s not idolize Carter too much. I like a lot of what he did, and I obviously love his “old man building houses for the needy” golden years, but Carter was also the beginning of the dismantling of antitrust which is the primary reason we have wealth consolidation and market capture as the de facto norm today.

He started the ball rolling with a bizarre policy of “big businesses are good for everyone” which meant antitrust laws–while still on the books and our official policy–simply stopped being enforced. Regan capitalized on this but Carter started it.

No.

GenAI is a breeding ground of ethical and moral problems that go way way way beyond ads in commit messages.

You can absolutely be emotional about a tool that boils away all our water, ruins people’s health and sanity by building enormous light, noise, and polution sources next their houses, and steals our intellectual property to increase the wealth consolidation of the few even further.

Radicle is tied to crypto nonsense.

It’s more about ads than data. It’s much more difficult for the average person to block ads on an app than on a website.

No. Stop. Don’t.

That’s an impressively shortsighted and silly argument for someone trying so hard to sound smart.

I’m not sure why you think this is a conspiracy theory, it’s already documented as happening and is common in some segments. It’s not a secret.

Uber led the way on this years and years ago, with systems that would offer every driver a unique price for each ride based on their recent history. If you took every ride that came up you would get lower prices, but if you started declining rides you would get an increased rate to bait you back in… until you bit and took one where it would decrease the rate again.

Each driver being offered a different fare for the same customer is the kind of dynamic pricing that digital displays offer for grocery stores. Maybe at the busiest time of day prices are suddenly more expensive. Maybe when it’s hot outside cold drinks go up 20%. Maybe you don’t notice because you’re too busy thinking about all the other stress of daily life.

No, it’s not that we were “unable to infer meaning” (gaslight much?), you’re just wrong.

Firstly, tab completion has been around for effectively ever, and way predates whatever VS Code may have been doing. Ctags indexing, for example, has been around since 1992.

Secondly, even if you want to move the goal post by talking about some specific implementation of ML based indexing, ML is not LLM.

Tab completion is a table lookup and has been common for like 20 years. There’s no LLM needed.

Ok but which shell are you using on Konsole?

Guess we should all stop using cell phones too, the erlang that powers them is old as dirt and therefore must be bad.

Frustratingly plausible explanation.

This continues to be such a weird argument to me. They have a duty not to endanger people, but somehow sitting on the knowledge that a whole bunch of people are going to die without warning them isn’t harming them?

They sit on that knowledge because the government has demonstrated repeatedly that it will punish them for leaking attacks, not for some humanitarian reason.

I feel like most people have a mother, what a weird thing to call out.

/s, I hope obviously

It was a shocking revelation to me many years ago that most child sex abuse isn’t done by pedophiles, but it’s probably important to acknowledge.

Just like “regular” sex abuse, it has little to do with attraction and everything to do with power and control.

Well, this was exactly the answer I expected but I’m still disappointed.

I feel like I’m in a niche position where I want the technology to deliver on promises made (not inherently anti-AI) but even if they did I would still refuse to use them until the ethical and moral issues get solved in their creation and use (definitely anti-cramming-LLMs-into-every-facet-of-our-lives).

I miss being excited about machine learning, but LLMs being the whole topic now is so disappointing. Give us back domain specific, bespoke ML applications.

Listen, this is going to sound like a loaded inflammatory question and I don’t really know how to fix that over text, but you say you’re in the space and I’m genuinely curious as to your take on this:

Do you think it’s possible to build LLM technology in a way that:

1. Respects copyright and ip,
2. Doesn’t fuck up the economy and eat all the ram,
3. Doesn’t drink all the water and subject people to Datacenter hell, and
4. is consistently accurate and has enough data to be useful?

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.