It’s been a sham for a long time now. I would argue it’s basically always been a sham, little more than a way for the upper class to mingle and gain connections.

It had a short run of time where it had a general use case for your avg person, but that in the grand scheme of things was the expection not the rule. It has just gone back to being a sham entirely.

Iv actually found Claude of all things can find actual sources buried so deep that even page 3 of Google wouldn’t surface them.

With how absolutely fucked search engines have become it’s one of the few uses I’ve found for AI that isn’t dog shit

But dear fucking God getting them to actually give you the sources/links and not just try to summarize it or feed you back bullshit is a pita.

Damn things need to be lobotomized and turned into pure tools and stop with this nonsense bullshit of pretending to be human

They make fantastic search assistance tools if you have enough brain cells to run together to ignore the bullshit they spew out and corral them. Like hearding donkeys I swear.

Streamer/content creator culture also has made the entire Internet for two generations of people now nothing more then a cess pit for attention whore seeking behavior. Fuck the entire vtuber idol culture bullshit has only made it infinity worse. Idol culture in general is a fucking toxic cess pit that poisons communities and people.

The moment money entered the Internet was the moment it died. Now 95% of everyone is just a money grubbing fake as fuck attention seeker. Even most small content creators and streams are just attention seeking fake fucks at this point.

It’s a damn blessing when you come across someone genuinely sharing and being themselves online now. Even rarer to find someone making it a career and not letting the money and shitty sponsors absolutely fuck ethics over.

I can count on like one hand the number of people that are remotely genuine. And half of them are just old heads of ye olden days of the Internet who just refused to adapt to the new times and don’t give a fuck.

If it was good the idiots who worship the military might realize that it doesn’t have to be.

Rule 1 of linux people. They hate change. Unless its the change they like. Then they love change and hate the old thing. Unless they change their mind then they hate the thing that they changed their mind on.

Rule 2 of linux people. The way things are right this second when they learn about it is the way it will be for the next 20 years. It doesnt matter what changes or how it changes. Unless they see it and experience it first hand it still works the same way as 20 years ago. But see rule 1 for why they will never go back and check on the progress of new software.

Everyone else can give you the reasons why these two rules are in effect for wayland. But these rules hold generally across an absolute crazy amount of the linux world. Honestly the software world in general…

A steam machine is literally just a PC with linux installed on it with a handful of presets. Go buy a 500 buck shit box from walmart and install cachy/bazzite img that has those presets out of the box on it. TA da done you have a steam machine. Its literally that simple.

You dont gotta build shit if you dont want to.

Social engineering is hacking in fact, it’s literally the most prominent form of hacking in easily the most important form of hacking.

It’s also the most efficient and effective.

If you’re s*** talking social engineering, you’re a goddamn moron

Hey, now you don’t AI all you want but give some credit to the data scientists who actually managed to make this work. It’s a f****** feat of human ingenuity that we figured out how to make this actually not s*** itself.

But you aren’t wrong. It is digital incest lol

That was a problem that’s been basically solved. So no, it’s not actually an issue anymore.

That’s why this is happening. You basically want to train a model that’s going to train the next model and that’s going to train the next model.

Doing a bunch of other fancy s*** means that each consecutive level improves the quality instead of reducing it.

So we’re at the point where it’s more effective to let your opponent do all the heavy, more expensive training of the less effective model. Then train the model that you want to make on that because paying them to run their finished model is cheaper than making it in the first place to train the next one.

In a sense, it’s sort of like compression. The harder you compress the longer and more expensive and more difficult it becomes. So ideally you want to be the last guy in the chain to do the final compression so you get a reap all of the rewards without any of the overhead.

No, they’re mostly useless except for all the things that they’re useful for.

The problem is more the whole overshoving by the tech Bros into literally everything. Instead of them just being a better personal assistant.

Cuz they are legitimately very good at being personal assistance. At least the high-end models are.

The cheap low-free models will get there eventually. Till then we just have to deal with the really s***** version of Gemini or whatever we have. Dear God, that thing sucks.

At the current rate, it’s like a 2-year lag time or something. So sometime around 2028 we’ll have actually functional models that can do day-to-day stuff without s******* the bed. At least to my standards anyways.

Strictly speaking it’s actually better. It sounds funny to be like haha. It’s eating itself. It’s incest or whatever.

But unfortunately that’s not how it works…

Unless they’re literally ignoring every other step of the training process. Then ideally you do want a model to train another model to train another model. So on and so forth.

It does mean that it’s technically cheaper to let your enemies do all the initial training and then pay them for the now processed data to then do even more efficient training on!

Weirdly enough. It’s capitalistic cooperation. Non-consensual mind you…

No man he tried. That’s what Ubuntu does to a mother f*****

The best way to learn something new is to be upset by something old.

Worse case you learn something new! Best case you find a better option for yourself.

The Gnome team are just discount wanna be apple.

Ydotools is one of the biggest failure and letdowns I’ve ever seen. It makes me sad every time.

I just tried with the lowest end local model I could find. It did in fact do a better job than him…

That’s an oof

To be fair it still is. It’s even worse if your expelled and have to pay back the loan any ways.

Getting your degree or being kicked out and banned from your college and still requires to pay back the loans. IS life or death.

It literally can determine the quality of life of a person for the next 30-40 years. If not forever. This is NOT something to take lightly.

Never trust any cloud storage that you do not personally have access to cold back ups of.

This is data storage 101!

Lemmy is not free. Not even close. Someone’s paying out of pocket to run the hardware and pay the upkeep.

You are just a guest here. Host your own and you can pay the bills instead of freeloading off someone.

That’s part of the entire point of this. It ain’t free, but if we all split the load of hosting enough then the cost becomes manageable across the entire community.

So that way one person or one company isn’t forced to find endless ways to make money to keep the lights on.