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Fwiw, having taught online for well over a decade, I keep (kept?) trying to put people on to the marvel of a virtual machine for this (minus the sharing this offers, I suppose)

Just have a VM that you tell Zoom or whatnot is the "window to present" Now you can do anything, slides and more, and also that thing can be the only publicly seen thing, your computer stays private.

We don't disagree; I'd call what you are doing refining the principles?

Fwiw, I'm liking the koboldcpp "ecosystem", including koboldlite; basically it's letting me try a little of everything, though there may be something of a "jack of all trades master of none" thing going on. But it has these nice little presets for, e.g. llms, voice, music, images, a "chatgpt"-esque interface, etc.

So there are a zillion of these, including ones that do what yours does. But that being said, I'm going to always upvote every single one of them because this is better and more important that what the big companies are doing across the board.

It's interesting how I can be of two minds here, nearly simultaneously. Absent the horrific circumstances, my nerd brain says -- well, this is why phones should perhaps just be dumb devices that completely sync elsewhere such that physical possession is mostly meaningless. This also solves, e.g., border phone searches.

And also, yikes, don't actually want these type of horrific people doing this? It's difficult all around.

Okay, so -- your flip answer is pretty much exactly how the law should not operate?

That's the point of law. To come up with principles that you can follow consistently, regardless of your feelings in the situation.

20 years ago called and wants its take back.

Open source developers work on Linux. What you're saying presently makes no sense at all.

Objectively?

I use Libreoffice and I ... objectively... find it slightly less of a pain in the ass.

I mean, I was "there" for a lot of it in the modern-ish era, basically when air travel was like bus travel, buy ticket, get on plane.

FAR less distance and time between "car" and "plane." Closer parking, curbside service, but even if not, you're just physically closer to the gate. No TSA, etc.

This is a joke, right? "Flapping airplanes" is a great metaphor for AI as it exists today; e.g. we basically already have what we need and more is stupid.

Planes are awesome and important, and also building ones that actually flapped is technically possible and also wasteful and pointless.

For the record, I believe that the whole "building something as good as Photoshop" is BS, and a sort of retroactive justification of lock-in.

Yes, building something as complicated and locked in as Microsoft Word required a lot of work, and Microsoft has gained considerable money and power over it, but that doesn't mean that Word is necessarily good.

No different from "McDonald's hamburgers are objectively very good."

At present, nobody does. You'd have to see what a court case says.

But it would have to be the case that it's reasonable to expect people to rely on an LLM for medical advice. Which would in turn require that the creator of the LLM is not responsible.

Absolutely.

And for this the company responsible for the AI disseminating this information in such a way that people are relying on it should be prosecuted and/or sued into oblivion.

The original poster of the bad information should perhaps as well, but only also if it was reasonable to rely on them for this.

(We have the legal principles, we just need to use them.)

With the exception that it's harder to make the argument that "it's bad for the consumer."

McDonalds', over time, will make you less healthy.

AI slop over time will perhaps change aesthetics, but hard to chalk that up to anything other than personal preference.

Great article -- and maybe this is just me -- but I do find the primacy of the online services interesting. Me and my 16gb vram card can get most of this done at home for "free."

"Actively harming" is a technically true and also legitmately crazy way to frame this.

As a black person, if I thought Stormfront had considerable dangerous influence, I would quite literally try to join immediately.

"reputable journalists"

oh how I wish that were a thing that carried the weight it once did

"know thy enemy"

This is exactly as intelligent as "if you don't like America, leave."

I neither love nor hate the place; in fact -- yes -- today I dislike it more than I like it.

But again, my like or dislike doesn't matter. It exists and has influence. And for that reason, there are very moral reasons to engage with it even if you think it is evil.

It doesn't matter "what I think of its value" at this stage. It has observable effects that go beyond just me. Choosing to just ignore it and pretend it doesn't exist -- or perhaps worse -- pretending that your non-participation is meaningful, is irresponsible.

I'd say you couldn't be more wrong. Maybe you're doing fine. But both of those places have likely had extreme effects on the world that perhaps could have been mitigated with MORE, not fewer, eyeballs paying attention to what was and is happening there.

That is emphatically the weakness as well. I too loved the idea of "they all have their own policies," until it came to be that those policies ended up being utterly childish "I'm taking my ball and going home the second anyone says any little thing I don't like."

There is a VERY GOOD reason to do this, and this is because they are still very powerful and prevalent.

Closing your eyes and ears and going NAAH NAAH NAAH I'M GOING TO PRETEND IT DOESNT EXIST is a wildly stupid way to approach things like twitter when they are still so influential.

I appreciate experimenting with "boycotting," but when the dust settles and the thing is still very much there, you have to engage with that fact.

Is it fair to immediately get the ick from the name and the description (OpenShell is the safe, private runtime for autonomous AI agents) without knowing anything about what it does?

"Open" and "Shell" and just calling something private and safe out the box genuinely makes me think it's likely to fail at all of those claims.

Consider the following task: "Download and install every top 50 distro from distrowatch.com, open the terminal and type in the command 'ls /'"

I can describe to you with overwhelming confidence about what you're likely to see as the result (folders, like bin etc lib usr etc) even if the details may be a little off, or one or two of them does something weird.

Same thing here?

There is no interesting interpretation, beyond e.g...

If you ask all these models "Four score and seven what?" They'll all say the same thing. There's essentially no difference here.

I need everyone to understand that this is literally nothing more than "most written stuff about humans, that these things ingested, has this 'controversial'" take.

Broadly, I always felt that "Drupal and the others" vs. Wordpress was a perfect example of "evolution over intelligent design."

This probably changed somewhere down the line, but I genuinely believe the most significant factor in Wordpress becoming the dominant CMS is that, in the beginning, for a long time, it wasn't trying to be a CMS, just a blog engine.

How is the top comment not, "And this is why hardware and software need to be more open?"

I know it's old complaints, but this place really should not be calling itself "hacker news."