trevor (he/they) @ trevor @lemmy.blahaj.zone

Hello, tone-policing genocide-defender and/or carnist 👋

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After reading the lkml, it really does seem like the C dev just being hostile to Rust. The C dev just outright refuses to accept any of the compromises from the Rust dev, and is pretty rude about it.

Idk why, but some of these people need to hear that languages are not a team sport and fighting and being hostile to people about it just makes the Linux kernel worse.

Sure. For me, billionaire is basically just shorthand for someone with an amount of wealth that is impossible to attain without most of it coming from exploitation. If the unit or value of currency changed, the underlying meaning is still there.

I think that's highly reductive, but if you want to see it that way, fine. There are lots of people in that sort of income bracket that have good opinions that are worth listening to, and it's good that they use their platform to advocate for various causes.

They did not release the final model without the data

They literally did exactly that. Show me the training data. If it has been provided under an open source license, then I'll revise my statement.

You literally cannot create a useful LLM without the training data. That is a part of the framework used to create the model, and they kept that proprietary. It is a part of the source. This is such an obvious point that I should not have to state it.

You're conflating game engines being open source with the games themselves being proprietary. Proprietary products can use (some) open source things, but it doesnt make the end product open source.

Given that LLMs literally need the training data to be worth anything, releasing the final model without training data is not open source.

I think this touches on the concept of labor aristocracy pretty well. But at the point where you're a billionaire, even labor aristocrats would have needed to do some level of exploitation. At which point, they're just doing the same thing the owning class does.

For instance, once you start doing shit like licensing IP (private property is theft; including "intellectual property"), creating fashion brands, perfume, and other forms of "passive income" (A.K.A. stealing from someone else) like that, you're not really profiting off of your own labor anymore. You're exploiting others.

I don't think anyone from labor aristocracy can ever get to the point that they're approaching billionaire status with clean hands (relative to how "clean" one can be under capitalism). But artists like Chappell Roan aren't anywhere close to that, as someone else pointed out.

True. Artists are exploited for their labor as well.

Eh. There's a difference between those that became rich exploiting other people's labor (see: most of the owning class), and those that used their own labor (see: prolific artists and performers). On occasion, rich people are just normal, good people that came into money. Chappell Roan is one such occasion.

I see that, in addition to calling proprietary LLMs """open source""", we're just calling everything that every company has done """open source""" as well 😑

The closest thing they have to an accurate point is Android, but Google didn't start with open source shit, and Facebook and Twitter sure as shit didn't either.

No worries. I've got some 20TB drives i can throw these on 😁

Now, running a model that large... Well, I'll just have to stick with the 8-13b params.

Very nice! Thanks!

I had zero interest in downloading this shit before because LLMs are just lying slop machines, but if it becomes illegal, I will go out of my way to.

If you buy music from there, does it include DRM that prevents you from playing it without their online service?

I love my Steam Deck, but I can barely play most games on low settings and I get like 40-50 FPS with a 90Hz screen.

We need more powerful hardware. I'd prefer that it comes from Valve, but I'll take what I can get, as long as it's optimized for SteamOS/Linux.

I disagree with this characterization of Linux devs. They're just people. I'm sure there are some shitheads out there, but I don't think it's anymore the case than with any other sample of software devs.

I think the more likely reason that accessibility technology is an afterthought in Linux is because it's an afterthought in pretty much all software, which is a bad thing, but I haven't seen them be elitist about accessibility.

Some of the problem really is just that Linux graphical capabilities have been challenging enough enough that doing some of the extra demanding things that various access capabilities require weren't possible until recently (and some of them still aren't possible).

You are an absolute 🤡 to conflate communism, a liberatory ideology, with being "a mass murderer fan club". As an anarchist, I certainly wouldn't trust your usage of the term "anarchist". lmao.

Yeah. I'm sad to say that, about a year ago, I switched back to macOS because it handles accessibility waaaaay better. And I don't even use screen readers. It sounds like their situation is even worse :/

I just need the ability to easily zoom in and out using Super+scroll up/down (without causing performance issues or visual jank) and trackpad gestures that aren't extremely limited. Granted, both of these things may be more of a DE thing, but wherever the issue lies, I would like them fixed.

I just hope Wayland has its accessibility shit together before then. There are people that still need to use X11 for their accessibility needs.

this platform is a mass murderer fanclub

lmao. Elaborate.

Helix is best editor 😏