Leon

You cannot convince me that it was true end to end encryption. They had an eye in every chat.

It’s not that big of a deal to package in both flatpak and appimage.

That’s not how it works here. Sounds like your unions are useless and need to be remade. We generally have large unions covering entire sectors. Some work better than others, naturally, they are human organisations after all. Ultimately, thanks to them we don’t have things like a legally mandated minimum wage and such.

There’s a big push among workers to make a switch over to a 4 day work week. Naturally the work buyers are pushing against that, but given that there’s been way too long since any similar change has been made, and productivity has gone up as much as it has, it’s long since due. Honestly, workers should be rioting in the streets at this point.

I don’t see how those are mutually exclusive. Where I live the guaranteed raises are negotiated by the work seller and the work buyer unions, but we still have individual salary discussions (which can be with or without union support, of course) where you can negotiate further raises. I’ve never heard of unions getting a cut from one’s raise before.

Unions aren’t supposed to be a they, they’re supposed to be an us. They’re workers joining together to be able to negotiate with buyers of work on more equal footing about everything that pertains to the work life. You might be able to get better deals individually for yourself, but you’ll never be able to do things like negotiate down to a 4 day work-week for your entire company, or everyone in your sector by yourself. That’s the work of unions.

Always be in a union.

To be fair, the corpo slop games aren’t really worth playing, never mind paying for.

There are often also accessibility issues with PDF files depending on how they were created.

Since piracy is argued to be fair-use, we should all have sizable media libraries.

The prick writing it seems quite pro-slop so I guess in his eyes, it does.

They don’t call it child rape, they call it sex with women who at the time were underage. Something like that.

Did I say ban? I said recall. People still sell e.g. cars. Just fix the problems and put them back on the market. Razor blades and knives can be used to hurt people, they don’t spontaneously hurt people, and most parents don’t let their children play with them.

Similarly, other harmful products carry labels, e.g. cigarettes. If someone already has mental health issues then perhaps they shouldn’t use an LLM. Like someone with lung problems, you can’t stop them from smoking, but putting labels on there to warn against the harms is also a way to inform people.

As it is currently, LLMs are marketed as intelligent, they use language like “thinking”, and in much wider terms the people pushing them are saying that they’ll revolutionise everything. They’re not talking about the dangers and that’s a problem.

Read the lawsuits. The logs are shown.

They’re not AI, they’re pattern completion algorithms. Fancy autocomplete. They’ve caused real life harm to real life people, and no one is taking responsibility. Usually when companies sell a product that hurts people, the product gets recalled. This needs to happen to LLMs.

Ah. I interpreted it as then believing I’m an LLM.

It was hyperbole.

Ugh. This left me with a heavy feeling in the pit of my stomach. Wikipedia is such an important resource and to see it vandalised with LLMs like this is vile.

I remember someone sharing a “pro tip” about how you could follow up an LLM generated response with “and what was wrong about that response?”

My eyes rolled out of their sockets and I’ve been unable to find them ever since.

I’ve got two laptops, a personal one, and one from work. They’re both Lenovo laptops.

My personal laptop can be repaired, you can slip out the battery and replace it without even using a screw. There’s actually two batteries, one is internal and does require some screws to be removed but it’s not very difficult. Anyone who wants to can easily do that. The same goes for the fan and cooler, RAM, and SSD, network card, keyboard, screen, and trackpad. There’s probably a bunch of other things that can be easily replaced that I just haven’t looked into.

My work laptop is from 2022, so it’s about 4 years old now. It doesn’t have a second external battery. Opening it up is a bit tougher, and you can’t replace things as readily.

They have roughly the same dimensions, and weigh about as much. I don’t really see the added value to me as a consumer with this newer laptop.

My first laptop was a briefcase. There is such a thing as a happy medium. You could design light laptops that have replaceable parts, but they don’t do that because that would give choice back to the consumer and most manufacturers whole business model is to have you discard your computer and buy a brand new one every few years.

Why should it be?

It’s happened too many times now to be surprised about it happening.