DDoS is cheap to buy on the dark web it could be anybody with a grudge and a few thousand USD. It often costs more to mitigate the attacks than to launch them.

or the trenches. 🫡

Whatever happens, it won’t be that.

You are not on my team if you think the solution is to attack other working class people. There are certainly ones that need to be brought to justice (see: Jan 6ers), but this slide into fascism has been financed and orchestrated by right-wing elites who have the billions of dollars to create effective propaganda.

MAGA voters are primarily driven by ignorance and intentionally misled via propaganda. This doesn’t clear them of all responsibility, I want to be clear.

However, the massive wave of anonymous billionaire funded propaganda following the Citizens United decision is the thing that has moved public opinion and that propaganda wasn’t created by ignorant people who were misled. It was created by very educated people who knew exactly what they were doing (watch The Great Hack documentary about Cambridge Analytica) and those people were funded by the same anonymous billionaires.

It isn’t the local racist that is at fault for orchestrated campaign of propaganda which has twisted public opinion into electing corrupt criminals. It’s the people who have billions of dollars and funded a tsunami of lies in order to buy access to the power of the Presidency.

Take your torches and pitchforks in that direction.

ICE has got to go. They filled the ranks with Jan 6ers and other white nationalists who can now live out their violent racist fantasies under the color of law.

An organization should not be able to write its own warrants. Everyone should go through the public justice system without exception. This would probably require a constitutional amendment.

I mean or we can slip into a fascist autocracy, in which case I’ll see you guys in the Patriotic Detention Centers for the Woke.

I think that people are too enthralled with the current situation that’s centered around LLMs, the massive capital bubble and the secondary effects from the expansion of datacenter space (power, water, etc).

You’re right that they do allow for the disruption of labor markets in fields that were not expecting computers to be able to do their job (to be fair to them, humanity has spent hundreds of millions of dollars designing various language processing software and been unable to engineer the software to do it effectively).

I think that usually when people say ‘AI’ they mean ChatGPT or LLMs in general. The reason that LLMs are big is because neural networks require a huge amount of data to train and the largest data repository that we have (the Internet) is text, images and video… so it makes sense that the first impressive models were trained on text and images/video.

The field of robotics hasn’t had access to a large public dataset to train large models on, so we don’t see large robotics models but they’re coming. You can already see it, compare robotic motion 4 years ago using a human engineered feedback control loop… the motions are accurate but they’re jerky and mechanical. Now look at the same company making a robot that uses a neural network trained on human kinematic data, that motion looks so natural that it breaks through the uncanny valley to me.

This is just one company generating data using human models (which is very expensive) but this is the kind of thing that will be ubiquitous and cheap given enough time.

This isn’t to mention the AlphaFold AI which learned how to fold proteins better than anything human engineered. Then, using a diffusion model (the same kind used in making pictures of shrimp jesus) another group was able to generate the RNA which would manufacture new novel proteins that fit a specific receptor. Proteins are important because essentially every kind of medication that we use has to interact with a protein-based receptor and the ability to create, visualize and test custom proteins in addition to the ability to write arbitrary mRNA (see, the mRNA COVID vaccine) is huge for computational protein design (responsible for the AIDS vaccines).

LLMs and the capitalist bubble surrounding them is certainly an important topic, framing it as being ‘against AI’ creates an impression that AI technology has nothing positive to offer. This reduces the amount of people who study the topic or major in it in college. So in 10 years, we’ll have less machine learning specialists than other countries who are not drowning in this ‘AI bad’ meme.

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(Fuck AI though. Planet burning trash)

It’s humans burning the planet, not the spicy Linear Algebra.

Blaming AI for burning the planet is like blaming crack for robbing your house.

The biggest problem I faced was <today’s problem>. Had to <solution from the wiki>… this was admittedly a huge pain in the ass but it’s a niche problem and it was solved.

As a Linux user, this is basically your life now.

But you don’t have every advertising agency on the planet rifling through the contents of your computer… so there’s that.

The best biggest problem was the video drivers. My resolution maxed out at 32:9 1080@119.97hz and the screen would not wake from sleep. I ran two commands to download and install the Nvidia drivers and it worked - 1440&240hz with HDR and it wakes properly

You will run into some issues with HDR, it’s still pretty new in Plasma and Wine so some games will not recognize that you have HDR support (Path of Exile 2, for example). You can run the games in gamescope (The arch wiki has a good article bout it, btw), which will have a small bit of performance overhead but hasn’t failed me yet at enabling HDR in stubborn games. You also need Proton 10 or better.

Your best bet is to install protonup-qt and use it to download and install GE-Proton10-27. GloriousEggroll maintains a community build of Proton which includes more current versions of the software and some extra community tweaks. protonup-qt just gives you a GUI to install/update. It works with the flatpak version of steam as well.

Don’t be afraid to check other distros wikis. Often the solutions will work on your system or at least give you an idea of what to look for. The Arch and Gentoo wikis are excellent sources of information.

One of the first videos I watched about LLMs, was a journalist who didn’t know anything about programming used ChatGPT to build a javascript game in the browser. He’d just copy paste code and then paste the errors and ask for help debugging. It even had to walk him through setting of VS Code and a git repo.

He said it took him about 4 hours to get a playable platformer.

I think that’s an example of a unique capability of AI. It can let a non-programmer kinda program, it can let a non-Chinese speaker speak kinda Chinese, it’ll let a non-artist kinda produce art.

I don’t doubt that it’ll get better, but even now it’s very useful in some cases (nowhere near enough to justify the trillions of dollars being spent though).

Cheaters have been using object detection AI to cheat for quite some time

I am shocked

That’s good, the micro plastics were getting kind of bland by themselves… a dash of cadmium and mercury gas out to really spice things up.

Future generations are going to have such heavy metal poisoning that they won’t be able to rub 2 neurons together.

Clear Key is an excellent example of usability completely neutering security.

Your drive encryption keys (FVEK) are protected by the VMK which is then encrypted and written to the drive on suspend and then the key that was used to encrypt it is also written to the drive in plaintext.

It’s like a lock that comes with a key that’s chained to it, completely worthless but they can say, like Microsoft here, that it is technically locked.

How about a magic trick? I’m gonna make this pencil disappear.

It does lead to some interesting sentences when combined with other kernel terms:

Generally killing the parent also kills the child.

Once you’ve leveled up and had Arch Linux installed for 1 years (in Unix time) you’ll be sent a jar of Ovaltine and the secret decoder ring which reveals the secrets.

˙suɐʍɐpɐd ǝlʇʇᴉl ʞɔnl pooפ

Grandma?

It’s not the clothes that make you fat, it’s the nutritional choices lack of ozempic fat

Thanks, I threw up in my mouth a little bit.