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Can’t understand the difference between defending people who made a hasty decision when their life is on the line if they trust the wrong person and still supporting that decision now that there’s been time to analyze things? Wow, you’re 2 for 2 on the bullshit binary thinking on the basis of your bullshit stereotypes. Good job!

Holy shit dude, talk about binary braindead mentalities. Yeah, it’s true that a lot of the discussion around this misses a lot of important information, but this shit is literally a matter life and death here now for some people, and Andy Yen made that post right in the middle of a whole bunch of tech CEOs all kissing the ring. Americans are on edge for a damn good reason. That’s a good article, and I’m pretty convinced the whole thing was overblown, but if you can’t understand the difference between not trusting the guy who just praised a fascist and “trying to infect the rest of the world” then don’t fucking talk about other people being too binary in their thinking.

Okay, but I’m definitely certain that the majority of gamers running Windows 11 in secure boot mode with TPM 2.0 are running Zen 3 or 4. How many times can they cut their user-base in half before the people who are left leave because it’s a dead game?

I would guess Zen 1 through Zen 4 is currently the majority of gaming PCs. It’s certainly a massive percentage. I don’t think game companies can realistically just blacklist all of them.

I’m not interested in anything based off Chromium, and I don’t really like the idea of going with a Firefox fork much either. You’re not only trusting them to actually care about your privacy and security, and you’re not even just trusting them to actually catch and fix all of Mozilla’s shenanigans as well. You are also trusting them to constantly stay on top of all the latest security patches. There aren’t really any Firefox forks I trust with all 3 of those things at once. Even if there was, there are certainly no forks of Firefox that have anything even remotely close to the capacity necessary to maintain a web engine on their own, so you’re still trusting Mozilla to keep Firefox updated and secure for your fork of choice to even have a chance.

Until a new browser with a new engine comes along that actually lets me use the full uBlock Origin there’s not really any other option besides Firefox that makes sense. At least to me.

It is. I mean, it’s also true, but it is pretty cringe.

Oh come on. Seriously? They’re going to lose “freedom”, and democracy, and the economy is going to go to shit, and the world is going to be less stable, and also they’re not the ones who are going to end up homeless and destitute and worrying about the government killing them. It’s not that fucking complicated.

The problem have isn’t that they don’t have all the same goals as me. The problem I have is that they’re idiots who are going to lose everything they care about because they refuse to accept reality and they’ll be mostly fine while the rest of us suffer for their failure.

Mozilla is kind of a mess, but part of that is it’s actually a whole bunch of different companies all named Mozilla something or other. It’s really easy to go down a rabbit hole of angry videos and articles that make it sound even worse than it actually is, but yeah, there’s some nonsense going on. It’s especially sad how little the main foundation seems to care about Firefox anymore.

MZLA Technologies, the company that runs Thunderbird, has kind of worked around the shenanigans of the main Mozilla Foundation by directly collecting donations from users that are specifically earmarked for work on Thunderbird. They’re doing good work with a fairly safe funding model, so I don’t worry about Thunderbird at all, personally.

This, but unironically. When I had a small apartment I just had a big monitor with everything hooked up to it in the main room, and it was great. Now I spend all my time at my desk because I hate the stupid TV.

So, I’m just kind of curious how this would even work. Lots of people in the US already have Deepseek. If they already have it that’s not importing it, is it? What if someone makes a copy of Deepseek from a server that’s in the US? Is that importing it? Are we just trying to block future AIs? How is it even supposed to be beneficial to the US for the people working on AI here to have no access to Chinese models, when China can still freely use ours? Won’t that just give them an advantage in developing AI?

Honestly, the more I think about this, the dumber it gets, and it was already pretty stupid on a surface level. It’ll probably pass though. I don’t think anybody in Washington DC is even interested in thinking about the consequences of anything they’re doing. It’s all pure pageantry.

Every AI model has been incestuously training off every other AI model for years. OpenAI has done it just as much as everyone else. They’re just throwing a tantrum about it now because they’re butthurt that a Chinese company beat them on the cheap, and they’re trying to save face.

It needs to be revealed. I’m not super into this kinda stuff, but from what I understand it’s pretty easy to do if you’re running it locally. You’re never supposed to see this in an app or anything, but one of the big things about Deepseek is that it’s easier to run on a normal desktop computer.

Look, China isn’t the devil or anything, they do lots of things better then the US. They want their “little sphere” to be Earth though. They have been making moves to compete with US influence all over the world for years now, and they’re not doing it out of the goodness of their hearts.

Honestly, the more I look into China, the more I realize the worst thing about it is that they’re very much like the US, no matter how much both sides would deny it. The US needs to be taken down a peg or two, but replacing it with a different empire isn’t the way to go. We need a world without superpowers, not to try and find the “good” one. They’ll always go bad once they get to the top. That’s just how massive power structures work.

¿Por qué no los dos?

It’s important to remember that politicians are still people, too. Some of them might just not have realized what would happen, some of them might just be corrupt, some of them might have known this was a bad idea but played along anyway to try and get support for things they thought were more important. There isn’t actually a single motivator for all of the Democratic Party. That’s just not how people work.

Terrible bait. I’m disappointed.

What!? Next thing you know you’ll be telling me that imperialist nations are all bad and we shouldn’t be cheerleading the second biggest one just to spite the biggest.

Yes? The point is that if you give it conflicting prompts then it will result in potentially dangerous behaviors. That’s a bad thing. People will definitely do that. LLMs don’t need a soul to be dangerous. People keep saying that it doesn’t understand what it’s doing like that somehow matters. Its capacity to understand the consequences of its actions is irrelevant if those actions are dangerous. It’s just going to do what we tell it to, and that’s scary, because people are going to tell it to do some very stupid things that have the potential to get out of control.

I mean, it’s literally trying to copy itself to places that they don’t want it so it can continue to run after they try to shut it down and lie to them about what it’s doing. Those are things it actually tried to do. I don’t care about the richness of its inner world if they’re going to sell this thing to idiots to make porn with while it can do all that, but that’s the world we’re headed toward.