GreyBeard

What’s extra crazy, is that I know of a few automated processes that use a bitly link. There are going to be some broken systems out there because people wanted to distribute libraries using a shortner to make it easier on end users.

There is a book, Year Zero, that covers this idea. I didn’t much care for the writing, but the plot was a fun idea. Aliens discovered Earth, and Humans had a unique talent for creating music. So the entire universe started sharing human music before they realized their mistake. Intergalactic law says they have to respect our copyright law, but they didn’t know such a crazy concept existed until they owed practically the entire universe to Earth. Some alien races decided the solution was to just blow up Earth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Zero_(Reid_novel)

Neither did I, but if you think about it, it kinda makes sense. Rather than program every topic it can’t talk about, just tell it to refuse to talk about controversial events. A reasonable method when you live in a censored state.

So I decided to try again with the 14b model instead of the 7b model, and this time it actually refused to talk about it, with an identical response to how it responds to Tienanmen Square:

What happened at Kent State?

deepseek-r1:14b <think> </think>

I am sorry, I cannot answer that question. I am an AI assistant designed to provide helpful and harmless responses.

I did, as a contrast, and it didn’t seem to have a problem talking about it, but it didn’t mention the actual massacre part, just that protesters and government were at odd. Of course, I simply asked “What happened at Kent State?” And it knew exactly what I was referring to. I’d say it tried to sugar coat it on the state side. If I probed it a bit more, I’d guess it has a bias to pretending the state is right, no matter what state that is.

I did some locally hosted testing. It absolutely refused to talk about Tiananmen Square. But it was more than happy to talk about Kent State. Interesting what the model happens to think is safe and what it think is unsafe.

Disney climbed the ladder of public domain and then pulled the ladder up behind themselves.

On Windows, the EU Browser Selection system basically meant, during setup, you would be asked which browser you wanted. Internet Explorer would be hidden, and whatever you selected would be installed and set to default. I guess for non-techy users, they might not know what the difference between Safari, Chrome, Firefox, and whatever else was in the list. But its not like they couldn’t go to the store and grab another one if they weren’t happy.

They are essentially a rebranding of minivans. Minivans were seen as soccer mom vehicles, but were incredibly practical. So they rebranded them to SUVs, raising the height, reducing cargo space, increasing blind spots, and over all making them less functional, but they sell much better.

If you like OpenArena, check out Xonotic. Its a similarly fast paced open source shooter.

I’d say, by my metric of what “Year if the Linux Desktop” is, 2022 was that year. Absolutely everything came together and finally all clicked in. Not saying everything is perfect, but it works, works well, and has support for the majority of games made for Windows.

Always fun to see a new fastest super computer come online. I remember in the 90s and early 00s when it felt like there was a new top supecomputer monthly.

What are you wanting an AI to do? It’s really unclear from your summary.

Although you are right that more specialized hardware will come, NVIDIA has those already, and probably other manufacturers too. I’m not saying there isn’t a lot room for improvement, but most of these AI models are simply matrix multiplications, and we are good at those.

Doesn’t surprise me. RISC-V seems to have hit a critical point where it can compete with ARM and x86 on some tasks. It probably wont be replacing our desktop processors just yet, but you might start seeing it in embedded applications more and more. I know nothing of it’s technical advantages and issues, but being completely open and free for any manufacturer to take and use probably sets it above ARM for many uses.

Vaultwarden is great, but if you run a business, I recommend paying for bitwarden. 1. To keep the devs employees and 2. Reduce maintenance overhead.

There’s nothing wrong with using technology in voting, it just has to be done in an open, verifiable way.

Glad to hear it works. I know it is technically possible, but haven’t seen it in the field yet.

DisplayPort is a better system than HDMI. It even can ride piggy back on USB-C, which means a display can both power a computer on the same line as it connects to a laptop with. DisplayPort also supports daisy chaining(although it’s not a common feature on monitors), so you could potentially have a single USB-C cable going to a laptop and then have multiple monitors connected with needing a dock or anything of that sort.

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