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I think their point is that in an economy that isn’t profit-driven, artists (just like everyone else) would not rely on their art/labor for survival.

Artists generally prefer this model as well, since they don’t have to tailor their art to anyone else’s tastes. We already see models moving towards this, like Patreon, where you pay the artist to produce whatever art they want, rather than buying a completed work. The next step is this being UBI (which is essentially a public patronage system), not private patrons.

During the iPhone 17 launch event, Apple revealed that its customers took 500 billion selfies last year, a massive figure that shows just how normalized the practice has become.

Selfies were often mocked when they were deemed the purview of Instagram-obsessed teenage girls, but these days it’s not unusual to see everyone from seniors to a gaggle of sports bros gathering around a single phone like an object of worship.

Yes, now everyone is Instagram-obsessed, not just teenage girls. The ageism and misogyny was wrong. The negative assessment of people being vain was not.

so in other words it’s automatically removing some of my image in order to fake being portrait or landscape?

I love the double meaning in the title. We’re both content for consumption, and content with the situation.

We can’t create them either. Think of any system you think is perfectly rational, and then ask yourself by what standard its rationality is determined.

That is a bunch of assumptions right there.

The reality is that businesses often don’t know when more people are needed, don’t have the correct people making the decisions whether to hire even if needed, can’t get the budgets approved even if the hiring mgmt chain is on board, can’t get approval to offer competitive salaries, etc etc.

There are a million reasons why companies don’t hire when they need to, or do hire when they don’t.

Humans aren’t perfectly rational, and can’t create perfectly rational systems.

Another article conflating LLMs and AI.

AI is unfortunately supercharging lots of systems, especially in the police/intelligence spaces. Surveillance driven by AI is absolutely skyrocketing both in capabilities and prevalence.

xAI and OpenAI aren’t seeing good ROI, being LLM companies. Palantir and their ilk are another beast altogether.

I almost wonder if this misstated “underperformance” of “AI” is intentionally trying to make people less fearful about it being weaponized against them.

After all, the AI balloon is deflating, right?

This is 1000% a scheme by the prisons to make it as onerous and fraught as possible to appeal. They certainly aren’t going to help their ‘revenue-sources’ get out.

US prisons have tons of things like this.

• Prison commissaries are notoriously designed to gouge prisoners for small “luxuries”.
• Some prisons limit the list of allowed books to almost nothing (or force prisoners to use e-readers with per-minute subscription costs that are also exorbitant), or even use kiosks that they get very little time to access.
• Many states and prisons charge room and board while you’re confined.

All of it is done to both extract maximum profit while they’re inside, and to try to ensure people exit in debt, so they’re both hard-pressed to find work and desperate for money, because both things make people more likely to end up back in prison.

You can buy it ‘naked’ without the desktop shell, for clustering (though also just to choose your own case).

It’s really meant as an LLM-runner that fits on your desk, for people who aren’t looking to have a rackmount setup. Hell, unless I want to add a 4U monster to my rack for a GPU setup, even a single FWD is going to outperform most rackmounts for running LLMs.

I do think there’s value to it as a gaming machine if only because other OEMs aren’t offering desktops with Linux, and certainly not ones that can run games very well without any user upgrades, but yeah, it’s definitely not intended as a “gaming machine”.

But why do that when they can just shift the burden onto the other party (the website), and demand money from them too?

I use mine to check for chips in stray cats in the neighborhood, and to have a backup for my keyfobs. Awesome tool.

More brilliant moves from Chuck and co. This is why I left Cisco.

Yeah, those should have been emoticons! (╬≖_≖)

gimme dat more powerful GPU!

Note that this vuln is in the desktop GUI, not ollama itself (Ollama Core). It is also unrelated to the models themselves.

It’s absolutely possible to have privacy-preserving age verification, but it requires government to trust someone else than themselves, which they’ll never do.

Go to gas station. Hand cashier your ID, like you do to buy liquor. Cashier gives you a one time use token/password to the age verification system website. You go there and upload a public key you generate before the OTP expires. Voila: now the site could easily verify that you control the private key and (trusting) that consequently you are of age, without having to know literally anything about you.

It only breaks if you treat everyone as a criminal until proven innocent (e.g. “you might have stolen that key”, etc), which is exactly what every government implementing this is doing, which is why it’s not really about protecting kids from porn at all but about removing privacy.

Is the lack of source code access the problem with change.org? It’s just a one-sided popularity poll website masquerading as activism.

It sounds like he’s an Operations/SRE specialist, but his quals seem like he’d be overqualified for most Ops/SRE roles unless it’s a director or VP. Especially with the shift to devops, he might need to shift domains or grow out of pure Ops work. It’s going to be nearly impossible to hire into an Architect or Director role unless he already has that on his resume.

The problem with training AI bots is that they will model the human behavior from the bad environment per their training, but not the human psychological reactions to the changing environments, so it’s not really going to tell you whether the different platform makes humans behave differently.