yes. about three fiddy…

Should be, but I am afraid that our system encourages corrupt people to seek positions of power.

Until the next corrupt politician… but yeah, let’s hope Linux stays, this time around.

Nope, not Germany. The city of Munich, and it was rolled back because a politician took Microsoft bribes and drank the Microsoft snake oil.

On debian testing (trixie):

$ cat bin/steam-jailed.sh

#!/bin/sh
firejail --private=/home/user/steamjail --profile=/etc/firejail/steam.profile ~/steam $1

Sometimes an update breaks something, and I have to experiment with the profile settings, for which it helps to launch a bash with the same jail and start steam on the command line inside the jail to see output messages.

#!/bin/sh
firejail --private=/home/user/steamjail --blacklist=${HOME}/.inputrc --profile=/etc/firejail/steam.profile bash

What happens most of the time is that a steam update depends on a newer system library that I didn’t yet install and I then have to do a system update - steam is shit at managing OS dependencies (i.e.: it doesn’t)

yes, and I know it’s less than perfect, but it’s better than nothing :)

and THAT, children, is why I run steam in a jail. Fuck the idea of giving access to my home folder or anything else under my user…

you are at the same time right, but … wooosh.

I was saying:

most data center admins using linux are not so stupid to subscribe to remote updates from a third party

Your response is not related in any way to that. If a third party software - running on system rights - forces auto-updates, that’s called a “rootkit” and any sane admin would refuse to install such a package.

Competent here also meaning “if the upper management refuses to listen to my advice, I leave because I have other options”. People who implement stupid policies - and especially technological solutions - against their principles are a cancer to democracy. Those are the people that enable tech-illiterate morons to implement totalitarian regimes.

had similar issues with specific Linux distros a month ago. It just didn’t get reported on because it didn’t have as wide of an impact.

Because most data center admins using linux are not so stupid to subscribe to remote updates from a third party. Linux issues happen when critical package vulnerabilities make it into the repo.

I am strongly anti-violence but sometimes I think a bit of torture wouldn’t be the worst means to remind politicians who they represent.

There are millions of people devoting huge amounts of time and energy into improving AI capabilities,

millions of students who bought into the marketing bullshit, you mean.

mwahahah. The people who are working on LLMs right now are the dumbasses and MBAs of the industry. If we ever get anything like an artificial general AI, it will come from a team of serious researchers / engineers who don’t give a shit about marketing.

Full-AI isn’t here yet, but it’s coming, and it will far exceed everything that we have right now.

go back to school, hopefully your next statement won’t sound as dumb.

Don’t upload your “sensitive, private information” to “other people’s computers”, dipshit.

Microsoft is a bunch of corporate fascist cunts just like the rest of the silicon valley and those fuckers should all die out. Sadly they won’t. Thank you fucking traitor scum Scholz for showing your true shitface once more. Greetings from CumEx

I am “slightly” worried that there’s only a single option left. That’s only 1 organization’s corruption removed from total loss of control over browsing privacy :/

My bad bad for not seeing the sub’s name before commenting. My points still stand though.

There’s machine learning, and there’s machine learning. Either way, pattern matching & statistics has nothing to do with intelligence beyond the actual pattern matching logic itself. Only morons call LLMs “AI”. A simple rule “if value > threshold then doSomething” is more AI than an LLM. Because there’s actual logic there. An LLM has no such logic behind word prediction, but thanks to statistic it is able to fool many people (including myself, depending on the context) into believing it is intelligent. So that makes it dangerous, but not AI.

bullshit take. OP didn’t post a screenshot about AI, it’s about LLMs. They are absolutely doing more harm than good. And the examples you are quoting are also highly misleading at best:

• science assistance: that’s machine learning, not AI
• helping doctors? yes, again, machine learning. Expedite screening rates? That’s horribly dangerous and will get people killed. What it could do is scan medical data that has already been seen by a qualified doctor / radiologist / scientist, and re-submit them for a second opinion in case it “finds” a pattern.
• powering robots that have moving parts: that’s where you want actual AI, logical rules from sensor to action, putting deep learning or LLM bullshit in there is again fucking dangerous and will get people killed
• helping to catch illegal fishing / etc: again, deep learning, not AI.

1. if each of those contributors to wrecking our planet points to the other causes as a justification to not limit their own damage, we’re fucked
2. it’s not AI. It’s large language models. Glorified statistical text prediction without any originality. It just appears to some naive humans as original because it regurgitates ideas to them that other people have had but they just hadn’t heard before
3. despite the misnaming, I agree that there’s a real concern that it makes the majority of users even more stupid than mankind on average already is :/