You can get pretty far with a stack of 5090s and llama.cpp with split mode graph (or so I’ve heard, I’ve never tried), or AMD’s unified memory CPU thing.

It’s not as good as data centre grade stuff, but it’s not nothing either.

Same, pretty much. It is possible though, which makes LLMs a more democratic technology than, say, nuclear reactors.

That’s kinda my point. Roads are a useful technology, but they can be used by fascists.

I’m not here to argue for or against LLMs in general, but self-hostable AI is a thing. Actually open AI is a thing.

A blanket statement saying about AI as a whole technology being good for fascism is about as useful as saying “roads are good for fascism” (they’re great for troop movement after all).

Are you talking firmware blobs, or actual drivers? If it’s the latter, do you have a link? I’m curious!

There is a distinction between “kernel” and “operating system”. An operating system includes a kernel, but also other stuff.

The kernel of the darwin operating system, called XNU, is open source. Darwin, the operating system that includes the XNU kernel, is not fully open source.

Huh, I hadn’t heard about that! Honestly seems useful, and if it’s only the engine, I don’t see how crypto bros are relevant.

If there’s some “pay to unblock” scheme, that’s a different story.

What are they doing with cryptocurrency now?

bark bark!

If I were to guess, it’s because a blanket ban would turn the people who actually go out and vote against you.

Just a guess, but are you missing + Send on your error type?

It depends in what context.

On the day to day, is someone making $200k struggling? No.

Is someone making $200k in the bottom 99% of Americans? Yes.

There’s a proper photo of the tortilla in the article. That grey thing is “unidentified” meat.

Disagree about keyboard layout (should be Dvorak, or a more modern replacement), left handed driving, and switching to French (the US has 1+ million French speakers).

Not a bad list otherwise! I’d probably add mass public transit and carless downtowns.

Wouldn’t that just make us more similar?

Figuratively?

Completely irrelevant thought, but is it actually called “reTruth”? Like the reason “tweet” and “retweet” worked so well was because “tweet” is a verb. You don’t “truth” a post, so “retruthing” is awful.

“Preach” and “repreach” could’ve worked, announce/re-announce, declare/redeclare, state/restate… Ugh.

Heh, that’s a good point. I did just switch everything over to an email with my current name in it…

I have one of those easily gender swappable names (like Sam), but I’m not sure I will/would want to do use it. Picking a whole new name seems part of the journey?