curbstickle @ curbstickle @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you.

"Fixing capitalism" is just ending capitalism, the problems are inherent in its design.

In any case, you seem to be under the impression that all AI is just chatgpt, copilot, Gemini, grok, meta, etc. This is not the case. There are models trained entirely on peoples own work/material, models trained only on public domain materials, etc. Its just software and data, and the issue you are taking is - from your example - a capitalism problem, and has nothing to do with the software.

So what you're saying now reads no differently than "We have to fix capitalism before we can advocate for Linux!"

Would that make sense as a statement to you?

At work, a CTO for a firm we were designing a solution for got upset because hardware was in customs, and tariffs needed to be paid.

He didn't understand why the manufacturer wasn't paying, and it had to be pointed out (by someone from the other company bringing this hardware) that tariffs are a tax on importing, not exporting, and for every single contract they have ever had, tariffs are paid by the client.

This was not a small company, either. We're talking about a fairly large firm in finance. And the CTO didn't understand how tariffs work.

We're fucked.

I dont advocate for corporate AI.

I'd also mention most users on db0 are far more likely to be using fully open models and models they've trained themselves (which is what I do, mostly log/error eval stuff).

That said, "fixing" AI will solve nothing, because capitalism is going to find yet another way to screw them over. Banning AI tomorrow isn't going to provide job security or a stable income, it wasn't before and it isn't now.

I work with a lot of creatives, and so many are contract based and struggle between them. Several of them have been finding work cleaning up (as in, creating new) materials that were AI generated and look terrible.

So again, the issue is capitalism, and AI is just the most recent conversation piece. AI isn't the root of the problem, nor is the problem "solved" without it.

Yup, was getting an uber (I can't drive for very long or the pain starts), he was chatty and excited about Trump.

Asked what he thought about the anti-immigrant talk (oh obviously thats the bad ones!), and the fact that there was a pandemic and prices skyrocketed (Biden's fault even though that all started before he was in office), etc. Paraphrased obviously.

I don't know what can possibly be said to these folks to have them understand, but as a result, we have... Well all this current nonsense.

Thats a capitalism problem, not an AI problem. AI is just the most recent example.

They shouldn't have to rely on maybe getting paid so they can have food, shelter, and other basic things for living.

This is one of those cases where an algorithm carefully trained on only relevant data can have value.

Hopefully more people learn that this is the important part.

It becomes nonsense when you just feed it everything and the kitchen sink. A well trained model works.

8 months ago:

Literally in a car with an immigrant right now who voted Trump because things were cheaper before covid.
FFS.

I'm curious what that guy thinks today. Or if he's still in the US.

So brigading small communities can be easier?

The 1yr old and 2 yr old were left alone in a car, for 90 150 minutes.

This was negligience long before a child died.

Edit - misread the times, its so much worse.

Thats what I thought.

Ive seen the "We have salt beads!" one recently, but none with the plastic microbeads.

By the opinion of a rando on the internet?

No, of course not.

Nah, just have no interest in people who behave like babies.

Your respect means nothing to me in any way, so... enjoy not having any for me I guess?

My mistake then, it read (to me) like you were saying you down voted once, in each of the communities you were banned from.

Then all I could guess was timing. Multiple communities might depend on what client they are using, but in any case a single downvote to a ban rings as mod silliness to me, I agree.

Thats not how their reply reads to me, but your attitude and responses dont interest me. So I'll be done from here, enjoy your day.

Across multiple communities, all the same subject, a singular downvote in each...

Obviously this is just my guess, but that's what I would probably think based on what's been going on.

Edit: Boy oh boy, you must be one of the anti-AI folks doing the brigading. You are super mad about this all over the place.

I'd say that it was the dozen communities that made it seem like it was a brigade, as well as an attempt to avoid getting caught by only having one each across a dozen communities.

Edit: a whole word was missing.

There have been frequent brigades of late in ai communities by anti-AI folks.

Your downvote likely coincided in timing and appeared as part of another downvote brigade.

Assuming you want to replace it all, not just home lab use....

1. Drop their router/modem combo if you can, get your own modem and router. Options are pretty wide here, but what I prefer is a wired router and separate WAPs. I'd lean toward opnsense for the router OS, and I'd use something with as little as two to four ports - one for the modem, one to hit a switch, two more gives you a second modem option (cellular as mentioned) and a second switch to hit if needed. Ideally with 10gbps for future proofing. Dont make your router/FW do lift of a switch, IMO.
2. Get a switch sized to your network. Since you're going with a 10" rack, a small 8 port with a couple 10gbit uplinks would fit the bill. Managed only here. You dont need the latest and greatest - I have a stack of Aruba 2920s, 48+4 PoE+ (stacking cables) that I got for free that were being replaced. They came out in 2013 and went end of sale in 2017, and have been in my home lab since. So - any thing managed that handles what you have and a bit more.
3. In terms of WAP, TP-Link, ASUS, and Zyxel all have decent hardware that works well.

Just a language shift for corporations, definitely.