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  • I’m heckin’ moving to Switzerland next month holy hell.

    that’s seriously amazing! I’m glad you were able to get things going relatively quickly.

  • “but why don’t we simply have another LLM check the LLM’s answer” statements dreamt up by the utterly Deranged

    But I guess sounding clever is more important on lemmy than being correct.

    that explains so much of your post history

  • post or DM links if I’m missing something. there’s lots of questionable shit in dragonfucker’s post history, but the fedidrama bits are impossible to follow if you don’t read Lemmy (why in fuck would I, all the good posts are local)

  • assuming nonhuman entities are capable of feeling. Enslaving black people is wrong,

    yeah we’re done here. no, LLMs don’t think. no, you’re not doing a favor to marginalized people by acting like they do, in spite of all evidence to the contrary. in fact, you’re doing the dirty work of the fascists who own this shitty technology by rebroadcasting their awful fucking fascist ideology, and I gave you ample opportunity to read up and understand what you were doing. but you didn’t fucking read! you decided you needed to debate from a position where LLMs are exactly the same as marginalized and enslaved people because blah blah blah who in the fuck cares, you’re wrong and this isn’t even an interesting debate for anyone who’s at all familiar with the nature of the technology or the field that originated it.

    now off you fuck

  • sure but why are you spewing Rationalist dogma then? do you not know the origins of this AI alignment, paperclip maximizer bullshit?

  • It’s the alignment problem.

    no it isn’t

    They made an intelligent robot

    no they didn’t

    You can’t control the paperclip maximiser with a “no killing” rule!

    you’re either a lost Rationalist or you’re just regurgitating critihype you got from one of the shitheads doing AI grifting

  • “beware, for I am a leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™” is exactly the kind of thing I’d expect an evil wizard to scream moments before I hit him in the head with a mace

  • oh GitLab is terrible on several levels and is definitely best avoided — for some reason, they think that competing with github involves making all of github’s mistakes, but with a much worse UI

    so far I’ve had good luck with codeberg. of your requirements, the only missing feature seems to be vulnerability scanning. CI is available and pretty good, but you have to ask for it to be enabled for your account. I think you’re able to hook self-hosted runners into codeberg’s CI frontend, but the process to do so confused the hell out of me, so you may have to dig a bit to figure out how it works.

  • it can’t be that stupid, you must be training it wrong

  • brother remains the only brand of printer I don’t regret buying — some people keep buying new printers and trashing the old ones (which is a bit monstrous) because the starter toner cartridge lasts forever, but I’ve found that the move is to get one of the XL boxes that includes a normal-sized toner cartridge (which should last years) and an extra-large one (I don’t know how long that lasts, I don’t think I’ve had to use mine) along with a printer for much cheaper than the price of the individual parts bought separately.

    the other move with brother is to ignore or reset the low toner warning and get almost twice the life out of the cartridge. supposedly the DRM in newer printers might prevent this? which is a damn shame. but the printer won’t stop you from printing with supposedly low toner either way. older printers also take to third party toner cartridges instantly, though I’ve bought toner so rarely I always went first-party when I did cause the savings didn’t feel too notable.

    drivers for brother printers are excellent because they just work and are probably included, without bloatware, in your distro.

    I don’t have any experience with modern color printing; I switched entirely to ordering color prints from local photo shops and online bulk printers a long time ago and ended up saving money for how rarely I printed. I haven’t heard too much about LED printers so they might be worth looking into; I’ve heard mixed (but not entirely negative, which is an improvement over plain inkjet!) things about the epson printers that take big tanks of ink — they’re somewhat cheaper to run than a plain inkjet (which isn’t hard), but the print heads might become a maintenance nightmare depending on your printing habits.

  • I will be watching with great interest. it’s going to be difficult to pull out of this one, but I figure he deserves as fair a swing at redemption as any recovered crypto gambler. but like with a problem gambler in recovery, it’s very important that the intent to do better is backed up by understanding, transparency, and action.

  • if you saw that post making its rounds in the more susceptible parts of tech mastodon about how AI’s energy use isn’t that bad actually, here’s an excellent post tearing into it. predictably, the original post used a bunch of LWer tricks to replace numbers with vibes in an effort to minimize the damage being done by the slop machines currently being powered by such things as 35 illegal gas turbines, coal, and bespoke nuclear plants, with plans on the table to quickly renovate old nuclear plants to meet the energy demand. but sure, I’m certain that can be ignored because hey look over your shoulder is that AGI in a funny hat?

  • none of us consume LLM-generated content and none of us have any interest in doing so

  • yep, it seems so! I haven’t put the permanent fix for the nodeinfo bug into place yet but it’ll be live as soon as I’m able to give it an appropriate level of testing.

  • at least OpenAI and probably others do currently use commercial residential proxying services, though reputedly only if you make it obvious you’re blocking their scrapers, presumably as an attempt on their end to limit operating costs

  • you’re back! and still throwing a weird tantrum over LLMs and downvotes on Lemmy of all things. let’s fix both those things right now!

  • like seriously how in the fuck do you misunderstand both LLMs and decompilation this badly[1] and then come at someone else because you think they don’t comprehend your fucking nonsense? but here you are, fucking posting through it

    [1] here’s a hint since you’re married to not fucking getting it: the decomp took a significant amount of passionate labor and tries to respect the original work as much as possible; it won’t even build unless you provide your own (preferably purchased) copy of the original game data. the LLM just enables lazy plagiarism and is mostly used by fucking shitheads to do the work of fucking shitheads.

  • ????? I’d ask you what this even means but the most recent posts in your history equivocate painstakingly decompiling N64 games with utilizing AI slop generators because… you think Nintendo doesn’t get paid in both cases??? so you seem very at home posting fucking nonsense

  • I feel so bad for the interns, and really your team in general, for having to interact with you

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