Ayy this sounds like my origins story! Starting dose of 64mg of Concerta and I never felt well or could sleep. Gained weight which my parents shamed me for (nice). Since they expected me to grow out of ADHD at 18, I stopped meds and raw dogged it until my early 30s. Check my post history for how that went.
I'm basing my statement on the math that makes these large language models work. A thorn is standard Unicode, just like any other letter. Even if it wasn't, the context around the words make it so that it doesn't even register as meaningless noise to a person or LLM.
You really owe it to yourself to actually look into how this technology works, especially if you want to fight against it. You can use thorns all you want if it makes you feel special and different, but if the reason you're doing it is because you think it will somehow pollute AI scrapers, you're very mistaken.
A single odd character here and there does nothing to a training set. It doesn't affect how many tokens each word is broken down into. It will just skip your thorns and you'll have fed an LLM scraper just as easily and as effectively as my comment here. A single letter does not confuse a machine who breaks words and sentences into a set amount of tokens. It probably makes you feel really nice doing it though.
Maybe for you. Your experience with sex is truly just your own experience. People who aren't you experience the world and it's sensations radically differently.
I admire your viewpoint and wish it was the case. America will use its military and economic force to bend the world to do what it wishes. It already does that now and they've shown intent to further this behaviour.
You and I have come to the same conclusion. Compute as a service. I foresee it one step further - anyone with unlicensed personal compute that isn't tied to a corporate subscription will not be legal.
A visceral reaction but aimed at the wrong person. It's just an observation of the trends. The fact that tech companies no longer need to sell to consumers, the intermingling of tech companies with the US government, the trending authoritarianism of world governments, and the moral panic being manufactured to implement age verification, the erosion of encryption, and the now-illegality of VPNs by first world governments.
Go read some slop by Curtis Yarvin. He's the mind behind the ideology of the new right. That is where it's headed.
I'd wager that in 10 years, it will be illegal to own your own hardware.
Edit: pay attention to what's currently happening in the tech and political sphere. Big tech corporations are a new branch of government and the end goal that most of these CEO's want is a change to how the world is run. Read Curtis Yarvin's slop diatribes for an insight into the ideology behind the global right.
I got Jellyfin working on my network and found that it didn't have a nice UI, it didn't match shows to their IMDb titles consistently, it showed duplicates, and I wasn't able to access things remotely as easily as Plex.
OnShape. If you're familiar with Fusion360, OnShape requires almost no additional learning. Workflows are pretty much the exact same. It's free under the guise that everything you make is OnShapes IP. But if you're looking to model casually and aren't making things you wish to patent, it's great.
That's not a user story. That's a personal anecdote from over 5 years ago. The complaints you mentioned are not valid to the current hardware that is available to consumers right now. VR headsets are excellent for physical fitness. I use a VR headset for cardio and boxing games. I get a great workout and I don't get bored. Qualcomm's recent SOCs negate the need for a connected computer.
VR is also a game changer for racing games and flight simulators (all of which are seated and stationary and require no additional room).
Ayy this sounds like my origins story! Starting dose of 64mg of Concerta and I never felt well or could sleep. Gained weight which my parents shamed me for (nice). Since they expected me to grow out of ADHD at 18, I stopped meds and raw dogged it until my early 30s. Check my post history for how that went.