that's what i thought, then i read what they actually want from an interview allard did in 2022. he's basically invented a new class he calls the "transferiat", which he claims is the main leech on society. the members of this class? public servants, journalists, and people on social security (allard even specifies "immigrants" there). he wants to get rid of this class, in order to achieve smaller government, "higher quality" reporting, and fewer welfare queens.
stuff like this makes me so happy i live in a housing co-op. we had to raise rent by 5% a year due to rising energy costs, but that allowed us to put 50kW more solar on the roof and start drilling for a geothermal heat pump.
the point is, supposedly, to get more citizens into entry-level jobs. what vill actually happen is you will lose massive numbers of low-income workers, and nobody will be willing to take their place because the wages are so low that only people that have to work to legally stay in the country take those jobs. nurses will disappear, so the health care and elder care sectors will suffer, and people will die. bus and train drivers will disappear, so public transit will suffer, and the people who rely on it might lose their jobs. farm workers will disappear, meaning grocery prices will go up and there will be shortages. truck drivers will disappear, meaning freight will slow down, which hampers productivity.
oh i am anti as all hell. i have knowledge of how the models tend to work, how the training is done, and how reasoning and tool use is implemented. that's why i never use online models and check the datasets of local ones.
but like... the idea isn't bad. it's just that the way people use it is to steal information, burn through massive resources, and atrophy their knowledge. just like how the idea of a block chain, or a uniquely identifiable digital token, isn't intrinsically bad, but the biggest use was grifting.
a model trained on consensually acquired data, using only renewable energy, run locally, can still achieve useful things like quickly finding information from a loose query, doing bulk edits, making templates and placeholders, or offering suggestions. it's just that it would take longer and not be hype-worthy. so no for-profit entity does it. that's what makes projects like the ai horde interesting.
git isn't really made for binary files either. i understand the desire if you're already using it for source control but if not i'd recommend looking at something else.
it's the curse of getting into something early and it becoming a global issue; i did a course on machine learning in 2014 and have tinkered since then.
like imagine getting into blockchain-based systems because of git in 2007. can't talk about that stuff at all now.
what format are your files in? if you want to show schematic previews from like gerber files i think you need something like a file store instead of git.
i will always take the time to explain things i find interesting to people. the benefit here is that i can now much more efficiently break large models as well when i come across them. helps me add anti-ai clauses to websites, cv's, and repos i publish.
dual booting just makes things more difficult. windows likes to silently change things in the bios and on disk drives it manages, basically pulling the rug out from under linux. you can mitigate it by making linux aware of the fact but that's not the default behaviour, because again dual booting isn't really recommended.
arma is an annoying one because it's a bespoke engine with a lot of deep windows integration, coming from the fact that parts of it is from 1995. add online multiplayer anticheat to that and it gets even more difficult.
that said, i got it running on linux in like... 2019, so i would have thought it to be easier now.
i refuse to use ml models for code. the copyright issues alone should be enough to keep them away from every public code base until the matter is settled. but also because local tooling is, frankly, shit. i have a bit of hope for text diffusion models, but i have a hard time seeing the situation improving because everyote is full in on cloud models now.
wow, a whole 0.2% of their revenue? that's gotta sting.