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  • Anthropic Says We Must Stop Authoritarian AI. But What About Its Authoritarian Investors?

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  • Oh sure, now they're worried, but 4 years ago when everyone was sounding the alarms it was alllllll quiet

  • Kittygram v1.1 has released

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  • Things like this have to be constantly maintained for that reason, look also at yt-dlp. For that, I'll give it a month, see how they're doing then before setting up a personal interest. Worried they'll abandon it

  • School shooting survivor sues AI gun detection firm after system failed to spot weapon

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  • People (and by this I mean the company) keep think that AI can give actual answers. It can't. It's a non-detrrminustic system, but they want it to behave deterministically. I'm sure the engineers gave the probability stats up to the business and marketing, who then immediately lowered their pants and shit on them, and then rolled it out as the perfect amazing product

  • US tech industry cut 123,653 jobs since January 2026, up 66% from last year during the same period — AI now the most cited reason for cuts by US employers: report

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  • Its becoming a cycle. Exec gets hype minded and tells their employees to fuck off. Gets big payout, and stock go up. Takes about a year for shit to really fall apart, with the realization that maybe AI can't do everything. Sheepishly they start hiring again, but that knowledge is lost. Real recovery will be years.

  • Mod changes and an intro

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  • Nah it's okay, unless you want to for history and reference. Link

    Ironically I had so much help in finding the info before it was removed that all I did was eyeroll at it's removal. Will be looking forward to the update!

    Bringing in both your threads, I agree. With only a handful of active communities, saying "this isn't the right one" without pointing to an active community where it is a good one seems... destructive. Personally, if no hardware remains a rule, then it seems natural to then start a sister community which is hardware focused and Rule 3's text then would recommend that community right in the rule itself. May not be such a bad idea now that I'm typing it.

  • Mod changes and an intro

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  • As a mod myself on much smaller communities, that's my view too. Even if there is something I personally dislike, it's not my community, if it's getting upvotes then obviously people are enjoying it. If I get reports I look into it, but it has to be a pretty blatent violation for me to step in. Why would I want to hurt engagement? There's so few of us already here.

  • This community isn't your personal adviser

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  • Oh my GOD that's probably what happened to mine! I was discussing something on my last post and then suddenly the mod removed it because of "Rule 3". Because we were talking about selfhosting. Which, all selfhosting is on our own hardware..., but I think my post leaned more hardware than the mod liked. Super annoying when you're having a valid conversation, people are chiming in and helping, and then suddenly Removed: Arbitrary rule violation.

  • Mod changes and an intro

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  • Thank you! Looking forward to hearing from you!

    My only request/suggestion, is Rule 3. Rule 3 I think has been used way too often to justify removing posts seemingly arbitrarily. A blanket "No hardware" rule is restrictive when homelab and selfhosted are a venn diagram that are very close together. For example, you can't talk about Unraid without also talking about what drive types you use. Or a post I'm thinking about posting, "What doorbell cameras do you prefer with HomeAssistant? and What NVR should I use?". All selfhosted, all homelab, all interconnected... but I am afraid of posting it because of the iron fist.

  • Pictures for Sad Children (Simone Veil)

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  • Had a friend who worked "security" at big blue box electronics store. Was a big dude, intimidating. They gave the mandate though. Watch for thieves, but you can't personally do anything. Liability, insurance.

    So one day they had a repeat their. Small time, just Des and things, but my buddy stops him, tells him to get out. Guy pretty much wets himself and leaves. My former was promptly fired. He could have been hurt, went outside of his job.

    Moral of the story, never stick your neck out for the company.

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  • That's why I don't necessarily blame one person here. George Carlin said it best. Selfish ignorant people vite for selfish ignorant leaders. If it wasn't him it'd be someone else. The problem isn't one person, it's that such a massive amount of voters are selfish and willfully ignorant.

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  • Yeah well what's the profits this quattwr? I don't have time to think about next quarter!

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    Anthropic calls for pause of global AI development

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  • Where my head went to, rumor of IPO in the air

  • This community isn't your personal adviser

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  • Yeah I think this is a tool worth having for mods. Maybe going through deleted posys and seeing who are repeat offenders.

    To me, that isn't building a community, that's extracting from one. It's no better than AI scraping. You got your answer and then keep it for yourself.

  • Absolute insanity

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  • Sounds wonderful!

  • Absolute insanity

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  • Good on you, when I hear how much people are spending on weddings man. Over 50k is "normal" to them? We put our money to a down payment. Much better use for it.

  • Don’t repeat 5G mistakes with 6G, plead mobile operators

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  • It was always meant to be great in dense areas, which it is, but marketers went all apeshit promising that it was going to be the second coming of Christ. Instead they should have shut the marketers ina corner and called it what it is, an enhancement to 4g. That 4g and 5g would hand off interchangeably.

    This is why you should never let business dictate tech. They think they know what they're talking about but they don't, and end up pissing everyone off.

  • Absolute insanity

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  • I think my spouse and I spent... $80 total on our rings. Seemed like a waste of money to both of us.

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    I think BorgBackup Is Trying To Tell Me Something

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  • Huh, til. In programming it's simply a way of ensuring something happens exactly one time

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    I think BorgBackup Is Trying To Tell Me Something

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  • I don't get it