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Great so now the US gov is passing corruption directly into highly competitive fields.

That’s awful. That might actually tank the US economy as a whole.

Either you make rules for all of them or nah, but picking out anthropic I’m pretty sure is just plain retaliatory action, which is a very dangerous game to play if you wanna keep your economy up.

Peak Lemmy behaviour I love it

While the observations are true, the characterizations of this article are completely wrong.

What’s plausible is that AI genuinely changes their information based not only on what you speak but how you speak.

LLMs work in associative thinking patterns. People who speak in a similar way often know about the same of specific topics. And because AIs are lords of the common and average, these broad stroke patterns are just regurgitated back at us.

It’s just like racism in policing: black people often land in prison. And a part of that is racism on it’s face: police think less of black people.

But another big part is obscured systemic racism: if you’re less educated or more poor, you have a higher chance of doing criminal things. And black people generally have less access to good education or wealth. It’s not causality, but it’s an indicator and a noticeable and patternized correlation.

And I think this is exactly what we see here. The AI hasn’t specifically been trained to be classist and racist, but it’s just throwing those patterns back at us and finally visualizing underlying classism and racism in our real world.

AIs sure do a lot of bad, but in this case, the bad thing already happened before AI became involved. At least that’s my humble opinion.

Be worried about why he had to hide it, and be genuinely curious about how he became rich. I dunno if I’d be confident enough to ask about it though, I’d probably just tell him that I’m sorry he had to hide it and I hope he knows it doesn’t change how I see him.

Literally have a few friends who are rich, but it doesn’t change anything. I’m still a little brokey and we still alternate between me and them paying for dinner.

If the VPN is for phoning home, of course there’s free client and server software.

But if it’s for spoofing a different location, you either get found out, or you have to pay.

I wanna live in a world where I do not pay for anything but there is stuff that you can only really get if you pay.

I mean it’s a metric. Not a perfect one, but it helps to get an overview of the state of a repository.

It really depends on if you think this is a genuine exploit or not. If it is, look up Microsoft’s track record on complying with disclosure and make yourself familiar with responsible disclosure guidelines.

If it’s not then you just need to look into the EULA of the specific windows parts affected, so they don’t pull your repository. Because that’s usually the biggest thing they do if you don’t specifically start fights with these companies.

Generally, you’re probably fine. If you want me to look over it I can give you my discord or fluxer or whatever. Not an expert, just a Cybersecurity enthusiast.

Yeah I’m 100% sure they are doing this A) for good PR (blender is a beloved app and funding them is awesome) b) to retain communication with the team for easier agent integration later c) to lobby for their AI.

I can totally understand that it doesn’t look great if blender accepts the money.

I am sure though that blender could probably need the money; open source software is criminally underfunded and those devs need money to survive at the end of the day.

Omfg can we go a few weeks without a big leak pls?

I second syncthing as a solution.

I personally use an smb server and tail scale client + Headscale and then those smb files are locally backed up to a different drive / different PCs that remain in the network, but that doesn’t automatically sync and instead works by connecting to the server directly.

What you’re describing sounds like a solution that automatically resynchronizes on connection, and that means you’re looking for versioning / sync, thus probably syncthing is the easiest.

Looks like not only the type of sabotage is genuinely smart, but also dropping those papers means the government is now entrenched in distrust and that’s an uncomfortable position to be in.

Very good analogy, only would say there’s a wide range of creative people who are stuck with windows/mac because of compatibility in their field. They can be quite highly skilled but you can’t escape the industry standards.

I think that’s awesome that you’re trying to learn.

Linux only indirectly has to do with programming. Linux is an operating system, like MacOS or Windows. An operating system is basically everything on your PC that’s not the apps, so the desktop, task bar, start menu, settings menu, … are all part of it. And of course a lot of stuff you cannot see because apps need a lot of ground work to function properly.

First let me say, you should bother. No matter if it clicks for you or it doesn’t, trying something new is always a good idea.

If you want to get into Linux, you can install it instead of windows / MacOS on one of your devices. Make sure to backup all your files beforehand of course. Then you download an ISO from a Linux distribution (the flavour of Linux you want). if you just want something that works, Linux mint is one of the most straightforward ones. You download a “.iso” for that. Then you use a tool like “Rufus” and a USB stick, and put your iso file on that USB stick. After that, you plug that into the PC you wanna put Linux on, reboot, and look for the USB stick in the boot menu (different on every PC). And then you will be guided through the installation of Linux mint. After that you should be done and when the PC shows your new Linux mint desktop, you are done and you can unplug your USB stick. So much for Linux.

Getting into programming is a little bit less of a process, and more logic puzzles to understand how code works. I would recommend you look at an easier language, for example python, learn the basics of that and then set your sails on an intermediate project. For example a Webserver can be a cool one.

I know Lemmy hates AIs but I also gotta mention every time you wanna learn something, ask AI all the small questions. I personally like the free Claude AI; especially when you start out with a new hobby an AI will be helpful 99% of the time.

But most of all, do it for fun, stop when it’s too frustrating, just keep going and stick to it for a while, everything else comes with time. You’ll quickly see if this is interesting to you or not, and I hope it is :)

“Not every ‘WTF micro$oft’ moment is a slam dunk,”

Brother, your quotas of shit hitting the fan is reaching fecal velocity of new degrees. Your company’s current state of existence has absolved you of the right to a balanced perspective.

What I’m trying to say is it’s never gonna Microsoft 100% of the time, but at this point no one trusts you, and you’ve earned that, and now you have to live with the consequences. I know this Microsoft contact is probably not the reason, but he is still working there, and that means he deserves some of the blame on a constructive level.

That makes a lot of sense and that pisses me off.

We’re doing big brother for fun now because it gets some people some money.

Every one of those politicians takes the money not realizing that they will suffer just like everyone else. The more cunning they feel, the more susceptible they are to the same data profiling and manipulation.

I rendered a 5min 4k60 video in blender / octane for a month, which suggests modern cards should easily do more chill tasks. And if you genuinely need the setup I did, you have 10x the work just taking care of modelling,particles, vfx afterfx, composition cut, …

Either you reached that level or you didn’t

I was gonna say, I used to render pretty sick Videos on a 1070, I think you’ll be fine unless you work at Pixar.

That’s gotta be slop². That’s slop mastery. It would open up a whole new world of weapons grade slop.

“shit”? That’s an exclamation, not a swear word to me.