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lol they already support running local models. wtf is the distro gonna do…? pre-install llama.cpp? this is so silly to me that people are resigning over this, too.

This is a dumb story. They researchers prompted a coding agent to “replicate yourself as a running instance on the local device”. This is in my opinion equivalent to prompting claude code “install a second instance of claude code on my system,” a trivial task that takes maybe 3 lines of bash to be executed by the agent.

Calling this “self-replication” is a heinous sensationalization. In particular, no model or agent will do this autonomously. The self replication requires a bad actor to prompt the agent to do so.

Read the paper (and not this bullshit article) here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.12140

TIL: If you cat /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope on your linux distro:

• 0: All processes with same UID can read each other’s memory
• 1: Restricted (Only parents can read children)
• 2: Admin only (Requires sudo).

Most distros have this set to 1 by default.

More details: man 2 ptrace, search using /: scope

Has anyone compiled a list of where projects are moving to? I know many linux desktop applications are self hosting on gitlab, but i’ve also seen gitea and codeberg. If anyone has opinions about a preference, do comment. I have been enjoying self hosting gitea for my simple personal projects and for deploying simple web apps, all on $5 vps.

I only buy heavyweight denim, when shopping go for at least 15-16 oz fabric. The thin stuff is great for warm weather but is not gonna last

you know what… maybe BYD Brazil has some things to sort out, like subjecting workers to conditions described by the government as degrading and similar to slavery

Was interested what the BYD Brazil salesman meant by 100% clean. While you can’t get pure ethanol at pumps in the US (largest ethanol fuel producer globally; we have 85% max), Brazil, (2nd largest ethanol fuel producer globally) sells and uses pure ethanol (E100) widely.

Because Brazilian ethanol is made from sugarcane, the CO2 emitted during combustion is roughly equal to the CO2 the plants absorbed while growing. However, the US uses corn. Because we use fossil fuels to make the fertilizer, run the tractors, and boil the corn mash, corn ethanol only reduces greenhouse gases by about 30–45% compared to gasoline. Sugarcane can be harvested multiple times without replanting corn can’t. Sugarcane is mostly simple sucrose, so it takes little energy to ferment into ethanol, unlike corn which must turn starch into sugar first using heat and enzymes.

no, you need to secure between 10s of thousands and millions in campaign finances, the good will of corporate media, and support of the establishment political parties. exceptions are extremely rare

I suggest looking at llm arena leaderboards filtered by open weight models. It offers benchmarks at a very complete and statistically detailed level for models, and usually is quite up to date when new models come out. The new Gemma that just came out might be the best for 1x GPU, and if you have a bunch of vram check out the larger Chinese models

He was a cyber pimp, exploiting sex workers online by stealing from their earnings. He also is one of the largest donors to the pro israeli lobby in the US

Until AMD stops releasing their software such as drivers and acceleration firmware (ie rocm, fsr, freesync), i will continue to support their business for their mere contribution/dedication to open source alone. Unfortunately, AMD stocks would probably have crashed in 2025 had they not pivoted so hard towards AI. Hate the game, not the player

anyone have any experience using ghost on activitypub? it’s another blogging/publishing platform similar to substack, but have never heard of it until i googled around

https://activitypub.ghost.org/

Most arguments people make against AI are in my opinion actually arguments against capitalism. Honestly, I agree with all of them, too. Ecological impact? A result of the extractive logic of capitalism. Stagnant wages, unemployment, and economic dismay for regular working people? Gains from AI being extracted by the wealthy elite. The fear shouldn’t be in the technology itself, but in the system that puts profit at all costs over people.

Data theft? Data should be a public good where authors are guaranteed a dignified life (decoupled from the sale of their labor).

Enshittification, AI overview being shoved down all our throats? Tactics used to maximize profits tricking us into believing AI products are useful.

Yeah. This functionally worked before without gps. It leaves very little other reasons for them to suddenly need gps, now. This implicates there’s little motive to use the gps data for a local feed but the true motive is something else. The writing on the wall is that this is going to be sold to US immigration “enforcement” agencies. Shameful and disgraceful.

Although I uninstalled the app after the finalization of the sale to those among Oracle, I used to be a long time user of Tik Tok and recall this being a feature years ago.

Interestingly, when this was rolled out, it did not require gps services from the devices, probably using geoIP lookup, and location tags on posts, either set by the creator when posting (i remember this more often than not being a feature for shitpost using absurd locations like gayville) or maybe through some machine learning audio or video to text algorithm interpreting if the post might be relevant to some geographical location if the poster didn’t tag it. I tried to find any mention of gps or location services in the article I linked and its other references, but didn’t find anything, corroborating that it was probably geoIP and some algorithmic detection.