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Starting to think, huh?

I think that sounds pretty solid to me. Realistically you should count on having 3x drives for your important data:

1. The main data drive(s)
2. Drive(s) for redundancy, mirroring the data drives. (I use btrfs RAID1 for this.).
3. Offline local hard drive(s) that you keep somewhere relatively safe that you occasionally backup to.
4. (Optionally) Some kind of offsite backup.

So if you plan on having 2TB of data, you’ll ideally want 3x 2TB drives. 2 in the PC mirroring eachother, and 1 in a closet or safe that you plug in and backup to a few times per year. (With bonus points if you can get another 2TB of off site or cloud storage to also backup to, in case of catastrophy.)

As for how you build it, I think it doesn’t matter too much. Its possible to use whatever random spare PC parts you have to make a decent home server, imo. A lot of people on YouTube and Reddit have all kinds of fancy servers in a rack, but an old repurposed desktop can be fine. ( I would probably use new, decent quality drives though.)

Cool! This one is new to me. Nice to see that it has good bluesky integration, too.

I’ll assess them: they are incompetent and talentless.

That’ll be $20.

The supreme irony of that message coming from Windows Central…

Fuck no. The fact that AI needs special carve-outs from existing laws just goes to show how fucking stupid and gross it is.

Mental gymnastics 🎖

This dumb fucking child rapist

I wish I could think anything positive about this, but I can’t imagine anyone who actually cares about music needs or wants this. Instead it’ll almost certainly be used as an illegal and unethical dataset to further train bullshit AI to make slop songs. As easy as it is for people to claim “preservation”, I do have to question the motives of stuff like this…

Fuck AI. Support your favorite human artists.

Gay sex is famously apolitical. 🙄

I’m totally with you on this.

C is a fantastic language for people who want to develop for existing C projects. But there are very few reasons to develop new software projects in C today. As such, for anyone learning C, the best first project would probably be whatever existing C project you want to work on.

Maybe the main exception to that is probably embedded systems stuff for microcontrollers and the like, but I don’t know enough about that space to say whether that is even still the case or whether you’d be better off with something else.

Some US States

None of the even remotely good ones. Why is Denmark trying to be Alabama, again?

Gotta give Denmark credit, they’re really going for the Shittiest Western European Country Award. Granted, I’m from the USA and we’re obviously an unmitigated disaster, but like, what the fuck are you guys doing? Competing for attention?

Bad take for two reasons:

1. Being consistently funny requires intellect and general cleverness. You can’t be quick witted if you’re stupid.

2. More importantly we are all mostly ignorant. You could have a PhD in 3 topics and have spent years in higher education, and you still know only a tiny speck of all that there is to know.

I’m not a fan of Jimmy Carr, especially after the Saudi shit, and I fucking hate AI. But the idea that we shouldn’t value the opinions of artists is pretty dumb. There are plenty of smart artists with interesting things to say and unique perspectives.

Yeah. I’m not sure why the AI clipart shit has to be everywhere these days. It’s all very low quality shit.

Well… I’d be curious to know how anyone would argue that AI generated code is GPL safe, especially considering they are often using black box, binary blob models trained on mystery code from all over the internet, with zero attribution or license information, and with some of it almost certainly being proprietary.

Are we going to start ignoring the very licenses that we created.

Having tried Cosmic, I’m not totally convinced it’s good enough to be ready for prime time, but that’s pretty subjective. Overall I think it’s good to have another DE in the scene and at the very least Cosmic is a good start.

Definitely not just a coincidence.

People are acting like this is a win for OpenAI and the AI industry, but I think this is potentially a major victory for IP holders like Disney.

Up until now, the core assumption from the industry around AI has been that it is all fair use, and thus no license (or even so much as basic consent) was needed to train on copyrighted works or produce output resembling specific trademarked IP.

Now Disney and OpenAI have come to an agreement that explicitly allows OpenAI to produce videos of their characters, but from what I can tell does not allow them to train on Disney’s works to do it.

This deal lasts only 3 years, and so what happens is they don’t renew it 3 years from now? What does it mean for the other AI companies that are producing Disney IP without this agreement? What about all the other character and person likenesses that Sora is producing without any such agreement?

Essentially, I think this has allowed Disney to put the ball back in their court. They are deciding who does and doesn’t use their characters. They have put value into the idea of licensing trademarks for AI use. And I think this sets a dangerous precedent for AI companies, because what does this mean for all of the IP holders who they aren’t in an agreement with?

Putting aside my ethical and cultural issues with training generative AI for a second, I have no idea what the appeal of this stuff is as a product.

Like, if they want me to pay a monthly subscription, what do they expect me to do with it? I have zero interest in chatting to a computer that’s not thinking and is just stringing together words based on probabilistic bias, and I have zero interest in making or consuming AI-generated media. I don’t want an AI “girlfriend”, nor do I want an AI to play a video game for me. Finally, I don’t see the value in having an AI tell me things that it summarized from various internet sources when we all know that the chances of it “hallucinating” (aka: making shit up or generally being totally wrong) is extremely high and basically unavoidable.

So, aside from the basic novelty of talking to your computer, what the hell is the point of all this?

Personally I wouldn’t pay $2/month for LLMs, let alone $200/month…