So, pretty much what Meta/Facebook (and the three letter agencies / GovInt) has been doing with deterministic code (like they’re not scraping reddit et.al, including Lemmy) for ages but probabilistic with more errors and new improved hallucination.

Competition, filling in gaps or just looking to be bought out. Evil.

Do you not get ‘open on the internet’? All the three letter agencies hoover the data up, your countries equivalents do as well, other companies. It’s only a bit in one companies hands, because it’s ‘open on the internet’, just like xitter, facebook, tiktok, their walled gardens don’t stop state level actors, just us plebs (a bit). That just leaves control (in real time), some power, some money there, but long term it’s the data that counts.

Look to the masters, the tobacco industry with additives to make it more addictive (been a while since I researched it and that’s the one that popped up, but they spent 60+ years making it more addictive).

Social media speedran it with something apparently innocuous (‘they trust me, stupid fucks’), and a bunch of corrupt psychologists (and marketers/advertisers also known as corrupt psychologists). Do no harm my ass, wait, that doesn’t apply to psychologists, wait again, that’s more like guidelines for doctors (not an actual vow in most places).

Next bill of rights / constitution needs to address this specifically, there’s a reason why quacks have a special hatred (and if there were one, a special hell)…

Agreed. They’re both open on the internet and the data is in many repositories. Moot point (OPs’, not yours).

Depending on context my favorite answers to 'Why do you need privacy if you have nothing to hide ?" are

“I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgements and intentions are.”,

“Arguing that you don’t care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.” - Edward Snowden,

and “The only difference between a wizard hat and a dunce cap is the wide brim of privacy.”

ETA: None of which a fascist will give a shit about, but can be useful in politer society.

See also Goodhart’s law “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure”, which may not be completely relevant here, but is likely a factor (probably a lesser one than the systematic underfunding and other political meddling in US schools).

So, like 'open’AI…

Hey USians, fuck tipping ‘culture’, keep it the fuck away from the rest of the world (looking at you DoorDash or whatever, I don’t use it, but I see default software obviously from the US because basically everywhere else just pays servers etc.) That’s what you get for killing unions.

Rest of the world, stay strong, never tip via app especially, never tip. Perhaps have a bit of cash on hand for truly exceptional cases, but know you’re doing the right thing not tipping long term. Fuck tipping.

My understanding is you need a specific kernel, which likely limits your choices somewhat (dunno, don’t have one, but that seems like a good place to start). Seems totally doable though.

Plenty are running home servers from laptops

Usually highly energy efficient as well.

Still honestly not a pleasant experience to get it to run from what I recall.

Who hurt you, was it windows ? (mostly joking)

Why wouldn’t they?

Possible sure, easy unlikely, knowing you got all the backdoors (for allies), nigh impossible. Only way to be sure is to clean room it from the ground up, not jailbreak.

He gets more and more ranty, not that there isn’t cause, but I miss, you know, actual hardware reviews. Still like it though.

Take how long you think it will take, double the number and increase the units (at least until you’re senior). e.g. 2 days -> 4 weeks