Both are extremely stolen.

The way y’all overuse the word “slop” is like calling all e-mail “spam.” Both are supposed to refer to a deluge of nonsense nobody asked for. This author has an LLM in-the-loop, plainly on purpose and with purpose, and it seems to be working out.

If any interaction with spicy autocomplete is treated as equally bad, to the point of aggressive mockery - no kidding people will tune that out. It’s not constructive or sincere. It borders on abusive. How much coverage did this guy just get, where the comments are all ‘well if he’d just done [blank]–,’ and how many people actually believe that [blank] would result in fewer snide comments?

They’d assume that anyway. The self-proclaimed haters have a one-drop rule.

That’s why this author didn’t exactly announce it - they were trying to dodge a harassment campaign.

When they ruled!

It costs money. It doesn’t lose money. We spend money on it, so it fucking works.

It costs less and works more if we all spend a little, than if your ass had to shop for it, yourself.

The fuck are people downvoting for? 8 GB and no CUDA is sufficient for a variety of LLMs. That comparison’s from a year and a half ago, which is forever in this industry, but it’s not like small models got worse.

This mildly terrible website shows Min Istral 3B benchmarking above state-of-the-art DeepSeek R1 32B from ten months prior. And also above the 72B version of Qwen 2.5, whose 3B version was top-of-the-list for the ItsFoss guy.

A Raspberry Pi can run local models. You don’t need 64 gigs and a 5090.

A customer paying a recurring subscription just to do their job.

Local models will win. They’re half-assed, but the big boys only provide fractionally more ass. LLMs will become just another tool you can call on when you’d rather read code than write it.

Can’t spell “resources.”

May not be human.

Dude. The Idiot threatened to annex you.

Ranked Choice is a misuse of ranked ballots. Say an election goes like this:

40% vote A > B > C.
35% vote C > B > A.
25% vote B > C > A.

Plurality says A wins, because Plurality sucks. You don’t even need a bare majority. You just need everyone else to split.

RCV says C wins: B has the fewest top votes, so they’re eliminated. The race becomes 40% A > C versus 60% C > A. Better… but still wrong, because 65% of people would prefer B > C.

Condorcet methods like Ranked Pairs get that right. They model every runoff: A vs B is 40-60, A vs C is 40-60, B vs C is 65-35. B wins every 1v1 and is obviously the best candidate according to these voters. The supermajority prefers B.

The answer remains, this tool is not flawed, it’s just not the one you want.

Vim could be feature-complete and formally verified and I’m still using Xed.

You cannot criticize a good knife by asking why it’s not a hammer.

Fascist agitation was politely tolerated by residents until the national government had to step in to tell them, nothing’s happening, fuck off.

This wasn’t a sit-in. It was a harassment campaign against an entire city, by ignorant bigots, for weeks. If you endured a fraction of that you’d be ugly-crying on the phone for your local cops to do something about those poor innocent souls and their right to express HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK at four in the god damn morning.

Mixed bag.

Always nice to see some constraint on “emergency” powers… but a mob starting shit over nonsense was ignored by all lower levels of government. Telling people to just go home after an entire week of aimless provocation is not exactly cracking skulls the minute someone in a keffiyah holds up sign in an empty field.

And if bricks started falling through windshields after three days of nonstop noise, well, that would have been a riot justifying any state power… toward the people saying “leave us alone.”

Nobody’s stopping you.

You should stop.

This is not a contradiction.

It’s bullshit and you should stop.

It’s a pattern of destroying information over puritanical nonsense. Treat people like adults.

Why, in the name of god, does Lemmy’s obsession with censorship include the word “jerk?”