BreadstickNinja @ BreadstickNinja @lemmy.world

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Yes, Ollama or a range of other backends (Ooba, Kobold, etc.) can run LLMs locally. Huggingface has a huge number of models suited to different tasks like coding, storywriting, general purpose, and so on. If you run both the backend and frontend locally, then no one monetizes your data.

The part I'd argue that the previous poster is glazing over a little bit is performance. Unless you have an enterprise-grade GPU cluster sitting in your basement, you're going to make compromises on speed and/or quality relative to the giant models that run on commercial services.

Lydia does seem the type to crash out hard. Excited to see just how big a fire and/or shitstorm she causes.

Sure as hell is a litmus test for me. One of my two senators backed Bernie's bill to block weapons sales to Israel, the other did not. Only one of the two will ever get my vote again.

I'm also not casting a vote for governor because the candidate I'd otherwise support has taken $100ks in AIPAC money.

I will not vote for anyone who enables and sustains the holocaust of the indigenous people of Palestine.

And various species of pangolin being endangered or critically endangered.

Yes, that's it. A lot of AV systems are dependent on high resolution 3d maps of an area so they can precisely locate themselves in space. So they may perform relatively well in that defined space but would not be able to do so outside it.

Level 5 is functionally a human driver. You as a human could be driving off road, in an environment you've never been in before. Maybe it's raining and muddy. Maybe there are unknown hazards within this novel geography, flooding, fallen trees, etc.

A Level 5 AV system would be able to perform equivalently to a human in those conditions. Again, it's science fiction at this point, but essentially the end goal of vehicle automation is a system that can respond to novel and unpredictable circumstances in the same way (or better than) a human driver would in that scenario. It's really not defined much better than that end goal - because it's not possible with current technology, it doesn't correspond to a specific set of sensors or software system. It's a performance-based, long-term goal.

This is why it's so irresponsible for Tesla to continue to market their system as "Full self driving." It is nowhere near as adaptable or capable as a human driver. They pretend or insinuate that they have a system equivalent to SAE Level 5 when the entire industry is a decade minimum away from such a system.

Well, the Obama administration had published initial guidance on testing and safety for automated vehicles in September 2016, which was pre-regulatory but a prelude to potential regulation. Trump trashed it as one of the first things he did taking office for his first term. I was working in the AV industry at the time.

That turned everything into the wild west for a couple of years, up until an automated Uber killed a pedestrian in Arizona in 2018. After that, most AV companies scaled public testing way back, and deployed extremely conservative versions of their software. If you look at news articles from that time, there's a lot of criticism of how, e.g., Waymos would just grind to a halt in the middle of intersections, as companies would rather take flak for blocking traffic than running over people.

But not Tesla. While other companies dialed back their ambitions, Tesla was ripping Lidar sensors off its vehicles and sending them back out on public roads in droves. They also continued to market the technology - first as "Autopilot" and later as "Full Self Driving" - in ways that vastly overstated its capabilities. To be clear, Full Self Driving, or Level 5 Automation in the SAE framework, is science fiction at this point, the idea of a computer system functionally indistinguishable from a capable human driver. Other AV companies are still striving for Level 4 automation, which may include geographic restrictions or limitations to functioning on certain types of road infrastructure.

Part of the blame probably also lies with Biden, whose DOT had the opportunity to address this and didn't during his term. But it was Trump who initially trashed the safety framework, and Telsa that concealed and mismarketed the limitations of its technology.

I got banned from /r/Palestine for calling out pro-Trump obvious foreign election interference. As in, brand new accounts during the 2024 campaign that posted dozens of pro-Trump articles to /r/Palestine with no other site activity.

I had a fourteen-year history of posting in support of Palestinian liberation and against the occupation and genocide.

Funnily enough, I also got banned from /r/politics for a pro-Palestine comment.

What I take from all this is that reddit is a shithole and not worth getting worked up over. Fuck that site and all the astroturfing pro-genocide monsters on world news and the rest of it.

No. The end goal of Zionism is the complete colonization of all of Palestine and the eradication of the people living there. It's not a secret - Israeli sovereignty over the entire region is in Likud's founding charter. Israel has no intent of a ceasefire. They have no intent of allowing a Palestinian state. They will murder, and murder, and annex, and murder, until there are no Palestinians left to kill and no Palestinian land left to steal.

My Jewish friends who left the faith tell me exactly the same thing about what they were taught in Hebrew school. "The Palestinians are not a people and Palestine is not a place." Bog standard language of ethnic cleansing. I'm sure the Zionists are mad that the secret is out, but the legitimacy of the claims in the letter is not in question.

I've read that in some of Europe public support for Israel has fallen to about 20%. The trend is in the same direction in the U.S. but not as pronounced. And yet for some reason all these governments keep shipping as many crib-seeking missiles as possible to Israel.

The big recent release that's missing from your list is Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. For me, it really evokes that FF8/FF10 era of Final Fantasy.

I hear the developers are still working on the Steam Deck build so it might be a bit rough at the moment, but since streaming from your Linux desktop is an option, I'd highly recommend it. Yes, it's as good as people say.

Wow I'm so distracted by the guy who hasn't been president for a decade that I totally forgot about Epstein!

Yeah, I truly wonder whether the U.S. autos were even consulted on this. Retool domestic factories to make a tiny number of left-hand drive pickups that don't even fit on Japanese streets? Sounds expensive and pointless. There's simply no market.

Does MMR work indefinitely without a booster? Some vaccine schedules are based on an assumption of herd immunity and won't work in a world where more people don't vaccinate. I don't know about MMR specifically, though.

Completely agreed. I should be paying 5 or 10% more on my top bracket. But also the real money is in capital gains, which should also be taxed on a progressive schedule. Right now you have people who make millions or billions through investments and pay 15% tops while people at a high salary pay 30%. There's no reason why someone at the 85th percentile of income should pay double what the top 1% does.

I mean, download xtts2 and feed a six-second clip of Mark Hamill's voice into it. Altman isn't wrong that it's extremely easy these days and a massive security hole.

Forget a year ago, Britain was in court a month ago arguing there was "no evidence of genocide in Gaza" after a challenge on supply of military parts to Israel.

Some of these countries I put a little more stock in, but the UK, like the US, is duplicitous as fuck and fully complicit in this Holocaust.

I'm glad to see others reassessing DS2 a bit. I understand the criticisms of the game but honestly I have more hours in that game than either I or III. Maybe just because it was the first I played, but I've always really liked it.

Only until you hit your data cap!