Dozens? 👀

I'm the number one beat saber player in the world because nobody told me these things!

https://beatleader.com/ranking/1?sortBy=playCount

Isekai is just the fantasy version of sci-fi. It presents that, "what if?" question but (usually) with cat girls, swords, and magic.

So... You still working on rain or have you been promoted to snow?

Wait: You're not one of those sleet people, are you?

Big AI investors should be worried! I use AI every day at work (mostly for code-related things) and the open weights/free models are nearly as good as their ridiculously expensive services. Which are only getting more expensive over time!

Not only that, but the free stuff is improving at a faster rate than the models Big AI is putting out. The only thing keeping Big AI alive right now is coasting. Businesses haven't figured out that they can self-host the free models with their own (or rented) hardware for a fraction of the cost.

As soon as these businesses figure out that you can configure Copilot in Visual Studio Code to use FREE models that are 90% as good as Big AI, it's over for Big AI.

There's also dozens of great tools to run ChatGPT-like interfaces using local models and they let you switch which models you want to use on-the-fly. Also, we've got ZeroClaw now which works better with free/tiny models for most of the stuff you'd want to use it for.

Aside: Big AI also has a Big Problem with security that goes away if you use local AI models: You never have to worry about leaking credentials or proprietary/confidential information to the cloud/Big AI.

The chances this fixes it are... Remote.

"Are they breaking any laws?"

"They're using our AI to figure out how it works! To make their own AI models better!"

"Yes, but are they breaking any laws?"

"No."

I get that Big AI is bitching but this isn't something we (as a country) should be actively trying to stop. To do so would infringe on everyone's rights to do things like scrape the Internet, download your own posts/history, archive stuff, etc.

It's not even fraud! They're paying customers! Do they use 3rd parties to pay? Sure. Is that illegal? No.

There's no way to stop it anyway. To believe otherwise is wishful thinking. It's like believing that passing some law or series of laws will somehow stop piracy.

Make a deal soon or we'll hurt ourselves and the world economy even more!

"Someone, quick! Give me the biggest gun I can hold and help me aim it at my foot!"

All the popular distros are more reliable than Windows 🤷

My money is on 1999 as the year of the Linux desktop. I mean, that's when I switched to Linux full time 🤷

Fox News

What are you talking about? Everyone is already using *nix every day, they just don't realize it!

Republicans: Democrats plan is a non-starter because it just kicks the can down the road and does nothing to reduce health care costs. In fact, it's likely to increase health care costs!

This is true!

Democrats: Republicans plan doesn't actually do anything at all! It just takes people's tax dollars and forces people to send at least $1000-1500/year to pharmaceutical companies and hospitals. Furthermore, it encourages people to pay for useless, junk insurance!

This is also true!

Neither of these proposals would prevent or solve the health insurance death spiral (that is currently accelerating into its final phase):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_spiral_%28insurance%29

The only solution is socialized health care. Anything that relies on capitalism is doomed to failure because health care is fundamentally incompatible with capitalism.