• Mothra@mander.xyz
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    13 hours ago

    My dude, you can be mad at AI and use a FOSS alternative - best of both worlds

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        13 hours ago

        What people really want is to not have to change anything - neither about their lives, nor about themselves.

        They want to live in a perpetual 2005 where Windows is forever usable and still just an operating system. Where they feel happy and comfortable in their environment and their skills and abilities.

        And I get that, because I feel it too.

        But sometimes you have to change yourself, in order to change your world.

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          13 hours ago

          I mean if you’re dead set on it you can get a lot of modern things running on windows xp, chromium browsers, dx10/11 games, discord, etc. it’s a nightmare and you’ll have a ton of headaches (especially with the dx10/11 stuff, apparently, I’ve never tried any of this) but it’s possible

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            10 hours ago

            There are also hacked/modified XP builds floating around based off the source code leaks that backport some of the modern Windows OS features.

            Still not an “easy” experience though.

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          7 hours ago

          Please use different formatting for emphasis and non-speech. I recommend escaping the asterisks with backslashes for the latter.

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              The way you wrote it, there is no formatting distinction between emphasis (nonbinary) and stage directions (laugh track). I suggest you use something else for one of these, preferably the latter:

              u might even say its a nonbinary choice *laugh track*

              u might even say its a nonbinary choice [laugh track]

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                4 hours ago

                Except for… context? I’m constantly annoyed by grammar/spelling online and even I say you’re going too far.

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        9 hours ago

        AI is for lying to investors that your company is going to turn a profit in a few years. FOSS projects don’t need that.

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          9 hours ago

          Try to separate the AI hype from AI.

          AI has been around for years and we all utilize the results of that research.

          Remember that at one time a compiler was seen as AI.

          It’s the curse of AI: once a problem is solved, it’s no longer AI. It just becomes a tool, and we adjust what “intelligence” means to exclude the new abilities of computers and code.

          Even LLMs have value, just not how they’re being used. If you carefully curate the training materials, you could have a useful tool.

          I’d love to see an LLM trained exclusively on medical records of patients who were successfully diagnosed and treated. I wouldn’t want to give it a medical license, but it could be a useful tool in the hands of a competent physician. It might turn out to be useless, but we need to try it.