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gh0stcassette, 16 days ago

I mean, the blockchain is public, so all that data is definitely being mined. It’s really just a matter of whether your transaction history can be correlated to you (e.g. bought the crypto through an exchange via credit/debit, or if you’re making crypto purchases in a way that correlates strongly enough with your internet traffic).

gh0stcassette, 16 days ago

Fair, I know about Monero, I just forgot it existed for a sec lol

gh0stcassette, 19 days ago

Didn’t Vaush literally get banned off Twitch for saying we should glass Israel?

gh0stcassette, 21 days ago (edited 20 days ago)

I mean yeah, but I they were talking about net neutrality, preventing ISPs from unilaterally making those decisions, not that there would be Literally No restrictions.

gh0stcassette, 22 days ago

I doubt it. Cryogenic preservation is probably possible, but current methods likely do too much damage to the person’s tissue to ever be salvageable, especially since most of them were dead for hours before being frozen. Their brains were unrecoverable before they even entered the pods. Ideally you’d want to be frozen more or less immediately. As in “the process begins while you’re still alive and they euthanize you on the table inside the cryogenics facility” immediately.

Plus a lot of these companies experience regular refrigeration failures, which is probably what caused the corpses in the meme to liquify like that.

gh0stcassette, 20 days ago

Sometimes the liquid nitrogen lines to the pods fail, sometimes you get a prolonged power outage, sometimes there’s a leak in the pods themselves that allows coolant to evaporate, etc.

gh0stcassette, 19 days ago

With liquid nitrogen, which needs to stay refrigerated to remain liquid.

gh0stcassette, 22 days ago

If the social biases of the model put a hard limit on your ability to write a good woman character, I question how much it’s really you that’s “writing” the story. I’m not against using LLMs in writing, but it’s a tool, not a creative partner. They can be useful for brainstorming and as a sounding-board for ideas (potentially even editing), but imo you need to write the actual prose yourself to claim you’re writing something.

gh0stcassette, 22 days ago

This is because dedicated consumer AI hardware is a dumb idea. If it’s powerful enough to run a model locally, you should be able to use it for other things (like, say, as a phone or PC) and if it’s sending all its API requests to the cloud, then it has no business being anything but a smartphone app or website.

gh0stcassette, 22 days ago

I mean, LLaMA is open-source and it’s made by Facebook for profit, there’s grey areas. Imo tho, any service that claims to be anything more than a fancy wrapper for OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. API calls is possibly a scam. Especially if they’re trying to sell you hardware, or the service costs more than like $10/month, LLM API calls are obscenely cheap. I use a local frontend as an AI assistant that works by making API calls through a service called openrouter (basically a unified service that makes API calls to all the major cloud LLM providers for you). I put like $5 in it 3 or 4 months ago and it still hasn’t run out.

gh0stcassette, 20 days ago (edited 20 days ago)

That’s fair, dedicated ASICs for AI acceleration are totally a valid consumer product, but I meant more along the lines of independent devices (like Rabbit R1 and the AI Pin), not components you can add to an existing device. I should have been more clear.

gh0stcassette, 22 days ago

We’d probably be fucked, but it’d be interesting to see. The professed ideology of the Chinese state is very different from their actual actions – for example, they mandate study of texts by Marx and Lenin that advocate for worker-controlled militant labor organizing while at the same time banning any non-state-controlled unions. An actually Marxist AI might turn on them lmao

gh0stcassette, 22 days ago

Imo a non-market-based socialist economy doesn’t require AI, it just requires extensively documenting inventory/production and a good mechanism for gauging consumer demand, in other words a good economic planning mechanism. Because if you break it down to its simplest function, the capitalist market is just an economic planning mechanism, it uses consumer purchases to judge demand and adjust production accordingly, but it’s more difficult to control since it can’t account for negative externalities (effects of production that don’t have a direct impact on sales), and when you introduce wage labor into a market, the incentive structure encourages those with more resources to spend those resources on labor and then exploit that labor to the maximum possible extent.

To implement a non-market socialist planning system, you could have a broad plan that specifies large macroeconomic goals to be voted on democratically (e.g. increase investment in clean energy, increase investment in a certain popular sector of consumer goods like electronics, etc.) And then use data from the past to estimate future demand for consumer goods. Then you could calculate the demand for intermediate commodities (things used to produce consumer goods and accomplish larger state infrastructure projects) based on that. You could then put all of those into a really big matrix and then row-reduce that matrix to solve for any areas where the necessary resource allocation is uncertain and then use that to refine the initial estimates for production you started with, and iterate this process many times. At the end you end up with a table that shows exactly which resources need to be allocated where to meet production targets and consumer demand.

Obviously consumer demand might differ from your prior estimates, so you also have a system for monitoring how much of each good is purchased at each storefront, and then make minor adjustments to the global production targets to meet the actual demand, which would help mitigate the recurring shortages that occurred in the USSR due to inefficient resource allocation from their oversimplified planning system.

Basically, it’s all about having good-quality, real-time data on economic activity so that the planned economy can respond as dynamically as a capitalist market, but without the negative externalities and worker exploitation that come along with capitalism.

I read a really good book that outlines in more detail how this would work and even gives the algorithm for efficiently manipulating the economy-wide resource allocation matrix, it’s called Towards a New Socialism. Apparently the guys who wrote it are weird transphobes now, so I don’t endorse them personally, but it’s the most well thought out, concrete plan for a workable socialist economy I’ve seen so it’s worth a read. Also look into project CyberSyn in Chile under Allende, it’s the closest attempt irl to do something like this.

gh0stcassette, 22 days ago

I mean, the correct answer is just to pirate it, but you could probably fool it into thinking you’re on windows by changing the user agent string of your browser to Chrome Windows x86_64

gh0stcassette, 23 days ago (edited 18 days ago)

This the same guy who (allegedly) has apparently been having unethical CNC kink parties💀? Like no judgment, I’m actually kind of into CNC, but you have to Actually get enthusiastic informed consent first (and during) and use safewords. You can’t just foist it on people who happen to show up to a party, that’s literally (allegedly) just sexual assault. Seems like he might just be (allegedly) completely indifferent to the concept of consent.

Edit: here’s the source salon.com/…/coercive-climate-of-silicon-valleys-a…

Apparently the person didn’t specify any specific OpenAI executives by name, so it’s uncertain whether Altman knew about the parties. Still reflects poorly on him if this is the culture at OpenAI tho imo.

gh0stcassette, 24 days ago

Best case? People cooperate with each other to share labor/resources in a way that eventually gives rise to a more democratic, non-capitalist economy. Basically star trek without the (probably) impossible technology or the aliens.

gh0stcassette, 24 days ago

You need to add the new drive to your existing pool because ZFS stores data across all drives by default, similar to a RAID0. Then you remove the old drive and ZFS will automatically copy the data off the failing drive onto the healthy one and allow you to remove the failing drive with no data loss.

gh0stcassette, 24 days ago (edited 24 days ago)

Actually, I assumed you just had the SSD, if you have more than 256gb of free space between those HDDs, you can go ahead and remove the SSD from your zpool right now (unless your bootloader is there, then you’ll have to make an EFI system partition on one of the HDDs and install a bootloader first)

gh0stcassette, 24 days ago (edited 24 days ago)

That depends on your use case, I just did a simple zpool with no redundancy because I wanted maximum speed/capacity and all my data is backed up on an external HDD. If you need redundancy, I would look online for how to configure that and what the optimal setup is.

gh0stcassette, 24 days ago

Ah fair, I didn’t actually read the article, I just assumed it was semi-recent lol. Probably should have read it first

gh0stcassette, 24 days ago

Manjaro is basically just arch Linux on a 1-2 week update lag, so you’d have just as much if not more success with EndeavorOS or raw Arch.

gh0stcassette, 24 days ago

Fair, haven’t use Ubuntu or any of it’s derivatives in years

gh0stcassette, 24 days ago (edited 18 days ago)

I’m trans. I’d like to not get put in a camp after Emperor Trump abolishes democracy (hyperbole, barely). The Democratic party and Biden in particular are worthless pieces of shit, but you’re insane and/or too privileged to suffer the consequences of another Trump victory if you think refusing to vote for Biden accomplishes anything.

Every single negative aspect of Biden’s policy would be drastically worse under Trump, and Trump would do a fuckload of additional, Much Worse shit, including Literally attempting to overthrow democracy. Don’t be like the KPD who refused to work with the SPD to fight against fascism until it was too late, the number one priority is always to fight to eradicate fascism, even if it means you have to work with feckless, genocide-enabling liberals. Don’t be a moron.

gh0stcassette, 24 days ago (edited 18 days ago)

You realize that there are two possible outcomes. Biden wins, and the Palestinian Genocide gets worse or Trump wins and the Palestinian Genocide gets much worse (barring some extenuating circumstance like Netanyahu being overthrown or forced out of power). You’re voting for it either way, including by refusing to vote at all.

gh0stcassette, 24 days ago

Damn, the MAGA crowd made its way onto Lemmy? Surprised they could even figure out how to sign up💀