My experience with ethically run (if unethically created) local models has been similar. Lots odd hardware to get slow mediocre answers.

But the biggest reason AI competes with plain old web search is that they’ve enshittified the web search available to us.

Corporate assholes are breaking search to force people to use their centralized harmful AI answer guessers.

We can fight back with Searx. https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Manual/Searx

There’s an earthquake happening due to the ride behind them rumbling by between frames.

It really depends how much one reads into David Bowie’s performance…

I’m so tired of “Ai big number” headlines. 100+ packages - but how many good ones? (Genuinely, I don’t know, as I don’t the recognize those listed.)

We need projects that diligently keep the slop out. We don’t need every protect to do so, but it is critical that some do.

We have Meta and Microsoft to provide quick-to-market low quality shit.

The version of Linux that matters is the slow thoughtful good software.

I’m not mad at slop slingers, aa long as they don’t secretly inject slop risk where not welcome.

Edit: Thanks for responses.

For anyone who has read this far, I encourage seeing responses below for informative and nuanced thoughts on this.

I’m working on adding to my vocabulary:

“Please be yourself.”

🚀🌝

Free space.

Excellent. Can “brings up love of trains in an unrelated conversation” have a separate space from “the world would be a utopia without cars”?

It’s basically the same, but I really like trains and wanted an excuse to mention them.

Sub-thread of a conversation of something unrelated becomes an open source software recommendations mini thread.

“I think that’s our airlock, Scotty. Our approach feels fast?! Oh. There it went.”

“Okay. Yes, let’s enjoy a nice sweeping panoramic pass.”

“Thank you, Mr. Scott. Now let’s go brief those crew all lined up at… we missed the airlock again, Mr Scott.”

“Shall we double back?”

…

“Right. After another sweeping panoramic pass. Of course. No, it’s fine. I can cut my speech shorter.”

I’m excited about the day when these shop owners learn about Furry Porn.

“I found pictures online that looked like our two shop mascots. They seem to really love each-other, Bob.”

It’ll be glorious.

But maybe they’re all already aware and are just advertising their support for the Furry community.

“THIS is Ceti Alpha V!”

Please fix the tabs thing.

So, “Star Wars: Starfighter” gets to find out how badly a modern sci-fi can get it’s ass handed to it by the original “Star Wars”. This should be entertaining.

But then - “Directed by Shawn Levy”, so I’m gonna see it.

Nice.

This duck is the new acceptable answer, when someone asks “what is art?”.

All philosophical answers need not apply. The answer is just this picture.

Any detailed philosophical arguments about art are still allowed to continue, but those discussions must now treat this “smoking duck stuck in traffic” as their shared first axiom.

Everybody says the data isn’t retained. It’s very stylish, today, to claim to delete unused data, at least until it get breached

This feels penny wise dollar stupid, by the restaurant.

If I go into an all-you-can-eat restaurant, and a person like this guy isn’t there being treated like royalty for being a regular, I know the food, and the vibe, will suck, and I’m not coming back.

The whole thing reeks of bad management, by an owner or manager who has no idea what line of business they’re in.

“fu, I have money”

is waaaay in the rearview mirror for these folks, though.

And when it comes to number 2, they’re number 1!

Camera pans uncomfortably and refocuses on MoonRaven’s cat buying NFTs on an old laptop in the background.