MrQuallzin

It’s hard to take your argument seriously when you can’t even imagine that plenty of people are already running local models with renewable energy already. I’d love to see where you’re getting “no one” from, or even just a handful.

Slippery slope arguments are a child’s argument. You can throw literally any problem on there and say “Watch what happens when people abuse the system!” Eating a chip is a slippery slope to having a heart attack. Driving a car is a slippery slope towards everyone getting race cars and killing everyone they see.

Heck, I haven’t even touched on my thoughts on what I believe are the right ways to use AI (Screw using AI to make images, write stories, etc. Creative works should be human made)

Anyways, you seem set in your doomer view of the future. I do not agree with your view of FOSS software somehow supporting your position, as I see nothing but a large growing (and thriving) community making the world a better place. I’ll not change your mind so I’ll stop the conversation here.

I’m not sure when you mean no one does what I described. Running a local AI? Ollama is huge, running small models for simple queries is trivial nowadays.

Like I said, I’m not disregarding the costs that went into making the model. Whether I use it or not, it exists and nothing will change that. I did not ask for it to be made, neither did I ask for a tree to be felled to make the grip of my hammer, or for resin to be cast into the table I found at Goodwill, or for any other wonderfully horrid example of the worst humanity has to offer. We live in the mess offered to us, and we as a community can come together to make it better. What we can do as a community is help fund ethically trained models and reduce the reliance on the giant data centers.

I think you might be able to tell where my edible hit in that ramble.

Here’s an honest question that I wonder about every once in a while. If I’m running a fully local model at home on my server, and my electricity comes largely from hydroelectric dams, am I contributing to the demise of the world? I watch the power usage when I run it, and I waste more power sitting idle in Final Fantasy 14 for a few minutes while using the bathroom than I do running a local AI.

To be clear, I am not disregarding the absolute horrors that our capitalistic overlords are wreaking on our world in the creation of these models, or the ethical concerns of where the training data came from. Those sins are on their heads.

Markiplier.

YouTube is a cesspool of sludge, but Mark is one of the few gems of creators. His content isn’t for everyone, but Mark as a person is genuine in what he does. He’s not in it for the money, and the vast wealth he has accumulated from his success he’s put right back into more creative projects.

His biggest recent success being Iron Lung, helping pave the way for other indie projects to get to the big screen (Glitch’s Digital Circus, Jacksepticeye announcing a Bloodborne movie with Sony).

Even when arguing with a loved one, they can still make peace with each other over a common interest. Once the show’s over, they get back to their argument

Voyager works with PieFed, but it doesn’t fully support it yet. Loooots of missing features.

I’ve got a 1060ti in my server, and anything above version 580.119.02 wouldn’t work. Apt won’t give you rollback versions as far as I know, you’ll need to grab a driver straight from Nvidia’s website

Allergies

Is that not what we were doing? I’m not disagreeing that it’s scummy that they’re installing unnecessary files, just speculating that’s it’s ineptitude rather than malicious. Hanlon’s Razor and all that. Considering the downvotes on my comment I may have misread your comment.

I imagine it’s more of a vibe-coded “make sure the end users have all the files they’ll need to be ready to go” prompt, and it’s Claude that “decided” to just have all the files from the get-go

I downvoted because OP shared a video they couldn’t be bothered to finish themselves

Hosting my own as well as of a couple weeks ago. It’s been an adventure getting things to work right, but it’s nice owning my data.

I’d just reinstall fresh and manually move any of my needed files from the old home to the new home. Did a refresh a few weeks ago myself. It gives you a good opportunity to dig through there and make sure you’re keeping just the things you want to bring over.

Good ol’ smileys! :D

And somewhere inbetween, or perhaps alongside the smileys, we had the wonders of kaomoji

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TL;DR Scott made poor donation choices, prioritizing what he thought was important in the country while failing to see the actual humans being targeted by those people. He did not do so maliciously or with intent to harm, neither has he taken any direct action to do any harm himself. He made poor choices, was rightly punched in the face by the community at large, and he seems to have bettered himself since then. We should celebrate when someone gets back on the path of good, instead of continuing to hit them for mistakes made that have already been resolved.

I recall reading that when it was first published, along with Scott’s response and subsequent resignation on Reddit. I’ve taken some time to look for something more recent since it’s been a few years now, such as allegations of harm or direct actions he’s taken, or even someone watching his donation habits nowadays, and I still can’t really find anything. It seems like the majority of LGBTQ people he worked with, both at Steel Wool and elsewhere like some of the books, have put this business behind them and are working together.

From his Reddit response (Archived by KnowYourMeme with commentary. Source on Reddit is still available as well):

I’m a republican. I’m a Christian. I’m pro-life. I believe in God. I also believe in equality, and in science, and in common sense. Despite what some may say, all of those things can go together. That’s not an apology or promise to change, it’s the way it’s always been.

I find this response to be pretty level-headed.

Obviously saying you’re a Republican today isn’t a great thing to say (And many here in the federated world would say it was never a great thing to say). In 2021 though, people were still learning about the wool pulled over their eyes and questioning their beliefs, politics, ideologies. I don’t know if he’d still call himself a Republican today, but just the one single label doesn’t say much anymore (Is someone calling themselves a Republican actually MAGA, part of some other right wing group, or just fiscally conservative and is too harsh on immigration policy?). If you’ve got anything showing his stances of political topics, I’ll gladly take a look.

We’ve also got this quote from the same Reddit post:

I’ve never cared about anyone’s race, religion, gender, or orientation. I just treat people as people, everyone the same, and because of that, I’ve ended up with a very diverse group of people that I’ve worked with over the years.

This is pretty common to hear as well from people who just lack the ability to see the harm from indirect actions (It’s shared by a lot of anti-DEI idiots as well, but I do see this as different from them). By not caring about the specifics of a person, you also don’t care to learn about the policies being introduced that may be directly affecting them.

My takeaway is that he was just ignorant, and I do not believe he was willingly ignorant but just plain ignorant. Nobody fully made him realize what was happening under the surface of our gold-covered shithole of a country, and it took shoving it in his face to make him see what’s happening, and make better informed choices in the future.

Calling him out for the shitty donations was proper. People often just want to leave it at that and will always be angry at him for his actions, but I believe that people can be better than they were before and I do believe he has done so. Since I fail to see any actual harm that’s come from this (Specifically directly from him and actions he’s taken since the reporting, since both Scott and ourselves know the damage done from the previous donations), I see no reason to keep bringing this up.

Back to TheFogan’s comment, and the specific part I had an issue with:

it’s also unquestionable that the profits that the works make, are used to bolster hate against these groups

It is absolutely questionable! In JKR’s case, we have ample evidence that she simply does not care about the harm she does and is very vocal about certain groups who she’d like to not exist. I agree that there is no question in regards to the harm the profits of Harry Potter are doing to the LGBTQ community.

Scott on the other hand, from everything I’ve seen, is decent. I likely do not agree with some of his political issues (And just saying Republican doesn’t say anything about a single issue), but I fail to see him, Steel Wool, or anyone working in the FNAF universe taking the profits and turning them against their own community.

Comparing FNAF to HP, or Scott to JKR, is laughable.

I just took a look through all the comments on this post and I’m failing to see any evidence. Perhaps something didn’t federate properly and you can point me to what you’re talking about.

Unless you’re talking about the comment 2 up from mine, the only comment on this post mentioning FNAF (and the comment on that, which is what I replied to). A person offhandedly saying that Scott’s a bad person is not evidence, it’s an opinion from an internet stranger.

People making mountains out of mole hills, hampering on those who don’t meet their purity tests. The usual.

JKR is actively and vocally using HP profits for evil and is a good example in that comment.

Scott Cawthon, from what I recall, has some conservative/right wing/whatever views, but hasn’t actively worked on harming the LGBTQ community. People hate him cause he’s not perfect.

Technically they circled both. That’s basically the entire PNW coast

I’d say both

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