I mean… I think it’s worrying that the norm is “who cares if it’s AI? It’ll fool plenty of people, spread it!” If that’s what you mean.

Social media is going to kill us all well before AI does.

It would depends on how much infrastructure they can pass to receive them.

Ideally it would be “unlimited.”

Immigration is just good for the US economy because they tend to skew young and (to be blunt) low wage when they get here, and just look at how far immigrants go here. In most countries, it’s supposed to be a cornerstone of US culture, and the country is freaking huge.

Integration? America was originally a hodgepodge of homesteads; that’s the idea.

The limiting factor is housing, schooling, occupation, just having somewhere for them to go and live.

TL;DR: As many as possible as long as they aren’t forced into poverty.

…Hence, I find it incredible that we, as a country, collectively decided to squander that massive strategic advantage for… what?

It just doesn’t make any sense, even if you set morality aside. Or truly believe in the propaganda that they’re responsible for most crime, which is nonsense.

Hence, Asami Sato:

I am taking no arguments of unsexiness, as there are none.

Though for what it’s worth, pockets seem to be in fashion in her world:

I don’t want to leap into your throat, but have you tried a clean install of a different distro on a USB? And I mean clean; no reusing your home partition, no weird configs until you test out-of-the-box settings.

One thing I’ve come to realize is that I have tons of cruft, workarounds, and configurations in my system that, to be blunt, screw up Nvidia + Wayland. And my install isn’t even that old.

Hunting them all down would take so long that I mind as well clean install CachyOS.

I haven’t bitten the bullet yet (as I just run Linux off my AMD IGP, which frees up CUDA VRAM anyway), but it’s feeling more urgent by the day.

Beating climate change is (mostly) a mind game. Societal changes needed aren’t too dramatic, but that’d make a few uber-wealthy less rich right this second, so here we are.

So what this comic really implies is “we beat corporate propaganda! We spread a scientific message to the masses!”

Now that would be something.

It’s not so much about English as it is about writing patterns. Like others said, it has a “stilted college essay prompt” feel because that’s what instruct-finetuned LLMs are trained to do.

Another quirk of LLMs is that they overuse specific phrases, which stems from technical issues (training on their output, training on other LLM’s output, training on human SEO junk, artifacts of whole-word tokenization, inheriting style from its own previous output as it writes the prompt, just to start).

“Slop” is an overused term, but this is precisely what people in the LLM tinkerer/self hosting community mean by it. It’s also what the “temperature” setting you may see in some UIs is supposed to combat, though that crude an ineffective if you ask me.

Anyway, if you stare at these LLMs long enough, you learn to see a lot of individual model’s signatures. Some of it is… hard to convey in words. But “Embodies” “landmark achievement” and such just set off alarm bells in my head, specifically for ChatGPT/Claude. If you ask an LLM to write a story, “shivers down the spine” is another phrase so common its a meme, as are specific names they tend to choose for characters.

If you ask an LLM to write in your native language, you’d run into similar issues, though the translation should soften them some. Hence when I use Chinese open weights models, I get them to “think” in Chinese and answer in English, and get a MUCH better result.

All this is quantifiable, by the way. Check out EQBench’s slop profiles for individual models:

https://eqbench.com/creative_writing_longform.html

https://eqbench.com/creative_writing.html

And it’s best guess at inbreeding “family trees” for models:

Did y’all read the email?

embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that

another landmark achievement

showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design

That is one sloppy email. Man, Claude has gotten worse at writing.

I’m not sure Rob even realizes this, but the email is from some kind of automated agent: https://agentvillage.org/

So it’s not even an actual thank you from a human, I think. It’s random spam.

To be fair, relying on OneDrive was like waiting for a bomb to go off. This was bound to happen once they got everyone stuck using it.

“let’s save today’s photos from my phone onto my machine” bullshit?

Once it’s set up, I don’t see how that’s a hassle? Especially if its just syncing over WiFi.

Eh, it’ll be fine:

• “Slop” is lazy, obvious spam. This is the vast majority of AI posts. That’s why it’s called slop! Fediverse mods will purge these with glee.

• Fake images have the same problem as (say) a Twitter screenshot: they aren’t a reputable source. We fix this by enforcing good sourcing, which communities should be doing anyway, with or without AI.

• If a little ML is used in a complicated workflow for some art post… is it really slop? At some point it’s just digital art. And these workflows tend to use open weights models that actually support stuff like control nets, whereas Big Tech models tend to be dumb prompting windows, and produce more obvious slop.

• There’s basically no Tech Bro culture here.

• There isn’t as much incentive to Karma Farm on the Fediverse since it’s not actually used for any checks… Still, this is likely the biggest issue. We will just have to look out for farmers, but I think this is doable.

EDIT:

Upon further consideration, we should encourage users to sign up as mods/helpers, and to try and organize communities well. Otherwise they’ll get overwhelmed filtering slop posts. And they won’t enforce good sourcing, which is already kinda a problem (see: tabloids/twitter screenshots on the front page).

It’s doable, but it’d be easy for that to slip away, too.

Trying to use Linux for gaming teaches you a lot, though.

You might start at least a month early so you can make a more educated switch before you literally cannot fall back to Windows.

The wikis are very good: https://wiki.cachyos.org/installation/installation_prepare/

And more general info: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Main_page

They’re official, so that’s the first place to look.

But in general, I guess it depends on what you already know and have. Do you have a laptop with a single disk? Or a desktop with more than one? Do you know anything about disk partitioning and such? Do you want to clean install Windows, or keep it as-is?

My solution to dual booting Windows today would be to generally follow the wiki guide, use refind as your bootloader, KDE as your desktop, read up on partitioning, and make a second EFI partition to install CachyOS onto.

To simplify, an EFI partition is the “thing that your motherboard uses to boot into your operating system,” so you just make two of them so they can’t touch each other.

This is less convenient; if something messes up, you might have to mash a function key on boot to switch between Windows/Linux. But it heads off several potential issues. Like Windows Update messing with EFI randomly so Linux won’t boot (which it rarely does), or your default Windows EFI partition being too small (which it probably is).

What I did for many games is just leave them on a shared NTFS partition so I can play them on either Windows or Linux.

Or you can literally just mount your windows partition.

I sympathize, I still mostly use stripped Windows 11 for gaming (and Linux for other stuff). But we’re going to have to switch sooner or later, and it increasingly seems to be “sooner”

Moving a capital isn’t trivial.

Maduro’s #1 concern was likely consolditating power internally, not external military hardening.

That being said, Venezuela has some hellishly mountainous jungle. If I was a despot, I’d say thats a pretty good country to hide in, kinda like Afganistan.

Why wait?

Dual boot CachyOS now, to get accustomed to it; it’s more-or-less exactly what SteamOS will be. It’s built on Arch, too. They ship a bunch of extra Proton stuff with the OS. There’s even a “deckified” kernel option.

Come to CachyOS!

It’s like everything I’ve ever wanted from an OS served on a silver platter.

It’s probably less for OEMs, right? Most people don’t install their own OS, much less pay full price for a license.

And yeah, consumer Windows could disappear and MS wouldn’t care, as long as office computers are still stuck with it. Which they are.

Does the BIOS support any overclocking/tweaking?

I’m not familliar with Rocket Lake (your CPU generation), but you may be able to bump the voltage or loosen the timings a bit to get it stable. Even without BIOS support, it’s possible you could do this from your operating system, like you can with Ryzen.

Also possibly oil.

Some “regular” grocery stores do have really terrible prices. Like shockingly, “over twice as expensive as Costco” bad.

You can save a ton of money shopping around via their online stores, but I’m not sure most buyers realize this.