Apparently the price increase happened yesterday; I hadn’t heard anything about it until just now. Gave me the push I needed to switch to self-hosted vaultwarden in like 15 minutes. Very pleased with how simple the docker compose and export->import were. I’ll note that I’m running it privately on my local network, which I’m assuming should work fine as my devices enter that network semi-frequently and should keep everything synced up(?).

Personally it’s because my fingers are already on “s” and “u”.

Really appreciate their takeaway from this. It’s unfortunate that AI is so popular right at the moment that a lot of people are trying to switch to Linux. They’re also still solidly within the honeymoon period so we’ll see how they feel in a month or two.

I was looking at point #3 from the article, which is more misleading in this area than point #5.

ZFS doesn’t require more RAM (or at least not meaningfully more), it just uses it if you have it. The RAM/ARC can be turned down in the configuration if you don’t want it to do that. I think on Linux other filesystems just use the native Linux RAM cache instead(?), so it’s basically the same thing as ARC, just less prominent? Also, doesn’t ZFS have RAIDZ expansion now? Actually a lot of this article smells funny… probably because they just happen to know more about BTRFS. Doesn’t BTRFS still have the RAID5/6 write hole? I wonder what sort of setup they’re using if they’re running it on a NAS.

Note people are reporting some crashing at certain points with the voices38 crack. It will need to be proper’d again. I also feel like voices38 doing Dead Space when 0xZeOn was already spending a lot of time doing it is disrespectful, doubly so when voices38 is like “hey my crack is real and proper and doesn’t crash” and then is immediately eating crow when theirs is crashing also. Maybe ZeOn will be able to study voices38’s crack and learn from it, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they just rage-quit instead; I know I would be demoralized as hell if someone just swooped in and invalidated all my work.

After a certain point I think the more likely scenario is not that right-wingers keep “falling for it”, it’s that they have a singular motivation that they need to hide with other more socially acceptable excuses. When those excuses are cast aside whenever convenient, they get to appear outraged and tricked, all while their real goal continues chugging along. This also sets up a sock dummy for leftists to laugh at and pretend that progress is being made, while in fact nothing has changed. IDK, maybe there are people genuinely being convinced otherwise, but we’re about a decade into this nonsense and if someone didn’t exit the train about… a decade ago, it says almost everything we need to know about them.

I don’t think they’re all that separable. In the worst case, using a corporation’s LLM, as Linus is doing, is in essence voicing support for any negative effects in the strongest way possible. LLMs as a technology are fueled by stolen and scraped content, which is in turn fueled by other myriad issues, like datamining and privacy erosion. LLMs as a technology are also extremely inefficient and resource intensive; by writing yourself off as “just one person” doing it we’re ignoring the global effect of many “one persons” all consuming resources by using this technology.

I guess my point is that by using and helping to normalize LLM usage it’s playing right into the hands of all the previously mentioned consequences. Big tech doesn’t need you to use their specific brand of LLM, they just need you to become dependent on the idea of LLM assistance itself. Their endgoal is total adoption and mindshare, and they’re spending vast amounts of money in order to reach it. By refusing to support the technology no matter how “useful” it might be, we can prevent many of the inherent problems from getting worse, and prevent big tech from gaining even more leverage over slightly important things like “is the news real”.

Given his flogging of LLMs with respect to the kernel, I’m guessing Linus is of the opinion that vibe coding is okay to play around with for yourself and for your personal tools, but to use it professionally or to force others to interact with your own vibe coded junk is where the fault lies. This is a fairly mature take on the surface, but also I’m someone who really can’t get past the part where the inherent existence of LLMs is carving ruin through the world through their content theft, resource depletion, and class warfare… so like… I hope he pulls a little harder on those threads sometime instead of judging it purely based on its utility.

All targeting the same person as the other 3 accounts, 4 hours apart? That’s quite a coincidence if it’s not the same person. My guess is they first went through with their main account, then decided to do the same later with their other accounts. Either way, it’s the exact same behavior as the others, so it’s worth calling out in the exact same way.

It’s 2 years old, as opposed to the sock puppet ones which are 4 months old. It’s voting the same way as the other 3 also. I guess it doesn’t really matter which is the main, just thought I’d add it regardless since it wasn’t mentioned.

I think this is their main account: https://lemvotes.org/user/krimson@lemmy.world

I fed a couple of your comments into lemvotes and found out who it was pretty easily. I imagine this is a bannable offense somewhere?

https://lemvotes.org/comment/lemmy.world/comment/21432178
https://lemvotes.org/comment/lemmy.world/comment/21432359

(Sorry I saw this cross the lemmy timeline and I found it interesting). I’m a gay guy, but I feel that the sentiment that “literally” everyone is bisexual is an obvious nonstarter and dumb. My bi friends that have said stuff like that before are surely shorthanding that they think that many “straight” people are bi to some degree, and while I think that’s closer to true, I also still think it’s dumb and reductive. Sexuality is complicated and not beholden to labels, yet I feel I’m 100% gay, no leeway, same as you probably feel about being lesbian - I have to imagine most straight people are the same.

It seems paradoxical that in the land of infinite sexuality permutations, these rigid labels are accurate, but maybe it would only seem unintuitive on the surface. Who’s to say that all these permutations are evenly distributed, or that they don’t clump up around the extremes, and so on. We’ll probably eventually know the actual statistics and maybe the science on how all this stuff works (maybe we already do - I’m dumb please forgive), but in the meantime people are just making some smudgy extrapolations based on their own experiences and the experiences of having many of their “straight” friends come out as bi when they’re like 40+ years old. Many “straight” people probably didn’t even know it was an option until they saw others doing so. I expect such extrapolations will die down pretty quickly after enough time has passed to make it clear the numbers aren’t continuing to grow. My guess is people are just genuinely excited about the prospect that many people can potentially join them in being LGBTQ+, and aren’t really thinking through the rest of the consequences.

Your last paragraph makes me think that the implication is that if you’re even 1% attracted to men then you’re being told you might as well date a man because that’s the “normal” or “easy” thing to do which is super messed up also. Above all, no one should be dictating anyone else’s sexuality, and if they do then you’ve learned a free lesson in who you can ignore.

Oh my god this is a food item that you can get in the game Small Saga (which I highly recommend to all you leftists/queers/others). I assumed it was real and some sort of well-known weird food but actually it’s real and bad on purpose? What a rollercoaster.

No no, surely there are just inherently bad people monsters out there and the only thing you can do is stamp them out without considering their circumstances or how you can help them. Also the people from six decades ago disagree about what the monsters look like but that’s probably unimportant.

Are you referring to Ghost QxR? They release all of their stuff on public trackers (e.g. 1337x). If you’re interested in x265 micro-encodes in general I’d recommend getting into at least HUNO and TL. There are other trackers that specialize in this area, but I’m not as familiar with them so can’t vouch as much.

On the surface yeah it sucks, but remember that they can charge any price they want at any time. The only reason they don’t is because it would hurt sales to price something higher than what people will pay. This scheme can only work if a substantial amount of people buy into the scheme, i.e. the sales they lose from regular people unwilling to pay abnormally-high prices is worth the secondary value of those that give up their data or get sucked in to the loyalty programs/etc.

I did say VTWAX (i.e total “world”), which diversifies out of a lot of problems like the Nikkei 225 and the potential collapse of America, but yes the math is not 100% gospel because at the end of the day anything can happen. Oftentimes, when calculating for a decades-long downfall of the entire world economy, the real answer is that if that happens everything is super fucked no matter what you planned for. All we can do is run simulations on historical data and get statistical significance for numbers we’re pretty comfortable with. If someone is actually pulling the trigger (i.e. retiring) for real on these numbers, I’d strongly suggest they get more familiar with why these numbers are what they are and are prepared to spend less when needed in a rare edge case scenario.

And as you said, for this thread in particular it’s just an estimation to ballpark how much capital realistically translates into what sort of wealth for someone’s life. IMO it’s very useful to be able to estimate how a layman’s capital generation/retirement works because most people just give up on finances immediately and have no concept of what wealth even means. Does someone ever really need 20 million dollars? I’d wager most people just aren’t sure. Now we know which people we can eat.

A simple estimation based on investing that amount of money into a total world stock market index fund (e.g. VTWAX) would be your yearly expenses divided by 3.25% (pretty conservative rate). The idea is that you withdraw 3.25% of your wealth from the stock market every year, and you’ll be able to withdraw that much purchasing power every year forever due to compound interest pushing the number up as you withdraw. Realistically if you’re not withdrawing the full amount blindly during market downturns you can kick that number up to 4% or even more, but 3.25-3.5% is basically impossible to go broke with, and most likely will quickly increase your nest egg to double/triple/etc in most universes.

So, if my expenses were 50k/year in post-tax money, I would need to invest ~1.5 million in order to withdraw 50k of “free” money per year forever, inflation-adjusted. You can do the rest of the math on how many post-tax expenses a normal person/family has and will quickly reach the conclusion that hey, a billion dollars is kinda fucking crazy.