https://archive.ph/mL5MY

Before this I asked it imagine a photoshoot of an adult model naked and it freaked out and said no. What the hell Xi, I thought you were based?

(Ollama is quite fun even if I can only run the smaller models with my limited ram on this laptop.)

If I want to download all of this person's artwork https://x.com/CaoAmoss/media for use in my ttrpg games , how can I do that easily? I've been using gallery-dl a lot lately and it works great for artstation, deviantart, tumblr, etc. but twitter is a nightmare to scrape, at least with gallery-dl, and their scraper for nitter.net seems to be broken.

It's time for the time-worn question. Which Linux should I choose?

I have experience running Ubuntu both as an install and through WSL, and I've been in charge of multiple Linux servers, one RedHat and a few Ubuntu. So I'm not afraid of some fiddling. Though I will say, I'd like it to just work most of the time. That's why I'm here.

Typical use case for my computer is I have a ~40" ancient TV and a ~22" monitor to the side. I often put videos or something on the small monitor and play games on the TV. Most of my games are FitGirl repacks or otherwise from the seas. I know Linux gaming has come a long way, but would this be an issue? Also, I like that I can turn the second monitor on and off easily through the UI with WinKey + P.

Aside from that, anything can do what I want it to. I dabble with some programming here and there, etc.

Thanks in advance for your input. I'm honestly just tired and don't feel like doing all the research myself at the moment.

https://archive.ph/Qqo6N

So, Jianpin (简拼 / "Simple Pinyin") is a way of typing Chinese in an input method editor using only the initials of characters' romanizations, and I think it's way cool. Like if you're entering a Chinese typing speed competition, Jianpin is what you'll use, no exception — it is FAST! You can just type tsg and hit 1 and there, {图书馆|túshūguǎn}.

And for a while now as I've frequented Blorptube's live chatroom for movie and show streams, I've cursed my typing speed and felt envious of this super fast system Chinese has. So that's what's got me wondering: what would an English-language form of Jianpin look like? The closest thing I know of is predictive text or even stenotype, but they aren't really the same thing.

And while pondering this question I of course had to come up with my own idea of how "Jianpin for English" might work, but before I share that idea I just want to make sure that no such thing already exists.

Next people on the moon are definitely gonna be Chinese

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/34660966

As of June 2025, over 1,400 veterans of Israeli intelligence are now working in U.S. tech—with 900 of those coming from Unit 8200 alone. That number comes from a database of people who publicly identify themselves as being both former Israeli intelligence officers and holding a job in U.S. tech on their LinkedIn profiles.

The database was assembled by an independent researcher, who is remaining anonymous for personal security and has dubbed the database the “Eagle Mission” influence network. The 1,400 people are self-identified veterans or active reserve members of Unit 8200, Israeli military intelligence, and the IDF Cyber Defense Directorate working in senior and mid-level engineering and security roles at major U.S. tech firms with offices in Israel, the U.S., and Europe. Drop Site crosschecked many of the records in the database for accuracy.

“This does not mean that every person who served in Unit 8200 is an Israeli spy looking to send classified data back to Tel Aviv,” the researcher emphasized. “But it does create a serious vulnerability. No other country has this kind of access to the American tech sector. We obsess over Chinese involvement in the tech industry and worry about corporate espionage, but Israeli penetration rarely gets mentioned.”

The global tech giant Microsoft is one of the most prominent employers of Unit 8200 alumni, employing roughly 250 veterans of the unit, alongside other major multinational companies including Nvidia, Meta, Google, Intel, and Apple, many of whom employ dozens of individuals drawn from the unit. Microsoft was recently revealed to have closely collaborated with Unit 8200 leadership on the creation of cloud services intended to store millions of private communications of Palestinians living under military occupation in the West Bank and Gaza. Microsoft declined to comment.

https://archive.ph/ZEnWG

Greetings Hexbears!

I just pounded out this long ass comment in a thread inquiring about why leftists tend to oppose GenAI and LLMs, when I realized the post was already over a week old and no one will probably read it. Thought it was insightful enough to reshare and, given your reputation, figured people here would find it interesting to read.

I recently finished reading Capital, and many of these thoughts jumped out at me during my reading. Interested in hearing what you think or if you have any critiques or addendums.

Anyways, here's the text:

I haven’t seen any comments here that adequately address the core of the issue from a leftist perspective, so I will indulge.

LLMs are fundamentally a tool to empower capital and stack the deck against workers. This is a structural problem, and as such, is one that community efforts like FOSS are ill-equipped to solve.

Given that training LLMs from scratch requires massive computational power, you must control some means of production. i.e. You must own a server farm to scrape publicly accessible data or collect data from hosting user services. Then you must also own a server farm equipped with large arrays of GPUs or TPUs to carry out the training and most types of inference.

So the proletariat cannot simply wield these tools for their own purposes, they must use the products that capital allows to be made available (i.e. proprietary services or pre-trained “open source” models)

Then comes the fact that the core market for these “AI” products is not end users; it is capitalists. Capitalists who hope their investments will massively pay off by cutting labor costs on the most expensive portion of the proletariat: engineers, creatives, and analysts.

Even if “AI” can never truly replace most of these workers, it can convince capitalists and their manager servants to lay off workers, and it can convince workers that their position is more precarious due to pressure from the threat of replacement, discouraging workers for fighting for increased pay and benefits and better working conditions.

As is the case with all private private property, profits made by “AI” and LLM models will never reach the workers that built those models, nor the users who provided the training data. It will be repackaged as a product owned by capital and resold to the workers, either through subscription fees, token pricing, or through forfeiture of private data.

Make no mistake, once the models are sufficiently advanced, tools sufficiently embedded into workflows, and the market sufficiently saturated, the rug will be pulled, and “enshittification” will begin. Forcing workers to pay exorbitant prices for these tools in a market where experience and skills are highly commoditized and increasingly difficult to acquire.

The cherry on top is that “AI” is the ultimate capital. The promise of “AI” is that capitalists will be able to use the stolen surplus value from workers to eliminate the need for variable capital (i.e. workers) entirely. The end goal is to convert the whole of the proletariat into maximally unskilled labor, i.e. a commodity, so they can be maximally exploited, with the only recourse being a product they control the distribution of. AI was never going to be our savior, as it is built with the intent of being our enslaver.

The urge to be alienated from your own craft (he had a tehcnical background at some point) and then justify it because you "dont have time" to code anymore (gee whizz maybe pick a different job dipass) is infuriating.

He's just typing in a request and the code changes before his eyes -- he isnt doing any fucking coding!!! He's using a chatbox to request an entity changes the code!!! we already do that dorkshit!!! and we hallucinate bullshit too!!!

Look I know that capitalists will always align to automation over workers, but this isn't that. This is a man who is genuinely convinced he is an active participant in the programming process despite occupying a role no different to the one he does already, only with faster results in the specific demos he creates.

Capitalism has turned its central contradiction -- alienation, into a fucking product that people want.

https://archive.ph/NFqWK