Idk friend. I went to A&M

You’ve clearly never been to Texas

Talk to them about things they know about already. Cookie banners, social media, google adware. They just need to have their own concerns reinforced. You don’t need to nor should you give them your entire diatribe

Tell them it is against your religion https://stallman.org/saint.html

Tell them it is against you religion https://stallman.org/saint.html

Read the room and make sure others are onboard. Make yourself too much of a dug in wingnut and you’ll undermine your actual work

This is a great question I’ve been meaning to ask myself. Thanks for asking it. Having been vehemently against, I’m a recent convert. For me it was a matter of ethics vs convenience and efficiency. There’s a limit to how fast we can type that an llm isn’t bound by. I first tried running ollama locally, but it didn’t give me the power I wanted, so now I’ve been using Lumo and ollama cloud models for coding. I’ve been impressed with the results and it’s within my ethical standards. (As someone who isn’t a programmer professionally my concerns were primarily based on capitalism. Ollama is “better” but complicated)

I’ve found two different modalities for the way I work both with different results. It comes down to how granular I can make my queries. When I’m writing something I’m more familiar with, like bash, I typically ask for things I already know how to do, but it would be slower to type. Then there’s other cases like writing elisp for emacs. Completely different. Those cases I admittedly vibe code with about the results you’d expect. It’s really given me something to think about.

Libertarian is not the same thing as facist

Cult of personality and brand loyalty. They are still riding Steve Jobs’ creation of a “movement”. Bowel or otherwise.

My understanding is that it has only been shown to have closed form analytical solution for very simple cases. “Solved” in this case would mean doing the same for more complex geometries. It would mean finding new functions like spherical harmonics or the Bessel Function.

Woah. Navier Stokes has been solved? That’s a huge deal. And fuck openai for undercutting the people who made it possible.

Is it better people think this is entirely true if it gets them to take their privacy and data sovereignty more seriously at a large scale? The average person already distrusts big tech and governments. What’s to say half truths don’t help us all overall?

I use invidious, but there’s come a point, after 3 or 4 tries, I just use the embedded link. Privacy is like security. Make it as hard for the other person as possible without making it impossible for yourself

🤘 https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=Ri_mLmDXnhM

Most of the time, but I would emphasize always in airports or public wifi

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It takes time. I’ve been “indoctinating” my family fo years. And that really just means reinforcing things we all, “regular” people included, know about big tech. Part of that meant straight up telling them I wouldn’t use anything other than Signal. That worked, and a few years later I now have my mom on Linux. Sometimes doing the right thing means being stubborn and putting your foot down

Edit: my parents have both become open source evangelists, and my mom has asked me more than once the difference between Free Software and oss. My parents are also both pretty conservative so it wasn’t easy to turn them. But like I said. Put your foot down. Tell them you are doing the right thing, and if it comes to it, withold tech support 😂

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Saying you don’t need privacy because you have nothing to hide is like saying you don’t need freedom of speech because you have nothing to say.

Out of a desire not to switch, I’m going to ask what I know to be a naive/dumb question: what’s the worst that can happen? It’s a mature gpl codebase