I was literally going to figure out how to fork and compile it myself if it was forced

That’s how I see it too. Look, it’s here, at the very minimum it’s going to be around for a while, and while you don’t have to personally use it, every company hiring is going to expect you to use it. It’s on you to decide how much and to what extent.

Burying heads in the sand and pounding fists isn’t going to close Pandoras box. All it will do is make you personally less employable.

So find a way to use it in a way that works for you, and importantly learn what it’s not good at, because boy howdy are there things it isn’t good at. Then you can advocate for or against it with the knowledge, and hopefully keep your job too.

Aw man I had my pitchfork and everything

I won’t say everyone. I’ve actually been at a company who was investigated (not for CSAM, but other things that happened). I had no idea it even happened, and luckily was not involved with any of it. So for me no, I wouldn’t have wanted that. That being said 2 things, say I had been in the position. If our scraper was downloading it and it was my scraper, damn right I would have flagged it to legal, HR, and everyone I could have, along with writing some way to prevent it, and written everything down in a complete log (off company computer). If it wasn’t stopped immediately I would either quit, whistleblowed, or happily talked with anyone raiding and making sure any of the decision makers were hauled off. I don’t blame someone for being lowest level at a shit company, been there. (Although I will say, xAI, come on, no one is “stuck” there, but that doesn’t mean that Dave the brand new intern out of college should be hauled off). Who I blame are the suits who were probably told it was happening and chose to ignore it, and any engineer I do blame if they knew about it and chose not to do one of the above.

As an engineer I’ve had my fair share of let’s say… challenges that I’ve had to morally grapple with. Things I’ve been asked to do that may not be moral. However, there’s a pretty wide chasm between “Implement this dark pattern so people won’t unsubscribe” and “host this and don’t tell anyone”

including, I suspect, outright destruction of evidence

If it was trained on it, that means they are in possession of it, which that right there is straight to jail. I have a feeling they’re scrubbing everything they can right now as we chat

I have such immense respect for people who know how the bits are physically flowing through a machine. I took classes about it but I can’t imagine doing that daily, it’s so tedious.

some sort of arr stack for models tbh

yeah fully agree. They may go more underground, thinking if govs try to block them, but they’ll still be there.

We need to get models into a distributed distribution. Huggingface is way too central.

Yeah no matter what if you see an errant charge call the card issuer and they’ll ship a new one out. There is zero reason to walk around with a leaked card number, let alone one where someone can actively use it.

Felt that it was better not to mention anyone specifically, and while it was inspired by that, it was caused by several threads yesterday I saw of everyone just bashing games left and right. However I saw your update, and while I still don’t understand why you’d want to call out the game at all if it’s not your thing, I do respect admitting you were incorrect. That’s hard to do online and rare to see, I respect that.

GTA was in my mind but worse this thread was started because I saw someone post complaining about the free Witcher 3 remaster. However yes the hate here for GTA 6 is becoming more annoying than the issues themselves. Everyone has to make sure they’re seen on the bandwagon.

The one that inspired this post was about the free remaster to Witcher 3. Free.

you know honestly, I could see that. I see several posts all the time about “was wrongly banned”. Reddit went to shit, and I know I was banned for my fair share and they love throwing around the ban hammer. But… I’m guessing not everyone was completely wrongfully banned.

I always love how the scammer always looks the same, like a true con man. Every time wall street just eats it up even though everyone says hey, he’s a scammer.

But maybe this time it’ll be different

Yeah anytime I see code that I use that interacts with a third party I mirror it to be safe. Repos are small. Especially if the third party isn’t a tech company, like most home assistant things. They are incredibly hostile and letigous against open source projects that have the audacity to make their products better.

always remember to clone/mirror repositories in other places folks. Lawyers got onto Github and Github happily takes things down unless all of the internet comes to push back. Mirror your favorite projects to codeberg, forgejo, gitea, wherever. You never know when someone will be forced to take that project you love down.

This looks honestly really good. Gears always looked like another shooter at face value, but it always had a great story and a lot of heart. They had a great trilogy, and then they lost that heart for 4/5, so much that I didn’t even bother with 5. E-Day here could be exactly what the franchise needs, a reboot of the gut feelings we had when playing the original, and the added benefit of it being a prequel so it could pull in new fans. I’m hopeful for it.

That being said it’s xbox exclusive and I’m linux-only so no way to play :/

What in the sad incel shit is this

People shouldn’t be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.