No, we think you’re pirating something. We’re going to lock your system and make it entirely unusable.

Microsoft would 100% do this with Windows if they had the technical competence, heh.

Apple’s just closing off practical workarounds.

Nintendo be Nintendo.

The warthog has a purely electric transmission, right?

LLMs, in fact, have slop profiles (aka overused tokens/phrases) common to the family/company, often from “inbreeding” by training on their own output.

Sometimes you can tell if new model “stole” output from another company this way. For instance, Deepseek R1 is suspiciously similar to Google Gemini, heh.

This longform writing benchmark tries to test/measure this (click the I on each model for infographics):

https://eqbench.com/creative_writing_longform.html

As well as some some disparate attempts on GitHub (actually all from the eqbench dev): https://github.com/sam-paech/slop-forensics

https://github.com/sam-paech/antislop-vllm

First of all, these are private companies, not governments. They can technically do whatever TF they want, and we probably shouldn’t have ceded so much power to them.

…Anyway, I think you have a point. Or at least part of one.

It’s reasonable to draw red lines like “no nazism on our platform.” But at the end of the day Spotify and such can ban whatever they want, with no repercussions since it’s basically a network of defacto, legally shielded monopolies.

So how would we feel if, say, they started banning podcasts a little too popular and too critical of the president?

In other words, banning nazism as a policy is fine, but arbitrarily banning what looks bad to them is indeed going to be a problem.

I am a huge BGS and “game cinema” fan, and Starfield felt so… boring. Both the first bit I played before I dropped it, and YT videos to see what I was missing.

For lack of another explanation, its like all those fun side quests and nooks individual writers went crazy making lost their spark. Even ME Andromeda had more compelling bits.

So I can see modders shying away. Why put all that work into something one has no desire to replay, especially with the alternatives we have these days.

I had 2x MMR. Just got a 3rd shot anyway, just in case.

EDIT: For more context, the Costco pharmacist told me (even with 2 shots) its immunity does wane over time. She said I’d probably be fine skipping in my age bracket, but I’m in Texas and I don’t like ‘probably.’

Completely depends on your laptop hardware, but generally:

• TabbyAPI (exllamav2/exllamav3)
• ik_llama.cpp, and its openai server
• kobold.cpp (or kobold.cpp rocm, or croco.cpp, depends)
• An MLX host with one of the new distillation quantizations
• Text-gen-web-ui (slow, but supports a lot of samplers and some exotic quantizations)
• SGLang (extremely fast for parallel calls if thats what you want).
• Aphrodite Engine (lots of samplers, and fast at the expense of some VRAM usage).

I use text-gen-web-ui at the moment only because TabbyAPI is a little broken with exllamav3 (which is utterly awesome for Qwen3), otherwise I’d almost always stick to TabbyAPI.

Tell me (vaguely) what your system has, and I can be more specific.

True, though there’s a big output difference between the 7B distil (or even 32B/70B) and the full model.

And Microsoft does host R1 already, heh. Again, this headline is a big nothingburger.

Also (random aside here), you should consider switching from ollama. They’re making some FOSS unfriendly moves, and depending on your hardware, better backends could host 14B models at longer context, and similar or better speeds.

One can get Deepseek R1 from many providers (including US hosts, or various other nationalities). Microsoft even has their own anti-CCP finetune, MIT licensed: https://huggingface.co/microsoft/MAI-DS-R1

…Banning the app is reasonable, and a tiny inconvenience for anyone who needs DS.

In other words, this is a big nothingburger because V3/R1 are open models. The story would be different if it was (say) an API-only model like Qwen Max or GPT4o, where ultimately one is beholden to the trainer’s servers.

And you are bringing up a red herring (salutes) that doesn’t matter, because, well, I don’t know. But that’s the whole point of the saying.

Tim Waltz does not have eugenics-adjacent beliefs.

Also, I think you may have misinterpreted what “red herring” means.

Nah its much simpler label than that.

“Troll”

The topic doesn’t matter, it more about fishing for provocation. In this case I couldn’t help myself, but… you know, don’t feed the trolls.

As a serious answer, Musk is into modern variants of eugenics and some scary techno-authoritarian stuff he shares with Peter Theil and other Silicon Valley royalty.

Maybe he’s a techno-neonazi? That’s just semantics.

His alleged Nazi salute is indeed kind of a red herring. But “Nazi” is an reasonable enough descriptor for his beliefs.

That’s the point though, basically no-one used VPNs back in the day.

Now its basically required.

They will certainly grow if (US) social media keeps dominating voters’ lives. For all the other factors and opposition screw ups, that’s the engine driving their rise.

But yeah, IDK what Salon is on about.

Oil.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/greenland-puts-an-end-unsuccessful-oil-adventure-2021-07-16/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2024/05/10/energy-industry-already-giving-trump-millions-while-he-promises-big-cutbacks-in-seeking-1-billion-donation/

So… Microtransactions.

They want more microtransactions?

Even giving them the benefit of the doubt, is there any game dev or gamer currently dissatisfied with existing payment systems? Are people in certain countries struggling with the mechanics of paymernt? Like, there are tons of ways to shoehorn in random charges or in-game ownership systems, and I don’t see what crypto brings other than moving the purse-holder.

Again, devil’s avocate: one could argue current platform fees (30%) are very high, but this is more of a monopolization issue than a fundamental payment system one,

Yeah honestly I agree with you.

But like others said, not sure iffy translations would be enough to save the company.

Not following that at all…

AI Bro is pretty specific. To me, its evangelists worshipping nebulous ideas and figures like Altman or maybe Musk, looking down on others for not “understanding” how amazing their vision of AI is, all in on the enshittification and impracticality, all in on the raging hype.

It feels very much like crypto fanaticism.

Even if we interpret OP as cynically as possible (lazy AI-only translation when they have another option)… that’s bad, but not “AI Bro” to me.