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Ooh. As a hobbyist "mostly for funzies" prepper I was mildly interested. But then I clicked around their site a bit and I found preorders for a version of the prepper disk with an LLM chatbot "companion.". Assuming the LLM is using RAG on the library of source documents and isn't just relying on its training, that's really neat. I know people will exclaim "hallucination!", but in a situation where you literally have no idea what to do, no way to get help, and the alternative is lying down and dying, I could see this being really handy. Often the hardest part of having a giant archive of information is how to find what you need out of it and interpret what it's telling you.

I'd rather use an "open" version of this, though. Prepper Disk's website sounds like they're trying to keep their data at least partially locked down, and while I can understand that they want to recoup the cost of the effort they put into setting this up it kind of goes against the grain of prepping to rely on something that you can't repair or modify yourself.

I think you're overlooking a more likely (and more reasonable) approach preppers take; become skilled in various survival-oriented skills and then if things go south you can go to one of those farms and offer to help out in exchange for some of the food. The lone rambo raider types aren't going to last long, humans are social animals that do best in tribes and for the most part want to form tribes.

Preemptively apocalypsing yourself by forcing yourself to live in some sort of self-sufficient compound right now isn't reasonable for most people, but having some plans and resources in your back pocket in case of disaster is not at all unreasonable.

If nothing else, it makes camping more fun and lets you ride out a power outage or local disaster in style.

Have to admit, I was starting to wonder if he'd managed to learn just a smidgen of self control given how he'd managed to shut up about this for so long at this point. But I guess he ran out of other things he wanted to crow about given the failure of everything else he's been trying to do recently.

The orange idiot down south just opened his sphincter-mouth again on the 51st state thing, which is good news. I'm amazed he was able to shut up about it for as long as he has, I guess we just came up again on the "Wheel of Chaos" topic selector now that he wants everyone to stop looking at his latest total failure in Ukraine.

Not actually the case. GPL's "viral" nature depends on copyright prohibiting the use of the code you publish without agreeing to the GPL's conditions. Without copyright you could take GPLed code and use it in a closed-source program without publishing your own version or licencing it under the GPL. Most copyleft licenses are like that, including stuff like the Creative Commons.

Everyone other than the Americans. Europe, for example.

Ooh, they're offering free database hosting? Put me in touch.

It's been funny over the past year or two seeing threads in piracy forums where people were upset with AI trainers scraping pirated material to train their AI with. I'm curious where the general consensus will eventually land.

Open source generally depends quite heavily on copyright, though. None of the copyleft licenses work without it.

Maybe now the adults that are left can do some real work.

I mean, there's more evidence that he killed the pope than there is evidence that he fucks couches. And lots of people are saying he fucks couches. Not saying that he does, of course, just that lots of people are saying it.

He was 88, a stiff breeze would have been as effective an assassination method.