MrMcGasion

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[–] MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 12 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

It's not any different from running a random bash script, which is why according to the Arch wiki, users of the AUR should "verify that the PKGBUILD and accompanying files are not malicious or untrustworthy." That's also why good AUR helpers ask if you want to look at the PKGBUILD every time you install or update anything, because best practice is to read them every time so you know what it's doing.

The AUR there for convienience, which means it tends to get used by newbies who really probably shouldn't be using it. But I also won't pretend that I follow the guidance every time myself.

[–] MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Is anyone even working on AGI or have any clue how to get there? Or are we just going to wait a few years, move the goalposts again, and let them call GPT X "AGI"?

[–] MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Remember their names for Nuremberg Trials v2. All their talk about immigrants bringing crime, and yet they're all soulless, assholes who lack a shred of empathy, and have convinced themselves they're "taking out the competition." Crime is fine with them as long as it's their friends doing it.

As an aside I'm trying not to legitimize their twisted, racist views of immigrants, so I hope that's clear in how I wrote this, but I'm also aware that I'm tired and should be asleep, so including this aside in case I didn't make that clear. Immigrants belong in my country as much as I do (probably more than I do in many cases), and we should be working to treat them better, not worse.

[–] MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, but then we have president JD. What we need is for Vance to snap, strangle Trump, get caught by Mike Johnson who he then uses his special anti-pope magic on to keep him quiet. Then in the power vacuum, America discovers we didn't need a president this whole time, and we spend the next few years getting to know ourselves.

It's the fantasy political thriller rom-com that could save the American movie industry.

[–] MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 26 points 5 days ago

Neither is his friendship with Epstein. Apparently half the country wasn't paying attention in 2016.

[–] MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Probably some more Nightreign (if that counts), possibly continuing my very slow NG+ run of Elden Ring.

Considering picking up Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, but haven't decided and might just wait for a sale on that.

[–] MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 73 points 1 week ago (20 children)

I don't see anyone saying this yet, but the Epstein files were sealed by a court order for Ghislaine Maxwell's trial. They weren't unsealed until January of 2025. Biden couldn't have released them without violating the court order that sealed them - and possibly giving Ghislaine's lawyers a slam dunk to get her off with a mistrial.

[–] MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Based on the attempts we've seen at censoring AI output so far, there doesn't seem to me to be a way to actually do this without building a new model with pre-censored training data.

Sure they can tune models, but even "MechaHitler" Grok was still giving some "woke" answers on occasion. I don't see how this doesn't either destroy AI's "usefulness" (not that there's any usefulness there to begin with) or cost so much to implement that investors pull out because none of the AI companies are profitable, and throwing billions more to sift through and filter the training data pushes profitability even further away (if censoring all the training data is even possible at all).

[–] MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

It'll just be old Playboy magazines and the copy of Forbes magazine with his face on the cover that he had Stormy spank him with.

[–] MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

The DNC had a fundraising advantage over Trump leading up to the election in 2024. Honestly that whole "Kamala and the DNC has a 1 billion dollar war chest" a few weeks before the election probably hurt them more than it helped.

Money enables things, and financially it's an asset, but culturally, it's a liability - and always should be.

[–] MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

Honestly the minute they realize "liberals" are happy some of them are waking up, they'll probably get back in line. Most of them joined the cult to "own the libs" and that's the only thing they actually care about.

[–] MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not sure the whole internet was woke, the nazis and pedophiles have been here for quite a while too. But they were on the fringe and shunned by the larger internet culture until relatively recently. Trump started courting the votes of the worst side of the internet. Then the pandemic brought a bunch of "normies" online whose brains weren't ready for the culture shock, and rather than accepting the freaks and geeks, they decided the nazis were the normal ones.

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