This is also rich coming from its parent company, which is involved in the Incogni scam.

Yo, stop fucking using Plex and switch to Jellyfin. I switched over months ago, and it just works.

Plex became the enemy when they forced their users into a subscription model. Support bullshit-free open-source software instead.

Your responses are the equivalent of “I don’t use the internet, because nothing beats the experience of walking to your library and looking through the research material yourself”.

Sure, I can do all of those things. But, sometimes I don’t want to spend hours going through the searches, bang my head against the wall with useless tech forums, and get frustrated with shifting through the results. The LLM can get it done in a minute or two, and I can still ask follow-up questions if I don’t trust anything, or want clarification.

And yes, like Wikipedia, I still review the sources and review the code.

If I build a wheelchair ramp out of the flesh and bones of orphans I’m still not a very good person.

Comparing copyright, a bullshit concept that was designed only to protect the rich, to building with “the flesh and bones of orphans” is so extreme that it’s not even worth arguing about.

Even if we called them LLMs, which we should, people will keep having these negative connotations to the technology because of overmarketing. This feature is still using LLMs, and that’s not supposed to be a bad thing.

Stop blaming the technology, and blame the corpos pushing it to the moon. This is “BitTorrent is only used for piracy” bullshit all over again.

I also just plain don’t know what I’d use any LLM for.

PewDiePie has been on a tear lately with recommending everybody switch to Linux and recently experimenting with LLMs. He put out a legit good local LLM project that showcases the different kinds of things you can do with a model.

My biggest LLM use cases have been:

• A replacement for search, since you typically need multiple searches and multiple sources to get the information you need
• Code generation, because it’s so good at producing entire fully-featured utilities or just let it spin away at implementing some new functionality
• Helping me out with some random Linux error or difficulty, because support forums are fucking garbage

Well, when the conversations comes up talking about the Windows 11 crashing or has some horrible bug again, then yes, they will definitely tell you. It’s kinda hard not to educate people that it’s fairly easy to just switch to an OS that actually works.

I generally favor local LLM usage, but I will sometimes use Kagi’s assistant tools. I trust them to throw out my data a fuckton more than I do Google.

Did you download the source code? It’s on GitHub. It’s literally on GitLab. It’s on Bitbucket with ads. It’s literally on SourceForge. You can probably find it on Savannah. Dude it’s on Azure DevOps. It’s a Codeberg project. It’s on Gitea. You can download it on Gitea. You can go to Gitea and download it. Log into Gitea right now. Go to Gitea. Dive into Gitea. You can Gitea it. It’s on Gitea. Gitea has it for you. Gitea has it for you.

And then what? Sell it for money? Booooring!

I’m sure they got a bunch of famous rich assholes. Why not fuck with them?

Imagine two glasses, both 8 oz. One is titled usability and the other titled security.

And one is the dumpster fire that is Windows 11.

I feel like these security arguments are overblown. Linux is still pretty damn secure, and the Linux community is still tough on fixing security bugs.

Would you rather be using a UNIX-based secure OS, or Windows update-and-crash 11?

I don’t see any open-source forks of a BSD spinoff (only proprietary ones like what runs on the PS5)

I wonder why. Maybe if they were GPL, they wouldn’t have that problem.

Yeah, because Pokémon.

But, I personally don’t give a shit about a franchise that glorifies gladiatorial slavery in the veneer of a kid’s show.

People quietly forgot about Ingress, but who’s counting?

Depends on what you mean by “fanboys”. No, the hype isn’t as real as these rich assholes make it out to be. LLMs aren’t going to replace all human workforce everywhere ever, like some of these techbro dipshits quickly find out.

But, I’m still going to use technology that produce a tool in two minutes what would have normally taken me two hours to do. Sure, I have to code review it, but that doesn’t take nearly as long as the work itself.

Slop that produces inaccurate results and then tells you it did no such thing.

I use Claude at work and local LLMs at home, and they all produce good code. The Kagi agents work pretty well at searching for information that would have taken me 30-60 minutes to find. Although, I generally favor thinking models because they are good at edge cases.

You have to know how to provide good context for the situation, like examples, prior art, documentation, etc. Many people have a hard time even expressing an idea to a group of humans. Imagine your (pointy-haired) boss shows your department a picture in the next meeting:

B: “Go make this thing!”

D: “What thing?”

B: “Here. This thing. Make something just like it for our company!”

D: “Well, we can’t just copy it outright. What color should it be? What do we want to improve on? How do we tie it to our existing software?”

B: “I don’t know. That’s your job to figure out, right?”

That’s how most people treat LLMs. Garbage in, garbage out.

Remember, IBM is the company that fucked over CentOS when they acquired it, and then tried to block their forked OSs from getting updates.

IBM’s acquisitions over the last couple of decades have ended in sadness, so I wouldn’t trust that company to take out my trash, much less “secure enterprise open-source software”.

OpenAI already at the stage of begging for a government bailout. So, they are in the process of imploding, and Hegseth will come crawling back to Anthropic, anyway.

People seem to forget that, 15-20 years ago, 95% of email was spam. It’s gone down since then, but only because email isn’t that important of a communication platform nowadays.

Bad actors attack with the tools they’ve got. If it’s not protected, it’s exploitable until it is.

At first, I thought this was the next step after the whole AI minister is preggers with 83 AI babies scam, but realized that was Albania. Still, “non-human corporations” is close enough on the corruption scale.