Lemmy also pushed me into trying Linux about 2 years ago and I also ended up on Aurora. Aurora has a pretty small user base, but it’s nice.

As sharp as a bowling ball.

On the one hand, this is very funny. On the other hand, however, it’s still very funny, but also maybe we shouldn’t turn running full speed into a house of religion, no matter how hokey that religion may be, into a trend? Yes, the whole enterprise is shady at best, and they believe in some weird space alien magic. They also have a history of harassing former members and anyone who dares to pull back the veil on the secretive organization’s scare tactics.

Fuck off with this whitewashing. Scientology isn’t “hokey” or “shady”. It’s outright evil.

I hate how these kinds of things are always framed. The implied message is always that “AI” can autonomously decide to go of the rails. Similar to the Moltbot craze. The agents have to be told to go do the things they do. They don’t have free will.

Using a combination of network science and large language models, the same underlying technology that powers systems like ChatGPT, the researchers created and monitored synthetic bot agent personas, their posts, and their interactions with one another, simulating what a coordinated AI-powered social media network might look like.

So yeah, LLMs can used nefariously to great effect. They’re essentially more sophisticated bots.

I was a Windows fanboy for close to 30 years, until I switched to a Linux fanboy and never looked back.

That’s her face from 10-15 years ago. She has aged.

My wife and I yelled at the same time when that ad played. Insanely dystopian.

You’re just driving my point home.

There’s really no reason for you to act like this. This kind of snark doesn’t endear you to anyone and it doesn’t help good faith conversion.

I think you dramatically don’t understand how different other people are compared to you. Either that, or you lack empathy. I can’t think of any other reasons why you would distrust and dismiss their reasoning.

It doesn’t. The knife is actually really, really cool. I’d heard about it a few months ago and if I had the disposable cash, I’d by one.

Machine learning is not viable for anything other than simpler 2d games or small segments of more complex games. The training required to get good results on that is intense already.

Also, this isn’t possible with current or even next gen tech, unless they literally script the “AI” responses to all available situations which would be infeasible.

LLMs can’t reason or handle complex situations. They are text auto complete programs or image generation programs.

I bet the current administration will be really sad about that.

I had similar thoughts in the Holocaust museum in DC last year about the parallels to Palestine.

This is one of the coolest things about Universal Blue OSs like Bazzite. You can very easily roll your own custom OS based off of one of their images. And it’s all automated.

I feel like that’s the best of both worlds. Extreme customizability and standardization.

As have people bitching about it.

That’s not how these OSs work. You’re thinking in terms of traditional distros.

Think of it like this. With an image-based OS like Bazzite, whenever you do an update or you switch between different flavors, it’s like completely wiping the system directories and reinstalling them fresh, while leaving the user directories alone.

So you’re not removing GNOME or KDE. It’s like they were never installed in the first place.

To spread the love, basically.

Aurora sitting down there at the bottom of the desktop OSs. I’d love to some of the Bazzite users migrate to Bluefin or Aurora.

If you’re not aware, switching between different Universal Blue OSs is super easy, with one caveat. Switching from a GNOME OS to a KDE OS or vice versa is problematic.