It’d be better if they went after literally every other AI corp than Meta in this case. Meta is the only one that’s ironically releasing open-source models and leading the way for open-source LLMs. I don’t want Meta to stop doing this.

Meta’s llama models are generally open. In fact Meta is the main megacorp that’s driving open-source AI right now. Everyone else keeps their models proprietary.

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Conviction means nothing if you can’t enforce it. I highly doubt any of them would ever actually see jail.

It’s not about the money. It’s about power.

culturally they either serve others or expect to be served

As an Indian it’s amazing how you perfectly hit the nail on the head considering how limited your exposure has been. Most Indians themselves never realize this tendency of theirs throughout their lives.

Yeah there are lovely solutions for everything if you can self-host, but the general crowd only has standalone websites hosted by some brave pirate captain.

With regard to ebooks, a clean Kindle-friendly website that immediately downloads the .azw3 file for any book selected.

NYT detected, appeal to attention rejected.

Bluesky and their AT Protocol sound much better.

They follow a federated model quite similar to Mastodon, except with better feeds powered by a variety of user-choosable post ranking and content discovery algorithms. It is the true federated Twitter/X clone.

We are not in want of such solutions, Lutris and other existing solutions are capable of making game-specific environments already. The main problem is having enough volunteers to painstakingly run, test and submit the exact dependency parameters for each game that makes it run correctly. Same will be the issue even if we shift to Nix or anything else. The problem is manpower scarcity, not lack of tech.

this year, for the first time, I had to intervene to protect female students from the toxic behavior of male groups. More then once.

Is it that bad? Sorry, I genuinely thought you were only complaining about the kids being undisciplined in class and the like. What you’re describing is scary, may I ask what were they doing? Are today’s kids entering criminal territory of harassment? I thought things like bullying have been progressively declining over years?

I don’t want to be rude but you really should not continue teaching (at least in the same way) if you are that repulsed or disconnected from your students.

Students will always have different priorities and mindsets than their teacher would like them to have, and most times they’ll be wrong; it’s a part of life in acads. Most of these youngsters have had very little exposure to the world and it is bound they’ll make mistakes. That’s what school is for. And they will certainly not remain the same, just like anyone from your generation as well, when they get older.

You cannot just get into teaching and not expect delinquency, that’s not how it works. Just focus on getting the subject matter of whatever you’re teaching through their heads and ensure everyone understands the concepts, the “bad” idealogues will eventually get sorted out themselves.

Katana Zero

Microsoft only tolerates retail users, it has always intended its products to be for commercial entities.

Librarians are not always (but in fact, are very rarely) Lit enthusiasts who’ll know the best choices whenever you ask them. Most of them are just doing their jobs.

But the libgen upload interface is cumbersome, requires way too many details and has regularly denied my uploads whenever I tried.

SMS has been free in India since 2016. Though one could say WhatsApp had already become dominant by then, so it stuck.

WhatsApp does not come pre-installed on most phones (for some reason it often isn’t included even with Facebook’s crapware). It is still the de facto chat app in India, Brazil and dozens of other Asian, South American and European countries.

All these features you get much better using actual E2E-encrypted chat apps like Signal or WhatsApp like the rest of the world.