I look forward to your tireless contributions to moderating the next and better rust community on reddit with your stated passions for openness and sharing of all personal projects you will tirelessly curate for me to consume, thank you for your efforts.
It is! Its charming. What claude dosnt have is an off day, its just the same. No sleepy claude, no stresses claude, no sad claude you know hes not himself this week because of some thing going on with his girlfriend or mom or whatever. Its devoid humanity, the same exact tone and expressions over and over and over.
> What claude dosnt have is an off day, its just the same.
But it... does. In some sessions it will get particularly paranoid, apologetic, self-doubtful, or suspicious. I'd say these traits are always there but they can become more or less pronounced.
(By contrast, I'd say the GPT models are much more even keeled, although I maybe haven't used them enough.)
In 2006 i was arguing in barrens chat with someone spouting racist nazi bullshit, 3 days of this they sent me /t saying i couldnt stop them shaping the minds of young men. Shaping the minds of young men, an exact quote i would hear being used by steve bannon many years later. This.. thing.. has been active for much longer then 10 years.
ok well I went from not knowing what a tensor was to having my pi coding agent polish up my orchestration layer in about ~60 days, wheres the ai dreg hiring at?
1. Download ollama and give it a try. It doesn't have to be that one but it's an easy on-ramp. Just get a feel for what open source/open weights is capable of
2. Mention it whenever it comes up. Most people have no clue this is a thing and I think it's useful to make people aware. We need access to uncensored / unbiased LLM models - information wants to be free but there are plenty of businesses gunning for regulatory capture as these are very powerful tools.
3. If you're in a position of developing any project that makes use of AI in any form, check the open source models first, unless you absolutely require the best of the best, these other models are pretty dang capable of almost everything any commercial model can do.
4. If your state or {insert legal jurisdiction here} attempts to regulate access to open source tools for this, oppose it with your vote and your voice.
5. Opposed laws that grant commercial AI suppliers any priority or premium access under government purchasing programs.
I'm sure others will chime in, those are a few that pop the mind.
Weren't people pissed off at them for a variety of reasons? Not giving attribution etc.
In case anyone wants other good alternatives, there's llama.cpp and vLLM, each harder to setup but opens the door for squeezing more performance out of your hardware.
You could also vote with your valley and support orgs that release open weights of their near-SOTA models, though nowadays that means giving cash to primarily Chinese companies (e.g. Moonshot and Z.ai). For what it's worth, people are also complaining about them decreasing usage quotas on their subscription offerings as well so seems like the squeeze is everywhere, even DeepSeek raised their prices (which is better than them going broke, I guess).
One issue is that models are only one part of the equation. Search is also extremely important, and for that you pretty much have to depend on a third-party service.
Unsubscribe from Anthropic because they block third party harness on subscriptions.
As long as you keep providers replaceable things will be fine.
Google, Facebook, Apple etc were much better deals around 2010 before they became entrenched and irreplaceable, and thus able to extract & enshitify without people leaving.
In many countries Meta platforms—Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApps—are primary means of communication. If you want to find interesting events happening this weekend, you need to be on Facebook. In this regard, Google and Apple are much easier to leave because they offer personalised services, and you can always move your email and photos elsewhere. But you cannot move other people from Facebook or Instagram.
It’s not that easy to leave Google or Apple. As an example I wanted to leave iCloud and stop paying storage tax for Apple. But they have made it almost impossible to migrate the photos. There is no API to download the photos programmatically and the only way is to sync all the photos to MacBook and then move it. However, the photos are close to 1TB of storage and my MacBook doesn’t have enough storage to sync all those photos locally.
Same goes for Gmail. I have used my Gmail address for countless services and it’s almost part of my official identity. The benefits of moving away from Gmail doesn’t justify the effort I have to put in
> I have used my Gmail address for countless services and it’s almost part of my official identity.
This has been a topic for over a decade now, I think. People have been recommending getting your own domain. Best time to do that was ten years ago, and the second best is today.
For you, sure. But there are a lot of communities running entirely there. Our local farmer's market is preorder only, and is entirely run off Facebook. I would have to skip going there altogether.
And it's not viable to propose any alternative. There is no platform, closed or open, where there are enough people registered to be actually usable, and nobody will make a separate account for this.
By sending some cash (and maybe some non-sensitive training data too) the way of labs creating open models? At work we have expensive Anthropic and OpenAI subscriptions but also have some in house workflows plugged into DeepSeek and GLM APIs.
A pull request is a communication to the project. AI or no AI, a poorly communicated request is a burden. IMHO AI prs are fine as long as the submitter has done the work to refine that communication to make it easy to read and assess.
A large submission without a breakdown or explanation, or a pass to minimize the code change is junk. The operator can literally ask the ai to compose it better, refactor in to smaller PRs, or do it themself. The annoyance is to have to communicate and enforce expectations to drive by submitters. In the end every project has to figure out what they accept. If, at a glance the PR is drive by junk being thrown over the wall, a response of this doesn't meet our pr submission standards delete, or try again, to me is not overly burdensome.
I for one am running what I can on my aging 1080Ti(!!), namely a Qwen2.5 14B (4-bit quantized). It’s not great, and the only other card I have is a 3070Ti but I need that for gaming. :(
What a terrible card that 3070Ti is. Mad regrets buying it because I wanted to save $400 compared to a 3080Ti.
I really don’t understand why this is being downvoted? Did I say something wrong / controversial? Or is it because I’m not using my resources the “optimal” way? Is it because my models aren’t open weight? I was only trying to contribute my experience :(
Chemical based? they are a terrible idea, dont work very well so need constant re apply and then your just poisoning your land. why even be outside then?
uv light/electrical based? they are terrible and will kill every damn thing else alive. dont install these outside! inside only!
Water based? this actually works(depending on where you live)just get a small tub or like a plastic storage or recycling bin or a 5 gallon bucket, and keep it there outside full of water, throw in a hand full of leaves and dirt before you do, every so often throw in "mosquito dunks", thats it. you get them to use the honeybucket and keep it full of mosquito larva eating bacteria, something like that, look into it.
Mosquitos are evolved for our skin, they smell out breath, they are our perfect enemy, you wont fully avoid them. get used to wearing long breathable clothing when your working in the heat, a very loose outer layer over a very thin inner layer can feel cooling in the heat and keep them away from our skin while working outside.
Mosquitos like to be outside in when the angle of the sun is low, so work outside when the angle of the sun is high overhead. If you have alot of mosquitos even when the sun is high then you got a lot of mosquitos indeed and need dunk buckets asap. might want to check your property for standing water, get your gutters cleaned.
Mosquitos are pathetic bugs, they can be eating by many other bugs and birds. A diversity of plants on your property will bring a diversity of bugs. A diversity of bugs will bring a diversity of larger bugs, which will bring a diversity of birds. Make habitat for all of these on your property.
Dont spray chemical fertilizer/herbicide/pesticide, stop mowing 100% of the lawn and let some go to seed. this will slowly bring more diversity. have an area where you pile sticks twigs and logs, a waist high pile of random sticks provides a huge space for bugs to hang out. Dont bag your leaves, let them settle all winter long, did you know fireflys overwinter in leaf litter? when you blow leaves away, you blow healthy bugs away too. Do all of these things and slowly the bugs and birds in your neighborhood will learn your yard is safe, the increase diversity will bring so many medium/large hunter bugs and birds that mosquitos wont be able to survive out there.
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