I agree. This thread has some high levels of reaction. It’s disappointing to see.

start writing actually efficient software

We should be writing efficient software regardless.

I want an AI, for example, to analyze the material conditions of a country and plan a Communist revolution for me. Can I have that? Will capitalism produce this for me?

Unironically, I think what’s more likely to happen is that once the compute resources become affordable to the average working class people then someone will inevitably start a FOSS project like that. I have the feeling even if some private company manages to make an AI that could be used for things like planning revolution they will probably train it in ways to make it incapable of doing these things.

I wouldn’t even call it half of an AGI. AGI is comparable to a CPU; It’s a general purpose machine that is designed to run general purpose programs. But LLMs, Txt2Img Models, Img2Img Models, etc. are like ASICs: They’re specifically designed to do exactly one thing and do it very well. Claiming that any of the current AI technology is anywhere near general purpose is laughable. It’s nothing more than an attempt to build hype, to attract investors and gain market share.

I remember this. I refunded the game ASAP. For the longest time they’ve neglected the Linux client to the point where it was just broken and crashed often and you couldn’t even play with Windows players because the Linux client was so far behind. And of course the Windows version ran just fine on Linux via Proton. Yet they seemed surprised and annoyed whenever Linux players pointed this out. That’s where I lost all my respect for them as a developer. I would refund Gary’s Mod too if I could.

Documentation on loongson processors is still pretty sparse. So far they’ve only published a volume 1 which covers the basics. All the interesting stuff is still to be documented but for some reason they archived the repository a few months ago: https://github.com/loongson/LoongArch-Documentation/

I’m curious how a loongson SIMD optimized program would compare to the x86 equivalent.

Similar but in this case the Linux Kernel/Init System act as the PXE firmware so you don’t need a TFTP Server to load initramfs and a Kernel image. And you don’t need a NFS or Samba server because the Server has the drive with the rootfs already exposed to the network.

From what I understand it’s basically like a “thin client” type of thing where the client loads the Kernel from local storage up to a certain point and then boots into a rootfs that is somewhere else on a remote server.

I don’t understand how so many people use that centralized, proprietary piece of big tech spyware for like almost everything. There are so many interesting communities out there that exclusively exist on Discord. I hate how some software projects and games use only Discord to post updates, news, patchnotes, documentation and even download links. And they expect people to just “join our Discord” for suggestions, bug reports and troubleshooting. I don’t have a Discord account and I don’t plan on making one, ever. There is so much useful and interesting information currently out there that people are never going to get to see simply because it’s all scattered in random chat rooms on random Discord servers. And if any of those chat rooms, Discord servers or even Discord itself gets shut down all of that information will inevitably become lost media.

This isn’t limited to JS. Too many times have I seen someone ask a question of how to do XYZ in language ABC where most of the replies were some form of “Just use this library bro” while not actually answering the question. And usually the library that’s being suggested is some big monolith that implements a ton of shit that no one really uses.

Voice of Korea does in fact have a TLS certificate. You may have to specify https:// manually though.

It’s still going to make western web browsers mad because It’s technically self-signed. Also it expired almost 2 years ago.

If you like old forums check out lemmyBB

emacs

Agreed. While Matrix may not be part of the so called “fediverse” like lemmy, people should never forget that Matrix is also a federated protocol with hundreds if not thousands of public homeservers.

As long as the Element App isn’t doing something sus, like storing unencrypted user messages locally or phone messages home to element.io despite being on a completely unrelated homeserver I don’t think there should be much concern. And even if any of these are the case it shouldn’t be hard to fork the thing and patch that stuff out. Or just use a more trustworthy client.