Broadly speaking though, it’s true. Do you have counter examples to offer?

Microsoft has been contributing a ton to FOSS the last 5 or 6 years.

Their flagship programming language, .net, is fully OSS and runs best on Linux.

Old people carpet bathrooms. They do it because one of the primary places they slip and fall and hurt themselves in is the bathroom.

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I work in this field a good bit, and you’re largely correct. That’s a great analogy of trying to remove salt from a stew. The only issue with that analogy is that that’s technically possible still by distilling the stew and recovering the salt. Even though it would destroy the stew.

At the point that pii data is in the model, it’s fully baked. It’d be like trying to get the eggs out of a baked cake. The chemical composition has changed into something else completely.

That’s how building a model works today. Like baking a cake.

I’m order to remove or even identify pii data in ML models or LLMs today, we’d need a whole new way of baking a cake that would keep the eggs separate from the cake until just before you tried to take a bite out of it. The tools today don’t allow you to do anything like that. They bake you a complete cake.

Florida hasn’t been purple in decades. Not since the supreme Court overstepped their authority in Bush v Gore

42, U.S. I can, very well. I used to race cars on the track. I don’t do that anymore, but it’s a useful skill to have when I’m in Europe. Manual transmission is the norm for any rental car.

Ah, appreciate the context. Thank you.

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How do you see this as a slap on the wrist? He’s facing disciplinary proceedings after the initial 90 day suspension.

79 coaches have resigned.

This feels like serious repercussions territory.

This is a coping mechanism. They have to believe there’s a reason for their suffering, so they invent a plan that’s happening behind the scenes that they’ll only understand at some vague time in the future.

For the first hundred thousand or so years of human existence, this was fine, and helped keep us from losing our shit while developing our civilization.

Now? It’s highly detrimental to our ability to cope with reality.

Therapy and good friends are where it’s at.

There is no greater plan. Sometimes shit just happens and you’ve got to deal with it to move on. That’s not something to be afraid of. That’s just life.

As a programmer: compile times

Unless…

You’re my hero.

Same. This all feels so similar, but different at the same time. In a good way tho.

They largely believe they’re the main characters in a universe created just for them by a super being.

Their belief that this is all planned is unshakable. Because the second that’s in doubt, so is everything else they believe.

In order to believe in climate change, they have to stop being religious. That’s a harder sell. So they stick their heads in the sand and pretend it’s all a part of God’s plan.

Holy shit, I totally remember them and trading cards in the 90s. Always wondered what happened with that, now I know.

What a fall from grace. Then and fleer were the shit.

Gerrymandering doesn’t affect presidential elections. Only the lower house of Congress and the state legislative branch.

That’s our bar here? That someone who has put in years and years of hard Dev effort, every day, built up a community, took risks, etc, should just be happy he has food on the table?

Fuck that noise. I don’t care if he’s already s multi millionaire, he can charge whatever he wants, and we can choose to pay it or not. The man is running a business model here. He’s not done weekend warrior FOSS hacker. He deserves to be paid for his efforts.

Sometimes you have to pay for keeping things free, if that makes any sense.

FOSS can’t exist in a vacuum. The developers spend a lot of time on things and they need to be paid for their efforts, otherwise we won’t get great products like Sync.

If you want things that are well maintained and supported, then there has to be income for those owners to provide those services.

Sync for lemmy is a top tier client. I’m willing to pay to get and support that model. It’s not like the 17 dollars a year is a big deal. I spend more than that on a single sushi roll sometimes.