Is keypassXC problematic?
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But then you're like "Firefox sounds okay" and then you see how hard Mozilla is deep-throating AI, and cutting their developer staff, trying desperately to be hip and relevant to shitheads who think hacker news comment section is the equivalent of greek philosophical debate
@da_667 well I'm biased., just started working for Mozilla. I wished they kept it low with the AI hype but that was my opinion. To stay relevant Firefox needs to be on top of the mainstream. And what that IS, is kinda hard to see from my geek view. That I have to admid and I trust the leadership. It's still great software that makes it easiest to opt out of Ai.
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"I want to use a web browser that isn't deep-throating AI"
Well, your choices are lynx and that's basically it.
@da_667 I'm looking forward to Servo, which doesn't allow contributions with AI help. It's the new Firefox—and what Firefox was supposed to become. (Note: Rust accepts slop)
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fellas, I'm gonna level with you. I'm starting to feel like computing in general is a series of trade-offs on how far you're willing to compromise on your morals.
@da_667 I decided not to go into medicine partly because I saw the moral challenges my father was faced with during his career. I picked computers because it seemed very cut and dried. I then ended up in #FPGA design, and discovered that the major industries are about #weapons (aka euphemistically called #defense contractors), and #HFT which seems like a race to the bottom where engineers are being named in lawsuits. Or #ProAudio. But now: #AI is in my face at work.
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@cR0w Your curse is trial and error.
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@nyanbinary @da_667 @cR0w I remember hearing that one of the BSD’s is problematic, but I don’t remember which one
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@cR0w Use BSD. Accept the curse of "The Burden of Knowledge." BSD just works. Except when it doesn't. And when it doesn't just work, its because you aren't good enough to run BSD. There are no tutorials. There are no blog posts. There is no guidance, aside from an IRC channel where the entire channel is idle. forever.
@da_667 so bsd stands for BringSkillDistribution?
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fellas, I'm gonna level with you. I'm starting to feel like computing in general is a series of trade-offs on how far you're willing to compromise on your morals.
@da_667
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fellas, I'm gonna level with you. I'm starting to feel like computing in general is a series of trade-offs on how far you're willing to compromise on your morals.
@da_667 s/computing/capitalism/
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@cR0w Use BSD. Accept the curse of "The Burden of Knowledge." BSD just works. Except when it doesn't. And when it doesn't just work, its because you aren't good enough to run BSD. There are no tutorials. There are no blog posts. There is no guidance, aside from an IRC channel where the entire channel is idle. forever.
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Use linux. Accept the curse of the automatroid: most major distros are accepting AI commits. Accept that systemd has been a cancer for a very long time.
Use macOS. Accept the curse of the Walled garden: You may run only what we tell you to run, when we tell you to run it. The rules change with every major OS update. You will accept them or you will go elsewhere.
Use Windows. Accept the curse of the hunted: You are being watched. You cannot slip your pursuer, you cannot obfuscate yourself. Even if you think you've hidden yourself, because of how convoluted Windows is, you can't really be 100% sure that you are not being watched. And even if you aren't you won't know whether or not a critical update re-enables the watcher in the walls.
@da_667 Trainspotting voice: Choose your future. Choose life. But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin’ else...
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fellas, I'm gonna level with you. I'm starting to feel like computing in general is a series of trade-offs on how far you're willing to compromise on your morals.
@da_667 this is true of everything. Do you cut your weeds with a strimmer or a scythe? If you use a strimmer, is it petrol or electric? If a scythe, does it have a metal snath or a wooden one? Was it made in China or in Europe? By an artisan craftsman or a corporate?
I mean, yes, computing smashes us in the face with these questions much more forcefully, but really, they apply to everything. Except for this point: artisan produced processors and memory are extremely rare.
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@Frischling @da_667 what else can I tell you? For me, the answer to the question "is there any LLM use that would be morally OK to use?" is a plain "no".
If you want to act morally and ethically with LLMs, you dont use them.
I'm sorry it does not help you argue with your colleagues.
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fellas, I'm gonna level with you. I'm starting to feel like computing in general is a series of trade-offs on how far you're willing to compromise on your morals.
@da_667 This is exactly right. Everything in computers now is accepting the least bad choice.
What I really hate is, we keep having to remake the entire battery of choices again and again and again!
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@cR0w Use BSD. Accept the curse of "The Burden of Knowledge." BSD just works. Except when it doesn't. And when it doesn't just work, its because you aren't good enough to run BSD. There are no tutorials. There are no blog posts. There is no guidance, aside from an IRC channel where the entire channel is idle. forever.
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fellas, I'm gonna level with you. I'm starting to feel like computing in general is a series of trade-offs on how far you're willing to compromise on your morals.
@da_667 yes!
We need less computing. Full stop.
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@da_667 Use BSD. Never be heard from again.
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fellas, I'm gonna level with you. I'm starting to feel like computing in general is a series of trade-offs on how far you're willing to compromise on your morals.
Morals are what I won't do. Ethics is me telling you not to do something.
There are plenty of good choices out there. Let's make them, instead of yelling about the series of tradeoffs.
