I might actually end up disabling swap in the end. I wanted to update that apparently I “fixed” the problem (not sure if permanently) by turning off the pc, unplugging the PSU, and holding down the power button for 30 seconds. Normal reboots weren’t enough. I’ll take it for now.

Maybe I’m wrong, but I had understood that the content on your instance would also not be pushed to them, after defederating. The only thing you can’t stop is having that instance see your comments and posts on another instance (not your own or the one you defederated from).

I have plenty of RAM and I run Linux on a VM. Works like a charm. You can even use open source hypervisors like UTM.

I wouldn’t bother running it on bare metal just yet.

I do trust the devices on my network but I guess I’ll probably look into how to setup HTTPS.

This has the best explanation I’ve seen: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/jun/23/rhel-gpl-analysis/

In particular, see the section “What Exactly Is the RHEL Business Model?”.

Or, if you want a short sentence to read only:

Whether that analysis is correct is a matter of intense debate, and likely only a court case that disputed this particular issue would yield a definitive answer on whether that disagreeable behavior is permitted (or not) under the GPL agreements.

The point is that it does not violate the GPL.

Yes. I just don’t know if it’s good to phrase it as “RHEL customers are legally allowed to share the code”, since as soon as they do it they won’t be allowed to be customers anymore lol (assuming Red Hat finds out)

It’s simple: they can redistribute it since it’s GPL, but if they do so, they break their business contract with RedHat, so they’re not customers anymore and can’t see the source code in the future.

GPL doesn’t mean that they must give the code to everyone, only that you have those rights as long as you have the software. So RedHat is not forced to have everyone as a customer, and according to them, distributing the code kicks you out.

They can still re-distribute the current source they have, but will not have access to future source code.

That’s not how I understood it. I think saying “closed source” is kind of misleading.

The Arch Linux pipeline is real, folks.

Them: you post content online that’s not even yours, because getting upvotes makes you feel less lonely as you don’t have real friends

Here is main takeaway from the abstract for those who don’t want to read the whole thing:

Through our experiments, we identify a key shortcoming of LLMs in terms of their causal inference skills, and show that these models achieve almost close to random performance on the task. This shortcoming is somewhat mitigated when we try to re-purpose LLMs for this skill via finetuning, but we find that these models still fail to generalize – they can only perform causal inference in in-distribution settings when variable names and textual expressions used in the queries are similar to those in the training set, but fail in out-of-distribution settings generated by perturbing these queries.

I know what to do here now /s

While absolutely not important in the grand scheme of things, that day I opened the Twitter app and saw that fucking dogecoin icon as the splash screen, taking up all the screen real estate for a second or so, I was like: what am I even doing in this clownery of a platform??

(Disclaimer: I dislike Google’s current search ranking, and prefer other search engines for the most part)

I’m conflicted about this. On the one hand, I think generative ML-based answers can often be very useful and superior to the ‘classic’ search experience; on the other, I’m worried about the implications of using it as a full-on replacement for search, because that’s basically what this is.

emphasis on “so far”

Doesn’t work for me either :(

It’s not about internet speed; I got a message saying the page couldn’t be found.

It’s still kind of sad though

So many niches communities will be destroyed due to the greed of a few

I’ve seen this word so many times today yet never before

I despite this “trend” of considering just simple opinions and basic statements as “political”. It’s been watered down and turned into a meaningless tag.