Another fun one is ex-Intelligence agents leaving government work to go into the private sector and create unconstitutional spying powers and obtain information which would be illegal for the government to obtain, which they then sell to the government.

Looks like this is a common enough issue:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire#Noticeable_audio_delay_or_audible_pop/crack_when_starting_playback

When in doubt, look into the Arch and Gentoo wikis they have good information that’s usually applicable to you even if you’re not using them (mostly).

You take that back

That would depend on the notification application that you’re using.

Give me any details that you can think of. Software version, things you’ve tried, etc. I’ll look into it after work

Do sounds work sometimes and then stop or is it that they’re playing but the output is set to muted by default?

10 pacman

20 GOTO 10

Can’t install Package A because Package B depends on it. Can’t upgrade Package B because it requires the new version of Package A.

-Rdd

there is some crackling with plenty of forum posts explaining how to fix these things going back to 2005 that are no longer relevant because the sound uses something with a different name now.

This is almost always because your pipewire buffers are too small (because of the defaults erring on the side of low latency) and so when the CPU is busy the buffers empty and you get some crackling. Use pw-top to see all of your devices and sources, next to the devices you should see a number in the QUANT column. Chances are that this is really low (or 1)

You can change your minimum buffer (pipewire calculates this by setting a ‘quantum’), temporarily with :

pw-metadata -n settings 0 clock.min-quantum 512

You can edit /etc/pipewire/pipewire.conf and add a line under the [clocks] section:

default.clock.min-quantum = 512

Restart pipewire for the setting to take effect:

systemctl --user restart pipewire

(If your sound ever just dies for no reason, restarting pipewire is often all you need to do)

Use the temporary setting to increase the number. Lower number means a shorter buffer so, you get less audio latency in exchange for the risk of the buffer emptying. I don’t have much problem with 256, but sometimes Proton adds some extra CPU overhead and I’ll bump it up to 512.

Windows users, I hope you guys know that you have our support in these trying times. I’m wearing a ribbon and everything.

Microsoft only beats you because they love you

The conspiracy is that the investment in this specific case requires or invites enshittification.

It’s a non sequitor, it does not follow.

Someone can come up with a story (a conspiracy) where it COULD be true and that story could fit the popular memes about capitalism… but that is not evidence. It’s just a story, fanfiction, words on the Internet unsupported by reality.

I’ve found his videos pretty on point in the topics that I’m familiar with.

I’d need more evidence of misleading information than ‘A popular content creator receives an investment’. That’s not proof.

It’s not even implied by the evidence presented outside of an implied conspiracy not built on anything other than a press release.

There may be evidence of foul play somewhere, but it was not presented here.

Study after study has show that human behavior changes when we know we’re being watched. Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively are less free.

• Edward Snowden

The post is about the actual product they’re selling, not whatever idealized idea of what a ‘proper’ LLM is.

Yes, that is what the post is about.

You didn’t click on reply to the post, you clicked reply under my comment.

In my comment, I was talking about an LLM (I checked with myself) and the other person was also talking about LLMs and on up to the top of the comment chain where we started talking about LLMs in IT systems.

From the context of the conversation, you should understand that we’re talking about LLMs, specifically being in IT having to deal with LLMs. The context should tell you that we’re talking about the actual language models and not the end user applications, like a chatbot.

If they aren’t selling non-chatbot LLMs then that’s irrelevant.

Ok, well this is easy then. Every LLM isn’t sold as a chatbot so I’m not sure why you keep repeating this like it is a point.

If every LLM sold is sold as a chatbot, then this “ummm ackchully” is irrelevant.

Your first comment was ‘ummmm ackchully LLMs are only chatbots’ which is both wrong and ironic.

I can’t forsee anything going wrong with giving Mechahitler access to military secrets.

I mean, it’s for science

Thanks!

I wish the forums software would recognize links to other instances and add the correct reference (kind of like how it links to the original comment next to the poster’s name.

The domestic response Donald Trump’s destruction of all of our alliances are giving these other countries the backbone to do the kinds of regulations that bribery have kept away from American tech companies.

Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, X, should be next.

Why is an online book retailer operating datacenters? How is a search engine 90% of the digital advertising market?

Monopoly powers and corruption, that’s how.

It’s possible that this is what happened.

9TB of torrents isn’t a huge amount, I seed more than that in just a few weeks on a personal/small group seedbox. You could download 9TB in an hour or two if you had a datacenter’s link speed and hardware.

The entire comment chain is about LLMs, not chatbots.

A LLM’s output is deterministic.

A from an IT system point of view, a system using LLMs is only non-deterministic if the system adds randomness. The randomness isn’t inherent to the LLM and any added randomness is typically created by a seed which could be replicated across number of system images leading to deterministic output across every image clone.

From the point of view of the typical user the computer may as well be a magical box controlled by a tiny fairy so any talk of deterministic output is irrelevant.