Probably a good starting place would be to take the three apps you need most, and just search the web for guides to running them on Linux. That’ll give you an indication of how much work you might/not be in for.
e: also if a guide says “just run this shell script” even chance it’s not just that simple.
If they’re games, protondb (.com) will tell you how well you can expect them to run. Other stuff, it’s often a case of search the web or try and see. Wine takes some getting used to, you’ll probably have to get your hands dirty and do a little learning.
I suppose, could be harm reduction. Like peeling a bandaid off slowly instead of ripping it off.
They’re here, they might not be everywhere yet, but they’re here to stay as much as photoshopped images or trick photography are. Just more lies to hide the truth.
All we can do now is get better at dealing with them.
If only it worked that way in practice eh.
We found these marijuanas in his pocket, they were already in evidence bags for us even.
The model that can separate the fact from fiction and falsehood will be worth far more than any model creating fiction and falsehood.
Oh, right. Microsoft is a corp. They don’t care about the harm they do until it costs them money.
e: also, I love to bash on ms, but they’re not the problem here. These things are being built all over the place… In companies, in governments, in enthusiasts back yard. You can tell Microsoft, Google, Apple to stop developing the code, you can tell nvidia to stop developing cuda. It’s not going to matter.
Ah, so more like self-harm prevention, gotcha.
I guess like any tool, whether it is help or harm depends on the user and usage.
Everyone is. As time and tech progresses, you’re going to find that it becomes increasingly difficult to avoid without going off-grid entirely.
Do you really think corps aren’t going to replace humans with AI, any later than they can profit by doing so? That states aren’t going eventually to do the same?
Interesting take, addiction to the convenience provided by AI driving the need to get more. I suppose at the end of the day it’s probably the same brain chemistry involved. I think that’s what you’re getting at?
I’m any case, this tech is only going to get better, and more commonplace. Take it, or run for the hills.
The best solution to any problem is to go back in time to before the problem was created, sure. That cat’s so far out of the bag, and it’s only going to multiply and evolve.
Mhm, I wonder when we’ll have the resources to build one that can tell the truth from other lies. I suppose you have to learn to crawl before you learn to walk, but these things still having trouble rolling over.
Everything’s a competition for company profits.
Idk, I find this hard to believe. I would think the challenge is more access to the information (gates, bandwidth), a speedy vault to store that information, and improving their models.
When you think about what’s available on the internet, how much of human knowledge and propaganda is out there. With enough/deus ex tech, there’s no way ai shouldn’t be able to learn most of anything with the knowledge available, and the right trainers.
That’s not how this is supposed to work. Most humans don’t think like machines, and many are never going to. It’s the job of your “ai” to work out what its human is telling it.
I think I got mine via some kind of lottery system back in the day. I used to be a big fan of Google back in those times. Was amazing to have 1000mb.
As someone suffering from sciatica as a result of desk time, I feel this. This is why I consider the monetary system as it is abused and designed currently to be a cleverly masked slave system.
When the ruling class are able to dictate both how much money you get, how much you can buy with money, how can you even place a value on it. Shit’s worthless. We’ve seen it become worthless overnight. I can’t eat it, I can’t shelter in it, I can’t drink it. In my country, it’s plastic, so I can only sympathise with the ecosystem we’ve been so careless of… Not even burn it.
This is something I realised young, when my parents and grandparents described how much return they got for their time. It’s even more evident across my lifetime.
I’m pretty much with you all the way. My take is that capitalism, corrupted by the ruling class is hardly distinguishable from indentured servitude at this point.
It’s just that our collars/shackles are invisible, we are given the illusion of freedom, and our pain is more psychological than physical.
Yeah I nearly panicked for a second there, then I remember noone’s getting near that anyway. Back to my relaxing weekend.
Which is interesting in itself, what if AI by chance produces a likeness of you, unintentionally. Is there an AI that has a database of all of us to know that? I’m sure they’re trying, for whatever reason.
Now, if you’re someone famous, like a pop star or president, chances are there are a lot more images of you in those databases, which could also skew the resulting images.
So I guess, what we really need is some way to trust the image, otherwise … I really don’t know how this can be avoided, maybe a smarter entity does.
I think both are true, it really depends on the business, and the mentality of the exec. It is extremely difficult to get software approved in my environment if it doesn’t come with some kind of vendor support.
Basically they want assurance that if something breaks, they can get someone to fix it if necessary.
Personally, I don’t think this is the best approach. Vendor support is often underwhelming, and it is not forever. The longer you want it, the more it will cost you to keep it. By the time they cash out, you’re so invested the cost to change is prohibitive.
My biggest gripe with closed source software, is the pissweak amount of peer review it gets, and it shows repeatedly. It’s disturbing that we use things as important as operating systems and security products that only get scrutinised by a small number of people. People who probably all have similar methodologies and tools at their disposal. So, you forever see CVEs because they miss simple things. We’ve actually had a vendor (who we spend millions on yearly) tell us they wouldn’t fix a 9.9 because they were planning to discontinue the product, and sign a nda.
I would love to convince my org to refit to oss, but it would be an enormous investment just to transition, and honestly… With the stuff we’re seeing on the horizon of tech, I’m expecting some wild shifts in the way we do things in a similar 10 year timeline. It’s been nice working with x86 since 8086, but it’s time.
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