mason_mpls

one trip to Amsterdam will show you how bad our use of cars has been for us

doesnt larry fink need a bailout

“Apple is the opposite of planned obsolescence”

Is there something in the water?

You are definitely doing it wrong, I rarely have issues and when I do I just switch comparability tools. I play multiple indie games, marvel rivals, I played lots of among us on my machine in 2020. Running Pop OS

Most people just want their software easy & free (for fair reasons), and this is the end result of that

It seems we’re all experiencing a form of sticker shock, from the bill for getting ease-of-use out of software that we demanded for the past few decades.

It’s a trope now that loads of internet users will complain about Mac OS & Windows, while digging in their heels against switching to Linux. Just take your medicine people.

Perhaps we need more collective action & coordination?

I don’t see how we could politically undermine these systems, but we could all do more to contribute to open source workarounds.

We could contribute more to smart tv/e-reader/phone & tablet jailbreak ecosystems. We could contribute more to the fediverse projects. We could all contribute more to make Linux more user friendly.

I personally really like Apple Vision and the bar it’s pushing. However, using one of these devices long term in a walled garden sounds like a nightmare for privacy and marketing abuse of users.

SFTP

we’re people, not fairytale beasts

You’re confusing democracy with tyranny.

We regulate kids in all sorts of ways, this isn’t different. Kids don’t need social media to communicate.

> Zebra-Llama achieves Transformer-level accuracy with near-SSM efficiency using only 7–11B training tokens (compared to trillions of tokens required for pre-training) and an 8B teacher. Moreover, Zebra-Llama dramatically reduces KV cache size—down to 3.9%, 2%, and 2.73% of the original for the 1B, 3B, and 8B variants, respectively—while preserving 100%, 100%, and 97% of average zero-shot performance on LM Harness tasks.

This is an extraordinary claim, is there a catch I’m missing? Am I misreading?

I think we’re mistaking incompetence with malice in regards to DOGE here