[–] 10 points 3 months ago

FWIW, LM Studio makes it incredibly easy to do this. I've been in tech for decades, and there are probably only a couple of suggestions I"d made to the LMS team if they wanted to target a broader, less tech savvy user base, but I think they already have their target demographic covered. I imagine the Ubuntu and Fedora crowds are already tech savvy, but vendors making it easier to ween reliance off tech giants' LLMs isn't a bad thing, if LLM's are here to stay.

Now the one thing that will turn me off to initiatives like this is if these OS vendors restrct which model can be used, or make it more friction not to use their "chosen" default. Like Google just did by pushing What I"m assuming was Gemma 4 E2B to Chrome users. I figure Google wants to offload the LLM usage to local compute to take the load of their data centers, and since Chrome is already a data harvesting tool for them, there was no downside to their operations.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    Sad to say, 100 is rookie numbers, especially for someone likely junior or maybe mid-level in their field. I"m senior in mine, and I applied to 54 before even getting a single phone call.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    The least they could've done is install one of the abliterated models, so people can see how badly Gemini censors them...

    For those that'll go search that later, you're welcome.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Switching to macOS as my daily driver years ago. Seeing the enshittification of Windows in the last ten years has been pretty breathtaking.

    Side note, switching to Linux (hell yeah CachyOS!) for gaming has been a pretty rewarding endeavor. It has plenty of pitfalls, but I work in tech, and that's half the fun. The other half was that I re-imaged my Windows 10 gaming PC to be a CachyOS gaming PC, for free, and CachyOS wasn't all like "your hardware is too old, create e-waste and buy a new one with a Copilot button on it".

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    I think this community is appropriate for this topic, since this solution is being rolled out to combat AI scraping of websites.

    I don't really understand why the collective agreement is "it is better than captchas would be", when you didn't need to pass a captcha just to view a website in the first place. Why are people not more pissed off about every website suddenly requiring this laggy, sometimes actually a captcha anyways (checkbox to prove you are human) solution slowing down visits to websites?

    And why can't CloudFlare offer some way for us lowly non-AI's to prove we're human, once, for our entire web experience, versus on. every. damned. website. one. at. a. time?

    I counted, and I hit this turnstile solution on 28 website visits today, and sometimes more than once on the same site. That's minutes of my life I don't get back, and likely hours to days over the course of a year.

    There has to be a better way...

    /rant

     

    In dark mode, when viewing the voting buttons, could we get higher-contrast coloring when a post is voted on? The upvote coloring is nearly impossible for me to distinguish from the default un-voted color (light blue vs. grey). I'm using the darkly theme, but darkly red has the same challenge. Using browser extensions to override this is only an option for desktop-only usage.

    Sincerely, a visually-challenged Reddit refugee.

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