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Knowing the .world admin, news moderation team, my guess would be:

The title of the post indicated that the groundstop order is currently in effect, as of ~30 min ago, it has been lifted, so the post title does not reflect reality, therefore this news event and the discussion it spawned now need to be euthanized, to prevent the spread of misinformation.

… something like that, that seems like jordanlund logic to me.

Ok.

They’re rushing AI/LLM integration because they lost the midterms.

They’ll all be scrutinized, not funded, impeached, etc, so they have to do what they were either paid to do and/or will personally lose a ton of money if they do not do… NOW.

So we are basically getting the ‘logistics week’ version of DOGE, right now.

At this rate I wouldn’t be surprised if they manage to break like, turnpikes, toll bridges, truck weigh in stations, port authorities, alllll that kinda shit.

… God help us if they attempt to ‘install AI’ into our powergrid, dams, water treatment facilities.

EDIT

Also, the last thread you and I were commenting on…

… doesn’t exist any more?

???

Lemmy is acting like it doesn’t exist for me, but maybe thats a problem on my end… somehow?

Or maybe its just the whole comment chain we were on???

Because managers want the least amount of accountability possible, while being able to claim the most amount of value-add (usefulness) to the company as possible.

Thus, the LLM is the perfect tool for management.

Its even better than contracted consultants!

No one is clearly liable or responsible for what an LLM does, therefore, its the perfect way to look like you are doing something important while not being at fault for anything that goes wrong.

Companies keep making this mistake because their leaders are incompetent yet are also personally driven by the performance of confidence.

Pathological narcissism is the reason.

TIL that an outlook/365 bug that requires the user to open an attachment is only 6.5 CVE because it cannot execute itself.

… Have cyber security people… met the average, median outlook/365 user?

Hey man.

fuck it.

We can just use his own play book against him:

Rig a commercial grade drone with a liquid container and controllable release valve.

Fly over his head.

Dump cat piss mixed with fentanyl on him.

… Yes, that really is his own idea.

https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/02/17/palantir-piss/

Karp: “You need a higher purpose, and I think you often need a lower purpose.”

Andrew Sorkin: “What’s your lower purpose?”

Karp: “I love the idea of getting a drone and having light fentanyl-laced urine spraying on analysts that tried to screw us.”

… on second thought, perhaps this is actually his kink and he already does this to himself.

… hrrrmmm…

What?

My brain is that ‘pure’ right now.

… what is wrong with you people?!

✨✨🤚 ! ! ! r a c i s m ! ! ! ✋✨✨

Yeah its not just ‘mistress’, its:

Mistress that really seems to have engaged in the mass unsanctioned import of export-controlled equipment, and the likely illegal exporter of this export-controlled equipment was the lover of said mistress, who thus also massively illegally exported this equipment.

The affair is incidental, the main issue is dodging export restrictions that were in place for national security purposes.

Like, if the US actually enforced its own laws, Huang would be facing prison for potentially 20 to 40 years.

But they allowed him to flee to Beijing, so… whoopsie daisy, I guess!

Corrolary to this; this is part of why its delusionally hilarious for Elon to offer Huang a job. In all likelihood, under a Democratic government, Huang would be instantly arrested… Huang likely can never safely return to the USA, rofl.

😸

It would be extremely funny to do that scene, with a cat, hahahaha!

Birds? No.

Bird traps? I mean, bird houses and bird food?

… we may have a weekend project now, you clever bastard.

Honestly not a bad idea, but maybe have a harness and leash on him in case he decides to be stupid and/or somebody brings another pet into the store.

This one might be overwhelmed by the concept of plaid, but I’m sure you could find one in camo or that says ‘Fish Fear Me’ or something like that.

YMMV with other hardware, I genuinely have no clue rofl!

Maybe start with 2B… try to work up from there?

Maybe Nvidia cards are just… better generally, due to generally better CUDA support for LLMs than ROCm?

I have no idea!

The Deck uses an AMD APU, RDNA 2, shared LPDDR5 RAM… so… yeah i have no idea how to translate that to a more standard PC set up, in terms of performance expectations. Tooooo many variables.

See my reply to Rai’s comment!

=D

Bazzite -> LM Studio (installed via BoldBrew)

Uh what… model am i on now lol… hold on…

Qwen 3.5 9B DeepSeek v4 Flash by ‘Jackrong’

But yeah generally, Qwen 3 / Qwen 3.5 type models, will work reasonably well and reasonably fast, at 4B or 2B. 9B works if you close basically everything other than LM Studio lol, or, this latest DeepSeek v4 Flash variant is considerably more performant than just standard Qwen 3.5 9B.

But yeah the way Bazzite does LM Studio via BoldBrew, it is at least theoretically reasonably containerized and isolated… not even gonna pretend I am competent enough to give any guarantees there, but also, I don’t think anyone is capable of saying anything LLM related is 100% certainly correctly understood.

Oh uh, yeah, you’re gonna wanna be docked/plugged in to a power source, if you want more than …idk, 0.5 to 1.5 hrs of battery life while the LLM is actively working on something.

So I later found out he had a troubling level of a racist past with the John Birch Society… but at the time, I didn’t know that, I was raised Republican, and I knew the wars were wrong, before I even got out of high school.

I can’t speak for everybody that was part of it, but it was basically that simple for me.

And Paul ran in the Republican primaries, not the Libertarian Party.

If we could get any major candidate in 08 to be staunchly anti-war, that was my main goal. The Libertarians obviously did not stand a chance, after seeing what had happened with Ralph Nader mostly acting as a spoiler candidate.

Paul also, being a paleoconservative, did (/does still?) genuienly believe that the abortion debate should be settled at the state level, not federally banned.

At the time, that seemed to be the most sensible position to me in general, certainly out of all the possible Republican choices for presidential nominee.

Transcript of a primary debate:

https://www.ontheissues.org/TX/Ron_Paul_Abortion.htm

GINGRICH: When government provides a morning-after abortion pill [under ObamaCare], you inevitably move towards tyranny.

PAUL: Actually, the morning-after pill is nothing more than a birth control pill, so if you legalize birth control pills, you really can’t separate the two. They’re all basically the same, hormonally.

Ron Paul is/was literally an OB, he was a doctor, who’d delivered 100s of babies. Compared to every single other Republican nominee… he actually knew what he was fucking talking about in regards to abortion/women’s healthcare.

That is a genuinely good question!

Which I am currently investigating in my spare time, lol.

I have an entirely free LLM I regularly run locally on my SteamDeck. I didnt sign a contract for anything, I just downloaded it.

I could power the Deck running the LLM indefinately with maybe $300 worth of solar panels and a camping grade power station.

Now it ain’t nearly as fast as hooking in to an LLM thats being run on a data center, but that’s tool use, not contracting an outside firm.

We can democratize this technology if we want to, we do not have to rely on environmentally destructive, oligarch enriching cloud computing.

$9000?

At $45 per hour … call this a contract job with no taxes or health benefits or anything … thats 200 hours of dev time or 25 8-hour workdays.

You’d almost certainly need at least 3 months (probably more) to lay a solid foundation and get a base level, functional proof of concept, if you had only person, one pretty darn highly skilled low level expert working on this.

So $9000 would produce nothing useable, just another call for fund raising.

And I’m sure you could find many programmers qualified and capable of this task who would call $45 an hour for doing this solo, lowballing them.

Doing a project like this with only humans is certainly possible, and likely would yield a higher quality result, but it would take substantially more time and money, orders of magnitude more.

Sorry, but just being entirely, blanket, always mad at AI/LLMs is stupid.

These things do actually have very sensible use cases, and reverse engineering a giant undocumented black box program is one of the most clear cut of these.

Its also possible to run these things locally… its slower than a cloud LLM service, but its still very usefully fast, and isn’t funding some corpo datacenter.

99% of the problems that are being caused by LLMs right now are due to idiot humans using them in very obviously stupid ways.

LLMs are tools, like hammers, guns, chainsaws, forklifts, etc. If you don’t know what you’re doing, ita very easy to cause a lot of damage. Also like other human tools, you cannot uninvent them.

This kind of use of an LLM, as a tool assisting in a very complex reverse engineering project, directed and overseen by actual human experts, not just trying to naievely one shot it with a novice in charge… is almost certainly the optimal or most reasonable way to balance the [fast, cheap, good] factors in approaching a project like this.

I’m not saying this random 14 yo is doing this in the best possible way, not even close, but I am saying that if you think just $9000 thrown at a or multiple humans could produce anything even comparable, then you do not understand anything about the actual realities of working in the computer software development field.