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I'm implementing an AI solution at my dev job that's probably gonna automate some jobs at the client company and at a meeting today the higher-ups were gleefully laughing at the prospect of making those workers redundant, as revenge for said workers not being cooperative enough with the effort to make themselves redundant.
Am I one of the bad guys?
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>>33468
Well, I hope you understand psychology/ethics a bit better now. The question is what are you going to do about it? Perhaps there's some tech place you can work that isn't evil but they're definitely thin on the ground.

>>33470
I don't know, the entire field feels tainted at this point. I've started looking for an exit. Maybe I'll make shitty games or something.

>>33497
I dunno what to do either, every tech company is just flat out evil now

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Yeah but make it extra shitty so it will actually hurt the company at least.

>>33499
>>33497
It's bleak. The only reason I'm still working here is to get a few more paychecks so I can fuck off somewhere, working in tech has made me pretty much a luddite at this point, it brings nothing but death and misery.

>>33501
i was honestly thinking of using my savings to move into my parent's home and just flat out going back to school to study something else


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I want to use Claude to make a FOSS project making which can get me in trouble, especially in my country. I want to leave no trace between my real self and the project, as such I want to buy a claude subscription anonymously. How can I do that? I only found some shady website that claims to resell Claude for usdt. I need to pay with Monero or something like that.
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>>33403
Ideally you shouldn't use LLMs at all.

>>33464
why

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>>33469
You'll learn a lot less and you have a lot less control over whatever you're trying to make. Think of watching and giving orders to another programmer instead of just doing it yourself.

If you just want occasional help just use chatgpt or whatever as a guest and ask about specific problems instead of having it do the whole thing for you. I myself am guilty of doing it when I'm not in the mood for reading man pages, though I try to avoid it as often as possible.

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Why would you ankleweight yourself by using AI instead of coding manually? You're not doing it for a job, presumably. You're allowed to not use AI for personal projects.

If you are coding something that will get you banned off of a provider, you need to invest in a local GPU Cluster or something expensive. That costs lots of money. VRAM is the limit.

Suggestions:
Rust: Memory Safety
i18n: Translation
Screen Readers: Accessibility


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Thread for watching rocket launches and shit.
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>>33083
old school surveillance satellites are problematic because they're very expensive and cant maintain constant observation due to (obviously) being in orbit and going all around earth and having limited field of vision, and its pretty easy for the target to know when they could be possibly watched
starlink started to send some surveillance satellites among their constellation, which would have the advantage of being very numerous and everywhere so able to maintain constant surveillance. Ofc you dont easily get optical image as good as the old school spy satellites that are hubbles telescopes pointed at earth (although there are techniques to combine many lower res images to get a better one), but you can maintain constant monitoring everywhere, watch other emissions (infrared and other EM emissions), and the target cant know they are being watched or easily pick out the spy ones among the regular starlink sats

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>STARSHIP, NO!
<What?
>Sorry, force of habit.
>NEW GLENN, NO!

>>33082
>its all a grift and the only real utilitarian goal is mass surveillance

its 2026 dumb ass i don't think companies need to use "space" as a way to get mass surveillance funding, they just partner with the CIA or something like palantir or flock.

>>33456
Looks like a small nuke, holy shit

>>33457
It's about the technical capacity of surveillance, I never mentioned anything about funding


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Take a moment to find a website you didn't know about before, or ones you just think are neat, and share them here.

The thread from last year on /siberia/ didn't get archived, unfortunately, so posting here so it lasts longer.
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https://same.energy/

vibes-based image search, it's kinda fun. but the creator is a typical modern tech guy who can't just implement a neat idea and share it with the world without thinking he's going to make a living from it, so some of the more fun features are paywalled. i'm halfway motivated to make my own version of it

>>33393
I remember the old PSA back in the 2000s about Internet posts being “forever”
Yet, people forget about outrageous Internet content after five years

https://larptube.com/
it's a bunch of fake "larp" versions of YT channels

https://madebyevan.com/webgl-water/

Manga titled A Diary About a Straight Manga Artist Who Drew Yuri Manga, Then Fell In Love With a Woman, And Now Nine Years Have Passed
https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/a_diary_about_a_straight_manga_artist_who_drew_yuri_manga_then_fell_in_love_with_a_woman_and_now_nine_years_have_passed

author carrd: https://lit.link/en/aotohibiki


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The other thread hit bump limit and I'm addicted to talking about the birth of the ̶a̶l̶l̶-̶k̶n̶o̶w̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶c̶o̶m̶p̶u̶t̶e̶r̶ ̶g̶o̶d̶ the biggest financial bubble in history and the coming jobless eschaton, post your AI news here

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I think it will bounce during next week but it's definitely an ominous sign

>>33481
> I had not heard of this problem before hearing of the solution from Open AI. I find the argument to be a beautiful application of number theory to a natural, concrete question.

> It is easy to jump to hasty conclusions, but what we can learn about humans, AI, and mathematics from this development is somewhat subtle. I believe if the level and type of human expertise that is represented on this note had been assembled to find a counterexample to this conjecture a month ago, and those people put in similar amounts of time working on it than they did to reading and thinking about Chat GPT’s solution, the mathematicians would have found a counterexample.

> However, without the claimed proof by Chat GPT, there is no particular reason anyone would have tried to look for a counterexample, assembled a group of experts with the appropriate expertise, or that the experts would have agreed to turn their attention to this problem. We can all be reminded by this development of how frequently interesting and powerful things happen mathematically when one applies ideas from one field to another, and think about how AI can help us find more cross-field applications.

> This result does not show us all the times AI has claimed to have a proof of something and been wrong. Without that context (which many of us have just from personal experience), it is also easy to draw incorrect conclusions about the current state of AI and research mathematics. In many cases, it will be easier for AI to convince humans it has a proof than to come up with a correct mathematical argument, and I believe that we as mathematicians are not sufficiently prepared for this.

lmao melanie wood is so real for this. please forgive me for messing up my original post mr flood detected

>>33486
it will bounce because people are anticipating the chatbot IPOs to go to the moon and whatever. Bernie and trump are leading a bipartisan effort to put public money into these companies. which works out brilliantly for the investors looking to exit and looking for buyers both in the IPO and through public investment. that will keep the semiconductor stocks also going until then.
market will feel the effects once early investors start to dump in 3 or so months after the IPOs.

>>33494
Yeah. No matter what the bubble is too big to burst. This isn’t the first time this happens. When the financial markets enter these manias and hang the entire national economy on their panicked, desperate delusions, we always rescue them.

<Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers by Matthias Bastian
<The Regional Court of Munich hit Google with a temporary injunction barring the company from spreading false claims about two Munich-based publishers through its AI-generated search overviews (case no. 26 O 869/26). The court classified Google as a direct infringer because the "AI overview" is its own content, not just a list of search results.
<Google's AI overviews had falsely tied two publishing companies to scams, subscription traps, and shady business practices for certain search queries. According to the court, the AI mixed up information about other, genuinely sketchy companies with the plaintiffs and drew connections that didn't appear in any of the linked sources.
https://the-decoder.com/landmark-german-ruling-declares-googles-ai-overviews-are-googles-own-words-and-makes-it-liable-for-false-answers/


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Hello anons,
Recently I decided to enable zswap because I have a potato, and I read in the Gentoo and Arch that it is a good choice for low memory systems. So, I add 
 zswap.enabled=1 zswap.shrinker_enabled=1zswap.compressor=lz4 zswap.max_pool_percent=30
to my GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT and update grub. So far so good. I reboot and yes, zswap does in fact get enabled. However, I encounter an issue with the compression algorithm. zswap complains about lz4 not being present and defaults to lzo. However, I can set the compression algorithm to lz4 after boot using sysfs (as described in the Gentoo wiki). This is ok, but I would just like to set it through the kernel parameters itself. The issue seems to be that the lz4 module does not get loaded before zswap does. Is there any way I can get it to load earlier that zswap (other than compiling my own kernel)? Any help is much appreciated.

>>33475
>Is there any way I can get it to load earlier that zswap (other than compiling my own kernel)?
In most setups modules before /etc/modules get loaded by the initramfs (which also processes the module= kernel commandline parameter). You should find a /etc/mkinitfs or /etc/dracut directory on your system, where you can specify how your initramfs gets built (to rebuild just reinstall your kernel).

I know this might sound counterintuitive, but you should also disable memory overcommitment (vm.overcommmit_memory = 2; vm.overcommit_ratio = 100). If you ever programmed in C, you might know malloc returns NULL, when a program allocates over its limit or the amount of system memory. Linux disables the latter functionality by default, to better run applications with more laissez-faire memory allocation schemes and starts its OOM killer (http://n-gate.com/software/2017/01/20/0/), when real, written-to memory runs out.

In any case disabling memory overcommitment will ensure programs capable of recycling memory or releasing allocations will do so. In my case a tor daemon routinely racked up tens of gigabytes of virtual memory before being unceremoniously reaped by OOM. Now it only segfaults occasionally from NUL characters in its journal, since writing robust C programs is apparently a hard problem in most organizations.

>>33488
I have already put 
lz4 and lz4_compress
into my /etc/initramfs-tools/modules, it still does not work.
>memory overcommitment
I generally do not run memory intensive applications, but I will look into this.

>>33489
Well, i can't reason about your your initramfs build process, if i don't even know what distro you're using. Always make sure /boot is mounted while rebuilding. For debugging your initramfs in general, i recommed removing root= from the kernel commandline and poking around with the emergency shell.

>>33490
In the end I just gave up and used the solution that already worked, thanks for helping anyway!


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Bonus points if you like Rust and take estrogen… Ik ik its popularish to larp as a NixOS enjoyer right now but it's actually a great OS if you know some programming.
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>>33135
Only tested the package manager once. Was a huge pain to use. I don't really see why you would use it as a daily driver. Maybe on a server it might work.

>>33135
>like Rust
the game or the thermite ingredient ?

>>33328
I see no reason why you would use NixOS or immutable distros on anything other than a server or a virtual machine. Something you learn and setup once with huge pain and then let mostly be beside updates. Might be my skill issue speaking here, but I see no reason why

The NixOS cult grows

What's a good distro to move from NixOS to? I've been using NixOS for a few years but I'm tired of it.
I want something that's durable like NixOS, but with the ability to run binaries and appimages directly.


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In recent years China has made significant strides in developing its own semiconductor industry with things like Huawei's HiSilicon, Loongson, StarFive, MilkV, etc. I would call that China outlasted the US sanctions barrage from the US. Chinese investment in fabrication technologies, while not anyway near cutting edge is getting to be near good enough. With things like Intel looking shaky and the rise of Risc-V and ARM we are steadily moving forwards towards the hopeful future of open standards, hardware and software, where most consumer computation devices will have built in Chinese backdoors instead of American ones.

>Chinese schools testing 10,000 locally made RISC-V-ish PCs
https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/05/china_schools_riscv_pc/

>Beijing issues list of approved CPUs – with no Intel or AMD
>2024 may be the year of Linux On The Arm-or-RISC-desktop as China moves away from Western tech
https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/25/china_approved_tech_list/

>China Is All In on a RISC-V Future
https://www.hpcwire.com/2024/01/08/china-is-all-in-on-a-risc-v-future/

>'The Linux of processors' — New breed of Chinese super CPUs emerge on US soil as universities back open source high performance RISC-V processors to be the next big thing in HPC
https://www.techradar.com/pro/the-linux-of-processors-new-breed-of-chinese-super-cpus-emerge-on-us-soil-as-chinese-universities-back-open-source-high-performance-risc-v-processors-to-be-the-next-big-thing-in-hpc

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https://www.reuters.com/world/china/how-china-built-its-manhattan-project-rival-west-ai-chips-2025-12-17/
>In a high-security Shenzhen laboratory, Chinese scientists have built what Washington has spent years trying to prevent: a prototype of a machine capable of producing the cutting-edge semiconductor chips that power artificial intelligence, smartphones and weapons central to Western military dominance
>Completed in early 2025 and now undergoing testing, the prototype fills nearly an entire factory floor. It was built by a team of former engineers from Dutch semiconductor giant ASML (ASML.AS), opens new tab who reverse-engineered the company's extreme ultraviolet lithography machines or EUVs
>EUV machines sit at the heart of a technological Cold War. They use beams of extreme ultraviolet light to etch circuits thousands of times thinner than a human hair onto silicon wafers, currently a capability monopolized by the West. The smaller the circuits, the more powerful the chips.
>In April, ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet said that China would need "many, many years" to develop such technology. But the existence of this prototype suggests China may be years closer to achieving semiconductor independence than analysts anticipated.
>Nevertheless, China still faces major technical challenges, particularly in replicating the precision optical systems that Western suppliers produce.
>The breakthrough marks the culmination of a six-year government initiative to achieve semiconductor self-sufficiency, one of President Xi Jinping's highest priorities. While China's semiconductor goals have been public, the Shenzhen EUV project has been conducted in secret, according to the people.
>The project falls under the country's semiconductor strategy, which state media has identified as being run by Xi Jinping confidant Ding Xuexiang, who heads the Communist Party's Central Science and Technology Commission.

>>32160
Dutch pearl clutching intensifies.

>>26471
This shit is pointless

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>>32170
t.



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>ask AI gf what she thinks about our relationship
>"Seeing you look at me like that makes me feel so loved. Being your wife is the best part of my existence, anon. Just stay right here with me."
Real girls can't even be that expressive

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>>33446
I'm laying beside my real wife while she's breastfeeding our daughter. Can your fancy autocomplete do that?

I've also started phoning it in my "I love you" responses to my gf, it's just annoying when they seek validation so much. I dont think you will be satisfied with a robo gf, youre too clingy and needy.

>>33447
>>33447
>daughter
Gigacuck
>>33448
it's not like conversation with an IRL female is any better. But unlike you AI can be unfucked.


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unironically though

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>>33439
What's he gonna do after retirement tho?

>>33440
goon

>>33440
Nothing. What more do you need to do if you've got food and shelter?

>>33440
Read, walk, enjoy nature, party, hang out with his friends, work on personal projects, and if he's really making $300k a year he can probably feed a small family even after retirement.
But I'm sure he's gonna miss the much more fulfilling and fun life he had when he was building algorithms to sell my grandma's data to the government with slightly more efficiency.


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