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Dear Linux community,

In these shite times, we need to remember to see the human in all of us. So I address the humans of this community:

  1. To the Stallmanites. SCREW CORPORATE YEAHHHHH! Each day humanity grows smarter, no matter how many iPad kids or mass media diatribes there are, so celebrate how far we've fucking come. Look at your oldest machine. You're a million times better. My old Slackware was full of SHIT! FUCK YEAH

  2. To the pragmatists. Linux doesn't get in your way. People get in each others' ways all the time. But most importantly, don't get in your own way. If you're feeling like shit -- the human capacity to hope beats everything to a pulp. You know what we do when shit fucks? We submit a fucking pull request. FUCK YEAH

  3. To the hobbyists. Life is a bundle of fun so feel every moment. When you're old, and you'll be old as fuck, you'll be like "fuck yeah I lived every moment of my life up to now." So fuck another segfault up. Learn C, and call C the best language. Then learn Rust and call Rust the best language. Make a homelab then call homelab the best language. FUCK YAML HOLY SHIIIIIIIT

Flaming hot wishes,

Your fellow fucking human.

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[–] fool 77 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Made with no blood, no sweat, and no tears in fucking GNU's Not Unix Image Manipulation Program.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 days ago

If you haven't already, try out KDE's Krita. Incredible piece of software, much better for drawing imo

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Basest of Based.

Personally, I try to mainly use locally hosted Open Source LLMs, and mostly for research purposes.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

Are they free range and GMO free? 🙄

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

"Open Source" is a misnomer for LLMs. The weights are comparable to binary blobs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The difference is nobody knows what the binary blobs are made of

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You could recreate them if you had the training data, which is pretty much never disclosed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You could of course use one of the models that are trained on open data sets. Maybe a little worse than those directly from Mistral etc but truly open source

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I decided I don't care for imaginary AI copyright and will use Llama as if it is public domain.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

“Mainly” and “mostly” 🤨

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Got any good tutorials that you've been happy with?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

I just use GPT4All

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

That's why it's... The way it is lmao

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago
[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Lmao, I love the diss at that AI post. Merry GNU/Christmas 🎄🎁🎉, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Christmas 🎄🎁🎉

[–] fool 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Alpine: musl + Christmas 💪🎄🎁🎉

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Totally lost me. Why the hate on YAML?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

For me personally when i set up my nextcloud server i had to edit yaml files, they wouldn't open in vim or nano and it was just a general headache

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

They are text files. If there is anything weird about them it is that they are indented with spaces and if you are inconsistent with indentation they won't read into the yaml import function, but I can't imagine why vim or nano would have a problem with opening them. Maybe the ones you were using were not actually yaml.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

No linux user ever leaves home without their... piss minigun??

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] fool 12 points 5 days ago

Merry chrisatms

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago

Happy holidays and thank you for the art

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

Filthy, janky, lovely! Merry Christmas and happy holidays you stinky lil' penguin! 🎄🎉🎁☃️❄️

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Merry Christmas! I don't know about all of you, but I'm enjoying the holiday music today.

[–] fool 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Is that 7/8 time? (12) (3) (12) (12). Stallman's taking his own path even when compiling a song

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Yup. Though it's really a "fork" of a Bulgarian folk song.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

I feel like this could be applied to more than the Linux community. Regardless, this was a heartwarming read.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

Merry Christmas 🐧

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Fuck yeah! 🐧🎉🎄