(Rubs hands together) “Time to download more RAM!”

Woah! Nobody said anything about this being illegal! Not even the article.

Zero laws are broken in “distillation attacks” aka “see what their product does when we give it this prompt.”

This post has triggered my outrage!

…because this is totally normal database stuff. Like, where’s the meat? My phone could handle 500 million rows of data. Is that supposed to be a lot?

I’m not exaggerating about the phone part: A modern smartphone can handle an SQLite DB with billions of records (aka “ROWS”, LOL).

Who better to resurrect a dead computer?

At least they’re being honest about it. 99% of the companies training AI or selling people’s data to AI companies are doing so without telling anyone.

Having said that, Twitch streams are public almost all of the time so complaining that they’re being used in ways the creator never intended is a bit like complaining that someone caught you picking your nose in public.

We learned this lesson in the 90s: Once something goes public on the Internet, it is no longer under the creator’s/publisher’s control. People can and will do whatever TF they want with it. As long as they’re not redistributing it without permission, that is legal.

It’s everyone’s right to do whatever TF they want with the stuff that’s literally sent to their computer on purpose. That includes using that thing to train AI.

ColoGuard does sound like an infosec tool 🤔

All hail John Apple!

Yeah but it works and it’s still free 🤷

The AI features are actually pretty cool!

Using a local AI model (running on your own GPU), you can:

• Drag files on to the “AI bar” to bring them into the context of a prompt.
• Tell it to perform actions like, “merge these two PDF files.”
• Use it to search your filesystem, “find pictures of spiders.”
• Ask it to find system settings or tell it to change them, “turn on dark mode.”

It supports voice and probably visual (e.g. with a webcam) I think.

Best of all: It doesn’t send any of that to some data center in the cloud! I mean, you can configure it to do that but you can just as easily use say, qwen3.5.

Note: It’s not realistic to expect to be able to use local models if you have less than 16GB of VRAM (in your GPU). I mean, some 8-billion parameter model will work with say, 8GB but you’re not going to be satisfied with the results most of the time 🤷

This is what happens to nearly every business Microsoft buys or invest in. They’re the enshittiers.

Sony is a close second, BTW 😁

It’s so dumb that they have to reverse engineer this chipset to make it work.

MediaTek, YOU SUCK.

So your image file of grandma—the last one of her smiling before she died—will be given the cartoon treatment just before OneDrive spams an ad for itself, saying you’re out of space and deletes the file.

For a wifi option, you can use Droidcam with OBS. Setup the virtual camera inside OBS and you’ve got a wifi webcam that you can walk around with.

I’ve used that setup many times and it’s sweet. At work my coworkers are all astonished and amazed when I use the OBS virtual camera pass-through to my virtual desktop to walk around while talking (I use a wireless headset for the audio). I can even show various overlays of my desktop with my face and a downcam I have setup for demonstrations (like a craft cam setup).

Combine it with RVC voice changing silliness and they’re all blown away. The security folks (of which I’m a part, haha) always freak out a little bit when they see me share my Linux desktop when I’m on Teams via the company’s virtual desktop. “That shouldn’t be possible!” Haha

I don’t have the heart to show them how you can copy and paste huge amounts of text into the virtual desktop directly (clipboard sharing is disabled and prohibited 🤣).

My money is on 1999 as the year of the Linux desktop. I mean, that’s when I switched to Linux full time 🤷

Big Cable is the one generating all the noise to begin with!

I didn’t watch the video but… Why TF did he choose Pop! OS with Cosmic Desktop‽ That’s not something a non-technical user would choose. That’s like… Beta software (Cosmic) running on a Linux distro made and tested for very specific hardware sold by System76.

That’s like trying to put wheels made for a truck on a random sedan. Like, yeah you can do that with a bit of effort but why? It makes no sense.

If you’re going to put a Linux distro on random hardware pick something universal and stable that was made to run on random hardware like Kubuntu/Ubuntu. Especially if you’re new to Linux.

Also, if you’re going to do something ridiculous like this why not just start with Gentoo? Don’t use the GUI installer either! Go the LFS+ route and take care picking your file systems and compile flags 😁

BTW: Out of all the random people I’ve ever known to “try Linux”, the ones who had the best first-time experience all used KDE (Plasma) as their desktop. That means Kubuntu, Bazzite, or SteamOS. For newbies, always go with KDE. Seriously: Its interface for settings and the launcher are familiar enough to both Windows and Mac users that they don’t have a hard time while also being different enough that they don’t make bad assumptions about how things work (which is a problem for Gnome).

I’ve said it so many times: Everyone that’s ever partnered with Trump ultimately regrets it. Always.

The assumption here is that the AI-generated code wasn’t reviewed and polished before submission. I’ve written stuff with AI and sometimes it does a fantastic job. Other times it generates code that’s so bad it’s a horror show.

Over time, it’s getting a little bit better. Years from now it’ll be at that 99% “good enough” threshold and no one will care that code was AI-generated anymore.

The key is that code is code: As long as someone is manually reviewing and testing it, you can save a great deal of time and produce good results. It’s useful.

It would turn into a prince! An unstable prince of undefined behavior.

That’s just the tip of the iceberg of cool and useful stuff you can do with KDE Plasma (and Kwin).

Another tip: Did you know that KRunner (Alt-Space) can do unit conversions? Type Alt-Space and 10cm or something like that and it’ll give you that value in inches.

Another: You can bind shortcuts to mouse buttons like Ctrl-Alt-Right (click) And Ctrl-Alt-Left to say, switch desktops right/left.

You can type Ctrl-i in Dolphin to filter files. So if you’re looking at your enormous downloads directory and you want to see all the .png files you can type Ctrl-i, png and it’ll only show you files with png in their name.

KDE’s “get hot new stuff” framework works with Dolphin “actions” (context menu file handlers) so you can go into the settings—>Context Menu and click on “Download New Services” to browse tons of free scripts/tools that let you do things like file conversions, write disk images to USB drives, get checksums, etc.

I actually made a personal script that converts videos to looping .webp files (or just sets WebP files to loop forever). So I can right click on a .WebP, .webm, .mp4, etc and it’ll run ffmpeg on it in the background.