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  • I disagree I think the fact the boss of wikimedia is very well paid and that he is benefiting at the end of day from free labor.

    They could reward/pay the most important contributors and they don’t. Yes it’s voluntary but it’s also a comparatively very “” small “” group of people that write a big chunk of wikipedia.

    I absolutely can’t stand that the boss of such utility service as wikipedia thinks first about his salary rather than rewarding their contributors.

    Also you say this is not a problem but I’m sure the Union would have pointed out the same thing I just did.

    That’s not the problem, 'tho. Wikipedia is volunteer-written and needs money to pay for the SW development and the servers.

    Also you are missing an important point if you just say “hey they are volunteers, they choose to work for free”. It’s not like that because as I said it’s a few contributors that do the bast majority of article edits.

    I’m wasting my time if you think that wikimedia has one problem and that’s it. Multiple problems that would need to be adressed by a Union.



  • Wow

    My primary concern is the risk that authoritarian governments—not solely the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), although the CCP is clearly the most capable threat—build AI models that are more powerful than those built by the US, and use them to achieve permanent military superiority or perpetrate incredibly deep repression of their own people.

    What is that shit?

    Truly this is an insane take coming from an American company. Really batshit crazy.

    Imagine the dread for Europeans to see these powerful countries obsessed at weaponizing their AI. Open source model are not even part of that problem. Open source is usually the opposite end of the secrecy of weapon design and manufacturing.

    But no evil CCP bad can’t do their open weights AI but OpenAI can equip the military without any oversight.

    I hope the American imperium will crumble and fall. They created so much fucking suffering for the rest of the world.








  • I’m the only linux user in my group of friends and fortunately my switch didn’t change anything.

    I never was late or anything to play because every game starts well now. My controller only works when steam is started though so I think I still can improve that by installing the steam compatibility driver package thing.

    Honestly dont give up OP. Once you will have completely setup your games and got to know your system better it will run fine.

    I also hated Windows so much I moved to cachyos earlier this year and I’m not turning back. Also I have never played as much video games since my switch to cachyos. The change of OS and the fact that I again feel “in control” of my computer again had somehow reinvigorated my fun playing games with friends.

    Basically, OP, dont give up! If I can make it everyday with my group of friends, you can manage it too with yours (even if they sound rather immature). Honestly once you will have setup games on proton so many times you will be able to avoid most problems in a matter of minutes.

    IE we bought and played a game on a whim with 4 players. It wasn’t working on cachyos-proton so I quickly changed it to my emergency GE-Proton compatibility and it worked right away.



  • I had enough of this “Big AI agenda”.

    Yes the oligarchs at the top are the most evil and corrupted people ever. Sure. Ok. Understood.

    But what does it have to do with Linus and the kernel project ? He is not like vouching for them or even for their specific models. And it’s not like there isn’t open source AI models too. There is, and pretty good one at that.

    But no, AI is the obligatory Claude code or chatgpt obviously…

    Damn if only Lemmynautes could understand that we can’t be dumb enough to consider AI as one big proprietary monolotic block. It is not and Linus is well aware of that.

    And by the way, Linus I’m sure understand very well the agenda of the big evil corps. It’s just not his problem. He is leading the kernel open source project. He is not involved in a crusade against AI and I’m so glad he will focus on that instead of “picking a side”. If there is anybody I trust to use the tech effectively and pragmatically it’s the kernel open source project.

    It’s not complicated truly, all AI models are not the same. They dont come from the same business, the same country, they don’t have the same licence.

    If we used half the energy we use to vociferate about big corps AI to actually create open source (and copyright respecting) models that would really improve the situation in the future.

    It’s more than time for the open source community to wake up and actually create their own models, built ethically and in accord with the OSS ethos.

    Obviously, I’m well aware of the destruction of our planet by AI datacenters but again that is a problem for politicians, not freaking Linus Torvald.