Here just to point out you’re missing the huge amount of work Valve puts on Linux and open source. Go look at lwn and phoronix if you want. They could just make all a binary blob and force you to run SteamOS but instead they contribute upstream. “forking existing Linux distros with their DRM set to autoboot on big picture, and Wine? Damn, I’m impressed. /s” is unbelievably ignorant or dishonest.

Unfortunately there is a risk. What you read mostly is about LLMs, but the rapid evolution in hardware and research also benefits other neural networks applications. The government and military are as worried as when the atomic weapons begun to be developed: they don’t want to fall behind so the global military scales won’t be tipped against you. Along with everything else, China is autocratic which makes them more agile in big changes: see if there’s any protests about data centers there for example. Drones as an example: China is making them very cheap and to counter them is currently expensive. If they manage to make these drones fully autonomous too, it’s a big threat. That also applies to other weapons operation and development. The idea is to one day not need a human to plan and execute a military operation. And notice that using AI for this isn’t comparable to nuclear weapons in the sense you potentially will screw up the whole planet if you use it.

Despite despising this A"I" circus, some arguments in the sea of discussions are valid, IMHO.

Pretty sure I saw a tshirt with “f* biden” (whole thing, none of the brandon bs) front and on the back “f* your feelings”.

You can always not use those sites and/or only print the ones that have picture and ignore the others. People are offering hours if their work for free (including a bunch of prototypes and wasted plastic you never see), including licensing them sometimes very generously, and you come complaining that there isn’t a picture? If you can’t look at a model you won’t be able to tell if the uploaded pictures are from the same version of the model uploaded.

If all traffic is going through your homelab you can make the vpn clients use a vpn specific DNS server or the one suggested with resolving per origin, you then make the external names to your services to resolve to the servsrs’ internal IP addresses, avoiding going out. Another way is to add rules to your gateway to redirect internal traffic going to your external IP addresses to DNAT to the internal addresses but in order for that to work you need to masquerade them which means server logs will have gateway’s IP.

It’s very interesting the timing though. Right after the bill. Has control of everything in the government to just pretend that “they’re still working” on it instead of making a final determination on the case. Defends Bondi publically instead of blaming someone like usual. Releases footage with timetamps with a minute missing. Fox didn’t fall in line and stirred the pot. I read someone with an interesting theory that looks like a way to blackmail people in the list to pay to not show up in a future list by showing the pressure they’re under to release anything which it’d be something easily dismissed under “traditional” presidents. Has control enough that he could show up with a ton of enemies in said list and his cult would swallow it. Is playing with and regulating crypto. This whole thing sounds very fishy.