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Always eat your greens!

  • 'Fuck you, Bambu': How one private message could change the face of 3D printing

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  • Classic enshitification arc. They were a fast growing startup that engineered really good printers and software. People, especially newbies flocked to them because their software was easy to use and their initial print quality was very good without any tweaking or tuning.

    But they were backed by private equity, and had to start showing higher and higher returns, they started locking in users with their proprietary cloud services.

    They've been locking users in more and more recently, and just a few weeks ago, threatened a user with legal action for posting AGPL code up on their own repo. The code enabled users to use their Bambu printers without needing to sign into Bambu's cloud.

    Now there is a big community backlash and Bambu is having to do PR damage control.

  • Plex Announces Massive Price Hike on Lifetime Subscription Plans

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  • My Jellyfin server goes, "Burrrrrrr!"

  • There Ought be a Word for "FOSS" Projects Whose Infrastructure Involves a Lot of Proprietary Services

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  • I've thought for a long time that if a FOSS project wants to use Discord as its primary community center, they should build it on Matrix and have a bridge to Discord as a secondary.

    That way, they get the larger reach and visibility of Discord for more of the normie crowd, without compromising their core FOSS user base and forcing them into proprietary solutions.

  • Netflix Plans to Bring Ads to Even More Parts of Its Service

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  • Never been so happy to sail the seven seas! 🏴‍☠️🥰🏴‍☠️ Jellyfin FTW

  • What math operation order do you use?

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  • I learned, "Please excuse my dear aunt Sally."

    Parentheses Exponents Multiplication Division Addition Subtraction

  • Thank You, Linux and Linux Community

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  • [Louis Rossman] Bambu labs threatened to send this developer to prison, so I'm hosting his code instead

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  • [Jeff Geerling] I'm never buying a Bambu Lab 3D printer again

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  • Big Tech cut 80,000 jobs and blamed AI — Experts say a real problem is that companies are 25% to 75% overstaffed

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  • I can't speak for other fields, but I've worked in IT as a sysadmin for about a decade at a bunch of different companies, big and small.

    I've never worked at a place that was close to "overstaffed" nearly every place I've worked we've needed at least 2-4 additional people.

    Everybody was overworked, overwhelmed with tickets and projects, working 50+ hours a week constantly.

    But upper management and executives love claiming that staffing is maxed out and needs to get more lean. Like, dude, our IT team is handling dozens of tickets a day, running 5-10 different infrastructure projects simultaneously, and keeping near-decade old equipment alive because we were denied our third budget request in a row.

  • At some point AI companies are going to have to charge real money to make a profit from their services. What do you think that amount would be and why?

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  • I personally think that general consumers will never use LLMs in any significant number. I think that LLMs will exist in two distinct spaces, FOSS for devs and other technical people who want to run there own infra locally - and B2B for everything else.

    The few big AI companies that manage to last will be selling access to their models for much higher prices. Probably similar to current proprietary commercial software like VMWare, SolidWorks, VEEAM, Splunk, etc. Companies will pay hundreds, possibly thousands of dollars per seat depending on the niche offering and amount of usage.

    Suppose that a company developed an LLM that is trained & tuned specifically to do legal work, and suppose it produced work that was around 95% the quality of a typical paralegal. If that company charged $6,000 a year per license to work on their platform, that's expensive, but if you're a small firm with say, a dozen full time lawyers, then for the yearly price of a single average paralegal, you could have each lawyer using that software to do most of the work that the paralegal would have done. I can see those kinds of applications happening more and more.

    This assumes though that LLMs will continue to improve at a significant rate for a long time into the future, (5-10 more years) which isn't at all obvious, and there is some evidence that it's already starting to hit a ceiling.

    There are other ways it might work, like if there is a method of compression that is discovered that reduces the necessary RAM and Compute needs by 2-3 orders of magnitude. So models that are considered very large today (100-300 billion params at full quality) might be able to run effectively on a single 32GB GPU that costs a few thousand dollars.

    So the cost to run these models is reduced immensely, and a single small data center could run enormous models with 1,000,000+ context windows for tens of thousands of users at once.

    But that cuts both ways, which is something that any AI company is going to have to deal with. Once small free models get good enough to do the vast majority of a task, a user is going to start weighing the cost/benefits, and the prospect of just buying a box and throwing one of these models in for a few grand will be very appealing.

    I think there may be a good market out there for "AI boxes", compact computers designed to run a tuned LLM, set up with a little special sauce so the interface is user-friendly, etc. Companies could sell these with support contracts to legal firms, indie Dev studios, startups, small government agencies, etc.

    Idk, it's so up in the air right now, and everything is constantly changing so fast. It's impossible to predict where things will be in 6 months, let alone 6 years from now.

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  • I've been loving Incus containers for this very use case. Unlike Docker, Incus containers are by default persistent, and are full system containers, not just applications. So when you launch an Incus Debian 13 container for instance, you get a full Debian 13 installation, but at a fraction of the size of even a small traditional VM.

    It's a great happy medium between Ultra-minimal Docker containers designed for single applications, and old-school heavy VMs.

  • Unauthorized Group Gains Access to Anthropic's Exclusive Cyber Tool Mythos

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  • Dang, crazy how secure everything is now because of AI! They were correct, we can fire all the cyber security experts and devs right now, AI can do it all so much faster and better, right?

  • Anthropic nuked a company's access to Claude, stopping 60 employees dead in their tracks — support via Google Form is the only recourse for vague usage policy violation

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  • Aaaaaand example #99999... Of why tech sovereignty is so important. The moment you start outsourcing your control, you become vulnerable to this exact kind of action by a company.

    Everybody got sucked into the cloud "magic" for years, but now we are seeing the monster emerge more and more as proprietary technology enshitifies.

    Luckily, there is a boom happening across the FOSS world, more and more people are finally waking up to the principles of software freedom and actual ownership.

    May it continue to grow, as the corpos struggle and wither.

  • Mexico’s Socialist President to Roll Out Universal Healthcare

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  • As opposed to now, where companies copyright and patent their medications and sell them ultimately to...taxpayers who pay them billions of dollars a year in just out of pocket costs, let alone the scheme that is the American private insurance/healthcare system.

    If taxpayers had to fund drug companies or research institutions for R&D without the insane middleman that is the private healthcare/insurance system, it would cost a fraction of what it does now.

    On top of that, this assumes that people won't do research for the good of society vs becoming filthy rich, which is a false assumption driven by Capitalist propaganda. Remember that the ultra wealthy CEOs and executives of these drug companies aren't the ones doing any of the actual work or research. That is all done by scientists and engineers, who make a decent living, but none of them are incredibly rich from it, classic Capitalist exploitation at work.

    Often times these drug companies (and the private equity firms that own them) don't even primarily do R&D, they just purchase the patents and IP rights to drugs that are already on the market, and once they do that, they jack up the price often by hundreds of percent to increase their cashflow.

    That cost gets sent to the insurance companies, which of course, they pass on to consumers, raising our healthcare prices year after year.

    I want medical researchers, scientists, and engineers to make a good living, a very good living, their work literally saves and improves hundreds of millions of people's lives worldwide. But you don't need a CEO or executives, or private equity firms owning that space and making insane amounts of money, you just literally don't.

    There are millions of very smart and passionate people around the world who want to do this kind of work because they enjoy it, and they want to make a difference. Providing an open and rigorous academic and scientific structure to study and practice this is all you need. That already exists today, many medical breakthroughs came from publicially funded research institutes, which is the way it should be.

  • In your opinion, is space exploration necessary?

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  • Yes, absolutely, science in general is necessary for any kind of desirable civilization. Space exploration contributes a massive amount of knowledge to scientific research and betters the human race.

    But it shouldn't be a playground for billionaires to plan space hotels for ultra-wealthy clientele. Public works for the public good, for the betterment of our human race as a whole, not just for the super rich.

  • ‘I want to cancel’: YouTube Premium quietly hikes its US prices for the first time in three years, forcing many users to consider the unthinkable

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  • Lol, the poor suckers who ever paid for premium in the first place.

  • YouTube's ad problem just got worse: Users now seeing 90-second unskippable ads!

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  • So true! Also, productive screentime has been nice. Instead of doomscrolling or mindlessly zoning out to video essays, I've been programming, doing some 3D modeling for 3D printing, working on some simple games, and reading long form articles from my own curated news feed.

  • YouTube's ad problem just got worse: Users now seeing 90-second unskippable ads!

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  • Ublock Origin, NewPipe, and Grayjay, haven't seen a YouTube ad in over a decade. 😌

  • Sam Altman’s coworkers say he can barely code and misunderstands basic machine learning concepts

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  • I mean, yeah...obviously. The amount of CEOs with any technical understanding of what they supposedly manage is just about zero.

    And the AI grift is basically on the same level as the Religious grift, supposed spiritual leaders/gurus who convince people that they have some special connection to God/the universe/spiritual realms, etc.

    And people eat it up, it's been a thing for literally thousands of years. We are primed to want to belive it, and when it comes with membership in an exclusive club of other "true believers" , that's a winning formula.

  • Donating gives you Freedom

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  • Same, I've paid/donated far more for my FOSS than I ever did for proprietary software.

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    Being Forced to Say Goodbye

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    Kiosk Mode and Linux

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    Timeshift On Production Servers?

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    How Long Should Hardware/Software Support Last?

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    RegreSSHion Mitigation Debian Stable?

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    Heliboard 1.2 Released, Fixes Haptic Feedback Bug

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    Suggestions for Short Rack Mount Case

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    I Converted my Parents to Mint!

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    Switched my Parents to Linux

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    Ransomware and Backups

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    FOSS Friendly Printing Services?

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    Copyleft Equivalent for Trademarks?

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    What Cars do You Swear By?

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    Sanity Check Setup

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    Anysoft Keyboard Private?