Ostfriesentee

You’re out-of-date, I fear.

I’m not sure making the tool you’re selling less useful is a smart idea. Hmm, yes liability is an issue. But other models are just gonna allow it anyway, so people will just stop using Claude for that usecase. Reverse engineering won’t stop. Claude will just not be used for it anymore

I’ve become a heavy user of Noctalia and figured these issues out.

I’ve been through these: CachyOS+Hyprland+Noctalia ↓ CachyOS+MangoWM+Noctalia ↓ CachyOS+Umbriel+Noctalia

I honestly recommend Umbriel. It’s a nice mix of Niri and Hyprland and is very customizable. Also better integration with Noctalia.

Anyway: The fixes are the same.

sudo noctalia-greeter passwordless-sync enable “$USER”

For passwordless theme syncing between shell and greeter. My setup also syncs the wallpaper to hyprlock via a Noctalia hook.

If the keyring authorization thing shows up after login with Noctalia greeter, edit /etc/pam.d/greetd to include:

auth optional pam_gnome_keyring.so

in the auth section and

session optional pam_gnome_keyring.so auto_start

in the session section (obviously this requires gnome-keyring).

That should fix all weird pop-ups. Been very happy.

COSMIC I’ll have to check out. But I’ve been so invested in customizing my Noctalia/Umbriel setup it’s going to be hard to switch. I really like my look and feel right now.

Newsom, in his veto letter to the legislature, said he was supportive of “protecting sensitive personal information of Californians,” but that a “categorical ban on sharing that information goes a step too far.”

The governor pointed to existing state laws that require businesses to give consumers the option to limit sharing their information and budget constraints that would hinder implementing and enforcing the law.

Newsom also signed a handful of other bills strengthening the state’s privacy rules:

• SB 923 expands the scope of the California Consumer Privacy Act to require businesses to delete all personal information they have on a consumer upon request, not just data collected directly from the consumer. Online-only businesses will be required to provide a webform or portal for deletion requests.

• AB 883 shortens the time with which data brokers must comply with a data deletion request from 45 to 30 days. It requires elected officials and judges receive information on how to access the deletion mechanism, known as DROP, to protect their information.

Other data privacy laws still awaiting Newsom’s signature or veto include:

• SB 690 would remove the private right to action for alleged violations under a wiretapping law, allowing just the state attorney general to pursue such legal challenges.

• AB 2561 would prohibit an operating system or application from re-adjusting a user’s privacy setting without consent.

They say they are about law and order but oftentimes aren’t.

Shoop da whoop, my fren.

So what are the consequences? No internet for my machine today, I guess?

That’s very interesting. Might try it out.

Actually, it could prove fatal to assume that the Republicans are going to lose the house(s). We should assume that they won’t and do everything so that they actually do.

But I do think that Putin is seeing Trump’s usefulness for him fading, even if we’re just looking at a potential defeat of his party.

He’s doing everything in his might to lose the midterms even harder. That’s the last Putin is gonna get out of him and he knows it.

How about going SETI@home with LLM training? Everyone contributing their own computing power to train better, more transparent local models. Using properly licensed, publically available datasets. Not sure how viable this approach would be, but that would make forking of open-source models possible, maybe?

Olmo exposes all of its training code and training data, including post-training etc.

Olmo: https://huggingface.co/allenai/Olmo-3-1125-32B

Also Apertus: https://www.apertus-ai.org/

I’ve trained a tiny GPT model on my computer before. It’s shitty, certainly, very shitty actually, but essentially anyone can train an LLM, if you got either enough time or calculation power.

I think yawning, mold and the movement of sand dunes are pretty interesting.

I think the US banning open-weight/open-source models could be a real concern. Anthropic is certainly pushing for it with their weird self-propagating local open-weight worm in smart TVs narrative that makes little sense. But I don’t think other countries would follow suit, because it wouldn’t be in their interest, given that they are not currently in control of the frontier models and open models giving them an edge.

Remember SETI@home? If compute is the bottleneck, why shouldn’t people all over the world get together to train their own models? Cyber security would be a concern, of course. Such a cluster could be misused. And the underlying question of copyright remains. But if lots of people were able to get together to create open-source software, lots of people can get together to train better, transparent models. The EU also offers free training clusters if you apply, if I’m not mistaken. I also read about an open-source LLM somewhere. Not only open-weight, open-source. Can’t recall right now. Mistral 4 Large and Kolibri 1 are interesting open-weight models. Lots to come.

I also think that making the technology your own is the best way to tackle the big American corps and their proprietary models.

This is big news. Blocking ads is now a matter of cyber security. Regulators and organizations need to step in. I don’t see internet ads dying but they definitely should.

Sounds good

“Anthropic is scared that local MoE models are going destroy their subscription-based LLM business model so they try to scare governments into regulating local inference”

GTA 6 will hit PC approximately 2 days after console release because someone is going to decompile it with their agent and run it natively. Actually, a tool to run PS5 games natively on Linux and Windows already exists, though it likely won’t work for GTA 6 (yet).

btw I use Arch

New narrative just dropped. Now the oil prices are Zelenskyy’s fault instead of Trump’s with his Iran war. Just right in time for the midterm elections. Hopefully not too many are gonna buy this.

I pay zero, not even electricity because it’s being generated in this building, for my agent. It’s running entirely on my computer and it’s decent enough. The LLM subscription companies are eventually going to fail because everyone and their dog is going to be able to run their own models.