And, importantly, it’s not a decision that’s compelled by some sort of hierarchical power structure. Responsible disclosure rules exist to protect everyone who uses the software. Like FOSS it’s a system that benefits everyone which makes it worth participating in voluntarily.

Capitalism sometimes gives a cash prize as well, because of course they do.

It’s modern journalism, only the headline really matters… only a small percentage of people are going to read the article anyway.

It says AI right in the title, that’s going to bring all the attention and interaction on social media.

At the top end, they’re probably not subsidized… but if you’re getting by on a $100 phone, it’s likely a $100 piece of spyware that sold your data to pay for 2/3rds of your phone.

This is true, self hosting doesn’t save you money. It is, in fact, more expensive and costs your time.

This is because modern technology isn’t sold to you as a product, it’s sold to you as a loss leader so that you use their products and let them spy on you so that they can sell that data to advertisers or anybody who can complete an ACH transfer.

Your options are

1. Use commercial services and sell your privacy in exchange for cheap consumer electronics which will be obsolete next year either by design or through engineered hardware failure.

2. Setup the services on your own devices and pay the cost in hardware and free time.

In one scenario you spend a bit more money, in the other scenario you don’t have privacy. Everyone gets to choose which is more important.

I’m sure OPs RTX 3060 will have a tolerable effect on the school children and the rainforest.

It depends on how complex you want to make it.

The simplest way would be to use a GUI tool like LM Studio, it has the benefit of selecting the model quants that are likely to work on your hardware and having sane defaults for the various parameters that you can work from.

Typically you’ll want to increase the context window, the default is good for short one-off questions but if you’re going to do RAG or coding tasks you will need a much larger context window. You will typically find this through trial and error, increasing until you hit memory limits or notice a large slowdown on tokens/second.

You can also have the model respond to an OpenAI-like API interface on a designated port/interface if you want to run non-chat tools through the same model.

Then, depending on the task that you’re trying to solve, you may want to find an MCP server built for that task which can provide the ability for the AI to interact with tools in a way that’s more controlled (giving an AI raw terminal access on a user’s machine is typically a bad idea).

If you need something more flexible that you can incorporate into scripts and automation, llama.cpp has been popular for a while. Like Linux distros, everyone is going to have an opinion on the best and whatever you decide on will be the wrong choice. There’s also Ollama and vLLM if you want to run a datacenter.

Model-wise it completely depends on the task. Do you need a multi-modal model that supports vision, is it going to be coding, is it trained to use tools/MCP servers, does it use reasoning, etc. The Qwen models are open weight and available in many different quants. The version 3.5 models run well on consumer hardware and can use vision, reasoning and tools.

I’m running it through Llama.cpp but it will likely be available via LM Studio as well.

Do vulnerabilities in voting software typically get disclosed to the public? Is there a CVE list somewhere that I can browse?

The beatings cyberattacks will continue until morale security improves

Think of Louisiana before Katrina. Those systems of pumps and dykes are expensive and had been neglected… which was fine right up until they were severely tested by Katrina.

Our orange city counselman stopped funding repairs and inspections on the dykes and pumps many years ago (when he destroyed CISA). They’ve been deteriorating from neglect ever since.

A large hurricane is going to hit at 14:00 UTC

(In 10 minutes)

It’ll almost certainly be handled quietly and nobody will know but system admins, but this could be a bigger thing than usual.

0118 999 881 999 119 725 3

We’re YOUR emergency services

It was :)

Basically this tone of voice:

Calm down, Wit

This is the first time a bug has been introduced into Linux, the AI apocalypse is truly upon us.

Those electrocution gloves are not cheap, ya know

I look forward to the community providing an outline of tools and techniques that I’m allowed to use and/or being labeled as woke/nazi depending on which brand of social media outrage is currently waxing.

AI is good at RAG tasks. When you’re asking it questions about text that is in the context window, the hallucination rate is significantly lower.

It can fill that gap between documentation and implementation that isn’t always obvious to someone who is new and answer question that they may not be able to form into a search string. The kind of simple questions that, in some Linux communities, would invite assholes (like ‘how do you set permissions’ or ‘I want to add my user to a group’) to tell them to RTFM. Now TFM can answer their questions directly.

There was a GTA6.exe that appeared on the torrent sites around the time of the first gameplay video leaks, I’m sure it got a few people.

You have to vow to use a new fork (which someone else should totally create) which does not contain this one specific patch.

Roko’s Basilisk was displeased at that.

Sure, right up until they start using all of your bandwidth acting as a residential proxy to create fraudulent clicks for ad networks.