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Dear Linux community,

In these shite times, we need to remember to see the human in all of us. So I address the humans of this community:

  1. To the Stallmanites. SCREW CORPORATE YEAHHHHH! Each day humanity grows smarter, no matter how many iPad kids or mass media diatribes there are, so celebrate how far we've fucking come. Look at your oldest machine. You're a million times better. My old Slackware was full of SHIT! FUCK YEAH

  2. To the pragmatists. Linux doesn't get in your way. People get in each others' ways all the time. But most importantly, don't get in your own way. If you're feeling like shit -- the human capacity to hope beats everything to a pulp. You know what we do when shit fucks? We submit a fucking pull request. FUCK YEAH

  3. To the hobbyists. Life is a bundle of fun so feel every moment. When you're old, and you'll be old as fuck, you'll be like "fuck yeah I lived every moment of my life up to now." So fuck another segfault up. Learn C, and call C the best language. Then learn Rust and call Rust the best language. Make a homelab then call homelab the best language. FUCK YAML HOLY SHIIIIIIIT

Flaming hot wishes,

Your fellow fucking human.

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[–] starbrite 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago

Totally lost me. Why the hate on YAML?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

No linux user ever leaves home without their... piss minigun??

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lmao, I love the diss at that AI post. Merry GNU/Christmas 🎄🎁🎉, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Christmas 🎄🎁🎉

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Alpine: musl + Christmas 💪🎄🎁🎉

[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Made with no blood, no sweat, and no tears in fucking GNU's Not Unix Image Manipulation Program.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago

If you haven't already, try out KDE's Krita. Incredible piece of software, much better for drawing imo

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Basest of Based.

Personally, I try to mainly use locally hosted Open Source LLMs, and mostly for research purposes.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Open Source" is a misnomer for LLMs. The weights are comparable to binary blobs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The difference is nobody knows what the binary blobs are made of

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You could recreate them if you had the training data, which is pretty much never disclosed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

You could of course use one of the models that are trained on open data sets. Maybe a little worse than those directly from Mistral etc but truly open source

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

I decided I don't care for imaginary AI copyright and will use Llama as if it is public domain.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Are they free range and GMO free? 🙄

[–] LandedGentry 7 points 1 day ago

“Mainly” and “mostly” 🤨

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Got any good tutorials that you've been happy with?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I just use GPT4All

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

That's why it's... The way it is lmao

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Happy holidays and thank you for the art

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Filthy, janky, lovely! Merry Christmas and happy holidays you stinky lil' penguin! 🎄🎉🎁☃️❄️

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Merry chrisatms

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Merry Christmas! I don't know about all of you, but I'm enjoying the holiday music today.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is that 7/8 time? (12) (3) (12) (12). Stallman's taking his own path even when compiling a song

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Yup. Though it's really a "fork" of a Bulgarian folk song.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

I feel like this could be applied to more than the Linux community. Regardless, this was a heartwarming read.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Merry Christmas 🐧

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Fuck yeah! 🐧🎉🎄