“For most organisms on Earth, rocks are objects, not food.”

I can’t find a video I had about it, but the first organisms digested minerals and created a shitload of the other minerals we know and rely on today. It’s just a hell of a lot more efficient to consume life that already did the hard work. So, ancient lifeforms digested anything they could, starting with ‘Rock’. Sorry for lack of source.

However, cool discovery of a ‘directional’ rock digestion…

Killed my account bc they didn’t feel I used it enough. F’em…

Framework:

Advanced generic agent: Agent-zero (needs setting up local/external endpoints + invest time in optimizing)

Easy setup/integration with std linux: Newelle (flatpak, and downloads own dependencies/extensions. You choose)

Working advanced chat/agent abilities out of the box: cherry-studio (flatpak, default free glm4.5/qwen models can be changed)

Local endpoints: llamacpp, ollama, vllm, transformer (huggingface) or depending on your hardware. Another option is gpt4free that are a tool/library that collects free chat on the net and set them up as a local endpoint. Aihorde is also great.

There are people that believes “slop” is a new thing created by “AI”, and not by the shitty ideology/society we live in… weird take, but at least they are starting to notice “Slop” in their environment. I guess that’s a start…

Great. Perhaps ‘they’ can reduce the amount of Western propaganda in Wikipedia…

injecting viruses into your brain

Have not read article. Virus and bacteria - plus everything else - can be utilized for resonant/dissonant purposes. All vira isn’t ‘bad’, and neither is all bacteria.

Much of biotech evolves around extracting/converting these buggers - small systems - to do positive resonant work. A virus can be deactivated, or emulated, to activate our latent bio systems, or it can be deadly in the wrong environment, and a life giver in another.

Besides, we are already infested with invading critters/lifeforms in every part of our bodies, and we would die without them…

The biggest threat is big pharma that always tweak research data/consequences for profits…

fyi: walled article.

Seems like a standard “Manufacturing Consent” technique. They never/rarely attack something specifically, but works 24/7/52 to undermine legislation and opposition etc. And oc, before that, they have made sure they are allowed to interfere with the little democracy we have…

Every time we sleep, or just look away for a second, these psychopaths are working to undo what little democratic progress we get to make once in a while.

For those interested in how “manufacturing consent”, works, follow that lemmy sub…

Thumbs up for using https://www.utcp.io/ ‘Universal Tool Calling Protocol’ instead of only MCP. (Mcp are covered by utcp.)

I hope other no-bs community standards replaces mcp, a2a, and other big tech pushed standards. A2a can be replaced with xmpp and a few other standard protocols, and we should not allow big corporate psycho’s to take over a development ecosystem again…

Link: https://www.nature.com/nature-index/news/nature-index-research-leaders-chinese-institutions-dominate

Strange with this sudden interest in open source. I wonder what happened ?!?

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Yup, capitalism is the root cause of ‘ai-slop’. We always had it through capitalism. The name of the game is to spit out cheap products on the market. Just getting the ad profits from random search hits, is enough to sustain players on markets. There’s an economic incentive for all slop we see on the net yesterday and today.

ANY tool that accelerates the quantity of their products/increases search presence will be exploited. Kill the economic incentive, and you kill ‘ai-slop’…

I had an account, but got sick for a whole year or so. When I tried to come back, they had taken the account down, and I could only access with an old emergency code I didn’t have anymore - I ‘only’ had my user/password.

I guess I had less than 40 emails, so the account didn’t cause space problems, or anything. But I managed to get a few other essential services bound to tuta before I got ill. That was unfortunate.

I won’t be dealing with a corporation that treats mail accounts casually as if they were not an important ‘anchor’ for other internet services. A small mail account should never be taken down for ‘not using it enough’. No tuta business crap again. disroot.org are the shit for me. Cool guys, and they still had my ~8yo account running without me using it until now…

Agree. For example; the amount of times we correct our own speech before ‘releasing it’ is staggering. We have a ‘stochastic parrot’ mechanism build right into the hearth of our own cognition and it generates the same problems for us. ‘Hallucinations’ are build into a statistical model. It takes a lot of culture/rules and energy to constantly adjust(habituate to expectations/environment into the ‘norm’. People that have fallen out of normal social environments know how difficult human interactions can be to learn/overcome.

Current llm’s doesn’t have the ability to do these micro-corrections on the fly or habituate the corrected behavior through learning/culture etc.

‘Context length’ is also directly mappable to human cognitive load, where chronic stress tends to shorten our ‘context length’ and we lose overview in a split-second, and forget the simplest things. ‘Context length’ are for an llm, roughly equivalent to our ‘working memory’.

However, compensating systems are already being designed. Just like life/evolution did, one by one, these natural tendencies from statistics will be fixed by adding more ‘cognitive modules’ that modulate the internal generation and final output…

Disroot.org seems like a great free/open alternative. Works great for me…

I haven’t been following closely lately, but yes, its a cool idea. However, it have almost stalled for many years. Not because of the project, but the idea never caught on with distros etc.

They have kept watching/working on it though, and latest push I think, were a tech-demo distro where you login via the SOLID ecosystem and keep your data etc there. I forgot the name, but it should show up in distrowatch searching for ‘solid’ - I presume.

I think most sota llm’s knows enough about Solid to help with small apps etc for it.

BUT, we have an enormous production… …no wait… we don’t. We have an enormous technical and intellectua… …hm, nope… …enormous resources of ener… arg, also no! …economy, no… …military, lol no! …‘self-confidence’ …could be ?..

DEBT ! They have an enormous debt - I knew there was one !!

…yeah, okay, but it’s something …

Nonsense propaganda from the US tech-lords/Plutocracy. Who gave big tech the power to investigate and convict anyone - without any oversight ? Ridiculous warmongering…

Alternative idea for the adventurous lot - or extreme self-hosters: Buy an old Xeon datacenter server with 1.5tb ddr3 ram (separately). Ddr3 still costs around a dollar pr gig (a month ago), so this rig with two xeon and 24 * 64gb ddr3 ram will cost ~1900$ + transport: ~2k.

(OR an older pc motherboard with 4*64 channels or similar)

DDR3 is a bit slower, use more power, and the server is big/noisy, but the difference in price is unbeatable, and it’s a hell of a KVcache (for ai) if you put a gpu in it.

Note though, that power expenses are going up in the West.

Not helping here, but I heard a guy with Guix did that. Guix just builds a profile with the extra desktop parts, run it in a local container if you want and add that profile to the local software stack. Not a vm but maybe you don’t need it ? Both the system, home and the desktop profile are declarative, so very mobile. I think he had his DE user profile remote also, so extremely minimal/air-gapped and stable solution with almost zero local data: system, home, desktop-profile, remote user profile (ldap etc).

In declarative operating systems, you describe what you want, and the system builds it for you. Your whole system configuration is a few files of std code (learning experience ;). Personally, I’m done with the usual monolithic distros. They are too error prone for my taste, and not really moving with the dev flow of operating systems imho.

Anyway, just a loose rumor/idea, I have no links and don’t actually know how to do it, sorry.