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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 7 months ago

somehow missed this previously, but: Redhat Chatbot Linux!

Today, Red Hat announced a developer preview of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI), a foundation model platform to seamlessly develop, test and run best-of-breed, open source Granite generative AI models to power enterprise applications. RHEL AI is based on the InstructLab open source project and combines open source-licensed Granite large language models from IBM Research and InstructLab model alignment tools, based on the LAB (Large-scale Alignment for chatBots) methodology, in an optimized, bootable RHEL image to simplify server deployments.

the "LAB methodology". I wonder if someone broke out the rack and thumbscrews to get a name that tortured

given what I've seen people do to ubuntu-based machines to make their kerases and tensorflows run, combined with redhat's historical trend of extremely bullshit repo pains, I have to wonder what nightmare experience this will result in

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Oh great I mentioned in another context that Linux would be the only LLM-free zone and someone with RH connections just laughed pityingly at me.

[-] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 8 points 7 months ago

I asked a RH friend about this and they told me that they just had a breathless all hands about it.

[-] self@awful.systems 5 points 7 months ago

don’t worry, there’s no way it’ll end up in a distro anyone would willingly use

unless they make it a mandatory component of systemd alongside the other shit they’ve put in there

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 7 months ago

systemd is a microsoft product now, so

[-] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 4 points 7 months ago

What??

(As in, could you kindly elaborate?)

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 7 months ago

lennart poettering works for microsoft

[-] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 5 points 7 months ago

Oh, alright. The original creator works for Microsoft (presumably on Linux related things?), but systemd itself is still OSS

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