Wow! Thanks for the recommendation!

Shit, I remember looking at 18F when trying to learn more about accessibility and I recall they had good info, it's a shame...

In this economy?

I've tried Etcher many times and I feel like I've had issues every time, unfortunately. I don't remember the exact issues, but I recall both having problems with writing ISOs and with booting them. I would highly recommend Rufus instead, which has been much more consistent for me.

I'm not particularly worried about those vulnerabilities. Unfortunately, they are pretty common AFAIK, but at-least they pretty much only open a backdoor within whatever network you're connected to, and can be mitigated with a VPN.

IMO, there's much bigger reasons to be worried about RedNote than security or even privacy.

This comment here seems to summarize it well: https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3/issues/457#issuecomment-2627016777

It's more open-sourced than I thought, but also seems debatable. I don't know enough about LLMs to properly judge. I would probably stay away from calling it "completely open-sourced" though.

Unfortunately, as I've learned recently, it doesn't look like Deepseek is actually open source.

You can download the model, but unless I'm misunderstanding, that feels comparable to calling Photoshop open source because you can download the .exe file on your computer.

So what is :q! For?

That's been my experience too, unfortunately.

I do see that .ml has lots of regular users too, but in addition, the tankies are almost exclusively there.

/r/KenM

I don't think that's who they were calling Russia.

I, for one, haven't seen people over-using the word "tankie", I haven't seen people getting called tankies for the reason alone that they are leftists or even communists.

However, I've seen many tankies insisting that the word is meaningless or that it just means anybody on the left.

People I've seen using the word tankie have been surprisingly consistent about who they call a tankie: supporters of authoritarianism, especially Putin and the CCP.