I’m not who you replied to but… I’ve run a bunch of models through https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile and https://ollama.com/. I’m lucky enough to have a decent video-card (24GB), but if you are willing to be a bit more paitient, or run a lower model, you’ll probably be able to get it going.

I grew up in California and had the opposite experience. I had friends who grew up speaking Mexican-Spanish at home, and would take the Spanish classes to get an easy A.

The teachers never understood what the Mexican-Spanish students were saying, and kept telling the native speakers that they were doing it wrong.

Honestly, I just block the people who keep repeating that kinds of BS. They aren’t worth my mental energy.

Does that mean I miss out on a bunch of discussions on .world? yes, but not wasting my mental energy on bad-faith arguments is worth it.

Fair enough. I’m sorry to hear all that. I’m lucky enough to have a good tech job, but I’d love to have a good tech job in Sweden instead of here in the US.

I’d love to move to Sweden. Any advice on how to move out there?

Install Ganeti, or K3s, and do a lot of things!

I don’t think that’s even remotely true. While it is true that the USA has it’s fair share of racists and sexists, Hillary won the popular vote, and Obama is one of America’s most popular presidents.

Harris lost because she ran a terrible campaign, on the coatails of another terrible campgaign, from a terrible president.

Does Firefox do reproducible builds? This bug report makes me think it doesn’t (at least for Linux): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=885777

But maybe they do for Windows/Apple/Android?

A source for what?

https://qutebrowser.org/ and Librewolf

It was probably Chick Tracts: https://www.chick.com/products/tract?stk=0046

That doesn’t detract from OP’s point. I want Mozilla to be a good, privacy respecting organization, but they aren’t anymore, and chromium has nothing to do with that.

Have they considered just asking for money? Also getting rid of the giant holes that they keep pouring their money into?

A lot of people love Firefox, and would happily donate. They could also trim a lot of fat at Mozilla quite easily.

You can, but the last time I did that the instructions were incomplete, and you still had to auth through Mozilla. That was a few years ago, so things might have changed since then.

If you liked vimperator, you might like https://qutebrowser.org/

I feel that “a functioning healthcare system that doesn’t bankrupt people”, or “lets not light the planet on fire”, or “lets make housing affordable”, or “genocide is bad” aren’t really huge requests. They seem like basic goals that any political leader should be able to shoot for. I guess I don’t feel like those are anywhere near approaching “perfectionism”.

They fell far short of canceling the student loans that they promised, the climate bill was laughably insufficient, they did a terrible job during covid. They also recked the economy (some of which wasn’t their fault, some of it was), backed a genocide, and ran 2 terrible campaigns. It seems pretty clear to me why voters didn’t trust them.

I also never advocated for letting the Republicans back into office. I’m not sure where that came from.

I’m not a Democrat, so take this with a grain of salt: I think the Democratic leadership are indeed the baddies (just like the Republican leadership). I think most Democratic voters are well-intentioned people, who’ve been suckered into beliving the lies leadership.

It’s OK to be suckered in. I’ve been suckered into a lot of things. To broadly paraphrase: The best time to realize you’ve been suckered is yesterday. The next best time to realize is today.

Who said reality is better now? I certaintly didn’t. I’m also not sure why you brought up Accelerationists. Maybe you’re replying to the wrong post?

The Democratic leadership has had the chance to change, and have chosen not to. They had a majority, and spent the entire time bitching that there was nothing they could do for their voting base. But they sure had the ability to do things that their voting base expressly didn’t want. I think voters saw through that, and when the time came to put their faith in the Democratic leadership, they couldn’t. And I don’t blame the voters for that, I blame the leadership.

I don’t understand what you mean by AOC putting in the work. I constantly see her talking a big talk, but I’ve yet to see her walk a big walk.

I’m not sure most people did want Trump. His approval rating is terrible, and the majority of people didn’t vote for him.

I think a better analogy would be: Do you want a shit-sandwich, or a shit-sandwich with rainbow sprinkles.

Are the rainbow sprinkles better? I guess yeah, techinically. But I’m still not eating the sandwich. Maybe next time, the Democrats should leave the shit out of the sandwhich.