Okay, I'll give you that: LLMs aren't the root of the problem.

Capitalism is. The idea of infinite growth. The idea that people can't just live, they must with 40+ hours a week to justify their existence, and they must be purchasing something all the time. Companies must keep selling new stuff. All the resources must be tapped into and exploited.

And companies are making software. They must keep selling new features and pointless complete redesigns nobody wanted. The code must keep being churned over and over again. Programmers must justify their existence by churning out absurd amounts of meaningless code. The companies must exploit them.

Then, companies are entering the #OpenSource "market". They are acquiring and enshittifying. They are hiring and exploiting. And then so many volunteers just jump on the bandwagon and keep cosplaying them. And they too churn out useless code, "sell" pointless complete makeovers, "profit" off their users (even if they actually aren't making any real profit).

And then come LLMs, perfect tools for the job. Perfect tools for exploitation, for churning out useless code, for creating addiction, and for turning everyone into mindless corpospeak bullshit machines.

#AI #LLM #NoAI #NoLLM #AntiCapitalism

No, in case you wonder, we haven't changed our minds.

#AI #browser #technology #Google

Four-spotted chaser #dragonfly
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#Fourspottedchaser
Ham Wall #rspb
#insect #hamwallnaturereserve #nature #naturereserve #hamwall #wildlife #rspbhamwall
#nikonz8

#snap_community_member #snap_challenge #snap_artgallary #snap_edit #snap_kingdom #snap_community #snap_colours #snap_raw #snap_uk #snap_vip_member #snap_insects #snap_depthoffield #snap_process
#snap_dragonfly #snap_nature #snap_wildlife
#snap_dragonflies #snap_macro #snap_closeup

To allow all of our users to download offline maps reliably and quickly, we need servers in many different locations. Some of these servers are rented, thanks to the donations we get.

But some of them are also hardware donations, where we are allowed to use otherwise underused hardware! A big thanks go to Mathias Klein as well as the French OpenStreetMap chapter @osm_fr, who provide us with server capacities in Germany and France respectively!

You might remember my distress at not having been able to grab any tiny balancing sheep photos. Went out for a walk today and it wasn't perfect (the pathway is noticeably higher than the field which makes it tricky) BUT VICTORY IS MINE! 🐑 😁

I continue to stand by rubbish-but-real being better than polished-but-fake.

Behold my rubbish-but-real triptych.

#tinyBalancingSheep

Tongue out

#birds #wildlife #nature #photography #naturephotography