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trevron ,

Cause its probably a little bit propaganda.

But also the government lets corpos do worse. See Flint for instance. Also, Nestle. They don't give a fuck about clean water for citizens.

trevron ,

If you just want to use a local llm, using something like gpt4all is probably the easiest. Oobabooga or llama.cpp for a more advanced route.

I use ollama with llama3 on my macbook with open-webui and it works real nice. Mistral7b is another one I like. On my PC I have been using oobabooga with models I get from huggingface and I use it as an api for hobby projects.

I have never trained models, I don't have the vram. My GPU is pretty old so I just use these for random gamedev and webdev projects and for messing around with RP in sillytavern.

trevron ,

yep, definitely agree with all of this.

trevron ,

They aren't banning it for privacy issues though. They literally passed a domestic surveillance bill at the same time lol

They want to get rid of tik tok because they can't control the narrative and people are successfully organizing on the platform.

trevron ,

Lets drop this whole "lesser of two evils" thing. It doesn't work in our two party system and it certainly doesnt work with comparing governments. Fascism is fascism. America loves having a boogeyman.

The united states is fascist as fuck. All our tax dollars are funneled into the war machine to ruin lives all around the world to help make a few dick heads rich. We fund far right monsters in order to overthrow democracies and peaceful governments that don't want to fuck with America's banks. Civil liberties are thrown out week after week. The wage gap is a fucking joke. Nobody can afford shit. Homelessness is on the rise. Schools are underfunded. Police are militarized against the citizens. Protesting is becoming illegal basically everywhere. We allow corporations to run slave operations all over the global south in order to placate and distract consumers from their shitty existences.

It is only getting worse. And the big reason they want to get rid of tiktok is because ordinary people are successfully sharing their firsthand experiences with fascist america. Its got nothing to do with privacy and everything to do with control. Young people are mad and organizing on the only platform that doesn't have a US backdoor.

trevron ,

I accidentally deleted my last response when trying to put in an edit but it doesn't really matter. You are arguing in bad faith and it is clear you don't want reason. So I will leave you with this:

Fascism can exist in more than one place. I am aware that the US got its current citizen control playbook from the CCP. I am not defending china. But if all it takes for them to threaten our national security is to let people know the proper truth about america, then I ought to let them do it anyways. The primary difference between tiktok and the other SoMe platforms is largely that american billionaires and israeli special interest groups have no influence there. So important matters that affect the working class (anyone whos not rich) are less likely to be controlled and manipulated. Therefore, it is more likely for regular people to get real information/news straight from the source/people. It's not that difficult to understand.

trevron ,

What you learned in highschool ain't shit. Read more. US robber barons basically funded the third reich. Our oligarchs love that shit. There is a whole swathe of history they keep out of the textbooks.

Your denial and downplay of fascism is exactly what allows it to fester in the states. Don't be part of the fucking problem.

What non-FOSS software have you been unable to quit?

For me, Google video search, Google books (Internet Archive is good, but doesn't always have the same stuff), Adobe InDesign (but in the process of learning LaTeX), and Typewise. As for the Google stuff, I liked Whoogle a lot, but almost all their instances seem to have been blocked or shut down. Also, apologies if this is...

trevron ,

Noooooo that is so disappointing to hear.

trevron ,

The US is a capitalist dumpster fire. Seems like a lot of folks in here don't use the platform much because they are just repeating the same talking points western media parrots.

The big problem seems to be that younger generations are connecting and organizing on there and they can't shut it up. If the issue is that a foreign adversary is exposing the corrupt shit the US is doing and that they allow US citizens to connect with each other rapidly on such issues, well... where is the fucking problem?

Outside of that, it is a dope platform with a scary good algorithm. Lots of good folks in there. Most content creators flocked there because the other platforms are shit now. Bytedance has complied in every way but they are essentially trying to force the sale of tiktok despite them not wanting to sell. That is shitty.

Tiktok is not the problem. What a fucking joke.

trevron ,

I do use the platform and used to think the same thing everyone else my age thinks but it is actually super good. Most content creators moved over for a reason.

There is a lot of "good activism" on there and I think that is the thing they would like to stamp out.

I think it's a scary thing combined with the fact that politicians have been trying to pass KOSA and similar bills that outline very harsh punishments for anyone using vpns to circumvent national bans.

America isn't free and it is getting less free by the day.

trevron ,

The domestic apps scrape and sell the same data to anybody who will buy it, foreign adversaries included. They are banning tiktok because the younger generation is way more connected on there and there is attention being brought to places they don't want it. Simple as that.

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