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fyi: walled article.

Strange with this sudden interest in open source. I wonder what happened ?!?

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You have to think in ‘information dimensionality’. A yes/no toggle is 0D, a list is 1D, a list of lists (std hierarchy) are 2D, a list of list of list are 3D etc. All information storage types are one of these dimensions. Think of a graph-base file system with nodes and edges between everything. Now, imagine a filesystem where you flick a switch and the whole structure shows another pov ? Maybe you want the whole thing to be shown as file-type hiearchy, or only parts of it. Maybe you need to show movement in the structure, so everything are in a temporal/spatial hierarchy, maybe you are only interested in dependencies ? Relations ? Other ‘weird’ metrics ? …and so on. The main problem is to manage, find and show the needed information in a higher-dimentional fs.

Technically a normal file is also a list, or another ordered structure, but in this sense, they are just a node with further dimensionality.

There’s a TON of information layers locked away in our normal filesystem hierarchy, so OP are perfectly right, and people here have no imagination or even a world model of information structures…

Not sure why people defend an archaic organization form here - reflex ?

You are perfectly right that files and folders are simplistic, and should naturally adapt to the pov that are more information rich/valuable. Hoomans tend to collapse a high-dimensional structures to 0D to 3D, so we can manage the information. In that sense, a std hierarchy is only ONE pov over a ton of pov over the same content. A standard hierarchy is only a low 2D dimension structure that are our first attempt at organizing information. It’s not wrong - just imprecise af.

Anyway, hardlinks are a small step up, can build wild static structures (like a oneshot filesystem in Guix), but is cumbersome to control in multi-dimensional information structures. Likely not what you want, but look into fuse file systems if you want to move on to a dynamic file system hierarchy. An interesting one is a tag file system. It turns a standard limited hierarchy into a much more dynamic file-structure where a file can - and does - belong to a bunch of tags - file type, size, group, comments, whatnot. There are many many fuse fs that can convert anything into a better structured file system. Tagging is a step up from a dumb 2D hierarchy, but maybe a graph file system is the ultimate freeform dynamic filesystem that can present all the pov’s we could possible need ?

Go for it.

Not helping here, but I heard a guy with Guix did that. Guix just builds a profile with the extra desktop parts, run it in a local container if you want and add that profile to the local software stack. Not a vm but maybe you don’t need it ? Both the system, home and the desktop profile are declarative, so very mobile. I think he had his DE user profile remote also, so extremely minimal/air-gapped and stable solution with almost zero local data: system, home, desktop-profile, remote user profile (ldap etc).

In declarative operating systems, you describe what you want, and the system builds it for you. Your whole system configuration is a few files of std code (learning experience ;). Personally, I’m done with the usual monolithic distros. They are too error prone for my taste, and not really moving with the dev flow of operating systems imho.

Anyway, just a loose rumor/idea, I have no links and don’t actually know how to do it, sorry.

Yeah, I lost my girlfriend, so … no judging please !

Classic Capitalist behavior and problems, now just amplified by the Capitalists new super tool… Monetary/greedy slop amplified by a new tool, jobs ruined in an archaic system that enforces jobs to survive, stolen ‘copyright’ that are only a leftover from this warring ideology, and so on.

AI is currently a tool, and people should hate the users that causes harm with the tool, or better yet, hate the underlying combative system of market capitalism that forces tools to be used like this, forces slop and structural problems, and creates enormous problems for ordinary people. They should not hate the tool - a hammer is only bad in a bad environment.

As long as we keep believing in a combative society paid for, and controlled by the ones with the mightiest tool, it won’t ever get better. Capitalism are sponsored by, and benefit only, the rich, and everyone else are the victims of their behavior, and the automatic consequences it have in all of our social lives.

I could be wrong, but it seems he just mounted ‘/porn’ directly as ‘/’ ? Efficient, I guess.

…actually, there seem to room for more improvements; I’m not sure there’s any need for an ‘operating system’ on the system - a small fap-app ™ could likely handle all content on the system ? Work documents could be injected in to the fap-stream © when he needs to stop ? That would release many gb for even more fap-ability © ?

‘Betrayal’ is a harsh word for optimizing trivialities with a closed source model. Whether it was a success or not, doesn’t really tell us why it’s a betrayal. I guess this has to do with the current wave of ‘AI-hate’ reactions we see everywhere.

The title doesn’t sound bad at all - unless one irrationally hates AI. The fact is that the Distro is bad, and it have nothing to do with ‘AI’ integration, or the attempt to do so. Hate the Human behind the release, or the Capitalist religion that enforces ‘Slop’ on all scales - but hating everything that have ‘AI’ in it - is just f’ing moronic…

I a year you might have an agent to manage them all. They could be edge devices, or different nodes in your/your ai’s work flow. Don’t get rid of them unless you hate AI, or for good causes.

Probably just inserted the Magic word “Profit” into the sentence. Any psychopathy is allowed from that point onwards…

Weather true or not, I think that in the coming years, several billion people will suddenly have the chance to discuss these things with AI, and scrutinize all facets of the current scientific body. I predict that all fields will be disrupted, and shake all former intuition and certainty about current quality of our models. New ideas and papers inspired by this is already popping up, and it will get more and more intrusive until a new knowledge paradigm emerges.

…a super prolific autistic account hoarder ?

Good news everyone ! “top 200 most common passwords” isn’t in the list, so we can keep using that one !

I never pay Capitalist corps/people unless pressured to a corner (most groceries, loans etc). I know they cheat, steal and lie - pretty much 24/7 - as their ‘free market’ gospel dictates, so any support for such a selfish/psychopathic organization are like shooting my self in the foot.

Intellectual ‘property’ is a special anti-intellectual joke that have emerged inside an existing Capitalist dystopia where everyone have to fight everyone else for their lives. So suddenly, some Capitalist smuck could whistle a tune, declare that sequence of sounds as “MY PROPERTY” and then - through violence! - everyone around the world have to pay this moron for the sequence of sounds. It doesn’t get much more dumb than that. We even see cities ‘protect’ their landmarks, so a f’ing photo is illegal without paying up, copyright for well known everyday things, and so on. It is incredibly easy to find insane examples. It’s all a race to the bottom, sigh… Oc, Capitalism have zero to do with ‘free markets’, and everything to do with warring/exploitation/protectionism - but all corps will always exploit.

Unfortunately, Capitalism runs on pure scarcity, so we can’t have surplus objects that can just be copied, tsk tsk, what disorder !! And of cause, if one lives in such a crappy backwards society, then everyone HAVE to fight for data that can be copyrighted, data that could otherwise be copied a gazillion times for everyones joy. So, Instead of free access to all that can be freely copied/enjoyed, we have capitalist silo’s of ‘property’, where everyone are forced to pay up to a conglomerate of capitalist cancer-like entities that will go to any length - even jailing people that refuse that violent/ridiculous property nonsense. No no, for propertarians, it’s better to slam everyone in the world with laws/threats of harm, to invade peoples privacy, and to have a whole multi-trillion business market, and an insane amount of law resources constantly working to keep this joke of a principle running. It all arose from out of that flawed premise of everyone fighting everyone else… Inefficient, stupid, and all just an unnecessary emergent artifact on top of the dumbest ideology the oligarchs ever invented.

If you are posting satire, then be kind and mark it as such. Otherwise you just waste other peoples time, and I assume that were not the purpose ?

Just label things broadly with ‘Capitalist Slop’ - and have a set of standard tools to get rid of that harmful religion. Sponsorblock, dearrow, ublock, most privacy tools, and all other attempts at un-shittifying the net, are just working against that infantile belief system and its natural consequences.

This is all just Capitalist slop. Has nothing to do with AI or llms, just the kind of society it exists in and the type of psychopath corporations that delivers. We seem to forget that all other tool we use to de-shittify the net, ALL fight capitalist tendencies, but when AI comes along and gives the Capitalist believers a new tool for scamming people, then it is suddenly the tools fault !!

People hate Capitalism, not the tool…

I have not tested it, but Zluda are are drop-in cuda replacement for non-nvidia gpus. The speed should be great. You could check if your goto card is supported…