@schnedan Danke, war eigentlich in einem ziemlich "ich würde irgendwas annehmen"-Modus, aber mit einem "bestens" sollte es doch passen.

@der_heubi Danke, Glück werde ich auf jeden Fall brauchen!

In English: I have signed a contract for an internship near Stuttgart (between April and August), but I'm still out of a place to stay. If you think that boosting this could increase my chances of finding something, I could reaaaally use the help.

Hallo #Stuttgart und Umgebung: Entgegen aller Widrigkeiten habe ich einen Vertrag für ein Praxissemesterpraktikum bei euch in der Nähe unterschrieben. Die Unterkunft fehlt mir aber immer noch!

Deswegen suche ich eine Untermiete (Zeitraum: April bis August, begrüße aber jegliche sonstige/kürzere Vereinbarung - bestens Richtung Süd).

Boosts willkommen! (So könntest DU zeigen, dass dieses Fediversum Macht hat! Gleichzeitig kannst du mich auch helfen, auch wenn ich kein Ralph Ruthe bin! )

@pojntfx I mean, mildly interesting (and thanks for letting me know) but doesn't convince me on ethical grounds nevertheless.

@pojntfx and you're using that to find obscure papers?

@pojntfx Yeah and you're treating this as if it's something to be taken for granted forever; the counterexamples are the equivalents of "searxng" or alternative search engines to me tbh.

@pojntfx I think one can be for scraping and making data available e.g. for researchers but against the specific manners in which startups break things—it's just hard to explain that to someone who doesn't operate infrastructure for people at scale.

Anyway, we just have to spend two or three times the price on SSDs I guess (see: greater societal impact), so if that's fine...

@pojntfx I also think that the notion of local LLMs letting you find niche papers exaggerates their abilities, and that the ability to use them depends on hardware that is not accessible anymore due to data center costs and IMO due to the overall war against general purpose computing.

@pojntfx There has, they used to call them "Google dorks" or "Advanced Search". Now if that didn't work 100% of the time, well, applies to both cases (readjusting a query in a different form); besides the point anyway because people are not looking for something that works for minor edge cases, they are looking for a way to look for information—and you can't even look up for an omelette recipe anymore without SEO garbage taking up the first two pages.

@pojntfx Personally I think that if you DoS random people's computers for data mining that also falls under the "law" but...

@pojntfx Oh, Apertus, that one by the Swiss universities. I mean yeah, that is a positive example with a positive approach but not one I expect to be relevant in any shape or form in 5 years from now. The exception doesn't make the rule, neither are the bad effects I stated above driven by the exceptions.

@pojntfx The need for a "fuzzy web search" is the result of normal web search having been completely enshittified and serves another party's "want" of you not seeking out information by yourself but receiving them from "summaries" instead.

@pojntfx Still 99.9% trained on top of stolen data, an unimaginable waste of resources by treating public infrastructure as "free real estate" (without respect for robots.txt, by visiting often the same links ten thousand times or using sketchy residential proxies to hamper services like Codeberg's and circumvent explicit "no"'s), and vibes towards the law (which really doesn't apply to the commoners in many jurisdictions).

And also, I find it rather peculiar that people join Codeberg because it's more "sovereign" but then go ahead and base their projects on "rugpull" subscription-based services and create things that won't be maintainable in the long run.

It's just plain annoying.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=UymN5scMpZM

It's a selfish technology and not one that I am personally willingly working towards serving.

Sorry not sorry.

https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/selfish-ai

Are you using #Codeberg to host your favorite AI-assisted and otherwise vibecoded project because your desire for dopamine has utterly destroyed your willingness to learn new things? Do you neither care about how you're "flooding the room" of the free software ecosystem nor about the greater societal implications, insisting that "it is what it is"?

Check out #GitHub, the world's most popular AI-first platform! Copilot, annoying maintainers with slop, you'll fit just right in!

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