Absolutely there’s a difference. LLMs, when it comes to this specific task, are better. That’s why they’re being used here. It’s a job they are uniquely well suited to. They do indeed come with high hardware requirements, which is why you’re not forced to use them, and why they provide the option to offload the work to a cloud service.

Personally I would absolutely not want to ever feed my documents into an off-device model, but the point of self-hosted software is that it does what you tell it to and they absolutely should include letting you make bad decisions.

I think you’re under the impression that the difference between those things is far greater than it actually is. Large Language Models work by developing statistical maps of associations. That’s discrimination. They’re a direct evolution of categorization models. The ability to associate a hash of a JPEG with “cat” is the same as the ability to associate “How are you?” with “Great, how about you?” It’s all associative mapping. LLMs are just the current leading edge of that technology. If you want to, for example, generate a list of tags that describe a document, an LLM is the best tool we currently have for doing that.

To put it another way, what you term “discriminative AI” is “generative AI.” It’s generating a category or list of categories in response to an input. That’s not functionally different than generating a sentence in response to a sentence, it’s just an order of magnitude less complex. You can argue terminology but the technology exists on an evolutionary curve, with no real hard boundaries.

Paperless and Papermerge have always done a lot more than just OCR. If that’s all they were, most people can do that already on the software that comes with their scanner. The core selling point of these applications is automatic categorization, sorting and tagging, and those have always relied on machine learning tools. Literally the first thing you do after setting Paperless up is start training the AI.

what’s the best alternative?

You’re asking for suggestions for an automatic document categorization tool that doesn’t use any automatic document categorization?

It reads as especially hysterical in this context, because Paperless is an automatic document categorization system, and I’m really sure what they think the automatic part of that is if it’s not “AI” of some broad description. Paperless, Papermerge et al are basically wrappers for machine learning tools and have been for as long as they’ve existed. LLMs are a natural and obvious fit for the kind of work these applications exist to do.

This just feels like someone reading “Improved AI pathfinding” in the patch notes for a video game and screaming “OH MY GOD IS NOWHERE SAFE?!”

Out of curiosity, why develop your own instead of contributing to RenPy? Not saying there can’t be good reasons, just curious what they are in this case.

I hate this, and I hate that it’s becoming the new normal everywhere.

Lemmy.ml in shambles.

I have no idea if that is the official policy

That’s OK. I do.

Like I said, you’re right, though the change was recent enough that I hadn’t been aware of it until I double checked.

You’re wrong about the reasons why the posture changed, but I really can’t get into that.

So, apparently you are actually correct, although the change in posture is much more recent than you think. As in, within the last few weeks to months.

I will not be saying more on this because I’ll get people in trouble if I do.

There are gaps, but those gaps can be fixed. There’s a reason Saab are getting so many orders for GlobalEye.

Correct. Even with Operation Reassurance, which stations a sizeable contingent of NATO forces in all three states, the NATO assumption is that the Baltics will be largely overrun by any Russian attack before reinforcements can arrive. The strategic goals of the operation are a) to slow any Russian incursion down, and b) to ensure that an attack on any Baltic state would be a direct engagement with a large portion of NATO militaries, thus ensuring that it would constitute an article 5 trigger. As the name suggests, it’s more about reassurance - “We stand with these people and will fight to defend them” - than it is about actually stopping a Russian attack.

Edit: As of very recently this is no longer true. See below.

I’d suggest that you try saying this to someone in Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia or Poland, but I don’t actually want you to get punched out.

It’s genuinely incredible how badly the US has fucked this up. And everything that went wrong was entirely predictable. This wasn’t some kind of “Hindsight is 20/20” deal. Everything that happened was predicted to happen by anyone who was paying attention. It took truly staggering levels of ignorance and stupidity to get caught in a trap this obvious and to do it this badly.

“If an American president says he no longer wishes to defend the other allies and leaves a NATO summit in protest, then the NATO treaty and its security guarantee aren’t worth very much,” Stoltenberg wrote.

This is absolute bullshit, BTW. NATO leaders have a history of seriously overvaluing the necessity of the US to the alliance.

Yes, obviously, having the world’s biggest military power on your side is a really good thing. But, with or without the US, NATO can still be a force for mutual defence. It’s a far better thing to have than not have, and defeatist bullshit like this is just kicking the trusses out for no good reason.

Modern routers have a feature that’s typically known as “hairpin NAT” or “NAT loopback”. This means that if the DNS lookup resolves to the router’s public IP, it routes the packet internally instead of passing it out to the internet. So for your subdomains all of the traffic should stay local. Typically this feature is enabled by default, but you may want to check just to be sure.

Another fucking coward.

Technically, some day I will die after eating at Arby’s and that’s a horrifying thought.

Yeah, it’s pretty astonishing. I never thought I’d see the day.

That doesn’t solve the strait, and the US is about a month away from having too little crude oil to actually run their refineries (you have to maintain a certain pressure level in the pipes or the whole system stops). We haven’t seen the real oil crisis yet. The real oil crisis is 10x gas prices, rationing, grounded planes… It would be cataclysmic.

Trump has to pick an option here. If declaring victory and walking away was possible he would have done it already.