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   Rusty Crab (rustycrab@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 21:59:12 JST Rusty Crab
   Outside of being a general contrarian, I don't see how anybody can be against using language models as a search engine replacement, ESPECIALLY if it can point you to its source like kagi does.
   
   Classical search engines have been gimped and unusable pajeet sewers for nearly a decade now and if you refuse to move on from them you are inflicting torment on yourself for no reason.
   
   Yeah you need to verify what you're reading, but you always had to do that. You're just not forced to wade through Indian spam blogs now.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 21:59:12 JST 翠星石

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     @RustyCrab Why on Earth would I support proprietary software and SaaSS as a search engine replacement?
     
     There are free search engines and databases, all that is missing is enough scraping.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 31-Oct-2024 16:08:55 JST 翠星石

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     @Tadano >github link
     Software on github often turns out to be proprietary.
     
     The license is apparently MIT expat, which expressively gives permission to sublicense and therefore permission to make sections proprietary, which usually ends up happening.
     
     As typical of proprietary software, the install instructions are literally; "curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh", which goes and installs proprietary CUDA libraries if a nvidia GPU is detected and seemingly proprietary AMD ROCm libraries if a AMD GPU is detected.
     
     It at least supports a CPU-only mode, but then the question is the model and the vast majority of trained models infringe copyright, which makes those models proprietary.
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     Tadano (tadano@amala.schwartzwelt.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 31-Oct-2024 16:08:56 JST Tadano

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     @Suiseiseki @RustyCrab Who says it needs to be proprietary?