Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youāll near-instantly regret.
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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
Not to downplay what proton mail is doing, but theyāre saying that you can run this locally with a 2 core, 4 thread CPU from 2017 (the i3 7100, which is a 7000 series processor), and a RTX 2060, a GPU that was never considered high end. Perhaps they changed the requirements while you werenāt looking. Or Am I reading this wrong?
only one of the 8 computers I own (and Iām not being cheeky here and counting embedded or retro systems, just laptops and desktops) is physically capable of meeting the modelās minimum requirements, and thatās only if I install chromium on the Windows gaming VM my bigger GPUās dedicated to and access protonmail from there. nothing else I do needs a GPU that big, professional or otherwise ā that hardware exists for games and nothing else. compared with the integrated GPUs most people have, a 2060ās fucking massive.
do you see how these incredibly high system requirements (for a webmail client of all things), alongside them already treating the local model as strictly optional, can act as a funnel redirecting people towards the insecure cloud version of the feature? āthis feature only works securely on one of the computers where you write mail, at bestā feels like a dark pattern to me.
Unfortunately, āextremely expensiveā and āhigh-endā arenāt really synonyms, thanks to, yāknow, bitcoin. Of course, I donāt disagree with your argument that having to buy a GPU just to ensure your webmail does what itās advertised to do is, well, dumb.
What I donāt know is what the LLM even is. Did they just tack on Llama to their webmail app and call it a day? Did they train a model? Was it trained on emails? If so, whose emails? What an advertisement that would be: āUse Protonmail to encrypt your emails so that companies like Protonmail canāt use them to train an LLM.ā
Davidās article has some details on what the LLM is. I donāt think itās trained on emails, but that doesnāt make me feel much better.