No Stupid Questions
No such thing. Ask away!
!nostupidquestions is a community dedicated to being helpful and answering each others' questions on various topics.
The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:
Rules (interactive)
Rule 1- All posts must be legitimate questions. All post titles must include a question.
All posts must be legitimate questions, and all post titles must include a question. Questions that are joke or trolling questions, memes, song lyrics as title, etc. are not allowed here. See Rule 6 for all exceptions.
Rule 2- Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material.
Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material. You will be warned first, banned second.
Rule 3- Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here.
Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here. Breaking this rule will not get you or your post removed, but it will put you at risk, and possibly in danger.
Rule 4- No self promotion or upvote-farming of any kind.
That's it.
Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.
Questions which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.
Rule 6- Regarding META posts and joke questions.
Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-question posts using the [META] tag on your post title.
On fridays, you are allowed to post meme and troll questions, on the condition that it's in text format only, and conforms with our other rules. These posts MUST include the [NSQ Friday] tag in their title.
If you post a serious question on friday and are looking only for legitimate answers, then please include the [Serious] tag on your post. Irrelevant replies will then be removed by moderators.
Rule 7- You can't intentionally annoy, mock, or harass other members.
If you intentionally annoy, mock, harass, or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.
Likewise, if you are a member, sympathiser or a resemblant of a movement that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of a group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you will be banned on sight.
Rule 8- All comments should try to stay relevant to their parent content.
Rule 9- Reposts from other platforms are not allowed.
Let everyone have their own content.
Rule 10- Majority of bots aren't allowed to participate here. This includes using AI responses and summaries.
Credits
Our breathtaking icon was bestowed upon us by @Cevilia!
The greatest banner of all time: by @TheOneWithTheHair!
view the rest of the comments
Sounds like you're looking for a reason to not use this application.
Are you old enough to remember all the machiavellianisms committed by Microslop corp?
As a relatively-recent example, their Windows Vista would secretly inform MS of all the search-queries done within windows.
And .. for some incomprehensible reason, that wasn't prosecuted as a criminal offense.
So, MS was being informed of things like ..
hospital searching for "William Smith, bone cancer" & the search found the right file, & THAT kind of information was being forwarded back?
police searching for "Bob and Alice, classical physics violators", & THAT kind of information would be forwarded back to MS?
You don't engineer-in machiavellianism like MS has done, for .. it's 40-years now? something like that .. without making SOME people understand just how religious some corporations are, about being DarkTriad ( narcissism/machiavellianism/sociopathy-psychopathy ), in nature.
& they aren't the only ones.
Nowadays, any corporation which violates DarkTriad .. is considered .. perhaps "mentally ill", by market standards?
I'm only using MS as an example.
Remember when OpenOffice.org became the property of Oracle?
LibreOffice.org was born in a week or 2?
Cynicism absolutely is warranted, nowadays.
I'm old-enough that MS's stealing of Stac Electronics' disk-compression algorithm, but they fucked-it-up, in their DOS 6.20 bit me.
Assuming altruism on the part of some company .. that is mental-illness, nowadays.
I'm not agreeing with the assumption-river of the person you're replying to, but I am saying that their reaction has basis/validity, nowadays.
I found out, after using LM Studio, that LLM's can access everything on one's own system.
I don't know to what degree that's true with LM Studio, but 1 time I gave an internet-address, & the LLM told me what it had found on the site I just told it of.
I hadn't known it had unrestricted internet-access.
Later, I learned it could probably read every file on my system, too, & some AI-attacks get the LLM to get info from people's personal files, single-out the credit-card, address, contacts, etc, information, & have the LLM forward that to a server out there..
That isn't a security-concern that normals would even consider.
NOW I know that if I ever fire-up my desktop again, I'll have to rip-out the LLM's from my normal user-account, & create a completely-separate locked-down account, with NOTHING ELSE in it, only for them.
& keep EVERYTHING personal in a different account, that they can't even see.
That isn't an LM Studio specific thing, that is apparently required for ALL the things.
& nobody's warning anybody about this?
I think it was on The Register that I found that out, last year..
_ /\ _
Nope, I'm looking for a reason to keep using it when I hate closed-source software! It's the exact opposite!