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  • To add about the distro framgentation, and particularly:

    If I run into a software I need and it specifically indicates it’s for another flavor of Linux than the one I run, how likely is it that I can get it to work on another distro without any real trouble?

    You might have. Some software is distributed as a portable binary and can run on any distro. However, many installers are distro-specific (or distro family-specific, since they’re made for a specific package manager). For example, a software packaged for Ubuntu as a .deb file would install fine on Ubuntu or Mint, and probably install fine on Debian, but if you want to install it on Fedora or Arch you’ll have to manually re-package it.

    Most distro-specific software usually ships debian or ubuntu package - so you might go with that for that reason. Or Arch/Endeavor: while you’ll rarely see an official Arch package, most often someone will have already re-packaged it and put it on the AUR.

    That said, for the major distros, the desktop environment makes much more difference than the distro.









  • It’s not an article about LLMs not using dialects. In fact, they have learned said dialects and will use them if asked.

    What they did was, ask the LLM to suggest adjectives associated with sentences - and it would associate more aggressive or negative adjectives with African dialect.

    Seems like not a bias by AI models themselves, rather a reflection of the source material.

    All (racial) bias in AI models is actually a reflection of the training data, not of the modelling.