Aluminum straw is the clear and superior alternative

The question I have is whether there is a means of disabling that download or preventing that functionality.

You could probably truncate the weights to be much smaller and it would just cause a runtime error. Or replace it with mostly zeros. Unlikely that they checksum the file. But ultimately it is a losing battle -- in browser LLM is coming, and future APIs will expose it to js, and it will become essential.

Not that surprising when you consider the monumental investments. It's heinous but right in line with modern corporate business ethics.

I've done as you described and then edited it down to sound human again.

Whether it is or isn't happens to be beside the point. It's water being removed from the system en masse for a non-essential function, i.e. other than sustaining life, while driving up the cost of other utilities.

If we're trying to deny the usage "tier," I'd argue we're being intentionally obtuse at worst and foolish at best.

100%. I was always told to slice the PSD, fireworks never entered the conversation in the agency world I was a part of.

They could be bothered if they weren't indirectly (or directly, I imagine) on the dole.

While factually true, your answer lacks context awareness and decorum. It's not appropriate for this discussion in my opinion.

Won't the SD card data decay in a relatively short time? Maybe convert some part of that video into a flipbook for another piece of physical media?

You could add an appendix with printed, scannable, binary data. You could create a page with a bunch of QR codes. Martin Monperrus vouched [0] for Twibright Optar [1].

[0] https://www.monperrus.net/martin/store-data-paper

[1] https://ronja.twibright.com/optar/

Yes, I would definitely make backups on two or three different disc types.

Good idea, thank you. A DVD and SD card it is then!

We call that New Jersey here!

The dirt in my part of Virginia is almost suitable for pottery straight out of the ground. Just need to filter out the feldspar, quartz, and gold first.

I go to my mom’s old farm and marvel at the thought of them having grown anything in that hard red ground.