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BrianTheeBiscuiteer ,

Unless we go the way of Independence Day or Three-Body Problem. At this point though I’d also probably say…

spoilerPlease conquer us. We’re sooooo fucking stupid.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer ,

That’s odd. I can’t remember the last time I’ve installed USB drivers on Windows. It either works or it doesn’t (like a 75% chance of it working though).

BrianTheeBiscuiteer ,

This board also has soldered memory and uses MicroSD cards and eMMC for storage, both of which are limitations of the processor.

Ah, yeah, hard no from me dog. Can we get one of the new Snapdragons tho? Please?

BrianTheeBiscuiteer ,

Don’t know if it applies here but I saw a video where the native version of Minecraft ran slower than the emulated version… on a Switch!

BrianTheeBiscuiteer ,

Yup. That was the one. Quite sad, but possibly the native system throttles to improve battery.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer ,

Did something happen or is this just, “Waaaahhh, China baaaaddd!”? It sounds like they actually had better reason to ban TikTok.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer ,

If OP has a thrift store nearby it’s pretty likely they can get both for under $30.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer ,

I got a lot of use out of Google Translate for text.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer ,

It was either questioned by morons or they used a modified version of the tool. Ask it how it feels today and it will tell you it’s just a program!

The anti-AI sentiment in the free software communities is concerning. (lemmy.world)

Whenever AI is mentioned lots of people in the Linux space immediately react negatively. Creators like TheLinuxExperiment on YouTube always feel the need to add a disclaimer that “some people think AI is problematic” or something along those lines if an AI topic is discussed. I get that AI has many problems but at the same...

BrianTheeBiscuiteer ,

I’ve never heard anyone explicitly say this but I’m sure a lot of people (i.e. management) think that AI is a replacement for static code. If you have a component with constantly changing requirements then it can make sense, but don’t ask an llm to perform a process that’s done every single day in the exact same way. Chief among my AI concerns is the amount of energy it uses. It feels like we could mostly wean off of carbon emitting fuels in 50 years but if energy demand skyrockets will be pushing those dates back by decades.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer ,

Big pharma companies jack up the prices of life saving medicine that’s been affordable for decades and don’t lose a bit of sleep. You bet your ass a hobby electronics company will jack up prices as far as they think they can.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer ,

Guess the community for some of these is about to get much bigger. I’m not in the market for an SBC but this is a big negative against the Pi.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer ,

I’d be amazed if most of the Pi components weren’t from China but feel free to correct me.

Some company heads hoped return-to-office mandates would make people quit, survey says (arstechnica.com)

Nearly two in five (37 percent) managers, directors, and executives believe their organization enacted layoffs in the last year because fewer employees than they expected quit during their RTO. And their beliefs are well-founded: One in four (25 percent) VP and C-suite executives and one in five (18 percent) HR pros admit they...

BrianTheeBiscuiteer ,

Yeah, I love my teammates but when I leave I’m gonna do like zero “knowledge transfer”. Not my fault you haven’t expanded my team in 5 years or that you keep giving us more and more responsibilities from roles you removed because they were “obsolete” or that you spread us so thin we can’t naturally transfer knowledge as we go.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer ,

Vote your conscience while you can. I’m pretty much stuck voting for slightly left of center candidates (in the US) because the opposition is to the right of Kim Jong Un depending on the issue.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer ,

I think it could be potentially easier to thwart malicious bots than “honest” bots. I figure a bot that doesn’t care about robots.txt and whatnot would try to gobble up as many pages as it could find. You could easily place links into HTML that aren’t visible to regular users and a “greedy” bot would follow it anyway. From there you could probably have a website within a website that’s being generated by AI on the fly. To keep the bots from running up your bills you probably want it to be mostly static.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer ,

One of the first things you should do in a repo is add a .gitignore file and make sure there are rules to ignore things like *secret* or *private* etc. Also, I pretty much never use git add . because I don’t like the laziness of it and EVERY TIME one of my coworkers checked in secrets they were using that command.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer ,

For personal projects that’s definitely a good idea. For team projects I like to keep that stuff in the project still so the “experience” of working in the project is mostly consistent.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer ,

Surely AI makes them so efficient they’re free to spend more time organizing a union right? /s

BrianTheeBiscuiteer ,

As someone who practices agile software development I find this baffling. I’ve never started a new project without at least 3 weeks worth of research and requirements gathering (and obviously more as the project rolls on). There are seriously companies out there who are like, “Mmm, I feel like this is gonna be an Electron project. Let’s just lay the groundwork and we’ll flesh out the nitty gritty in a week or so.” 😱

BrianTheeBiscuiteer ,

Efficiency at the consumer level is poor, but industry uses more total energy than consumers.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer ,

This is utterly disgusting. I feel like Leeloo in The Fifth Element learning about War for the first time.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer ,

I consider Amazon to be only average evil. Now if they did a concert for Nestle…

Estonia | The Digital State (youtu.be)

Most states rely on paper bureaucracy to ensure that the state can function and provide services. Paper bureaucracy has been part and parcel of how we maintain states and corporations since the Chinese invented the first paper bureaucracy systems of management 3000 years ago. But as you all probably know, bureaucracy kinda...

BrianTheeBiscuiteer ,

This is one place where blockchain is actually useful. No one entity is responsible for the integrity of the “ledger”. Of course it wouldn’t be publicly writable so not exactly like the blockchains you normally think of.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer ,

You don’t have to “mine blocks” to have a blockchain. It’s just a continual list of transactions that can’t be modified after the fact. So a hacker couldn’t wipe out your existence from the chain without controlling the majority of the participants (in a consensus algorithm). Not saying it’s an ideal use-case but highlighting that feature. There are many ways to avoid “data wipe” attacks.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer ,

It’s based on Puppeteer which has been around awhile. It’s pretty useful for automating UI tests.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer ,

Everyone is different. My favorite computer is my 11" netbook because despite being slow it fits in any bag, fits in my side table, so light I can easily carry with one hand and not put undue pressure on my wrists, I can use most books as a lap desk, and I don’t have to clear off as much space on the table (I have two kids so it’s never clear).

BrianTheeBiscuiteer ,

Step in the right direction either way. Hopefully this means they’ll be capturing metrics on which parts of the process are the most complicated and improve those areas.

The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates (www.theguardian.com)

Despite its name, the infrastructure used by the “cloud” accounts for more global greenhouse emissions than commercial flights. In 2018, for instance, the 5bn YouTube hits for the viral song Despacito used the same amount of energy it would take to heat 40,000 US homes annually....

BrianTheeBiscuiteer ,

Guys guys! There’s room for all of us to eat our fair share of natural resources and doom the planet together!

BrianTheeBiscuiteer ,

Ditto. Running antix on my netbook and I think icewm had the lowest resource usage of the defaults.

CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information (futurism.com)

You know how Google’s new feature called AI Overviews is prone to spitting out wildly incorrect answers to search queries? In one instance, AI Overviews told a user to use glue on pizza to make sure the cheese won’t slide off (pssst…please don’t do this.)...

BrianTheeBiscuiteer ,

And to show everyone how sorry they are… free Google AI services for a year when you digitally sign this unrelated document.

Are we going to see arch based immutable distros in the near future?

Hi there folks, I’m still learning about Linux and have yet to dip my toes properly in any arch based distro. Have for the moment fallen in love with the immutable distros based on Universal Blue project. However I do want to learn about what arch has to offer to and plan on installing default arch when I have time. But have...

BrianTheeBiscuiteer ,

astOS and Arkane Linux too.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer ,

While explaining BTRFS I’ve seen ChatGPT contradict itself in the middle of a paragraph. Then when I call it out it apologizes and then contradicts itself again with slightly different verbiage.

Rolling my own immutable distro

I’ve looked at a lot of other immutable distros and I might just end up using one of those, but I feel like taking on a bit of a challenge and there’s a few things I’m not very keen on with existing solutions (last paragraph is my idea if you want to skip the context)....

BrianTheeBiscuiteer OP ,

I’m not planning to alter the system daily so, admittedly, this is a bespoke, non-trivial process to handle an uncommon use case. In general I haven’t run into the kind of issues that immutable distros proport to fix. I would say this is moreso an OCD friendly approach to OS management. I’m also hoping this setup will basically force me into using Ansible more and manual tweaks less.

I feel Guix and NixOS are a bit more in a league of their own due to their declarative nature. I’m on the fence if I want to go that far. Again, I’ll admit my knowledge of these systems is based on docs and I’ll probably have much different thoughts getting hands on.

And my goal is to rely on Flatpak and containers but if that was the answer then all the immutable distros out there are about as overbaked as my idea.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer OP ,

That was the main inspiration for me. If I do understand their setup, “testing” a change of some kind would require an explicit rollback. If a reboot in that system meant I lost those changes then that’s actually what I’m looking for.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer ,

Well, in the “soundalike” situation you describe people were getting paid to voice things. Now it’s just an AI model that’s not getting paid and the people that made the model probably got paid even less than a soundalike voice actor would. It’s just more money going to the top.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer ,

I have trouble with this because it’s like 90% grey area. Is it a pic of a real child but inpainted to be nude? Was it a real pic but the face was altered as well? Was it completely generated but from a model trained on CSAM? Is the perceived age of the subject near to adulthood? What if the styling makes it only near realistic (like very high quality CG)?

I agree with what the FBI did here mainly because there could be real pictures among the fake ones. However, I feel like the first successful prosecution of this kind of stuff will be a purely moral judgement of whether or not the material “feels” wrong, and that’s no way to handle criminal misdeeds.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer ,

And companies will charge 2x what fiber costs because “quantum Internet”.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer ,

I don’t think you understand how greed works.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer ,

In a similar situation. I was using Open Media Vault but it has some networking bug that I just can’t nail down or work around. I have to manually fix the networking every time it breaks. Otherwise I barely used OMV features and did most things through Docker. I’ll be switching to Diet Pi and probably Ansible unless I feel like learning Puppet.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer ,

DebOps my dude.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer ,

It’s maybe a little bloated and UI is 🤮 but it never lets me down. Since I started paying for RealDebrid I love it even more!

BrianTheeBiscuiteer ,

Me: How would I write a for-loop that starts from the end of a list?

ChatGPT: Closing this conversation as this question has already been answered.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer ,

Running on my Acer Aspire netbook now. Definitely slower than any modern device but when I do CLI stuff I can barely tell. Biggest gripe is the lack of systemd. Not that I like systemd, but some tools don’t get on well without it.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer ,

I’ve always wanted a setting to create a lockdown key and an unlock key. So something like middle-finger to unlock but index-finger to force it into PIN/password only mode. So you can have some convenience of a quick unlock but if an authority figure asks or forces you to unlock it you can one-tap lock it down.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer ,

Getting regular people to host a service exposed to the Internet is going to go very smoothly I’m sure.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer ,

That makes complete sense except that stuff just does not register with teens. If a couple months in juvenile hall and 100 hours community service isn’t enough deterrent for a teenager then 5 years in jail and a lifelong label of “sex offender” won’t deter them. I recall seeing a picture of a classmate topless (under 18) and over 20 years later it finally dawned on me that it was child pornography.

If we prosecuted every offender to the full extent of the law then like half of every high school class would be in jail. Not to say that something should be legal as long as enough people are breaking the law but if millions of kids are violating some of the strictest laws in the country we’re probably not getting the full picture.

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