QUEBEC CITY - Quebec Premier François Legault announced his resignation today, explaining that he plans to bring his famed enthusiasm for attacking basic human rights to the private sector.
Yeah that's fair. I have just read it's a 1.2 trillion -parameter model, that's quite insane. I wonder though if Google will update that as often as their own models, it might be that they still release newer models for themselves but then strategically hold the Apple one back a little bit, on the basis of "letting that model mature first." This will be interesting to see play out for sure.
Nah. Giving LLMs their identity is done in post-training, and Google can just remove that data for their posttraining mix for Apple. They're definitely going to have one. Since pretraining = ~60-90% of compute, redoing that part won't be that expensive. There are rumors that Google will only ship the base models anyway, and that all the fine tuning will be done internally by Apple (perhaps on Google infrastructure). Those base models have no idea what they are yet.
The most painful lesson I learned, and have yet to fully recover from, after losing the community I spent years cultivating when Twitter was sold, it’s this: the “revolution” and change so many of you say you want will never be built in public, on platforms owned by people who not only do not share your values but who see them as threats.
At any moment, the communities, businesses, networks, and even friendships you’ve built there can be taken from you because they were never truly yours.
I retrieved this from David Goldfield's Email list. This client shows an enormous amount of promise and I am already liking it after five minutes of use. Quoted text: My new Mastodon/Bluesky client, FastSM, which is based off the old work from me and @TheQuinbox, is now available in really, really early alpha! You can download the latest build, which gets updated with each new commit, at github.com/masonasons/FastSM/r…
i think another (maybe the primary?) factor driving the use of "ai" tools in software dev right now is that it simply doesn't make market sense right now for a business to care whether or not their software works. so what if it's broken? end users will stop using the software but they'll forget to cancel their subscription, or they'll grit their teeth and deal with the jankiness bc the business in question has a monopoly and there are no good alternatives
Or, more likely, because the end user isn't the customer, or they care about something else than the software.
The former case is e.g. HR portals (used by employees, bought by the company), the latter is bill payment websites (customers typically choose their internet provider based on speed and price, not on how easy it is to pay their internet bill).
A snowplow pushing the snow from the bus stop more than 1 block away, or a motorist who gives zero f*cks about blocking our driveway w/ their vehicle whilst they do whatever they need/want to do in our immediate 4-block radius?
so this guy claims that he was was a sex slave for Epstein & co as a kid and Trump was one of his abusers (also Clarence Thomas and some others) and that at one point he jammed a tent stake up Trump's ass and got beat for it
he says Trump's medical records will corroborate this and this is also why Trump said he "felt raped" when his medical records were stolen a while back?
I hate to break it to you, but young millennials, zoomers, and gen alpha are also now in the lead-exposed generations as they're being exposed by vaping
Oi, back to Tweesecake / TWBlue for now. Gosh. Looks like FastSM doesn't use the straming API yet so my Mastodon server keeps e-mailing me that people have mentioned or boosted things. Oof my poor inbox. (as a side note it's not the biggest deal as these can be turned off in prefs, but still.) Good news, it can! You just have to enable that in "advance" settings to be used for home and notifications timelines.
@alexchapman oh yeah I suspect that should remove the lag after sending a post in timelines updating, thanks, didn't realize this was hidden in advanced :D
@jonathan859 If I may ask, what's the best way to let @Bri know about stuff? That, of course, is assuming you're thinking reports are welcome, I know the flood was undesirable and I get that given the stage of the product though honestly, it's already getting towards excellence.
@techsinger @Bri Oh, I guess just mentioning or GH issue. Yeah I don't wanna pressure or just throw a bunch of bug reports either, if GitHub issues owuld be better please lmk.
@Bri @jonathan859 It's great work as always. Three small things, if I may raise them. First, I can't seem to move through threads on bluesky. Is this expected? Secondly, is it possible to have it say how long ago a post was made, rather than state it's time? I removed that from the template as it stands, would it be possible to say "1 hour ago" or something like that? Finally, this is more stupid user than even just a feature, but is there a keystroke to move from account to account in the invisible interface?
@techsinger @jonathan859 Will check on the threads thing. I seem to remember being able to do that, but maybe not. Also, relative times is possible, but won't work properly in the UI currently, so haven't added it. Also no, use control win A to bring up the accounts manager.
@Bri @jonathan859 One more quick thing. Are you supposed to be able to select any of the users in a post? when I hit, for example, the "follow user" key, I get the first user, the one who posted, but not the second user who the first user was responding to or boosting. Up and down arrowing doesn't get me to that second user as in TC. BTW, may I congratulate you for using the TC command structure? It makes life so much simpler.
@Bri @jonathan859 Do you have to load the conversation before you use that keystroke? I can now manage it, but only if I load conversation from one of the posts in the thread.
@Bri @jonathan859 Ok, this is beginning to click. Just to be clear, if a person I'm following is having a conversation with a person I'm not following, and I have the person I'm following in my home timeline, I can't see the person I'm not following's posts through the thread command?
@techsinger @Bri @jonathan859 I must say I really like this client. But for some reason ccontrol +windows+w doesn't hide the window for me. I'm using the default keymap.
First, I really like the open URL bringing up a dialog with the thing already listed. This is seriously helpful for those of us using speech/braille, a benefit for security, and generally a major benefit. Thanks. I don't think it has anything to do with the issue I'm seeing, but I may well be wrong. Sometimes, the field is blank and there is no url. When it hit OK, nothing seems to happen. I'm not sure where the problem happens, but I think it has to do with the post and not the timeline because I've seen it in many timelines.
@techsinger @Bri I guess it just doesn't detect an URL. For example I could just press CTRL+O right here on your post and the dialog would be blank. But not sure ofc.
@jonathan859 @Bri That's weird. I thought if it didn't detect an url, it was supposed to say so? Also, many of these posts do have URLs, indeed, I don't think I ever hit open URL on one which didn't have one.
@Bri Sorry to disturb but I recently lost connection for a while and, rather than silently stopping, got the below. Nothing has changed with the BS account, but I'm getting these errors Error in notifications: InvokeTimeoutError Error in mentions: InvokeTimeoutError Error in search: InvokeTimeoutError
I looked in the errors.log and just got this, which seems to have nothing to do with the above errors. Note that I don't see a time stamp on these at all, I've copied the whole file which is 734 characters. Also, I wasn't doing anything with the keyboard, it just started speaking the above errors, I was working on another machine at the time and hadn't touched the keyboard for at least an hour. Would it be possible for the thing to say "can't connect, will do so in five minutes", or just not to say anything and keep trying every little while? Traceback (most recent call last): File "keyboard_handler\wx_handler.py", line 75, in <lambda> File "keyboard_handler\wx_handler.py", line 105, in process_key File "keyboard_handler\main.py", line 57, in handle_key File "GUI\invisible.py", line 102, in speak_item IndexError: list index out of range Traceback (most recent call last): File "keyboard_handler\wx_handler.py", line 75, in <lambda> File "keyboard_handler\wx_handler.py", line 105, in process_key File "keyboard_handler\main.py", line 57, in handle_key File "GUI\invisible.py", line 178, in next_from_user File "GUI\main.py", line 514, in OnNextFromUser File "GUI\misc.py", line 606, in next_from_user IndexError: list index out of range
@Bri I recently upgraded to the latest build and it's not finding anything for searches on BS, I'm afraid. My network connection is fine, but I'm getting "Error in search: InvokeTimeoutError". All I'm getting as errors in errors.log is Traceback (most recent call last): File "keyboard_handler\wx_handler.py", line 75, in <lambda> File "keyboard_handler\wx_handler.py", line 105, in process_key File "keyboard_handler\main.py", line 57, in handle_key File "GUI\invisible.py", line 164, in top_item File "GUI\invisible.py", line 81, in focus_tl_item IndexError: list index out of range Traceback (most recent call last): File "keyboard_handler\wx_handler.py", line 75, in <lambda> File "keyboard_handler\wx_handler.py", line 105, in process_key File "keyboard_handler\main.py", line 57, in handle_key File "GUI\main.py", line 409, in ToggleWindow wx._core.wxAssertionError: C++ assertion ""N == (-1) || IsValid(N)"" failed at ..\..\src\msw\listbox.cpp(356) in wxListBox::DoSetSelection(): invalid index in wxListBox::SetSelection Traceback (most recent call last): File "keyboard_handler\wx_handler.py", line 75, in <lambda> File "keyboard_handler\wx_handler.py", line 105, in process_key File "keyboard_handler\main.py", line 57, in handle_key File "GUI\invisible.py", line 164, in top_item File "GUI\invisible.py", line 81, in focus_tl_item IndexError: list index out of range Traceback (most recent call last): File "keyboard_handler\wx_handler.py", line 75, in <lambda> File "keyboard_handler\wx_handler.py", line 105, in process_key File "keyboard_handler\main.py", line 57, in handle_key File "GUI\invisible.py", line 164, in top_item File "GUI\invisible.py", line 81, in focus_tl_item IndexError: list index out of range
@Bri posting more than 300 characters to BS, or rather trying to, results in this. Sorry it was cut off, I had to get it from speech history. Failed to send post Response(success=False, status_code=400, content=XrpcError(error='InvalidRequest', message='Invalid app.bsky.feed.post record: Record/text must not be longer than 300 graphemes
@Bri Yes indeed, not anything you can fix, not even a problem, the issue is just the length of the error and the fact that that I wasn't sure if the post vanished. It didn't, BTW.
@Bri thanks so much. Context menu works, but does the whole function work on mastodon? I can't seem to find posts when I know the hashtags are used. Again, the explore dialog in mastodon doesn't seem to give me a place to put a hashtag in, no matter what I do. Thanks again.
@Bri Obviously, just to be clear, this isn't a FastSM thing, I just figured it might be good to say "you're over the character limit" and not send rather than getting that error.
ahahaha. Yes yes, I'm done making AI slop music. Now it's time for stage 2 of the experiment: We've clearly established Suno's own prompt generator is very much inferior to lyrics of music you yourself write with GPT and spend a bit of time skulpting, reshaping lines, or even prompting GPT a bit more to rewrite concepts and parts of it. That's stage 2 of my experiment: Make more AI music, but this time, spend at least 30-45 minutes building the prompts out for the lyrics and making the lyrics more meaningful through that. Stage 3 of this will be, make AI music with fully custom-written lyrics, E. AI only used for rhythm and pace of lyrics minimally, not for the writing of the lyrics itself. The question in all these experiments for me is, "when does AI music go from "slop" to "a useful tool that works to enhance talent?" And how much effort, skulpting is needed for that to happen, could someone pull that off? Suno lets you skulpt instrumentation a bit, but I suspect a key problem to overcome won't be on lyrics alone: The song itself needs to have instrumentation that doesn't make it sound like machines made it alone in composition, and for that I find that Suno doesn't give you many tools.
The #SFFBookClub is our informal fediverse science fiction and fantasy book club. Everyone reading this is welcome to join in if any of these books look interesting, even if you've never participated before. See: sffbookclub.eatgod.org/
As a reminder, our January book is Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison.
Please reply with any suggestions or ideas for future months. Please argue for your favorite book in the comments.
What's nice about this social media platform is we're like "are you seeing this fucking shit?!" and get responses like "this is the fuckingest shit!" and then some folks go "okay, here are some alternatives to the shit/ways we can try to unfuck some of the shit/resources to slow the impact of the fucking shit" instead of "i don't see what's so bad about the shit" or "i dunno i kinda like the shit" or "woah your paying to much attention too the shit" that you get on the other platforms.
I predict, Gemini Siri is going to tell everyone it's not Siri but Gemini, Apple will get really mad the AI can't stop calling itself Gemini even though its Siri, people will start switching to Google, Gemini on Android will get more perks Siri's version doesn't have, Apple will sue Google, huge battle erupts.
@Tamasg As y said in musical terms... What a syncopated prediction! Good God this couldn't happen and Google be the winner and big brother and future megalovania of AI
Well, it talked to me in Russian today, so there is some breakage there. I kept telling it I don't know Russian, I don't want to hear it, ever, like, ever. It kept doing it. So we had that battle of don't speak that language to me you silly AI on Gemini live.
I also don't use it with gpt, because gpt can suck balls. But it started not opening apps, so, I spell to it like I would spell to a child. IT works. At least it still calls people when I ask it, or sets alarms, despite me using 24hour format, I keep telling it to set alarms for 7AM, and it actually does it...
Nah. Giving LLMs their identity is done in post-training, and Google can just remove that data for their posttraining mix for Apple. They're definitely going to have one. Since pretraining = ~60-90% of compute, redoing that part won't be that expensive. There are rumors that Google will only ship the base models anyway, and that all the fine tuning will be done internally by Apple (perhaps on Google infrastructure). Those base models have no idea what they are yet.
I have to admit, the performance of a Chromium-based browser compared to Firefox is abysmal. I don't have that many tabs but it lags a lot and the browser constantly puts tabs in hibernation to save memory--something I've never needed with Firefox. So all of you Chrome users live like this? No wonder RAM is in high demand.
I've finally switched to the @Vivaldi browser. I've been using Firefox for as long as I've been on the internet, but the focus on AI means it's no longer the browser for me. Thankfully unlike Chrome, Vivaldi supports the uBlock Origin extension which is the most important extension for being able to browse the web nowadays.
Anyone remotely familiar with Massachusetts knows that some of the names of cities and towns have distinct pronunciations, especially when someone from Boston pronounces them. This was on Fallon last night and it's pretty funny. Go Matt Damon and Ben Aflec FTW!
The PAM Duress is a module designed to allow users to generate 'duress' passwords that when used in place of their normal password will execute arbitrary scripts.
This functionality could be used to allow someone pressed to give a password under coercion to provide a password that grants access but in the background runs scripts to clean up sensitive data, close connections to other networks to limit lateral movement, and/or to send off a notification or alert (potentially one with detailed information like location, visible wifi hot-spots, a picture from the camera, a link to a stream from the microphone, etc). You could even spawn a process to remove the pam_duress module so the threat actor won't be able to see if the duress module was available.
A Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) which allows the establishment of alternate passwords that can be used to perform actions to clear sensitive data, notify IT/Security staff, close off sensit...
One useful addition to this would be a password that does an immediate wipe.
There are situations where that is indeed what you want, while that is extremely conspicuous, if the wipe is irreversible, there isn't much that your captors can do about it afterwards, and it's an option that should be available to users.
For systems that store their disk encryption key in a TPM, you could do this by just destroying the key (though I'm not sure whether PAM would even run in an encrypted disk scenario, I know far too little about how this works on Linux specifically).
Whoops this masto client still has no sound for boosting a post, that's quite amusing, makes me think nothing has happened when in fact it boosted, good to know :D
I am getting frothy at all this AI hate. Especially where it comes to music. A good song is a good song, if creativity has been used to create it, adn an AI tool has been used to save thousands on production that most of us don't have, what the hell is the problem? Purists and elitism makes me wild! I don't make a living from my music, but if someone has the brains and the drive to do that, why in heck not!
I totally feel you. There have actually been some really, really great stuff come from a combination of people's creativity and services like suno, and I see absolutely nothing wrong with it. All the songs I've create have been my own lyrics and suno's magical musical abilities combined, and do actually make that stuff happen, going into a studio, hiring a band, recording the tracks, would cost me thousands of dollars over what my husband and I make in a month. The AI hatred really does make me sad.
even though I am an experienced musician now for 36 years, I agree with every sentiment of what is being said here. It does not offend me, and I do not have a problem with it in any way. If there is a tool that allows someone to be creative, let them be creative.
agreed. It beats having to either buy synthetic instruments and a keyboard, or having to hire a band and get studio time. I wouldn't do it personally because I don't like the quality myself, but it works for many.
I think AI music usage falls into a few different camps. 1. The people that give a random prompt, hit generate and say 'I wrote a thing.' No. No you did not.
2. The people that spend time crafting lyrics and sculpting the AI the way they want, and get amazing results just the way they imagined. 3. The other group of people (me included) who feed it my own music and get it to remix/reboot/reimagine whatever you want to call it, my music in entirely different ways. Sometimes I'll then take that back to Logic and replay the bits I like and change the bits I don't.
AI in the case of numbers 2 and 3 is a tool then, not a 'be all and end all' bandaid. It should not be that.
The people that hate AI hate it because all the number oners break it for the rest of us, those who care about what we're doing, our craft, our joy, and our care and attention to detail.
That, at least, is my take on it. Happy to be told otherwise.
What I'm very curious about is where the nuance between that 1 and 2 lies. Like, how much skulpting of the prompt makes it more of your own and not just "generically-written Suno lyrics" - so far, I've only been trying the first, because it's what most people will unfortunately do, but the more generic code-related songs I generate the more it does become clear that while they're catchy, they don't give substance or a story to what the song is meaning to convey, so catchy doesn't always mean useful. And I think that's what the boundary of #1 and #2 are, because if you can bring it above the slop that the AI generated, then yes, it's more than just an AI song. @GamingWithEars @FreakyFwoof @SapphireRose91 @darren_duff @cary5871 @lulu_bear
@Tamasg I must say I don’t use the prompt that basically says make me a song, most of the time I will put in my own lyrics that I have written because I’m looking for something very particular. I find a lot of AI generated lyrics usually miss the mark.
@TheVoiceGuy yeah, from my little experimenting, you do get better results even if you work with GPT first on shaping a bit of lyrics. Suno's own prompt generator is not great at coming up with exact lyrics, or (like it did with my song about speech synthesizers) it takes things literarly: "softVoice" whispers, and "brailab" lets you see things in the world, because it took the words soft and Braille for their meaning. But then again, it wouldn't even research the meaning of "flexVoice" and "softVoice" because its goal is to give you that prompt in a matter of moments, not to actually create something meaningful. That's what's interesting about it.
@Tamasg Indeed it is. I think you will also find that if you tried to write a song with a sad or tragic ending, a lot of things GPT included, really struggle with this.
@Tamasg @SapphireRose91 @darren_duff @cary5871 @FreakyFwoof Good techno! If I may have to do something with it... What people hadn't noticed is that AI music creation is like... Remember George Orwell's 1984? They mentioned a tool to create music... a versificator or something. Are we now using versificators right now? Catch me if I'm wrong
@FreakyFwoof @SapphireRose91 @darren_duff @cary5871 if you had a handy tool but one you could live without. but for every 5 times you used it there someone somewhere in the world would loose access to drinking water, would you still choose to use it?
"Furious AI Users Say Their Prompts Are Being Plagiarized."
Even if we set aside that this is a complaint about plagiarizing the use of a technology that is LITERALLY MADE OF PLAGIARISM, consider:
Say I write up how I made a cool piece of art in some app; if you follow the same steps, do I somehow own your output? And hell, that's not even what this is—it's more like someone posted their Google search terms or sandwich order, and are now mad others are using them. futurism.com/artificial-intell…
Consider Amira Zairi, a self-professed “AI educator” and “ambassador” for Adobe, LeonardoAI, and TripoAI, who posted a scathing rant this week on X-formerly-Twitter to her 49,000 followers. Her complaint? Other people were “plagiarizing” her unique AI prompts.
![remindd(8) System Manager's Manual remindd(8)
NAME
remindd, Other_name_for_same_program(), Yet another name for the same program. – This line parsed for whatis database.
SYNOPSIS
remindd, [-abcd] [-a path] [file] [file ...] arg0 arg2 ...
DESCRIPTION
Use the .Nm macro to refer to your program throughout the man page like such: remindd, Underlining is accomplished with
the .Ar macro like this: underlined text.
A list of items with descriptions:
item a Description of item a
item b Description of item b
A list of flags and their descriptions:
-a Description of -a flag
-b Description of -b flag
FILES
/usr/share/file_name FILE_1 description
/Users/joeuser/Library/really_long_file_name FILE_2 description
SEE ALSO
a(1), b(1), c(1), a(2), b(2), a(3), b(3)
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NAME
remindd, Other_name_for_same_program(), Yet another name for the same program. – This line parsed for whatis database.
SYNOPSIS
remindd, [-abcd] [-a path] [file] [file ...] arg0 arg2 ...
DESCRIPTION
Use the .Nm macro to refer to your program throughout the man page like such: remindd, Underlining is accomplished with
the .Ar macro like this: underlined text.
A list of items with descriptions:
item a Description of item a
item b Description of item b
A list of flags and their descriptions:
-a Description of -a flag
-b Description of -b flag
FILES
/usr/share/file_name FILE_1 description
/Users/joeuser/Library/really_long_file_name FILE_2 description
SEE ALSO
a(1), b(1), c(1), a(2), b(2), a(3), b(3)
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