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"we should only care for linux and shouldn't worry about bsds bc there's not enough users" is just "why build for linux when basically everyone runs windows or mac" but in a smaller scale
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Here in one paper is the probable reason why Apple abruptly pulled out of OpenAI's current funding round a week ago, after previously being expected to buy at least a billion bucks of equity.

(AI is peripheral to Apple's business model and not tarnishing their brand in the long term is more important than jumping on a passing fad.)
appdot.net/@jgordon/1132946304…

in reply to Sevoris

> I want [this] from my digital assistant

is 1000% valuable product-direction research data

Current systems are basically outsourcing to call-center style labeling factories — with a bit of ML laundering in between — & this fully pre-dates the LLM boom (Facebook M,? & when Siri was new)

Recent LLM innovation has let them do more of the ML laundering and time shifting by throwing compute at it

But they're still mostly emulating what a call-center drone can do

in reply to Jeremy Kahn

That "emulate form without doing actual reasoning" is so effective at charming the executive class into throwing money at it…

…is kinda damning of the executive class' own "genius" intellectual self-regard

They themselves have used prose-based discriminative pattern-matching (& privilege) to get where they are, not actual reasoning

"That guy fast-talks like he knows what he's talking about, put him in charge of a division" is no way to run a system of {governance}



hessenschau.de/politik/abschie…

Poseck erfüllt die Voraussetzungen für eine Duldung schon gar nicht. Ich denke, es ist an der Zeit, ihn an einer Autobahnraste seinem Schicksal zu überantworten.

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I remember a time when everyone was on Twitter during conferences. You could barely keep up with the posts on the conference hashtag timeline. That's long gone.
The #LinuxDays have roughly a thousand attendees and during the conference there were 14 posts with the conference hashtag on Mastodon and 8 on Twitter.
in reply to Štěpán Škorpil

@stepan @lepapierblanc I keep doing it. I promote our booth during the conference etc. I do receive responses, but only online. It's not like that someone comes and says "I've seen your post that you have this to show...". In the past, Twitter was the information hub for attendees. You posted something with the conference hashtag and most attendees read it. This is gone. Twitter is going down the hill and people haven't moved elsewhere to communicate during conferences.


There's a lot of animosity against #AI on this platform. I can understand why, up to certain extent (eg using creators contwnt without permission, the use of earth resources for questionable goals...). However, I wonder how they think the "detect text from picture" function works.

#AI #ocr

#AI #ocr


Feedback submitted to Caltrain:

"Hi there, I just tried to get on train 424, which stopped at San Antonio around 6:35 pm. I was on the station rushing to the blue zone at the opposite end of the platform. It was very difficult to go over the bumpy stamped concrete. No conductor came out to meet me, and the train left without me. I'm quite surprised by this, as the conductors are usually very attentive. If I had been able to walk, I would have been able get on the train, but this time, I felt excluded based on my wheelchair. Is there anything you can do to make this better?"

Tags: #transit #ableism, #Caltrain

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The other day someone here said that they used one of the AI services to have it draw a picture for them. I don't remember who it was, or which AI service offers this, but if anyone could please tell me how I can get AI-generated images I'd appreciate it. I want to try an experiment. Thanks for any help with this.
in reply to Caroline Toews

The simplest and easiest is to go for chatgpt.com/. they have restrictions but you can do it and you can also specify that you want a direct download link.


What do you even get with a perpetual Jaws license? How long does that license last, exactly? How much for each update? #Blind #JAWS
in reply to Nick's world

That seems to depend on whether you get the SMA or the AMS, the latter seems like it's similar to the home annual license. A perpetual license costs more up front but the one advantage is that it doesn't time out, even if you choose not to renew a maintenance agreement. That being said, I prefer the subscription model.


I have been accepted into the Flight Simulator 2024 technical alpha, and I've also just learned that there is no NDA, beyond the fact that this is an experimental build and things may break--I've had one CTD so far.

Narrator is a lot better with the UI and they got rid of the querky navigation that came with a mouse pointer interface; I think it has this with Narrator disabled however.

One little tidbit of information interested me. The settings menu is divided into categories. General, controls, accessibility, and each of these has subcategories. Narration has one, but here's the thing. It says 'Narration and audio cues'. Right now, it only has the narration settings we previously had and the ability to make all audio mono for hard of hearing users. I plan on doing a quick look video over the weekend demonstrating the QoL improvements to narrator, differences to free flight screen and an overview of how settings work. I think they may have cut the AI copilot out of FS24, which if so is a bad move for those with severe physical disabilities such as CP.

in reply to Orinks

Interesting. Wonder what kind of audio queues they're talking about. The AI co-pilot might also return, maybe they're didn't want to enable it for the technical test or need to tweak it. Or they could be working on something even more advanced, given what climat we're in I think it's just as likely we get a voice controlled LLM powered copilot in the future.


Just casually opened the door of my #FS2024 Cessna walking around, describing the scenery around me with Jaws picture smart on this early Saturday morning. :)

The image shows a landscape at dusk or dawn, with a dark foreground and silhouetted trees against a gradually lightening sky. The horizon has a gentle
glow, suggesting the sun is either rising or setting. Sparse lights are visible in the distance, possibly from buildings or vehicles, adding a subtle touch
to the tranquil scene. The atmosphere feels calm and serene.

in reply to aaron

@fireborn Lots of quality of life improvements for now. E.G. you can scroll the runways, gates, and parking areas list dropdown normally now and select your desired one without too much hastle. I like how they tried their best to actually make the world map view accessible. If OBS would stay running I'll record a vieo. Going to try another attempt later with it.


Nur der Chronik wegen: Die Corona-Oktoberfest-Welle. (Hier aus der Wochenend- Süddeutschen.)



Sometimes I'm tempted to justify not commenting code by saying that I don't want to come off as a n00b, or assume that the reader is one, as portrayed in this old Steve Yegge rant: steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/… I wonder if this article had that effect on anyone else.
in reply to Matt Campbell

True, type inference makes it considerably less painful since one isn't force to annotate everything all over the place. On the other hand he also includes inferring languages like Haskell and, presumably, ML and friends.
in reply to modulux

@modulux Yeah, he did.

I was totally with him on dynamic typing when I went through my Lua phase in the mid to late 2000s; that happened to correspond with discovering his writing for the first time.




I'm sure Apple having research showing "lol AIs don't know shit" and them dropping out of the OpenAI investment round are 100% unrelated


One thing that I was trying to describe to the 15-year-old is that, when I was in college, google worked *so well* to find basically exactly what you were searching for that there was a site called "Let Me Google That For You" where you could snarkily send someone their question back and they'd see it animate the process of typing their question into google, then get the search results and bam, there's the answer to their question

I would *never* consider doing that now because almost never is the first hit the actual thing you want (and, honestly, it's getting rarer that it's top 10)



One of the strongest arguments for right-to-repair (that no one wants to make) is that as the supply chain collapses, maintaining all the technology in our possession becomes exponentially more important. Parts must be interchangeable, accessible, and open for this to really work at all.


Car going through the pedestrian market. Of course it’s a MAGA mobile.


Hiya, another day, another #GoToSocial release candidate:

github.com/superseriousbusines…

We fixed a couple small bugs around interaction accepts and rejects :)

Please read the release notes carefully, especially if updating to this release candidate from v0.16.0 or below! There are migrations!

If you're using SQLite on OpenBSD or FreeBSD, please take the release version with moderncsqlite in the name, as described in the release notes.

Thanks for reading and helping us find bugs! We're getting there 🙂

in reply to GoToSocial

Big big thank you to folks who tested this on FreeBSD and OpenBSD and helped us to potentially track down a memory bug. Hopefully switching DB drivers for those operating systems helps :)
in reply to GoToSocial

If you are on #OpenBSD or #FreeBSD and you're still seeing issues with extravagant memory use on this release candidate, please let us know :) Initial reports seem to indicate that the issue is resolved but we'd like to know for real before we call it fixed and move on to cutting 0.17.0 proper. Thanks!



Another prediction that isn't really that hard to make: the hype around Big AI will fade (this is already happening, IMHO). This will mean that not that many Nvidia chips are needed. This will lead to what always comes at the end of a hype: patent wars. There will be claims and counterclaims on who has patented certain obscure technical stuff first. Seeing how Apple just doggedly keeps on adding more "neural" chips on their processors, I can make an educated guess on where this war will start.
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Kritik an Israel - Amnesty: „Humanitäres Völkerrecht wird nicht eingehalten“

Amnesty International kritisiert eine „einseitige Parteinahme“ der Bundesregierung mit Israel und fordert auf, Waffenlieferungen zu stoppen.#GAZA #Libanon #AMNESTYINTERNATIONAL #ISRAEL



Spielplatz. Zwei große Jungs ärgern und provozieren einen kleineren Jungen. Kommt ein etwas älteres Mädchen (Geschwisterkind?) angerannt und baut sich empört vor den Großen auf.

„Lasst ihn in Ruhe!“
„Verschwinde, wir hauen keine Mädchen!“
„Aber ich haue Jungs!“

Mir erscheint es für einen kurzen Moment, als stehe die Zeit still und in der Stille vermeine ich das freudige Raunen millionenfacher Frauen aus allen Zeiten zu hören.

Die großen Jungs sind dann einfach verschwunden.



"In der aktuell erregt geführten Debatte über die gesellschaftliche Bedrohung durch Besteck redet niemand über Löffel. Es geht nur um die Messer. Da aber ist man quer durch die Parteien mit Verboten schnell bei der Hand. Kann sich jemand eine ähnliche Diskussion über die weitaus größere Gefahr auf Deutschlands Straßen vorstellen, über die Straftäter am Steuer? Sie scheint undenkbar. Und genau das ist das Problem."

#VisionZero
#StopKillingCyclists

taz.de/Strassenverkehr/!604199…



📆 Importing external calendars is quick and easy with Tuta's Calendar import 📆 Have you tried it yet? If not, what are you waiting for?!
in reply to Tuta

Looks good! Does it support Caldav sync from an external online calendar like #nextcloud ?


I really appreciate an honest code comment 😄

"""
This class implements the Noam Learning rate schedule. This corresponds to increasing the learning rate
linearly for the first ``num_warmup`` training steps, and decreasing it thereafter proportionally
to the inverse square root of the step number, scaled by the inverse square root of the
dimensionality of the model. Time will tell if this is just madness or it's actually important.
"""



zajímalo by mě, proč se lékárna jmenuje U Pošty, nikoliv U pošty... 🙄

netuší někdo? 🤔 #Czechia

in reply to Fred Brooker

Prostě to tak diktují pravidla pravopisu. Ty asi nemusí mít logické zdůvodnění.
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Gente, cuidado pra não espalharem sorofobia em forma de notícias sobre o caso dos transplantados infectados por HIV!


Koukám že se tu na #LinuxDays snaží někdo udat #ThinkPad P51. Nedivím se. Je to bratranec toho mýho P52 s hybridní nvidií a ta z toho dělá děsnej křáp. Bylo to drahý a stojí to za 💩.


Anyone who is willing to pay $1200 for Jaws is out of their minds! #Blind


Recently I asked about choosing a style sheet for developing a personal Web site that would automate the visual presentation, allowing me, as a nonvisual author, to concentrate on the markup and content.
I've started working on the site, using the "classless" version of this style sheet. github.com/picocss/pico/
I'm using the Hugo static site generator. I'll write more about it when I create a blog for longer-form posts.
#accessibility #css #WebDevelopment


Efficiency is putting a pot of coffee on to brew, then having a shower while it brews. Then consuming the first cup in five minuts flat. I think I will turn into a puddle of coffee at this rate, LOL.



Vypadá to, že tu mám moc velkou bublinu účastníků #mastopivo ... Příště vás tam musím navštívit též! 😁
in reply to Zechy

mám z těch fotek a postů trochu FOMO. 😄 Asi taky budu muset jednou dorazit...


Hmm teď koukám na fotky z #mastopivo a tahle se mi fakt povedla. 😃
in reply to Skaut

@neskaut
To rozhodně, bylo tam hodně podobných kamarádů 😃


Hradec Králové hlavní nádraží!

A víš, co bude následovat teď?

Spinkání u babičky!

Heč!
#backToTheHK

in reply to Pavel

I ty tuláků jeden, koukej už mazat domů 😃😃


Musel jsem už konečně vyrazit na #cyklovýlet. Protože od #mastopivo již nepiju #birellovka, ale zásadně Bernard švestka, tak přidávám jen statistiku z Garmin. 😃
in reply to Archos

Pokud nekdy potkas neco nize, tak zkus :)

Albrechticky - Koleck0% IPA
Clock - Lazarus passion fruit sour Ale
Nachmelena opice - Nealko IPA Free
Zichovec - Drink & Drive non-alcoholic IPA

zejmena ten Zichovec je luxus a Opice vlastne chutna skoro jako jejich vlajkova lod Sun Apa

in reply to mahdi

@mahdi1234
No u nás toho moc na cyklostezce na výběr není. Birrel pomelo a ještě Lobkowicz nealko.


Der Kleidung nach zu urteilen wurde ich eben im Neuenheimer Feld von einer Klinikmitarbeiterin fast frontal mit dem Auto angefahren, weil sie an einer engen Stelle einen entgegenkommenden Radfahrer (viel zu dicht) überholen musste. Mich hat sie anscheinend "übersehen".

#MotorisierteGewalt



Today, @james' @Podnews revealed that @AntennaPod the amazing open-source podcast player, just added transcript support! 🎉

"Version 3.5 of podcast app AntennaPod now displays Podcasting 2.0 transcripts, joining Pocket Casts and Apple Podcasts."

This is a game-changer for accessibility, SEO, discoverability, and the ability to quickly search within an episode.

Huge shout-out to the AntennaPod team, especially Tony Tam, for developing this awesome transcript feature! 🙌
🧵[…]

in reply to cedricdes

The menu item is only shown if the podcast you are listening to supports transcripts.
in reply to AntennaPod

@projetslibres_podcast you are the ones who introduced me to Castopod but your podcast doesn't support transcripts?

@AntennaPod @Castopod

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