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I really like Drew's framework here dividing current AI use-cases into Gods (human replacement, which I think of as still mostly science fiction), Interns (assistants you delegate closely-reviewed tasks to, which is most of how I use LLMs today) and Cogs (smaller tools that can more reliably serve a single purpose, like Whisper for transcription) - more of my own notes on this here: simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/20/โ€ฆ
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in reply to Simon Willison

You sure you linked to the right song? Have you gone through the kind of existential crisis portrayed in that song? I always saw you as being cautiously optimistic about AI, that it can be a useful tool if used well, but not making us redundant.

@forrestbrazeal

in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt @forrestbrazeal oh I absolutely went through these 5 stages of grief, but I've been firmly in the 5th step for over a year at this point
in reply to Simon Willison

@forrestbrazeal I don't think I ever actually felt the anger. And I feel kind of guilty about that, because of course some people have decided to stop there and fight against AI, and they have such moral certainty about it.
in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt @forrestbrazeal I've not felt the anger personally, because I've been releasing open source code for 20+ years so I already default to "I want people to be able to reuse my work as much as possible" - but I absolutely understand the people who ARE angry

If I was an artist and someone trained Stable Diffusion on my work without my permission and then started competing with me for commissions that used my own personal style I think I'd feel very differently about this all

in reply to Simon Willison

@matt @forrestbrazeal I donโ€™t feel like I am stuck in step 4, but I canโ€™t get to step 5 because I do very much believe that (at least in their current incarnation) AI is very much going away. I am worried about the collateral damage that this particular dead tree is going to cause when it smashes into the rest of the ecosystem. E.g.: nvidia currently has a market cap of 11% of GDP, which I do not think is sustainable. But who on earth is going to get a positive ROI on ChatGPT at $20/mo?
in reply to Glyph

@glyph @matt @forrestbrazeal I expect there's going to be a substantial AI crash, but I don't think (most of) the tools I'm using right now will become unavailable to me - especially since I can run Llama 70B on my own laptop now
in reply to Simon Willison

About running models locally, I've experimented with that, but large context windows take up lots of RAM, right? Like, isn't it O(n^2) where n is the number of tokens? Or do you not depend on large context windows?

@glyph

in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt while I agree that the models you are using locally will not go away, I am also skeptical that they will receive much in the way of maintenance once the commercial bubble has burst. Nobody is getting paid when you run a model on your laptop locally, and training them still requires a zillion hours of GPU time and a corpus in the petabytes
in reply to Glyph

@glyph Yeah. Today I went down a rabbit hole looking into what it would take to reproducibly, deterministically build some video assets for a little side project I did. It reminded me of how some hard-core free software folks, particularly the GNU Guix developers, have been working on bootstrapping a whole OS with minimal dependence on existing binaries. We're never getting that for these big models.

@simon

in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt @glyph the models I can run in my laptop today are leagues ahead of the models I ran on the exact same hardware a year ago - improvements in that space have been significant

This new trick from Microsoft looks like it could be a huge leap forward too - I've not dug into it properly yet though github.com/microsoft/BitNet




What a journey this is. Take a listen, preferably with headphones. youtu.be/WrxJKj71c9o?si=0OmZNaโ€ฆ
in reply to Jakob Rosin

Really cool. Thanks for sharing! I felt they overdid panning though! :)
in reply to victor tsaran

@vick21 I think the original was broadcast through multiple speakers in a conference hall, so thats wy panning happened so much.


On this day seven years ago I got A FRICKING GOLD MEDAL for my work on #curl. Real. Proper. Gold. From the hands of the Swedish king.

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2017/10/20โ€ฆ

#curl

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in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

can he hug or is he one of those guys who hit you in the back repeatedly just to let everyone know they are heterosexual?


Just yesterday, I saw a boost of someone suggesting "grand theft autocomplete" as an apt phrase for describing what large language models (such as ChatGPT and Claude) do. But now I can't remember who said it. The phrase doesn't yet seem to be common enough to yield a useful result when doing a DuckDuckGo search for it.
in reply to Matt Campbell

I'm pretty sure it originated from @johl here: mastodon.xyz/@johl/11205983391โ€ฆ


We compared smart ring heart rate data with smartwatches, and the results may surprise you (...Instead, it's the Amazfit Helio Ring that won the hardware accuracy contest. And since Amazfit recently discounted it to $199 and made its pricey subscriptions free, the Helio Ring has become more appealing.
On the other hand, the Helio Ring has unresolved problems like the limited number of sizes (three), short battery life (four days), and lack of automatic workout detection.) androidcentral.com/wearables/sโ€ฆ


Kรกmo na mลˆa nieฤo lezie... celรฝ deลˆ ma bolia predlaktia, pravรฝ kฤพรบฤny kฤบb na nohe a absolรบtne niฤ necรญtim, ani trรกvu ani voลˆavku a mรกm pocit ลพe na mลˆa ide teplota. To niฤ, rรกno som fit.

in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

looks like the CFP is not open yet.

I wonder if something #AlpineLinux or #k0s/#kubernetes would be of interest for this event



In 5 Tagen startet die 5. Staffel #StarTrek Lower Decks ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿฅณ

Hier zur Feier des Tages das Staffel 1-Poster. ๐Ÿ––โ˜บ๏ธ



in reply to Shay

I ate the discord sound as part of my breakfast, sorry. If it sounds muffled or quieter, it's just cause it's coming from inside my stomach for everyone else now.
in reply to Shay

Yeah Iโ€™m not a fan. The incoming call one is fun though.
in reply to Shay

I checked in settings to see if they changed it lol
in reply to aaron

@fireborn I think that sound is only temporary for the season. Cuz if you remember they change it for Christmas, too
in reply to Shay

The sooner they get rid of the message sound the better haha.


Elgg: Set Up a Social Networking Platform on Ubuntu linuxtoday.com/blog/elgg-set-uโ€ฆ


#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 17 updated and one long-awaited added apps:

* Fossify Camera: your light-weight camera app from the Fossify collection ๐Ÿฅณ and it got the ๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ (i.e. it is reproducible), yay!

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps and #reproducibleBuilds with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:



Bluesky: i love this game!!!! so i drew some fanart for it (kinda nsfw)

Mastodon: [Spoiler Warning/Opinion] I love this game! So I wrote an updated graphics driver to deliver better realtime lighting on levels 4 through 8

Threads: Our worst fears have come true. Noah left us. Yes, in the afternoon

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When I first played #stardewvalley I was overwhelmed by all the tasks you had to do. It felt like the opposite of a #cozygame is there something out there that has the same look and feel but doesn't have the huge list of todos you gotta do?
in reply to Erion

@erion I just remember feeling overwhelmed at the time I started playing it with not knowing what was the best way to go, and having a big list of quests and stuff. I guess for me I didn't take them as optional but wanted to play the game in some min max way. Perhaps I should revisit it as a sort of village sandbox.
in reply to Triptych ๐ŸŒฑ

If you do, you will have a great time. When people experience the game for the first time, it's common to have 6-7 saves until you figure out what works for you. Just take it easy for the first few tries, and one day when you are familiar with everything, focus on maxing out things. You will have a great time.


Iโ€™m never going to forgive people who bought a new Tesla in the past year.


PRODUCTS I WANT APPLE TO SELL ME (but they won't):

An iPad Mini only instead of iPadOS it runs NewtonOS. Software updated to make use of the bluetooth and wifi stacks and USB-C port.

Comes with an Apple Pencil, of course.

C'mon. Wouldn't that be the most freakishly powerful Newton ever?

in reply to Charlie Stross

As someone who worked on the Newton (and the eMate) I can appreciate your enthusiasm. The Newton was designed from the ground up to be a content creation machine, not a content consumption machine so things like text editing and inking were better thought out.

Of course, it's also held back by it's old-school scrolling model, which I'd think could be updated to support touch (vs pen).

The code base is a privacy nightmare (no protections on any user data!) Sadly, I doubt it would easy



Does anyone else's table have these horrible sharp pieces of the material that jut out underneath it? Scooted the wrong way at breakfast this morning and now I have a scratch on my knee to rival the worst ones I've gotten from cats.
in reply to Mikoล‚aj Hoล‚ysz

@miki Oh that does sound cluttery and easy to run into. I think I have seen those actually, occasionally my mom would use them for blankets that were too big to go in the dryer.
in reply to Malia Suhr

oh yeah, I literally have some of these on mine right now. And yes, I've ran into it, many, many times, and gotten bruises in the meantime


Pi-Apps: The Unofficial but Definitely Better App Store for Raspberry Pi lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_lโ€ฆ


Do you ever think about how much time is spent just watching stuff? It's been quite the week, so I've turned to one of my comfort shows, the Goldbergs. As I was pondering all the things I still need to do, I suddenly realized just how much of my life I've spent watching it. If each episode is around 20 minutes and there are usually 24 episodes in a season, then in the last 3 1/2 days, I've watched approximately 24 straight hours of the Goldbergs. If you count the first time I saw it, there are 10 seasons, so I'm thinking that puts me around 3 1/2 days just for that run. If you count the spinoff series schooled and add it all up, I'm looking at almost a week straight of Goldbergs. And then I started to wonder how long I've spent watching We're alive, with all my rewatches, and I should probably stop now.
in reply to Malia Suhr

If you add social media, hn, youtube, podcasts, technical docs that I didn't strictly need to read for the problem at hand but that were too interesting to pass up... I don't wanna see these stats, I would probably cry.


In Wales, if you want a bwca or bwbachod (a goblin who cleans your home), then leave out a cup of cream each night (or better yet, a cup of ale). However, bwcas hate teetotalers. If you refuse to drink alcohol, they may kick you or throw your plates at you.
๐ŸŽจ Tony DiTerlizzi

#FolkloreSunday #OfDarkandMacabre #31DaysofHaunting #31DaysofHalloween #Superstitiology #Mythology #Folklore #Celtic #CelticMythology #Wales #WelshMythology #Fairy #Goblin




I did not wish to change password managers. What's a decent password manager that's free software, and has a usable Firefox extension that works on both desktop & mobile?

Preferably one that is self-hostable, or where the database is easy to sync between Desktop and stock, non-rooted Android.

Bonus points if it is able to store additional custom fields, credit card data, and can generate TOTP codes too.

Is it KeepassXC, or is there something else? Last time I used KeepassXC (arguably, a good couple of years ago), the browser autofill was kinda flaky.

in reply to Erion

Hahaha. You always exercise it. But also, multiplatform, probably nothing is that accessible or pretty easy to setup.
in reply to ะœะธั€ะฐ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡บ

I wouldn't mind the tinkering, knowing that things will be better, but right now everything looks worse than just waiting and hoping that they get their act together.


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Ide mi urvaลฅ predlaktia a neviem z ฤoho.. a toto tie zรกdery sรบ prekliatie.
in reply to SuspiciousDuck

Pozor na to, z takovรฝch zรกdฤ›r ฤasto vznikajรญ plรญsnฤ›, antibakteriรกlnรญ mรฝdlo ale dost pomลฏลพe.
in reply to Josef Zettl alias Princezna

@Zettl_josef ono to hlavne bolรญ pri kaลพdom dotyku a kontakte s vodou. Hlavne to mรกm z vetexu a jarovej vody ฤo stรกle utieram stoly, nemรก sa to kedy zahojiลฅ lebo "stรกle" robรญm.
in reply to SuspiciousDuck

Tak to nezรกvidรญm.
Chce to hodnฤ› promastit, ideรกlnฤ› nฤ›jakรฝ krรฉm s kakaovรฝm mรกslem, makadamovรฝm olejem. Ale dobrรฝ je i samotnรฝ olivovรฝ olej, nebo sรกdlo to je TOP.
No a pล™ed pracรญ doporuฤuji promazat vazelรญnou, ta vytvoล™รญ tenkรฝ film, kterรฝ chvilku vydrลพรญ i ten Jar.
Doporuฤovat rukavice je pล™edpoklรกdรกm zbyteฤnรฉ.
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in reply to Josef Zettl alias Princezna

vazelรญnu nemรดลพem lebo je mastnรก a nemรดลพem nosiลฅ mastnรฉ pohรกre/prรญbory, potrebujem krรฉm ktorรฝ sa hneฤ vstล™ebรก, mรกm tip Ulipolitio alebo Neutrogenu.
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in reply to SuspiciousDuck

Ten prvnรญ neznรกm, ale Neutrogena je prakticky vazelรญna.
Tak aspoลˆ na noc namazat nฤ›ฤรญm vรฝลพivnรฝm, ta Neutrogena chrรกnรญ, ale nehojรญ.
in reply to SuspiciousDuck

Musรญ to mรญt ve sloลพenรญ to, co jsem psal tล™eba kakaovรฉ mรกslo makadamovรฝ olej, olivovรฝ olej, nebo klidnฤ› pouลพรญt to sรกdlo.
Pokud se bavรญme o krรฉmu z drogerie, tak doporuฤuji tento: rossmann.cz/krem-na-ruce-s-oliโ€ฆ

Obsahuje jak kakaovรฉ mรกslo, tak olivovรฝ olej, vstล™ebรกvรก se rychle.

in reply to SuspiciousDuck

sa nauฤรญm pouลพรญvaลฅ viac ฤพavรบ ruku


How to Install Google Chrome on Arch Linux lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_lโ€ฆ


Ongoing discussion, but it looks like Bitwarden may be starting to make moves towards no longer being open source:

github.com/bitwarden/clients/iโ€ฆ

Previous issues opened against the SDK have been met with replies that suggest they have no intention of reconsidering the licensing decision:

github.com/bitwarden/sdk/issueโ€ฆ

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in reply to Erion

@erion @tootbrute well here it is. Guess what? The world isn't ending. github.com/bitwarden/clients/iโ€ฆ

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in reply to chx

Well, that's disappointing. I was really looking forward to the chaos of the only usable password manager slowly becoming proprietary. The FSF should be proud, GPL has fixed a "bug."


Zajtra idem s cyklistom na pivo nech naฤerpรกm nejakรฉ mรบdra.


Huch - ICE pรผnktlich und freundliches, tiefenentspanntes Zugpersonal. daran kรถnnte ich mich wirklich gewรถhnen.

Hoffentlich bleibt es so...

in reply to Molly

@DerMolly @Bubu das halte ich fรผr ein Gerรผcht, ich habe ein Talent fรผrs Erwischen von Desaster bei der Bahn...
in reply to Dickenhobelix

@DerMolly Ich glaube so viel Talent braucht man dafรผr grade nicht mal unbedingt.

(Erstmal Fahrgastrechteformular fรผr die Hinreise ausgefรผllt...)



If you don't have an RSS feed you don't have a podcast.

And that is a hill I will die on.





I've been working on a little static website (see my earlier thread about my current side project). The site started out as a single hand-coded page. Now it's two hand-coded pages. I should really move up to a static site generator. I could use Zola like we did for the AccessKit site. But I'm tempted to do something more custom using a Makefile.
in reply to Matt Campbell

Or I could go all trendy and use Earthly (earthly.dev/), which combines something like a Makefile with Docker containers for the build steps. That might actually be a nice way to do a more complex build pipeline, with the possibility of building the demo video from scratch and then running a static site generator like Zola to build the actual site.
in reply to Matt Campbell

What static site generators would you recommend? My partner wants to use one to replace WordPress for simple blogging but isn't as comfortable with CLI, and needs it to use markdown.


The Internet is decentralised by nature, and could be an entirely different world if ISPs weren't so hostile to self-hosting.

Imagine simple home appliances to host your email, blog or XMPP server.

Just buy a domain and configure a little device in your closet.

The tech is all feasible, but your ISP will refuse to give you a fixed IP or to unblock ports for this to work.

in reply to Hugo ้›จๆžœ

I'm fortunate to have AT&T fiber in my apartment building, and that gives me the option of buying a static IP block. They specifically list light web hosting as a use case for that. Now I'm looking for suitable hardware. I want something small, low-power, and fanless that I can put next to the AT&T gateway.


In the 90s, we went on the Internet in an attempt to escape the real world. Nowadays we go to the real world in an attempt to escape the Internet.


The fact that the general consensus on #GNOME among Linux users seems to be hatred or distrust based on blind misinformation is unsettling. We really canโ€™t just dismiss everyone as โ€œtrollsโ€. We absolutely need better public relations and coordination with the Foundation, because right now, we are letting bad faith actors dictate the direction of all discussions of the project.
in reply to kramo

Community management.

Its work, and someone should be being paid to do it professionally.

The brief is simple, work out who is the expected constituency of gnome software and actively include those voices in the entire stack of development. Build community and if possible, economy between the workers and the users.

Ignoring users is useful for solving some sets of problems, but creates many long term social issues. Gnome is not the only project with this problem.



It is a biblical truth not as known as it should be that the beauty of worship and the beauty of creation belong together.

โ€œFor creation awaits with eager expectation the revelation of the children of Godโ€ฆโ€
-Romans 8:19

With all creation, be beautiful today. Go to Mass.

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