Why is it considered socially and legally unacceptable for me to enter a crowded room armed with an aluminum baseball bat, striking at people randomly - a crippled leg here, a destroyed skull & brain there, a collapsed rib cage and punctured lungs...
Why can I not just injur or kill anyone I want with the bat?
I can do it with #covid.
Welcome to the RB family, Weathernaut 🥳
apt.izzysoft.de/packages/me.ta…
Weathernaut lets you check the current conditions, get hourly forecasts for today and tomorrow, or plan your week with a 7-day forecast.
Again, thanks to @bg443 for providing the recipe!
And we just passed the 300th RB app at IzzyOnDroid here: 301 apps / 24.8% are now RB 
#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid
„Weathernaut“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository
Weathernaut: Accurate Weather, Music, and More!IzzyOnDroid App Repo
Welcome to the RB family, Jetflix 🥳
apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.y…
Jetflix is a Movie listing app using the TheMovieDb API which lets you search, filter, select by genre, see cast and crew details, production companies and more.
Thanks to @bg443 for providing the recipe!
#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid
„Jetflix“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository
Movie listing app using TheMovieDb APIIzzyOnDroid App Repo
11 Best Free and Open Source Firewall Tools - LinuxLinks
Security is paramount. Security involves defense in depth. We recommend free and open source firewall tools.Steve Emms (LinuxLinks)
At a protest in SF, blind Uber and Lyft users claim the companies aren't doing enough to prevent drivers from turning away passengers with visual impairments (Wired)
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At a protest in SF, blind Uber and Lyft users claim the companies aren't doing enough to prevent drivers from turning away passengers with visual impairments
From Wired. View the full context on Techmeme.Techmeme
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Drew Breunig (@dbreunig@note.computer)
Simplifying the AI noise by segmenting everything into 3 big use cases: Gods, Interns, and Cogs. https://www.dbreunig.com/2024/10/18/the-3-ai-use-cases-gods-interns-and-cogs.htmlnote.computer
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.
@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
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 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.
@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
GitHub - microsoft/BitNet: Official inference framework for 1-bit LLMs
Official inference framework for 1-bit LLMs. Contribute to microsoft/BitNet development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
A Sonic Journey Through the Universe | Felipe Sánchez Luna | TED
In an astounding sonic experience, creative director Felipe Sánchez Luna takes you on a journey through the universe as told in sound. Take a deep breath, li...YouTube
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.
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Who called it “intellectual property problems around the acquisition of training data for Large Language Models” and not Grand Theft ̶A̶u̶t̶o̶c̶o̶r̶r̶e̶c̶t̶ Autocomplete?Mastodon
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/s…
We compared smart ring heart rate data with smartwatches, and the results may surprise you
Our smart ring heart rate accuracy test measured how Oura, Samsung, Amazfit, Ultrahuman, and RingConn do when compared against smartwatches.Michael L Hicks (Android Central)
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 🙌🥳
Hier zur Feier des Tages das Staffel 1-Poster. 🖖☺️
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Elgg: Set Up a Social Networking Platform on Ubuntu | Linux Today
In this guide, we will go through the entire process of installing Elgg on your Ubuntu server.LinuxToday
#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 🥳 and it got the 🛡️ (i.e. it is reproducible), yay!
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps and #reproducibleBuilds with the #IzzyOnDroid repo
IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).IzzyOnDroid App Repo
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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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?
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
Pi-Apps: The Better App Store for Raspberry Pi
You can improve your application installation smoother and efficient on Raspberry Pi with the Pi Apps.Abhishek Kumar (It's FOSS)
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.
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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.
Chce to hodně promastit, ideálně nějaký krém s kakaovým máslem, makadamovým olejem. Ale dobrý je i samotný olivový olej, nebo sádlo to je TOP.
No a před prací doporučuji promazat vazelínou, ta vytvoří tenký film, který chvilku vydrží i ten Jar.
Doporučovat rukavice je předpokládám zbytečné.
Tak aspoň na noc namazat něčím výživným, ta Neutrogena chrání, ale nehojí.
Musí to mít ve složení to, co jsem psal třeba kakaové máslo makadamový olej, olivový olej, nebo klidně použít to sádlo.
Pokud se bavíme o krému z drogerie, tak doporučuji tento: rossmann.cz/krem-na-ruce-s-oli…
Obsahuje jak kakaové máslo, tak olivový olej, vstřebává se rychle.
Matt Campbell
in reply to Matt Campbell • • •James Scholes
in reply to Matt Campbell • • •The fact that the latter runs on my phone with decent performance, and the former does not, would suggest that there are differences. Whether or not the latter's initial training exhibits some of the same problems as generative models, I don't know, but it's one of the many reasons that just referencing generative models as "AI" is lazy and harmful.
For instance, I read an article yesterday about a publisher updating their copyright statements to include the text:
"No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner for the purpose of training artificial intelligence technologies or systems ..."
The lack of nuance immediately made me wonder if I would be violating those conditions if, through my legitimate and unintended actions, any part of the work ever came into contact with any machine learning technologies, e.g. those used for OCR.