amlib

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by amlib 1y ago
Pay for a global monopoly that has always subsided its operation with infinite money from a near ad and search monopoly and private equity? Yeah, I will keep my uBlock Origin active, no thanks.
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by amlib 1y ago
I would love to build a render farm out of cheap decommissioned GPUs...
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by amlib 1y ago
I agree, it feels like linux is on a perpetual "under construction" flow, except that lately development has been picking up speed (which is a good thing), but results in an even "bumpier" ride. And you can't really
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by amlib 1y ago
Can't you say most of these things about Windows or even any other useful desktop OSes? If you want a computer that does useful things and isn't just a locked down social media consumption machine, you end up with a lot of that ba
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by amlib 1y ago
All I can say is that I haven't seen a single AD in the last 15 years or so of using many different linux distros while as soon as I've booted any windows 10 or 11 machine, ADs were present everywhere and constantly reminded me th
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by amlib 1y ago
> Windows update automatically installs all drivers nowadays This is very untrue, there are many situations where windows update won't be able to find all drivers on a fresh install. You either need a proper OEM image with all drive
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by amlib 1y ago
There are tons of injustices committed by the legal system, laws protecting big corporations in detriment to society is pretty common.
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by amlib 1y ago
Is your phone rooted?
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by amlib 1y ago
I guess they've changed this in the last 2 years or so because last time I checked they kept your key hostage and only allowed transferring all data, including the key, to a new phone.
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by amlib 1y ago
But isn't it quite useless to backup WA when it's all encrypted and you can't backup the key?
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by amlib 1y ago
MacOS and specially Windows has their fair share of great and useful software with questionable UI/UX, this is far from a problem affecting only Linux. Take a look at modern KDE and specially GNOME software, they are pretty well made r
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by amlib 1y ago
Aren't you comparing the wrong things? First example is about the output/outcome, what is the equivalent for LLMs? Also, not all "pirated" things are sold, most are in fact distributed for free. "Pirates" also
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by amlib 1y ago
I don't think most people care much about the copyright violations (or at least they haven't though this trough properly), it's more about corporations taking even more control over information and knowledge at an unprecedent
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by amlib 1y ago
The doctors analogy still applies, that "socratic tutor" LLM is actually a charlatan that sounds, to the untrained mind, like a competent person, but in actuality is a complete farce. I still wouldn't trust that.
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by amlib 1y ago
How can it not be hallucinating anymore if everything the current crop of generative AI algorithm does IS hallucination? What actually happens is that sometimes the hallucinated output is "right", or more precisely, coherent with
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by amlib 1y ago
The solution to this problem requires you to interact with the OS, so a solution that requires tools found in the OS itself isn't a bad one. Its so simple you can have a script triggered by a desktop shortcut and be done with it. That
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by amlib 1y ago
It's a slippery slope. Apple is as bad as Google was about 10 years ago and things seems to be degrading faster and faster. Give it another 5 years and they will be as bad as Google/Samsung is today.
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by amlib 1y ago
Pixel phones are available in very few regions, Samsung is available virtually anywhere.
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by amlib 1y ago
I guess it came to the same conclusion as the computer in War Games, "The only way to win is not to play"
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by amlib 1y ago
What do you even mean with a 10x increase in efficiency? Does that means you commit 10x more code every day? Or that "you" essentially "type" code 10x faster? In the later case all the other tasks surrounding code would
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by amlib 1y ago
That said, I bet that if you could lower the inference temperature such chances would improve by a lot.
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by amlib 1y ago
Congratulations, you've just invented a video codec with motion estimation. The motion experts group wants their share on some bullshit royalties/patents though, better pay up because they are very litigious and won't go soft
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by amlib 1y ago
But LLMs cant write code nor explain math, they only plagiarize existing code and plagiarize existing explanations of math.
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by amlib 1y ago
You seem out of touch with the current trends, as it is right now you have to open a command line window during the installation of windows and run some commands just so you have the privillege of being able to install the system without th
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by amlib 1y ago
> That is impossible on Gnome. You get a dropdown of a few fixed values, none greater than 60 minutes, and you better like what choices the Gnome devs have granted you. The workaround requires some brain surgery in the terminal. AFAIK wh
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by amlib 1y ago
I would argue such feature only exists on big tech photo apps as an excuse to do facial recognition and eventually extricate such data trough whatever means. The benefit to the user is just a minor side effect.
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by amlib 1y ago
Censorship by private parties is only a problem when they are allowed to be a monopoly in that market segment. If we had hundreds of viable and independent youtube sites and hundreds of viable and independent social networks around the worl
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by amlib 1y ago
But that required lots of expertise and time to fabricate anything remotely convincing. We may now be close to an era where fakery at that level can be fabricated at industrial scale by any individuals and, most importantly, by powerful ent
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by amlib 1y ago
And it seems pretty slow. I can't even begin to imagine it needing to update 10x more components and perhaps 10x the amount of data.
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by amlib 1y ago
In terms of geometry density (detail) they have definitely improved by many orders of magnitude but in terms of layout I think most games have actually gone backwards with vastly simple levels to navigate. That (exagerated) meme about level

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