grumbel

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by grumbel 5d ago
> An alternative near future is that what you're describing is used to undermine/rightswash strong copyleft free software for use in proprietary products So what? It's a future where software can be created on demand with
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by grumbel 6d ago
> The barriers were knowledge, understanding, expertise, and hard work, none of which AI fixes for you. The biggest barrier was time , there are only 24 hours in the day and no amount of hard work or knowledge is going to change that. T
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by grumbel 6d ago
I really don't get those takes. AI is the best thing that ever happened to the Free Software world, it is basically turning any software into Free Software. You can just throw file formats, protocols or even plain binaries at the AI an
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by grumbel 7d ago
Wouldn't say that, there is a huge shift in art style between what we got before Photoshop and what we got after. Just look at book covers in the 1970/80s and book covers in the 1990/2000s. The old stuff was full of custom il
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by grumbel 7d ago
> They're almost ridiculously diverse, and the prompts show very little handholding was required. The structure is identically to all of that, big title, graphic, list with icons. As said, they look fine on their own, the problem is
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by grumbel 7d ago
That's not what OP is complaining about. The issue with AI art isn't how the individual piece look, but the similarities they have in aggregate. One image can look perfectly fine, once you seen a hundred they all start looking ext
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by grumbel 23d ago
> Is there something like a Turing test for AGI? There is the "Economic Turing Test", you let it find a job and earn money for itself. If it can do that reliably, across a wide range of jobs, that should fit most definitions of
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by grumbel 26d ago
And even if it wins, it won't matter much, since it is only one of many issues with the current Internet that prevents people from connecting to each other. Even with IPv6 you'd still have no way to find the other person and the m
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by grumbel 28d ago
Internet deserves some blame too, when you have 8 billion people, but only 4 billion addresses, you are naturally going to end up with a lot of centralized services to work around those limits.
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by grumbel 1mo ago
Lack of BitTorrent support in browsers is big thing that is missing. Brave and Opera have it, but all the mainstream browsers don't. Thus torrent downloads never got out of its specific niche. That said, I don't think piracy is to
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by grumbel 1mo ago
It would be more analog to HTTP not specing out how CDNs should work, or Usenet not specing out how DejaNews is going to work. It's infrastructure stuff neither the client nor the simple server has to care about. The Nostr spec covers
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by grumbel 1mo ago
Looking at my complete grey friends list in Pidgin, with not a single user left active, it looks like everybody left around 8-12 years ago. Many of the old servers are offline as well.
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by grumbel 1mo ago
Nostr is a protocol, not a service. That's like saying HTML was adopted by the alt right.
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by grumbel 1mo ago
Nostr relays can censor however much they want. And users can just add other relays and route around it. That's fundamentally different from most other protocols, where user identity and posts are tied to a single server, and there is
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by grumbel 1mo ago
And how am I going to find the valid friend requests under the hundreds of spam ones? I used it just like a chat version of public email, for bug reports and such, so I don't know who is going to message me beforehand.
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by grumbel 1mo ago
> XMPP is the pinnacle of chat that just works. Not my experience. I had to give up on it since it was just completely flooded with spam, and unlike mail readers that have ways to mitigate it, XMPP clients were ill prepared. Might still
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by grumbel 1mo ago
It's a nice example how one can generate infinite outputs and avoid the problems that normally come with combinatoric explosions from offering too many options. Say you have a program that can use Gtk or Qt, but also supports MP3, Ogg
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by grumbel 2mo ago
How is that grim? It's the dream of the Semantic Web coming true, just by different means than planed.
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by grumbel 2mo ago
> Waiting 90 years to obtain the right to make copies is a tradeoff. That's a little more than a trade off, it means nobody alive today will ever experience those games. And those people 90 years in the future, probably won't c
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by grumbel 2mo ago
> Libraries and archives are able to keep digital copies, with limits imposed on how they may share them Share them by bundling them with DRM[1]? Like archive.org does with books and games that you can't download, but only virtually
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by grumbel 2mo ago
Yeah, of course you can, but that isn't exactly an argument for DRM-free GOG if you need the evil Steam to get your games running, or mess around with DOSBOX, Wine, Heroic, Lutris or whatever else is the workaround of the week. If you
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by grumbel 2mo ago
Whenever an AI hallucinates an API call, you run the compiler, give it the error messages and it fixes it. A proper agentic workflow might do it all automatically. These are arguments form 2023 ChatGPT3.5 days when it didn't have tool
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by grumbel 2mo ago
DRM-free was a nice idea 20 years ago, the problem is that it doesn't scale. There is just way to much media out there to keep track of and especially with games you are looking at frequent updates and patches, that your DRM-free backu
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by grumbel 2mo ago
That's how it should be. Make the Internet 18+ by default and sites targeted at younger audiences can add a more detailed rating. Let people configure their devices however they like it. The whole problem with the regulation we have ri
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by grumbel 2mo ago
I thought it was the other way around, X11 has supported multiple cursor since 2009 and Wayland didn't add support for it since toolkit developers weren't making use of it anyway. Enabling in X works via: xinput list # find
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by grumbel 2mo ago
Veho[1] is experimenting[2] with similar kinds of robots for package delivery. [1] https://www.shipveho.com/rivr [2] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/d6jU_4XjkTU
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by grumbel 2mo ago
There is Radicle for completely distributed hosting.
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by grumbel 3mo ago
Gemini3.5 Flash didn't have a problem OCR'ing and base64 decoding it, despite the OCR step having errors, it just fixed them in the base64 decoding step.
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by grumbel 3mo ago
They all degrade and hold less charge over time and eventually fail completely, it will just take years or decades. But with today's forced obsolescence on the software side I tend to agree. The chance that a device becomes useless lon
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by grumbel 3mo ago
It's not about the console itself, but the accessories, anything that makes you buy more controllers means more money for them. And batteries aren't even the worst offender here. Controllers have been using USB and an almost ident

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