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by ottah 9mo ago
I have struggled with getting anything functional on a Fairphone running Ubuntu Touch. The problem is you can't really run any Linux app, it has to be written to support their specific display manager. Running regular Linux apps is pos
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by ottah 9mo ago
I think the obsession with making much of all communication a capital asset treats a basic human behavior as theft. Imitation, remixing, and borrowing are a fundamental part of human communication. Copyright serves the interests of capital,
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by ottah 9mo ago
The cheerleaders, and the programming vegans are exhausting. LLMs are not taking over programming, but neither are they useless. They're tools with strengths and weaknesses we're still learning. I just want a take on them for once
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by ottah 9mo ago
Overall it's a quality of life improvement but not a true efficiency boost. The problem is the review process to properly understand a change can take nearly as long as if I wrote it myself. Sometimes it's an accelerant some times
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by ottah 9mo ago
None of us are so enlightened that we cannot fail and stuffer equally.
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by ottah 9mo ago
Everything except the first provision is reasonable. IMO it's none of your damn business how I wrote the code, only that I understand it, and am responsible for it. It's one of those provisions that seem reasonable, but really hav
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by ottah 9mo ago
Pedantic
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by ottah 9mo ago
I mean, I like living in the country that everyone wants to come to for an education and work. We're giving that up.
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by ottah 9mo ago
Is it actually badly zoned? There's also a lot of apartment buildings and first floor retail in downtown Denver. I do agree though, it's a concrete jungle, we really need more natural environments to feel human.
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by ottah 9mo ago
Homelessness is a choice that society has made. We have enough excess that we can feed and house these people. People are a lot less scary when they have some measure of security.
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by ottah 9mo ago
Unfortunately I have seen just as many helpless credentialed engineers. I really think it's a matter of character.
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by ottah 9mo ago
Regular society had oral traditions, folk tails, stories and songs.
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by ottah 9mo ago
I strongly disagree agree with the classics having any cultural relevance outside of the elite class. It entirely dismisses the bulk of all media commonly enjoyed by people in the period, which has more significance to society and its polit
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by ottah 9mo ago
I find that people who are the most opposed to diffusion models are usually the most ignorant about the technology. AI art doesn't begin and end with Midjourney and OpenAI. If you don't know what a controlnet, comfyui node, lcm, o
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by ottah 9mo ago
I mean the art community has always been continuous. Artists fight over everything, copying style or composition, claiming people are tracing others works. It's honestly not new, same thing in new clothes.
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by ottah 9mo ago
This exists, most artists that are using ai models are building complex compositions using comfyui https://education.civitai.com/category/guides/ It's a skill to compose and create with these tools. It's
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by ottah 9mo ago
I guess if you keep repeating this enough, maybe it will come true.
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by ottah 9mo ago
This isn't psychosis, this is a cult. It's new age religious beliefs, wrapped up in tech. These people aren't any different than people who believe in speaking in tongues, or transubstantiation.
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by ottah 9mo ago
A degree used to be a class distinction, a signal that someone belonged to the affluent in-group. The same goes for the literary canon that college professors claim as a requirement for real literacy. It's all despair at the perceived
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by ottah 9mo ago
It's petabytes of data. Think cargo pallot, or small pickup truck bed.
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by ottah 9mo ago
I need assistance with task retrieval, time management, and working memory. I do not need an app that makes me feel guilty, and quantifies it with pretty charts. We are not lacking in knowledge, and track data isn't particularly useful
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by ottah 9mo ago
Seriously, stop worrying about what people do in their free time, and find you're own joy. It's not like your distaste is going to have any effect on the people who enjoy it, so stop worrying about it.
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by ottah 9mo ago
I think there a lot of good points from others about symptom management, but I think switching off is actually pretty important too. I'm finding that fixing my procrastination and task initiation issues with medication and systems has
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by ottah 9mo ago
These sanboxes are only safe for applications with relatively fixed behaviour. Agentic software can easily circumvent these restrictions making them useless for anything except the most casual of attacks.
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by ottah 9mo ago
Krita and Inkscape have successfully replaced Photoshop and Illustrator for me. There isn't any good video editing options and lightroom still beats Gimp. For me the biggest sticking point to windows is cad/cam software, lightburn
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by ottah 9mo ago
It depends on the task, and the risk of isolation failure. Docker can be sufficient if inputs are from trusted sources and network egress is reasonably limited.
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by ottah 10mo ago
Obviously untrue, weather predictions, OCR, tts, stt, language translation, etc. We have dramatically improved many existing ai technologies with what we've learned from genai and the world is absolutely a better place for these new ab
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by ottah 10mo ago
Most people do not hold strongly consistent or well introspective political ideas. We're too busy living our lives to examine everything and often what we feel matters more than what we know, and that cements our position on a subject.
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by ottah 10mo ago
Wayland, thow shall not screenshot without root. D-Bus, YOLo!
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by ottah 10mo ago
Enforcing an arbitrary mitigation to a problem the industry does not know how to solve doesn't make it a good solution. It's just a solution the corporate world prefers.

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