"This is the kind of connection that we’ve been able to reestablish (with Russia) through a simple word called communication, which many people would say I shouldn’t have had because Putin is a bad guy. I don’t regard Putin as a bad guy," Witkoff added.

Nooooo…you don’t say!

“This might be the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen,” right-wing commentator Richard Hanania.

HA!

because why else would you go to a whole other post to “prove a point” about downvoting?
It wasn’t you (you claim)

I do claim. I have an alt, didn’t downvote you there either. Was just pointing out that you were also making assumptions. And it’s all comments in the same thread, hardly me going to an entirely different post to prove a point.

We will not get the benefits of Generative AI if we don’t 1. deal with the problems that are coming from it, and 2. Stop trying to shoehorn it into everything. And that’s the discussion that’s happening here.

I agree. And while I personally feel like there’s already room for it in some people’s workflow, it is very clearly problematic in many ways. As I had pointed out in my first comment.

I’m not going to even try to justify to you what I said in this post or that one because I honestly don’t think you care.

I do actually! Might be hard to believe, but I reacted the way I did because I felt your first comment was reductive, and intentionally trying to invalidate and derail my comment without actually adding anything to the discussion. That made me angry because I want a discussion. Not because I want to be right, and fuck you for thinking differently.

If you’re willing to talk about your views and opinions, I’d be happy to continue talking. If you’re just going to assume I don’t care, and don’t want to hear what other people think…then just block me and move on. 👍

Nope. It only happens when connected to a mobile device. Tested it on all 3 of my android phones (current daily driver, back up phone, and an S4 that I use as a media player in my car,) my wife’s iPhone X, my Samsung tablet, and my work iPad. The S4 doesn’t have that behaviour, but isn’t really a viable option. The battery is basically only good enough to keep it powered for an hour or two, and doesn’t jive with my cell provider’s SIM it’s also running a Google free ROM… Both my more modern phones, my wife’s, and the tablets have the exact same behaviour. When I got them I had no intention of even installing the app. Wasn’t until I was trying to troubleshoot the audio drop out that I installed it. And through experimenting with permissions and services turned on and off decided to just not use them with my phone.
The settings provided by the B&O app aren’t in userland for android, and as far as I’ve been able to find, can’t be pulled up and implemented without the app.

and here you are, downvoting my valid point

Wasn’t me actually.

valid point

You weren’t really making a point in line with what I was saying.

regardless of whether we view it as a reliable information source, that’s what it is being marketed as and results like this harm both the population using it, and the people who have found good uses for it. And no, I don’t actually agree that it’s good for creative processes as assistance tools and a lot of that has to do with how you view the creative process and how I view it differently. Any other tool at the very least has a known quantity of what went into it and Generative AI does not have that benefit and therefore is problematic.

This is a really valid point, and if you had taken the time to actually write this out in your first comment, instead of “Tell that to the guy that was expecting factual information from a hallucination generator!” I wouldn’t have reacted the way I did. And we’d be having a constructive conversation right now. Instead you made a snide remark, seemingly (personal opinion here, I probably can’t read minds) intending it as an invalidation of what I was saying, and then being smug about my taking offence to you not contributing to the conversation and instead being kind of a dick.

I wasn’t able to use my WiFi ssid in home assistant automations without having location services enabled, for example.

I was recently(6 months ago) gifted a very nice pair of Bang & Olufsen BT headphones. They come with a 3.5mm hardline as well…but since my phone, and basically everyone else’s, no longer has a port for that…🤷
BT connection works amazing with both my laptops and my desktop. Zero issues. To use them with my android phone the B&O connection app has to be open, WiFi on, precise location approved. Because of my settings for precise location data not being available for apps in the background, the B&O app has to be focused. If WiFi is off, and precise location is denied the app refuses to connect to the headphones, despite my actual phone seeing and connecting to it with no issues. I’d just not use the app…but without the app there’s (absolutely intentional) audio drops. I know it’s on purpose because it happens in a pattern. 90 seconds of perfect audio, followed by four 2 seconds cuts 5 seconds apart, then another 90 seconds of perfect audio. So I just don’t use them with my phone. 🖕

🥵🥵🥵💦

Ok? If you read what I said, you’ll see that I’m not talking about using ChatGPT as an information source. I strongly believe that using LLMs as a search tool is incredibly stupid…for exactly reasons like it being so very confident when relaying inaccurate or completely fictional information.
What I was trying to say, and I get that I may not have communicated that very well, was that Generative Machine Learning Algorithms might find a niche as creative process assistant tools. Not as a way to search for publicly available information on your neighbour or boss or partner. Not as a way to search for case law while researching the defence of your client in a lawsuit. And it should never be relied on to give accurate information about what colour the sky is, or the best ways to make a custard using gasoline.

Does that clarify things a bit? Or do you want to carry on using an LLM in a way that has been shown to be unreliable, at best, as some sort of gotcha…when I wasn’t talking about that as a viable use case?

Oh, and it also hallucinates.

This is arguably a feature depending on how you use it. I’m absolutely not an AI acolyte. It’s highly problematic in every step. Resource usage. Training using illegally obtained information. This wouldn’t necessarily be an issue if people who aren’t tech broligarchs weren’t routinely getting their lives destroyed for this, and if the people creating the material being used for training also weren’t being fucked…just capitalism things I guess. Attempts by capitalists to cut workers out of the cost/profit equation.

If you’re using AI to make music, images or video… you’re depending on those hallucinations.
I run a Stable Diffusion model on my laptop. It’s kinda neat. I don’t make things for a profit, and now that I’ve played with it a bit I’ll likely delete it soon. I think there’s room for people to locally host their own models, preferably trained with legally acquired data, to be used as a tool to assist with the creative process. The current monetisation model for AI is fuckin criminal…

Just to note, using a rag as a stopper is not recommended. Using a bottle with a standard stopper, screw cap or swing over latching style cap is ideal. A rag isn’t going to be great for keeping the contents inside the bottle, regardless of how it’s twisted or stuffed into the neck and mouth of the bottle. A more practical method is to have filled bottles, capped and sealed as well as possible, with a dry rag tied around the neck. When ready to deploy, take the bottle, dip/spray/soak the rag with accelerant, light, then throw.

The last thing anyone wants is to throw a napalm Molotov and end up splattering themselves and everyone around them, and between them and the target, with burning napalm…

And that’s pretty much always been the case.

Since you tagged @realitista@lemm.ee I’ll do the same so they see my counter…argument?

In it’s first release(2017) it was 50.3MB.

In Nov, 2024, it was 340MB. Oct, 2024, 327MB

6th Jan, 2024: 266MB
24th Oct, 2023: 229MB
21st Oct, 2023: 180MB
30th Jul, 2023: 214MB
23rd Jun, 2023: 196MB

This is a very active project, things are added constantly, then optimised or tweaked or removed. Going through the releases it looks like their install packages get bigger over the span of a few months, then through optimisation gets shrunk down again. The above numbers are only for the windows full install package, but all their different packages have a very similar pattern of bloat followed by trimming. I don’t see how this is weird at all.

What about this is actually concerning for you?

Yep!

See point #2. Hand written notes can be kept as is, one thing that’s not mentioned in that link is that Joplin can also use OCR to change handwriting to typed.

Joplin has apps for all UNIX-likes(Mac, Win and Lin,) iOS(phone and pad variants), and Android. It can import Evernote and OneNote. It’s built to E2EE notes to cloud services, currently supporting: Joplin Cloud, Nextcloud, S3, WebDAV, Dropbox, OneDrive or the local file system.
If you’d like to fully tell M$ to get fucked…I can recommend self hosting NextCloud.
Not incredibly difficult to set up, I’m fairly fluent in Linux systems…but by no means a “Wizard”, and my self hosting knowledge is extremely minimal.

There’s other options out there, but Joplin has all the apps…

20 years, would have been better if they’d stuck with that instead of cutting it to a one year and a day, with non-custodial supervision for another year…

Usually when the USPS cops get involved The. Hammer. Fuckin. Drops.
Shame to see the sentence reduced…

No worries bud! It really makes me angry what M$ is doing here, obviously they’re not alone in being a cause of our eWaste “addiction”…but this is really a situation that should be opening people’s eyes. Apple is bad for it too. Their laptops have a fairly short lifecycle, and unless you want/can to put Linux on your MacBook whatever, it’s no longer secure after usually about 5 years. Intentionally driving the disposable culture, buy, use briefly, replace for arguably too much, repeat.

Have her try Nobara for a week, but tell her it’s hardly the only option! With how easy it is to include SLK into (almost?) any distro, I really wasn’t kidding when I said the Linux Universe is your oyster! Hell, you could compile your own distro if you’re a masochist!

Would all of the Google spyware be stripped out of Google’s Android distribution?

No. Or, almost certainly no. If they were forced to sell Android, my guess would be that another tech giant, that makes most of their money from data harvesting, would be most likely to buy it. Meaning any spyware would remain, and just be pointed to different servers.

That’s why I sent my kid here! To be radicalised!

… but my kid is a cat…and has no opposable thumbs…and he was already an asshole…wtf am I doing with my life…

clears throat

Surface Linux Kernel. Surface 10 supported.

Some distros of Linux that have SLK rolled in:

Nobara:

• Based on fedora
• Made by GloriousEggroll who also is responsible for protonGE a great derivative of the Steam Proton compatibility layer for playing windows games on Linux
• Development and maintaining it is done by a single dude, so if something happens to him, that’s the project done, this is not in the Pros section.

BlissOS:

• for when you really just want your surface device to be running Android
• immutable distro, makes it easier to undo fuck ups, and often prevents them happening at all
• seems fairly mature and robust, I don’t know for a fact as I haven’t used it

Gentoo Surface:

• for when you want to put a bit more effort in
• the instructions here are from building Gentoo locally using and Arch LiveISO
• FOR WHEN YOU WANT TO PUT MORE EFFORT IN

These were the really easy to find options. There’s absolutely going to be more that have SLK rolled in…but that’s not actually necessary, as the SLK git has easy to follow instructions on rolling it into whatever distro might interest you. The whole Linux universe is your oyster.

I have a Surface Pro 4, and I run Nobara, works great, better than windows. There are some hardware things that don’t 100% work on some surface devices. Here is the Supported device list and Features Matrix. Looks like the SP10 doesn’t like to hibernate, and doesn’t have working cameras atm.

I’m running Stability Matrix. It’s got a maintained package on AUR. It’s been… interesting.

Hooter with Hooters for Hooters:

Lemmy know how you get on 👍