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√𝛂𝛋𝛆 @piefed.world 2w ago

I never said a single fucking thing about why anyone transitions or even on a related topic of conversation. Fuckwits do not read anything but have an opinion. I have a two and a half year history of exactly the opposite. Standing up for diversity and being as supportive as possible both as a person and in mod actions. One will not find anything but support in everything in my history here. Populist stupidity is insane here.

2w ago

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√𝛂𝛋𝛆 @piefed.world 2w ago

Not at all, but fuck this place. The depth of abstractive thought and engagement here is pathetic

2w ago

If a person assassinates a king or queen its called Regicide. What is the killing of a leader/president/head of state etc? Why is it called that way?

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√𝛂𝛋𝛆 @piefed.world 2w ago

The name regicide has had millennia to develop, while I think it is likely that this novel method of obfuscating the succession crisis has not had similar time or cause for neologization.

3w ago

I mean, yeah

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√𝛂𝛋𝛆 @piefed.world 3w ago

Never worn one. I'm on Fedora 43 if it makes you feel better.

3w ago

Anyone feeling like this sometimes?

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√𝛂𝛋𝛆 @piefed.world 3w ago

Yup... but because it is real sometimes for some of us.

3w ago

Support Fediverse Thought Police

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3w ago

Similar stuff exists everywhere. India has some of the worst I have seen, but there are places in the USA that are no better. Some Native American reservations are on par, as are parts of the most rural and poorest states.

3w ago

I mean, yeah

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√𝛂𝛋𝛆 @piefed.world 3w ago

That is a lot of toxicity for nothing of any value whatsoever.

3w ago

I mean, yeah

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√𝛂𝛋𝛆 @piefed.world 3w ago

It is an easily mistaken context dear neighbor, if one were to project my abstraction into some emotional space, but I assure you the assumption is patently false. For when I say such a society it is an abstraction against my perception, and principally grounded in the post about the man that died on an airplane. I am calling out the chasm of how the morals and ethics extrapolate, and conjuring a picture that illustrates my point. I lead off that illustration by clearly stating that my perspective is ungrounded and that it is impossible to do so from such a simple scope of a time and place. However, I'm also conjuring a circumstance that should garner empathy to counter other sentiments I see as grossly immoral.

Further, one should duly note that In have clearly stated I care about anyone and everyone, which obviously includes the wonderful people of India. I do not accept any assertion that some lives are merely acceptable collateral damage due to the population density or narcissistic adolescent halfwits that fail to project themselves onto the lives of others with empathy.

So it is quite the opposite of what you imagined. My indignation is against those that accept these poor people as worthless, if that happened to be the case, and the image was plain and straightforward. It does not matter whether my assumptions are correct in the trauma I felt when seeing that image. The moral and ethical implications of the abstraction extrapolate to the situation on the plane. If one dead body is irrelevant, than six are equally the same, and the end result is a complete breakdown of civilization into barbarism. That it is grounded in a kernel of reality, lends the illustrative tool the teeth needed to make the principal stick, however it is only an abstraction.

3w ago

Looking for photo organization software

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√𝛂𝛋𝛆 @piefed.world 3w ago

Something like, An image consisting of two men and three children, formally dressed, indoors, they appear to be at an event such as a wedding reception. There is a cake in the background and people dancing. There is a banner in the image that says "Congratulations Tom and Jerry".

3w ago

Where do you think we'd be in the current AI craze if the pandemic never happened?

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√𝛂𝛋𝛆 @piefed.world 3w ago

Most of the major developments that lead to the public stuff happened between 2017-2021. Transformers was the big one that made scaling a thing. Altman pushed in a stupid direction that caused a lot of the nonsense, like turning the name "Open AI" into an oxymoron.

There are some aspects of alignment that point at political corruption and planning with nefarious intent that fits in with the present political bullshit too, but that is very complicated to explain in any depth. If you were to search the token vocabulary, you will find dubious elements are present in compound multi word tokens that disproportionately represent a single political camp, likewise with religious media, and science denialism. Much of that stuff dates from 2019 or before.

3w ago

Looking for photo organization software

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√𝛂𝛋𝛆 @piefed.world 3w ago

Scripting and the command line is an option. It may seem a bit daunting at first but can be a lot faster. Doing AI training stuff I tried brute forcing for awhile but it is just too tedious. A model like a Qwen 3 can be instructed to act like a photo captioning model. It is quite good at optical text recognition in images too.

You can script it to caption the whole image or any number of elements like color, location, subjects, etc., while also limiting the length of text. Then modify the image metadata with the text. It is also possible to feed it a set of json keys and it will fill in the values for the dictionary.

If you go this route, then you start using tools like ripgrep and it becomes possible to find and manipulate many thousands of images quickly to find niche sets in the tens to hundreds in just a single scripted command. You can do stuff like grep -ril foo | xargs | sed 's/foo/bar/' or something like that. Not at my comp right now to pull up the command flags, but that is how to search and edit to change all instances of words in a bunch of files. That one is technically incorrect but it makes far more intuitive sense than alternatives.

Something like Qwen requires enthusiast level hardware, or if you have to, a free google colab instance. If you search for captioning models there are much smaller ones like the ancient BLIP that are less accurate but fast and run on anything. Anyways, I know this reply is not exactly what you wanted, but it is an option, and one I thought was beyond me until I tried it. Hopefully it is useful digital neighbor.

3w ago

I mean, yeah

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√𝛂𝛋𝛆 @piefed.world 3w ago

Skimming 4chan random a couple of months ago, there was a post on the worst of India. One picture was of a train route with a few tracks and a half dozen people strewn dead across the ground. It was impossible to tell the circumstances, but they were clearly dead and broken. No one cared. All the surroundings were business as usually and no one was responding or concerned. By the way things looked, some had been there for awhile.

Nope. Fuck that. I want nothing to do with such a pathetic amoral society. I will gladly miss my connection out of respect for life, anyone's, everyone's. I care about you digital neighbor reading this now. My slight inconvenience is not worth more than your life.

It is probably very difficult to transport a dead person post mortem, and lessening that journey for your family is important too.

3w ago

Is there any software that can use it that benefits average user or is it just a waste of silicon???

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√𝛂𝛋𝛆 @piefed.world 3w ago

You need a model compiled for the architecture. I saw some for the RK35xx devices when shopping for hardware. I do not think there is software made to split up or run models in general on a NPU. The models must be configured for the physical hardware topology. The stuff that runs on most devices is very small, and these either need a ton of custom fine tuning or they are barely capable of simple tasks.

On the other hand, segmentation models are small, and that makes layers, object identification, and background removal stuff work. Looking at your CPU speed, and available memory, it is unlikely to make much difference. You are also memory constrained for running models, though you could use deepspeed to load from a disk drive too.

3w ago

We can't even pump fuel anymore without holding a digital billboard (Netherlands)

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√𝛂𝛋𝛆 @piefed.world 3w ago

Yup, but it stays shut off until the next person pays or uses the button. It is just a microswitch on a flap.

3w ago

Pick one

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√𝛂𝛋𝛆 @piefed.world 3w ago

4 giving off a Bevis and Butt-head vibe

3w ago

We can't even pump fuel anymore without holding a digital billboard (Netherlands)

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√𝛂𝛋𝛆 @piefed.world 3w ago

Leave the thing on the ground so the next car kills it properly. Nonconsensual ads are digital rape. It is the same moral scope as buying and selling a person's digital presence to manipulate and exploit them is digital slavery.

Any company with an advertising budget for spamming and wasting my time is clearly indicating that their competition has a product with better value and reputation. Ads are public service announcements of what to never purchase.

I will not watch ads for anything at all. My time is not subject to that nonsense. I'll go read or do other things.

3w ago

How did "ancient humans" got the idea to pierce their ears/body ?

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√𝛂𝛋𝛆 @piefed.world 3w ago

Life was way way more dangerous.

Most likely, people were sadistic, but also accidents happen. You just happen to get hurt in some way, make the best of it, and someone wants to copy it. The sadistic part is likely branding and slavery. Marking people so they cannot escape without getting caught.

3w ago

Totally

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√𝛂𝛋𝛆 @piefed.world 3w ago

Greek culture lacked any binary distinction.

I'm no expert on the subject, but reading Plato's dialogues lately, the Athenians of the era just before Alexander had no preclusive prejudice for gendered relations. That said, the human demographic in Plato's dialogues is very much biased towards the upper class of society, and I believe that has always slanted towards social exception through hierarchy, with a special place for the rogue aberrant who strings the bow of dogma at the edge of the tribe.

3w ago

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√𝛂𝛋𝛆 @piefed.world 3w ago

I wanted to hotrod and play with cars. One silly magazine I read had an article about how automotive paint was a dark art few ventured into. So I started with that in my teens. I did about everything one can do with cars. I worked with heavy equipment for awhile just to get a bunch of welding experience, then went back to painting cars but doing bigger jobs and repairs. Eventually I did not like the state I was in so I started cycling to hotrod me. The cars started fighting back as more and more of me was lost without need to carry me around. One day commuting to work, two scrappy SUVs teamed up against me on a bike. I killed them both, but the broke my neck and back. I guess I wish I had not read that article... I have never really thought of work as a means to an end per say. I cannot imagine staying motivated by that. I am not the type to go along with bullshit or do what I'm told. Give me a responsibility and I'll do a far better job than anyone else and eventually I'll become the back office manager the owner trusts completely. I hate managing people. No task is beneath me. I do not care about narcissistic nonsense from myself or anyone else. I do what needs to be done and others are welcome to do the same around me. Those that do not are none of my concern. I am the employee I wished I could find when I ran my own business... or at least I was. Now, I am a shell of my former self, with 8 of my 9 cat lives spent.