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pemptago

@ pemptago @lemmy.ml

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  • On the Luddites

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  • based on nothing.

    Your first comment took a detour to follow a valid post with confirmation bias-led ad hominem. I think it was a safe assumption based on your defensiveness, but keep those blinders up.

    I often speak positively of specific ML and ai algorithms in this community, and I suspect the only downvotes I get are from ai fanboys who don't like hearing their favorite chatbot is a grift led by billionaires.

    There’s no room for rational discussion about AI on Lemmy.

    Seems to contradict your first comment, but sure, we're the irrational ones. We must be if we don't like ai /s

  • On the Luddites

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  • Do you have something to add, or do you just want to take a cheap shot at people who are critical of a thing you like?

    Most people here have a better understanding of ai than ai consumers i know. I find this community to be anti ai, as big tech hype/marketing brand, not anti ai as a branch of programming that includes ML and efficient, well-scoped models.

  • What is your most useful Linux app which others might not know about (please don't just give the name but a link and why it is good for you) ?

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  • Thanks for the rec! The anonymous branches and working-copy-as-commit subsuming git stashes is intriguing. I'll give it a closer look when I have a chance.

  • What is your most useful Linux app which others might not know about (please don't just give the name but a link and why it is good for you) ?

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  • Great topic. I'm going to have to investigate some of these suggestions later.

    Since my first pick, helix, was already mentioned here and i commented on it, I'll add gitui. Git can be very overwhelming for me. Gitui arranges frequently used git commands in a sensible, visual layout and makes it easy for me to understand and interact with git.

  • What is your most useful Linux app which others might not know about (please don't just give the name but a link and why it is good for you) ?

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  • +1 for helix. I was new to linux and TUI editors. The vim tutor was a good intro to the concept of modal editors, but needed lsp and syntax highlighting. At the time I struggled a lot with configs, so neovim was out. Helix is just a fantastic, batteries included experience. Approachable for beginners, but feature rich for novices.

    Edit: typo, grammer

  • Most used encrypted messenger besides Signal, Whatsapp, iMessage, and RCS?

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  • Thanks for the info! All good points. I'll keep snikket bookmarked for when I'm more competent in my server/self-hosting abilities and revisit how I chat.

  • Mango... Santa Maria!

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  • Few things that make my blood boil like Trump saying "J-6 hostages."

  • Most used encrypted messenger besides Signal, Whatsapp, iMessage, and RCS?

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  • Understood. Thank you. It'd been some time since I've scrutinized Signal. It was a set-it and forget-it type situation.

  • Most used encrypted messenger besides Signal, Whatsapp, iMessage, and RCS?

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  • Out of curiosity, what's wrong with signal?

  • Frighting

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  • Funny. I was thinking the ai post leaned towards Don Hertzfeldt's style, then saw the "original" and it look even more like Hertzfeldt (see hands), which means ai even manages to fuck up stick-figure fingers!

    Edit: btw, good eye/attention to detail!

  • PBS News interview with Karen Hao, Author of Empire of AI

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  • I appreciated her closing response and the distinction made between over-hyped LLMs and specific ML models.

    AI is such an interesting word because it's sort of like the word transportation and that you have bicycles, you have gas guzzling trucks, you have rocket ships, they're all forms of transportation, but they all serve different purposes and they have different cost benefit trade-offs.

    And to me the quest to artificial general intelligence has the worst trade-offs because you are trying to build fundamentally an everything machine, but ultimately it can't actually do all of the things. So not only do you confuse the public about what you can actually do with these technologies, which leads to harm because then people start asking it for things like medical information and instead getting medical misinformation back.

    But also it requires all of these things that I described, the colossal resource consumption, the colossal labor exploitation. But there are many, many different types of AI technologies that I think are hugely beneficial. And this is task specific models that are meant to target solving a specific well scoped challenge, something like integrating renewable energy into the grid, weather prediction, drug discovery, health care, where you identify cancer earlier on in an MRI scan.

    These are all very task specific. It's very clear what the use case is. It's — you can curate very, very small data sets, train them on very, very small computers. And I think if we want broad based benefit from AI, we need broad based distribution of these types of AI technologies across all different industries.

  • Soon

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  • The library

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  • Unfortunately they seem to make products better until they reach saturation, then they split into tiers, raise prices (and/or lower offerings - looking at you Max) and start introducing ads into paid tiers.

  • North Carolina parents are charged with involuntary manslaughter after their son, 7, is killed a car accident while walking home, driver that murdered a child gets no charges

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  • I'm curious what the speed limit of the road was. It blows my mind how fast we let cars drive in residential areas. The fact that these kids can't walk 2 blocks safety between the grocery store and home-- or put another way, that if they don't use the crosswalk between home and the grocery store, there's a serious risk of death-- is such a failure of city planning and societal values.

    Neither article mentions how far it would be had they used the crosswalk, but I'd guess, with a 4 lane road, for two kids it was really out of the way.

    How heartbreaking. 7 years old. As a parent you can't say, "yeah, you can walk two blocks home,"? Land of the free, but no autonomy for people without a car.

  • Recent commits suggest Signal is preparing a paid subscription for backups.

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  • I was actually unaware of those features and thinking of an over engineered solution. Good lookin out!

  • Recent commits suggest Signal is preparing a paid subscription for backups.

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  • Agreed. Would be great if we could save old backups on a server and search it from a client, instead of the current option of keeping everything in one local backup. The latter is a real problem after a while if you have contacts that like sending videos.

  • File collecting program?

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  • Is a server a requirement? I haven't tried myself but localsend (p2p) comes to mind.

  • Recent commits suggest Signal is preparing a paid subscription for backups.

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  • Signal backups are an issue. They keep growing. I need to look into a solution sooner or later that isn't just buying a phone with more space. I'd like to find ways to reduce the size and keep managing the backups myself, but that's gonna take time. If they offer a secure, private, and affordable service, I'd prolly just redirect my donations to that.

  • Proprietary vs Open Source Backdoors

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  • Also, many proprietary softwares rely on open source libraries. So unless they catch, patch, and do not contribute those fixes, proprietary will be at least as vulnerable as the oss they depend on.