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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Ah yes, the classic diff eq exam problem

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's even simpler than that: In the first instance a human learned a thing. In the second instance a bunch of humans wrote software to ingest art and spit out some Frankenstein of it. Software which is specifically designed to replace artists, many of whom likely had art used as inputs to said software without their consent.

In both cases humans did things. The first is normal, the second is shitty.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Sorry, just to be clear, are you equating a human learning to an organization scraping creative works as inputs for their software?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

The OSI doesn't require open access to training data for AI models to be considered "open source", unfortunately. https://opensource.org/ai/open-source-ai-definition

I agree that "open weights" is a more apt description, though

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

uh sure. My point is that sharing weights is analogous to sharing a compiled binary, not source code.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

"Wait, so we have all the technology we need to stop climate change, but we have to sacrifice some profits to do so?

Well, since it's impossible to stop climate change with current technology, I guess we just have to dump chemicals into the atmosphere and hope for the best."

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

The definition of "open source" AI sucks. It could just mean that the generated model weights are shared under an open source license. If you don't have the code used to train the model under an open source license, or you can't fully reproduce the model using the code they share and open source datasets, then calling a model "open source" feels weird as hell to me.

At the same time, I don't know of a single modern model that only used training data that was taken with informed consent from the creators of that data.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Invidious is switching to a new paradigm where the part that talks to YouTube will be split out into it's own service called invidious-companion. While not part of the current release, they have instructions for setting it up, and it's what I'm currently using. The only things that don't work right now are live videos and the Clipious Android TV app (the phone app works fine). If you don't need either of those things, I recommend starting with invidious-companion

https://docs.invidious.io/companion-installation/

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

My self-hosted Invidious instance is still going strong

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

some other resources not yet mentioned:

nixos-hardware

The Nix Way dev templates

stylix

nix-alien

flake-programs-sqlite

some advanced tools that are worth knowing about

Impermanence

nixos-anywhere

disko

things I've set up that are kinda neat:

declarative firefox

declarative email, contact, and calendar syncing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

You don't need an account. Just go to the website and see if it works.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Have you tried going to other instances directly? I haven't had any issues with lemmy.ml it could just be that your instance is having issues.

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Phones suck (blog.jevans.bio)
 

Ramblings about degoogle-ing, and going further for the fun of it.

 

I just wanted to shout out TRMNL.

They have an interesting product, and they're trying to build a business that includes a lot of open source aspects.

The device that they sell is proprietary, but it's also just an ESP32, screen, enclosure, and battery, with a custom PCB for convenience. They plan to add instructions to build your own device, and their firmware is open source under a GPLv3 license.

By default, their device connects to their servers, and they have a slick web configuration tool for people who don't care about having smart devices call home, but you can easily modify the firmware to connect to your own self-hosted server instead. As of this evening, both the Phoenix and Sinatra server implementations are open source under an MIT license after I pointed out that they had no license in an issue, and they pretty much immediately updated the repositories.

There are two other repositories that they have not added a license to, but given their swift response, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt, and I would expect them to be updated shortly.

They have not shared all of the plugins that are available on their hosted service for use on a self-hosted instance, but a few are available for use and there are many plugins made by others available as well!

As soon as they update those last two repositories, I plan to pre-order one (unlike the conceptually cool VU Dials who's creators still have not added a license even after being called out by the co-creator of Rocky Linux).

 

The way he just blew off the 50/50 split criticism was pretty gross. Basing it off of Youtube's bad-relative-to-the-rest-of-the-market 45/55 split, and then making it worse is not great, especially when coming from someone who makes YouTube content for a living.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/6372946

A few friends asked for me to walk through how I set up the dashboard I have in my kitchen, so I figured I'd share it here, too. Here is a barebones walkthrough with config files.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

A few friends asked for me to walk through how I set up the dashboard I have in my kitchen, so I figured I'd share it here, too. Here is a barebones walkthrough with config files.

 

The violations they are trying to mitigate via enforcement are symptoms of non-existent safe bike infrastructure and insufficient bike parking. There are no plans in the immediate future to solve either issue.

 
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