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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perplexity open sources R1 1776, a version of the DeepSeek R1 model that CEO Aravind Srinivas says has been “post-trained to remove the China censorship”.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Listen, I’m highly critical of the CCP, but LLMs aren’t facts machines, they are make text like what they are trained on machines.

  They have no grasp of truth, and we can only get some sense of truth of what the average collective text response of its dataset (at best!).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perplexity open sources R1 1776, a version of the DeepSeek R1 model that CEO Aravind Srinivas says has been “post-trained to remove the China censorship”.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s really an extension of “Would some really do that? Just lie on the Internet?” But now “Would AI, which is built to create content like what people post on the Internet, really just lie?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zuckerberg's rightward policy shift hits Meta staffers, targets Apple⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “You got to go and join the union. No one else can do it for you.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First Trump DOJ Assembled “Tiger Team” To Rewrite Key Law Protecting Online Speech.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For facist expectations are the point

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palmer Luckey says he wants to 'turn warfighters into technomancers' as Anduril takes over production of the US Army's IVAS AR headset from Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there are particular GreenPak device hobbiest can use? They look interesting personally

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly the micro inverter on a small circuit level seems like an interesting middle to me. So I can have the ac outlets here and there, but just for non DC appliances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Reducing the money spent on DC-AC conversion is my main thoughts. If my power generated is all DC, my battery storage is all DC, my servers are DC, my lights, and water pumps can be DC, my car is DC, then switching from AC to just switch back to DC 20-40 feet just doesn’t make sense to me.

  I would like to actually find a better formula then the napkin math I’ve done to say when it does and doesn’t have benefit.

  Really want to get my hands on a Open compute Rack for my next server build and have the UPS and power rail be all 48v too (as per spec). Again why have another component to possibly fail and use power if I don’t need it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Baked in would be nicer. It would kind of cool for any landing page just kind of working to get you into the threadiverse. If I keep going to nomoreuserlemmy.org (or whatever fake one you want) it just redirects on the backend for me when I log in to an instance that actually works for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  PD’s default comms voltage is 5v at the moment too.

  I’m for moving up the default voltage, but that is naive take for me. It just sounds right I have no idea the actual pros and cons on that low of level if that messes with components and what insulations to expect etc

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palmer Luckey says he wants to 'turn warfighters into technomancers' as Anduril takes over production of the US Army's IVAS AR headset from Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Because you could design all of those feature in analog, and make custom boards for every change or have one board you update every few years based on supply, cost, and maybe power performance, but make and adjust features on a minute by minute basis if want to.

  The driver, power source, etc can all be more easily separated from the logic too. It could be tiny, or massive. Same software, same controller.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally, a remnant of that. Being able to use standard lead acid batteries is a perk, but primarily I find that that voltage range of < 20-50>vdc in terms of equipment is in those 12v increments too. With the powedelivery (PD) extended power range (epr) going up to 48v right now, and the fixed voltages in that spec being multiples of 12 again matching the industry it is now.

  With adjustable voltage supplies (AVS) it might matter less (because it can increment in 100mv instead of a couple fixed voltages) but I haven’t messed with that yet myself

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I am a big grid fan too. The hope that HVDC ca,n mean longer time with solar on the grid, and more averaged wind power.

  Smarter grid ties is definitely something that I would like to see as well, including battery usage. The infrastructurea though isn’t just a potential reduction in wattage needed to be supported in the last mile, but not needing infrastructure at all dedicated to a power plant. Again pro renewables, solar, wind, hydro. Wind and hydro benefit from scale quite a bit, and I don’t think roof top solar alone will cover industrial power usage, so I expect we will have some grid scale plants, but in addition to microgeneration.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Audiblez v4.0 is out: Generate Audiobooks from Ebooks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Dang I wish did more with the Mimic3 project. They have SSML support which just seems like an awesome way to address the mono voice issue in tts for books to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gulf of Make a Report to Apple⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Actual book burning is the scientific data and articles being purged and saved (for now) by the Internet archive

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Calendar removes Pride Month and Black History Month⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Can they even argue they following washed version of “do the right thing”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Calendar removes Pride Month and Black History Month⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Now these closed meetings happen at MaraLargo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. I maybe a radical DC home evangelist but yeah AC has its place still and it being THE standard for home appliances is a good example of the powers of scale.

  So far for my home usage I’m standardizing on 48vdc because that is the last multiple of 12 before you go above OSHAs low voltage regs.

  From there I really want to standardize further on the power delivery spec, because I just love the idea of smart grid for my home. I can then have dispered batteries in my home for either the primary benefits of that device is portable but doesn’t always need to be (laptop, power tool batteries, little robot thing, car, etc) or as a way to reduce some crazy limited time power draw (like servers starting up, oven running for an hour a day, etc).

  From there maybe just Microadapter for a few standard circuits so the outlets work the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Both.

  The reduction of infrastructure and leveraging existing buildings without reducing their existing utility vs converting a new space to be a dedicated power plant plus the infrastructure to move power from less populus (normal case because the cost of populus land is high due to demand) to more populus space.

  I also idealogically support it because it makes more controllable by people and less controlled by an outside entity (a corporation/state).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Transformers, power lines, roads, trucks, and maintenance teams to move from large scale plants to houses also doesn’t grow on trees, but if maintenance in remote places doesn’t happen it can burn a lot of them.

  Sometimes large scale plants make sense, but as the back up too microgeneration where the costs of infrastructure to move from unpopulated to populus areas make sense.

  I am also a fan of less inverted power in microgeneration though. More and more of power usage is DC anyways. The need to convert to AC as much IMHO, but that is my far more radical take

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Microgeneration makes way more sense to me. If you generate the power where it is used without pollution, we should. The unfortunate piece is we have to many landlords who’s interest are too divorced from their tenets to put up more microgeneration

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hear me out, a Fediverse client that mimics Nintendo's Miiverse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thirdroom vr / avatar space plus Fediverse mail?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PieFed, a FOSS Feed Aggregator alternative to Lemmy, but faster⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Finally! That is a great feature!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Ouest-France' becomes first French newspaper to stop posting on X⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, for big orgs like that I feel like a federating their website just makes sense to me.

  That way they can host the content (resilience to censor ship) and can still natively share it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably - Scientific Reports⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbh that just doesn’t seem right to me. Like the sunsets has beauty to me without being made. I watch shows and may never know the artist or hear a poetic phrase completely divorced from its context that has a profound meaning to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably - Scientific Reports⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Does any poetry have any value without knowing the person that made it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The trick to Dragon Age's lore is that the lore is lying, says original "uber-plot" writer David Gaider⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I honestly do love the aspect of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From September to October Peertube’s MAU grew exponentially from 21.7k to 33.4k⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbh I go back to peertube any time I hit a performance issue. Which is more often then you would think, but I think it’s because I’m a Firefox user with adblock.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From September to October Peertube’s MAU grew exponentially from 21.7k to 33.4k⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For real the upload date is super needed in tech data because stuff gets updating so much

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coming on Lemmy and complaining because there are too many Linux users is like going in to a brothel and complaining that there are too many hookers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No doubt. The gap between designers and non technical users is a collaborative space that doesn’t seem to me meet by foss but does seem meet by companies like Adobe using the massive amount of feedback sources and teams of designer does meet.

  I, a “technical” user, find FOSS UX way better to me, but I can read and underatand issues on git, make merge requests, and even read some code to grasp how something should be working. That UX for shaping the actual program UX doesn’t work for the “non-technical” crowd.

  Sorry if I’m just ranting now lol, it’s just something I keep trying to iterate when these issues pop up, hoping something comes up with a good solution.

  So far it’s education (grow the technical user base and bam better UX for FOSS!), commercial support and have support feedback for users, and maybe adaptive UXs using some kind ml feedback mechanism.

  Honestly though we are doing the former and money is the limit to success (why pay for free? Is a hard sell for a product that isn’t quite what someone wants yet).

  The latter I just haven’t seen a clean enough setup to start hacking with myself, and honestly means getting the metric collection for a lot of FOSS apps squared up first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coming on Lemmy and complaining because there are too many Linux users is like going in to a brothel and complaining that there are too many hookers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are frenemies in the some markets for sure. But no “the marketplace” is a collaborative thing, corporations are collaborative ventures, etc

  Almost every human experience is marked by systems of collaboration, even if competition is also allowed within that system.

  Also agreed, and again fuck Adobe.