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- Comment on Reproducible alternatives to nextcloud? 6 days ago:
If you want to join developing an alternative, I’m in.
- Comment on Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI 1 week ago:
If I am the tankie you must be lgbtq femboy. There’s nothing wrong with it. We are here for different reasons :D.
Stereotypes aside, aren’t you using one?
- Image processing, (e.g.: Camera enhancement, gimp, rawtherapee are full with AIs)
- sound processing, (noise reduction, etc…)
- text processing
- reasoning models for programming, math
- LLMs for grammar checking / searching when I don’t know the keyword / researching when I’m not interested that much about the topic, but I want multiple sources / getting common knowledge I don’t know yet.
- Recently I tried 3D asset generation. Damn it gave me a perfect character model. But it’s not for work so I’m not gonna pay for it.
- etc…
They are useful.
- Comment on Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI 1 week ago:
These are not deadlines. A task takes what it takes. We only provide an estimation.
- Comment on Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI 1 week ago:
I have heavy problems to solve. Claude Opus could solve it. I could solve it too in 2 days or so on my own, but with Opus it was about half an hour.
I’m not advertising claude, if it gives bullshit response I turn it off instantly.
Another example: In the app I work, there’s a huge list of city integration files. I had a loose set of specifications for a new city, and with claude I could roll out a new prototype in no time. It saved me about a month of work.
It’s expensive and energy hungry for sure.
- Comment on Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI 1 week ago:
It does work for me. I use it and it is helping a lot.
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 1 month ago:
That’s a fair point. However, on the practical side, it’s sad that I would have to root my gf’s phone to let her access the services we host.
I ended up using a DynDNS and Caddy for managing my cert.
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 1 month ago:
I don’t know about iOS, but Android had support for this in the past. Now the support is partial. It’s no longer possible to install system-level certificates. Or at least they made it extremely inconvenient.
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 1 month ago:
Let’s be extra safe. New cert per every request
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 1 month ago:
not all phones support manually adding certs
- Comment on Is lemmy dying? 1 month ago:
You can change the sorting to show the new posts. You can also change the list to show posts from all communities from all federated instances (except from banned ones). I mostly find very recent posts.
- Comment on Apple quietly released this year's BEST laptop 2 months ago:
Downvoting because the title says “best” and I disagree. Apple products have a bunch of drawbacks, I wouldn’t buy them even if the hardware is strong and efficient.
- Comment on last chance to look at me hector 3 months ago:
A mod has just removed it.
- Comment on last chance to look at me hector 3 months ago:
All I can say is that I’m using .ml and I don’t support this.
- Comment on last chance to look at me hector 3 months ago:
Will keep my eyes open. Thanks.
- Comment on last chance to look at me hector 3 months ago:
I have seen socialist posts. And I seriously don’t know what’s your problem with that. Are you a burgoise who want to enslave the working class? In case of this, I can understand your problem. Otherwise, I think you are just uninformed and you have never read Karl Marx.
I’m pro-ukraine btw.
- Comment on last chance to look at me hector 3 months ago:
The guy is a socialist who belives in democracy. Russia and China is a shame on socialism.
- Comment on last chance to look at me hector 3 months ago:
You mean socialist? That does not mean Putin supporter. Do you know any case when someone stated pro-putin or anti-ukraine stance?
- Comment on last chance to look at me hector 3 months ago:
Any explanation?
- Comment on S1ngularity/nx attackers strike again 4 months ago:
This won’t protect your .env files though, right?
Right, but my machine is safe at least.
- Comment on S1ngularity/nx attackers strike again 4 months ago:
You can, for pnpm package cache you need to attach another volume, and another for globally installed packages.
- Comment on S1ngularity/nx attackers strike again 4 months ago:
Keep your secrets:
alias npm="docker run -it --rm -v $(pwd):/app -w /app node:latest npm" - Comment on squeeakrub 4 months ago:
It looks like something from a TOOL music video.
- Comment on How could AI be better than an encyclopedia? 4 months ago:
The concept of understanding implies some form of meta-knowledge about the subject.
That can be solved if you teach it the meta-knowledge with intermediary steps, for example:
prompt: 34*3=
step1: 43 + 303 = step2: 12 + 1033 = step3: 12 + 10*9= step4: 12 + 90 = step5: 100 + 2 = step6: 102
result: 102
It’s hard to find such learning data though, but e.g. claude already uses intermediary steps. It preprocesses your input multiple times. It writes code, runs code to process your input, and that’s still not the final response. Unfortunately, it’s already smarter than some junior developers, and its consequence is worrying.
- Comment on How could AI be better than an encyclopedia? 4 months ago:
But LLMs are not simply probabilistic machines. They are neural nets. For sure, they haven’t seen the world. They didn’t learn the way we learn. What they mean by a caterpillar is just a vector. For humans, that’s a 3D, colorful, soft object with some traits.
You can’t expect that a being that sees chars and produces chars knows what we mean by a caterpillar. Their job is to figure out the next char. But you could expect them to understand some grammar rules. Although, we can’t expect them to explain the grammar.
For another example, I wrote a simple neural net, and with 6 neurons it could learn XOR. I think we can say that it understands XOR. Can’t we? Or would you say then that an XOR gate understands XOR better? I would not use the word understand for something that cannot learn.
- Comment on How could AI be better than an encyclopedia? 4 months ago:
Any explanation? If they can write text, I assume they understand grammar. They are definetly skilled in a way. If you do snowboarding, do you understand snowboarding? The word “understand” can be misleading. That’s why I’m asking what’s understanding?
- Comment on How could AI be better than an encyclopedia? 4 months ago:
What’s understanding? Isn’t understanding just a consequence of neurons communicating with each other? This case LLMs with deep learning can understand things.
- Comment on Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data 5 months ago:
For 3D animations, Modo has linux-x86_64 binary. Blender is native also.
I’ve never been into 2D animations.
For compositing, The Foundry Nuke is native also. (If you’ve got the money, or you’re willing to buy it from seejeepeers)
For video editing, most youtubers use DaVinci Resolve.
Inkscape is slow as it’s using SVG for its backend and not as polished as an illustrator but it is feature-rich. Adwaita icons are designed in inkscape. It’s not a big sacrifice.
I learned photoshop when It was the CS4 version. I know it’s got a lot of AI features since then. Luckily, I left it before I could get used to them, so now I can use gimp. And btw, check gimp’s new release candidate. It’s a huge step forward. Everyone could give them their adobe cc subscription fees and we could see how they compete after that.
Why do you use affinity if you have adobe?
- Comment on Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data 5 months ago:
May I ask what’s your job? I’m a web developer completely fine on Linux.
- Comment on Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data 5 months ago:
figma
- Comment on Funny 5 months ago:
That’s no different from growing up in a straight world. So that’s why it doesn’t have an effect.