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The project idea looks really cool and genuinely solves a problem (though I would’ve preferred a Nextcloud sync and improved extractors for NewPipe & Freetube), however the amount of generated code and permissive policy (allowing to just have complete implementations generated) scares me off. It sounds like there are huge amounts of code no human ever looked at.

For their interactive mapview in the control room they probably do.

takes down 112 / 911 services

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They took just a few hours to squeeze out a new ca-certificates. On the other hand the last time there was a huge kernel bug it took well over 24 hours…

Not for complex tasks, really. Gemma4b or similar might be just enough as the backend for a voice assistant replacing Alexa (which I honestly hope, I need to get family members off of that fucking spy devices…). Small web searches might just fit. Or image recognition for Nextcloud Memories, stuff like that.

I noticed that there are sometimes huge differences between models and providers. ChatGPT, which most people use, is a useless sycophant because it’s made to value user satisfaction higher than factual correctness (so it makes shit up und basically never pushes back if you challenge it). When using Mistral AI I had the AI tell me outright that I’m wrong (though it still generated very friendly text to do so, and it only properly does it when in “thinking” mode). No clue how Anthropic or Google do in this regard, just that ChatGPT is especially awful. In the end all models are risky.

Wasn’t this caused by difference in layer print time, giving the lower layer more or less time to cool down causing a slightly different finish and therefore perceived colour hue? I think I read about this once.

They fumbled the INDX release, that’s true. Probably betted on it, ran short on time and released it too early.

The U1 is great indeed, got one myself. :)

They cost a fraction due to Bambu being propped up by Venture Capitalists and the usual bad-faith attempts at dominating the market, trying to undercut competitors. Look at how Uber did it for cabs in the US, nobody wants that shit happening. The moment you let them they’d jack up the prices, introduce subscription nonsense and whatnot. They already fuck over customers for christ sake, buying something you know will fuck you over just to save a few bucks is madness.

I genuinely don’t know what the hell you’re talking about regarding underwhelming performance either. We got Prusa’s in our hackspace, they’re great reliable pieces of hardware that you can trust and last for many years even with upgrade paths available. Other than Bambu.

My god, I sound like a Prusa chill… but I’m pissed how people can seriously still recommend Bambu. How much shit does a company have to do so the majority finally stops looking only on the price tag?

Now go check Bambu ignoring their printers catching fire.

Any 3D printer can (or rather will) eventually require manual intervention and maintenance, companies trying to sell you otherwise are liars or design garbage not meant to work longer than 2-3 years at all. Sure some people get lucky and don’t have to do anything in the first two years, meanwhile others run into something immediately. That’s just how it is.

But other than with a bloody Bambu, on a Prusa you CAN fix basically everything and there are actual manuals how to do so. Bambus meanwhile are not built to be taken apart and full of proprietary parts, aside from specific things that’d fail way too often.

To say Prusas require “a lot” of fiddling compared to Bambu is just a load of bullshit. They’re just not marketing the printers as aggressively and are open about how to do stuff, making it look differently.

Under no circumstance should you buy a Bambu Lab, that company is god damn awful. They literally refused to admit one of their printer series’ (A1) being a fire hazard. Also actively locking people into their ecosystem, breaking workflows in the process.

Snapmaker U1 (cheap but good) or a modern Prusa (high quality and longevity) are good picks.

Nonsense.

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especially from businesses

if they want businesses to subscribe

styled to attract the decision makers in their target market

Do that, and it becomes a serious contender in the market

The market who’s responsible for fucking up the internet? The market that constantly attacks websites with crawlers to steal everything for value extraction, which Anubis fights against? The market that couldn’t care less about you unless you provide value to it, and even then won’t give you a penny unless forced (while building the whole internet on your shoulders)? That market?

Most FOSS devs I know who aren’t forced into it couldn’t give less of a fart about “the market” and capitalists with sticks in their rear ends inside it. The monetization was often just attached to a project because it makes sense given we’re all trapped in capitalism and perhaps have to somehow cover project costs (probably less so for Anubis), not because it’s a goal to attract investment.

People who’re appaled by something so simple such as a .lol domain and a cute mascot sound awful to talk to anyway.

It is a big problem with a number of opensource projects that could get wider adoption and support

I tell you how that “support” looks like. Companies who adopted the software will add your maintainer Email to their business contacts. If there are issues with your software they’ll then usually ignore the developer route and directly write emails to you, and if it’s a big problem for them immediately blame you and threaten legal action, blahblahblah. They’ll treat you like someone they have a support contract with and be completely confused when you tell them to open an issue and that you otherwise don’t care. Meanwhile they’ll build an empire using your software and be a persistent nuisance.

Why should anyone care about this.

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Assuming you already cleaned with soap, checked Z-height, perhaps tried a different adhesive (I can stringly recommend 3DLac spray) etc:

Check if there are beds for PA for your printer. I think Prusa had a specially coated one specifically to fix this issue, perhaps there’s also one for yours. Nylon just hates to stick except to itself.

Weird how shit like this always is an issue in the USA and basically nowhere else. Must be the lack of freedom or sth., we’re just too suppressed in commie Europe to have these issues, can’t even buy 9mm rounds in the supermarket. Shame.

• Check Z-axis
• Use Brim
• Use 3DLac adhesive spray for the corners

Especially the spray is 100% worth its cost (also a must if you print e.g. ABS/ASA).

Did you? The pictures and graphics are all AI so I’m extremely unsure how trustworthy the text is.

If this project is closely based on Calibre it requires the [AIP] prefix.

There are parental controls, but it’s rare. FOSS projects usually aren’t very keen on building systems of authority, even parental ones.

For smartphones check out /e/OS (Murena Smartphones). They added parental controls recently, not sure how good those are though.

For computers your best bet’s probably a Linux with Gnome. They also added something recently.

You might be able to combine both with a custom DNS service, surely there’s something out there for that usecase. But that’s already getting pretty complex.

Mullvad’s CEO finances fascists, please don’t.

I mean, they “plan” to publish that info, right?

I’d bet they used at least CommonCrawl (with it being the majority of data), arXiv, Wikipedia and the set containing all of Github. Probably not a lot of distillation.

CommonCrawl is one of the reasons small websites and social instances get DDoS’ed by rules-ignoring AI crawlers. Wikipedia data basically always gets used without paying them. Github… well, it’s a prime example of how they broke millions of licenses.

There’s also other stuff commonly used. Don’t get me started on the training sets for image generation. It’s beyond disgusting (and I’m not even talking just about theft and cultural destruction at this point).

This stuff is a bottomless pit, and if those (F)OSS models really aim to be up at the top they’ll have to break every possible moral, ethical and legal rule just like everyone else. Even more so if they omit closed-source training sets.

My question would be if it uses stuff like CommonCrawl as training material. Given their size I assume they used anything incl. unethical training data, but at least admit it?

The only models I ever found that even tried to only resort to ethically obtained data, being FOSS etc. were the tiny ones from PleIAs. And as expected they’re completely useless.

So far I concluded that an “ideologically sound” LLM is impossible due to lack of training data. Unless your ideology allows to steal stuff.

Please make sure to look up the company quite a bit, including their Play Store App reviews. If I remember correctly the support and software from xTool was horrendous.

Not just that, companies are using “smart” devices as AI scraper botnets to utilize private, basically unbanable IPs. There are only very few companies who I might believe them not doing it (AllenAI and maybe Mistral - tell me if I’m proven wrong pls). But OpenAI, Anthropic, fucking Google and Meta, they all treat your network as their personal internet extension. It’s reasonable to assume any “Smart” device with wifi access that isn’t FOSS most likely being your enemy.

Our family Nextcloud already got taken down by OpenAI swarming it… overloaded and crashed php-fpm within a minute. At least one client blasting all endpoints still advertised themselves as OpenAI crawler.

Why does this remind me of the common argument made against democracy and for e.g. China… “it moves fast, less resistance, faster results”…

And yet it’s still worse.

The whole argument doesn’t hold up either. Your company - or the people behind it, if it’s new - just can’t be known as the usual profit-driven asshole. I mean, look at how the relations between the Community and Valve is. Nobody would argue Valve being perfect, but they’re known not to be the usual assholes and thereby cautiously welcome.

If you or your company can’t deal with society being vigilant (especially in capitalism) then they’ve no place in said society. This vigilance is the only reason Linux still feels made for the user(advanced ones, but still). Fuck anyone who wants to destroy that with means of accelerationism and alike.

DHH and Omarchy are just cultural cancer. What you correctly described is basically one aspect of how unfettered capitalism manipulates people and destroys healthy communities for the sake of growth.

Why is there are bloody GPU generating garbage in my human space. :<

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And the previous commenter mentioned ownCloud, I just wanted to point out that feature isn’t unique to that. I wasn’t talking to OP.

For example, it has file versioning, and companion apps on major OSs that help with managing local and cloud stored files.

Nextcloud also got both.

Printers for businesses and complex materials still are. Look at the Prusa Pro SLX or Pro AFS (which, to be fair, is a scalable automated print farm).