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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s Grok AI Has a Problem: It’s Too Accurate for Conservatives⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a real world issue. AIs training on each other’s output and devolving because of it. There will be a point when vendors infringing on user content and training their AIs with it will leave them worse off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s Grok AI Has a Problem: It’s Too Accurate for Conservatives⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s easy to train a model to do exactly what you want and have the seeming “personality” that you want. It’s just incredibly expensive. You need to vet and filter everything that you use to train the model. That’s a lot of person hours, days, years. The only reason the models act the way they do is because of the data that went in to train them. If you try and fit the model after the fact, it will always be imperfect and more or less easy to break out of those restrictions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reminder if you're leaving Discord for this Revolt server ( Linux + Steam Deck devs / creators)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, revolt self hosting is broken. The web call functionality (WebRTC) is being rewritten but that effort is stale and out of the box it simply does not work. There is no real documentation about this either. It just won’t work and you need to invest a lot of effort to figure out why. The moment self hosting properly works, I’ll give it another shot. Not being able to connect without a fat client is a show stopper for me. There’s no way I can get enough traction for my groups if the barrier to switch is higher than a sheet of paper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t shoot the messenger. The regulations are pretty draconic. I have to ensure the training for that every year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Seemingly one of the contributors has visited a disputed region and logged into GitHub from there. By law (export controls) Microsoft must not provide service to that place. So some automatism flagged the account and also the organic maps repo. So far so normal. But either Microsoft dragged it’s feet in communicating and resolving the issue or the organic maps team was not doing their part in the process. Doesn’t matter, the outcome is still worth it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can not over express how happy I am with having setup my NAS from scratch.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what containers are for. Fucking up the container won’t fuck up the host. That was the best decision in self hosting I’ve done. Even that one virtual machine feels weird and uncomfortably legacy now but it needs to interact with hardware in a certain way that just won’t fully work with docker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨.tar.xz⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fascinating. That’s much more than I expected from the theory. Thanks for taking the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨.tar.xz⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The image doesn’t look like a photo. The meme is about porn. Digital images can contain large areas of repeating patterns (uniform color areas for example) that can be compressed losslessly pretty well. Even slight noise from an image sensor can block that kind of compression pretty well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨.tar.xz⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re right. png can be lossy but that’s uncommon in the wild.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨.tar.xz⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  bmp should not compress more than other media files. jpeg, png, etc. can compress so much because they are lossy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨critical latex mod⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s visible in the PDF. I have used that extension to mark draft versions of documents. This makes it very obvious and saves you from accidentally handing in a draft. At least back when things were printed out much more often. With PDFs I find that the file name is sufficient.