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- Comment on I don't like the Linux clipboard situation 3 days ago:
Just use KDE and you get klipper which is an amazing clipboard manager. It keeps track of everything you’ve copied to your clipboard (raise the history to 999).
Configure it to pop up at the cursor location and whenever you type the keystroke you’ll have access to everything.
I personally prefer that it not paste immediately upon selection but there’s a number of options like that to set it up to your liking.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
So… You were lovin’ it and they were having it their way.
- Comment on Eventually, old computers and operating systems will likely be referred to as dumb computers or dumb terminals or similar, because they don't have artificial intelligence. 2 weeks ago:
Haha, that’s amazing.
Guess I need to go buy “an inflator” 🤣
- Comment on Eventually, old computers and operating systems will likely be referred to as dumb computers or dumb terminals or similar, because they don't have artificial intelligence. 2 weeks ago:
Well… Don’t leave us hanging!
Did the instructions work? You’d think it would be harder than inflating a tablet-style phone… Because of the hinge.
- Comment on Microsoft is putting AI actions into the Windows File Explorer 2 weeks ago:
The big difference is that updates in Linux happen in the background and aren’t very intrusive. Your hard drive will be used here and there as it unpacks packages but the difference between say, apt, and Windows update is stark. Windows update slows everything down quite a lot.
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 2 weeks ago:
her goal isn’t to get them to stop, it’s to get them to recognize what garbage writing is and how to fix it so it isn’t garbage anymore.
I wish English teachers did this instead of… Whatever TF they’re doing instead.
This is something they should’ve been doing all along. Long before the invention of LLMs or computers.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’ 2 weeks ago:
Move to Japan 👍
- Comment on What's a good HTPC OS and software? 2 weeks ago:
I use Kubuntu with KDE Connect. It lets me control everything using my phone 👍
I can play/pause whatever from my lock screen and can use my phone’s keyboard like it’s connected to the computer. It’s fantastic 👍
- Comment on A shapeshifter standing in front of a mirror for hours making subtle adjustments to their disguises like a gamer in the character creator. 2 weeks ago:
Nah just own it. You only need to kill this one person to obtain your shapeshifter dreams!
Admit it, “I’d say sorry but I’d still pull the trigger.” 😁
- Comment on Why don't these code-writing AIs just output straight up machine code? 2 weeks ago:
Umm… AI has been used to improve compilers dating all the way back to 2004:
github.com/…/Artificial-Intelligence-in-Compiler-…
Sorry that I had to prove you wrong so overwhelmingly, so quickly 🤷
- Comment on Why don't these code-writing AIs just output straight up machine code? 2 weeks ago:
To add to this: It’s much more likely that AI will be used to improve compilers—not replace them.
Aside: AI is so damned slow already. Imagine AI compiler times… Yeesh!
- Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks 3 weeks ago:
I just wrote a novel (finished first draft yesterday). There’s no way I can afford professional audiobook voice actors—especially for a hobby project.
What I was planning on doing was handling the audiobook on my own—using an AI voice changer for all the different characters.
That’s where I think AI voices can shine: If someone can act they can use a voice changer to handle more characters and introduce a great variety of different styles of speech while retaining the careful pauses and dramatic elements (e.g. a voice cracking during an emotional scene) that you’d get from regular voice acting.
I’m not saying I will be able to pull that off but surely it will be better than just telling Amazon’s AI, “Hey, go read my book.”
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Ah, so cute. Here’s what you need to do: Find what you like to do, then pick a realistic career path that you think you could do and do that instead. I highly recommend picking a career that lets you work from home. That way, you can skip the commute, do your laundry, and face existential dread at the same time; it’s better for the environment 👍
Comfort and happiness are what happens after work. You have to work to attain it! It’s the capitalist dream.
- Comment on Why is nobody mad about TGI Fridays taking the lords name in vain? 4 weeks ago:
That’s actually an unholey workaround!
ocontains 100% more hole than-. - Comment on Meta's Reality Labs Has Now Lost Over $60 Billion Since 2020 - Slashdot 4 weeks ago:
Are there any other websites that still let you put in your AIM and ICQ numbers? Or brag about your super low user ID? 19437 BTW 🤣
- Comment on Glue used to be rare and magical. 1 month ago:
With the ghost of solvents past.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
If you hired someone to copy Ghibli’s style, then fed that into an AI as training data, it would completely negate your entire argument.
It is not illegal for an artist to copy someone else’s style. They can’t copy another artist’s work—that’s a derivative—but copying their style is perfectly legal. You can’t copyright a style.
All of that is irrelevant, however. The argument is that—somehow—training an AI with anything is somehow a violation of copyright. It is not. It is absolutely 100% not a violation of copyright to do that!
Copyright is all about distribution rights. Anyone can download whatever TF they want and they’re not violating anyone’s copyright. It’s the entity that sent the person the copyright that violated the law. Therefore, Meta, OpenAI, et al can host enormous libraries of copyrighted data in their data centers and use that to train their AI. It’s not illegal at all.
When some AI model produces a work that’s so similar to an original work that anyone would recognize it, “yeah, that’s from Spirited Away” then yes: They violated Ghibli’s copyright.
If the model produces an image of some random person in the style of Studio Ghibli that is not violating anyone’s copyright. It is not illegal nor is it immoral. No one is deprived of anything in such a transaction.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
I think your understanding of generative AI is incorrect. It’s not just “logic and RNG”…
If it runs on a computer, it’s literally “just logic and RNG”. It’s all transistors, memory, and an RNG.
The data used to train an AI model is copyrighted. It’s impossible for something to exist without copyright (in the past 100 years). Even public domain works had copyright at some point.
if any of the training data is copyrighted, then attribution must be given, or at the very least permission to use this data must be given by the current copyright holder.
This is not correct. Every artist ever has been trained with copyrighted works, yet they don’t have to recite every single picture they’ve seen or book they’ve ever read whenever they produce something.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
I’m still not getting it. What does generative AI have to do with attribution? Like, at all.
I can train a model on a billion pictures from open, free sources that were specifically donated for that purpose and it’ll be able to generate realistic pictures of those things with infinite variation. Every time it generates an image it’s just using logic and RNG to come up with options.
Do we attribute the images to the RNG god or something? It doesn’t make sense that attribution come into play here.
- Comment on Think about it 1 month ago:
That’s a good point. Many do seem to worship the holy blunt 🤔
- Comment on Think about it 1 month ago:
I believe the lesson here is that marijuana just isn’t toxic enough to kill anyone.
- Comment on Director of Japan's First AI Anime Defends New Spring 2025 Work: 'It Will Give More Opportunities to Animators' 2 months ago:
On the contrary, AI enables voice actors to change their voice in ways that biology won’t let them. If a voice actor can act, AI will give them the power to play more parts than they would have been able to previously.
It’s just a tool. It’s not the magic, “replace humans” thing people think it is.
- Comment on Director of Japan's First AI Anime Defends New Spring 2025 Work: 'It Will Give More Opportunities to Animators' 2 months ago:
Here I was, thinking that the first AI-generated anime was Ave Mujica. Because it’s that bad.
- The script sounds like it was written by AI.
- The animation in half the scenes is like 12 FPS (because they couldn’t be bothered to wait for a full render).
- The characters lips move like goldfish eating flakes whenever they speak/sing.
- They appear to have used stock mocap for the characters playing instruments and couldn’t be bothered to match up their movements to the music.
By all accounts, it’s like AI did 90% of the work and then they handed it off to some intern for finishing.
- Comment on My dog probably experiences the vacuum cleaner exactly like me in my recurring nightmare as a child trying to convince my parents that the monster in our home is dangerous 2 months ago:
Did they ever find out just how dangerous you are?
- Comment on These Electronics-free Robots Can Walk Right Off the 3D-Printer. 2 months ago:
They created golems powered by compressed air instead of magic.
Definitely marking this down in my mental, “in case of Isekai” notes.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 2 months ago:
I meant it as: You can be a man baby and still be correct. The two are not mutually exclusive.
…but don’t let me stop you from overreacting to random, silly comments said in jest like a man baby 👍
- Comment on Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people” 2 months ago:
Would you say your research is evidence that the o1 model was built using data/algorithms taken from OpenAI via industrial espionage (like Sam Altman is purporting without evidence)? Or is it just likely that they came upon the same logical solution?
Not that it matters, of course! Just curious.
- Comment on Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people” 2 months ago:
This completely ignores all the endless (open) academic work going on in the AI space. Loads of universities have AI data centers now and are doing great research that is being published out in the open for anyone to use and duplicate.
I’ve downloaded several academic models and all commercial models and AI tools are based on all that public research.
I run AI models locally on my PC and you can too.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 2 months ago:
To be fair, both you and your friend can be correct 🤷
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 2 months ago:
Element needs to be better. Discord is awesome with the way it auto-plays looping videos/gifs and has animated emojis.
Seriously: That’s all they’d need to do. The element devs need to focus on fun.