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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

Good question. I don't know when Lemmy got the feature that mods can see all votes, but looks to me someone is agitated/frustrated or something and goes through the logs. We had some discussion back then about people doing their thing in their communities and then some random people aren't even subscribed and do drive-by downvotes... Which is a bit frustrating. And AI is one of the many polarizing topics here. People tried discussing it in peace but it's not very easy. Maybe OP got caught in the turmoil of this. Or they pissed off that person and then the next downvote was one too many... I don't really know. And the person calling out people by name sounds a bit agitated. I'd say someone with that state of mind is likely going to react a bit more extreme. And they're concerned with voting fraud and brigading in general.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (8 children)

Ah right, maybe that was it. I remember seeing the post as well. You got "called out" by name publicly. For supposed "brigading". And told to F off. That must be the reason for this?! https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/34853477

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (10 children)

How can you tell what you downvoted while randomly scrolling through the all feed or your subscriptions 3 months ago? I certainly couldn't remember.

And the communities you were banned from aren't necessarily the ones you downvoted in... That's just the realm of the admin or mod who banned you. But they could have based the decision on other behaviour or downvotes of yours.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (12 children)

You're a bit more easygoing with the downvotes than the average Lemmy user. Those rarely downvote, while you do like 30% downvotes. Maybe that triggered someone if you did something like scroll through a community and hand out several downvotes consecutively. But I don't think you're doing anything wrong here.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Hmm... Would be interesting to find out what kind of effect that has on the average marriage or relationship 😅

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Likely everyday stuff... Meeting minutes, phone or video conferences and such...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

I think a dual-channel system with DDR3-1600 isn't what we call fast any more. So you should try to avoid offloading with that. But I'm not an expert on the numbers, and it depends a bit on the specific use-case whether it makes sense to invest in old hardware, or buy a new machine along with a graphics card, since that's quite some money.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Right. I'm not sure if I even disagree with that. I completely agree the manufacturer is responsible for their products. And we definitely need guardrails and regulations in place. I'd go even further than current lawmakers and mandate watermarking etc for AI services. And content filters for example for this specific case. I've already reported face-swapping services which violate law (sadly nothing ever came of it).

My main point is: It's very important to get it right. I've linked the best blog article I know about the subject in my first comment. Addressing it by removing open-source is (in my opinion) not going to help much, and it makes the overall situation with AI severely worse.

I can't come up with good analogies here. But I think the solution has to be to address the specific issues and make the tools more safe. Not turn them into a plaything for certain people only. That's likely going to have the opposite effect. And it might not stop the criminals either, depending on how it's done.

I mean a car manufacturer also shouldn't stop you from being able to replace the light bulbs or learn how a car works, just because someone used a car in a crime once. And we don't remove the knifes from my kitchen and replace that with pre-sliced food from the grocery store, so only big companies have knifes available... Or outlaw personal websites and user generated content, so only trusted companies can upload stuff to the internet. Or outlaw Linux so Microsoft and Google/Apple spying is on all our devices. I think it's just not the right means to address the issue... Sure we could do it this way, but that's mainly harming regular people even more.

But I really don't think these are opposites. We still can address issues. (And we should!) It just has to be a sane approach that doesn't do the opposite of what it's trying to do.

Edit: I think what this does is make the robot apocalypse (if we ever get to that) be shaped by Sam Altman and what he likes. We just reinforce Skynet (from Terminator) with that. Plus today people are going to use it, and it'll have the biases and stereotypes that Elon Musk etc like in the answers. And they're going to change the world with their propaganda and perspective. As long as AI is disruptive and has an impact on society, that's really, really bad. And we're stripping anyone else of any capability to take part in it or shape it differently. Or do research that contradicts their bussiness motivations.

 

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (3 children)

Yes. I think it's kind of a non sequitur argument. We also regularly don't ban the internet, knifes or an axe or cars - on the basis that they are misused by some people. It either needs a different conclusion that addresses the misuse. Or we need a different argument to prohibit something in general. But this way it's just a fallacy. And the obvious (false) conclusion (without taking it away from companies as well) will be harmful to everyone. So out of all the possibilities to address the problem, please don't do that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (5 children)

This definitely has some "Won't somebody PLEASE think of the children?" vibes to it. But the article says it's a "multifaceted" issue and they give some more details.

Simpsons video snippet

Please excuse my a bit more nuanced opinion here, since this might not be the right community for it.

Eric Hartford wrote a good blog article on this very issue.

Main question is, do we want AI to be shaped intransparently by big corporations, and have them shape society and us however they like? Or do "the people" take part in this?

And same argument can be applied to other tech as well: "Linux should be illegal because people can use it to hack computers and send spam." Or the entire internet can be used as a tool for criminal activities. What does that tell us about the internet? This in itself isn't very straightforward in my opinion. It needs to be factored in and regulated. But it's not the same question as should we have AI be part of the world. And outlawing people to take part in this, while other entities can do it, comes with severe implications.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I heard re-orienting after retirement isn't always easy. I know people who did extracurricular activities or volunteer work after that. Like music teachers continuing with the orchestra or language teachers teaching refugee kids... Or they're just happy they're not part of the daily grind any more. Whatever floats your boat. I wish you can find something that makes you happy. I mean educating people should be appreciated and there is demand for that. Inside of school and aside from school itself.

I have some teacher friends. Maybe I should ask them about AI and their co-workers. And gather some anecdotal evidence myself. I had assumed it's far from being a majority of teachers who use AI. But that's just what I got from our conversations.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm also one of the people who rarely has any issues with the connectors themselves. It's always the cable which breaks close to the jack, not the connector. Also sits super tight in my phone that's half a decade old... I've destroyed usb-c connectors though, by accident and with some force involved. And the cables have different quality, yes. Some are fine for many years, some are cheap e-waste.

I mean they probably don't have any long protrusions or snap-in mechanisms, because today's phones are very slim and other gadgets are tiny as well, so you can't have a large connector with robust snap-in mechanisms. (And those tend to break as well, especially if they're flimsy like the ones on network cables.)

 

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I just found out I can buy a decent 400W solar panel in the local hardware store for around 90€ these days.

Are there people around with experience in off-grid solar? There is quite some supply in cheap MPTT charge controllers on the internet. And I can't afford a 700€ power station. But I would be able to buy a few power tool batteries or one of the lead-acid batteries people put in their caravan. Are there projects building a power station myself? Is this even worth it?

Maybe someone alredy wrote a blog post with recommendations or findings and failures along the way. Or has something similar running at home?

(Thanks to the mods for steering me towards the correct community.)

 

I'm developing a small Python webapp as some sort of finger exercise. Mostly a chatbot. I'm using the Quart framework, which is pretty much alike Flask, just async. Now I want to connect that to a LLM inference endpoint. And while I could do the HTTP requests myself, I'd prefer something that does that for me. It should support the usual OpenAI style API, in the end I'd like it to connect to things like Ollama and KoboldCPP. No harm if it supports image generation, agents, tools, vector databases, but that's optional.

I've tried Langchain, but I don't think I like it very much. Are there other Python frameworks out there? What do you like? I'd prefer something relatively lightweigt that gets out of the way. Ideally provider agnostic, but I'm mainly looking for local solutions like the ones I mentioned.

Edit: Maybe something that also connects to a Runpod endpoint, to do inference on demand (later on)? Or at least something which I can adapt to that?

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

We've had a bit of a conversation, over in the big NoStupidQuestions community:
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/37540045

While I have my own opinions on lemmit.online, I think it's relatively uncontroversial, that copying content from amateur and indie creators is unethical.
I'd like to request differentiating between the regular Reddit content, and amateur pornography plus OF creators and their original content. And deactivating the bridging for subreddits that contain a decent amount of the latter.

My rationale is more or less that it's not very Robin Hood to take things from people who aren't well off in the first place. And that more or less regular people have the right to decide what happens with pictures of their naked bodies, and we can't just spread them across the internet without their consent or ability to closely control their intimate stuff.

 

I've been using Etar for years now. But the Samsung calendar app on my wife's phone looks way better, while I'm missing things like the titles in the appointments once it gets crowded. And the all day events and birthdays aren't that prominent either. Plus I don't have some features on Etar like adding notes/emojis to days.

Is there a better calendar app out there? It has to be open source and somehow connect to my Nextcloud. That'd be my requirements. But I believe all calendar apps can connect to webdav.

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Seems Meta have been doing some research lately, to replace the current tokenizers with new/different representations:

 

I got a new phone. Skipped a few generations and now I'm running the current GrapheneOS, based on Android 15. I've moved most of the apps, but now I'd like to install my 3 banking apps and 5 discount program spyware apps. I guess I best separate them from the rest of the arbitrary stuff. Banking apps so they can't be messed with, and shady discount programs so those apps can't mess with me and my data...

The internet has a lot of information about Shelter, work profiles, the new(?) private spaces... But I don't know what is current advice and what's outdated advice... What's the current best practice?

 

During the summer the European Commission made the decision to stop funding Free Software projects within the Next Generation Internet initiative (NGI). This decision results in a loss of €27 million for software freedom. Since 2018, the European Commission has supported the Free Software ecosystem through NGI, that provided funding and technical assistance to Free Software projects. This decision unfortunately exposes a larger issue: that software freedom in the EU needs more stable, long-term financial support. The ease with which this funding was excluded underlines this need.

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