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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

You should never have trusted images before generative AI either. Trace the source and only trust the image if the source is legitimate.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Tiergarten! Yeah, good luck seeing such an orderly protest in France!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

(Here in France) also:

  • Heavily unionized
  • Armed (there are a lot of hunters in their ranks)

And it is shocking how much more empathy the authorities have for them when they can't easily stop them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Isn't the MCP protocol simply a JSON REST API? You can use any lib that does HTTP requests to access a server or use any HTTP framework to make a server.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks! Found it! I forgot that I had a tampermonkey script running to help convert all lemmy links into slrpnk.net links. Looks like it is breaking my UX. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

You know what, trying to look and find the version of my phone browser (Chrome, not Firefox, no extension) I realized it had "desktop mode" active. Deactivating it, made the redicrection work. Maybe Anubis detected some User-Agent shenanigans?

So now it is working on my phone, still fails on my desktop with firefox (137.0 (64-bit), Ubuntu) but the failure mode is different: Anubis redirection works fine, I just can't post (button remains gray as if I typed nothing on the text field). I deactivated noscript, adblock and stylus and it still happens. It does not happen on another lemmy instance I also have an account on (jlai.lu)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

On my phone, I am stuck at the character. It says that the challenge succeeded then redirects at a page that says "invalid response".

On firefox on my computer I can browse around but not vote nor comment. On chromium on my computer, I can use the site normally.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Strangely it does not work on my phone (using chromium on android). It works on my computer (firefox and chromium) but from firefox I can't post anymore, not sure if this last issue is related to Anubis.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Just asking: Will there be April community discussion or will this remain the main one for serious discussion?

And weird: I can't post here with firefox anymore?? The "post" button remains grayed out. I post this from chromium.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Ah yes. I think their main subject is identifying plants and navigation. Tools can easily be changed. From pushing down weeds below the surface to delivering a micro-dose of aimed weedkillers, there are many ways.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It is probably lighter than a human and probably a more distributed mass.

 

A friend worked on that subject and I found it pretty cool:

Animals often hide, flee or avoid sources of human noise. But to what extent? Which species do it more? What noises disturbs the most? They made a camera + speaker device triggered by animal presence and observed their reaction.

Interestingly what animals tend to fear the most is the sound of humans chatting. They probably recognize other animals in human voices, but vehicle sounds seem to confuse them more, though still triggers vigilance reactions.

 

I found that idea interesting. Will we consider it the norm in the future to have a "firewall" layer between news and ourselves?

I once wrote a short story where the protagonist was receiving news of the death of a friend but it was intercepted by its AI assistant that said "when you will have time, there is an emotional news that does not require urgent action that you will need to digest". I feel it could become the norm.

EDIT: For context, Karpathy is a very famous deep learning researcher who just came back from a 2-weeks break from internet. I think he does not talks about politics there but it applies quite a bit.

EDIT2: I find it interesting that many reactions here are (IMO) missing the point. This is not about shielding one from information that one may be uncomfortable with but with tweets especially designed to elicit reactions, which is kind of becoming a plague on twitter due to their new incentives. It is to make the difference between presenting news in a neutral way and as "incredibly atrocious crime done to CHILDREN and you are a monster for not caring!". The second one does feel a lot like exploit of emotional backdoors in my opinion.

 

A society where we accept indigenous lifestyle as peers is a great part of solarpunk.

 

We have done it. We are there. A sustainable world. An abundant, renewable clean energy. A recovering ecosystem and a biodiversity that we can now help improve instead of merely defend. Changes happened. Changes in politics, in tech, in culture. We waste less, we consider the long term impact of our decisions, we consider natural resources as atakeholders in our decisions and give them representatives.

Now what? Well, humans are debating about to do next and, big surprise, several factions are out there.

Extend the list, imagine factions collaborating or fighting, or detail a faction either seriously or tongue-in-cheekly


  • Archaecologists argue that we should restore the ecosystem to a state close to the paleolithic before humans started damaging the planet. Their food is good but is a pain to peel.

  • Ecovolutionists argue that the Anthropocene should not be ignored and that we should accept the profound impact we had on Earth, and let it run its natural course while we re-invent our way of life to have a lower impact. Their more radical branch releases genetically adapted version of endangered plants in human biomes. The Monsoon Red Concrete Mold is their proudest achievement.

  • Biomaximizers think that some ecosystems are inherently more desirable than others: they argue that maximizing biodiversity and biomass should be our goal, that deserts should be turned into primal forests and that we should build reefs in the oceanic deserts. Their Saharan seed-bombing raves are rad.

  • Biomoralists think we should raise the morality of the animal world and break the prey-predator mechanism, that nature is something to improve respectfully and humanely. Their vegan cat food is actually surprisingly tasty.

  • Ecogardeners are in favor of biotopes that have biodiversity but also are welcoming of humans and nice to the eye. They are not fans of mosquitoes or wolves, but god do they love flowers.

  • The Followers of Gaia want to maximize the consciousness of the biosphere by planting more telepathic organisms they can connect with. They are currently disagreeing on which species have the more psy power but I am sure they will end up agreeing on a list eventually. Their only consensus now is that sauge is good and who would disagree?

  • Consumerists are for declaring natural reserves but embrace the ability to be "wasteful" again, now that recycling and energy uses are sustainable. I mean, I kinda get their point but renewable skiing in Dubai still feels like missing the point.

  • Earth-conservationists argue we should all move to space and let the Earth grow back to its natural stage. They are bewildered that the archaecologists do not agree with what they essentially see the same goal.

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The year is 2080, we solved the climate crisis, we solved the poverty crisis. You live in a pretty chill solarpunk utopia that is considerate, sustainably, just and generally safe. The few dangerous places out there are clearly labelled.

Choose one of those signs and explain why it is displayed where it is.

EDIT: for some reasons up/downvotes do not work for me here. Is anyone having similar problems?

 

This conversation and the reactions it caused made me think of a few tips to explicitly veer away from AI-aided dystopias in your fictional universe.

Avoid a monolithic centralized statist super-AI

I guess ChatGPT is the model people use, the idea that there is a supercomputer managing all aspects of a community. And people are understandably wary of a single point of control that could too easily lead to totalitarianism

Instead, have a multitude of transparent local agents managing different systems. Each with a different algorithm and "personality".

Talk about open source

The most used AI models today are open source. We have a media that is biased towards thinking that things that do not generate commercial transactions are not important yet I am willing to bet that more tokens are generated by all the free models in the world than by OpenAI and its commercial competitors.

AIs are not to be produced by opaque companies from their ivory towers. They are the result of researchers and engineers who have a passion for designing smart system and --a fact that is too often obscured by the sad state of our society where you often have to join a company to make a living-- they do it with a genuine concern for humanity's well being and a desire that this work is used for the greater good.

It is among AI engineers that you will find the most paranoids about AI safety and safeguards. In a solarpunk future, this is a public debate and a political subject that is an important part of the policy discussion: We make models together, with incentives that are collectively agreed upon.

AIs are personal

You don't need a supercomputer to run an AI. LLMs today run on relatively modest gaming devices, even on raspberry pi! (though slowly at the moment). Energy-efficient chips are currently being designed to make the barrier of entry even lower.

It is a very safe bet to say that in the future, every person will have their own intelligent agent managing their local devices. Or even one agent per device and an orchestrator on their smartphone. And it is important that they are in complete control of these.

AIs should enhance humans control over their own devices, not make them surrender it.

AIs as enablers of democracy

You not only use your pocket AI to control your dishwasher, it is also your personal lawyer and representative. No human has the bandwidth to go through all the current policy debates happening in a typical country or even local community. But a well designed agent that spends time discussing with you will know your preferences and make sure to represent them.

It can engage in discussions with other agents to find compromises, to propose or oppose initiative.

As everyone's opinion is now included in every decision about road planning, public transportation, construction schedules and urban development, the general landscape will organically grow friendlier for everybody.

 

I don't want to live on this planet anymore

Chill solar-powered plane high above the earth, never too far from the assholes (Of course it is a motherfucking-AI generated picture, can't you tell by the ass-looking solar panels?)

Fuck these land-dwellers. Fuck the idiots. "Planes are a thing of the past". "A girl that builds an airplane, LOL". You know what, fuck you all, motherfuckers. I can't hear you over the sound of 45 kW of solar power and 180 kW of brushless engines. Wait, these little shits are silent. I can actually hear your whines. Fuck my life.

Yeah, no landing gears, I don't plan on landing. There's one person I care on this losers' planet and she lives by the sea. Landing strips are for dodos.

I don't go fast no, I will never go fast enough to get away from your ugly assface. I go up. My plane feeds from the sun and I feed from her plants. Got myself enough batteries to last through the night. Enough wing to rise over the storms. And enough e-books to not care for any company.

Tired of arguing it is impossible with idiots who ignore it was done decades ago. Apparently Helios and Solar Impulse are fake news. Get lost techbros who can't NASA.

No, I don't take passengers, you want to go up, you make your own. Get through your thick skull the equations of flight and power efficiency, and understand that for every percent gained anywhere, you can get half a percent more and a fistful of kilograms. You can choose to waste those on entitled meat or on chill non-judgemental plants. Guess which diet is better for physical and mental health.

No you can't follow me, you can't @ me, Saint Xyla grant me the strength to endure the bullshit noise that still goes through the radio.

 

I just made a long post about it in the French-speaking solarpunk community, and I don't really have the courage to translate everything, but DeepL should do a good job. Here is a summary and a photo-dump, don't hesitate to ask me things about it.

For context, this was organized by the ADEME, an entity of the French government that is tasked with managing the "ecological transition" and as part of this they promote explorations and experimentations in the field of "intermediate vehicles". Things that are not bikes, not cars and try to reinvent mobility. It was very hackish (I myself came with friends from a fablab/hackerspace who are building an electric kart) and with a huge variety in opinions and technical choices.

We talked technology, philosophy, open source, low-techs, economy, sociology, legalities. It was brain-buzzling!

 

Hello! Je reviens du salon du "véhicule intermédiaire" organisé par l'ADEME à Millau, et c'était très intéressant, et très solarpunk.

Voici un peu de contexte et quelques photos.

L'ADEME a un programme, l'eXtreme Défi, pour financer des expériences de nouvelles mobilités. Beaucoup des véhicules exposés participaient à ce programme mais pas tous, et il y a de tout dans cette catégorie qui va de réinventions du vélo classique à la voiture électrique en passant par plein de dispositifs à pédales ou non, motorisés ou non à 1, 2, 3 ou 4 roues, avec ou sans carosserie, avec ou sans panneaux solaires, etc... Et c'est l'ADEME qui a organisé cet événement pour échanger et collaborer.

J'y accompagnais des amis qui conçoivent le projet e-GoCar et ont amené en l'état leur prototype qui n'est pas encore achevé.

La chose la plus sympa je trouvais était l'énergie que chacun avait à inventer "le monde d'après" et ce, malgré des différences marquées: entre ceux qui pensent que la voiture élec est une fausse solution et ceux qui en présentent, les associatifs, les startupers ou même les industriels (pour le coup plutôt des employés d'industries qui tentent de voir comment aider, à ma grande surprise, je n'ai pas vu de tentatives d’appropriation du truc)

À la fin de la première journée on a eu droit à une projection du film "Low tech" qui m'a un peu réconcilié avec la démarche (je le trouve toujours mal nommée mais je comprends mieux comment bosser avec eux). Moment sympa d'ailleurs, l'organisateur savait que deux personnes interrogées dans le film étaient présentes, Barnabé Chaillot (un bricoleur-youtubeur dont je vous recommande la chaîne si vous aimez les low tech) et un membre du low-tech fablab de Concarneau, et a demandé si d'autres personnes interrogées dans le film étaient là et il se trouve que deux autres étaient présentes.

On a discuté technique, économie, philosophie, sociologie. J'ai eu des discussions très intéressantes avec le group de sociologues (l'ADEME paye des études de socio pour justement identifier des freins à l'adoption de ces véhicules). On a parlé déclassement, identité culturelle des véhicules, réalisé qu'il y avait en fait zéro parisiens dans la démarche alors qu'elle est souvent décriée comme un truc de bobo citadin (on était surtout des ruraux en fait).

À la séance de tests de véhicules j'ai croisé Jammy de C'est pas Sorcier, aux anges dans un tricycle électrique de compèt (pas le sien, il venait voir des choses).

J'ai essayé celui ci-dessus et ça m'a fait comprendre pourquoi plein de créateurs insistent sur le fait que ça n'a rien d'un vélo et rien d'une voiture. On a du mal à y croire, parce que les pédales, les roues de cycle, ou la structure à 4 roues ramènent à des choses connues. Mais en fait non. Être seul dans un quasi-habitacle, à pédaler mais sans forcer, assis sans avoir à s'équilibrer sur deux roues et une direction à guidon mais contrôlant une direction à deux roues avant, c'est très différent.

Un ami m'a dit qu'il a essayé un des véhicules à 4 roues mais en disposition en losange: un essieu central avec deux roues et une au milieu devant et une autre au milieu derrière (désolé, je l'ai pas en photos celui là) et qu'il donnait des sensations encore très différentes à la conduite.

Une chose m'a fait plaisir: voir plusieurs vhélios, projet open-hardware avec lequel j'ai un peu travaillé, non seulement être présents mais y être sous forme de forks. C'est un véhicule pas parfait avec quelques limitations connues mais voir que des gens s'en sont emparé et l'ont adapté à leurs besoins m'a vraiment fait chaud au cœur. L'open hardware, ça marche!

Quelques projets sympa:

  • Cette espèce de chenille de remorques de vélo qui permettent de disposer de belles capacités de recharge pour une motorisation électrique, parfaite représentante de l'école bricolo-écolo.

  • Ce gars qui est venu avec sa roulotte auto-construite de 500 kg en pédalant, lentement au besoin, et sans moteur. J'ai aimé sa démarche: lui ne promeut pas du tout ce mode de vie comme un modèle, mais expliquait que c'était son rêve d'enfant, qu'il a toujours adoré le camping et les rosalies et que ce qu'il exhortait c'était de suivre ses rêves d'enfants et d'y croire un peu.

  • À l'autre extrême, ce prototype de véhicules, qu'on pourrait appeler une voiture électrique, mais qui se distingue par une plus grande légèreté et simplicité

  • Ce bus scolaire électrique et à pédales, envers lequel, personnellement j'avais pas mal de critiques, voyant ça comme un downgrade du bus scolaire classique mais des utilisateurs m'ont expliqué que l'avantage est que ces véhicules étant conduits par les enseignants, les sorties scolaires locales sont plus faciles à organiser et donc plus fréquentes. Leurs classes voient beaucoup plus de sorties qu'avec les bus classiques.

  • Cette voiturette verte électrique à pédales était un peu la mascotte de l’événement et a ouvert le cortège.

  • Et enfin, ce véhicule qui a été pour moi une révélation, et dont on a beaucoup parlé: la Cixi. Les sociologues parlent de "sentiment de déclassement" quand on propose des véhicules intermédiaires. Autrement dit "Attends tu veux que j'achète pour plusieurs milliers d'euros ton truc de pouilleux hippie-écolo où faut que je pédale et qui se traine à 45 km/h?". La Cixi est un tricycle, qui se penche dans les virages, et qui monte à 120 km/h (on a pas eu le droit de l'essayer!) Elle est là décarossée mais a normalement une carrosserie fermée. Et ce qui m'a donné une leçon de design sont en fait des choix que pourraient faire plein de véhicules intermédiaires.

  • Se pencher dans les virages, plusieurs autres véhicules le faisaient, mais tu vends une expérience de pilotage vraiment unique (normalement c'est très confortable avec une tenue de route sans commune mesure)
  • Mettre des sièges "de sport", avec des ceintures de rallye, ça coûte rien ni en poids ni en thunes, mais te place dans un trip très différent
  • Avoir 4 petits écrans de contrôle, ce qui a des raisons techniques tout à fait légitimes, te donnent aussi plus l'impression de monter dans un véhicule technique au lieu des 3 relais et d'un touchscreen qui suffiraient, c'est un choix qui là encore ne coûte pas plus cher et ne pèse pas plus lourd mais change l'expérience.
  • Enfin, mais là c'est pas de choix de design, mais des obligations, le fait que les roues ne soient pas des roues de vélo (grosse roue de moto à l'arrière) rendent plus difficile d'assimiler ce véhicule à un vélo (alors qu'il a des pédales!)

Je repars avec des contacts de OwnTech une boite fondée par des chercheurs-libristes qui veulent faire l'arduino de l'électronique de puissance, et qu'on va probablement utiliser dans un véhicule.

Je repars aussi avec des discussions plein la tête au sujet des imaginaires, des futurs, des envies et des possibilités.

L'évènement, organisé aussi avec des institutionnels et la préfecture a rendu possible un défilé de ces véhicules, pourtant non-homologués, dans les rues de Millau, ce qui a été une petite vitoire symbolique très appréciée, beaucoup des discussions tournant autour des difficultés d'homologation de certaines catégories. Malheureusement pas de photos de ce défilé de ma part, j'étais en train de discuter anarchisme et logiciel libre avec un formateur de mécanos à la retraite.

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Faut que je poste plus mais j'ai rien à dire, mais comme ça n'a jamais découragé un composteur, je vous propose une compostine: le Corbeau et le Renard en Emoji, par ChatGPT:

🌳 🦜 🧀

🦊 😍

🦊 🗣️ "😍🎶👑"

🦜 😊

🦜 🎶

🧀 ⬇️

🦊 😋 🧀

🦜 😢

🦊 😂 "🧠 > 🎶"

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