When people complain about energy hungry AI, they’re not talking about AI being used for research purposes. They’re talking about generative models that create text and images that are being pushed onto people when nobody asked for them. Trained on stolen work. Possibly being queried a billion times a day. Enshittifying everything for profit.

I don’t see many complain about specialized models being trained for specialized purposes. Noise cancellation. 3D pose estimation from a picture or video. Helping detect illnesses. Predicting dangerous weather. Folding proteins. There’s many great applications that I can’t think of on top of my head.

Sure, we should use traditional algorithms (I hope I used the right term) where possible and important. They would be less computationally expensive to run and you can actually reason about the implementation, where AI is just a black box that we hope gives us the right answer. But in some cases, it’s not unreasonable.

I haven’t streamed using only the Steam Deck, but I’ve used it as a streaming computer running both OBS and my VTubing software, since my laptop is much too weak for it. I used OBS NDI (now DistroAV) to push the video to the Steam Deck. That experience was pretty fluid, though setting it up might’ve been a bit involved. (Flatpak for it exists now.)

A lot of the C# ecosystem is open source (thank goodness), but the official debugger isn’t, hence it only being available in the proprietary version of VSCode.

From what I read online, Matrix is not very good with its federated moderation tools. Apparently, a quirk of it can cause the state of a federated channel to reset in time, thus also undoing removing of messages. Here is a blog post criticizing Matrix.

Sweeeeet! Can they be embedded into the article?

The videos aren’t from their channel and they probably won’t be able to get the rights to rehost them all.

That’s probably the “just one step above” part. You do have the option to inspect the script you’re executing before you do so with curl | sh too, if you know what you’re doing. If you don’t, then you’d be pretty likely to just skip the prompt from yay as well. (Automatic diffs are nice tho.) Note: I use paru instead so I don’t know what yay does.

To be fair, that’s why they said

in terms of security.

As long as you understand that your own opinion does not dictate how language ends up being used by others. Some NB people call themselves trans, others don’t. I hope you won’t go around implying that people who identify as both trans and non-binary are wrong identifying as such. That’s arguably gatekeeping, and could make some people very uncomfortable.

I think this sounds like we’re generally in agreement? I might just put less weight on “the canon”.

like what you mentioned with Xenia, the old Linux Mascot.

To be fair, trans Xenia was sanctioned by the original artist, but my worry was along the lines of, if cathodegaytube was a “strong believer” in the Prime Egg Directive, would it have discouraged them from re-imagining this character? I don’t personally think how recent a character was created or whether it was abandoned has any relevance.

I subscribe to the idea that art is up to the viewer to interpret how they want. “Death of the author” I think it’s called. If someone looks at Felix, and sees an egg in him that has yet to crack, then that’s a valid interpretation of the art, to that person. Just as if someone were to look at a character and interpret them as trans, whether they are canonically cis or it’s left open (Spider Gwen comes to mind). I experienced a sad ending to a story? Well, too bad, author, my headcanon’s now that everything works out after all!

There may be problematic ways of doing that, and it’s in no way okay to assert one’s interpretation as the only truth. But fundamentally, that’s part of the freedom you get with art.

Would Bridget have become canonically trans if that freedom was taken away from people? (And heck, does it include the author?) Would Xenia have been reborn as a popular now-trans Linux mascot?

So there’s gotta be wiggle room in both situations. Fictional characters breaking the Prime Egg Directive, because of artists’ freedom of expression; and real people seeing fictional characters differently from the author and others, because of freedom of interpretation.

For a more concrete example, this post: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/22944727

I found this comic really heckin’ funny. Then I checked the comments. “Egg Prime Directive” Was I… supposed to be in agreement that the comic is problematic? I can’t really, no matter how I tried to twist it in my head. (Props to the mod for leaving the post up even though they criticized it though.)

Of course, nobody should do this to a real person, but this is a representation of something the artist has felt. We see comics of characters being ridiculous, or doing the impossible, and stories that involve violence or all manner of bad things. You wouldn’t take this to mean that you can or should do that in real life, right?

People can rightfully inform others to tell them not to behave like that themselves. But I worry that if they’re too blunt (figuratively) shouting “Prime Egg Directive!”, there will be people that feel discouraged about expressing themselves artistically like this, or making light of their own past in certain ways. And again, I’ve legit felt anxious myself at times when this came up before, and even now when I’m trying to talk about it.

The comments are worth a giggle but the AI voice ruins it. Also horrible choice of music.

You’re wrong. It does also mean corner.

Presumably this is because a block is different from the content being removed. It simply means the servers stop communicating with each other regarding new communities, posts and comments. This could allow the instance to be unblocked and the old content to continue existing – say for example when an instance has been acting badly, but it gets fixed some time later.

Blocked instances should probably not show up in search, but if you have a direct link to an old post, perhaps this should still be available? Not being able to block a community when its instance is already blocked makes sense, and probably doesn’t matter if you mostly check for new content, but I can see it being a bother when its shows up in other situations. One could call this a bug, or an oversight, but I suppose it depends on what the intended result is.

Politicians decide things, but to actually make stuff happen, the government needs to collect taxes to pay for services that are then provided to the public. I think the idea here is to take out the middleman. You won’t solve the problem country wide, but you’ll help some people, and that’s still worth it. Work together without like-minded people locally, be an inspiration, and show that it works. I’ve only been very briefly part of an activist group (specialized in food saving), so probably best to look elsewhere for good advice on how to do this well.

I didn’t claim there wasn’t a real person behind this. Did you check the profile you linked? They “wrote” an article titled “I asked ChatGPT how to overcome Imposter Syndrome”. That already proves they use generative AI at least for some things. How do you explain the suspicious AI-like structure of the article?

It is my opinion that any “real” creator would not touch AI with a 10-foot pole, if just out of respect for fellow creators.

Well, they shouldn’t. It makes them look less trustworthy.

The image is clearly AI generated, and the content looks incredibly suspicious as well considering the way it’s structured.

I’m just going to report this.

Yeah, it should not be part of the text just like line numbers shouldn’t be part of the code on a code hosting site, yet it can be visible, no? Later it does recommend using $ to distinguish command and output. Is it now okay for a beginner to be confused about what it means?