FooBarrington

@FooBarrington@lemmy.world

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My friend didn't have a great experience with Linux

I have been daily driving Linux for over two years now and I have switched distros many times. So, when my friend bought a new laptop, I convinced him to install Linux Mint on it. I asked him if he wanted to dual boot, he said no because it would fill up all his storage. We installed Linux Mint. The other day, he wanted to play...

FooBarrington,

Having said that, it’s true that you actually can run some windows software through Wine but it’s a hack and it’s not going to work as well as it would on the OS it was designed for.

Most Steam games built for Windows run perfectly fine under Linux, many even better than on Windows. 10 years ago you’d have been correct, but the landscape has changed drastically.

FooBarrington,

I would also rather be a billionaire in a system where workers rights are respected, everyone has enough money and work is fairly paid. These people aren’t like us however - they want more and more and more and more, and as long as they see a chance to come out on top, they’ll take it. Musk would rather be a little bit richer in a dictatorship than have only his current wealth in a democracy. If you’re not like this, there’s no chance to become a billionaire.

📄 rule (sh.itjust.works)

alt-textIt blows our hivemind that the United States doesn’t use the ISO 216 paper size standard (A4, A5 and the gang). Like, we consider ourselves worldly people and are aware of America’s little idiosyncrasies like mass incarceration, the widespread availability of assault weapons and not being able to transfer money via...

FooBarrington,

Not officially, but unofficially there’s 2A0, 4A0 and so on. Bigger than that is rarely used however.

FooBarrington,

Just as a warning, the macvlan stuff isn’t well documented and seems to have hard limits. I worked with it a couple of years ago and had to eventually read a lot of Docker code to figure some stuff out, and the host was only able to successfully set up 4 macvlan networks at a time - the fifth (and any following ones) were never reachable, even though I used the same scripts as for all other ones.

Things might have improved in the meantime.

FooBarrington,

Still can’t believe that some people are unable to smell rain coming in the summer!

FooBarrington,

I don’t understand the tendency to attribute harmful behaviours of the rich and powerful to these strange, irrational reasons. No, UK leaders didn’t spend millions upon millions on propaganda because they have a fragile identity. They did it because they’ll make money off of it, and will be able to move the legislation towards their own goals.

It’s the same when people say Putin invaded Ukraine because he wants to restore the glory of the Soviet Union. No, he doesn’t care about any of that, he cares about staying in power and becoming more powerful. One of the best ways to do so is to invade other countries, as long as you don’t lose.

FooBarrington,

Thank you for the validation, sometimes I feel like I’m going crazy with how often these things are repeated.

But those lectures do sound interesting - would you mind linking them when you have the time?

FooBarrington,

Awesome, thank you!

FooBarrington,
FooBarrington,

Thank you for the explanation! I assumed supporting that query would be enough, but I’ll try to add more options to my apps in the future :)

FooBarrington,

Man, I played this game so much as a kid - the ship and sword fights were awesome, the dancing was easy enough once you learned to read the animations (the women actually showed you the moves with their hands!), and hunting down the top pirates was AWESOME (even if I never finished it all).

FooBarrington,

Too bad the monkey figured out it can give a few bananas to other monkeys for protection.

Local Mom’s Wine Club Cleverly Disguised as a Book Club, Fools No One But Themselves (lemmy.world)

In a quiet suburban neighborhood where minivans outnumber streetlights, a group of women have been ingeniously disguising their love of wine as a book club. While their intentions may be transparent to everyone else, these winos insist that their guise is a stroke of genius. “It’s a sophisticated literary club that explores...

FooBarrington, (edited )

It’s only a problem when I run out 🤪 (or the neighbors dogs over (again))

FooBarrington,

Installing an extension by itself? That’s easy.

Finding all the extensions you need, actively maintained and quickly updated? Yeah, that’s really difficult, depending on your needs.

FooBarrington,

Transparent can still be more visible than good camouflage. Just look at how well they can imitate rocks and similar debris: youtu.be/q8xJ13pAZNw

FooBarrington,

And it’s pretty fun! You won’t get endless replayability like from other rogue likes, but it’s fun for 5-10 hours.

FooBarrington,

Im übrigen bin ich der Meinung, dass Sylt dem Meeresboden gleichgemacht werden sollte.

FooBarrington,

It depends. I really liked Mozillas initiative for local translation - much better for data privacy than remote services. But conversational/generative AI, no thank you.

FooBarrington,

They have the time to implement this, yet audio cues of your teammates running in the form of hearing their cheeks clapping is too hard. Literally unplayable

FooBarrington,

But the system isn’t designed for that, why would you expect it to do so? Did somebody tell the OP that these systems work by citing a source, and the issue is that it doesn’t do that?

FooBarrington,

Come on man. This is exactly what we have been saying all the time. These “AIs” are not creating novel text or ideas. They are just regurgitating back the text they get in similar contexts. It’s just they don’t repeat things vebatim because they use statistics to predict the next word. And guess what, that’s plagiarism by any real world standard you pick, no matter what tech scammers keep saying. The fact that laws haven’t catched up doesn’t change the reality of mass plagiarism we are seeing …

Just because that happened in this context doesn’t automatically mean that this is happening in all contexts. It’s absolutely possible, and I’d love to see a conclusive study on this topic, but the example of one LLM version doing this in one application context in one case isn’t clear enough proof either way. If a question doesn’t have many answers (be they real or fake), and one answer seems to solve the problem with explicit instructions, you’d want the AI system to give the necessary parts of those same instructions, which is what happened here. This is how I expected and understand these systems to work - so I’d love to see examples of what people exactly said that GP is arguing against, because I don’t know the argument they are arguing against.

And people like you keep insisting that “AIs” are stealing ideas, not verbatim copies of the words like that makes it ok.

I didn’t insist on anything, I wanted an explanation of the position GP is arguing against. I’m of the opinion that any commercial generative AI use should be completely forbidden until a proper framework is built that ensures compensation of sources before anything else - but you don’t care about my position, because anything that doesn’t resemble “AI bad” must automatically mean “AI good” to you.

Except LLMs have no concept of ideas, and you people keep repeating that even when shown evidence, like this post, that they don’t think.

Can you define “idea” and show me an actual study on this topic? Because I have seen too many examples both for and against all of these grand theses. I don’t know where things lie. But you can’t show that something is unable to do thing A because it did thing B, without showing that B is diametrically opposed to A. You have to properly define “idea” and define an experiment for that purpose.

And even if they did, repeat with me, this is still plagiarism even if this was done by a human. Stop excusing the big tech companies man

I haven’t said that this is or is not plagiarism. Stop being so rabid about anything not explicitly anti-AI - I’m not making pro-AI points.

FooBarrington,

Please stop projecting positions onto me that I don’t hold. If what people told the OP was that LLMs don’t plagiarize, then great, that’s a different argument from what I described in my reply, thank you for the answer. But you could try not being a dick about it?

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