/tech/ - Technology

>>34570
it's a lot bigger than analysts are letting on i think, because the brunt of chatgpt users have a similar use case to c.ai

Wrote an article about AI… like everyone else.
I'm critical so I'm not going to advertise it here.
It was a moderate position:
Should not be thought of as an occult magic-box.
Rather a completion engine from training.
Something like a "copier" without a legal original.
Mass destruction looming, no big deal.
Thought it was maybe getting "out of hand".
At least when we use it without an idea of its return.
Maybe we haven't any idea what we're doing.
No real call to action.

>>34574
bitch is that a haiku

>>34575
lol, My five readers are lucky the whole article isn't written like that.
Just delete all the space between the ideas and call it a poem.
Not sure why thought you all uniquely ought to enjoy this punishment.

chatgpt is so based

>>34528
lol. I write sort of small. Let me try again.

>>34527
>A co-opting by a segment of the rich as a sign of their future.
<A co-opting of commons and turning them into a symbol (or more) of what they want.
>A guess: it's super-profits over (skilled) labor.
<The motive of capitalist automation. AI being a prime example.
>Still wonder where they plan to put them?
<Wonder what they plan to do with the leftover skilled labor - they will need new work.
>Could it be they make room at the bottom.
<Just deport a couple million people leftovers into the new/old jobs.
>Blame a necessity of competition.
<Make it a political necessity in order to remain competitive in markets.
>Hoist it on the young hoping they know no better.
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>>34527
>>34530
Actually on the question, guess all I meant was it's a symbol of this sort of future.
The one you're already familiar with.

omarchy is anti neet.

What's the point of Omarchy in the first place?

It's another Arch-based distro, okay, but what's the use-case? People who need a solid battle-tested Linux environment either use Debian or Fedora based distros, and there is CachyOS if you want a more user-friendly Arch distro for gaming.
If you take, on the opposite side of the political spectrum, two projects like Rust (woke) and Urbit (chud), they have a purpose beyond the political baggage they carry, it's not just "I'm a Haskell-inspired programming language but woke/chud UwU pls adopt me".

I don't see the point of Omarchy. Distro-hopping is fun at first, but then things eventually break over time and in the end, most of us just want a solid computing environment to do our own shit with, like messing with GCC and Emacs or what have you. I'm not aware of any technical merit this project has over the existing infrastructure, unlike for example, Nix or Guix (which I don't use, but find interesting from afar).
For people who bitched a lot about how woke PR people pushed code of conducts onto open-source projects last decade, they seem to be as useless as them, just on the opposite side of the spectrum.

>>34526
>In a speech to Alibaba employees, Ma defended the industry's '996' work schedule, which refers to the 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. workday, six days a week.
>"I personally think that being able to work 996 is a huge blessing," he said in remarks posted on the company's WeChat account.
>"Many companies and many people don't have the opportunity to work 996," Ma said. "If you don't work 996 when you are young, when can you ever work 996?"
Here is your communism, bro. Jack Ma moved to Japan after this, because the CPC weren't taking his remarks on breaking labor laws too kindly.

Rust has been impossible to avoid for a while now.
Mesa pulls it as a dependency.
So does every modern browser except like cog.
(If even that counts as a "modern browser")
I completely gave up avoiding it on my main machine.

For my personal projects I never saw the utility of uv.
Guess it fits the category of "rewrite it in Rust." projects.
But there was a time when I would have used it anyway.

Also might have learned my lesson from the recent Deno acquisition.
e.g. wouldn't write with MongoDB today.
Even though I'd like a JSON "ODM" with no translation layer.
Ideally written in javascript…

>>33885
Insane value for money. Had the same 200 american dollar (that's 260 in today's money) xiaomi for 7 years now. Adware I turned off immediately and haven't had trouble with since. For apps like gallery I just installed a replacement if they were bad, design-wise. Spyware is like, same level as samsung or other cheap shit. Would you rather have american or chinese backdoor?

>>34135
Bullshit or cope, I had a xiaomi and it had so much shit that you needed to turn off in separate places it was insane, and to this day I never figured out how to disable the xiaomj "safe installer" crap. I got lucky on that phone because it was vulnerable to mtkexploit which rescued it from the trash bin

>>34152
I just hit back out of muscle memory when the stupid safe installer appears. Yeah I had to turn off "features" in separate places too but it took me about a day of getting used to the thing. Yet it is still my daily phone after all these years. Battery still lasts a good day use, too.

everyone's giving you bad advice. the best phone is one you can play the best emulated gaming experience on, get 2 days battery out of, has OLED, and is cheap, under $250.

The entire phone market is an oligopoly keeping certain features from budget and even mid range phones.

Namely, all non flagship phones are artificially limited to 4k30 fps recording, it used to be because of the image signal processor on the cpu, but then it became too expensive to manufacture multiple of those for different cpus, now it's just that the option doesn't pop up in the camera app.

Cameras on phones haven't really gotten better since 2020, the limiting factor isn't megapixels but rather the focal length and tiny sensor size. Every new camera feature since then has been a marketing gimmick.
Manufacturers trying to get more from the tiny sensor ironically makes the picture worse year over year due to shitty overprocessing.


To keep phones from getting cheap all brands collectively agreed to limit midrange phones from having zoom cameras. I bought a redmi note 10 pro 5 years ago and it had a main 108mp camera, a macro camera and an ultrawide. 5 years on the same line offers the same fucking features for 2x the price.

The only thing that keeps advancing are phone cpus but the gap between budget and the one flagship cpu (snapdragon 8 gen 5) keeps increasing year over year due to normal everyday tasks not becoming more demanding.

Also I really like sillicon carbon batteries.

>>34363
Mullvad corporation got a chuckle out of me, the creators look more like your average tech schizo (including being right-wingers, so ultimately supporters and pawns of their own enemies) than like fat cat capitalists.

there is no better alternative

This thread seems to have uncovered nothing substantial to me.
The fact that you need an entity to harden etc. isn't full-proof.
This is just about the only argument that I can think of.
Some people need apps, and some people aren't techies.
e.g. maybe your community uses a secure messenger that's mobile only.
Installing GrapheneOS may really be the best option.

>>34550
get out of here with your practical analysis of the situation. we should communicate via carrier pigeon only

>Sudo apt upgrade on kubuntu system
<kde all broken

ubuntu is by far and large the fucking worst distro I ever had to touch, they deserve to go bankrupt

>>34418
Fixed, guilty party was chromium, removed it and everything works again https://issues.chromium.org/issues/565132857

Am I wrong in wondering how the fuck a glaring bug like this gets pushed through? How did they not notice this? Is this because they just don't even bother anymore with snap?

Learned zswap and cgroups with memory caps can make even 4G "usable". You make a cgroup, can contain both torbrowser and firefox, then OOM killer just kicks in and crashes select tabs once you've exceeded your threshold e.g. max 2560M swap.max 0 restoring balance. Sounds bad, and it sort of is, but it's better than the machine freezing or slowing down, even with this NVME.

An old tutorial is available here, have to change a bunch of stuff to get it to work with cgroup v2:
https://gist.github.com/hrishikeshrt/dab05d42fc60144909cdbde2cc3f4d2c

/etc/cgroup/cgconfig.conf
```
group browsers {
perm {
task {
uid = jugaad;
gid = jugaad;
}
admin {
uid = jugaad;
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>>34518
>OOM killer just kicks in and crashes select tabs
Reducing the number of processes firefox spawns will further reduce its total memory and cpu time. You would only need to turn off overcommitment, so jemalloc can deliver a proper out of memory condition. You could also tune the memory limits in about:config or experiment with LD_PRELOADing mimalloc and tcmalloc.

>>34523
>memory.swap.max = "0G";
This was causing freezing and crashing…
Guess I'll just have to tolerate a slow browser for now…
At least the window manager still works.

>turn off overcommitment
Done

>>34516
I like your post.
I don't claim to know anything about the topic.
There might be an analogue in outreach.
Setting up collabs, and convos and that sort.
Probably difficult to find the right audience/creators.
Where you've got lots of potentially sympathetic actors.
Even I know some organizations make this their occupation.
And then there's the rest of us.
So there's real institutional pressure like you say.
I must touch grass…

space exploration is like the uncontroversial, bipartisan, reddit-friendly iteration of "make america great again". america had this peak moment of great hope and national pride in the 1960s where astronauts walked on the moon in the most expensive political theater photo op of all time and will never, ever reach a peak like that again because the empire is in its twilight years and everything else in the solar system is hundreds of millions of miles farther away than the moon and just as boring and useless as the moon and there's no reason to go there, but people can't let it go, they so badly want to relive that past glory and to believe that it could happen again and that the naive 1960s optimism about the future space age will actually come to pass. and all the rocket launches are just obscene displays of extravagance and waste, like some trillionaire neo-nazi tech ceo just basically burning billions of dollars in cash on national television while americans watch and applaud like dopes as the entire world turns to shit HAHAHAHA LOOK IT WENT UP OH WOW

>>34415
CHYNA is going to land on the moon in our lifetimes so that's pretty neat

>>34416

they'll probably just build their own moon that costs like $50 and land on that

>>34415
Funny thing is according to polls the space program in the 60s-70s wasn't that popular, people wanted spending on more terrestrial concerns.

>>34384
The suffering was never in the audio server. JACK on alsa plus realtime kernel was always amazing compared to windows. The moment you go for anything under wine whether it's plugins or DAW it's a bad time. The new pianoroll looks good in Ardour, but that wasn't there when I was shopping around for a DAW. I also prefer to have a grid sequencer for my drum machine as well.

https://www.discodsp.com/
Linux native but proprietary

It is amazing how the best softsynth in existence is free and Linux native/open source. You can do basically anything in it. I've actually been using it as basically a subtractive synth, and there are presets that emulate a bunch of historical synth sounds as well. Oh, and what's even more amazing is that the 2nd best softsynth in existence, Surge, is also free and Linux native. https://surge-synthesizer.github.io/manual/

>>34386
>I also prefer to have a grid sequencer for my drum machine as well.
Bitwig has one of those built in IIRC.

https://www.linuxmusic.rocks/
https://linuxsynths.com/
Couple of Linux plugin databases. Linuxsynths.com seems to have slightly out-of-date info.

https://www.zounoashi.com/#/game/karaage?card=square2

Put any image you want in a deep fryer

ich weiß gar nicht, wie ich das internet in zukunft überhaupt nutzen soll. also wenn wir davon ausgehen müssen, dass langfristig alle kleinen/alternativen foren/diskussionsräume sterben werden wegen gesetzen (kids act), KI und weiteren äähh… externalitäten, dann bleiben nur noch die großen, ultramanipulativen corpo plattformen. ok. ich benutze seit einiger zeit wieder xitter und mein "for you" feed besteht zum größten teil aus titten, schwänzen, muschis und ärschen. was ich ja mag, aber ich kann doch nicht permanent horny sein, wenn ich durch den feed scrolle?? ist das wirklich die zukunft?

>>34288
AI text detection has gotten much, much better. It's an arms race, but at the moment Pangram is so good at detecting AI text that if it flags something as AI it's basically certain that it is.

Somehow all of my search results turned to slopsites or silos.
Imagine you could only search blogs and universities.
If you needed to query a silo, you go to them directly.
https://wiby.me
https://marginalia-search.com/
https://kagi.com/smallweb
https://hister.org/

Recently queried for a fairly obscure topic: "no-mind" and found an interesting page.
Something documenting Chinese philosophy of mind, or lack there of.
The central idea as I read was that heart-mind, and dao fail to distinguish either:

1. a duality between reason and affect/
   
2. a duality between social and personal.
   

Plus there were some later innovations.
https://philosophy.hku.hk/ch/mind.htm

>>34490
Thanks for Marginalia anon, it's awesome for finding things like small blogs and solutions to niche problems