I opened my smart TV and removed the Bluetooth/WiFi PCI card that was inside it.

Good fucking luck connecting to something you privacy invading piece of shit.

Can we not do the whole the rotat8ng ring artificial gravity yet?

Like. Why are we not doing this? Can we not do this?

I bequeath deez nutz to Jo mama

My father bounced on my mother, thinking me and my twin sister died during childbirth. We were split up to keep.it that way. She grew up like royalty, with everything a child could possibly want or need, while I grew up in the desert with my aunt and uncle, who were both unfortunately killed while.I was in my late teens.

They’d lied to me about who my father really was after I was reunited with my sister, and the first time I ever met him I found out first hand how cruel he could be and I unfortunately lost my hand in the fray.

Despite this, he tried everything he could to get me to come work for him and his asshole boss. And mentor.

Ultimately he redeemed himself when he threw that wrinkled prick.down an 3levator shaft, but died soon after.

Life’s a mess.

Like. I can’t even rub Wayland on my 4090. Its a black screen. This happens with manjaro kde. With mint I can at least see my (frozen, unresponsive, unusable) desktop.

This all sounds cool and stuff but I kind of wish people would, like, shut the fuck up about Wayland? My understanding is that NY experience.is far from unique. People that own PCs have nvidia cards. Unless “the year of the Linux desktop” involves everyone vaporating anmd cards that magically have cuda cores somehow out of their asses then nothing about Wayland really matters to us.

You can “get an and” card to me all you want, but here’s the thing: I don’t fucking want one. I use my cuda cores. Its why I spent as much as I did on a 4090.

I guess 555 is supposed to make Wayland work with nvidia?

I mean, look. Using an nvidia card with Linux, and getting the requisite drivers working, can be am experience akin to having your has deferens ripped out by an aging badger. I get it. But until I can nvidia while I Wayland I just don’t care. And I’m not alone.

Oh yeah the keyboard is awful.

But it doesn’t spy on me so. Everyone else gets to suffer.

I was transferred between 16 different reps on an amazon chat trying to return a busted chair. I refused to log off, was polite, and started asking what the record for transfers was and of wed best it. I refused to explain the pr9boem again after the third transfer.

I wanted to return the chair and get the same model but not broken. I refused to take it to the post office.

They ended up refunding me the money and I kept the chair. Which kind of works. You can sit in it. Just can’t lock it when you Kean back.

Same thing happened with a vacuum that worked but kind of shot.out dust when you first turned it on.

You say this.

But its just not true.

It took my of all of a day with Linux mint before she needed to open up a command line and do things.

I love Linux . i would kill for Linux. Have killed for linux. And wil kill again for Linux. What’s that, tux? Sudo for person in store; do “$festoon_the_walls_with_their_guts”? If [[ -e $police ]]; then -eval sudo_works_in_real_,life; find / -type “*god” -exec /platonic_root/deicide police surviving_bystanders news_crews: fi; done

You’re always looking out for me bud. Sure I’ll do it.

I be been fiddling with home assistants voice thing a bit and like wvwry4hing home assistant the process has been frustrating and bordering on Kafkaesque. I bought these atom echo things they recommend which don’t seem to make the best google home replacements, and in struggling to figure out how to get home assistant to pipe the sound out of another device, thereby making them useful.

Admittedly this may be simpler if all I was looking to do is say things and have stuff happen in a default voice model, but I fine tuned my own RTS voice model(s) and am looking to be able to use them for controlling homeass as well as for general inference when i feel like it.

I’ve spent some tim3, not a lot but some, trying to find out what devices can be m2dia players and under what conditions and how (or whether) you can use esp home to pipe audio through the media player / use USB mics as microphones for the voice stuff.

I’m kind of at a loss as far as understanding what the actual intention was for homeless’ year of the voice, so I’ve be3n thinking that maybe offloading some of my goals to a container or VM on TNT server running homeless on proxmox may be a better path forward. I came across this post just in time it seems.

Wow. I understood most of this.

No joke, I think he should be tried for crimes against humanity for how he’s lead the merciless sodomizing of of our access to actual information.

If found guilty then he should have a chance to walk out unscathed. Five obscure questions. One computer. One elaborate limb removal device.

For every obscure piece of information he can actually find the answer to within the first 100 pages of results (don’t you wish the other pages were real now, you fucking sack of shit?) He loses a limb. If he can’t find the info at least once, he gets to watch his limbs get cut off one before it’s off with his head and into the nearest, largest sack pile of actual shit we can forget his worthless body parts in.

It would be on youtube and the special would be like 8 hours long. The ad revenue and their utter lack of a sould would keep the executives engaged enough to not repeat his mistakes.

Yeah. You got it.

And sure you can hop on vocitai and download a model or lora or lycoris or comfyui workflow or whatwver. But we’re only at the beginning stages of ai.

Like. Face swapping is mainly done with with the inswapper. Onnx model which was pulled by insight face after it started making the rounds in the face swapping applicarion roop. It’s all well and good for hobbyist face swapping image gen but it’s a 128 bit model and low res. It kind of makes a blurry mess on larger images. Insight face has higher resolution models available but they’re not public, and to my knowledge there aren’t any viable alternative to this model that can match the same speed and accuracy. So everyone is out here playing with sticks and rocks while those who can pay have shoyn new things.

There are very valid concerns about the harmful potential of deep fakes and I can understand how the models creator didn’t want to take responsibility for enabling that. But if, say, google wanted to use that or a similar closed source in house model to deep fake CASM for propaganda purposes or the same for political leaders, celebrities, not only does the public not have access to those models to understand how it’s being done and identify artifacts of that process, they lack the ability to “fight back” in any meaningful way.

To be clear I don’t think the above is, or is inevitably going to happen, but it highlights the asymmetric nature of ai that big tech wants. It doesn’t even have to be such high stakes. If you wanted to, say, swap out your son’s face for Luke Skywalker on the star wars movie for a Christmas present or something, that’s something that would be challenging to do locally and convincingly without the right model, but not having access to that model you could instead be forced to pay an absurdly high price by a private company or denied entirely due to fear of copyright infringement, even though I’m relatively certain doing that and not releasing it publicly falls purely in the realm of fair use.

And then there’s text, speech, audio generation. What happens if the tech gets good enough for someone to spend a few hours setting up some parameters for some pop songs with vocals, hits go, and generates music as consistently appealing as what we hear on the radio? And when no one else can access that tech? They’re able to pay artists nothing and basically produce free content wed have to pay for. If the public had access to that same tech then artists would still have a role in making popular music, even if the landscape had shifted totally. Either way the music business as we know it dies, but there’s one option where creative people can still make money independently without getting on big techs dick to do so.

It’s a complicated issue and the ethics of it are fraught no matter where you look, but take one look at how cynically terrible all of googles products are getting and I think it’s painfully obvious we can’t trust them and their ilk with some access to this kind of tech.

Say it with me folks: regulatory capture.

Google et Al wants to make it illegal for the average user to run any kind of ai model locally… it’s scaremongering.

Even if po}pular image generation AIs did have images of children as part of their training dataset how many people would be able to have them generate anything even remotely like that?

Big tech will use this research, and research like it, to de-democratize artificial intelligence and take it out of the hands of ordinary people while actual pedophiles are training image generation AIs on actual child sexual assault media.

Sooner or later someone with a full blown cp generating stable diffusion model will be found and big tech is going to latch on to it like a lamprey on a shark, doing everything in their power to best the world over the head with it and ensure only they have the tools to make aim

99% of everything people create is a variation.

Truly innovative anything is RARE.

There’s just stuff and things people haven’t thought to combine with stuff yet.

I’m not sure if this applies where you are but since covid it is HARD to talk to people irl. I’m chatty and will strike up conversations everywhere I go. Before covid most people engaged. Since they look at me like I’m grow>ng a second head. Dating apps have always worked well for me though. Damn well.

I’ve only ever met people online.

And it’s allowed me to be the depraved slut I am today.

Let the squares go do square things.

First of all fuck you. Second of all I laughed my ass off at thst. I’m not sure why. Good job.

God DAMN that’s a well reasoned and written comment that demonstrates a lot of familiarity with the material.

I hope digg 2.0 never happens to reddit. Lemmy needs to stay like this forever.

Only thing id add is that for the moment any ai generated art needs quite a bit of human intervention for it to be exactly what the artists envisions. You’re argument about the lack of cap on demand for what AI can generate is a great point, because that would need to be the case for people in some industries to keep jobs as ai progresses. In image generation were already starting to see the prompts needed to generate what one wants be less cryptic and more like natural language, though we ain’t there yet. It’s moving quickly though.

I think a lot of the uncertainty lies in not knowing for sure where a lot of this tech will land. Will it be able to write engaging, novel, and new scripts / books, or even entire movies one day? Or is it always gooing to be the eloquent, stupid dumpster firebthay is chatgpt?

If the tech never becomes seamless, competent, and all around useful, the need for human intervention increases. If it does, it decreases. Which doesn’t mean there won’t be jobs dealing with creating the input and directing the output, but unless regulations cut off access to these tools to all but the richest individuals and companies those jobs will be handling a commodity that is essentially post scarcity.

Most jobs today focus either on selling things people have created and are all governed in some way by scarcity - of natural resources, of the time it takes to create software or art, supply chains, etc. If ai is good enough the human input needed is trivial or even nonexistent, and the output governed only by computing resources, efficiency of the code, etc. Both of these CAN be(aren’t always - the compute cost of AI has ready raised eyebrows and running dozens of enterprise-grade GPUs isn’t exactly gree) so trivial st scale that the driving force behind what’s crested is a demand for curation stronger than any weve seen in the world. The noise:signal ratio is going to get so bad, and it wouldn’t surprise me if one day thousands of novels better than any human being has ever written lie unread on magnetic tape .

kagis tailscale

I’ve been linuxing for about a year and a half now and have tried Manjaro, mint, Ubuntu, Kali. And fedora. I could not for the life of me get my graphics card working with it. So I moved on. Ubuntu ran like hot ass which lead to mint. Which just kind of did what it should. Manjaro was a g=st way to dio my toe into arch l, and I use it as a backup os on a spare ssd. Kali is occasionally useful when I want to do some digging or broaden my knowledge on infosec.

I guess my point is that there isn’t really one flavour that does it all. For me anyway, there’s just kind of a handful of daily driver candidates and ones for specific use cases. \ete I tk get back into gaming id imagine pop os would appeal.

And the average consume would probably rather have a piping hot ramen enema then learn or tinker with any of the above. Command lines are intimidating and most people will give up as soon as they see one.