ethin

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by ethin 6d ago
I absolutely love system76. Never owned one of their desktop machines, but I have a couple of their older laptops and they work fantastically for me. As in I can easily get a decade out of them and replace the batteries every few years. One
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by ethin 7d ago
The solution is to make the common features a part of a statically-linked library that you can pull into your apps. A web app is, IMO, never the answer when you want to address multiple audiences. It is bad for accessibility (because 99.999
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by ethin 7d ago
I mean no, not really... Your the one making the claims that these AI companies really, really want regulation, nationalization, a slowdown, or whatever, and that they genuinely care about AI safety and it not killing us all. It's up t
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by ethin 8d ago
> ... They have explicitly said repeatedly that they want regulation, oversight, nationalization, a global slowdown, etc. And yet they do the exact opposite of all of the above. They do everything to get regulation just to create a moat
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by ethin 8d ago
Sorry but the pro-AI/AI boosters do the exact same thing when they say that people who don't use AI are "Luddites" and the like. And I'm pretty sure the Luddite thing has been going on for far longer than the AI psy
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by ethin 14d ago
How is this idealistic? This is how digital information and copyright (if it is to apply to digital information) needs to work. It is absolutely absurd that I can buy something from you, but you can then turn around and say "well actua
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by ethin 14d ago
IMO the better thing is to force these companies to dump this mindset that digital information is a finite resource. Sony's logic doesn't even make sense to begin with. If person A buys a game, that game does not suddenly become u
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by ethin 17d ago
You also won't have accessibility on Windows either unless you can somehow get it to enable accesskit integration. (I really don't get the open source norm that something like accessibility should be opt-in, particularly with UI t
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by ethin 17d ago
This is so obviously written by ChatGPT from what I can tell. Not even an attempt to copyedit it unless I missed something.
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by ethin 17d ago
I... Don't agree with this. If your users have followed your projects developments even remotely reasonably, you taking a few months to implement something or to figure something out is not a sign that the project is dead. It would be
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by ethin 18d ago
I would love to give Haiku a try. Indeed, I've looked at it's code before (it's quite good, or was, last time I looked at it). What prevents me is accessibility. To be fair to Haiku, implementing an actually good accessibilit
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by ethin 18d ago
I'm curious why velocity is sooooo important. Every single AI discussion that I've read always always always mentions velocity or development speed as though that somehow is the ultimate goal. Why does it matter if your velocity i
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by ethin 19d ago
> Dlangui is so niche that I am amazed to even see it here. Eh, I'm testing whether I can make it fully accessible, since I happen to like the D language itself. But the UI without my changes is entirely inaccessible. > DearImGui
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by ethin 20d ago
Agreed. I'll say the same about accessibility. People really need to test for this more. If your app is not accessible I literally cannot use your app regardless of how useful it might be. This is pretty much why I currently don't
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by ethin 20d ago
I know of at least 5 different UI frameworks in different languages which are partially accessible or completely inaccessible. Some include Dlangui, Tkinter (although this is getting better), DearImGui... Really any UI that decides to draw
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by ethin 20d ago
My logic for determining if a GUI is keyboard driven is pretty simple: if I can fire up a screen reader and completely drive your UI via the keyboard, then by definition your UI is keyboard-driven. If your app ever requires me to emulate mo
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by ethin 20d ago
> The web, and the browser by extension, is a multimedia platform. Says who exactly though? The big companies and web devs who think your browser needs raw access to HIDs? Why exactly does a web browser need this level of access when a n
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by ethin 20d ago
I know, but my point was that this should just not be a thing. Our web browsers have become way too complicated and then you get outcomes like what tfa talks about.
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by ethin 20d ago
There is. 17 U.S.C. 512(f) explicitly provides penalties. The problem is that this subsection is so rarely enforced it might as well not exist.
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by ethin 20d ago
Hot take but I think the entire concept of a "web app" needs to die. My web browser does not need access to my GPU, OpenGL/Vulkan, USB, MIDI, HID, <insert whatever other weird invocation of Cthulhu that exists here>. Al
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by ethin 21d ago
If I am evaluating an AI for safety, the last thing I would do is connect it to real-world peripherals or systems to allow it to reek havoc. That is criminal negligence at it's finest (especially if the AI is capable of committing crim
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by ethin 21d ago
We seriously need an open hardware law or something. Like it doesn't have to be regulation necessarily (as by law) but we really need to start very strongly pressuring/forcing companies to open up their hardware and provide all do
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by ethin 21d ago
Oh really? Please tell me how such a computer could engineer its way out of a sandbox with no attached peripherals and no NIC/bluetooth/wireless capability? This is what OAI should've done. If they had executed this training
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by ethin 25d ago
As Wikipedia likes to say: [citation needed]
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by ethin 27d ago
The problem is that the fourth amendment at least for the US has been filled with so many exceptions it might as well not exist. And even if an officer does violate your fourth amendment rights, good luck getting them punished for it, becau
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by ethin 27d ago
Is it me or is all of this essentially "we don't want to show the user anything at all when something breaks?" And what makes this funny (to me) is that this is a website for developers. I would think that of all the audience
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by ethin 29d ago
I agree, and I very strongly dislike it, to be polite about it. It contributes absolutely nothing and is an excellent way of hand-waving away literally anything an AI model does. Saying "well people do this too" is a great way to
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by ethin 1mo ago
Can you explain to all of us how this gatekeeping is actually bad? Software would be way, way worse if we just allowed any arbitrary feature to be added to software, and ordinary people who want all the things would have to learn, the hard
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by ethin 1mo ago
It's done that to me even at the beginning of conversations. I usually end up telling it what time of day it is, but if I even do that at all it starts nannying me.
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by ethin 1mo ago
I agree, part of me seriously wonders if Fable isn't at all burning through tokens as quickly as we think and Anthropic is just doing this to get more money from us... It really wouldn't at all surprise me if this was the case, bu

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