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by rossy 4d ago
What enabled people to build cool side projects in the actual 90's and 00's and what stopped them from doing it in the period afterwards but before LLMs?
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by rossy 7d ago
It's actually pretty normal to be upset when an unjust law is enforced on you but doesn't seem to apply to someone else.
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by rossy 7d ago
Sometimes I imagine the world where each installment got, say, 14 years of copyright exclusivity before becoming part of a shared cultural mythos that anyone could contribute to. Imagine the boon for small artists to have access to such rec
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by rossy 9d ago
Tbf I was talking about first-party Google TV boxes (Google TV Streamer and Chromecast with Google TV.) Likely not perfect for privacy, but not pure evil like built-in smart TV firmware, they support sideloading without time limits, alter
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by rossy 9d ago
Obviously, as an advertising company, Google should have your utmost scrutiny. But as far as I know, their TV boxes don't ACR your content. If they were the only two options, sticking with your smart TV software instead of using a Go
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by rossy 10d ago
> I remember a socialistic coworker of mine—that was bragging about his -arr setup—talking about the end of the culture because authors aren't earning money. To be fair, you can have it both ways. If you buy-and-pirate, and you
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by rossy 13d ago
I don't see the issue. The thing I can't move past with generative AI is that it wouldn't exist without the labour of people who post things for free on the internet, but it's displacing those same people from their day
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by rossy 18d ago
Holding the threat of death over people isn't the way to a "high-trust society." Maybe you think it's the way to something similar, but you have to give up the word "trust" because it doesn't apply here. I
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by rossy 23d ago
> And they probably know basic LLM tricks like "write it in the style of X". You can probably get it to do a surface-level impression of Mark Twain that way, but from what I've heard, it's not that easy to prompt Cl
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by rossy 29d ago
> Honesty section: This one gets to me. Not only is it useless (paragraph would have the same meaning if it was removed) but wdym "honesty section," Claude? The whole readme should be honest! One of the many causes of psychol
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by rossy 2mo ago
I read the comment as "allowing wealth to access the skill of the people who created the contents of the training set." I don't think anything prior has allowed such direct access to the skill of other people while denying th
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by rossy 7mo ago
Let's Encrypt can issue wildcard certs too
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by rossy 9mo ago
> It’s a targeted advertising machine that is extremely effective on kids and teenagers. It preys on them so, so efficiently. It’s a technical work of art. A young mind is extremely susceptible to the algorithms on those platforms. Much
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by rossy 10mo ago
> They are mostly on the wrong side in the war on general-purpose computing. All modern Chromebooks can be put into developer mode without opening the case, which gives you root access.
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by rossy 10mo ago
> (though this isn't the case for Anubis) the cliche inappropriately dressed inappropriately young anime characters dawned as mascots in an ever increasing number of projects I think the fact that people bring up things that the A
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by rossy 10mo ago
To be fair there are a lot of games on Steam that don't have DRM, which means you can just drag them out of the steamapps folder to a computer that doesn't have Steam and they work fine. The decision to add DRM comes from the deve
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by rossy 10mo ago
Did you forget about Vulkan? Valve and AMD are Khronos members and active contributors to the Vulkan spec. Games like Baldur's Gate 3 and Civ VII use Vulkan on Deck. There's a complete graphics ecosystem with full participation fr
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by rossy 11mo ago
The more I think about it, the harder it is to recommend anything else for the average Windows gamer/prosumer but first-time Linux user. - Rolling release, so you don't have to do a major upgrade twice a year - which would otherwi
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by rossy 1y ago
I don't think being able to migrate your account addresses the rugpull concern. The rugpull scenario is that one day, in five years or so, bsky.app drops all AT Protocol support and transforms into a Twitter-like centralized social med
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by rossy 1y ago
It worked on my device. The page you linked looks very outdated and doesn't have my device's board or any device made in the past 5 years. The lists of unsupported devices also look pretty reasonable - old kernels, CPUs that don&#
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by rossy 1y ago
Sorry, but "CLI stuff" is not "as far as it goes" with desktop Linux apps on ChromeOS. ChromeOS provides Wayland and PulseAudio servers to the apps as well so GUI and audio works too. It even synchronises file associatio
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by rossy 1y ago
I got a ChromeOS device a few years ago and it was great. I think they get an underserved bad reputation from being the locked-down devices you're forced to use in schools, but a personal ChromeOS device is a capable computer that can
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by rossy 1y ago
If the creator of this app doesn't know their stuff, they're putting other people at risk.
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by rossy 1y ago
I only need to look at one file[1] (context[2], and it used to be worse[3]) to decide that I don't really want Hyprland, or anything else from that quick-and-dirty culture of software dev, on my system. Encouraging plugins to hook any
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by rossy 1y ago
I don't see how AI can become democratized. (I don't follow this stuff too closely, but) it seems like larger models with less quantization and more parameters always outperform smaller models of the same type, and that trend isn&
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by rossy 1y ago
As I understand, the AGPLv3 requires the corresponding source code to be provided under the same license, so the Arch guys wanting an AGPLv3 source package isn't just a niche Arch-specific concern or a "packaging issue," but
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by rossy 1y ago
I checked my repo to see which Stalwart version I was running and if I could update, and I was surprised to find that the Arch package has been deleted due to FOSS licensing concerns[1], the most severe of which seems to be that Stalwart ca
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by rossy 1y ago
Looks like it includes the stuff for running OpenGL, OpenCL, Vulkan and VA-API on top of D3D12 as well. Microsoft made their own Mesa builds for this once, but they don't appear to be updating them? https://apps.microsoft.co
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by rossy 1y ago
If I'm already compromising by using non-free software, does it matter that much? How do I know what a native app is sending back in its telemetry?
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by rossy 1y ago
No, it's definitely a win for Linux. I get it. I've dabbled in software minimalism. I love native dev. I know the web "sucks." But the range of mainstream software available for Linux has exploded now that software is mo

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