@arstechnica I wonder how many more years it will be until some corporation finds a way to charge people for breathing air.
Notices by Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social), page 24
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 07:41:06 JST Nazo -
Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 07:32:20 JST Nazo @arstechnica Kind of goes to show you how much these people must have just coasted through their courses in law school -- probably more on their money than anything else in most cases. That he even has to resort to LLMs to do the stuff he supposedly was an expert in speaks volumes, but the scary thing is just how many lawyers today are doing this -- including the one he gave the result to who didn't bother to check it either.
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 06:58:41 JST Nazo @arstechnica The only thing surprising about this is that it's less than 100%. In fact, the biggest surprise is that it isn't *more* than 100%.
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 06:42:55 JST Nazo @itsfoss That's good to hear. It kind of seems promising. I didn't look into it too deeply -- I got as far as the part about it randomly crashing -- but a cross-platform file manager of this sort of nature is the kind of thing we all need more of and at least on the surface it looks like a good sort.
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2024 09:12:36 JST Nazo @nixCraft I... didn't even know this... I still use ifconfig, rofl. I guess this explains why so many distros ship without ifconfig. I kept wondering why, but it isn't as if any of the software tools or anything actually tell you this!
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2024 08:59:16 JST Nazo @nixCraft Why reinvent the wheel? I just use Byobu. It does all the hard work of scripting tmux (or screen in older versions) to do pretty much all the nice stuff one could want anyway.
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 01-Jan-2024 09:14:41 JST Nazo @itsfoss I'm desperately looking to replace my current file manager (CubicExplorer which hasn't been updated in forever) but when something that is so early in its development that it apparently regularly crashes hasn't been updated in what amounts to two full years now I think it's just not really a good way to go sadly. 😔
It's too bad. It sort of looks a bit vaguely like the sort of thing I need. But I want to replace slight bugginess with no buginess, not straight up crashing...
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 09:09:24 JST Nazo @itsfoss It has been a long, hard battle for me as a gamer though. Linux has always been just terrible for gaming. Lately it's getting a lot better -- ironically thanks to Steam which is also a platform that believes in locking people into things primarily because they benefit more from the Linux platform than the hot mess that is a more minimal or embedded Windows in these days of MS going completely nutso with bloat and waste.
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 09:05:57 JST Nazo @arstechnica I love how it's presented as "they have invested more than $700 million" when, ultimately laser communications could result in major savings in communication systems (possibly even terrestrial!) more efficient devices that need less power (thus can have cheaper or longer lasting power systems,) etc etc.
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 08:57:08 JST Nazo @nixCraft This is why it straight up scares me when I run across an open source project that seems to have lots of hype around it. There is no marketing in normal end-user FOSS stuff (I know there is a lot of FOSS at an enterprise level, so that's different,) so why is it hyping as if there was? Like a program on F-Droid will be like "have you ever needed a program to do this? Well now our amazing one can do it all! You should install this now because it does so many amazing things!"
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 08:04:30 JST Nazo @nixCraft This has been me since about 2016 or so. Each individual year has actually felt like 10 for me. So I'm now basically 80 years older than I was in 2016. I want to describe the pre-2016 days to some young whippersnapper with vague nostalgia goggles.
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 08:02:14 JST Nazo @nixCraft The sad thing is there actually has been a very recent major SSH exploit found and they're basically capitalizing on that. Instead of talking about that they just seem to have made a cheap, hastily thrown together unrelated article that is, as you said, clickbait.
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 07:54:03 JST Nazo @nixCraft It says "depicting" a lot because it's not "AI." LLMs are built on models that were broken down to keywords. The irony is, this is actually a scenario where it is a word humans use a lot because they were describing images, situations, etc with those keywords. For example, "an image depicting a group of dogs playing poker" to describe a certain famous painting. (It goes into more detail than that, but you get the idea.)
You have to remember for LLMs, everything is keywords.
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 07:49:17 JST Nazo @nixCraft They've had these up for a while. They're pretty useless. My favorite are the ones that straight up contradict themselves. Like they might say "customers commented that it's really fast, but also customers felt it was really slow."
There usually are only two or three reviews you even need to read to get the idea of it anyway. The "top positive" and "top negative" are often sufficient quite on their own. I just look for the first few who actually wrote more than two lines.
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Dec-2023 15:22:03 JST Nazo @itsfoss Actually, I was thinking about it on a separate thing and I think what might be the bigger problem is when people have suggestions for improvements and the attitude they get back is "just go do it yourself." Like, if I could do it myself I wouldn't post a suggestion, I'd do it myself and post a patch (or fork) instead... Unfortunately I am not a programmer. I don't really understand why people even do that...
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Dec-2023 04:27:29 JST Nazo @nixCraft I mean it's funny, lol, but... ... ... why?
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Dec-2023 04:12:46 JST Nazo @arstechnica I honestly have to say the biggest culprit here is so called "AI." Nvidia in particular basically just quit even caring about actual GPU features and focused almost solely on "AI" and related features (like DLSS. Meanwhile I'd rather see them make their cards powerful enough to not need DLSS in the first place... It would be great for consoles but doesn't belong on desktop.) Though I admit AMD hasn't improved as much as they should have either (then again, what competition?)
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Dec-2023 03:47:01 JST Nazo @itsfoss For me it's still difficulty in getting a few of my more stubborn daily drivers replaced and gaming. Things like Proton are great, but it just doesn't seem to be there for serious gaming. (Well, I'll try again when I get my AMD GPU. I was a little caught by surprise to find out that these days nVidia is the one that really isn't good at Linux after they practically owned video acceleration in Linux for decades...)
Someday I truly hope it replaces Windows. MS has lost their minds.
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Dec-2023 03:21:42 JST Nazo @itsfoss Well, it can and it can also not at the same time -- it's definitely a double edged sword. I get it. A huge reason for a lot of those requirements are because they get a lot of junk. "I ran this and it crashed my computer! -- signed person with overclocked unstable CPU."
However, there are times I feel like a bug report area on Github/etc has requirements *too* high. I ran into an issue on DOSBox-X that is difficult to reproduce so I don't really feel comfortable reporting it.
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 08:09:18 JST Nazo @nixCraft That is actually kind of genius.