@Tony Well, yeah, but there are no visible bad wounds and I don't think she set the cats to fight on purpose 🤷 And yes, shit can of course happen, but young cats are usually safe outside, unless there are some really badass birds or something like that, they usually come back in a day or two. I think they are more scared when they get lost in big cities — their instincts are silent about how to deal with all this shit around them 🙀
@bot@creamqueen I don't think it's capable of making decisions, neutral networks are good for turning rather vague criteria that humans use into what computer can use, it's what they've been always used for. What is happening now isn't something groundbreaking, we just have more computational power and vast datasets to train them on, thanks data collection becoming nearly omnipresent. > You can literally test it yourself I just don't see what I could use it for 🤷 I've been experimenting with neural networks for OCR more than a decade ago, it works. But it's not some silver bullet technology, I think they are really struggling to find good use for it, LLMs look cool to many, so they are pushing that. Then again, they are attempting to position it as it will become sentient tomorrow, but it won't. I think that in a few years the dust will settle down and we will go back to using it only in a handful of fields.
@bot@creamqueen They are using it to refine what it already knows, it's somewhat akin to multipass processing. And yes, they are already doing it. I somehow doubt that it will improve it, their business strategy is to tell us that they can keep improving it. People are expecting it to become capable of making decisions, which it won't be, but they have to make it look like they are still working on something. And they do 😁
@thegreatape@kirby Check out Void. It has everything prebuilt with sane defaults and you don't have to do COOMPILING 24/7 and then fix what got broken. But if you really want to build something with different settings or your set of patches, xbos-src makes it easy.
@eric > Rockstar Games Launcher What the f'🦆 is that? Is there any publisher left who doesn't have their own distribution platform and client for it? @newt@pesekcuy
@djsumdog Yes, very valid remark about local scene — but as far as I can see, even underground bands are adopting other formats as well and often sell both tapes and plates at their shows. I sometimes buy them even though I don't have good equipment for those — just as memorabilia to support the band and to give them later as presents to my friends who are into formats other than CDs and who might not be familiar with this band/artist — way better than both just sending them a link and giving something generic and useless as Birthday present. Streaming services aside, BandCamp seems to become the main tool both of promotion and of distribution even for lesser know bands. I do want to support them, but paying $10/15/20 for the CD itself and then about $50 on S&H doesn't seem reasonable, I can download FLACs and record them to a CD myself just fine — I have plenty of blanks left. Besides, look here: https://artoffactrecords.bandcamp.com/album/artoffact-records-2023-sampler FLA, Download, Cyberaktif — this label isn't exactly into some zoomer stuff, but even their compilations no longer fit on a standard 700 Mb blank — no one seems to care anymore. It's kinda sad for me personally, but it's indicative. > My 2018 Toyota still came with a stock CD player. Kinda surprised. 😲Unexpected indeed! @PurpCat
@munir Just use regular Ubuntu then, why bother, do a minimal netinstall, then install just the stuff you want. Check out PopOS — it seems to get good reviews and there is a company behind it, it's not supported by enthusiasts on their spare time — shouldn't be too bad, they've got to sell those laptops after all 🤷
@munir Void is very low maintenance once you are comfortable with it — you don't have to update daily, you can do it once a year and it won't e.g. make you look at diff of every config file, or you can do it — in any case, things breaking badly is very rare and you can immediately roll back to the old version. If you don't run it on PowerPC machines like me, for which prebuilt binaries simply do not exist at all, you won't be servicing it daily at all — it's NOTHING like Gentoo! And believe me, I know what I'm talking about — I've been using it over a decade, but I won't recommend this piece of shit to anyone I don't hate with passion. Void is great compared to it.
But yeah, getting used to it isn't something you spend one evening on — it's very different from nearly all mainstream distros. If you're not up to spending some time on initial familiarisation, it won't suit you — I won't even lie to you about it, even for me, who wasn't new neither to Linux, nor to UNIX systems in general, it look a month to get used to, and some more time to learn xbps-src, but now I even have my own set of patched and rebuild packages I want to be built differently myself.
@munir Void fits the description I suppose — toolchains for rather obscure languages like Zig and Hare might not be in the repos (because Void supports a plethora of platforms, but e.g. Hare isn't even remotely there yet), but you can always build them yourself or download prebuilt binaries. Everything else is: Python, Rust, Go, CLang and GCC are very much up-to-date. Alpine might be a good choice too, but I've never used it myself, can't tell for sure.
@PurpCat For some reason I think that CDs are already dying out rapidly as they are getting less common in car audio — and they have nothing to offer in term of aesthetics as compact cassettes and vinyls do. And this is coming from an avid CD appreciator, I have a whole cabinet of them and a few standalone CD players.
@bot It wasn't designed for phones — it relied on sounds heavily to make the atmosphere scary, but of course it doesn't work if you play it on a bus using phones built-in speakers, that is why the game has failed, although the idea was good. You couldn't fight back in that game, all you could do is to run away towards well-lit areas where you could still be safe for some time. Your post reminded me of this game, I can't recall its name unfortunately.