Notices by Anthropy :verified_dragon: (anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz)

The WINE 10.0 change list looks amazing:
- ARM support
- Many graphics pipeline and touch input improvements, could be worth trying this with programs like Paint tool SAI and CSP
- Better high DPI and scaling support
- Native Wayland support
- Improved COM/RPC proxies and calling
- Moving from GStreamer to FFmpeg for decoding things should improve many things, also things like game intro videos etc.
- and much more

https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-10.0

It's kind of sad to see TikTok users fleeing the platform being met with hatred here because some people not agreeing with the term "TikTok Refugee".

If anyone ever wonders why people consider the fediverse hostile, I think this is an excellent example. We can do better than that.

I understand if you feel the term is a bit loaded, but if you want to point people to it, at very least try and be kind about it instead of trying to insult new innocent users.

#tiktokrefugee #tiktokrefugees

Severely tired of people whining about offline opensource AI models as if they are somehow as offensive as large online corporate capitalist models.

Once again people are screaming murder about things they just don't understand, because they refuse to have the slightest bit of nuance in their opinions.

This is basically like going back in time and being upset about weather prediction models because "AI"

forever relevant: https://mastodon.derg.nz/@anthropy/111471337222055082

edit, context: https://mas.to/@alternativeto/113805097886731681

Flaming hot take: Being against "AI" is useless because it's become a generic marketing term to denominate all of ML, and I SINCERELY HOPE people can agree that being against weather prediction models, spam filters, OCR, and search engines in general, just because you don't like ChatGPT and the likes thereof (which I do fully understand!), is insane?

Can people *PLEASE* come up with a more nuanced take than "AI bad >:c"? Please?

I fully understand if you hate it when:
- companies scrape the entire internet for training data without consent
- use these tools to put actual humans that have worked hard to become good at their arts and crafts out of a job so that some CEO can get a multi-million bonus
- in general make money over other people's backs
- plagiarize copyrighted works and somehow get fucking away with it too
- etc

But:
- Blame those who actually do these immoral things
- and preferably don't limit it to "AI" 🤷

AI is just an easy scapegoat and companies LOVE IT when you do this because they would MUCH RATHER you attack the incoherent vague term "AI" and get written off as a lunatic, than actually make a well-reasoned argument why e.g OpenAI are a bunch of lunatics that are doing grossly immoral things at scale.

And more importantly: THESE PEOPLE DON'T NEED AI TO EXTORT, HURT AND EXPLOIT YOU, THAT'S JUST A FACADE, AI/ML is just a tool, you wouldn't blame a knife for the acts of a murderer that's absurd

I much understand people being upset about 'the AI hype', I am with you there, I just really think that we need better words for this, if we actually want to make a tangible impact on the companies doing these immoral things.

I don't know many 'AI haters' that have explicitly talked about how OpenAI has literally taken up defense contracts, or called for specifically e.g making regulation to force datacenters to only generate their own (green) power, it's almost always 'datacenters & AI bad' :/

another lukewarm AI take in this thread: if you "hate AI" you're no better than the tone deaf marketeers that are labelling everything as "AI", because neither of you actually wants to acknowledge the two letter acronym has long lost its value and meaning, and you are both thus saying nothing.

And you can't just say "but then don't call it AI" either, because we are well and far past that station, too.

Just simply have a nuanced take instead of going all out zealot or foaming savage.

Would I prefer people not calling it AI? Sure, but I kind of doubt if we're going to call the whole pile "ML" it's going to be any different.

Also: IMHO we should stop with this silly "but biased" thing as soon as the word "AI" is dropped; that's no different for any other ML implementation, if you've ever worked with early days OCR you know exactly what poorly trained/biased "AI"/ML looks like.
Is that meh? Sure, any type of (bayesian, or other statistical) inference is, just ask spamfilters 😅

VLC's ML-derived speech to text is undoubtedly imperfect. whether you're going to call it AI, ML, speech to text, digital hamsters or literally anything else, is, as literally as it gets, arguing semantics.

And I'd really really love to move past the semantics so we can have an actual discussion on the meaningful parts, like, how good is the model actually (rather than assuming it's 'biased'), is it going to bloat the player significantly or is it going to be an optional extra download? etc

#dragons

@jschwart that also works! though just in case: the hole does not have to be perfectly round, those little taps you can get at the hardware store have large silicone seals that will cover up any uneven parts. if the bucket drops sometimes it may be worth mounting the tap on the side near the bottom instead of on the bottom, then at least it shouldn't take a direct hit when it does drop down. they're pretty cheap (~2-8$ over here), could be a fun experiment perhaps c:

@jschwart we made it ourselves; drill a hole on the underside and add a tap, there's ones at the hardware store made specifically to add to the sides of buckets and plastic containers, we just mounted it on the underside instead :P

I love this so much, this is literally the physical form of a workaround that's grown to meet enterprise demands.

This is literally, physically, what developers mean when they talk about "tech debt".

@sophieschmieg I know you have your methods, but if interested I've become the first only true random shitpost generator using my brain trained on naturally recurring shitposts with enough anthropy and randomness to defend against a whole quanta of warm tea

@tek_dmn @sneexy oh yea well HNNNGG *shitposts super hard like omg why would you shitpost that hard that's dangerous and bad for your blood pressure*

@tek_dmn @sneexy I think I might've shitposted my pants :pensive_blob:

Today earth will perform a rolling reboot to update to the 2025 release.

This may lead to asynchronous new year messages as we cycle through each node in the cluster (colloquially called "time zones"); do not fret, everyone is still approximately in sync.

@RikerGoogling depends. The planet? no. The politics? Also no. Social welfare? Still no. But I baked a really tasty omelette this morning so all in all it's okay

@rysiek donated 60 myself. It's not a ton but if just 500 people donated the same amount we would have the full legal costs covered.

We can do this! FUCK companies that do grossly immoral things like this and then try to abuse the justice system to stop the truth from getting out, I hope they lose, and I hope the EU/EC gets on top of this after and slaps them with a huge fine for both the practices and the slapp court case.