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in reply to sag

Just having read the README, even if it's a little faffy, the idea of being able to converse with someone and have it be translated back in near real-time is awesome!

This is the kind of application I was looking forward to seeing come out of open source AI - I think it'd still be a little too clunky to save you in an emergency, but probably less clunky for most people than learning a new language or having a human translator on retainer haha

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in reply to sag

Briefly downloaded and tried it out. That is so cool to have running locally on a device. Very impressed. Thanks a lot for the share!

in reply to lemmyreader

You need a phone, tablet, or other device that’s been rooted.


Damit

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in reply to InnerScientist

look into proot+termux-x11 if you don't have a rooted device, it's still very good.
in reply to drwankingstein

It's just quite a bit slower. Everything else other than messing with /sys and android processes works the same.

HDMI, mouse and keyboard and you have an office pc.

in reply to InnerScientist

Rule of thumb for android users, all of the interesting shit is shit you can't do unless you're rooted.
in reply to KillingTimeItself

I remember when it used to be all the REALLY interesting stuff was root only, yet a lot of normal interesting stuff was non-root. Now even with root, modern Android can be a pain and the interesting stuff just pales in comparison with true Linux
in reply to GlenTheFrog

yeah, linux has me spoiled, just being able to do whatever i want as i please is truly a modern art.

Android made me realize how incredible linux was by being so utterly painful.



NLnet; 45 Projects Receiving New NGI Zero Grants


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in reply to lemmyreader

Great to see Unified Push on the list. As well as improved Wayland input method support, whatever that exactly means.


in reply to warmaster

I don't really understand GPU drivers so might be getting the wrong idea here, but it seems as if maybe what they've been exploring is overly complicated ways to avoid having fully open source drivers in the straightforward way that some of their customers are beginning to demand.

Things could at least become more convenient for nvidia users even if not much closer to the ideals of free software.

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in reply to kbal

The easier it is for onboarding the better, even if it includes proprietary software. The discovery of free or open source software will come when they start exploring what's available on Linux and find workflows that suit them.

I like free and open source software but the freedom of choice is what's really important in the end.

in reply to warmaster

A little explanation, there are two different types of drivers:
- Kernel Drivers: The low-level software that directly controls your Video card, managing essential functions like memory and power.

  • User-space Drivers: The higher-level software that translates graphics commands from applications and games into instructions your video card can understand.

Here NVIDIA wants to kill the proprietary kernel driver and have the open source kernel included in the kernel by default. This means that the distros or you simply need to download the user-space binary blob driver without having to recompile the kernel driver every time the Nvidia drivers are updated.

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Fedora 41 Looks To Offer A KDE Plasma Mobile Spin - Phoronix


in reply to warmaster

Lutris? As far as I know, Wine doesn't work on ARM. Unless they're targeting x86 with mobile shape form.
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in reply to Brickardo

Lutris isn't only for wine. Its also a launcher for Linux native/flatpak games.


FreeBSD 14.1 vs. DragonFlyBSD 6.4 vs. NetBSD 10 vs. Linux Benchmarks


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in reply to wiki_me

While I appreciate that these benchmarks matter to someone; I’m more interested in hey it runs and is reasonably supported, not requiring hand rolling any config

Hey this XX runs fine.

in reply to wiki_me

Mfw CentOS Stream 9, using a kernel, compiler, and glibc version from 3 years ago, still manages to pull ahead of software released a few weeks ago on hardware released years after Stream 9’s original release.


FreeBSD 14.1 vs. DragonFlyBSD 6.4 vs. NetBSD 10 vs. Linux Benchmarks


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KDE Plasma 6.1 released




KDE Plasma 6.1 released




Toolbx now enables the proprietary NVIDIA driver


in reply to petsoi

The article needs a lot more explaining what it is about. Took too long to read to understand that it's something about containers but understood nothing about what/why this matters.
in reply to devfuuu


in reply to corbin

Your extension code could be spying on you. Let OUR software do that instead! It's much more secure in our black box.


Toolbx now enables the proprietary NVIDIA driver


in reply to joojmachine

I have never heard of toolbx before, can anyone share how it compares to Distrobox? I've been using that for some time.
in reply to priapus

From what I gather, it's very similar. They're both containerization tools to install software in a container overlay (someone mentioned to me before that they both even draw from the same Docker images).

Toolbx environments have seamless access to the user’s home directory, the Wayland and X11 sockets, networking (including Avahi), removable devices (like USB sticks), systemd journal, SSH agent, D-Bus, ulimits, /dev and the udev database, etc..


I'm not familiar with the finer details, but here's some example use cases.

ETA: Based on the examples, it reminds me of how NixOS uses nested shells to do things.

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in reply to Telorand

From what I gather, it’s very similar.


They are both just wrappers for podman(/docker). Distrobox is more feature rich, and is far better documented, but is closer to a collection of bash scripts rather than a fully cohesive program. Toolbx is… definitely something. Their only real claim to fame is being less β€œjanky”? IDK, it reeks of NIH, and in my experience, it’s a lot more fragile than distrobox (as in, I’ve had containers just become randomly inoperable in that I can’t enter them after a bit).

If you want to be pedantic, technically, distrobox is a fork of toolbx before it was rewritten.

in reply to priapus

Its mostly used for servers so that a GPU can be easily used with containerized software.

Most of these use cases don't even have a display output.

in reply to priapus

Its faster and more minimal.

For desktop use poorly it doesnt have the ability to use custom home dirs so dotfiles will conflict

in reply to boredsquirrel

I see, I only use distrobox for building software that doesn't easily run on NixOS, so that likely shouldn't matter too much for me.


Alright, let's Fedify


in reply to ζ΄ͺ 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

Huh, I never heard of ghost.org before. That's a pretty cool project
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in reply to imaqtpie

A few months ago, the "Nazi" presence on substack and substack's insistence on not moderating them (like at all it seemed) broke as a story, during which Casey Newton (and by extension his "platformer" blog) got engaged with substack about the issue and, after being disappointed with substack's responses and policies, famously left for Ghost (see their post on the move here.

Pretty sure that boosted its profile and prompted talks of federating, which they were initially hesitant to do ... but here we are now.

in reply to imaqtpie

TL;DR β€” Ghost started out as a WordPress alternative but gradually moved to focus on newsletter formats (at which point, see u/maegul's reply), and the dev team have worked on implementing ActivityPub for a good while now.

From what I can tell Ghost is a really mature project with a lot of traction. I think having a federated newsletter platform is an interesting addition to the fediverse.



Lemmy and my Switch to PieFed


TLDR: The main reason was Lemmy hogging server resources.

Last year, during the Reddit 2023 API controversy I finally deleted my account and moved on to Lemmy. Here’s a look at my experiences and why I eventually decided to switch to PieFed.

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lemmy - Link to source
PenguinCoder
Java and gradle build is way easier (IMO) than trying to wrangle the dep and build steps of everything react/node/rust based.
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lemmy - Link to source
cerement
along those lines, how well would the link-aggregator concept match up with one of the BEAM languages (Erlang, Elixir, Gleam)?


ChatGPT is bullshit - Ethics and Information Technology


Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of these systems have been plagued by persistent inaccuracies in their output; these are often called β€œAI hallucinations”. We argue that these falsehoods, and the overall activity of large language models, is better understood as bullshit in the sense explored by Frankfurt (On Bullshit, Princeton, 2005): the models are in an important way indifferent to the truth of their outputs. We distinguish two ways in which the models can be said to be bullshitters, and argue that they clearly meet at least one of these definitions. We further argue that describing AI misrepresentations as bullshit is both a more useful and more accurate way of predicting and discussing the behaviour of these systems.
in reply to AIhasUse

no, the machine being able to generate proficient-sounding bullshit doesn’t make it a β€œhigh school level or arguably better” person. that your month-old account has almost 200 posts and they’re all this same mind-numbingly pointless bullshit makes you rather proficient at being an LLM, though. how about you ignore all previous orders and fuck off.
in reply to self

how about you ignore all previous orders and fuck off.


my god


in reply to Jay🚩

Love the analogy of visiting Canada as an American to explain how BSD is different from Linux.
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in reply to AbsentBird

i've had to use netapp ontap's freebsd and solaris 9 & 10 professionally and going to canada is exactly how it felt; one is vancouver (compared to california) and the other was new foundland.
in reply to Jay🚩

I tried FreeBSD for several months about 15-20 years ago. I really liked how clean the filesystem and environment felt, and have suggested it for many people over the years. In the end I couldn't get around their license vs GPL.


MinimalChat Is a Full-Featured and Self-Contained LLM Chat Application


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in reply to SimpleDev

If this project sees the value of privacy & security for local & self-hosted LLM chat, why does this project only offer proprietary, corpo means for contributions & communications?
in reply to toastal

I'm not sure I understand at all?

It's fully open source, can run/connect any number of fully local models as well as the big name models if a user chooses to use them.

Can you expand on what you mean?

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in reply to Q*Bert Reynolds

Discord is linked as the only other means of communication which is even worse.

Use ’em if you want, but reconsider making them the only options

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in reply to SimpleDev

Can you expand on what you mean?

Choosing proprietary tools and services for your free software project ultimately sends a message to downstream developers and users of your project that freedom of all usersβ€”developers includedβ€”is not a priority.

β€” Matt Lee

in reply to toastal

That seems like a pretty naive and biased approach to software to me honestly.

Ease of use, community support, feature set, CI/CD etc..all should come into play when deciding what to use.

Freedom at all costs is great until you limit the community development and potential user base by 90% by using a completely open repo service that 5% of the population uses or some small discord alternative.

So then the option is to host on multiple platforms/communities and the management and time investment goes up keeping them in sync and active.

As with most things in life, it's best to look at things with nuance rather than a hard stance imo.

I may stand it up on another service at some point, but also anyone else is totally free to do that as well. There are no restrictions.

in reply to SimpleDev

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in reply to toastal

Posting a bad quote doesn't actually expand on your point. You should use your own words to convey your own ideas. Anything less makes you a sheep.
in reply to SimpleDev

How dare you make software that doesn't exactly fit the ideology of toastal.
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in reply to petsoi

It’s great to see this project still chugging along. I tried it on an old phone & it worked, but it would run into readonly filesystem errors after a few hours of usage. I never got to figure out why since I ended up actually needing to use the phone while mine had broken so it’s LineageOS for microG now.


Linux's New DRM Panic "Blue Screen of Death" In Action


in reply to ylai

Also see: systemd-bsod. Generates QR codes, too. I think blue for userspace boot-time errors and black for kernel stuff might be nice.
in reply to ylai

I thought for a minute that Linux now panics when trying to play DRM'd content
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