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[CW: Death, immolation][Breaking Points] Israel Seals off Northern Gaza to Starve Population to Death


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in reply to WorkingClassCorpse [comrade/them, any]

Ah sorry, I kind of figured that between the NSFW tag and their warning that would cover it
in reply to gitgud

Yea, honestly I thought they weren't actually going to show the video uncensored like they did. That one stuck with me.


in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

I'm actually on this man's side.

The idea-stealing he talks about is not unheard of, and multiple people or groups coming up with similar ideas at the same time by looking at market trends is actually quite common.

If you also look at the fact that he has evidence for pretty much all his claims,

AND

He has gotten the domain and has evidence for the ideas and ownership of "Open AI" before Altman's "OpenAI" was formed

AND

He says a lot of his ideas never came to fruition because he couldn't get funding but the one thing he didn't need crazy funding for, investing in Bitcoin when it was $10 per coin, is something he ends up doing and leaves him well-off.

All that to me is enough evidence that this man is one hell of an unlucky individual.

And as such, I believe him.

in reply to theshatterstone54

i'm not. just because he's an underdog here means that you're gonna ignore all the harms of generative ai up to this day? it's like complaining that big oil stole the idea of adding tetraethyllead to gasoline from you and you got no profits from that as a result
in reply to skillissuer

Not necessarily. A lot of the harms disappear when everything goes open, which is what this person stands for, and what OpenAI was supposed to stand for.

Open LLM + Open Training Data = Open AI

Copyright and IP concerns disappear with an open dataset.

Open models are inherently more trustworthy because of an obvious reduction in vendor lock-in.

in reply to theshatterstone54

Copyright and IP concerns disappear with an open dataset.


i don't think i'd agree with that, doesn't matter if dataset goes open if content went there without consideration for authors

also even things like thispersondoesnotexist were used to mass-create fake identities and such

in reply to skillissuer

Yeah, but something like that would be super easy to find and fix without going through lawsuits. And I'd argue the dataset creators would be far less likely to add copyrighted material to the training data when it's all out in the open and they can be immediately made to remove and retrain the AI without that data.
in reply to theshatterstone54

the problem with that is that training can't be done "immediately" it takes tons of compute
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

What this show is a total lack of originality.

AI is not new. Open-source is not new. Putting two well known concepts together wasn't new either because... AI has historically been open. A lot of the cutting edge research is done in public laboratories, with public funding, and is published in journals (sadly often behind paywall but still).

So the name and the concept are both unoriginal.

A lot of the popularity gained from OpenAI by using a chatbot is not new either. Relying on always larger dataset and benefiting from Moore's law is not new either.

So I'm not standing on any side, neither this person nor the corporation.

I find that claiming to be "owning" common ideas is destructive for most.



in reply to UltraGiGaGigantic

I am right now sitting in the foyer of my new job waiting for first day orientation to start and I am already cursing the fact that I had to get up so early and go across the entire city just to not die.
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in reply to UltraGiGaGigantic

Yeah because even doing what you love is hell when you don't make enough money to thrive or don't have enough time to enjoy the fruits of your labor.



in reply to 𝔼𝕩𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕒

Good luck planting drugs on a skeleton with no shoes
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Ventoy still the FOSS you'd recommend?


I was genuinely excited when I first learnt about the Ventoy from a YouTube, then I came to these:

Ventoy source code contains some unknown BLOBs, still no word on the issue from the dev after months
programming.dev/post/19516543

Ventoy Update
programming.dev/post/20508826

github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/issue…

reddit.com/r/Ventoy/comments/1…

so maybe I'll hold off with Ventoy for now?

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in reply to cplusplus

I understand how this could be a prime target of a supply chain attack and that things are a bit fishy. On the other hand people are waaaay less picky about installing other binary blobs on their machines. I wish paranoia would be more general :)
in reply to cplusplus

I stopped using Ventoy. I don't trust the OSs installed by means of it, sadly. Also, lost any hope of a clarification on the issue. Yes, you should not use it for the time being.



This device makes Meshtastic the best off-grid tech




NVIDIA Is Helping To Improve Linux's Dynamic Display Mux Support For Laptops


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in reply to petsoi

They have enough trouble with their drivers and software ecosystem. I'm surprised they're adding more onto that pile.
in reply to just_another_person

I don't see evidence in the article that it even is 'their software' being discussed here - just a framework they are suggesting for compositors to have new functionality (regardless of GPU brands).

It even says "They aren't going into this alone but at this year's DisplayNext Hackfest it was also backed up by AMD for going a similar route."

in reply to just_another_person

This isn’t really driver related. It is the Wayland compositor’s job to properly handle multiple GPUs, which is lacking in some (a very popular, Wayland library that lacks proper multi-GPU support is wlroots) compositors. Vulkan drivers and DRM are already enough to properly handle multiple GPUs. I guess Wayland implementers just haven’t cared enough about the issue, or maybe are figuring out a “perfect” way to address it (a la 3 year long pull request on wayland-protocols repo incoming)




Birds Practice Singing in Their Sleep


cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/20847663

Scientists had previously observed sleeping birds making movements that resembled lip-syncing. In earlier work, Mindlin and his colleagues implanted electrodes in two Zebra Finches; for a recent study in Chaos, they did the same for two Great Kiskadees. This let them record and compare neuron and muscle activity in the sleeping birds.

When awake, Zebra Finches sing a well-regulated line of staccato notes. But their sleeping song movements are fragmented, disjointed and sporadic—“rather like a dream,” Mindlin says. A dozing finch seems to silently practice a few “notes” and then add another, producing a pattern of muscle activity that reminds Mindlin “of learning a musical instrument.”



Real-time Lighting in Virtual Production



in reply to Rhaedas

At least Hitler was a dementia crazy shit following “ideals”. This one is even worse, behind him are the greatest powers in the world. He is a pure breed killer .



Nobel winning Hiroshima survivor's Gaza comparison angers Israel


Israel has attacked a prominent survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bombing over a comparison he made between the blast and the current assault on Gaza.

Toshiyuki Mimaki, a leader of the Nihon Hidankyo organisation that represents survivors of the US attack, compared the two after the group was announced as the recepient of the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.

“I thought for sure it would be the people working so hard in Gaza, as we’ve seen," he told reporters in Tokyo after the announcement. In Gaza, bleeding children are being held by their parents. It’s like in Japan 80 years ago.”

In response, Israel's ambassador to Japan attacked the comparison as "outrageous and baseless", and said such comparisons "distort history and dishonor the victims".

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metalaco
Lol even the Nobel peace prize winner angers them.
in reply to RizzRustbolt

They have more in common with Nazis with their Lebensraum settler colonialism and apartheid system full of their riff on concentration camps.

But, fun fact: Western interests, including Israel, sure do seem to conveniently benefit from Daesh attacks on those aligned with Palestine - at opportune moments. I'm just saying.