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Hey now, MP3 is still relevant even though better codecs have come (and gone)

Something tells me H264 is going to be sticking around for a while just on sheer compatibility and compute requirements

Why must everything look and be modern

I am having a hell of a time googling for WillowTalk, do you know any links/places where I can learn more? Maybe even download something?

I mean, technically it is, just the 'sound waves' are square waves of varying height/width

This is a fork of another tiny text editor written by someone else. So I wouldn't say they 'built' it

Honestly this headline reeks of social media clickbait

because it is TEXT

you want your GUI then set up VNC

wow, what a way to prejudice against people fluent in multiple paradigms

So.... webmin

Yeah but who gets that legally

Check back in a year or two. The cat is out of the bag.

I just love this whole "forbidden knowledge" schtick the AI safety dweebs have stuck up their butt. Is this really going to stop anybody determined enough to make that kind of outcome?

There is an extremely narrow band of things that the AI shouldn't be answering, and that is generally immediately-actionable advice that allows someone to build something of harm to others. But even then, in an age where Tor, bittrent, i2p, abliterated local models, etc are freely available, let alone numerous books and online resources, is there even a point? Is it worth fully compromising the principles of free agency to an increasingly oppressed populace?

But instead of that we are handing the keys to regressive and repressive governments to order the suppression of any knowledge they deem inconvenient. I really doubt anyone is going to take a principled stance when the company's party minders threaten local staff with a rubber hose or incarceration.

I'm sure China et al are already doing this.

For the past 30-40 years humanity has received an incredible gift in these sand-powered thinking brainboxes. A gift that allows the common man to empower himself with a force multiplier towards his own success, and now access to superintelligence the likes of which few have ever seen. These can be tools to destroy the oppression that governs our lives from foolhardy, greedy, bootlicking control freaks. And here we are squandering it.

This sort of overly eager upgrading has caused me a lot of problems over the years. I really wish it didn't default to updating the entire world just because you want to update one package.

Does this handle macOS installs with multiple local users? I have to su into account 1 if I want to brew install something from account 2

That level of control will be fleeting at best; as soon as the open models and competitors catch up they lose that influence

The lack of participation is often one of those things that management will quietly hold against you.

Can we kill the hackathon please? Yes I totally want to get nerd-sniped for some of my precious off time for some trivial reward. NOT

Its a fantastic deal for management if you can find people gullible enough. But a raw deal for the worker bees themselves

It was the release of Stable Diffusion and its source code.

I spent the next few days tinkering with my own Stable Diffusion implementation. I never got it past outputting total nightmare fuel, but it was fun!

To this day I think of the process as like baking pizzas in a sequence of pizza ovens

The Intended Method(tm) is an intentionally gimped feeding trough designed primarily to pacify uninquisitive minds and line Hollywood exec pockets. They have never ever been honest in their accounting or reasonable in their expectations, let alone charitable enough to let the art propagate amongst its consumers in the manner they see fit (without court interventions). So I don't see why we have to be honest in our consumption.

There is plenty of money to be made in secondary sources -- merchandising and so on. They can give up trying to lock down information that naturally wants to be free. But they won't, because greed.

a "standard" GPU would be an nvidia geforce RTX 5090

Ah yes, how virtuous to consume so much pointless detail.

Looking at the aesthetics of the era, there is just so much frivolity and extraneous flourish. Clean lines and minimalism are avant garde. Yuck.

I got shit to do. Art doesn't need to waste my time unnecessarily.

You can ask them for high-level overviews of a given topic, and then drill down into individual sections of its response. With the most recent iterations, many of the times I have blindly stumbled into something new, it has pushed back with warnings

The speeches may not have felt drawn-out, but the writing sure did

If there is one thing that drives me nuts about old literature, it is how verbose authors seems to be.

Not OP but I just ask Claude Code to make me an openscad file. If I need changes I ask for them in plain english. If you are specific, it's not the quickest loop but it works. I usually ask it to parameterize the model enough so that I can quickly print small prototypes in my 3d printer. Once I am happy with the mini version I print the full-size model.

It's probably a much larger list if you expand it to every other year. Though that won't make for nearly as exciting a post.

That reminds me, I am overdue for a smog check...

You would really dedicate half the screen to something we use like 5% of the time?

I dont know about Win11, but in Win10, it is still there. You can see it in MDI apps and, in a few rare circumstances, I have seen the window manager seemingly crash and flash the old Win2000-style boxy design before going back to what it currently does.

I hated magenta-blue CGA graphics soooo sooo much as a kid. It was (and still is IMHO) the ugliest thing I ever saw on a computer, by far.

I had a monitor that had a switch in the back that would change those colors to red-yellow-green. It was still awful but at least it was less awful than white-magenta-blue

There are tons and tons of successful plugin systems out there that do not have such ridiculous requirements. I have thousands of VSTs installed and have never been RAT'ed. What happened to practicing internet hygiene?

At some point we need to acknowledge the problem is cultural, and address accordingly. I realize that the business objective for many is to make computing as brainless as possible but we need to be pushing back on that.

Instead we have forums full of really smart people demanding a nanny state. Yuck -- what a sad and pathetic state of affairs.

Why does a plugin system immediately imply sandboxing?

I am so sick of monkey-see monkey-do in business.