BitSound

@ BitSound @lemmy.world

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2y ago

People with framework laptops on linux (nixos?) what is your experience with them?
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BitSound @lemmy.world 2y ago
What kernel are you running? From what I understand, that should be the major differentiator if you're not using S3.

2y ago

People with framework laptops on linux (nixos?) what is your experience with them?

Couldn't tell you unfortunately. It looks like AMD is also on board with deprecating S3 sleep, so I would guess that it's not significantly better. The kernel controls the newer standby modes, so it's really going to depend on how well it's supported there.

2y ago

People with framework laptops on linux (nixos?) what is your experience with them?

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BitSound @lemmy.world 2y ago

Sleep kind of sucks on the original 11th gen hardware. They pushed out a bios update that broke S3 sleep, so now all you've got is the s2idle version, which the kernel is only OK at. Your laptop bag might heat up. S3 breaking isn't really their fault, Intel deprecated it. Still annoying though. I've heard the Chromebook version and other newer gens have better sleep support.

Other than that, it's great. NixOS runs just fine, even the fingerprint reader works, which has been rare for Linux

2y ago

What's an artist / band that you used to dislike, but now enjoy?

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BitSound @lemmy.world 2y ago

Meshuggah:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9LpMZuBEMk

Listened to them before I got into metal, came back to them later and now love them. That's from probably one of their more accessible records, they also have more experimental stuff like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw3SdOFmubU

2y ago

Hassan's Hiding Place

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BitSound @lemmy.world 2y ago

Do you have any links to read up on him? I know this is a very contentious topic, but I haven't heard much about him and I'm curious. What would you hold as his worst actions?

2y ago

uv IS the Future of Python Packaging 🐍📦

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BitSound @lemmy.world 2y ago

It is a bold claim, but based on their success with ruff, I'm optimistic that it might pan out.

2y ago

ADMINISTRATION NOTE:

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BitSound @lemmy.world 2y ago

I would just ban and not feel bad if I were you. They're not here to contribute to the community, they're happy having communities fall apart if it gives them a chance to "dunk on the libs". Just more political weirdos

2y ago

Don’t believe the hype: AGI is far from inevitable

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BitSound @lemmy.world 2y ago

This is a silly argument:

[..] But even if we give the AGI-engineer every advantage, every benefit of the doubt, there is no conceivable method of achieving what big tech companies promise.’
That’s because cognition, or the ability to observe, learn and gain new insight, is incredibly hard to replicate through AI on the scale that it occurs in the human brain. ‘If you have a conversation with someone, you might recall something you said fifteen minutes before. Or a year before. Or that someone else explained to you half your life ago. Any such knowledge might be crucial to advancing the conversation you’re having. People do that seamlessly’, explains van Rooij.
‘There will never be enough computing power to create AGI using machine learning that can do the same, because we’d run out of natural resources long before we'd even get close,’ Olivia Guest adds.

That's as shortsighted as the "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers" quote, or the worry that NYC would be buried under mountains of horse poop before cars were invented. Maybe transformers aren't the path to AGI, but there's no reason to think we can't achieve it in general unless you're religious.

EDIT: From the paper:

The remainder of this paper will be an argument in ‘two acts’. In ACT 1: Releasing the Grip, we present a formalisation of the currently dominant approach to AI-as-engineering that claims that AGI is both inevitable and around the corner. We do this by introducing a thought experiment in which a fictive AI engineer, Dr. Ingenia, tries to construct an AGI under ideal conditions. For instance, Dr. Ingenia has perfect data, sampled from the true distribution, and they also have access to any conceivable ML method—including presently popular ‘deep learning’ based on artificial neural networks (ANNs) and any possible future methods—to train an algorithm (“an AI”). We then present a formal proof that the problem that Dr. Ingenia sets out to solve is intractable (formally, NP-hard; i.e. possible in principle but provably infeasible; see Section “Ingenia Theorem”). We also unpack how and why our proof is reconcilable with the apparent success of AI-as-engineering and show that the approach is a theoretical dead-end for cognitive science. In “ACT 2: Reclaiming the AI Vertex”, we explain how the original enthusiasm for using computers to understand the mind reflected many genuine benefits of AI for cognitive science, but also a fatal mistake. We conclude with ways in which ‘AI’ can be reclaimed for theory-building in cognitive science without falling into historical and present-day traps.

That's a silly argument. It sets up a strawman and knocks it down. Just because you create a model and prove something in it, doesn't mean it has any relationship to the real world.

2y ago

The Dislike to Ubuntu

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BitSound @lemmy.world 2y ago

Canonical lives and dies by the BDFL model. It allowed them to do some great work early on in popularizing Linux with lots of polish. Canonical still does good work when forced to externally, like contributing upstream. The model falters when they have their own sandbox to play in, because the BDFL model means that any internal feedback like "actually this kind of sucks" just gets brushed aside. It doesn't help that the BDFL in this case is the CEO, founder, and funder of the company and paying everyone working there. People generally don't like to risk their job to say the emperor has no clothes and all that, it's easier to just shrug your shoulders and let the internet do that for you.

Here are good examples of when the internal feedback failed and the whole internet had to chime in and say that the hiring process did indeed suck:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31426558

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37059857

"markshuttle" in those threads is the owner/founder/CEO.

2y ago

Left Field: Ophidian Memory - Fateful Attrition (USA-IA, 2022)

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BitSound @lemmy.world 2y ago

That's pretty impressive for a one-man project. Probably get a lot of time to practice songwriting when you're living in Iowa and the corn doesn't need harvesting.

2y ago

28 September 1987

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BitSound @lemmy.world 2y ago

It's a nice change of pace to see how they interact when they're not busy parenting Calvin

2y ago

Immich has been packaged for NixOS

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BitSound @lemmy.world 2y ago

Awesome, I've been waiting for this!

2y ago

How should sidewalk crossings be mapped exactly?

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BitSound @lemmy.world 2y ago

Thanks, that makes sense.

2y ago

Preferred way to map landuse=residential?

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BitSound @lemmy.world 2y ago

Makes sense, thanks!

2y ago

What is the most severe case of brainwashing you have seen?

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BitSound @lemmy.world 2y ago

On a related note, I think libraries do need a bit of a facelift, and not just be "the place where books live". It's important to keep that function, but also expand to "a place where learning happens". I know lots of libraries are doing this sort of thing, but your average person is probably still stuck in the "place where books live" mindset, as you allude. I'm talking stuff like 3D printers, makerspaces, diybio, classes about detecting internet bullshit, etc.

2y ago

What is the most severe case of brainwashing you have seen?

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BitSound @lemmy.world 2y ago

Threads like this, with highly upvoted comments like

americans are more propagandized than they think citizens of the DPRK are

They also use sarcasm try to push the narrative that North Korea is actually just fine, OK?

Guys you don't understand; the West has spoken; we MUST hate North Korea, our governments have already decreed it so.

Many of them are also seemingly physically incapable of communicating without hexbear's custom reaction images, which is a weird behavior common to many cults. Makes it harder to communicate with the outgroup.

I think LW is defederated from them (or vice versa) so you can't post over there, but for further examples, try making an account over there and saying that maybe, just maybe, Putin did a bad thing by invading Ukraine, and they're defending an imperialist.

2y ago

[Unpopular opinion] Linux is not a good choice for regular users

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BitSound @lemmy.world 2y ago

I'd be careful of pushing the narrative about computers not being a good choice for regular users. I'm going to channel a bit of Stallman and say that that's how we end up without The Right To Read

2y ago

[Unpopular opinion] Linux is not a good choice for regular users

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BitSound @lemmy.world 2y ago

For your bullet points:

Yeah, GNOME can be flakey with extensions. Almost no regular users will install extensions though. Windows also has tons of bugs and issues that users just ignore because it's the "default"
Regular users won't care about desktop scaling. I've seen people using the blurriest, weirdest aspect ratios on Windows because they liked it that way
Bluetooth sucks on all hardware and with all software, to various degrees.
Syncing files is trivial with Syncthing
MacOS keeps breaking my coworker's setups with every update.

GPU issues can be hard, but that's not really Linux's fault. There's a reason this image exists of Linus giving nvidia the middle finger:

That being said, it's getting better. As of this year, nvidia has started putting some real effort into making things work with wayland.

EDIT: I've found nirvana with NixOS, speaking of GPU drivers. I just add a few lines to /etc/nixos/configuration.nix and it goes off and ensures that the nvidia drivers are present. I also run lots of CUDA stuff on top of that and it all works about as seamlessly as possible.

2y ago

What is the most severe case of brainwashing you have seen?

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BitSound @lemmy.world 2y ago

https://hexbear.net/

2y ago

What duration of time do you connect to intellectual property?

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BitSound @lemmy.world 2y ago

I respect that you work in the arts. However, I think too many people worried about copyright think that things would look similar to the way they are today, but the situation would be radically different without copyright. For example, Disney wouldn't exist. You wouldn't have large corporations taking and not giving back, because those large corporations wouldn't exist like they do now in the first place.