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SankaraStone

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  • I just want to talk

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  • It's mostly the color of the light that's the problem right? Our brains register the cooler light in the contrasting darkness as blindingly bright as opposed to warmer incandescent light, despite both lights having the same measured brightness (lumens).

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  • Yeah, you can, haha (almost like the switch). You stick it in a dock with HDMI out and add a controller by USB, USB dongle, or Bluetooth.

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  • And I can install games from other store fronts if I want.

  • Trying to build viable third parties by voting for them in presidential elections is like trying to build a third door in your house by repeatedly walking into the wall where you want the door to be.

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  • They have a first past the post parliamentary system, derived from the UK. The US has a separation of powers between its executive branch and its legislative branch.

    The way to build third parties is by reforming the democratic system state by state to have a ranked choice system open non-partisan primary to select the top two final candidates followed by a general election between these two candidates for each election to elect a representative or president.

    It helps mitigate the flaws of the ranked choice system to have it stop at the final two and let the voters choose between these final two choices. It helps get candidates that are at the center of voter opinion distribution.

    This means the hard work of mobilizing together and working across partisan lines, recruiting the majority of Americans that are pro-democracy in each and every state.

  • Jill Stein is a plant to nobody's surprise.

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  • IMO, it should be two rounds. The first (the "primary" round) should be ranked choice voting to pick the top two and the second should be majority vote between these final two choices.

  • OpenAI Pleads That It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free

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  • Yeah, all training ends up being pattern learning in some form or fashion. But acceptable patterns end up matching logic. So for example if you ask ChatGPT a question, it will use its learned pattern to provide its estimate of the correct ouptut. That pattern it's learned encompasses/matches logical processing of the user input and the output that it's been trained to see as acceptable output. So with enough training, it should and does go from simple memorization of individual examples to learning these broad acceptable rules, like logic (or a pattern that matches logical rules and "understanding of language") so that it can provide acceptable responses to situations that it hasn't seen in training. And because of this pattern learning and prediction nature of how it works, it often "hallucinates" information like citations (creating a novel citation matching the pattern its seen instead of the exact citation that you want, where you actually want memorized information) that you might ask of it as sources for what its telling you.

  • OpenAI Pleads That It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free

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  • I'm less worried about a system that learns from the information and then incorporates it when it has to provide an answer (ex. learning facts) than I am of something that steals someone's likeness, something we've clearly have established people have a right to (ex. voice acting, action figures, and sports video games). And by that extension/logic, I am concerned as to whether AI that is trained to produce something in the style of someone else, especially in digital/visual art also violates the likeness principle logically and maybe even comes close to violating copyright law.

    But at the same time, I'm a skeptic of software patents and api/UeX copyrighs. So I don't know. Shit gets complicated.

    I still think AI should get rid of mundane, repetitive, boring tasks. But it shouldn't be eliminating creative, fun asks. It should improve productivity without replacing or reducing the value of the labor of the scientist/artist/physician. But if AI replaced scribes and constructionists in order to make doctors more productive and able to spend more time with patients instead of documenting everything, then that would be the ideal use of this stuff.

  • OpenAI Pleads That It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free

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  • Isn't copyright about the right to make and distribute or sell copies or the lack there of? As long as they can prevent jailbreaking the AI, reading copyrighted material and learning from it to produce something else is not a copyright violation.

  • This month in Servo: console logging, parallel tables, OpenXR, and more! - Servo, the embeddable, independent, memory-safe, modular, parallel web rendering engine

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    This month in Servo: console logging, parallel tables, OpenXR, and more! - Servo, the embeddable, independent, memory-safe, modular, parallel web rendering engine

    servo.org /blog/2024/07/31/this-month-in-servo/

  • "We've won, but at what cost?"

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  • While I find your assertion inspiring and very worthy of consideration, I have to wonder what the incentive is to sustain Android development. Apple sells the hardware that goes with its OS(es), so they get the hardware revenue (not to mention the App Store and iCloud subscription revenues). They would have to start charging devices to use their operating system or something, and I have to wonder if that would be possible under open source licenses.

    I would love an open, sustained, and even open source, secure operating system for phones that's the target of app development. I think the Linux stack should should develop an NPR/PBS type ecosystem public funding of development (with maybe the corporate underwriting of those networks being equivalent to contributions from corporate employed developers to the open source code) and I'd love for it to be a real competitor in the smart phone market (knowing the Android stack modifies and sits on top of Linux).

  • "We've won, but at what cost?"

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    1. Right now it's already set as the default search engine and you have to work to change it to something else as I understand it. I'm proposing that no default is set and that the user is asked to select one upon first installing Firefox from an ordered list of search engines. If that's already the case (it's been a while since I installed Firefox from scratch), then I'd argue that's fine. And it allows other search engines to contribute to be higher up in the rankings.

    2. I can't think of anything that would replace the revenue that Google pays Mozilla that sustains the development salaries to hopefully keep Mozilla competitive and hopefully making it the best performing, convenient and private browser.

  • "We've won, but at what cost?"

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  • Major brain fart/typo, haha.

  • "We've won, but at what cost?"

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  • Mozilla (not Google) got rid of the side projects, increased the CEO's salary, and laid off a bunch of employees during the pandemic. It basically got rid of the innovation that could have made Firefox a faster, more secure, and pleasant experience. Rust and Rust-based Servo, as a replacement for Gecko, were two of those side projects. These are the things Mozilla needs to invest in.

    Also, I think Mozilla needs to ask the user upon install what the default search engine should be from a list of search engines including Google, Duck Duck Go, Bing, and Yahoo. Maybe the order of those could be arranged based on how much they're able to finagle from the search engines.

    The real monopoly is their control over Chrome. That's what they should be forced to split from the company that owns the search engine. Development and design of Chrome should not and cannot be done by the company that runs the search engine and gets its revenue from ads.

  • TIL humans are the only animal with a chin. We aren't sure why.

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  • Would you mate with somebody who didn't have a chin? Chins are sexy.

  • USC cancels graduation ceremony and dozens are arrested on other campuses as anti-war protests grow

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  • The moment they canceled the Valedictorian speech, I would have simply failed to show up to the commencement. And I would have done my best to surprise USC of it. And I'd have organized or at least hoped other people would do the same thing.

  • Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun to step down in management shakeup amid safety crisis

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  • He should required to be up there to answer questions from congress and the Feds.

  • Have you ever asked yourself why some priceless artifacts from far away places are in your country

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  • The Met has a mixed record. It's famous Temple was rescued with coordination from Egypt from flooding at the creation of the Anwar Dam.

  • Linux use on Steam ends 2023 with a multi-year high (thanks Steam Deck)

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  • Linux use on Steam ends 2023 with a multi-year high (thanks Steam Deck)

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  • Yeah, https://chimeraos.org/ or https://rhinolinux.org/ or https://garudalinux.org/

    But any linux with modern hardware really. I play games on my desktop (and get work done too) with EndeavourOS (which is an easy to install and maintain version of Arch Linux, which is also the base of SteamOS. With Arch Linux you have bleeding edge updates, like new Linux kernel versions. SteamOS slows that down, only letting in those bleading edge updates after they've vetteed it on the SteamDeck hardware).

    Steam takes care of proton support. You can try to support other store fronts with applications like Lutris, that try to apply that compatibility layer to those games.

  • Malaysia bans Israeli owned and linked shipping citing ‘cruelty against the Palestinian people’

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  • Why isn't OPEC imposing sanctions on Israel, refusing to export oil to them, like the US did with Japan in 1941.

  • politics @lemmy.world
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    U.S. urges Israel against Gaza ground invasion, pushes surgical campaign

    www.washingtonpost.com /politics/2023/10/27/us-urging-israel-rethinkg-gaza-ground-invasion/
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    U.S., in policy switch, urges humanitarian pauses in Gaza

    www.washingtonpost.com /national-security/2023/10/27/gaza-israel-humanitarian-pause/
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Families of kidnapped Israelis meet Netanyahu, only to find unknown family boosting PM

    www.haaretz.com /israel-news/2023-10-16/ty-article/.premium/hostage-relatives-suspected-to-have-been-planted-in-meeting-with-pm-to-bolster-his-policy/0000018b-37af-dc99-a1db-3fefa6ed0000
  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Asking Palestinians to say that Israel has a right to exist is like asking Native Americans to say the USA has a right to exist. What about Israel exists and has the right to continue to exist?

  • New Communities @lemmy.world
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    Two new communities on Lemmy.world geared towards starting collective movements and organizing collective action: !movement and !organize

  • Lemmy.world Support @lemmy.world
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    I created a couple of communities dedicated to starting and organizing movements. As a first time ever admin or mod to something like this, I would love some advice from you all

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    In light of articles all over Lemmy about Google pushing ManifestV3 onto Chrome and the majority of web users, isn't that an antitrust violation?

    www.ftc.gov /enforcement/report-antitrust-violation