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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'm a fan of "keep it stupid simple" or, as I tell myself at work on the daily, "keep it simple, stupid"!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Oh man, I had no idea about that.

I've been using Nova for something close to a decade now I think. I just toss it on my new devices and move on, it's done what I wanted for ages (mostly for the adjustable grid, but I'm sure there's some features it has that I've stuck with that I just feel are default at this point, stock launcher just feels weird).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I don't think you need to wait years for user friendly Linux tbh! I recommend checking out Linux Mint. It's basically designed for people used to Windows and handles the technical stuff for you.

You can do almost everything through the GUI rather than the command line, so for things like updates, it'll show you a little notification in the corner by the clock like you're used to, you open up the software manager, and click the update button.

And most software nowadays can either be downloaded through an app store like interface, or by downloading an executable file from a website.

And if you've ever used a mac, there's a time machine equivalent built in (timeshift). So you can set up an automatic backup daily/weekly/etc and if you mess up something, in most cases you can revert back to a point when it wasn't messed up.

I say give it a shot, you can always go back if it's not for you! But usability has improved so much in the last few years.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Not the poster you're replying to, but I'm assuming you're looking for some sort of source that neural networks generate stuff, rather than plagiarize?

Google scholar is a good place to start. You'd need a general understanding of how NNs work, but it ends up leading to papers like this one, which I picked out because it has neat pictures as examples. https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.02200

What this one is doing is taking an input in the form of a face, and turning it into a cartoon. They call it an emoji, cause it's based on that style, but it's the same principle as how AI art is generated. Learn a style, then take a prompt (image or text) and do something with the prompt in the style.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For laymen who might not know how GANs work:

Two AI are developed at the same time. One that generates and one that discriminates. The generator creates a dataset, it gets mixed in with some real data, then that all of that gets fed into the discriminator whose job is to say "fake or not".

Both AI get better at what they do over time. This arms race creates more convincing generated data over time. You know your generator has reached peak performance when its twin discriminator has a 50/50 success rate. It's just guessing at that point.

There literally cannot be a better AI than the twin discriminator at detecting that generator's work. So anyone trying to make tools to detect chatGPT's writing is going to have a very hard time of it.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Depends! If you consider chocolate to be food derived from the cocoa bean, then white chocolate is chocolate because it's made of cocoa butter without the solids!

The powdery stuff you call cocoa is what's left over once you get rid of the cocoa butter. So if you feel that cocoa solids are required for something to be classified as chocolate... Then no, it's not chocolate.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Sorry, rereading it and I think I was unclear. I'm saying that this community moved from tumblr, to twitter, and now to mastodon. I quit this community at the twitter stage when it became too detrimental to my mental health.

But this community uses moderation as one tool to enforce cliques, rather than to actually prevent abuse. Or, you could say, this community has a history of using moderation as a form of abuse.

Alongside that, this community has a history of inciting witch hunts over the most petty things. And they will be happy about what the moderators are doing within their own clique.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I remember artist tumblr in the 00's. Participated, then moved over to twitter in the 10's before I got sick of it. This looks like another continuation of that same community.

They can do what they like, but this reeks of the exact same kind of drama and mobs that, for example, drives fanartists to attempting suicide because they painted a character's skin a shade too light. (Zamii070, if you're curious.)

These sorts of communities form an echo chamber that, frankly, can be absolutely horrible for kids. Yeah, they can do what they want in their house, but I'm staying far the fuck away.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

sometimes I don't want to bother looking for alternative sources....

Tho yes, that does push me to do it more often.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

God I want to do that but for some reason Prime Video on my laptop is locked to like 480p on "highest quality" but when I cast to my TV on my phone it's full HD. Like what gives??

Do they hate that I'm on Linux using Firefox or something?? I tried Chrome and had the same issue.

Tried searching for the answer but all the Reddit posts say "it's just your slow ass Internet"!! Nah man I'm on fibre.

(Edit: though I do use my HDMI for videos I have on my hard drive ofc, but sometimes I don't want to bother looking for alternative sources....)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hey neat!

Just goes to show how history gets erased. Hopefully the green line gets built and we'll have even some of this coverage back.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Over the last five years, I'd click a link to Stack Overflow while googling, but I've never made an account because of the toxicity.

But yeah, chatGPT is definitely the nail in the coffin. Being able to give it my code and ask it to point out where the annoying bug is... is amazing.

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