Wes_Dev @ Wes_Dev @lemmy.ml

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My memory sucks, but I'll try to find an example for you. I remember it apparently last worked like two major Ubuntu releases ago, 21.04 or something. I tried for weeks to find workarounds and community-updates to fix it. I was on Pop!_OS at the time. Nothing quite worked and I gave up.

https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/ww436j/howto_stable_diffusion_on_an_amd_gpu/

I was thinking of the inserted text as a user-side thing. If someone sends you an emoji, your software inserts the name of the emoji next to it for the benefit of the user. That kind of thing.

It helps a complete newbie like me get started and even learn while I do. Due to its restrictions and shortcoming, I've been having to learn how to structure and plan a project more carefully and thoughtfully, even creating design specs for programs and individual functions, all in order to provide useful prompts for ChatGPT to act on. I learn best by trial and error, with the ability to ask why things happened or are the way they are.

So, as a secondary teaching assistant, I think it's very useful. But trying to use the API for ChatGPT 4 is...not worth it. I can easily blow through $20 in a few hours. So, I got a day and a half of use out of it before I gave up. :|

I've got an RX 580 8GB. What sucks is that it USED TO SUPPORT running AI and stuff. But AMD removed that support in new versions of the driver. Might have had a good reason, might not have. Still, sucks.

I'm of the opinion that Microsoft was tired of losing money on OpenAI, so made some kind of plan to out the current CEO, tank the stock price, and be in the perfect position to buy the company and monopolize AI technology. It wouldn't be the first time they pulled shady crap like that.

I know this is just a meme, but mini rant time here.

"Free speech" literally just means the government can't arrest, censor, or penalize you for just for the things you express. Of course, there are exceptions for public safety, fraud, etc..

If Musk loses advertising revenue, that is the advertisers exercising their free speech in a free market, and deciding who they associate with.

These crybabies like Musk are upset at having consequences, and throwing a tantrum about their freedom of speech is an intentional red herring and attempt to recontextualize reality so they end up being the victim of some ephemeral bully.

The richest and most powerful people on the planet are not being persecuted.

They are just not used to being called out on their bullshit and are too weak and immature to accept being told they are wrong sometimes.

Bet it's done in such a way that they can claim "We're just optimizing for Chrome, not slowing down any competitors. It's not our fault our competitors don't using our web engine for their browsers."

I mentioned similar shading behavior on another post, when using Firefox with Chrome or native user agents on the plain old Google search page.

Huh, that's an interesting point that I never thought of before.

Do you think there would be a way to make them easier to differentiate that would make them more useful, or do you think there's a fundamental problem with using them?

I'm thinking of workarounds like making emoji SVG to scale to whatever size you need.

Or maybe an optional setting to insert text after an emoji for users that want it. Example:

😊 (Smiling face)

What do you think?

Oh, dang, that was civil and anticlimactic of us. Um....

I mean:

How dare you! This is the internet. You're supposed to immediately call me Hitler for...reasons. This slight shall not stand. Expect a strongly worded letter from my emissary forthwith. Good day!

Hm.

I think you probably have a point there. Not sure about the details and nuance, 'cause I'm not that smart, but there is something there.

I wish I could go back in time and slap whoever invented the phrase "nothing to hide."

It could be an interesting idea, but would be terrible to implement for anything where accuracy mattered.

Generally when you're doing video or image editing, you don't want the image to change after you're done saving it. That would be a loss of hundreds of hours of work in some cases. And if you're working on something where, small details matter, those might get lost in translation.

I've never heard of this company before the past week, and I'm seeing it everywhere now. I'm also really annoyed with this trend of companies appropriating random fucking words instead of using actual names.

As cool as the technology is, I wouldn't trust Starlink to handle my breakfast order. It's leadership is corrupt, arrogant, and evil. You can find all sorts of news stories about it online.

Oh, I messed up. I was thinking two doubled is four, four doubled is eight, eight doubled is sixteen. My brain skipped over the six.

This is the exact reason I don't trust anything hosted online. If it's something I want to enjoy more than once, I download it.

Companies hosting things online tend to become authoritarian dictators in all but name, which is their right as they own the services and hardware. But it almost always makes the end user experience shitty and overly complicated, or filled with spyware, or requires you give away your rights to privacy or lawsuit, etc..

So if there's a song or something that I like online, I'm downloading that and keeping it on my computer to listen to whenever I feel like it. I don't have the time or energy to play games with these greedy ass corporations.

And the ironic part is, that while they would absolutely froth the mouth about me doing this, they're the ones that drove me to it. It feels like an emotionally abusive relationship, are they keep making our just a man some gaslighting me, then getting angry when I fight back or tell them no.

It eggs sixteen matter

The article is misusing the word sceptic here, which is a pet peeve of mine. That language indirectly contributes to a lack of respect for actual experts and a sense of "there is no objective truth" BS.

Skepticism is not blindly denying things. That would be more akin to cynicism, or well, denialism. You can't be a "climate change skeptic", any more than you can be a "round earth skeptic", or a "gravity skeptic".

Skepticism is about being willing to update or disregard beliefs that do not match the evidence. It's about determining what is or isn't high quality evidence, and letting your ideas be challenged and tested, as only the things most likely to be true will survive. It's a process for how you approach new information, deeply held beliefs, your own assumptions, and the claims of others. It's not perfect, but it's a hell of a lot better than anything else we've got.

And unfortunately for "climate change skeptics", that also means we can know with fairly high confidence, the truth of certain things. Climate science and climate change are some of the things we have very strong evidence for, and to be "skeptical" of them in this day is not critical thinking. It's either lying, political posturing, or burying your head in the sand.

I feel old. Remember when a brand new, highly anticipated, AAA game was like $40?

Not they are $70, plus $20-40 for preorder deluxe directors cut extra content bonus versions. Plus $10-30 for "season passes". Plus online subscription services for the game itself, the online service the game runs on, or both. Oh, and don't forget ad placement in the game. A giant billboard for house insurance in every cutscene. Drink your monster energy to refill your sprint meter...

That doesn't include greedy mobile games that require vast amounts of money to remove artificial restriction, such as daily energy meters to act. Or cosmetic DLC that costs half the price of the game itself.

And don't even get me start on the constant tracking, spying, or actual malware some publishers implement in their games.

And VR mod too.