hendrik @ hendrik @palaver.p3x.de

A software developer and Linux nerd, living in Germany. I'm usually a chill

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Yes. Surely it has to be easier for me (who grew up learning a germanic language,) to learn another one of them. I occasionally like to watch these Youtube videos on why for example English has a handful of ways to pronounce "ough". I still think the French are crazy people for writing l'eau and pronouncing it "oh", when it's literally the one vowel missing in that word. Or coming up with insane concepts like a silent letter "x" in the plural words... But you're right. I remember there was almost always some rule to it.

Thanks for the tips. I'll try to remember some of that. And yes, English is dumb. But also kind of nice. I think it's comparatively easy to learn. At least that's what I took from my own experience with learning English in school and then a few years later - French. And that's just loads of exceptions to each and every rule, almost all verbs are irregular, half the letters are silent for some reason... But I guess English does that, too. You can't really tell how to pronounce something just by reading the letters. Point is, I kind of enjoyed learning English. At least after overcoming the initial hurdles. And I'm exaggerating. We had a nice French teacher, and I wish I hadn't lost most of it after school, due to lack of exposure... And I think learning languages is fun, as you're bound to learn something about different cultures as well, and it might open doors to interesting places.

Yeah, that just depends on what you're trying to achieve. Depending on what kind of AI workload you have, you can scale it across 4 GPUs. Or it'll become super slow if it needs to transfer a lot of data between these GPUs. And depending on what kinds of maths is involved, a Pascal generation GPU might be perfectly fine, or it'll lack support for some of the operations involved. So yes, of course you can build that rig. Whether it's going to be useful in your scenario is a different question. But I'd argue, if you need 96GB of VRAM for more than just the sake of it, you should be able to tell... I've seen people discuss these rigs with several P40 or similar, on Reddit and in some forums and Github discussions of the software involved. You might just have to do some research and find out if your AI inference framework and the model does well on specific hardware.

I share your opinion. They seem to have clarified a few things, though. Their license states what kind of reuse is allowed. You need to read it thoroughly. For example you can study the code or adapt it for personal hobby projects, if it's non-commercial and you add the required statements... But I think it's completely unappealing to use GrayJay or contribute to the project. It's not Free Software, so you don't get much in return. They tell you you should send pull requests, but as far as I can see there is no way of logging in to their GitLab. So you somehow need to hunt down their GitHub mirror, and file something there, in the hopes someone is going to read it amongst the hundreds and hundreds of open bugreports... And their phrasing and use of the term "open source" is just annoying and bound to confuse people. I'm not sure what Louis Rossman is doing these days, but when they launched it, he was making videos with lots of outright false claims about the licensing. A lot of that hasn't been ideal. I've sent them some comments back in 2023. But they never replied directly. I believe they took notice of the discussion and promised to step up their game concerning their community. But I don't think they're doing a particularly good job. And I suspect they lack a deeper understanding of what Free Software is, what it's about and good at, how to foster a community that's not just alike what you get on Youtube as a creator.

But I'm not mad at them. As long as they keep Louis' promise of not prosecuting any individual for getting confused by their mixed signals. They seem to be mildly successful with whoever their target audience is. Guess I'm just not a part of that. But I have NewPipe/Tubular, my browser with the proper Ad-blocking in place, so I can live a comfortable life without GrayJay.

Sure. And that's the case for most big tech companies. I think the fact is a bit unrelated to this topic, though. The government already knows everyone's birthday... At least for their own citizens, they don't really need to ask Alphabet to provide that to them.

Don't they? I'm aware of the events that took place when they released it. But seems they've solved licensing by now. There is a License.md in that repo since a few months. FUTO seems to even have written blog posts about their licensing, detailing why they do it. In short: They like to call it open source, while it's not. It's source available. Seems from their posts, they mainly want to exclude commercial use, but I'm not sure about their legalese, and the actual license text restricts how people can share and modify it. But the licensing is there by now. It's just not an open source project. But I agree, they still like to confuse users and twist the meaning of words.

Certainly the correct answer. I mean their whole business model includes exactly these kinds of "algorithms". Knowing people's age, amongst other factors, is what Google is about, and the reason for the majority of their income.

These restrictions are meant to forbid what other people can do. So you yourself can do anything with your content, no matter what's in the license. It just means other people can't use it in their projects if relates to making money. But I think something like CC BY-SA or BY-NC-SA is a solid choice. I'm always for freedom, so I'd drop the NC and allow my audience to do practically whatever they want... But it's your creation and your choice.

I'd say it's bound to be more difficult for Google, as every Youtube comment for example, sounds like being made by an 8 yo. Whereas Meta can just tell. You're still on Facebook? Probably 50+... And on WhatsApp, the amount of boomer memes re-posted would be an immediate tell...

Isn't written language just an arbitrary agreement? I don't see much logic in a lot of aspects of the English language. I just memorize it. And as a German, I kind of struggle with these words, as we have a lot of compound words in our language. And the languages share a common ancestor. And I don't really see any reason to write "livingroom" as two words... I mean it's one room... And you tend to do it the other way around with other nouns... I also have no idea why. And then there's the occasional dash in between words... Or "in between" itself. Or "itself" or was it "it self"? It's just confusing. It's probably an artifact of how the language developed.

Agreed. And the default UI hasn't even gotten attention in the past. It's just there. My experience with Lemmy has been that the devs fix bugs, but they're mostly focused on the backend. I'm not sure about the consequences, though. A lot of people seem to be using phone apps, so their default might not even be Lemmy's UX.

https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/

Read that for a start. And maybe consider sharing your work under a nice license. You can also check out platforms like Jamendo, Bandcamp, the Internet Archive... And as far as I understand archive.org will even handle generating some torrents for you.

32GB of VRAM for a consumer price would certainly help. I'm a bit concerned with the memory bandwidth, seems way less than what modern Nvidia cards do... But if it's priced competitively, this might be a good choice to do a lot of AI tasks at home, especially LLM inference.

Thanks for the nice conversation, btw. I've learned a few things. Yeah, and some things you said just reinforce what I've already read elsewhere. And I also think it's a shame that the entire field is more often that not connected with bad working conditions, and it's hard to change due to the very nature of it. Plus it's an extra shame that organized crime has ties. And they won't let go, no matter what. From what I've read it's even worse in other parts of the world. And that's kind of always the case with the internet, since it spans across the globe.

But sure, I wholeheartedly agree. It's an entirely different story whether you rip off some faceless large (and rich) company. Or do the very same thing to an amateur, or your neighbour. I think that's not controversial. I also know lots of people who are less concerned with pirating like Hollywood movies or AAA games, but they won't do the same to an indie game developer or something like that. But it requires some amount of thinking and awareness...

And circling back to the topic at hand... Does anyone know the admin of that instance, or operator of the bot? Maybe they're just oblivious to the fact, yet willing to learn? We could request the amateur communities to be removed from the bot. If someone compiles a list. Or just ask them whether they're willing to do it, before investing the effort. I'm not sure if I'm the right person for that, since I have close to no knowledge about the details. And I'm still not convinced of the importance of that specific instance, since all the posts there have zero engagement and upvotes, and it seems to me like people already voted with their feet.

Edit: Nevermind, I've asked to remove them: https://lemmit.online/post/5153024

I've tested it (on NixOS). But just for two weeks. I'd say it's pretty impressive. Certainly works. It was just missing some important (to me) feature (forwarding mail to external mailboxes). But they've added it since, so I would like to try again. It doesn't seem to have all the bells and whistles (and I didn't have a look at the program code) but the basic features of a mailserver seem to be solid. I can't really comment on the sustainability of the project, quality of the documentation... I mean if your setup includes niche edge-cases, custom tweaking and hooking into other software, maybe stick with the popular choice. But if you just want a regular, more or less simple mailserver, I'd say go for it.

I'm not sure whether it's futile. I mean societal change happens. And it's a big step forwards that we have these platforms where independant creators get 80% revenue of a monthly subscription. A few years ago, stuff was just pirated, even on the big regular sites. Plus there wasn't a good way to do it directly. You had to get into the porn industry and get paid for some DVD production. And as far as I understand, the porn industry is super problematic. So I'd say we're making progress. But educating people... Idk, it's always hard. Maybe futile, yeah. This isn't my fight. I've tried lecturing people on other topics and I found it's almost impossible to change the world. At least on a bigger scale. And if you're involved yourself, progress always feels painfully slow. I don't know what to make of this. I still refuse to resign with some topics.

By the way, concerning the loose surge protector: Good thing you replaced that. If you see something like that, and it's mains voltage, always replace it ASAP. Not because it doesn't look nice or the RasPi gets unhooked... But because it's a proper fire hazard. A whole house can burn down if you have a loose mains connection and that somehow leads to electrical sparks.

Agreed. I mean I don't think the general public is even concerned with that. For 99% of people, NSFW is visiting a porn streaming site, and they get whatever they're interested in. And for free. That's the expectation.

I think the BBC did a good documentary on NSFW creators a few years back. I can't remember the name. But what they depicted wasn't success stories. It was one gay couple who were very successful, with a very nice fanbase... But all the other people they showed didn't get rich or anything especially after the 20% cut and taxes. Plus there's expectations from the audience and lots of competition. Seemed like really hard work, sometimes with severe downsides (sometimes not so much). And some of them struggled and the text card at the end said they quit after filming of the documentary. I might misremember the details. But at least that depiction of OnlyFans seemed more honest to me. And they were all putting in a good amount of time and it weighed down on their lifes, friendships and often relationships.

I've also seen a bit of what happens on Reddit. But all I've seen is using that platform to advertise for a paid account on a different platform. Seems to me it's often one or two pictures and an onlyfans link somewhere. So I'd say it's more advertising material than proper content on Reddit. At least if it's the creators themselves. Other people just steal arbitrary content and repost that somewhere. The majority doesn't seem to care for copyright too much. At least that's what I've seen on the more popular subs. But as I said, I've just had a glimpse at it, I might be wrong. But if it's true, it's a systemic problem. And it starts on platforms like Reddit itself. (And another thing I learned is that Twitter got used for NSFW as well, like for videos, animations and by people who create adult games on Patreon.) But I bet you don't need to worry about explaining whether it's alright to steal advertising material, if the whole situation is like it is.

Well, I can't see anyone disagreeing for the last 7h... But sure, it's likely going to happen. Have a nice day. Thanks for the info. I'm not that much into NSFW subreddits myself. I've seen several ones, but I wouldn't say I'm very knowledgable with the inner workings of the culture there.

Thanks for the report. I figured someone must be using it, but seems you're amongst a very select few people. Most other people I know who need/want to stay in touch, just go to Reddit instead. I mean the site is still there... And you'll get the content over there including comments, votes and the ability to talk... But sure, I'm okay with either of that.