utopiah @ utopiah @lemmy.ml

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OSM (no "app", just Web) at https://www.openstreetmap.org/

CityMapper

Distinct point but if I was at Meta, or Microsoft, and would want to get more resources, I'd point at the challenge (without saying "panic") of competition, e.g. China, in order to get more GPUs, data centers built, R&D subsidies, anything that make competition look fierce regardless of what I actually, so in that sense, it's a very useful piece for them.

I'd be quite curious to know the number of people who see AI as a standalone product. My bet would be very very few. Consequently when Meta provides it as an additional service to what they already offer, via chatbots or generated images or suggestions within post, they shortcut pure players. When they provide that additional service for fee, they undercut them. So... I'm not saying Meta won't see slightly less usage for their own AI services but actual products, e.g. WhatsApp, Instagram, etc then I doubt it. IMHO it's a sensationalist title.

No doubt, apparently seeing the downvotes I came across as negative about the distribution. It wasn't my point, just sharing my perspective. Thanks for clarifying what makes it actually interesting to you!

Also FWIW I'm using Debian (1993) so relatively speaking, it (2015) is quite new.

First time I hear of it

Hmmm... I wonder if literally the first words of my post could have been a hint. /s

1. email, everybody has that, if they can't use it, well up to them to offer an alternative but anyway with DeltaChat I can get notified instantly.
2. Web. Sure the app does provide some convenience but most banks do have a working website that do not need an app as usually SMS 2FA works.
3. Real taxis do have phone numbers... but they also have apps and most do not required Google Services AFAIK
4. OpenStreetMap and CityMapper and (I know I'm going to sound nuts) but actually road signs or asking people
5. No but same, plenty of apps on F-Droid that don't require Google Services, otherwise... a .txt file? .ods spreadsheet with visual? Same on NextCloud so you can share with others even though nobody cares? (sorry)
6. PinePhone, PinePhone Pro, Purism Librem, and (ahem...) Apple iPhone if you want a compromise between privacy and still convenience?

First time I hear of it, always give the same kind of thoughts :

• damn, yet another distribution, is this really necessary?
• maybe I need it, probably not, how does it actually work?
• actually I should make my own distribution at some point, how hard can it be? What would I learn from doing it?

... then I move on to my day.

Node exporter, Prometheus and grafana

Otherwise much heavier but that's also what I use.

send alerts via http request

On this specifically you might want to check ntfy as it's quite easy to setup and can give you notifications on pretty much any device (including iOS) via your own infrastructure all the way down to basics e.g. SSE. That mean you can subscribe to a topic, e.g. servers per physical location, alert level, etc and only get the ones you need.

Why would Meta AI be in "panic mode" when they provide the "service" for free anyway?

OpenAI though, or Anthropic, and others who are "pure player" in AI and do charge for a service might be in a pinch ... BUT even then it requires a lot of resources that the random computer user do not have (e.g. a GPU and a large disk), so that even in such case (sadly, as IMHO self-hosted open-source AI is much saner in most cases, cf my https://fabien.benetou.fr/Content/SelfHostingArtificialIntelligence live wiki page) the average consumer would still better pay for a model to run.

Indeed, professionals are expensive, and IMHO rightfully so. I'm only trying to highlight the fact that it's unfair to imply it's much cheaper when the quality isn't on par.

Not a weird example. I have my self hosted video server (PeerTube) and I tinkered with transcription thanks to whisper.cpp locally. It "works" in the sense that most of it is acceptable. It still does mistake though. I provide all my content, including hosting, at my costs and to anyone in the World for free.

So... I definitely see the value. I'm only saying that it has downsides and quality-wise relative to professional, it's still bad.

Don't let them know about cp, we're all doomed! DOOMED! /s

PS: sensationalist BS. Interesting as a philosophical concept for sure but here it's just fear marketing by AI-bro for their VC-funded scam.

Arguable... it's OKish at best, definitely nowhere near as good as professional... then IMHO it's like spotting a spelling mistake in an official document, you instantly look for MORE mistakes then it become distracting. There is something powerful about trust that once it's broken, it's hard to get back. Once a spelling or here transcription mistake happens, then we brace for more (rationally so) and it becomes a very taxing endeavor.

So... sure STT progressed quite a bit but it's STILL not good enough in a lot of cases.

Case in point, IMHO when there is a choice, most people (everybody?) would rather have human made captions than AI ones.

Pretty good for spam and scam.

Nice, I'm replying here using Tridactyl for Firefox which is like Vimium so clearly I'm interested.

Does it work well on KDE (so I imagine KWin here) with X11 on Debian 12 (as it's not mentioned in the listed distributions)?

Some apps are still done this way, e.g. transmission the BitTorrent client, but also ALL self-hosted Web apps. Sure it might feel a bit much to install containers on your phone "just" for that, or having to go through REST API despite being on the same actual device, but still it provides a TON of app.

Anyway, yes I agree that it is often a better model. Still a lot of apps, e.g. Blender, Inkscape, etc do provide a CLI interface. So one can both use them with a GUI or without. It's not decoupled like transmission but arguably it covers most needs.

The "struggle" is because Apple and Google refuse to do so as they built the platform to give themselves priority.

One can trivially do so on a Linux phone, e.g. PinePhone with PostMarketOS.

Source: I did it. Plenty of others do through the usual ways, e.g. pipe in the console but also with things like https://sxmo.org/docs/user/sxmo.7.html#HOOKS