What’s the deal with Alpine not using GNU? Is it a technical or ideological thing? Or is it another “because we can” type distro?

The model does have a lot of advantages over sdxl with the right prompting, but it seems to fall apart in prompts with more complex anatomy. Hopefully the community can fix it up once we have working trainers.

On Discord, the black hole for useful information.

“Tiny shards” probably isn’t the right term to describe particles 20-200 nanometers wide, but this is probably bad nonetheless.

It’s an AI thing. Nearly all small models struggle with separating multiple characters.

I really like the simplicity and formatting of stock pacman. It’s not super colorful but it’s fast and gives you all of the info you need. yay (or paru if you’re a hipster) is the icing on top.

Don’t buy a Chromebook for linux. While driver support usually isn’t an issue, the alternative keyboard layout is terrible for most applications. To even get access to all of the normal keys that many applications expect you need to configure multi-key shortcuts which varies in complexity based on your DE. In most cases it will also void your warranty because of the custom firmware requirement.

Koboldcpp should allow you to run much larger models with a little bit of ram offloading. There’s a fork that supports rocm for AMD cards: https://github.com/YellowRoseCx/koboldcpp-rocm

Make sure to use quantized models for the best performace, q4k_M being the standard.

Tun0 is the interface that most vpns are using so I assume proton is the same.

The drive is visible to the OS so if they have any kind of management software in place which looks for hardware changes it will be noticed.

In the context of a “war game” this makes sense. If you remain completely neutral it’s impossible to win. Any examples of similar scenarios the model saw during training would have high aggression rates.

Nobody cares until someone rich is impacted. Revenge porn has been circulating on platforms uninhibited for many years, but the second it happens to a major celebrity suddenly there’s a rush to do something about it.

“[The Defense Intelligence Agency] concluded that not only did no such material exist, but taxpayer money was being inappropriately spent on paranormal research at Skinwalker Ranch in Utah,” Kirkpatrick said.

If paranormal activity exists anywhere it’s at Skinwalker ranch.

French laws don’t recognize software patents so videolan doesn’t either. This is likely a reference to vlc supporting h265 playback without verifying a license. These days most opensource software pretends that the h265 patents and licensing fees don’t exist for convenience. I believe libavcodec is distributed with support enabled by default.

Nearly every device with hardware accelerated h265 support has already had the license paid for, so there’s not much point in enforcing it. Only large companies like Microsoft and Red Hat bother.

I hate the idea of any device that can be bricked/locked out via software, especially when that lockout is controlled by a 3rd party.

a thorough investigation is planned beforehand in order to find out how Huawei was able to produce an advanced smartphone so quickly without relying on global supply chains

There’s no way a country of 1 billion people which already manufactures most of the world’s electronics could have possibly produced complex electronics.

Today, a simple google search will tell them the correct answer for the quiz question, why bother with discussing the actual answer, the lore and the facts behind it, etc! This is just one example of a creative skill which is rapidly degrading among humans and already taken over by Turing machines.

Or you could acquire more general knowledge than ever before. It’s devalued knowledge economically but it hasn’t stopped anyone from pursuing it.

Machine learning is the same. It has the ability to eliminate many jobs, but that’s not the fault of the tool, it’s the fault of the economic system it exists in.

Just introducing them to it is probably enough. Show them different desktop environments and applications to get them used to the idea of diverse interfaces and workflows. Just knowing that alternatives exist could help them break out of the Windows monoculture later. Enable all of the cool window effects.

Dropping support after only 25 years? I can’t believe Linux is contributing to planned obsolescence.

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