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  • A $150 Buttonless, Open Hardware Answer to Kindle is being crowdfunded by Open Book Touch

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  • If you're honestly asking, one thing I just read is that you need an account to use it. Not sure if that is a downside for many.

  • Great job 👏 [Twonks]

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  • Presumably this:

    malus.sh - Clean Room as a Service | Liberation from Open Source ... Clean Room as a Service Finally, liberation from open source license obligations. Our proprietary AI robots independently recreate any open source project from scratch. The result? Legally distinct code with corporate-friendly licensing. No attribution. No copyleft. No problems.

    The problem is that AI actually can do useful work, unlike what the fuckais want people to believe. It can do that. Except you don't get any updates or support, or help with fixing bugs. So not even sure how useful this is. But oh look how evil lol

    All this shows is how stupid intellectual property, patents and copyright is. We're not talking about "high art" or ingenious inventions or stuff, it's all capital sucking up the work of workers and turning it into a commodity. A commodity that fundamentally is easy to copy. And copying isn't theft, it doesn't take anything away except the potential profit the capitalists are dreaming of. If you are taking away my copy, my ability to learn or enjoy culture, then you are the thief. Because most of the time there is no profit, only potential profit that would never materialize. We have a 1000 textbook variations about the same topic, because every one has their own copyright instead of collaboration and free resources. Pulp.

    There are no artists posting on reddit, they are no genius comments or novels posted. Millions of books from an industry that produces slop. And LLMs managed to turn all that into something resembling intelligence which might be useful for quite a few things. And they don't even copy, they use machine learning to turn it into a model of the thing.

    And suddenly everybody looses their fucking mind and pleads for more stringent copyright laws lol.

    Fuck the AI bubble and environmental BS and do address the avalanche of societal problems coming our way, but copyright law is not the fucking answer. It's an oppressive and imperialist tool to collect rent. And it will make things much worse long term if there are no legal open source/weight AI models.

  • Great job 👏 [Twonks]

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  • Haha love the reference to Fahrenheit 451. There is also a good illustration in the horror story from _9MOTHER9HORSE9EYES9 with people sinking into some kind of experience stream, similar to wireheading. Or in "Systema Delenda Est" about postbiological life there is the concept of "Elysium" virtual worlds where people go in and never want to come out again, because they live in a narrative that is always perfect for them. Instead of slop you have perfection that is irresistible. Star Trek had Barkley becoming holo-addicted. Cheese Pizza is really bad for you too lol.

    You could argue that something like computer games the story is ultimately told by the player and his decisions and actions, and the world should just react. There is a fundamental limit to storytelling in computer games, which only tabletop role playing games solve with an intelligent narrator or game master. I do think LLMs can fill that role but not very well. But better than what open world games offer today. Not better than a well written movie.

  • Great job 👏 [Twonks]

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  • AI slop is AI slop, but if you compare it to a film director explaining to a concept artist or director of photography what he wants, then selecting and refining examples and concept art and sketching out a storyboard, there is little difference to someone using AI to make some film. Just that the latter will typically be much worse because anyone can do it now, they won't have studied film making, and AI isn't very good at it so far. But either can be art, or it can be garbage.

    Also with advances in hardware and better tools and software and models, we could see a new type of art form or medium. Something like the holodeck in star trek. Like a movie that is more interactive, like a role playing session in VR. Told to you by a narrator but you can interject and steer or derail the narrative. So the "directors" become more like world builders or campaign designers.

  • In Viral Post, Author Jesse James Rose Opens Up About Anti-LGBTQ+ Senator Lindsey Graham Allegedly Hiring Her for Sex Work

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  • Graham did whatever was necessary to gain more power and hold onto it, voted for imperialist wars that killed many thousands and made the USA weaker as a nation and helped perpetuate and create needless suffering. And in the end he collaborated and joined fascism. People like that love power above anything else. They love nothing else, believe in nothing else. It's a filter, only the worst or the least human make it to the top. It doesn't matter what they feel inside, certainly they don't care. No empathy, no pity, no sense of aesthetics, no pride. Only power. Graham was the perfect example of this.

    And he won. He never faced consequences, prosecution or defeat for the consequences of his actions and died of natural causes at the peak of his power. Pissing on his grave is the least we can do.

    Save your pity for the victims of the policies he supported. Like the people dying or being mutilated in Iran right now.

  • AI giants learn what everyone else on the modern internet already knows

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  • Yeah it has to be open weight and free to use for everybody, with regulation to tag all AI output as generated so we know what is what.

    The worst outcome would be if somehow all open weight AI models that can't show their training data will be subject to some kind of tax or rent by AI / IP collection agencies, ultimately going to the plutocrats. That would be techno feudalism. Big corporations can afford to negotiate and pay license fees and often profit from cumbersome regulation too that prevents others from producing value. So the worst outcome is if we have robots doing all the work, and all the robot IP is owned by the techno-feudalists. And we can't even use robots to help with subsistence farming because we can't pay the expensive AI IP licenses.

  • If pieces of a haunted house are all replaced ship of Theseus style, would the ghosts go away?

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  • Unfortunately as long as the idea of the haunted house persists, you'll have to keep dealing with the nonsense.

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    Zig language's policy on AI

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  • Well that doesn't sound ominous and insane at all

  • Like it or not, this is their ideal match.

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  • Damn. Thanks for letting me know. I really need a browser plugin that lets me know immediately if a celebrity is a monster or not before I say anything about them lol.

  • Like it or not, this is their ideal match.

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  • Holy shit I only now realized Dwight Schultz was on the A-Team lol. To be honest he sounds quite normal but of course has his unique mannerisms.

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    Switched from reddit to lemmy because they banned my account

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  • Right now the USA would need revolutionary rhetoric, talk about political and physical violence to restore democracy and the constitution. And that's what they can't have. They rather side with the fascists than allowing any kind of revolution.

    At least not in the USA. Supporting regime change and coups and political killings overseas is perfectly fine.

  • What's something you no longer buy due to intrusive, insidious technology being added into it?

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  • Honestly TVs were the original "insidious technology". I always hated advertising and the constant brainwashing. After going off to study and watching movies and shows on a PC for a few years, coming back home and seeing a TV run in the background is so fucking grotesque. And that was before they added extra ads lol.

  • just realized whoogle is dead now

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  • Well they will probably be massively over capacity. But then you could run the for half a day during sunlight hours and just use solar. Solar PM and wind kite power basically gives us near infinite super cheap energy at certain times, so you could still make use of those compute centers. Turn them off during the night, modernize the cooling and noise dampening, add some solar and you can use the compute to run models to create new medicines like anti-cancer meds or protein folding. Unlikely that's going to happen but that is what a sane civilization would do with all that compute.

  • FCC Approves Reflect Orbital's Space Mirror Satellite That Astronomers Hate

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  • Yeah space compute centers are idiotic. Even if it could be made profitable it would be such a stupid idea.

    The people pushing for privatization of space desperately are looking for profitable uses cases. There is a recent breakthrough with "hollow fiber optic cables" that makes the future promise of faster ping with Starlink mostly irrelevant too.

    We should be building a moon base and explore mining and industry and something like a railgun to shoot back stuff back to earth. That would be the logical next step for humanity. But don't try to commercially exploit space, that is just stupid.

  • just realized whoogle is dead now

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  • "internet indexer" should really be a government / EU / UN sponsored public utility thing. And then you have front ends that can improve the search query and filter and sort the results.

    I don't know how much it would cost / how large a data center it would take to cache the web pages like google does. But there is just no reason to have so much wealth / advertising drain from the public for such a fundamental thing.

  • Keep Android Open (Stop Google from limiting APK file usage)

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  • I guess one solution to that is to have a second used or ultra low cost phone just for your personal ID and banking stuff. But then it's no longer really mobile lol.

  • FCC Approves Reflect Orbital's Space Mirror Satellite That Astronomers Hate

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  • I mean they did experiment with solar panels that contain lenses to intensify sunlight and increase efficiency, but it's almost always cheaper to just buy more solar panels. Not even MPPT solar chargers are worth it vs buying one more panel.

    This space mirror is really the perfect example of the pathological stupidity in our era. You just have to listen to the experts, but everyone just wants to push clickbait engagement, so they get funding by some equally moronic investors lol

  • Are you ready for what it takes to stop ghost guns? New laws in California and New York might stop anyone from 3D printing guns — and create entirely new kinds of surveillance.

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  • Gavin Newsom wants to make seizing ballots a felony

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  • Yeah! Whoever has the most money and controls the media wins, as it should be in a democracy!