Kirk

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[–] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 21 hours ago

They still need natural language processing to translate the LLM to something the device understands. LLMs just make the interface more human-ey.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 1 day ago

Oh that's great to know!

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 23 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I have no issue with using AI to find otherwise undiscovered security bugs. But attempting to fixing them with AI I'm not in favor of.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 2 days ago

Thank you! I made a similar comment elsewhere. This was a chart for sales, and because generative AI can't even be copyrighted there is no reason to purchase it. This has publicity stunt written all over it.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 2 days ago

man made or not.

If there is a silver lining to any of this AI nonsense it's that it just might wake some people up to the fact that they have been fed corporate slop for decades. AI changes nothing except it makes slop faster.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 12 points 2 days ago

I don't wanna defend pop music too much but "catchy" is one of those aspects of music that's easy to immediately recognize but extremely hard to pull off. In order to be catchy a melody needs to be both wholly familiar feeling but also juuuuuust different enough to surprise our ears.

I'm not saying a generative AI couldn't ever pull it off if you drained enough lakes to do it, but while it's very good at producing the "familiar" it's very very bad at producing anything "surprising".

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 4 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Also, the one feature I've come across (long press a link for a preview) is actually pretty useful sometimes. I'm actually impressed they discovered a use for generative AI that isn't annoying and stupid.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 29 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

For a long while I wondered what would happen when Apple (a company who prides itself on it's products "just working") inevitably collided with the generative AI hype train.

At first I thought they might stay away of the whole thing, but they didn't and it's been funny watching them struggle to integrate even the simplest aspects of generative AI into their products. Anyone who knows how LLMs work know that it is wholly different than the natural language processing that goes into Siri.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Me personally I don't have a Pixel but I looked into Graphene and I'm told banking apps don't work and also tap to pay.

Linux works on pretty much every PC ever and every app can be installed. It would be nice to have that for phones!

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

End-to-end encrypted messaging protects against eavesdroppers in transit.

But if the ENDS are both compromised... I wish there were more/better custom ROMS out there. Hopefully Linux Phone gets some love.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Odd that it's on top of a sales chart when AI music can't be copyrighted, so anyone could just get it for free. It makes me suspect it's presence there might be inauthentic.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh man, I suspected that was artificial! 😡

 

/c/fuckai has two dozen mods but ironically only time I've ever seen them take action on anyone was when they removed my post asking for recs for a community with more active moderation (lol)

I'd like to discuss generative AI from a highly skeptical perspective but with higher standards of quality and without all the mouth-frothy raging and bad memes of /c/fuckai.

Does anywhere else like that exist on the fediverse? I don't care if it's small/underutilized. And no I'm not interested in creating it myself.

 

I'm trying out LineageOS Android TV for Raspberry Pi 5. There is an option for HDMI-CEC in the menus, but nothing I do can get it working.

I know it's not the Pi, my TV, or my cables because CEC worked immediately with LibreELEC.

The Pi will go into sleep mode when the TV shuts off (even when the setting for that is disabled) so I can tell that something is being communicated. But I don't seem to have any control over it.

Does anyone have any advice for troubleshooting? I've tried power cycling the TV and Pi, unplugging cables, etc.

 

I tried Kodi with Libelec but it's still so jank. The Plex app is broken, there is no invidious or YouTube app I found that works. And sometimes it just "thinks" forever and I need to get up and unplug it.

I saw that Plasma Bigscreen was revived and it looks promising, but they don't have a release yet.

Are there any other options?

 
 
 

Will LineageOS, Graphene and /e/OS be affected by Google's changes to prevent sideloading? Is UbuntuTouch or Sailfish OS promising in the long term?

I understand that right now we are in a bad place, but in your opinion, what OS do you think people who care about freedom should rally around?

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