brucethemoose

the press loves to give disproportionate airtime and column inches to far-right demagogues

Bingo.

Now you basically understand how we got here.

And that’s why Sora sucks, because it’s censored, closed weights, totally opaque, largely toolless, and peddled like spam.

I mean, I’m as big a ML fans as you’ll find on Lemmy, but this is a slop machine to build some Altman hype.

A controllable, integrated version as a tool, with augmentations like VACE or SDXLs controlnet would be neat. Thats also great because it’s not so easy for 1 click zero effort automated spam, which is by far Sora's largest market as is.

…And guess what. We have that, it’s neat already, it’s open weights, it's improving, and it’s not so controversial/abused because there’s an actual tiny barrier of entry to using it, like Davinci Resolve vs instagram filters.

I just hope it (and the bulk of the current “internet”) burns to the ground instead of dragging on like this. There’s really no other way out now.

Holy shit.

Off topic, but I searched "cartel pretends to be ice" on DDG, and literally got hundreds of cheap AI slop YT videos of supposed ICE cartel busts. Replies are either bots or idiot believers; no one is calling them out! YT is not taking them down. Most uploaded today or yesterday.

The internet is toast. RIP.

But yeah, if big orgs are doing this, it doesn't seem high profile yet.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure working Nvidia on wayland is a very recent thing.

Honestly I just boot from my (AMD) IGP for linux, which is better for compute anyway.

I guess it depends on what that 'something' is.

My linux partition used to be like this (mostly Nvidia issues), but its been relatively well behaved. And now my Windows install has become a pain with UWP apps, printers, and LAN drives, specifically, that I've just given up trying to resolve TBH. Not to speak of some programming stuff.

Both OSes are tools that make specific things easier.

Man.

Hypothetically (no, FBI, I’m not opening up), it’d be so easy for crooks to dress up and pretend to be ICE.

Especially cartels. They must be having a field day with this, on top of all the attention drawn off them.

I am 50/50.

It’s link free, and while citing a few details, mostly vague with a suspicious format.

But sfg.media seems to have a real history; it’s not an SEO farm:

SFG Media was launched in 2022 by a small group of Kyiv-based journalists and volunteers during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It identifies as a non-commercial, non-registered media collective run by six individuals. According to their About page, they publish English-language content primarily to offer independent Ukrainian perspectives to international audiences. While not a formally registered media outlet, they describe their work as journalism reflecting their “social and political position.”

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/sfg-media-bias-and-credibility/

And the point the article makes is pretty reasonable.

I’d feel a whole lot better if they link citations like the ISW or Wikipedia. And I know that can be a slop pattern too, but it’s still good practice these days.

So many folks seem to be the opposite of me…

Linux just works now. Shit with my printer, device drivers, LAN things, stuff like like is like wrestling an animal on Windows for some reason, and… just works with KDE. It’s like they’ve swapped places.

Random Windows apps works better in wine than they do in actual windows, sometimes. With no fuss: I double click and they launch, that’s it.

Don’t even get me started on security.

But Linux is (mostly) not performant for gaming, at least not on Nvidia. It’s… fine, but I’m not going to take a 10%+ hit, sometimes much more severe, and poorer support for HDR, frame limiters, mod tools and such when I can just boot neutered Windows instead.

So I’m not getting away from Windows in the near future, but to frank, I don’t understand why more folks (who get past the admittedly tall hurdle of learning about partitioning and installing an OS) don’t dual boot, or seek to use certain poorly supported Linux native apps when double clicking exes mostly just works.

But my point is you don’t have to pick and choose. And there’s no commitment. You can have your cake and eat it, and send the cake back if you don’t like it.

No, I just skimmed the transcript because it’s an hour long, heh.

I did get that bit about SETI and the original paper, which is interesting, and also agree that astronomers looking for them over the paper is hilarious and stupid.

Man, I miss my jailbroken iPhone 5.

It was like having your cake and eating it, and somehow its stock (much less tweaked) UI is less clunky than whatever TF Apple has done to my discount 16. Maybe it’s because I was using Android in between, but still…