Welcome to Incremental Social! Learn more about this project here!
Check out lemmyverse to find more communities to join from here!

fruitycoder

@fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

fruitycoder ,

Mozilla seems more towards local and privacy preserving AI Dev, no? Both are really lacking in the space IMHO

Like I'm not interested in what the collective of digital knowledge looks like behind several corporate filters and giant rent seeking moat.

It’s No Surprise That “Skills-Based” Hiring Has Not Worked (www-forbes-com.cdn.ampproject.org)

This article outlines an opinion that organizations either tried skills based hiring and reverted to degree required hiring because it was warranted, or they didn't adapt their process in spite of executive vision....

fruitycoder ,

And/or lower the costs of education. A lot of college seems tribal or even wasteful for the cost currently

fruitycoder ,

A problen in any mericratic system is accounting for personal bias. Its very hard for some people to see someone do something different and assume they are as good or better then themselves.

THEY went to college or THEY didn't and all of the personal reasons they assumed when making that decision get reapplied to others.

THEY didn't get where they are by being hired off of well studied hiring mechanism so why would think it needs changed, the old system works for them.

Same issue with election reforms.

fruitycoder ,

From my exp in tech has been getting to know people on projects and getting known is been 100% the way to go.

What is someone good at and how they work with a team is best seen by working with someone. Getting started though just means taking the shit work and being willing to learn more your own.

fruitycoder ,

Stop I'm unironically excited for this distant possibility.

I'm already impressed by how much the UI for cars have been separatedfromm mechanical systems.

Electric cars have a lot more tunability from a software view too. Clearly there is a plenty of real world between the chips and where the rubber meets the road too.

andrew , (edited ) to Selfhosted
@andrew@andrew.masto.host avatar

Feishin: An open source self-hosted music player that can connect to your Navidrome and Jellyfin libraries

https://github.com/jeffvli/feishin

@selfhosted

fruitycoder ,

Hey being pretty is a valuable thing! I'm a pretty function over form guy myself but a more beautiful thing makes me want to use it more.

Heck I open krita sometimes because its a pretty app, and play with just a little

fruitycoder ,

Tbh I assume that with a reduced budget the man hours and capital used is also reduced.

fruitycoder ,

The Tor browser is still Firefox based. Not a large niche, but being THE preferred way to browse with Tor makes it on its own imho

fruitycoder ,

As it should be. But honestly unless there needs to be a change there is no reason to fork.

Most of the chromium forks are just branding and proprietary features they want built in, with brave being the only one that feels a little more aggressive in changes from the base.

fruitycoder ,

Foss from places with known APTs are more secure than non-foss too personally. It would be daytime robbery compared to an inside job to implement spyware. It's been done and should be monitored for though.

fruitycoder ,

I'm a leftest and "psychically DDOSing you" is so funny to me.

fruitycoder ,

"Democracy dies in discussion"

For real though, its so vitrolic right now that even anything seeming like mild critism for one team is seen as an attack on the future of humanity.

Maker uses Raspberry Pi and AI to block noisy neighbor's music by hacking nearby Bluetooth speakers (www.tomshardware.com)

Maker uses Raspberry Pi and AI to block noisy neighbor's music by hacking nearby Bluetooth speakers::Roni Bandini is using a Raspberry Pi to power his AI-driven assault against his neighbor's regular 9am reggaeton music.

fruitycoder ,

The ol stuxnet approach, if you make it subtle enough you might just get away with it

fruitycoder ,

My only use that seemed reasonable for transparent screens is for collabertive workspaces where you want to more easily look at something and a coworker at the same time.

This marginal benifit for this niche use case just seems meh to me so far though...

fruitycoder ,

Gotta subsidize that lobbying and bribes to keep slavery strong on their assembly lines somehow.

fruitycoder ,

Do you have kernel live patching enabled?

fruitycoder ,

Sometimes people just don't think about that people can have different wants and needs.

All, literally every game I want to play runs great in Linux, and my hobbies of self hosting, development, homelabbing, and data hoarding are all leagues better on it.

That doesn't make a good choice for my friend that only logs on to play destiny 2. It also doesn't matter why, to my friend, its a bad choice. It could be the devs are chained and lashed by Microsoft for even mentioning Linux in the office, but what matters to someonethatt only wants to play that game with friends is whether it works.

fruitycoder ,

Check out hugging face! Honestly fine tunned models for specific domains seems very popular (if for nothing else because training smaller models is just easier!).

fruitycoder ,

11k to 15k starting cost plus 400 to 600 a year.

So when talking about thousands of dollars of tax credit it might have a good ROI. The initial cost could probably be lower if the actual quality doesn't matter to you.

fruitycoder ,

Stopping low effort attempts to get data it seems good, as an addition too software encryption it seems great. Of course hardware can range from child toys, gimmicks, to serious hardened hardware, so results WILL vary.

fruitycoder ,

Yeah you have to already know that one person is obviously looking over at the others answers.

Because AI and Crypto use so much electricity, what if a law was made that they had to power it with green energy?

Something on the lines of if your company facility is using over X amount of energy the majority of that has to be from a green source such as solar power. What would happen and is this feasible or am I totally thinking about this wrong...

fruitycoder ,

Tax the greenhouse effect from the energy production, UBI to give people the money to afford what they need.

Trying to moralize every action on the market is a losing game though. I mean is this, the fediverse, worth the energy, are games, streaming, plant lights for your indoor plants?

It's better to leave that to be individuals choices but make sure that the cost of the consequences are on the individual making the choices.

fruitycoder ,

There is a reason why RAG and fine-tuning are big topics in the field. General foundation models are good for general low risk info, but if people really care its generally not enough.

fruitycoder ,

I mean I don't care for most things, we don't all need to experts on the topic of the week imho

fruitycoder ,

Fines are enforced with prison. It's just the portion of wealth and income that determines how much distance is between the two

fruitycoder ,

Kicking the robots just won't grant them the same pleasure as kicking the serfs I bet. Worse yet might make the inevitable thought "maybe I'm bad at this" might get harder to dismiss it with automata following orders near perfectly.

Just kidding of course they will just blame the devs or personify the AGI making it to blame it.

fruitycoder ,

I'm a big fan towards pushing for IaC and configuration as code too. What you have to do is also push for policy as code and finops too keep the managers and power point pushers on their toes too. At least it's seemed to engender some empathy from some for me.

fruitycoder ,

The crypto space is convinced they are that. ICOs instead of IPOs. DAOs instead of boards of investors. Etc.

Across America, clean energy plants are being banned faster than they're being built (www.usatoday.com)

Across America, clean energy plants are being banned faster than they're being built::The clock is ticking toward a deadline to meet renewable-energy standards. But USA TODAY's analysis finds local governments banning wind turbines, solar plants.

fruitycoder ,

All you have to do is sell power cheaper then them from a source that is also clean or decrease the usage and bam less demand for windmills

fruitycoder ,

Stastics vs tragedies
There is also something to bite sized evils vs large unbearable ones

fruitycoder ,

A lot of places do have limits like that. Plus style choices in the building codes.

fruitycoder ,

Coal and nat gas also kill birds. Well basically any system that exhausts huge steam vats into the air just absolutely blast some birds.

fruitycoder ,

Are you totally self sufficient? I thought a lot of the social programs are supported by the sales of natural gas.

Disney+ has started cracking down on password sharing in the US (www.engadget.com)

Disney+ started getting strict about password sharing in Canada last year, and now it's expanding the restriction to the US. According to The Verge, the streaming service has been sending out emails to its subscribers in the country, notifying them about a change in its terms of service. Its service agreement now states that...

fruitycoder ,

Yep. I cancelled but all of my family on my account got their own

fruitycoder ,

Need a Moreno payment system

Tech Used to Be Bleeding Edge, Now it’s Just Bleeding | After a decade of scandals and half-assed product launches, people are no longer buying the future Big Tech is selling. (www.vice.com)

Tech Used to Be Bleeding Edge, Now it’s Just Bleeding | After a decade of scandals and half-assed product launches, people are no longer buying the future Big Tech is selling.::After a decade of scandals and half-assed product launches, people are no longer buying the future Big Tech is selling.

fruitycoder ,

Maybe add a popular budget android phone too as opposed to flag ships.

fruitycoder ,

It's their ad/intro for their pod cast shrug

fruitycoder ,

That is what the AR aspect of this headset is all about. It's AR first VR second.

fruitycoder ,

I say AR because they do full video passthrough first and have their UIs try to look a part of the real life environment (shadow effects on irl objects, menus are all semitransparent, etc).

You have to choose to do immersion instead, even the dorky eyes are implied to make it useful in IRL settings.

Not everything is good (the eyes are a total miss, the avatars are uncanny).

fruitycoder ,

I'm personally more exited for SimulaVR headset for spatial computer. Different target market though for sure

Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead. Google Search will no longer make site backups while crawling the web. (arstechnica.com)

Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead. Google Search will no longer make site backups while crawling the web.::Google Search will no longer make site backups while crawling the web.

fruitycoder ,

Yeah, they used to be my go-to for getting around the censors myself

fruitycoder ,

Honestly eth just made more progress between built in smart contracts and proof of stake, I'm surprised Bitcoin is still holding on. Sunk cost fallacy I guess.

fruitycoder ,

PoS and PoW both suffer from a centralizing of power issue IMHO so that doesn't sound implausible, TruthLabs seems to be throwing a lot of allegations towards the network though but I am not seeing the evidence yet.

fruitycoder ,

That's a good point a lot of the crypto markets influence is still more focused as an investment vehicle for getting more fiat wealth, that's more reasonable to me. I guess I am just a die hard engineer and the practical uses matters a lot more than the price of tulips.

fruitycoder ,

Have you read some of the work Visa has been doing with EVM and zero knowledge roll ups? Pretty interesting stuff.

fruitycoder ,

Honestly just couldn't find them just second hand outlets saying they say.

fruitycoder ,

Yeah, it still seems like a lot of unfounded claims, like they point to an account and say "this is the CCP" and it very well be but I keep failing to see where those claims are substantiated.

Cory Doctorow wants to wipe away enshittification of tech (www.theregister.com)

Doctrow argues that nascent tech unionization (which we're closer to having now than ever before) combined with bipartisan fear (and consequent regulation) either directly or via agencies like the FTC and FCC can help to curb Big Tech's power, and the enshittification that it has wrought.

fruitycoder ,

Certainly lowers it. I really mean the "for now" piece, between the age of easy money ending, and and AI/ML acting as capital that can be corp owned to affect white collar output it seems as though tech companies are preparing for a squeeze on employees that are unprepared.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • random
  • incremental_games
  • meta
  • All magazines
    •