flashgnash

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flashgnash,

My manager actually wants me to host a Minecraft server on company hardware to test our performance monitoring system, aren’t I lucky

Now if only I knew how to get players on it who aren’t my friends

flashgnash,

There’s a grafana exporter for it, can monitor the JVM

It’s not testing the performance of the machine it’s testing performance monitoring tools

flashgnash,

Is there a way to make reader view automatic on sites where it makes sense? Quite often use it when I get the “uwu pwease disable adbwock” message on a sketchy site but would be nice to just always have it on those kind of sites

flashgnash,

Photoshop has no good alternative on Linux though that’s a very real reason to need windows

Personally I’m too cheap for a Photoshop license anyway so doesn’t bother me but some people need it

flashgnash,

Oh really? When I used it on windows I couldn’t move for features and this was years ago. Crazy to think it’s got even more on mac

flashgnash,

As in one they’d manually run if there was a fire?

flashgnash,

Isn’t that what git stash is for though?

flashgnash,

Can’t you? Could’ve sworn you could

I’ve done it with TFS source control at least, thought it would be possible with git

flashgnash,

Ohh I see so you just run git fire?

flashgnash,

Oh bash alias right

flashgnash,

Unfortunately for my free time I really enjoy the endless customisation loop

Also tiling WM with virtual desktops makes one monitor feel like many, I often actively choose to use my hyprland laptop and trackpad instead of a triple monitor setup without tiling

Anyone want to try this "nyancat" docker image? It's pretty big -- 23kIB. :^) (hub.docker.com)

Long, short story: CLI animation with some minor annoyances. “Handcrafted” most of em out of the .c file, followed by a bunch of gcc flags. Made it distroless, and this came up. Then my “sharing itch” started after checking the memory usage of the container at a whooping 0 bytes. (I know it must be way more than that,...

flashgnash,

I would imagine it’s just to experiment with docker

flashgnash,

Delete the entire directory and re clone it of course

flashgnash,

Why would you not want weekly updates about cheddar cheese though

flashgnash,

Not with that attitude!

Spending a few days with Hyprland made me realize how awesome Gnome is

Don’t get me wrong. Hyprland is great. I like it a lot. It looks fresh, it’s easy to configure and the keybindings are super easy to implement, but it’s also very barebones. Most of the functionality expected from a DE come from external software. Be it a top bar, an app launcher, a notification daemon or anything else....

flashgnash,

As a hyprland user, gnome is great and I would recommend it to pretty much anyone

Hyprland is great if you consider your machine a toy as well as a tool and enjoy spending hours customising and theming

I would choose my hyprland setup over gnome 9 times out of 10, but I’d choose gnome over someone else’s setup every time because they actually know what they’re doing and make a great one size fits all DE (my hyprland config takes very heavy inspiration from GNOME with a few changes to suit my personal preference)

flashgnash,

I found the opposite actually. I tried others’ configs but nothing clicked and I didn’t learn about the bits I didn’t really care about

Starting from scratch, got the bare minimum to use it (launcher, three finger swipe, terminal bind) and then just attempted to daily drive it fixing bits as I go

Also always had the option to bail back to gnome on reboot if I needed to do something urgently that didn’t work

flashgnash,

Forge/gnome is a great mixture but proper tiler will always be better once set up

I’m using it on my PC because Wayland, Nvidia and gaming don’t mix very well, but it can be laggy and is missing a lot of features

Steam for example won’t resize smaller than a certain size and will overlap with other tiled apps, whereas hyprland forces it to I believe (and it looks fine)

flashgnash,

There is an ISO somewhere, I always struggle to find it

After that you can just download from within the VM, mount from within windows and run the installer exe

flashgnash,

Who is they? There are many tools to run VMs on Linux not maintained by rhel

flashgnash,

This makes me wonder if they’ve written that configuration for every language though, or if the English instructions work on other languages

I wonder if you could tell it to write like Shakespeare or something in English, then have a chat with it in Spanish and have that persist

My guess would be that it wouldn’t transfer, otherwise it’d need to have some understanding of the words beyond just language

flashgnash,

Curious, maybe it was trained using existing translation tech rather than being trained on actual examples of the language like it was for English?

flashgnash,

If you give it instructions in English, then switch to Spanish does it continue to follow them in Spanish?

(As in if you ask it to play the character of John the cheese merchant then ask it what its name is in Spanish, does it respond in Spanish with the correct name?)

flashgnash,

I struggle to grasp how that could work though

It’s basically just predicting what word should come next, based on many many many examples, but in very few of these examples would a conversation be across multiple languages

Sure it’s drawing from all of its training at all times, but that training would inherently be separated

The general explanation at least afaik is that preprompts work because it can predict what instructions would normally prompt people to respond with but there would be few or no examples to draw on of a message being sent in one language and acted on in another

flashgnash,

I think the hosting is the real problem. For something like Lemmy where it’s just text it’s not too expensive, but when you need to store and stream videos for free I have to imagine most people wouldn’t be able to afford that without charging for it and the moment you start charging you can’t compete with YouTube anymore

flashgnash,

Majority of people will always choose free, convenient and what they’re used to

If it’s not free it stands very little chance against something that is all 3

flashgnash,

I’ve been considering just getting a dumb phone and maybe a kindle for entertainment

Problem is I want to be able to run apps like signal, WhatsApp, discord etc

flashgnash,

I tend to like watching YouTube on my phone every now and again, I don’t have a problem with proper full length videos. It’s the fact that I’m bombarded with so many shorts in the UI and can’t get rid of them on mobile

Obviously newpipe and piped are a thing but they both are somewhat lacking compared to the official app in user experience

flashgnash,

Giving the gray-scale thing a try, I think the thing that sets modern short form content apart is how fast, snappy and easy to scroll it is though

Rarely have more than half a second of downtime between shorts, I think that is the issue recently

flashgnash,

Personally I think the problem is that YouTube promotes them so much harder than normal videos

If you look at the homepage of YouTube on mobile you get one normal video, then a row of ~6 shorts, then another normal video and so on

Much more likely to pique your interest showing you so many more shorts vs videos and once you’re in it’s difficult to break free

flashgnash,

That’s great for you, unfortunately that is not the case for most of the world

flashgnash,

Jesus Christ lol make a comment about social media on the internet and immediately get diagnosed with depression

flashgnash,

It does unfortunately. I don’t like it but it absolutely hacks my brain

Would love if there was just an option to disable shorts in the app because I still want to use original youtube

flashgnash,

Temporarily being the problem there unfortunately

I’m not the kind of person to put up with doing stuff like that repeatedly

flashgnash,

Therapists are gonna be pretty busy then because it’s a good proportion of people I know that have been sucked into this kind of content one way or another more than they’d like

flashgnash,

I’m well aware how much time I’m wasting, I’ve got a screen time monitor setup and have even gone so far as writing my own script that takes me to youareanidiot.org if I try to open YouTube before 10am but it still didn’t stop me for a good amount of time

I think I might’ve just about kicked it at this point but now I’m spending loads of time scrolling Lemmy and talking to strangers instead which I suppose is marginally better

flashgnash,

It’s entertaining but it’s a massive waste of time that puts my brain into a state I don’t like.

I’ll happily waste hours on videogames, watching long form content, tinkering with my laptop etc because I at least feel like I’ve come away with something at the end of that whereas shorts the moment I stop I feel like I’ve just completely wasted 15 minutes of my life

flashgnash,

The change in habit unfortunately is just not opening YouTube on my phone, which is a shame because there are good videos that I feel good after watching but I can’t resist getting drawn in by shorts.

Typically I don’t get that problem on PC or on a smart TV because they push long form content more there

flashgnash,

I think there’s an extension which rewrites all the clickbaitey video titles to make them descriptive instead if that’s of any interest

flashgnash,

If I were going to use anything I’d probably use piped as a PWA, but the problem is none of them seem to do recommendations and I just get generic content on the front page which doesn’t really interest me

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  • flashgnash,

    That actually sums up Linux pretty well

    Is it just me, or has the BS with OpenAI shown that nobody in the AI space actually cares about "safeguarding AGI?"

    Money wins, every time. They’re not concerned with accidentally destroying humanity with an out-of-control and dangerous AI who has decided “humans are the problem.” (I mean, that’s a little sci-fi anyway, an AGI couldn’t “infect” the entire internet as it currently exists.)...

    flashgnash,

    It’s not like the AI sanctions were ever about actually protecting humanity anyway, as it turns out recently it was just to attempt to stall until musk could get his own language model off the ground

    Again though my point was never that we need to be concerned right this instant that AGI is around the corner, it’s purely that if it were to happen it could absolutely propogate itself

    What’s almost more scary is if it’s not sentient, and it’s just an incredibly advanced language model that acts in the way it thinks an AI should (based on all the fiction we have of AI manipulating humans and taking over the world that it’s been trained on)

    flashgnash,

    You kind of do, I’m going based on the definition of AGI which is a true artificial intelligence with the ability to think and make decisions for itself. I’m not basing this on LLMs.

    I’m also not saying it guaranteed becomes evil, but it will likely take on the characteristics of humans based on our current machine learning tech, and humans are greedy, selfish, manipulative creatures

    An LLM could actually cause a lot of harm subtly by manipulating all the humans that talk to it, if it were particularly badly trained even without a train of thought just based on it acting consistently on its training data (though it would be rather difficult for it to accomplish much without actual intelligence)

    Also, not really relevant but there are already tools that do run gpt continuously, by having “agents” talk to eachother or by having it narrate it’s train of thought to itself, come up with a plan to achieve a specific goal, then execute each step.

    In theory you could make a pseudo AGI by plugging a bunch of different ML models into each other (one for each type of task) kinda like the hugging GPT project and giving it the train of thought treatment, allowing it to delegate sub tasks to other versions of itself though I can’t see a way that could operate without a human giving it a goal in the first place

    flashgnash,

    I’ve not made any kind of comment on what we should do to mitigate risks.

    My only statement has always been "If we do somehow come up with AGI, it could absolutely take over the world

    You’re directing your frustration in the wrong direction here

    flashgnash,

    The billions of those in squishy APUs don’t have the ability and resources to make exact copies of themselves, or scale up said APUs to improve the speed they can think at and the number of things they can think about at once

    Whether it would decide to use that to take over the world is a different question entirely but left to its own devices, if it wanted to it could bring that about in a way that human beings can’t do nearly as efficiently

    If a human tries to do horrible stuff they eventually die and can’t do said horrible stuff anymore. They also can’t gain more than one lifetime’s worth of knowledge

    AGI in the form it is generally considered would be like a human that lives forever, can clone itsself perfectly, requires no sleep, food, etc, can teleport anywhere in the world provided there’s a computer there for it to use and could modify its own brain or even create an entirely new one

    Take over the world doesn’t mean anything specific. It means a theoretical AGI connected to the internet could do pretty much anything it felt like doing whether humans liked it or not (provided it has enough time to gain enough of a foothold)

    flashgnash,

    NixOS and to a lesser extent nix package manager is great for this. Write a config for your entire setup, which will take a long time, but then you can carry that config with you through any and all future machines, and have every one of them setup just the way you like from the beginning

    I would highly suggest using NixOS for something like this, however if you don’t want to/can’t the following should apply to pretty much any other distro

    Most applications in Linux save their config in ~/. config/ or ~/.configname , if you copy these files and directories over to your new machine all your old settings should persist (this won’t copy applications themselves but will copy their settings for when you reinstall them)

    (though be warned this is a messy way to do it if you just copy absolutely everything without thinking, some settings you probably don’t want copied over)

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