Hi, fellow (at the moment) hetero, cis man 🙂

I mostly share your point of view and feelings, with a couple nuances. I’ve never felt strongly about my own gender, but still hate toxic masculinity with a passion. I’ve often chosen to pose as genderless just to avoid being associated with the “stereotypical man”, but I’ve come to think that one doesn’t need to be queer just to denounce toxic behaviors. There are some, few, role models of “positive masculinity”, that one can follow, without changing labels. I don’t think that “men” should let the toxic ones monopolize that label; positive masculinity should reclaim it, and push the toxic ones out!

As for gender, sexuality, attraction… they’re all on a spectrum, and not necessarily at a single fixed point, or intensity. Artistic sensibility is on its own, also not necessarily related to the others. I don’t think that simply being able to appreciate a beautiful man, or woman, or lamp post, is enough to call oneself “queer”. We may not be like the “stereotypical macho man”, but that doesn’t mean one should renounce whichever label resonates more with oneself.

Ani = weird goth waifu
Rudi = fascist AI agent of chaos

At least they’ve kept them separate… kind of.

I see. Just checked the Wikipedia page, what a story.

Face eating leopards getting closer and closer to each other’s faces.

Entities care about art… as much as they can benefit from it. Large entities make sure to get the rights for peanuts, small ones are fine with dropping it and replacing with someone else’s, still without paying. Pretty much the only way for small artists to get a fair compensation, is from people who want to support them… a case in which —ironically— copyright is irrelevant.

It isn’t US centric either. Corporations have used the US to pressure everyone into accepting a similar set of rules, with similar effects all over the world.

But I’m not even strictly against copyright itself. I’m against how the laws have been pushed over and over towards a twisted parody of the initial goals, while the real world has been going in a completely different direction.

I’m running ollama in termux on a Samsung Galaxy A35 with 8GB of RAM (+8GB of swap, which is useless for AI), and the Ollama app. Models up to 3GB work reasonably fine on just the CPU.

Serendipity is a side effect of the temperature setting. LLMs randomly jump between related concepts, which exposes stuff you might, or might not, have thought about by yourself. It isn’t 100% spontaneous, but on average it ends up working “more than nothing”. Between that and bouncing ideas off it, they have a use.

With 12GB RAM, you might be able to load models up to 7GB or so… but without tensor acceleration, they’ll likely be pretty sluggish. 3GB CoT models already take a while to go through their paces on just the CPU.

Is it protecting “small artists”, though?

Suing for copyright infringement, requires money, both for lawyers and proceedings.

Small artists don’t have that money. Large artists do, small ones don’t, so more often than not they end up watching as their copyright is being abused without being able to do anything about it.

To get any money, small artists generally sign off their rights, either directly to clients or studios (work for hire), or to publishers… who do have the money to enforce the copyright, but pay peanuts to the artist… when they even pay anything. A typical publishing contract has an advance payment, a marketing provision… then any copyright payments go first to pay off the “investment” by the publisher, and only then they give a certain (rather small) percentage to the artist. Small artists rarely reach the payment threshold.

Best case scenario, small artists get defended by default by some “artists, editors, and publishers” association… which is like putting wolves in charge of sheep. The associations routinely charge for copyrighted material usage… then don’t know whom to pay out, because not every small artist is a member, so they just pocket it, often using it to subsidize publishers.

Copyright laws, as of right now, primarily benefit publisher dynasties (like Disney), then large publishers, then large studios and large artists, a few lucky small artists… and leave most small artists SOL.

Doesn’t seem to work on Firefox on Android. Do I need a YouTube API key?

Settings (gear icon) → Audio Track → (whatever) original

It’s still “world-changing great”. All the knowledge sharing, all the collaboration, all the scientific advances, have been growing at the same rate as the “commoners” have been joining it and getting trapped in the slop.

The only change, is the Internet is not just for nerds anymore, it’s also for preachers, scammers, and the average brainwashed populace.

It used to be easy to ignore the peasants from inside an ivory tower’s echo chamber. The Internet has brought those voices out for everyone to hear… and to realize humanity is not as idealized as they thought. Time to put some real work into fixing some real problems.

standard assumption that matter is evenly spread across the universe

What standard? This isn’t new:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_filament

Looks decent. I think you could easily improve the tarp on top with some random “weathering”, and a light touch from a heat gun on the corners, to get closer to the original look (just don’t set it on fire 😉).

Given your latest interactions, what are the good faith discussions you’re looking for?

Anyway, sounds like this would be more suited to either the Politics or Socialism communities.

Overclocking usually requires overvolting to keep things working. Underclocking though, is a good way to gain stability.

(Σ (max TDP of all system components) ) + 20%

Rationale:

• PSU works best at 20–80% load
• Component TDP are an average; actual power usage can go way down, but also spike above spec for short bursts
• Brownout is one of the messiest issues to troubleshoot

Additional considerations:

• Check the PSU rail distribution
• If separate rails, make sure the GPU rail can meet GPU’s TDP+20%
• If multiple rails, each should meet whatever is connected to it +20%
• If using HDDs or other start-heavy components, factor in the initial power spike (staggered start is also an option). GPU starting at almost idle should compensate for the overall power requirement, but still factor it into the rail calculations

Don’t worry, this has been known for some time:

Published: 24 January 2014

Stephen Hawking: ‘There are no black holes’

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2014.14583

😜

Actual Hawking’s paper:

Information Preservation and Weather Forecasting for Black Holes

https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.5761

Therapists are not supposed to bond with their patients. If you find one whom you can stand for half an hour, then take what you can and leave the rest, they’re not to be your friend or lover. The fact that chatbots let people fall in love with them, is a huge fail from a therapy point of view.

Bouncing ideas back and forth is a good use though. A good prompt I’ve seen recently:

I’m having a persistent problem with [x] despite having taken all the necessary countermeasures I could think of. Ask me enough questions about the problem to find a new approach.

If you worry about privacy, you can run an LLM locally, but it won’t be fast, and you’d need extra steps to enable search.

You can use local AI as a sort of “private companion”. I have a few smaller versions on my smartphone, they aren’t as great as the online versions, and run slower… but you decide the system prompt (not the company behind it), and they work just fine to bounce ideas.

NotebookLM is a great tool to interact with large amounts of data. You can bet Google is using every interaction to train their LLMs, everything you say is going to be analyzed, classified, and fed as some form of training, hopefully anonymized (…but have you read their privacy policy? I haven’t, “accept”…).

All chatbots are prompted by the company to be somewhat sycophantic so you come back, the cases where they were “too sycophantic”, were just a mistake in dialing it too far. Again, can avoid that with your own system prompt… or at least add an initial prompt in config, if you have the option, to somewhat counteract the company’s prompt.

If you want serendipity, you can ask a chatbot to be more spontaneous and suggest more random things. They’re generally happy to oblige… but the company ones are cut short on anything that could even remotely be considered as “harmful”. That includes NSFW, medical, some chemistry and physics, random hypotheticals, and so on.

Aren’t copyright laws awesome?

• Buy digital copy… no you can’t, you can only license one
• Buy physical book, now you have a copy
• Want a digital copy? No you can’t, copyright forbids it…
• …unless you destroy the physical copy in the process, then it’s only a format migration
• Donating the books after digitizing, would be “stealing”!

And still, they are suing them for migrating formats without authorization 🤦

All hail Disney’s lobbying and the 150 year copyright term!

Next campaign:

“Save the games, save the CHILDREN!”

• Let your children have a better childhood
• Play your favorite childhood games with them
• Don’t let publishers decide what’s best for your children
• Make sure your children can play the games with their children
• Childhood is the time to play, think of the children!

…wonder how successful that would be.