I think they’re way ahead of you. Why wait for some point of failure? They can get taxpayer money right now. Just buy the corrupt president and have him funnel half a trillion dollar towards you, and you won’t ever fail?! And taxpayer money is reliable income… Speaking of that. What’s the current state of Project Stargate? I rarely see it on the news, because there’s just so much other stuff going on and wasting $500 bn is probably not newsworthy compared to that?!

Sure. I’m not entirely sure how PCIE works these days. But in it good old days we had methods to read pretty much arbitrary memory regions via PCIE or early Thunderbolt(?).

I just figured it’d be massively complicated to wait for the user to pull something on the screen, do computationally expensive OCR, some AI image detection to puzzle documents back together, and then you’d only get a fraction of what’s really stored on the computer and you’d still need a way to send that information home… When you could just pick a plethora of easy options like read all the files from the harddisk and send just them somewhere. I think it’s far more likely they do some easy and straightforward solution. And it’d be more effective as well.

Open-weight AND Open-Source??

And why the Chinese ones? Are the Americans losing the AI race?

So… They’re “investing” in clean energy means they hold some equity in clean energy company stocks? Or what is that supposed to mean? They surely don’t run on clean energy… Or they would have said so in the advertisement?

Thx 🍻

Idk. The internet is a tool, I guess? I use forums to get my computer problems solved. Help other people with their woes… I talk to random strangers and learn something about their perspective on the world. Or what it’s like in a remote place… Talk about relationship issues. In the old days I’d use them to coordinate activities, projects. Sell used stuff or buy old hardware…

I mean you’re probably right, With social media, a lot of places lost meaning and it’s more memes and random noise. But I’d argue that’s not what the internet is about. Specifically internet forums.

But we’re all free to use them however we like. I’m not the Grinch, having fun is a perfectly valid thing to do, and should be part of the equation 😉

Ultimately I like to think I’m not just confined to armchair activism. I’ll mix online activities, real-world activism. I’ll do projects. Our hacker groups helped avoid Chatcontrol and their online actividies have an impact on people’s lives… Stallman changed the world… It’s a thing people can do if they like.

I guess sometimes I’m wrong here. I’ll usually try to have a positive effect on the world. And do something about the things I perceive as wrong. Also it’s not really “fun” to me to discuss ludicrous RAM prices, burning of money, bad effects on the environment… I think that’s more a serious matter.

I get what you’re saying, though.

I support Stallman’s take. I think just saying “Fuck AI” is going to have almost zero effect on the world. I think we need to add nuance, reasoning, be accurate… Tell people WHY that is, so we can educate them. Or convince them to do something… Understand how these things work and why that’s good or bad to form an opinion… “Fuck AI” alone isn’t going to do any of that.

Yes. I wouldn’t focus too much on someone being able to tell which map you’re playing, and which color your car has in Need For Speed. It’s way more unsettling what’s in networking equipment. Or inside an Intel Management Engine, and the firmware blobs of all the computer chips. Or the software running on it.

Yes, I heard we’re way better at diagnosing adult ADHD these days. People just had to somehow cope on their own, two decades ago. They didn’t get a diagnose, let alone medication, back then…

(It’s just scientific progress, though. And attention to detail, like how things affect different groups of people differently (ie. different symptoms for men/women). I don’t see how it’s “Not the Onion”?!)

Sure. You write numbers with the most significant digit to the left, and least significant one to the right. That’s kind of how we all write all numbers, so it should be the same with dates 😉 Though we have all kinds of crazy people and they’ll say it’s “dreiviertel fünf” and nobody has any clue what time that’s supposed to be… I’d argue it should not be that weird, though 😅

Sorry, not an answer to the question, but 2024-08-30 is an ISO 8601 date format. Endorsed in Europe (part of our norms) and everyone should write dates like that because it’s the most clever way. US would be something like 08/30/2024 or Aug 30, 2024.

Aren’t the rules fixed since 2022? As far as I know the way it works is, legislation / the EU comes up with rules. It’s the companies job to make their products abide by law. And then it’s down to lawyers / jurists to determine if they comply by law? I don’t see how they as a company need to wait for the European Commission to do something… Seems the commission sent them a notice a year ago, how their lawyers don’t think the fee models conforms to law. But that’d be Apple’s job to fix. Or have their legal team come up with something?!

Hmm, sorry. I’d guess your internet connection doesn’t work any more. So apt can’t fetch the packages. That’s kind of hard to debug, though. You’d somehow need to fix networking before you can proceed. But we don’t really know what broke. And if that’s really the only issue at play.

Maybe a Live-USB stick and a rescue mode can help here?! Other than that I’m out of options.

Clear up some space first and then try something like this:

dpkg --force-all --configure -a  
apt --fix-broken install  
apt-get -f install  

I’ve had issues like that before and oftentimes it’s recoverable. A bit unfortunately if the wrong packages got damaged. Can be quite an effort to get it going again and it depends on the exact situation.

Just use what you like, i think they’re all fine. Espeak-NG is licensed GPL and according to Wikipedia, the algorithm is (ultimately) from 1995, so I don’t think there’s funky things going on in there.

Festival and espeak-ng are the traditional Linux speech synthesizers. Should be available in any repository. And as far as I know they more or less “just” translate the words into phonemes (per complicated rules) and then play those.

According to some internet articles, Altman doesn’t even hold equity in the company. He just gets a regular salary. And dude has $2bn in his bank account from previous investments… So OpenAI “popping” shouldn’t directly affect his wealth. Just the reputation. And he’s gonna need a new hobby.

Do the USA always arrest people and put them in a prison cell for a few hours/days? Even if the crime is some trivial property damage of $50 or whatever it costs to print 57 images? I feel where I’m from, police wouldn’t really bother to get such a criminal in their car. They’d just charge them with property damage, write down their name and be done with it?!

Probably not allowed to transmit in most places of the world, except America.