Norgur

joined 1 year ago
[–] Norgur@kbin.social 3 points 5 months ago

Yeah, I think you're looking for Monica at this point.

[–] Norgur@kbin.social 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How exactly do you think stuff around you works? Machine learning is everywhere gobbling up massive swaths of data wherever possible. Insurances, work shift planning, goddamn Spotify. All are using ML and have for years. To think you can just stay away from those Models is ridiculous.

[–] Norgur@kbin.social 4 points 5 months ago

it's a bunch of loose files, basically. If you wanted it actively hosted, you'd just need to put them into a web server, basically.

[–] Norgur@kbin.social 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Accessibility is “no reason”?! I never called someone ableist before, but… gosh, you're coming close.

[–] Norgur@kbin.social 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The visually impaired will certainly agree that not helping them with a local AI model is a sacrifice worth being made for the purely moral stance of “no AI at all”.
/s obviously

[–] Norgur@kbin.social 4 points 5 months ago

Hey valve, so, Uhr... Funny thing... I'm actually... Uh
.. kinda dead

[–] Norgur@kbin.social 51 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Well, if you're stupid enough to tell valve about the death that is

[–] Norgur@kbin.social 5 points 6 months ago

Glad I could help :)

[–] Norgur@kbin.social 28 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Okay, there will be people disagreeing with me, but I can't let a new user be misled by us nerds talking distros all day.

So, you want to choose a distro because you expect it to do things differently than your current one? Thing is: Ultimately, they (mostly) don't differ that much, really. There are extremely few things one distro can do that you cannot do in any other distro. Yes, some files will be in different places, they might use special versions for some packages (which often can be overridden) or use older and more stable versions of stuff (Debian). Yet, in the end, they are all the same OS. They all use the same window managers, the same kernels, the same drivers (mostly), the same logic behind many things. Another distro only feels really different, when you know a lot about the ins and outs of Linux systems. If you don't, the difference will often be that you have to type either "pacman" or "apt", or either change /etc/program.conf or /etc/program.d/foo.conf.

Play with the distro you already have and like. You ain't missing anything. Just don't get the wrong idea that Distros are like windows: monolithic monsters that can't be really changed. Like mint but want Gnome as window manager? Go for it. Dislike the way the standard terminal software does colors? Get another one. Don't like how Program X does some GUI thing? There will almost always an alternative that just plugs into your system exactly as the preinstalled one did.

A distribution is basically just a pre-selection of packages that can be changed at will. Hell, you could in theory get pacman on Debian or Apt on Arch. I don't know why you'd want to, but in theory you could.

Don't waste your time reinstalling your machine. Play with the things you already have!

[–] Norgur@kbin.social 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Am I the only one who finds it super annoying, that "detection through sound waves" (Sonar) does video things while "detection through light" (lidar) does the sound things?

WHY?! Swap names already! It's driving me nuts!

[–] Norgur@kbin.social 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Two things:

  1. Do we know if fuels the urge to get real children? Or do we just assume that through repetition like the myth of "gateway drugs"?
  2. Since no child was involved and harmed in the making of these images... On what grounds could it be forbidden to generate them?
[–] Norgur@kbin.social 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Those malicious coders are too sly for that. Some write "Sh1t" to throw grep off, others even do a "B3g1n"... They are always one step ahead!

 

Hey, I'm really stumped by this issue so perhaps one of you folks might be able to help me out here. I run a little server on an RPi 5.i got for another project originally. So ce I cannot finish said project due to time constraints, I repurposed the thing into a little server. It's running smoothly so far with one really weird exception. Whenever I attach more than 1 HDDs to the pi and use at least 2 at the same time, both HDDs will start to fail, unmount and the whole USB hubs I connected them to will just disappear from LSUSB. Originally I thought this was a power issue but the weird behavior continues when I connect each HDD to it's own powered USB hub. I'm really at a loss as to what's happening. Any ideas?

 

Hey there,

I recently got increasingly annoyed by all the newsletters that keep to pop up in my (admittedly rather old) E-Mail-Accounts and I thought it might be a cool idea to have them unsubscribed from in bulk. Now I know of services like unroll.me, but those will of course scrape everything they can from your mail account. So: Is there any self-hosted alternative to these services so I can run them myself?

Thanks in advance :)

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