vk6flab

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[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 2 points 1 day ago

The port number on the outside doesn't have to be the same as the port number on the inside.

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 21 points 4 days ago (3 children)

The platform is owned by Google. By using YouTube in any way, watching, liking, subscribing, commenting, searching, clicking, all of it, you're "using Google".

So, the answer is that you cannot use YouTube and not use Google.

If Google is broken up, that might change, but I'm not sure if that will ever happen, what form that might take or if it would ever happen at all.

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It goes well beyond bother.

In my opinion, the biggest issue is that software with a GPL licence is not permitted to be distributed without making the source code available, which Red Hat restricted to only paying customers, and in doing so added a licence restriction which is not permitted by the GPL.

They are now profiting off the work of every developer who ever contributed to the software they're selling and none of those people are getting paid.

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 3 points 5 days ago (3 children)

That's a big question, but I don't trust Red Hat after the stunts they've pulled over the years. Here's a taste.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/23/red_hat_centos_move/

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 1 points 6 days ago

I'm still a "native" pendant and use Docker to bridge the gap.

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 4 points 6 days ago (5 children)

I use Debian for anything that matters. The release cadence means that stuff just works and keeps working. You cannot beat the documentation and I've been using it for 25 years.

I'm not touching anything Redhat / Fedora with a barge pole.

Not sure what the attraction to Mint is.

Never used OpenSUSE.

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 48 points 1 week ago

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This is a sobering post that revisits the notion that given a project, how many developers have to be hit by a bus before it stalls.

According to the methodology explained in the article, in 2015 it took 57 developers for the Linux kernel to fail, now it appears that it takes 8.

That's not good.

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 2 points 1 week ago

To enjoy yourselves doesn't require that you all buy the latest gaming rig or even something new or identical. As long as what you decide on has games in common, you're good.

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I am not privy to your financial situation, but can you three pool your resources and find a common platform?

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm fairly sure that the price information shown on a Google Search result page is advertising that comes from a different source than the results do.

As far as I know, you could write a plugin for SearXNG to query suppliers and format the output as required.

I think that Google Shopping might be queried in the same way, but I've never looked into it deeply.

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No, you didn't "edit" your mistake, you completely changed the meaning of your response which makes anything after it look absurd.

You originally stated that an algorithm was intelligence, the implication being that using your logic, you thought that a calculator was intelligent.

As far as the meaning of AI, you clearly don't understand the landscape surrounding the hyperbolic assertions made by ignorant journalism about the topic.

Machine learning is one aspect of the landscape, useful as it is, intelligence it is not.

LLM emissions on the other hand appear to emulate enough grammatically correct language to fool many people some of the time, leading to their mistaken belief that what is happening is intelligence rather than, at least from their perspective, magic.

(Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. -- Arthur C. Clarke)

So, intelligence it is not, Assumed Intelligence is what it is, or autocorrect gone uppity if you prefer, an algorithm either way.

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 7 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Ignorance is bliss..

A.I. means Assumed Intelligence, despite what you might have read elsewhere. Using it to do "research" is how you're going to get first hand experience with so-called "hallucinations".

But you do you..

 

Anyone know of any scriptable asynchronous communication tools?

The closest so-far appears to be Kermit. It's been around since CP/M, but apparently there's still no centralised language reference and the syntax predates Perl.

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