clipboard…
This just sounds bothersome. A clipboard should really be machine-wide, that’s the purpose of it. Although I can understand the reticence there, what with password managers. I would argue that, to achieve that sort of security, there should be a separate, “secure” clipboard that only enrolled applications can access - and enrollment should be left up to the user, not the application developer.
RDP
How do you approach RDP? Do you have multiple monitors at all? Is your approach scriptable? The reason I ask is because I can easily access my machines like so:
exec xfreerdp3 /u:<user> /p:<pass> /v:<address> +f +clipboard /drive:/home/<user>>,Z: /drive:/,Y: -grab-keyboard /monitors:0,1 /multimon
This can be added to a script that also checks the state of the target machine, and boots it via my IPMI console if necessary, waiting until the machine is ready to login. And, as you’ll note, I can specify which monitors I would like to provide for the connection. grab-keyboard allows me to set a keyboard shortcut that minimises the remote session, and you’ll note the mapped drives also. This is pretty much the lowest level of functionality I’m after. If that can be replicated on Wayland, that’s at least one hurdle down.
On the contrary, they provided a piece of information that I’m very interested in. They’re hardly shilling.
Oh, no, sorry. I mean that I can’t appear to get any posts from mastodonapp.uk, whether by relay or federation
fedibuzz alleges that you can follow a single specific instance with their relay, and I see nothing to suggest that I can’t use it better federate with mastodonapp.
I did note, though, that both my instance and mastodonapp are connected to relay.intahnet.co.uk - and whilst it has a few issues in the logs, it has none since i reset the instance again after attempting limited federation mode.
But ruby is so hard :(
I come from c# land and my skills are soft and squishy
You don’t need something huge. Remove the DVD drive and the old mechanical drive from a USFF machine, stick a pair of 4TB drives in it, and put a basic debian image on it. Configure SMB with a shared folder or two, and voila: you now have a comfortable NAS for maybe £20 plus drives. Add in a sata pcie card if you can find a decent low-profile one, and that’s an extra four or even six drives. It won’t give you the cream of top performance, but it will be perfectly serviceable for a homelab.
They’ve been interfering with the UK since the 70’s. We have neo-liberalism as a result of their meddling. We could have had a nice, well-regulated economy that was far less prone to market fluctuations but nope. America doesn’t have friends, it has business interests.
Great idea! Now do this for the americans too.
Can we get that udev rule? Or at least a rough idea how to put it together? I had to put a windows box up just to get this phone talking to a pc
I, too, am aware of zlib and librera reader. But there’s a difference between a curated selection of books in physical form in front of you, and deciding to read a book on an electronic device. The former dissuades the reader-to-be from abandoning the idea over too wide a selection, and removes other electronic distractions from asserting themselves over the reading material - I refer here to notifications that flash over the current window.
Plus, there’s plenty of people who choose not to read, despite the option being available. Having the option physically there in front of you is far more encouraging, in my opinion. And once they start reading, they might go on to seek titles outside of that curated selection. Great success!
Artificial merely implies manmade, as opposed to naturally developed IMO.
As for the hypothesis, a few years ago I took a crack at designing a system like that as an on-paper exercise. The vast majority of it was just…pushing data around and using existing data to suggest new data. Not all that dissimilar to how human beings think, to be honest. The big hurdle was optimisation and context, and allowing the platform to “grow” without letting it metastasize and without improperly restricting it. There are some hardware limitations to consider too - a storage backbone, for one, and interlinking every thread as opposed to having them wholly isolated from each other. There’s the potential for thread interruption too, which as far as I’m aware is not something that any microcode packages support.
But despite all that, I’m still fairly certain one could build an approximation therein. The complexity of inter-stimuli input (read: input from audio, visual, and potentially sensatory endpoints, replicating vision, hearing and touch) isn’t to be underestimated, though.
Perhaps one day I might take a crack at it - but its also a morally gray area that has quite a few caveats to it, so… uh… maybe.
On the contrary, I’d argue that its entirely feasible to create an artificial intelligence. “All” you need do is replicate the concept of thought - which is a never ending train of relational contexts that are entirely dependent on the individuals life experiences. Putting that into practise is a huge job, but arguably not an impossible one. Such a creation, presuming it could create new concepts along the way, would certainly be deserving of the title “AI”.
I’m neurodivergent. Wanna know what would a been great? Easier access to the library and more books.
I have an SFF PC currently running Mint, with Bello and steam as well as xemu and a few other goodies. The flexibility is great, if something is a bit borked I can usually just play it in VLC, and the compute allows me to run pretty much any emulator besides Xenia or that PS3 one. Once I plug a GPU into it, those should be fine too. Not bad for a cheap i5 system.
They’re not intelligent, though. The only thing they can do is repeat patterns according to prompt. That’s literally all an LLM is - a massive relational database hooking up words and phrases, or repeating the laws of physics on a vast scale, or copying out design principles. Its nothing more than a stochastic parrot. It has no sentience, and sentience cannot be romanticised into it.
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Fuck no. Not happening.
It was already a monumentally stupid idea to bank with your phone. This is catastrophic.
AI
Its. Not. Fucking. AI.
Jfc this muck is going to make us as blind as a bat when an actual artificial sentience appears. An LLM does not an intelligence make.
I habitually use a clean install whenever I move OS - so much so that I’ve been buying new storage drives for the sake thereof. I actually have one ready to go for Trixie, once I finish a current project.