
During the summer the European Commission made the decision to stop funding Free Software projects within the Next Generation Internet initiative (NGI). This decision results in a loss of €27 milli...

A software developer and Linux nerd, living in Germany. I'm usually a chill dude but my online persona doesn't always reflect my true personality. Take what I say with a grain of salt, I usually try to be nice and give good advice, though.
I'm into Free Software, selfhosting, microcontrollers and electronics, freedom, privacy and the usual stuff. And a few select other random things, too.
That's a very common issue with a lot of large language models. You can either pick one with a different personality, (I liked Mistral-Nemo-Instruct for that, since it's pretty open to just pick up on my tone and go with that). Or you give clear instructions what you expect from it. What really helps is to include example text or dialogue. Every model will pick up on that to some degree.
But I feel you. I always dislike ChatGPT due to its know-it-all and patronizing tone. Most other models also are deliberately biased. I've tried creative writing and most refuse to be negative or they'll push towards an happy end. They won't write you a murder mystery novel without constantly lecturing about how murder is wrong. And they can't stand the tension and want to resolve the murder right away. I believe that's how they've been trained. Especially if there is some preference optimization been done for chatbot applications.
Utimately, it's hard to overcome. People want chatbots to be both nice and helpful. That's why they get deliberately biased toward that. Stories often include common tropes. Like resolving drama and a happy ending. And AI learns a bit from argumentative people on the internet, drama on Reddit etc. But generally that "negativity" gets suppressed so the AI doesn't turn on somebody's customers or spews nazi stuff like the early attempts did. And Gemma3 is probably aimed at such commercial applications, it's instruct-tuned and has "built-in" safety. So I think all of that is opposed to what you want it to do.
I think it needs to work across instances, since we're concerned wit the Fediverse and federation is one of the defining mechanics. Also when I have a look at my subscriptions, they come from a variety of instances. So I don't think a single instance feature would be of any use for me.
Sure. And with the cosine similarity, you'd obviously need to suppress already watched videos. Obviously I watched them and the algorithm knows, but I'd like it to recommend new videos to me.
Me?
Maybe your friend is right? Don't we all regularly fail to empathize with people? I don't get why people vote for certain people, I don't know 100% how it feels to be a woman, someone else... I don't know how an ilness feels if I never had it... That's perfectly normal. The thing hat matters if we respect such people (despite not understanding them).
I'd say ignore your friend's opinion, she isn't your main concern. Talk to someone and get help. An adult, relative, friend... Or call one of the phone help lines, maybe a trustworthy teacher. I think any of that would maybe have a chance to change the situation. And seems this already starts to drag down on your relationships with other people. So you might want to do it.
So if you have someone in your life who sides with you, start with them and talk about your situation and how you feel. Otherwise... I'm not sure how legit they are, but there is https://www.childhelphotline.org/ if you're in the USA. You could ask them what to do if you feel your upbringing is bordering on abuse.
What do you mean? The Chinese are known for government-coordinated megaprojects... They regularly build entire city districts pretty much over night. And it's not really quick... They've been at it since almost 20 years. And I believe in 2016 they released their national 15-year plan to ramp up power plants and AI in order to become the global AI leader by 2030.
We can see how in the times before AI, they were able to build large Bitcoin farms quickly (before they banned it) and by today, their AI industry publishes quite some models, papers... So I don't really see a reason to question this. Or is there anything I've missed?
I'm not sure if the title is clickbait... Because that's not in the following text. The article says they want to ban Nvidia from selling more hardware to them. It doesn't say anything about limiting availability of the service or anything.
If they do, my best guess is they do it like with TikTok. Change their stance on everything several times and then they don't really enforce anything.
I've always backed up my SMS to my E-Mail inbox. With something like SMS Gate or SMS Backup+. I think it's nice to have all messages in my mail program. Of course that only does one way. To reply and get immediate notifications, I use KDEConnect (or GSConnect which is the same thing for GNOME.)
Tja. Ich glaube bis zu irgendeinem Alter konnte man im Ernstfall eingezogen werden.
Ich weiß echt nicht ob es sinnvolle Studien oder sowas zu diesem Thema gibt. Ich würde mal raten es gibt sehr viele unterschiedliche Meinungen dazu. Sowohl unter "Europiden" als auch nicht-ebendiesen.
Die Wikipedia sagt übrigens, das ist ein veralteter Begriff aus der Rassenkunde. Ich weiß ja nicht ob ich den verwenden würde. Wahrscheinlich könnte man besser einfach sagen: "Menschen, die in Deutschland von Rassismus betroffen sind"?
Ich kenne auch ehrlich gesagt wenig "Bio-Deutsche" aus meiner Filterblase, die zum Bund gegangen sind um ihr Vaterland zu verteidigen. Die Meisten aus meiner Klasse haben damals verweigert. Und die wenigen, die zur Bundeswehr gegangen sind, hatten meist andere Beweggründe. Also nicht mal die sind (waren) pro Wehrfähigkeit oder Pflicht. Und bei den aktuell 17jährigen, weiß ich ehrlich gesagt nich was die dazu denken.
Wie das mit Migrationshintergrund ist, da bin ich eh der falsche Ansprechpartner. Also ich hab da schon unterschiedliche Sachen gehört ob man mit Deutschland in so einer Form identifiziert. Oft scheint es ja sowieso schwer zu sein seinen Platz zu finden, wenn man irgendwie zwischen den Stühlen sitzt, oder aber zu spüren bekommt, dass man nicht so ganz "zur Gruppe gehört". Aber da stecken ja sehr unterschiedliche Hintergründe und Lebenssituationen dahinter. Und ich kenne hauptsächlich die besser/gut integrierten Menschen.
Was ist genau die Frage bezüglich Wehrdienstpflicht? Ob es Rassismus in der Bundeswehr gibt? Oder wie man individuell zu dem Land steht, dass sowohl positive als auch negative Seiten hat? Ich bin nicht zu dem Verein gegangen, habe stattdessen Zivildienst gemacht. Dort gab es halbwegs Zusammenhalt. Aber das war auch in der Großstadt im Ruhrgebiet, hier ist das ja durchaus gängig nicht so 100% Deutsch auszusehen... Aber wir haben in der Zeit auch etwas Sinnvolles gemacht. Deutschland mit der Waffe verteidigen, dazu hatte ich auch keine besondere Lust.
Ich finde ja das Konzept Berufsarmee ganz akzeptabel, dann kann sich jede:r selbst aussuchen ob er oder sie da hin möchte, egal aus welcher Motivation.
Wasn't "error-free" one of the undecidable problems in maths / computer science? But I like how they also pay attention to semantics and didn't choose a clickbaity title. Maybe I should read the paper, see how they did it and whether it's more than an AI agent at the same intelligence level guessing whether it's correct. I mean surprisingly enough, the current AI models usually do a good job generating syntactically correct code one-shot. My issues with AI coding usually start to arise once it gets a bit more complex. Then it often feels like poking at things and copy-pasting various stuff from StackOverflow without really knowing why it doesn't deal with the real-world data or fails entirely.
It's not "common" as in a huge percentage of content gets removed... Most of it is fine. But we do moderate here on Lemmy and Beehaw. The perspective might be a bit skewed because some people are very vocal and complain a lot about stuff getting deleted. Some of the time unwarranted... Most communities don't tolerate derailing arguments or spreading misinformation... Some of the time the mods also make mistakes or they're overly strict in their communities, happens a lot in drama things and to some extent in the news and political communities. Other than that, I wouldn't say it's a very common thing. But yeah, comments get deleted. It depends a lot on what you engage with, and in which corner of the Fediverse. And some people like to stir up drama, usually less so on Beehaw.
I've also had that. And I'm not even sure whether I want to hold it against them. For some reason it's an industry-wide effort to muddy the waters and slap open source on their products. From the largest company who chose to have "Open" in their name but oppose transparency with every fibre of their body, to Meta, the curren pioneer(?) of "open sourcing" LLMs, to the smaller underdogs who pride themselves with publishing their models that way... They've all homed in on the term.
And lots of the journalists and bloggers also pick up on it. I personally think, terms should be well-defined. And open-source had a well-defined meaning. I get that it's complicated with the transformative nature of AI, copyright... But I don't think reproducibility is a question here at all. Of course we need that, that's core to something being open. And I don't even understand why the OSI claims it doesn't exist... Didn't we have datasets available until LLaMA1 along with an extensive scientific paper that made people able to reproduce the model? And LLMs aside, we sometimes have that with other kinds of machine learning...
(And by the way, this is an old article, from end of october last year.)
Reportedly, they've built a ton of extra AI datacenters they don't even use. I thought they were just misappropriating government funds, but maybe that was an intelligent strategy. I wonder if that's enough to bridge the gap until they have their own silicon in mass production.
Wow. Doing some spring-cleaning? I might have one of those on my own small pile of e-waste. Can't even remember what kind of bandwith the PCI bus had... probably enough to fill 128MB.
Oh, wow. Should be pretty obvious that something isn't open source, ...well... unless the source is open...
The "removing the fibers by hand" sounds a bit like deboning a fish 😅
By the way, we already have some plant based ones which taste okay. I mean not entirely indistinguishable, but I think it's close enough for what a chicken nugget is.
Thanks for doing the maths. I would have also have guessed it's due to the short distance these amps have to travel. And in practice, we'd likely be using just the thicker parts at the top of the legs and clip most of them off, so it'd be way less than the almost 15mm in your numbers. Still probably an issue with the thickness of the pcb traces, but that's something the designer has to worry about.
Sure, very likely the people writing a legal text were not referring to legal definitions of a term or the legal status of things. They must have meant biology instead. /s
Can I now claim what I did was morally not that bad, and the law is likely not bothered with the legal definition of crime? I mean they could have meant ethics and maybe it's morally justified to role play as Robin Hood, or insult someone who had that coming? Or maybe it wasn't me, biology made me do it and that's now the deciding factor in court?
How is "no, no, they didn't mean the legal definition" something a judge would say?
Recommendations for a lightweight Python LLM framework for a webapp?
I'm developing a small Python webapp as some sort of finger exercise. Mostly a chatbot. I'm using the Quart framework, which is pretty much alike Flask, just async. Now I want to connect that to a LLM inference endpoint. And while I could do the HTTP requests myself, I'd prefer something that does that for me. It should support the usual OpenAI style API, in the end I'd like it to connect to things like Ollama and KoboldCPP. No harm if it supports image generation, agents, tools, vector databases, but that's optional.
I've tried Langchain, but I don't think I like it very much. Are there other Python frameworks out there? What do you like? I'd prefer something relatively lightweigt that gets out of the way. Ideally provider agnostic, but I'm mainly looking for local solutions like the ones I mentioned.
Edit: Maybe something that also connects to a Runpod endpoint, to do inference on demand (later on)? Or at least something which I can adapt to that?
Request: Remove amateur pornography subs
We've had a bit of a conversation, over in the big NoStupidQuestions community:
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/37540045
While I have my own opinions on lemmit.online, I think it's relatively uncontroversial, that copying content from amateur and indie creators is unethical.
I'd like to request differentiating between the regular Reddit content, and amateur pornography plus OF creators and their original content. And deactivating the bridging for subreddits that contain a decent amount of the latter.
My rationale is more or less that it's not very Robin Hood to take things from people who aren't well off in the first place. And that more or less regular people have the right to decide what happens with pictures of their naked bodies, and we can't just spread them across the internet without their consent or ability to closely control their intimate stuff.
Is there a better open-source calendar app than Etar?
I've been using Etar for years now. But the Samsung calendar app on my wife's phone looks way better, while I'm missing things like the titles in the appointments once it gets crowded. And the all day events and birthdays aren't that prominent either. Plus I don't have some features on Etar like adding notes/emojis to days.
Is there a better calendar app out there? It has to be open source and somehow connect to my Nextcloud. That'd be my requirements. But I believe all calendar apps can connect to webdav.
(New) papers by Meta: Large Concept Models and BLT
Seems Meta have been doing some research lately, to replace the current tokenizers with new/different representations:
Which app isolation mechanism do I want?
I got a new phone. Skipped a few generations and now I'm running the current GrapheneOS, based on Android 15. I've moved most of the apps, but now I'd like to install my 3 banking apps and 5 discount program spyware apps. I guess I best separate them from the rest of the arbitrary stuff. Banking apps so they can't be messed with, and shady discount programs so those apps can't mess with me and my data...
The internet has a lot of information about Shelter, work profiles, the new(?) private spaces... But I don't know what is current advice and what's outdated advice... What's the current best practice?
During the summer the European Commission made the decision to stop funding Free Software projects within the Next Generation Internet initiative (NGI). This decision results in a loss of €27 milli...
During the summer the European Commission made the decision to stop funding Free Software projects within the Next Generation Internet initiative (NGI). This decision results in a loss of €27 million for software freedom. Since 2018, the European Commission has supported the Free Software ecosystem through NGI, that provided funding and technical assistance to Free Software projects. This decision unfortunately exposes a larger issue: that software freedom in the EU needs more stable, long-term financial support. The ease with which this funding was excluded underlines this need.
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Is there a working Spotify downloader that actually downloads from Spotify?
Seems they recently changed something on Spotify and all the tools I've tried fail now. And DownOnSpot which seems promising has received a cease and desist letter and got taken down. What do you people use? I want something that actually fetches the audio from Spotify, not just rip it from YouTube. And it has to work as of now. Does the latest commit from DownOnSpot work? Back when I tested it a few weeks ago it failed due to some API changes. Are there other tools floating around?
Is Arli AI a legit cloud LLM inference service? Any user experience?
I just found https://www.arliai.com/ who offer LLM inference for quite cheap. Without rate-limits and unlimited token generation. No-logging policy and they have an OpenAI compatible API.
I've been using runpod.io previously but that's a whole different service as they sell compute and the customers have to build their own Docker images and run them in their cloud, by the hour/second.
Should I switch to ArliAI? Does anyone have some experience with them? Or can recommend another nice inference service? I still refuse to pay $1.000 for a GPU and then also pay for electricity when I can use some $5/month cloud service and it'd last me 16 years before I reach the price of buying a decent GPU...
Edit: Saw their $5 tier only includes models up to 12B parameters, so I'm not sure anymore. For larger models I'd need to pay close to what other inference services cost.
Edit2: I discarded the idea. 7B parameter models and one 12B one is a bit small to pay for. I can do that at
How to make the Threadiverse a nice place and effectively make it grow
tl;dr: Be excellent to each other, do something constructive here?
I'm not sure anymore where the Threadiverse is headed. (The Threadiverse being this threaded part of the Fediverse, i.e. Lemmy, MBin, PieFed, ...)
In my time here, I've met a lot of nice people and had meaningful conversations and learned lots of things. At the same time, it's always been a mixed bag. We've always had quite some argumentative people here, trolls, ... I've seen people hate on and yell at each other, and do all kinds of destructive things. My issue with that is: Negative behavior is disproportionately affecting the atmosphere. And I'd argue we have nowhere enough nice behavior to even that out.
I don't see Lemmy grow for quite some time now. Seems it's now leveling off at a bit less that 50k monthly active users. And I don't see how that'd change. I'm missing some clear vision/idea of where we want to be headed. And I miss an atmosphere that makes people want