Seconded. Commercialism and monetizing everything is what caused the www to rot. We don’t need it here. Neoliberalism has already robbed generations of the right to simply exist or create without a profit motive, among other things, like literacy. Pretty sick of it.

Porque no los dos? Allowing major corps to put even more downward pressure on workers doesn’t help anyone but the rich. LLMs aren’t going to save the world or become sentient.

What is making my excited is the potential to use this for indoor position tracking for placing persistent virtual displays.

Thank you!!!

This isn’t technically correct. CRT, LCD, and OLED displays are generally constantly refreshing the image. There are some niche exceptions like memory-in-pixel displays but they are few and far between. eInk displays are very different in this aspect because the display itself acts as a physical memory of the image because its mechanism of creating an image involves physical changes (pigmented particles moving closer or further away from the visible plane).

And it has a pretty excellent stdlib.

I suspect that it works better when it is applied after saying “It’s morphin’ time!”.

Good point.

To be honest, this could be an example of where AI could do marginally better. I don’t mean that because of code quality or functionality. I mean it in the sense of MS software getting absolutely fucked by internal competition and stack-ranking fostered during the Balmer years. The APIs are inconsistent and there is a ton of partially implemented stuff that will never be pushed to completion because everyone who worked on it was fired.

An AI might be able to implement things without intentionally sabotaging itself but, because LLMs are in the forefront of what would be used and do not have the capability of intention or understanding context, I’m a bit pessimistic.

But plenty of electricity still needed.

I’m inclined to believe that they’re throwing all prompts and outputs into a db and searching that.

Came here for this. Thank you to you and your fellow Canadians (assuming based on instance) for bringing this treasure to the world.

The Flat Earth Society is meeting here today /
Singing happy little lies /
And the bright ship Humana is well on its way /
With grave determination, /
And no destination

American megachurches are for-profit multimedia empires, doomsday cults, illegal political influence organizations, human trafficking rings, and shields for those who commit sex crimes, in an expensive, tailored trenchcoat.

Might be worth doing some file analysis. The big CO2 laser at my Makerspace has a “proprietary” format that is really just PostScript. Working around that stuff should be doable.

In the US, property owners do indeed have some degree of rights over low-altitude airspace. The FAA states that one should have permission before intentionally flying over private property. In addition, a large number of states and municipalities have drone-specific surveillance, harassment, and privacy laws, so, it’s a fair change that those may apply. Any commercial drone operator that violates local laws in course of their flight is likely to run into trouble with the FAA too.

What FOSS alternatives exist? This is exactly the reason not to rely on closed-source for hardware support.

If the drones are flying over private property without explicit authorization, the FAA may be a good place to start.

This is nothing but rent-seeking.

This is why SAG-AFTRA is right to strike. Just another way to rob people of their labor. The “savings” come at a direct cost to performers’ ability to support themselves in an already highly-competitive field. And there is no way that the “savings” will be passed on to customers.

Would be nice if more startups would try to use the LLMs for good, instead of trying to paint circumventing one of the few US unions with any power as anything but scabbing.