I did some wardriving a long time ago but never used those internet connections. And I shared my connection before and had a Freifunk router. With the neighbours not so much. I’m mostly nice to them and ask before borrowing their stuff.

I mean sometimes we get that with other things as well. Like wasting cloud storage permanently. Or printing full color images on the expensive printer. Sometimes there are expensive supplies which shouldn’t be wasted. Idk, kind of depends on the job. If you’re a bartender or pizza chef, you’d also track the expensive ingredients and not serve an arbitrary amount. I guess AI is about the same.

Don’t companies also limit the number of computers, staplers and pens in the office? …It somehow has to be worth it. And they have different contracts available, you can set a limit with most APIs, bookkeeping can look up how much they paid… I think working somewhat efficiently is a normal part of doing business.

I use LibreWolf and SearXNG as a metasearch engine. I like both. They get the job done. I wouldn’t use Vivaldi, since it’s not Free Software. But that’s personal preference.

I think that’s a size where it’s a bit more than a good autocomplete. Could be part of a chain for retrieval augmented generation. Maybe some specific tasks. And there are small machine learning models that can do translation or sentiment analysis, though I don’t think those are your regular LLM chatbots… And well, you can ask basic questions and write dialogue. Something like “What is an Alpaca?” will work. But they don’t have much knowledge under 8B parameters and they regularly struggle to apply their knowledge to a given task at smaller sizes. At least that’s my experience. They’ve become way better at smaller sizes during the last year or so. But they’re very limited.

I’m not sure what you intend to do. If you have some specific thing you’d like an LLM to do, you need to pick the correct one. If you don’t have any use-case… just run an arbitrary one and tinker around?

Thanks! I’ve updated the link. I always just use Batocera or something like that, which has Emulationstation and Kodi set up for me. So I don’t pay a lot of attention to the included projects and their development state…

I didn’t include this, since OP wasn’t mentioning retro-gaming. But Batocera, Recalbox, Lakka, RetroPie are quite nice. I picked one which includes both Kodi and Emulationstation and I can switch between the interfaces with the gamecontroller. I get all the TV and streaming stuff in Kodi, and Emulationstaation launches the games. And I believe it can do Flatpaks and other applications as well.

https://plasma-bigscreen.org/ from KDE? I’m not sure if they’ve replaced that since. Wikipedia says it’s unmaintained. Depending on your use-case, you might want to have a look at Emulationstation, Steam Big Picture and Kodi Plugins, as well.

I think I’m fine. I’ll just search for some words in the title and that usually returns the correct post. And as long as it’s the Fediverse and not a closed forum with login or Discord, I can use Google, since it’s on the open internet. At least for Lemmy. Other than that it’s really hard. I don’t think any search engine can find me the article that I skimmed by Friday evening where I just vaguely remember on how it was about some Youtuber that I know, and I have no other information. I sometimes want to find stuff and it’s impossible. With any search engine/method. Sometimes my browser history helps me with that. Or homing in on a timeframe and a rough place and then scrolling through things. But a least for me it tends to be one of the two extremes. Either the rudimentary tools are fine. Or it’s really hard but a “better” search wouldn’t cut it either.

I think many people use it and it works. But sorry - no, I don’t have any first-hand experience. I’ve tested it for a bit and it looked fine. Has a lot of features and it should be as efficient as any other ggml/llama.cpp based inference solution at least for text. I myself use KoboldCPP for the few things I do with AI and my computer is lacking a GPU so I don’t really do a lot of images with software like this. And it’s likely going to be less for you than the 15 minutes it takes me to generate an image on my unsuited machine.

Maybe LocalAI? It doesn’t do python code execution, but pretty much all of the rest.

Can we get more than just a picture of an Abstract?

Is there anything specifically new to this app? We had Replika AI since 2017 or so, and AI companions have been subject of discussion for quite some time now. Including long articles and scientific papers. At least since the Covid times when that picked up. So what’s the news here?

I don’t think that’s affected. It sounds more like political propaganda which gets allowed. I bet this will still be censored and lead to demonetization just as it is today.

What kind of AI? An LLM? Because I can see how hindsight would be hugely beneficial for stock trade. And if they used a model with knowledge from 2024 on data on 1990…

Yes. https://infosec.pub/post/29620772

Seems someone deleted it, and now we have to discuss the same thing again.

I’m not sure about that either. From what I read sex without consent was not necessarily a crime under the previous law, and that’s what they fixed?! I finally have to find some source and read what actually happened and what’s in the bill and not just some summary…

Edit: From reading a few news articles, I’d say consent wasn’t the deciding factor under previous law. So technically having sex without consent was fine. Unless there was something like coercion or violence involved. And likely there are quite some loopholes with that.

You’re right. You can’t issue a blank check. Or you can’t ever change your mind later on. So having consent in writing is certainly not a good idea.

Good question. I was under the assumption lawmakers don’t mandate something to exist (consent), unless it’s also someone’s obligation to take care of it. And it obviously can’t be the injured party… But you might be right, there is more to it. Unfortunately it’s kind of hard to get the exact wording of the bill. The journalists don’t seem to provide any links for me to look it up. But yeah, I’ll edit my post, that was mostly my speculation.

I feel “word or deed” isn’t the entire story, right? Once the burden of proof is this way around, and it’s a he-said-she-said case like with spoken word, you’ll kind of want to fill out a form and have it in writing.
But word or deed is the right thing to do, you shouldn’t have sex unless it is clear the other person is on the same page, and they show it in some way.

Edit: I think my previous take here wasn’t super clever. Seems the main achievement of this bill is rewriting law so sex is about consent. Directly. And not defining rape via some other things like coercion or violence (which might have loopholes or other issues). And now consent (or the lack thereof) is the deciding factor.

You’ll find a different prevailing mood in different communities here on Lemmy. The people in the technology community (the example you gave) are fed up with talking about AI all day, each day. They’d like to talk about other technology at times and that skews the mood. At least that’s what I’ve heard some time ago… Go to a different community and discuss AI there and you’ll find it’s a different sentiment and audience there. (And in my opinion it’s the right thing to do anyway. Why discuss everything in this community, and not in the ones dedicated to the topic?)