cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/20929554

Facing time constraints, Sakana's "AI Scientist" attempted to change limits placed by researchers.

Original story title: "Gemini is replacing Google Assistant on Pixel phones, and it’s a train wreck"

1. OneDrive mirroring

Stop telling me that I am out of storage, I did not ask you to put my files there.

2. Nvidia Linux drivers

A 2 month old driver from a desktop 3070 failed to detect a laptop 3050, and I had to chroot to remove the offending driver, buuuut

3. Rescue USB

So it turns out the default Tumbleweed ISO is NOT a live image. Recue didn't work nor did usb boot until I realised. Burned LMDE onto the usb key, and I was able to get back up and running relatively quickly.

Please, for the love of all that is holy, just let a meteor hit us already.

"This whole saga makes me genuinely embarrassed to follow this stuff. I just want a sub that has an informed opinion on AI, this is worse than crypto bro bullshit."

"Every hype-man who posts vague tweets and hype posts should be ridiculed. Every clown who posts screenshots of said tweets on this sub should be ridiculed."

""AGI is coming out next year" - this sub for the last 4 years"

some self aware highlights.

"But Middle Eastern money has become the most powerful geopolitical force in the tech industry virtually overnight. “The Khashoggi era is over,” said a prominent venture capitalist.

“Everyone I talk to is either going to or coming back from the UAE — the same way we used to swing by Sand Hill Road,” said Feldman, referring to the street that’s home to Silicon Valley’s storied venture capital firms. Feldman will visit Saudi Arabia later this year."

"Some Silicon Valley companies have personal backchannels with U.S. officials: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who has taken at least four fundraising trips to the UAE to raise hundreds of billions for a massive new infrastructure company, internally dubbed InfraCo, is on a text message thread with Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, according to four of the people."

and people say the government doesn't respond to peoples' needs, that's top tier service

https://github.com/hacksider/Deep-Live-Cam

Twitter-thread with a video showcase

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/18985984

Palantir, the company named for the dangerous seeing-stones that tended to mislead their users, has announced a partnership with Microsoft to deliver services for classified networks in US defense and intelligence agencies.

“This is a first-of-its-kind, integrated suite of technology that will allow critical national security missions to operationalize Microsoft’s best-in-class large language models (LLMs) via Azure OpenAI Service within Palantir’s AI Platforms (AIP) in Microsoft’s government and classified cloud environments,” the announcement says.

Palantir is a data-analysis company that sucks down huge amounts of personal data to assist governments and companies with surveillance. It is somewhat unclear from the text of the announcement what services Palantir and Microsoft will offer. What we do know is that Microsoft’s Azure cloud services will integrate Palantir products. Previously, Azure incorporated OpenAI’s Chat-GPT4 into a “top secret” version of its software.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3207959

We first need to obtain a blocklist of all possible Israeli ip addresses. This can be obtained from two sources.

1. https://www.ip2location.com/free/visitor-blocker
2. https://www.iblocklist.com/

Due to the nature of how IP addresses are distributed, these blocklists have to be updated, but that isn't a huge concern for us right now.

When you downloaded the file for Israel from either site, it should look something like this:

Israel:2.16.36.0-2.16.36.255
Israel:2.22.233.0-2.22.233.255
Israel:2.52.0.0-2.55.255.255
Israel:2.57.228.0-2.57.231.255
Israel:2.58.33.0-2.58.33.255
Israel:3.2.42.0-3.2.42.63
Israel:3.5.56.0-3.5.59.255
Israel:5.22.128.0-5.22.135.255
Israel:5.28.128.0-5.28.191.255
Israel:5.29.0.0-5.29.255.255
Israel:5.100.248.0-5.100.255.255

If you wish to add more nations to the list such as TERF island or the 4th Reich, then you can append the files on top of each other into one file.

Once you have the file, rename it with the .p2p extension so that qbittorrent will use it. Then, in your qbittorrent client, go to Preferences -> Connection. At the very bottom you should see a section labeled IP Filtering. In the Filter Path checkbox, select your .p2p file. You may also check the box to block trackers as well.

In other bittorrent software (hopefully you're using one that's libre) there should be a similar option for ip filtering.

There you go! You have effectively banned Israel from being your peer while you're doing p2p transfers. This won't stop Zionists from peering with you using a VPN or other undetected server, but this has done wonders for my mood.

Always remember to port forward and seed when torrenting (A non-Zionist VPN like AirVPN or ProtonVPN can allow you to do that). Only a Zionist does a download and run.

Resources

1. https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/discussions/17457

https://archive.ph/W9gL6

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/18923426

The Israeli army is using Amazon’s cloud service to store surveillance information on Gaza’s population, while procuring further AI tools from Google and Microsoft for military purposes, an investigation reveals.

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/08/a-new-report-finds-boeings-rockets-are-built-with-an-unqualified-work-force/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2024/08/06/how-victorias-secret-billionaire-owner-accidentally-scored-a-800-million-stake-in-an-ai-unicorn/

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/20660586

“At any given moment, there is something or someone watching you,” sociologist Francisco Lara-García tells The Markup

I have a friend in Russia who loves watching animal videos and those silly video essays on YouTube and now YouTube is blocked in Russia. I have a spare netbook with Linux Mint and I've been trying to set up an OpenVPN server for her using this guide and I've tried a cracked version of OpenVPN Access Server, but I guess this whole thing is above my pay grade – the client on my phone still won't connect.

What the easiest solution to this situation? Should pull the trigger and install Debian because all those easy setup guides are targeted to Debian? Is there is easier alternative to OpenVPN with an android client?

So I've had this idea floating around in my head for some time now, but, I finally was able to get the tools required to run on my PC.

Piper is a Text To Speech utility that uses deep learning voice models to read text aloud. This utility is primarily utilized in Home Assistant to allow for a self-hosted voice assistant experience. However, I think it has revolutionary potential.

This idea hit me a while back as a result of my use of the Read Aloud extension for Firefox. This extension supports Piper voice models, and over time I have settled on the use of a model that, I think, is very nice to listen too and gets about 90% of pronunciations correct.

I spent a portion of my day today pulling some text from various Marxist thinkers and creating a few samples. I think there would be a lot of work involved in cleaning up the output produced by these models, but only so far as to ensure the model is pausing appropriately in some situations. This usually centers around the use of punctuation such as [] () - and various date formats 1885, 1993.

For the symbols, they are basically ignored, which can create a kind of run-on sentence where it feels like the voice model should be winded due to the lack of pauses. Replacing these symbols with a comma seems to help, but it varies case by case. For dates, often the model reads the date as though it is a number, so for example, 1917 becomes one-thousand nine-hundred and seventeen, instead of a more natural nineteen seventeen.

Tools could be built to detect these patterns in the text and replace them with the appropriate written equivalents.

Another issue would be, how and when to read aloud end notes. My goal would be to utilize these audio files in something like AudioBookShelf. AudioBookShelf likes having the audio files broken down by chapter and section, so end notes likely would be read at the end of a section or chapter, making them easily skipped, as opposed to reading them inline.

Anyway, here are some samples I created today.

• Caliban and the Witch Preface
  • Text Used - Sourced from an ebook file, converted to text using Calibre.
• State and Revolution Preface
  • Text Used - Sourced from marxists.org.
• Combat Liberalism
  • Text Used - Sourced from marxists.org.

The bulk of the labor involved in generating these files is finding those areas where the flow of reading seems off. As noted above, they can be easy to spot. But also, every author will have their own stylistic quirks that you'll need to work around. From there, chop the text up into files for each chapter and subsection, as well as end notes. Then run Piper against each text file, and finally convert the output wav file into a more digestible MP3, and then apply some metadata to those files.

This is still just a proof of concept. I'm sure there is a way in which we can collaborate to build the text-scripts needed for a clean recording, maybe a Git repository of texts. That part of this process is still not fleshed out.

I think as a goal, I'd like to create a kind of "Intro to Marxism" audio collection. A selection of books to onboard people, perhaps based on prolewiki's Absolute Beginner's List.

Then eventually I can tackle the bigger fish.

Thoughts?