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Clippiti: Cross-platforms livestream player with clipping and recording.

[Shameless self-promotion no.2]

I wrote this PyQt6 desktop app that plays livestreams via Streamlink and lets you clip them.

It opens a stream, keeps a rolling local buffer, and lets you grab a clip of something that already happened — not just from the moment you hit record. No browser, no login, no telemetry, no "engagement."

  • Plays live streams through Streamlink + mpv (libmpv), not an embedded Chromium
  • Rolling HLS buffer, so you can clip past moments off the timeline
  • Clip export, snapshots, and recording with optional auto-remux to MP4
  • Floating controls, keyboard shortcuts, on-screen feedback

Python 3.12+, needs mpv/libmpv and ffmpeg from your package manager (Streamlink tags along as a Python lib). Runs on Linux (and Windows/macOS if you must). Source is on GitHub, pip install clippiti-player and you're done.

Not a startup, not a product, no roadmap deck. Just a small tool that does one thing. Patches and complaints welcome.

AI disclaimer


AI is a tool. I use it to generate unit tests, or to rename/refactor something, or other trivial/menial tasks. I've been writing code for 30+ years so I think I know when and for what to use it.

GitHub - tarzasai/clippiti: Cross-platforms livestream player with clipping and recording.

Cross-platforms livestream player with clipping and recording. - tarzasai/clippiti
GitHub
#linux

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Lurkiti: System tray app that monitors livestreams

[Shameless self-promotion]

Months ago I made this PyQt6 tray app that watches livestreams via Streamlink.

It sits in your system tray, polls the streams you care about, and when one comes online you click it and it opens in your player of choice. That's it. No browser, no login, no telemetry, no "engagement."

  • Works with Twitch, YouTube, and anything else Streamlink handles
  • Opens streams in mpv / VLC / whatever you already use
  • Per-stream overrides for quality, player, and Streamlink args
  • Tray icons show status; tracks last-online / last-watched
  • Launch straight from a URL in your clipboard

Python 3.12+, runs on Linux (and Windows/macOS if you must). MIT licensed, source is on GitHub, pip install lurkiti and you're done.

Not a startup, not a product, no roadmap deck. Just a small tool that does one thing. Patches and complaints welcome.

AI disclaimer


AI is a tool. I use it to generate unit tests, or to rename/refactor something, or other trivial/menial tasks. I've been writing code for 30+ years so I think I know when and for what to use it.

GitHub - tarzasai/Lurkiti: System tray app that monitors livestreams and launches them in your favorite player via Streamlink

System tray app that monitors livestreams and launches them in your favorite player via Streamlink - tarzasai/Lurkiti
GitHub
#linux

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Does anybody else want the Linux community to remain small while still making progress
I asked this same question 6 years ago on Reddit
just wanted to see if general opinion has changed now as Linux has arguably gotten way more mainstream

Reddit

Does anybody else want the Linux community to remain small while still making progress byu/Artemis-Mystique inlinuxmasterrace
Artemis-Mystique (reddit)
#linux

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All About The Amygdala!

Dr. Prashant Sharma, Air Force veteran and psychiatrist, joins Popp & Dwarf for some education on the amygdala, fight or flight responses, and more. This should be a particularly informative show!

Dr. Sharma's channel: youtube.com/@UCjht6AuelMejv4vm…

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Bit-for-Bit DVD/Blu-Ray Backup
I want to create a bit-by-bit backup of my DVD and a Blu-ray disc without removing its encryption. Is dd be the best method, and if so, what flags or settings should I use? Also, is comparing the SHA-256 hash of the generated ISO file with the hash of the original disc’s raw data (read from /dev/sr0) the best method for verifying the backup’s integrity?
#linux
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I Went On Retreat – here’s proof


 Photos from a retreat in the desert near Santa Fe

Please share!



The sun sets beyond a silo in the desert.The spire of a stone church rises above a metal archway leading to the church yard.Beyond a red sandstone cliff in a river ravine, the mountains rise above the desert. In the sky, the moon rises above the horizon.A red adobe church has a white steeple at the top.The sunset seems to paint the clouds and sky red.

Please share!


The sunset seems to paint the clouds and sky red.

I Went On Retreat - here’s proof

Stan Stewart - @muz4now
Stan Stewart (Stan Stewart - @muz4now)
#photography #photoseries
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ISRAËL : LA FIN DE L'IMPUNITÉ ? 😱 👉 Félix Marquardt XPLIK @TheBlackElephantExperience

Retrouvez Felix Marquardt sur sa chaine Black Elephant :
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A small update on ScreenGuard, Finally reached 50+ downloads 🎉

a small update to this digital wellbeing software since my last post.
This is a prerelease version which i have tagged to be stable and slated for future release and add to main branch from the beta branch.

This highlight is less about asking you guys to try out the beta release but more in the honor of over 3+ months of development.
What makes me happy the most is that the project which i started even without a repository just to monitor my own system and usage has now come this far with over 50+ downloads 🎉☺️

This beta release now polishes on various little things which are actually necessary for a first time set up and proper user control as Now you can:

  • carries forward the settings screen from previous beta release
  • replaces notifications and sounds tab with general which now includes appearance settings
  • you can now Stop , restart or RESET the Daemon and its preferences in settings
  • Pomodoro settings which were half baked in the first release have now been added to settings to enable a looping focus mode for people at work with CUSTOM BREAK TIME
  • Most Importantly (i feel) FIRST time setup issues have been fixed and in an attempt the first time ScreenGuard daemon setup pop up dialog (1st image) has been made

The Release v0.1.1 releases this October by second week, and I will continue testing the beta version to look for sectors that need polishing if any.

This is still limited to GNOME on wayland and x11 for other environments systems and primarily developed by me on my fedora 44 system and the project ScreenGuard still has a very Long way to go;

But working on it alone has given me much exposure to project sharing on platforms and most importantly a lot of invaluable experience and the true zeal of development instead of the boredom of being a 9 to 5 dev at a corporate who don't care for you.

Github beta release link: github.com/adityakrishnan005-a…

The code for this is visible on the beta branch to keep the main working tree clean for new features additions.

Feedback from other desktop environments is widely appreciated, u can try the application out by switching to x11 session temporarily if you are using any DE which is not GNOME wayland or if u are on a DE which is primarily x11 based (Cinnamon, i3, etc) then u are good to go as they ARE FULLY SUPPORTED.

thank you everyone for your supports, criticisms and feedbacks ever since the project came online on github.

Release ScreenGuard v0.1.1-beta.4 — Beta Release · adityakrishnan005-a11y/ScreenGuard

WarningThis is a pre-release / beta build for testing purposes. It will NOT be pushed to the stable APT, Arch, or Copr repositories. The stable v0.1.0 remains unchanged for regular users. 🛠️ Issu...
GitHub
#linux

lemmy - Link to source

A small update on ScreenGuard, Finally reached 50+ downloads 🎉

a small update to this digital wellbeing software since my last post.
This is a prerelease version which i have tagged to be stable and slated for future release and add to main branch from the beta branch.

This highlight is less about asking you guys to try out the beta release but more in the honor of over 3+ months of development.
What makes me happy the most is that the project which i started even without a repository just to monitor my own system and usage has now come this far with over 50+ downloads 🎉☺️

This beta release now polishes on various little things which are actually necessary for a first time set up and proper user control as Now you can:

  • carries forward the settings screen from previous beta release
  • replaces notifications and sounds tab with general which now includes appearance settings
  • you can now Stop , restart or RESET the Daemon and its preferences in settings
  • Pomodoro settings which were half baked in the first release have now been added to settings to enable a looping focus mode for people at work with CUSTOM BREAK TIME
  • Most Importantly (i feel) FIRST time setup issues have been fixed and in an attempt the first time ScreenGuard daemon setup pop up dialog (1st image) has been made

The Release v0.1.1 releases this October by second week, and I will continue testing the beta version to look for sectors that need polishing if any.

This is still limited to GNOME on wayland and x11 for other environments systems and primarily developed by me on my fedora 44 system and the project ScreenGuard still has a very Long way to go;

But working on it alone has given me much exposure to project sharing on platforms and most importantly a lot of invaluable experience and the true zeal of development instead of the boredom of being a 9 to 5 dev at a corporate who don't care for you.

Github beta release link: github.com/adityakrishnan005-a…

The code for this is visible on the beta branch to keep the main working tree clean for new features additions.

Feedback from other desktop environments is widely appreciated, u can try the application out by switching to x11 session temporarily if you are using any DE which is not GNOME wayland or if u are on a DE which is primarily x11 based (Cinnamon, i3, etc) then u are good to go as they ARE FULLY SUPPORTED.

thank you everyone for your supports, criticisms and feedbacks ever since the project came online on github.

Release ScreenGuard v0.1.1-beta.4 — Beta Release · adityakrishnan005-a11y/ScreenGuard

WarningThis is a pre-release / beta build for testing purposes. It will NOT be pushed to the stable APT, Arch, or Copr repositories. The stable v0.1.0 remains unchanged for regular users. 🛠️ Issu...
GitHub
#linux
This entry was edited (yesterday, 11:35 AM)

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How Market Infrastructure Projects in Ghana Affect Concrete Mixer Machine Prices

Infrastructure development can reshape the market for concrete equipment in ways that are not immediately visible from a machine specification sheet. In Ghana, roads, drainage systems, bridges, housing developments, commercial buildings, industrial facilities, and public infrastructure projects create different patterns of concrete demand. A contractor working on a short urban drainage project may need a very different mixing arrangement from a company supplying concrete for a long highway project. These differences influence equipment configuration, production capacity, mobility, transportation, and ultimately the concrete mixer machine price in Ghana.

Price is therefore not determined by machine size alone. Import costs, shipping arrangements, project duration, concrete volume, site accessibility, equipment utilization, and the required level of automation can all affect the purchasing decision. When infrastructure activity increases, demand for certain equipment configurations may also change. Understanding this relationship helps contractors distinguish between a higher purchase price caused by additional capability and a higher price that does not provide practical value for the project.

Infrastructure Project Types Create Different Concrete Demand Patterns

Road Projects Require Mobility Across Multiple Work Areas


Road construction rarely concentrates all concrete work at one permanent location. Culverts, drainage channels, bridge approaches, kerbs, foundations, and roadside structures can appear at different points along the alignment. Equipment that can move between these work fronts may therefore have greater practical value than a machine designed solely for fixed-site production.

Urban Infrastructure Creates Space and Access Constraints


Market infrastructure projects in Accra, Kumasi, Takoradi, and other growing urban areas can involve congested roads and restricted construction compounds. Concrete equipment must often operate within a limited footprint while avoiding interference with traffic and other trades. Compact machinery, flexible discharge arrangements, and easier relocation can consequently influence purchasing decisions and market prices.

Steep Slopes using self loader mixer

Large Projects Can Favor Higher Utilization


A machine with a higher acquisition price may become more economical to operate when it remains productive throughout a long construction program. Large road, bridge, industrial, or housing projects can provide enough concrete demand to justify greater production capacity. The relevant comparison is therefore not simply purchase price, but the relationship between equipment cost and expected utilization over the project period.

Concrete Equipment Demand Changes With Project Scale

Small Projects Often Need Flexible Concrete Production


Smaller infrastructure contractors may not require a large stationary concrete production system. Their projects can involve foundations, drainage works, small bridges, residential developments, or localized road improvements where concrete demand fluctuates from day to day. In these conditions, a self loading concrete mixer for sale can provide an alternative by combining aggregate loading, weighing, mixing, and concrete transport within one machine.

Larger Projects May Justify Higher-Capacity Systems


When a project requires substantial quantities of concrete over an extended period, production capacity becomes more influential. Contractors may consider batching plants, multiple mixers, or other centralized production arrangements. These systems can require greater initial investment, site preparation, aggregate storage, and transportation planning, but their suitability depends on whether the project can sustain the required production rate.

Equipment Configuration Influences the Final Price


Two machines with similar mixing capacities can have noticeably different prices because their configurations are not identical. Engine selection, hydraulic components, weighing systems, drive configuration, discharge design, cabin equipment, and optional automation can all alter the equipment package. Contractors should therefore compare the complete configuration rather than using capacity as the only purchasing benchmark.

Project Location Can Influence the Delivered Equipment Cost

Transport Distance Adds More Than the Basic Machine Price


Equipment purchased for a Ghanaian infrastructure project may involve inland transportation, port handling, customs procedures, local delivery, and commissioning. A machine that appears inexpensive at the factory can have a different delivered cost once logistics are included. Project location therefore matters, especially when construction sites are far from major transport corridors.

AS-3.5 in Ethiopia

Site Mobility Can Reduce Secondary Equipment Requirements


Some projects need concrete production at several locations rather than at one permanent plant. A self loading mini concrete mixer for sale in Ghana may attract contractors who want to move production between work areas without establishing a conventional batching site at every location. The machine's mobility can become part of the economic calculation because it may reduce dependence on additional material-handling equipment and repeated concrete transportation.

Remote Projects Put Greater Weight on Equipment Independence


Infrastructure projects outside major urban centers can face longer material-supply routes and less predictable access to ready-mixed concrete. Producing concrete closer to the work area can change the logistics equation. However, the contractor still needs to account for aggregate supply, cement storage, water availability, fuel, operator requirements, maintenance, and movement between sites.

How Infrastructure Demand Shapes Mixer Purchasing Decisions

Contractors Should Compare Price With Expected Utilization


Infrastructure activity can make equipment demand more project-specific. A contractor with several upcoming projects may evaluate a machine according to its expected working hours across multiple contracts rather than the requirements of a single job. Higher utilization can make a more capable machine easier to justify, while irregular project schedules may favor a simpler and more mobile configuration.

Market Demand Does Not Make Every Expensive Machine Suitable


Growing infrastructure investment can increase demand for concrete machinery, but market activity should not be treated as a reason to purchase the largest available model. A machine that exceeds the project's concrete requirement may spend substantial time idle. Conversely, an undersized machine can constrain production and create delays. Capacity should remain connected to actual concrete volume, working hours, site conditions, and future project opportunities.

Future Projects Can Change the Calculation


For contractors operating across multiple infrastructure contracts, equipment selection can include anticipated future workloads. A machine capable of handling several project types may have greater utility than one optimized for a single application. This is particularly relevant when projects vary between road construction, drainage, housing, commercial development, and small public works.

The relationship between Ghana's infrastructure market and concrete mixer prices is therefore shaped by several interacting variables. Project scale affects required capacity; project location affects logistics; site conditions affect mobility; and expected utilization affects the value of different configurations. Instead of treating concrete mixer machine price in Ghana as an isolated figure, contractors can evaluate the machine against the concrete demand, operating environment, transportation requirements, and workload it is expected to serve. That approach provides a clearer basis for comparing equipment packages as Ghana's infrastructure construction market continues to evolve.

Steep Slopes using self loader mixer
AS-3.5 in Ethiopia

Concrete Mixer for Sale in Ghana - Buy AIMIX Mixer Locally

AIMIX concrete mixer for sale in Ghana, available March 2026 through local dealers. Reserve your order now with the best price!
aimixblock (AIMIX Concrete Solutions - Concrete Production & Pumping & Paving)

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Flatpak 1.18.4 Released With Fixes for Six Security Vulnerabilities

Flatpak 1.18.4 has been released as a security-focused update to the popular application sandboxing and distribution framework for Linux, addressing six newly disclosed vulnerabilities along with several related hardening improvements.

Among the most important fixes is CVE-2026-97024, which could allow a malicious Flatpak application during installation to overwrite arbitrary files with either an empty file or a symlink. A related issue, CVE-2026-97023, could be abused to delete arbitrary files with elevated privileges.

The release also fixes CVE-2026-97025, an issue affecting authenticated OCI repositories. Flatpak now ensures authentication tokens used when downloading applications or runtimes are not exposed to other local users. CVE-2026-97026 is addressed by restricting permissions on temporary repository directories under /var/tmp/flatpak-cache-*.

Another fix, tracked as CVE-2026-97027, introduces stricter filtering of .desktop and D-Bus .service files against an allowlist of permitted fields. According to the developers, this prevents denial-of-service scenarios as well as unintended interactions with services running on the host system.

Flatpak 1.18.4 also resolves CVE-2026-97029, which could allow an application to send signals to a process group containing a parent process outside its sandbox. In certain circumstances, this could result in denial of service by terminating the user’s desktop environment.

Beyond those six vulnerabilities, the update refreshes the bundled xdg-dbus-proxy fallback to version 0.1.9, fixing CVE-2026-93676 and CVE-2026-94422. Flatpak also received additional protection against symlink traversal related to CVE-2026-97023 and CVE-2026-97024.

Finally, given the number and nature of the security fixes included, users are advised to install the update as soon as it becomes available through their Linux distribution’s repositories.

For more details, see the changelog.

Flatpak 1.18.4 Released With Fixes for Six Security Vulnerabilities

Flatpak 1.18.4 is out with fixes for six security flaws affecting sandbox escapes, file access, process signaling, and OCI authentication.
Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
#linux

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NVIDIA Developing "Display Config Server" To Improve Linux/Wayland On Display Walls

As an initiative from NVIDIA for improving the Linux ecosystem outside the world of AI, they have been developing Display-Config-Server as a new solution to help enhance the Linux capabilities for complex display walls.

NVIDIA engineer Austin Shafer presented this morning at XDC 2026 Toronto around Linux on next-generation display walls: complex display setups appearing in TV production, theaters, and more. Many of these complex display walls today run on Microsoft Windows while NVIDIA is looking to improve Linux usage for such video/media walls.

The display walls running Linux today are typically on the X.Org Server still and making use of NVIDIA Mosaic display features. Using Wayland on its own for such display walls becomes more challenging due to the different compositors and other complexities. There is a path forward though using Vulkan Direct 2 Display "D2D" with the VK_KHR_display extension to let the Vulkan swapchain drive a physical display without any windowing system.

NVIDIA decided to engineer the Display Config Server to improve the Vulkan direct-to-display model by "owning" the displays and then leasing them out to Vulkan clients to avoid the need for every application to contain logic for handling display calibration and configuration. Display Config Server makes for centralized configuration, seamless handoff between clients, and making it easier for applications to implement.

The XDC 2026 presentation shared that NVIDIA is working to support the Display Config Server to run nested with a Wayland compositor. They are also working to improve how the Vulkan direct-to-display API can present on display walls.

The Display Config Server code is to be open-source via this GitHub repository but as of writing doesn't appear to be yet publicly available.

Those wishing to learn more can see this PDF slide deck and the video embedded above.

NVIDIA Developing "Display Config Server" To Improve Linux/Wayland On Display Walls

www.phoronix.com
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Why Trump Trying to Kill Freedom of the Press
Why is Trump Trying to Kill Freedom of the Press To risk restating the obvious: Donald Trump is trying to control the news media so that he can decide what we see, hear, and read about him and his actions—similar to what the leaders do in North Korea, China, Russia, and innumerable other dictatorships past and present. A cartoon shows Trump holding a press person underwater, drowning him. The press person is wearing a shirt labelled "First Amendment." Trump wants to control what we hear about him so that he can control what we think about him. If we believe that what he is doing is right and good, he and his can stay in power indefinitely. Trump is a fascist trying to take over our country and set himself up as the one and only source of law, “justice,” and power. If you support him, there’s something really wrong with you.
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Linux-News: Kiel & Niederlande setzen auf Linux, KDE KI-Desktop & F-Droid 2.0

In diesem Wochenrückblick geht es um den Wechsel der Kieler Staatskanzlei und der Niederlande auf Linux-Systeme. Zudem werden die Pläne einiger KDE-Entwickler für einen KI-Desktop sowie die Updates zu F-Droid 2.0, Garuda Nix und dem Raspberry Pi OS vorgestellt.

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The Cuckening and How to Prevent It

Modern women will deliberately change the man they are with only to use it as an excuse to cheat and leave him later. Don’t let them change you.
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Why not LLMs?

open-slopware/why_not_llms.md at main

open-slopware - Alternatives to FOSS projects choosing to use and/or support LLMs/AI, as well as tips for requesting better policies or forking.
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Allero

Do tankies tend to put "liberal" on anything they don't like?

I'm sorry, comrade, but that's not how it works. There are many valid reasons people of all political backgrounds stand against using LLMs in (open-source) coding.

Platforms and projects taking direct action on the matter is exactly what communists usually claim to support. They make change where they can, and rally for a bigger one.

Ultimately, the most performative folks are those judging others without making something better themselves.

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

Weird how the only reasons you see articulated are ones deeply rooted in liberalism though.

Ultimately, the most performative folks are those judging others without making something better themselves.


I guess we can agree on something. People screeching about AI without actually doing anything productive are the worst.

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mnemonicmonkeys

We'll stop when the AI evangelists finally learn the idea of consent and quit trying to force AI down everyone's throats nonstop.

You want to shrivel up your brain with AI? Go ahead, you're an adult (presumably) and I'm not your mom. Go access it through a browser or separate app. Quit trying to force it into my face by integrating it into the OS or DE. And while you're at it, quit continually going "BuT dId YoU cOnSiDeR tHiS???1?" like a door-to-door salesman that jams their foot in the door so you can't close it

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geneva_convenience

This is the exact opposite. Trying to ban AI from everything despite its use cases.

Many people don't know this but even Luddites didn't oppose machinery. They simply opposed the ownership structure of it. So instead of saying "no LLM" you could say "Open-source/weight LLM's allowed only".

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mnemonicmonkeys

This is the exact opposite. Trying to ban AI from everything despite its use cases.


This is a pure, bold-faced lie. But this is nothing new from AI evangelists.

This is about banning AI contributions from specific open-sourced projects. This is due to a number of legitimate concerns that are still not solved, such as maintainability and how AI development legally interacts with licenses such as the GPL

You want to go and start an open sourced project that uses AI from the start? Go ahead, nothing is stopping you. You want to install AI programs on your OS? Go ahead, nobody is stopping you

But don't cram that bullshit into the OS itself. Doing so then forces AI onto everybody whether they want it or not, and that's bullshit

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mnemonicmonkeys

A single repo hub doesn't want to host LLM-generated code. It's not like there aren't others that are friendly to LLM-code, including the largest one: GitHub. And GitHub will never ban LLM code, they're too integrated with it. And Codeberg is just a specific Forgejo instance. Nothing is stopping you from hosting your own if you really want to.

You're taking a single instance of a provider adding an extra stipulation to their TOS and equating it to governments banning the use of LLM's. It's not, and the government isn't going to be taking away your LLM. Quit acting like it is.

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Allero

You talk about it being "blind" right under exhaustive list of reasons why.

The fact that these arguments appeared before doesn't make them less true. Yes, the coding quality of LLMs has increased, and, notably, it stopped producing as many bugs all over the place, and even got to review bugs made by humans.

But it doesn't remove all other issues from the table, namely:
- Issues of licensing and stolen code, potentially causing copyright problems which most open-source projects are poorly fit to resolve and may go down because of them
- Environmental impact of model training, huge data centers threatening water supplies, producing tons of e-waste, creating noise pollution, increasing power demand, including one from unclean sources at the critical point when we should reduce it as much as possible
- Deterioration in skill level of human coders and lack of avenues for juniors to learn to code properly, which is likely to stay as an essential thing to have
- Outside coding, there are many ethical issues around companies producing LLM models, as many have ties to the military and police, and are heavily misused to fuel fascist regimes
- And more.

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geneva_convenience

Issues of licensing and stolen code, potentially causing copyright problems which most open-source projects are poorly fit to resolve and may go down because of them


What, we care about licenses and copyright now?

Big tech has stolen all code and now everything it "open source". You're not going to get into legal trouble for using LLM generated code there's no precedent for that. The only ones getting sued are the big tech companies who stole the code.

Environmental impact of model training, huge data centers threatening water supplies, producing tons of e-waste, creating noise pollution, increasing power demand, including one from unclean sources at the critical point when we should reduce it as much as possible


Sure but that's mostly them training a gazillion new models. You could ban models from providers that are doing all these things and thus promote more efficient models.

Deterioration in skill level of human coders and lack of avenues for juniors to learn to code properly, which is likely to stay as an essential thing to have


Valid but understanding architecture and delegating writing the code and especially tests is becoming much more important than just artisan writing it these days.

Outside coding, there are many ethical issues around companies producing LLM models, as many have ties to the military and police, and are heavily misused to fuel fascist regimes


Like I said there's local models as well. China puts out plenty of great open weight stuff like GLM5.3 which will likely have to run in the cloud but it's still open weight.

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Allero

I see your point. I don't think China-made local models are panacea by any means though, even through it's good they try to make it more efficient instead of just throwing gazillions and watching the world burn. It is still a very massive, very problematic operation.

Running LLMs locally, especially considering the pace of development, is just going to distribute the e-waste issue and make parts availability even worse, as I doubt your average hardware would be busy around the clock as it is in data centers (and so we'll need much more of it). It is better for some things (like privacy or reliability or screwing with incentives of those turning the economy and the world upside down for a quick grift), but it doesn't solve the others.

As per legal aspects, time will be our judge. I'd love not to give a damn about copyright, but it still exists.

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geneva_convenience

LLM's can save tremendous time now. You see projects like C&C Generals running on a tablet, or Lego Racers on web which would require tonnes of manual labour and now they're just a few LLM prompts. It's gotten to the point these kind of projects which would have been multi-year undertakings in the past have become "unimpressive"

Yes they're not perfect and they do make mistakes. That's why understanding architecture is more important than ever. But manual coding is really becoming a thing of the past. Agentic coding progress over the last year has pretty much solidified that. It's still not perfect but it's really good now.

Any industry that throws billions of dollars into something will make progress and now that progress has been made there's not much of a point in just resisting the tech itself. Therefore instead of pleading against all AI I believe it's much better to plead for open weight or open source and efficient AI.

The problem is like with the Luddites that you don't own the machine (AI) and the largest companies want to keep full control over them. It's a problem with the system ruling you not with the technology itself.

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lemmy - Link to source

Allero

The technology is undoubtedly good. All technologies are, if you ask me. The problem is about externalities, but they do matter and cannot be viewed separately.

Currently, as things stand, the development and, notably, use of the technology comes with a massive threat to several important areas. This is why many pieces of software that ban LLM contributions make a for now caveat.

Relying on it now, under current circumstances, is dangerous and damaging, even if sometimes it is a tremendous help. It may get better once we have truly efficient models and training, do not reinvent the wheel from scratch 20 times over, do not screw entire economy over it, put guardrails on the use of technology against people, and have a cheap, resource-efficient, and long-relevant hardware to run it. But we're not there yet. We're going to space with a gunpowder barrel here. Workable? I guess. Reasonable? No.

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geneva_convenience

If the goal isn't to oppose the technology but instead steer towards better use of the technology then that should be promoted. This blanket opposition means that we get fascists like DHH being the only ones to adopt LLM's because for some reason the left has a hate boner for it.

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EmojiReact vs. Like w/ content?


 Hm... [url=https://w3id.org/fep/c0e0]FEP-c0e0: Emoji reactions[/url] details two ways to federate an Emoji reaction: [ol] [li][code]EmojiReact[/code] activity[/li] [li][code]Like[/code] with [code]content[/code] (as opposed to a regular [code]Like[/code], which has no content)[/li] [/ol] In testing, I noticed that misskey (or at least, the site I was testing with, [code]birb.space[/code]) sends the latter. I don't know what sends the former, and if NodeBB were to start federating out [code]Em

Hm... FEP-c0e0: Emoji reactions details two ways to federate an Emoji reaction:

  1. EmojiReact activity
  2. Like with content (as opposed to a regular Like, which has no content)

In testing, I noticed that misskey (or at least, the site I was testing with, birb.space) sends the latter. I don't know what sends the former, and if NodeBB were to start federating out EmojiReact, would it be broadly understood?

Perhaps I should federate out both at once.

cc @silverpill@mitra.social

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Mike Macgirvin

The most portable solution we've found is to send a Note with InReplyTo containing nothing but a single emoji (which might be a composite emoji) after removing whitespace. The same algorithm on the receiving side also works for Like activities with single-emoji content. We treat these as emoji reactions internally. You can add one or more of the various 'EmojiReact' platform specific cohorts if you want. Just like punycode usernames - it federates with all the things. Unlike all the other solutions we've seen...

lemmy - Link to source

Final thoughts on my Linux daily driving choice

So, few days ago I asked the thread which distro they'd recommend and one of the most recommended was debian and debian based. But I for myself(Even though the post says otherwise) now chose to use an arch based distro, because of the better supported and newer nvidia drivers as well as automatic hardware detection. So I wanted to hear some experiences of you, that you may have had in the past considering EndeavourOS, CachyOS, Manjaro and Arch itself. I personally have gone for Manjaro now, kind of hoping that it won't break on the attempt to cut themselves of the company side of Manjaro and becomming they're own non-profit.

Greetings,
Konke

#linux
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