The difference, unlike a Playstation console, is that you also control the hardware and OS on a PC (mostly, and for now, at least; they’re working on fixing that)

This means that you don’t need to “jailbreak” it with a modchip to gain access to basic functionality like simply deciding to make backups and other copies for yourself or to simply not to run the DRM requirement since you don’t want to run that on your hardware that you own and you should not be obligated to. They call this piracy and cracking and say it’s illegal, but I say it’s a fundamental right. When it’s convenient they’ll tell you that you own the games, and when it’s inconvenient they’ll tell you you don’t own them and they decide what you can do with them. It’s like saying I can’t photocopy pages from or write in the margins of a book I bought and own, whether it’s digital or not. I reject that principle and refuse to abide by it, and you should too, and PC allows you to. Playstation does not, at least not with a nontrivial amount of work and a lot of penalties. It only requires a trivial amount of work on PC and generally will not allow the enforcement of any penalties (it shouldn’t require any work and shouldn’t enforce any penalties, but DRM and laws and always-online content are doing their best to make it difficult as much as they can)

The reality of the encroaching enshittification is real, but that is still the fundamental difference that a PC gives you, and I suspect it will always remain so. Never give up on this platform, defend it like a fortress and do not let anyone entice you away from it, only suffering leads down those paths.

Don’t forget about might makes right. What, you didn’t want to live in a world where big burly dudes with guns protecting wealthy pedophiles tell you what to do?

What do you mean by “entire” distro? The distro itself doesn’t download the “entire distro”, it’s made up of packages, like almost every distro is. You’re only installing the base system, the packages are where the rest of the downloads come from. What “parts” of the distro’s base system don’t you want? The dockers are already pretty stripped down and minimalist by default, I’m not sure what else you could cut out to still have a functioning OS?

Hooray! Fewer people on twitter is a good thing for all of humanity. I hope all of them get locked out of their accounts for inauthentic behavior, and they keep instituting even more extreme hurdles for people to come back until eventually nobody does. Kill the platforms. Kill them with fire.

The pressure in your arm is not unrelated to or disconnected from the pressure in your legs. They are directly correlated. If the pressure in your legs goes up, so will the pressure in your arm, it’s the same system. The pressure in the entire system is what the arm measurement is supposed to show, that’s why they’re taking it. They usually don’t care about your arm specifically, they are trying to understand the whole system, including the pressure in your legs, which will be reflected in that same arm measurement. That’s the whole point, otherwise it wouldn’t be a good measurement.

Morally I think it’s reasonably clear in many (not all) cases, but it can become complicated. Who is responsible when the inherently ineffective safety guardrails fail? What about someone who intentionally uses a bypass technique to jailbreak and escape the guardrails? Who is responsible for an open weights model that had some of the guardrails removed or rendered even more ineffective either intentionally or by accident?

Legally, it is an entirely different story, and it is absolutely and entirely unclear. Several cases are already before the courts and I don’t think we’ll know where any of them end up within this decade, and even if they do receive some token legal judgement against them eventually, that just sets the stage for those legal responsibilities to be overturned by new legislation. These are companies that are positioning themselves as bulwarks in the new frontier of economic warfare, information warfare and physical warfare, they are critical national security and geopolitical assets, they have infiltrated governments at all levels and are receiving direct protection from same.

Do you believe they will ever be truly held accountable for the damage they’ve already done to society, much less the damage they will do over time? That’s part of responsibility, and it needs to be debated because that’s the only way to even start to hold them accountable for anything. We need to hold them accountable with words first if we want to have any hope of holding them accountable in any other way. And these are my words to help start doing that.

Of course that’s a possibility, but AI does not have responsibility. The question is who does?

Do I blame a train for hitting someone who steps onto railroad tracks when there’s a train approaching? It’s a machine. It doesn’t have responsibilities or opinions or agency. It does what it has been built to do, in exactly the manner that anyone with sufficient understanding of its operating principles could tell you, because that’s what machines do. The person or persons interacting with the machine is not absolved of any responsibility by how complex or inscrutable the machine is. It’s still a machine.

The question is, who is responsible for the person stepping onto the railroad tracks when there was a train approaching? Was the person trying to end their own life? Maybe it’s their responsibility. Or maybe the crossing signals failed and told them it was safe, and they did not realize a train was approaching. Maybe there were too many trees or signs or construction that was blocking their view. Is the train company responsible for that? Maybe. Did the brakes fail due to poor inspections or substandard work during the last maintenance? Maybe. Did the train have plenty of time to stop and the engineer was not paying attention? Maybe. These are all people, and groups of people, who may have responsibility. The only thing that’s certain is: The train doesn’t.

We, as a society, need to decide who is responsible for the possibility of a horrific consequence arising from the use of these sort of machines. Is it the person using the machine? The people who made the machine in the first place? The people who put it in a place where this person could easily use it? By assigning responsibility, ideally in advance of any horrific consequences, that provides a clear incentive for the people we deem responsible to actually start acting responsible and take the appropriate measures to avoid such horrific consequences that they might be held responsible for.

Pfft, “not polished”. Looks way more polished than manually dumping shit into a folder on my http server. Thanks!

Github sucks though, unreliable and headed to bad places. Considered mirroring or rehosting it somewhere with forgejo? Self-hostable, or there are some public options

Did you try downloading the two images I provided in my comment? They work for me.

Not what OP is using obviously, but AMD X3D CPUs and Mac systems can be quite competitive for AI if you’re lacking VRAM. Not all CPUs struggle with inference, and some GPUs aren’t so hot at it either. GPUs are generally better, especially the really high-end ones, but throwing in low- and mid-range cards and high-end CPUs stuff starts to look somewhat muddier.

Yes, I don’t hate the technology, I hate all the evil companies abusing this technology for profit, fascism and death, which is very close to all of them.

But they are not the only ones working on the technology, and even though they have stolen many of people’s entire lives worth of work for making these models and not only didn’t compensate them, but in many cases replaced them and terminated their employment, in many cases we are stealing it right the fuck back from them and making it open to everybody, because fuck them. It doesn’t belong to them in the first place, it belongs to all of us. We can’t put the genie back in the lamp or the toothpaste back in the tube, but we can make sure we are keeping our own data for ourselves once we take these monstrous, bloated, oligarchs down. We will not the libraries of Alexandria burn down again, and we won’t let them have the only copies.

I won’t pretend I don’t have various issues with open weight models using this technology, but they’re more like “I don’t like systemd’s philosophy or developers” level of issues, not “I think they will destroy democracy, civilization and possibly all of humanity” level of issues.

With the evil companies, I absolutely DO have “I think they will destroy democracy, civilization and possibly all of humanity” level of issues.

If they make modifications to GPL programs, they must publish those modifications. But if they don’t modify the actual programs, there is nothing they have to publish, they can just point to the official source code and say “that’s the code we’re using”, it’s published. (* Disclaimer: I think there are actually some legal questions around what exactly constitutes the requirement to publish the source code that have never really been and probably never will be actually argued in court because they’re effectively unrealistic and this is the practical reality, but IANAL and I am not modifying any GPL code without actually publishing it so I don’t really care)

The key thing to understand here is that an OS is not a modification to a GPL program, it is simply a collection of them. While there are enough of them that you can create an entire OS out of entirely GPL components… importantly, you don’t HAVE to, nothing in the GPL says they are only allowed to exist alongside other GPL software and components, otherwise you couldn’t use them on Windows for example. When you’re making an OS, any component you don’t want to use GPL code for, you just don’t use a GPL component for it, you write your own that does the same thing and fills the same role for your OS. As long as they are doing that from scratch, not by modifying the GPL original, they can have as many proprietary programs in their OS too if they want, even required parts.

The proprietary components might be required for their OS to function, thus making the whole OS proprietary, but it can still be mostly GPL code, as long as they haven’t modified the GPL parts and have written the proprietary parts from scratch or with appropriately licensed libraries.

Not OP, but I think part of the reason Create is always so intimidating for me because it uses so many Minecraft mechanics in such crazy and unexpected ways that it feels like it must be absolutely janky as heck, like there’s no way this can possibly work reliably. But if you can get over that and just trust the system, it really does work, and it’s truly impressive. It’s a crazy mod. It can be pretty tedious, depending how it’s tuned (and I don’t think it’s tuned particularly comfortably out of the box, and most modpacks honestly don’t do a great job tuning it either) but it’s really, really slick and the more I use it the more I actually like it, it’s sort of like playing a different game though, and I know some people don’t like that aspect of it. It’s not very Minecraft-y in some ways. But in some ways, it’s much better.

From what I’ve found, I think the best way to really experience Create is to get into a modpack that really forces you to. Something like Create 2 Mekanism, or Create Above and Beyond.

As with most things, the problem is never the technology itself, technologies have problems, and we find solutions for those problems, that’s what we do, that’s how the progress of technology works. But nobody these days wants to let us have the solutions to the problems or even know what they are, when they can monetize a temporary remedy they can sell to us instead. And the problem is profitable, so they want to force us to have the problem; they won’t let us stop using the problem technology either. Vulture capitalists preying on civilization and waiting for all of us to collapse from exhaustion so they can feed on our wallets, not caring that they’re watching us die.

AllTheMods has plenty of progression options that are reasonably casual but also quite deeply technical, at least depending on what path you choose to pursue. They tend not to be the kind of modpacks that force you into too narrow of a progression path, so as long as you can trust yourself to intentionally explore some new mods instead of falling back on familiar patterns, they’re generally a very friendly and well-made experience (and because they’re AllTheMods, you’ll probably also have a wide selection of comfortable, familiar mods to fall back on if you get stuck with some aspect)

Without knowing too much about what you like and what you’ve tried before, that would be my recommendation. I can try to suggest some others if you want to go a bit deeper into what you’re looking for. How deeply have you played around with Create?

The only downscaling algorithm you want is “none”. This is a pixel-perfect resize, from 2x scale to 1x, algorithms are for fitting and interpolating pixels that don’t fit properly onto the resized grid, and they will blur and mess up pixel-perfect textures and basically ruin them.

Not sure if Lemmy will let me post these or if they’ll work in this format but and are the split minecraft/textures/entity/sheep/sheep.png and minecraft/textures/entity/sheep/sheep_fur.png textures you need for 1.12.2, I assume you know how to build a little texture pack with them or otherwise replace them in-game, but if not there are plenty of guides for that.

Yeah it’s really upsetting. Some of the most genuinely intelligent and insightful people I know have talked exactly like that (many still do), and I know they’re people because a) I’ve met some of them, and b) they were doing this before generative AI was a thing. Generative AI stole the natural styles and voices of our best and brightest and is wearing them like a fucking Edgar suit. It’s sick.

Piracy. Private trackers are genuinely better stewards and curators of their libraries because unlike the the slop factories, they’re made by real humans, for real humans.

Yes, that would be a strange thing to say, and unless they also happen to be boaters, most mechanics probably have no idea what side “starboard” is, and maybe not even “aft”, so it won’t even be useful information to them, which actually makes it quite frustrating. Similar to someone coming in with a vague and incomprehensible complaint that there car is making “a noise” and they want it fixed, but they can’t explain in any useful way what the noise is, where it’s coming from, when it happens.

Just to be clear, the correct and accepted terminology options are “rear passenger side”, or “right rear”.