@PavelASamsonov Truly makes it hard to find motivation for a lot of work.
Tagged: Akkoma
@perb Tack, fĆ„r sĆ„ mĆ„nga bra tips hƤr. Och jƤvlar vilken fantastisk recensionā¦ https://www.techradar.com/audio/portable-media-players/astell-and-kern-aandnorma-sr35-review
@JMMaok I remember trying a bone conduction headset many years ago. It kinda freaked me out. š
@renedario Nice. And they appear to have models with buetooth.
@JoWa galet snygg!!
Iām considering a music player so I can play music without being attached to my phone. Ideally something like the iPod nano. Are there any decent music players on the market today or is my best bet to actually try and find an old iPod nano?
Iām really nostalgic for the original Sony Walkmanā¦ Apparently there is a Sony Walkman player on the market today for almost 4,000 dollars. š¤Ŗ
@snookerarmchair TouchĆ©! š
Itās mindblowing to me how many support bots are being implemented to save time for support staff on āsimpler issuesā, instead of improving the interface and interactions in ways that remove the need to ask those simpler questions.
Perpetual bot investments versus fix the issues š¤·
@Thelie There are quite a few papers these days that look suspiciously like blog posts.
@clarablackink Agree all the way. I really appreciate Timnit Gebruās work on TESCREAL, with regards to eugenics. I try to bring this point forward in conversations sometimes but am often met with skepticism. People donāt like to hear that the tools they are using enable racist thinking.
@robertklaschka Ah, nice! Thanks for sharing.
@tymwol Yeah, I should stay away.
@tymwol Yeah, I should stay away.
I was reading a debate on LinkedIn where one side was arguing that "AI" image generators are more energy-efficient than hiring a photographer (or buying a stock photo).
One argument that made me do a painful face-palm was the notion that photographers need to eat, so they consume more energy.
The thing about humans isā¦ wait for itā¦ they ALWAYS need to eat. You canāt shift production to a computer and argue that itās more efficient because it doesnāt eat. The human will keep eating(!) You are only adding energy-use.
These types of arguments illustrate a deep obliviousness towards human wellbeing. The argument only works if you expect the human to eat less when their job is taken away. Or die.
Their only data point for āAI" energy use was the point of generation, neatly excluding:
- all the energy used when scraping the internet for all the required datasets
- the energy used when building the model itself
- the energy used for required human workforce tasks, such as labeling (I bet those humans have to eat too)
- the energy used when building required data centers, both in-use and speculative investments (so many eating humans involved)
- the energy for hardware production and ongoing replacements
- the fact that the ease-of-use (and being āfreeā) encourages way, way more image generation than ever beforeā¦
Oh, and one more thingā¦
The image generator feeds on, and requires, photos and images taken and made by humansā¦ who eat. Damn those humans.
Oh wait, the person doing the promptingā¦ that person has to eat as well. Itās almost like itās a human imperative.
Worth noting is also that none of the big "AIā companies are at all transparent about their energy consumption for this technology. Nor water consumption. Nor noise pollution. Nor e-waste. So thereās a ton of speculation.
I just wanted to make clear that Iām all for allowing humans to eat.
I know it's relevant to refer to GIGO (garbage in, garbage out) when talking about language models.
But it's also important to consider FIGO - faith in, garbage out - because faith will have a huge impact on the willingness to trust the garbage.
We already have laws that allow us to prosecute people who oppress, enslave, harm, and kill other people. The challenge is to make visible how it happens even when the method used is "innovative technologyā. Thatās when we can hold people accountable, and stop blaming the technology.
Machines donāt hurt people. People hurt other people. With machines. And sometimes the crime happens ever so slowly across time, space, borders and multiple touchpoints. Which is why it can be hard to note the similarity to a whip or a bullet.
@abbe98 Very much agree. Iāve also been doing thought experiments along those linesā¦ as in how we could develop visualisations of big and heavy files, or network congestions.
@ewen @johnquiggin
I do love that article by @baldur
@AngelaScholder
Yes, itās a fork of Pleroma. Note that itās continuously update but there is not really any support given for it so you kinda need to have your own network of people you can reach out to if you run into trouble. I managed to install it with below average server management skills though. š
More info: https://joinfediverse.wiki/Akkoma
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