OpenAI say it would be 'impossible' to train AI without pinching copyrighted works
I really fear for the internet and what it will become in even just another year, with the rise of AI writing and AI art being used in place of real people. And now OpenAI openly state they need to use copyrighted works for training material.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Happy New Year!!!
This is my last shot of 2023: rainbow bee-eater in Myall Lakes NP in Eastern #Australia enjoying a cicada
#biodiversity #birdphotography #wildlife #birds #birdsofmastodon #bird #ecology #rainbow
Unity cutting 25% of staff (about 1,800 people) as part of restructuring gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/unitโฆ
Unity cutting 25% of staff (about 1,800 people) as part of restructuring
Ouch. We're only just into week 2 of 2024 and Unity Software are cutting away a huge amount of their staff, as things aren't looking great for the Unity game engine.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
The one thing that wasnโt a shit show in 2023: a huge undercover multinational operation that led to the conviction of dealers who are responsible for half the worldโs pangolin trade
bbc.com/news/world-africa-6637โฆ
How undercover sting outwitted pangolin traffickers
How charity investigators went undercover to outwit a global wildlife trafficking gang.By Steve Swann (BBC News)
@palmoildetectives #PalmOil #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife #PalmOilKILLS #Conflictpalmoil
youtube.com/watch?v=1Ly5kJcsFhโฆ
Behind The Green Lie of Sustainable Aviation Biofuel (SAF)
"Sustainable" Aviation Fuel (SAF) is a biofuel alternative to using fossil fuels for powering planes and cars. SAF is being aggressively marketed by multiple...YouTube
GE-Proton 8-26 and 8-27 released with various game fixes for Steam Deck / Linux gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/ge-pโฆ
#SteamDeck #Proton #GEProton #LinuxGaming
GE-Proton 8-26 and 8-27 released with various game fixes for Steam Deck / Linux
GE-Proton has received two new versions with GE-Proton 8-26 and GE-Proton 8-27 shortly after, mostly focusing on fixing up issues in some games and pulling in new versions of various parts of Proton like Wine and DXVK.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Celebrate Economic Strategy with the Steam Captialism and Economy Fest gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/celeโฆ
Celebrate Economic Strategy with the Steam Captialism and Economy Fest
Economy simulation and city management may not be the first thing most people think of when they think about video games. But it is one of the most longstanding genres in gaming, going all the way back to the 1980's.Smellbringer (GamingOnLinux)
Welcome the upgraded Sendent Outlook add-in for Nextcloud! โ๏ธ
The integration now also works on macOS and web, in addition to Windows. The rewrite comes with a new UI for easier mailing of large attachments.
Read more and get the app:
nextcloud.com/blog/major-updatโฆ
Major update to Nextcloud Outlook add-in is now available - Nextcloud
The brand new web add-in for Outlook is here. Fully rewritten, the app features compatibility with macOS and web interfaces. Read on to learn more.Mikhail Korotaev (Nextcloud)
APOD: 2024 January 9 โ Thors Helmet
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
I keep meaning, but repeatedly forget, to do an #introduction post.
My name's Bernard. I live in #Dublin #Ireland with my wife and 2 kids. I'm originally from #donegal and spent a few years in #cavan in my teens.
I work in #SRE
I started mastodon.ie in 2019 and had a couple of instances before that. I also run a #funkwhale instance at playitfaster.com
Beyond tech, I love music. Mostly #punk with some #folk (I played guitar for #belfast band Runnin' Riot for a bit) #mastodaoine
Might have. I was on bass in the original line-up, with Wes on drums.
Yes, the lads are both in Donegal. Derelicts lads took over when me and Wes left. Good fun, great music too. Tell the Derelicts lads I say hi.
Improve Thunderbird To Spend Less Time On Emails
Whilst Thunderbird is already a great product a lot of people spend way too much time responding too emails so perhaps there are ways to improve to reduce th...YouTube
Thor's Helmet
Image Credit & Copyright: Ritesh Biswas
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240109.htโฆ #APOD
APOD: 2024 January 9 โ Thors Helmet
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
Mouse secretly filmed tidying manโs shed every night
Photographer who noticed his items were mysteriously moving around discovered an industrious rodent was organising his workbenchCharlie Moloney (The Guardian)
like this
Means that Tidy Mouse is on the way!
So while you sleep and rest your head
Oh, Tidy Mouse will clean your shed!
This headline alone makes this article worth reading! (not a newish article...a recommendation by a friend)
Scientists Played Music to Cheese as It Aged. Hip-Hop Produced the Funkiest Flavor
Scientists Played Music to Cheese as It Aged. Hip-Hop Produced the Funkiest Flavor
Researchers played nonstop loops of Led Zeppelin, A Tribe Called Quest and Mozart to cheese wheels to find out how sound waves impacted flavorJason Daley (Smithsonian Magazine)
like this
"This will be fun!"
"Oh no! Oh no! This is going to be awful!"
"This is looking okay."
"If I wreck it at this stage, I will just die!"
"I think I can live with this."
like this
I chuckled.
Source: Meme from poorlydrawnlines.com/comic/madโฆ #comics #memes #funny
Poorly Drawn Lines โ Mad
A thrice-weekly webcomic written and illustrated by Reza Farazmand. New comics every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.poorlydrawnlines.com
"When a man goes away, having heard something which might have changed his mind, and does not pay attention, I do not call him back. I am on the side of nature.
The old Chinese Book of Wisdom says: "The Master says it once."
He does not run after people, it is no good. Those who are meant to hear will understand, and those who are not meant to understand will not hear."
-- Carl Jung
37signals Resubmits Its Calendar App, Includes Dates in Apple History to Get Past App Review
There's been a lot of news about HEY's new calendar app being rejected by App Store Review. In a lengthy X thread discussing the issue, David Heinemeier Hansson revealed that HEY has resubmitted the app to Apple, this time with some built-in content โฆ512 Pixels
"A new study has found that the average bottle of water contains nearly a quarter million fragments of 'nanoplastics' โ plastic particles so small they can potentially gum up the machinery of human cells." ๐ง
thehill.com/policy/equilibriumโฆ
Bottled water contains hundreds of thousands of potentially dangerous plastic fragments: study
A new study has found that the average bottle of water contains nearly a quarter million fragments of โnanoplasticsโ โ plastic particles so small they can potentially gum up the machinery of human cells.Saul Elbein (The Hill)
Gotta check these out!
Robust, scalable, and informative clustering for diverse biological networks
genomebiology.biomedcentral.coโฆ
#bioinformatics #genomics #genetics #statistics
Robust, scalable, and informative clustering for diverse biological networks - Genome Biology
Clustering molecular data into informative groups is a primary step in extracting robust conclusions from big data.BioMed Central
Footsteps in the Snow
Absolutely stunning embroidery piece by Narumi Takada of boot prints and animal tracks1 in freshly fallen snow. Just lovely.kottke.org
like this
Reframing The Wayland Support Problem
We've discussed Probono's infamous Boycott Wayland post many a times but recently Nate Graham put out a blog post that I think you must read with an open mi...YouTube
I only now started seriously considering Wayland thanks in part to you and @thelinuxEXP .
I installed River WM, as I love BSPWM, and heard it was the closest. I use the Nvidia Proprietary Drivers, which I know..no guarantees. Apparently it was working in 535, but 545 introduced really bad artifacting and stuttering...
Other than that some apps work, others don't. Wayland is ready..kinda. The apps and Nvidia need to work to truly say that ยฑ We need more than a handful of TWMs.
Consumo y Prรกcticas Digitales en Migrantes
por Centro LATAM Digital
los migrantes reportaron algunas experiencias relacionadas con desinformaciรณn y violaciones de privacidad en lรญnea.
#MigrarSinVigilancia
#DerechosDigitalesColectivos
centrolatam.digital/publicacioโฆ
Consumo y Prรกcticas Digitales en Migrantes - LATAM DIGITAL
Desde el registro para adquirir el Permiso Especial de Permanencia en Colombia hasta CBP One, la reciente aplicaciรณn lanzada por los Estados Unidos, cada vez es mรกs frecuente que los gobiernos digitalicen los trรกmites migratorios.LATAM DIGITAL
Hubble Views a Vast Galactic Neighborhood - NASA
This image from the NASA/ESAย Hubble Space Telescopeย features a richness ofย spiral galaxies: the large, prominent spiralย galaxyย on theNASA
NASA, NOAA to Announce 2023 Global Temperatures, Climate Conditions - NASA
Climate researchers from NASA and NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) will release their annual assessments of global temperatures andNASA
NASA Armstrong Builds Model Wing to Help Advance Unique Design - NASA
NASA Armstrongโs many capabilities enabled a start-to-finish design, fabrication, and soon testing of the 10-foot model wing. The Flight Loads LaboratoryDede Dinius (NASA)
2023 was an amazing year for Nextcloud!
๐ 100+ team members spanning 20 countries!
๐งฉ 76 new app uploads
๐ฉ๐พโ๐ป25k+ GitHub commits
๐จ Roundcube joins the Nextcloud family
๐ Recognized via multiple awards
๐ and so much more!
nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-2โฆ
Nextcloud 2023 Wrap-Up
2023 was special, and so is our wrap-up! Dive into at all the big things we achieved together, news, content highlights, and so much more.Mikhail Korotaev (Nextcloud)
A new preprint from the lab on the distribution of ancient whole-genome duplications across the angiosperm phylogeny. Great work led by PhD student Michael McKibben! We used a variety of methods and different species trees to infer and place WGDs across the phylogeny. Overall, similar results to our past work, but species tree had a large impact on WGD inferences. Check it out here:
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20โฆ
#WGD #polyploidy #phylogeny #angiosperms
Species Tree Topology Impacts the Inference of Ancient Whole-Genome Duplications Across the Angiosperm Phylogeny
Premise The history of angiosperms is marked by repeated rounds of ancient whole-genome duplications (WGDs).bioRxiv
Apple Vision Pro available in the U.S. on Februaryย 2
Apple Vision Pro will be available beginning Friday, February 2, at all U.S. Apple Store locations and the U.S. Apple Store online.Apple
NASA Telescopes Chase Down "Green Monster" in Star's Debris - NASA
For the first time astronomers have combined data fromย NASAโs Chandra X-ray Observatoryย and James Webb Space Telescope to study theNASA
NVIDIA reveal Half-Life 2 RTX, plus GeForce RTX 40 SUPER Series GPUs gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/nvidโฆ
#NVIDIA #RTX #HalfLife2 #GeForce
NVIDIA reveal Half-Life 2 RTX, plus GeForce RTX 40 SUPER Series GPUs
Much like AMD did today for CES 2024, much of NVIDIA's event was also all about AI but there's a few bits in there for normal consumers like the announcement of Half-Life 2 RTX, plus GeForce RTX 40 SUPER Series GPUs.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
AMD announces Radeon RX 7600 XT, Ryzen 8000G series and new Ryzen 5000 series CPUs gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/amd-โฆ
AMD announces Radeon RX 7600 XT, Ryzen 8000G series and new Ryzen 5000 series CPUs
Amongst a whole lot of technobabble about AI AI and more AI, AMD today announced the Radeon RX 7600 XT, Ryzen 8000G series and new Ryzen 5000 series CPUs.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
5600GT?
I've just sold my 5600G - that's Vega-7. What's the T stand for, RDNA? Are they backporting RDNA to AM4?
(I'm happy with my new 7840HS with Radeon 780M.)
"For any normal consumer, their event was a hard boring watch with business people patting each-other on the back about AI advancements"
Ha! Excellent commentary!
NASA Adjusts Agreements to Benefit Commercial Station Development - NASA
NASA has modified agreements for two funded commercial space station partners that are on track to develop low Earth orbit destinations for NASA and otherAndrea Lloyd (NASA)
Heroic Games Launcher v2.12.0 brings lots of improvements and some fun experiments gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/heroโฆ
#SteamDeck #Linux #GOG #EpicGames
Heroic Games Launcher v2.12.0 brings lots of improvements and some fun experiments
Heroic Games Launcher is the best way to manage games from Epic Games, GOG and Amazon on Linux and Steam Deck and Heroic Games Launcher v2.12.0 is out now. This new release brings with it a whole bunch of improvements across the entire app.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
NASA Science Heads to Moon on First US Private Robotic Artemis Flightย - NASA
Carrying NASA scientific instruments as part of its Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative, Astroboticโs Peregrine lander launched on United LaunchNASA
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in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐ง๐ฎ • • •a) no it wouldn't
b) well so what if it is, then don't?
And to be clear I say this _while being a massive advocate for radical copyright reform_
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in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐ง๐ฎ • • •So why the fuck they don't do that?!
How was that?
You're taking my stuff or using my work = you're paying my bills!
Problem solved and case closed.
But if not, we will see each other very soon in the court.
Simple as fuck!
Ockham
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in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐ง๐ฎ • • •For what it's worth, it's because the datasets they use will inevitably contain copyrighted work (articles, posts, websites, you get the idea). I don't think OpenAI are specifically targeting copyrighted works, but the content of the datasets being used makes copyright infringement inevitable.
There's an entire ethical conversation to be had with this sort of mass-scale scraping that goes beyond machine learning research.
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in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐ง๐ฎ • • •Actually, your writing is quite competent for a native English speaker. No need to complain about that.
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