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nixCraft 🐧💯 vcs and tech bros act like they cured cancer with Gen AI. Lmao. In reality, they just stole every thing out there while causing large amount of environmental damage to build a slop machine and slop OS.
Casual Observer*@nixCraft As a person who works in research I can assure you that some of the things standing in the way of "finding the cure" depend on the patentability of the drugs that are being studied.
JohnIf I ask Gemini to convert a 20 line fish script I wrote into bash, who exactly did I steal from? That new 20 line bash script doesn't exist anywhere else in the world.
I think non-practitioners are getting on a different page than practitioners, because they don't understand how these things are really being used.
Pier Hegeman@buckfiftyseven From every project that had their work swiped without consent or compensation. Google didn’t magic up that script out of thin air, they stole it. From the people of the future who are going to live with constant droughts and catastrophic climate disasters. And from yourself, through deskilling.
@pier what do you mean by project? Are you suddenly making a rule that every bash man page, that was intended to be read by a bash user, cannot be read by this kind of mechanical bash user?
Or are you saying that some past answer to someone's bash problem, which we all understood could be useful to other bash users, cannot be used by this kind of bash user?
Why wouldn't I want *my* answers to reach as many people as possible?
@buckfiftyseven Right, because Gemini is trained exclusively on bash man pages and Stack Overflow 🙄
@pier Yes those, and certainly any open source project that did not put in an exclusion. There's a lot of BSD licensed code out there.
Ah, I found this interesting snippet just now:
"Based on feedback, it does not appear that I can release the code under a true open source license and have any kind of anti-AI/LLM restrictions."
Yep. It's something I went through when I was designing my open source licenses 20 years ago. It's pretty hard to exclude bad guys without also excluding good guys.
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Henryk Plötz@nixCraft @briankrebs Also, they literally stood behind a podium and announced that they *would* cure cancer just one year ago. Weirdly enough, there hasn't been any sort of followup since. I mean, other than OpenAI dropping its nonprofit status.
Karel 'Clock' K.@nixCraft Yes 3D print cylinder heads, engine blocks, cylinder linings, exhaust valves, exhaust pipes, exhaust mufflers, injectors, engine head bolts, pistons, piston rings, crankshaft bearings, connecting rods, motorbike chains, sprockets, spokes, wheel bearings. tyres, headlight reflectors, headlight covers, clutch plates, transmission cogs, spark plugs, all that is gonna work just fine, made out of porous plastic waffle with glass transition temperature of 65°C, and with a nice mating precision. Surely they won't melt when you give full gas in a long uphill ride or on a highway on a hot day. I am sure PLA will hold well when I take a 30 cm wrench and stand with one foot on it to tighten the wheel axle nut with the prescribed torque.
Orb 2069
Nini@nixCraft
AI undoes the benefit the internet gave the world. We went from having tremendous information at our fingertips to, now, not being able to slog through "sounds like" fantasy of some energy sucking algorithms to figure what might be real. Thanks, tech bros!
AI undoes the benefit the internet gave the world. We went from having tremendous information at our fingertips to, now, not being able to slog through "sounds like" fantasy of some energy sucking algorithms to figure what might be real. Thanks, tech bros!
stony kark@nixCraft @briankrebs if we can make our own apps, what do we need "big tech" for, exactly?
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Ludwig Vielfrass@nixCraft Hell, 3D printing has been more helpful to me so far, and I've never 3D printed something in my life. I've had friends print me things to replace broken plastic parts.
canleaf08✅ 加拿大葉子 🏳️🌈⚧️🇪🇺🍁@nixCraft Techbros are powerful until the data centres in the middle east are bombed.
skull head dude@nixCraft we already live in a society where most of the population is dependent on phones they cannot build or code
now we're gonna have waves of shitty randomly generated software that most of the population cannot fix, including (overworked, underpaid) talented programmers
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@nixCraft What a waste of power too, especially if the gen ai stuff on the internet can re-generate responses. So much power is used up just to regenerate crap cos whatever came before sucked, looked bad or didn't align with what someone wanted.
Idk. I don't use gptslop or whatevs normies are using these days
Tom Jacob@nixCraft @briankrebs don’t bring the 3d printing/maker community into this.
Yet another Josh 
@nixCraft To be fair, I've repaired a few thousand dollars of stuff that would have been thrown out by using 3d printing.
The big problem so far is there's not really a repository of "3d printable commercial replacement parts" repositories. And the skill to design those parts still requires a lot of CAD skill.
I happen to know a bunch in CAD.
Siim Ošur@crankylinuxuser @nixCraft Isn’t the biggest problem the material. Someone already mentioned it indirectly that the impracticality comes from the plastic itself. You aint 3D printing piston rings, ever. Drone parts sure but heavy duty, nope. Or am I wrong here?
Vinicius (PY2VMH)@nixCraft @crankylinuxuser @siim Different manufacturing methods are useful in different parts. Plastic 3D printing is useful for some plastics (some, not all), and even then, it can still not be ideal for many parts because the parts end up very anisotropic (different strengths in different directions). Also, the plastics used in common 3D printers are very weak and the nozzles are very wide (so you can't have precision parts without postprocessing).
A LOT of consumer goods are all just plastic as well. Its a mixture of ABS, ASA, or nylon. You can print all of those, but nylon is a pain in the ass.
Volume knok breaks off the stereo? 1 hour model and 1 hour print.
Some internal plastic molded gear strips? Was probably a sacrificial gear. You can model and print, again in 2 hours tops.
Need a weatherproof housing? Download a box creator. Takes 3-6/hours. You'll need to buy some gasketing for the seam.
Its these small repairs and replacements that Ive done. Lots of them. And they cost anywhere from $.05-1$ of material. And even if they dont have the same durability as the originals, it keeps the devices working and out of the landfill.