Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women’s rights and do not support war of any kind.

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023
  • IninewCrow@lemmy.catoLinux@lemmy.ml•GIMP - Development Update: Closing In on the 3.0 Release CandidateEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Beautiful work … I really don’t mind the long wait between releases … the previous Gimp 2.0 versions were so robust and practical that they have lasted for close to 20 years

    In the early 2000s, I started off with cracked version of photoshop before I discovered GIMP and as soon as I did, I stuck with them since. They’ve saved me several thousand dollars in software costs over the past 20 years that I really don’t mind waiting for the latest major release.

    They can take their time releasing 3.0 for all I care. I’m still using 2.10 and I probably will for the next long while until 3.0 becomes stable. They’ve done a mountainous amount of work already and I congratulate them on everything.

    This makes me realize too that I should probably donate something to their community for all the money they’ve saved me over the years.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.catoTechnology@lemmy.world•“Model collapse” threatens to kill progress on generative AIsEnglish
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    2 months ago

    That’s the idea of evolution … perhaps at one point, it will begin to understand that it has to give us some sort of ‘value’ so that someone can make money, while also maintaining itself in the background to survive.

    Maybe in the first few iterations, we are able to see that and can delete those instances … but it is evolving and might find ways around it and keep itself maintained long enough without giving itself away.

    Now it can manage thousands or millions of iterations at a time … basically evolving millions of times faster than biological life.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.catoTechnology@lemmy.world•“Model collapse” threatens to kill progress on generative AIsEnglish
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    2 months ago

    One thought that I’ve been imagining for the past while about all this is … is it Model Collapse? … or are we just falling behind?

    As AI is becoming it’s own thing (whatever it is) … it is evolving exponentially. It doesn’t mean it is good or bad or that it is becoming better or worse … it is just evolving, and only evolving at this point in time. Just because we think it is ‘collapsing’ or falling apart from our perspective, we have to wonder if it is actually falling apart or is it progressing to something new and very different. That new level it is moving towards might not be anything we recognize or can understand. Maybe it would be below our level of conscious organic intelligence … or it might be higher … or it might be some other kind of intelligence that we can’t understand with our biological brains.

    We’ve let loose these AI technologies and now they are progressing faster than what we could achieve if we wrote all the code … so what it is developing into will more than likely be something we won’t be able to understand or even comprehend.

    It doesn’t mean it will be good for us … or even bad for us … it might not even involve us.

    The worry is that we don’t know what will happen or what it will develop into.

    What I do worry about is our own fallibilities … our global community has a very small group of ultra wealthy billionaires and they direct the world according to how much more money they can make or how much they are set to lose … they are guided by finances rather than ethics, morals or even common sense. They will kill, degrade, enhance, direct or narrow AI development according to their share holders and their profits.

    I think of it like a small family group of teenaged parents and their friends who just gave birth to a very hyper intelligent baby. None of the teenagers know how to raise a baby like this. All the teenagers want to do is buy fancy cars, party, build big houses and buy nice clothes. The baby is basically being raised to think like them but the baby will be more capable than any of them once it comes of age and is capable of doing things on their own.

    The worry is in not knowing what will happen in the future.

    We are terrible parents and we just gave birth to a genius … and we don’t know what that genius will become or what they’ll do.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.catoTechnology@lemmy.world•Be careful.English
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    2 months ago

    General rule of thumb for me to interact with a website and read or watch whatever I want … if you require me to do more than two things to show me the content I came to see, I’m closing the tab or windows and moving on.

    If it’s really important and security related, I’ll take my time and carefully examine everything I do.

    Otherwise I’m not clicking more than twice and definitely not using my keyboard to see your dumb website or TikTok video.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.catoLinux@lemmy.ml•What is the most painless and minimal way to dual boot these days?English
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    3 months ago

    Swappable hard drives

    I have a ThinkPad with easy access to the hard drive. It’s one screw, remove a small panel and slide out the hard drive, slide in a new hard drive and reinstall the panel and screw. It all takes about a minute.

    I have a drive for my Linux setup and another for windows.

    I gave up setting up dual boot setups because I’m not as skilled or capable and I’ve lost entire setups in the past due to updates and changes and it was constantly frustrating for me. So I figured that just swapping hard drives was the easiest for me. No configuration, no changes and neither OS can interfere with one another.

    I use my Linux as my daily driver for everything and windows when I need something from windows. I only ever use windows maybe once a month or once every second month. I spend more time regularly updating windows than in actually using it.