lily33

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[–] lily33@lemm.ee 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

Indeed. Linux ~~audio~~ also allows control characters like backspace to be part of a file name (though it is harder to make such file as you can't just type the name). Which is just horrible.

[–] lily33@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Just works" is not a mentality imposed by Microsoft, and has nothing to do with loss of control. It's simply (a consequence of) the idea that things which can be automated, should be. It is about good defaults, not lack of options.

[–] lily33@lemm.ee 53 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It's not an article about LLMs not using dialects. In fact, they have learned said dialects and will use them if asked.

What they did was, ask the LLM to suggest adjectives associated with sentences - and it would associate more aggressive or negative adjectives with African dialect.

Seems like not a bias by AI models themselves, rather a reflection of the source material.

All (racial) bias in AI models is actually a reflection of the training data, not of the modelling.

[–] lily33@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's certainly good, I'm not arguing that. My point is, if the wine team is interested, they can fork the unmaintained project, and work on that. Eventually, people will switch over to the active fork. What Microsoft is doing, is helping the process along, and making it easier. So it's good, and helpful - but not really a "donation" to winehq.

[–] lily33@lemm.ee 122 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

I guess it's simply the framing: It was a not very actively maintained open source project. So they've decided to turn it over to a new maintainer. Calling that 'donation' is a bit pushing it

[–] lily33@lemm.ee 82 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

I'm confused - why is Microsoft trying to - or expected to, by the article authors - patch a vulnerability in GRUB?

[–] lily33@lemm.ee 44 points 4 months ago (3 children)

In September the NixOS constitutional assembly should finish their work, and the community will be able to elect governance. I'm guessing that's when the drama will start getting resolved.

In the meantime, there are multiple maintainers that have left because of the drama - which is more troublesome than the board members leaving - but nixpkgs has a LOT of maintainers, and there are new ones joining all the time. It's still healthy and won't implode so quickly.

[–] lily33@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

They are major concerns, but they aren't the only reasons people would use Linux, and also not everyone who uses Linux does it for these reasons. For example, while I care about them, my most important reason for using it is utility features such as my tiling WM.

[–] lily33@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

That only works if the main reason someone uses Linux is personal privacy.

[–] lily33@lemm.ee 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

However, it also uses halium and libhybris. That means you can't just install your favourite distro and upstream tools. Everything that needs GPU acceleration needs to be patched for libhybris. For example, that means no upstream wlroots - and the latest patched version I think is 0.12 or so.

[–] lily33@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago

Actually, no, this seems to work on a very different principle.

[–] lily33@lemm.ee 13 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Not really. It seems to use a very different technology from termux.

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