zolax

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[–] zolax@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

that's good then! i had this same issue (randomly freezing after turning it om for some time) though new RAM ended up fixing it

[–] zolax@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago (3 children)

yeah with what other people have said it's most likely bad or unseated RAM

 
  • neural network is trained with deep Q-learning in its own training environment
  • controls the game with twinject

demonstration video of the neural network playing Touhou (Imperishable Night):

it actually makes progress up to the stage boss which is fairly impressive. it performs okay in its training environment but performs poorly in an existing bullet hell game and makes a lot of mistakes.

let me know your thoughts and any questions you have!

[–] zolax@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago

yeah, my bad. edited the comment with more accurate info

and this does apply to creative writing, not knowledgeable stuff like coding

[–] zolax@programming.dev 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

in terms of the quality of writing you can get models from 20GB at a similar level to GPT-4 (good for creative writing but much worse if knowledge of something is required)

the model I use (~20GB) would know what rclone is but would most likely not know how to use it

EDIT: now that I think about it is was based off of some benchmark. personally I wouldn't say it performs at GPT-4 but maybe GPT-3.5

[–] zolax@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

ah, okay, that's fair. in terms of short-form social media that tries to engage you, I'd expect little warning and for children especially to take more risks when encountering this type of content.

Folks with rooted android phones have a high chance of having watched a 12 year old tell them how to root their phone on TicTok.

I was more focused on this, though, because this sentence implied that you could successfully root your phone with short-form, likely phone-generic tutorials when the process nowadays is much more difficult and technical

[–] zolax@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)
[–] zolax@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

maybe it's just me, but isn't it quite hard (at least for people not confident doing technical stuff) to root a phone?

like a decade ago the bootloader may have been unlocked by default and for many phones there were exploits so that they could be rooted with an app, but nowadays you would have to:

  • unlock the bootloader by installing ADB and fastboot drivers, booting into download mode and run terminal commands that would reset your phone in the process; and for some phones, you would also need to shorten a test point and for quite a few of them nowadays, unlocking the bootloader is impossible
  • boot into download mode and flash a custom recovery with fastboot or potentially with Odin or some other proprietary software (or sometimes you can root from download mode)
    • for some newer (including Samsung) phones, you also need to disable dm-verity otherwise your phone wouldn't be able to boot into Android
  • boot into recovery mode and finally flash (probably Magisk) an image to root the system

I guess there are usually detailed instructions for this, but I doubt that most people rooting their phones now would be non-techie people who are just watching generic online tutorials. they would most likely stumble upon XDA or other forums that would have proper instructions. and even then, they are not very beginners friendly as they aren't usually supposed to be followed by people with little to no experience with using the command-line, drivers, how Android phones work internally, etc.

[–] zolax@programming.dev 55 points 8 months ago

to clarify:

The developers of the Alpine Linux-based postmarketOS mobile distribution today that they’re now supporting the systemd init system alongside OpenRC and other alternative init systems.

and:

postmarketOS currently supports the Sxmo, Phosh, GNOME Shell on Mobile, and KDE Plasma Mobile UIs. While the Sxmo images will stay with OpenRC, the GNOME and KDE Plasma Mobile images will be built on top of systemd

[–] zolax@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago

can second this, they look kinda strange to me

[–] zolax@programming.dev 0 points 8 months ago

true, all my large packages use ccache

 

for a while, I have been using hardware through Linux that uses the beep from the PC speaker. I'm actually really used to it, so when I switched to using hardware with an unusably loud (volume can't be changed) volume (and also different frequency), I started looking into "exporting" the original beep to an audio file that could be played at different volumes and for other purposes.

looking through the internet, however, I haven't found any attempts to represent any actual PC speaker beep in an audio file, so I'm asking you guys if you know how to do so. presumably, the beep is just a short, simple waveform at a certain frequency, but I am not sure what that waveform is, or what the easiest way to do so is.

 

so I was looking at someone's personal website from Mastodon, and noticed that they had banners to advertise other people's servers. while server lists like fediring exist, I was thinking of a more automatic method of advertisement within someone's website.

the concept is this: people could store advertisements (small banners, gifs) on their websites with a server and people willing to embed them could use an API to retrieve a random ad onto their website.

people would self-host their ads and "federate" with other websites to embed other ads on their website. not sure if this would scale up as well, though.

what do you think? just curious on lemmy's POV

edit: going by the comments, this idea is quite flawed and webrings (in small sizes) are a better approach.

thanks for the help

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