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  • Apple is doing insane stuff with iMessage making SMS useless with Android. It is intentional manipulation. I’ve only seen it on some Apple kernels with the latest iPhone. My old man’s phone absolutely will not send or receive an SMS unless I message is manually turned off and then it won’t get iMessages. Apple has always been a shitty company, but this is next level insane. Just get and use the Signal app and ditch all the proprietary garbage and manipulative bs IMO.



  • Don’t get discouraged. I get where you’re coming from. I don’t follow the news or care about Trump. I see a satirical replying comment, or enough doubt to see it as such, in a situation where text is hard to convey emotional meaning from both people involved.

    Personally, I had a crushing failure with a project from around a week ago. I know how it can be rough sometimes. We can all be friends here. And when we can’t, there’s always the block user feature to navigate to a more friendly part of our digital social room on Lemmy.

    As a mod, I’m only the lowly janitor. I don’t paint the walls or fix the floors.

    As a user, I understand and sympathize.


  • They haven’t been really open source for a long time. The move away from Merlin’s configurations based software and onto custom code that only a full time dev can effectively modify was a major shot against the roots of RepRap and the community around Adrian Bowyer that Joe was a part of and got him started.

    Nothing lasts forever, but the move away from open source officially marks the end of me going out of my way to purchase from them or recommend them.

    Long live the kit makers and sources like LDO and Voron. The community created the 3d printing hobby, not the companies, not some guy that throws beer parties with llamas in the Czech Republic.




  • That is all model loader code based stuff. You basically just need a bit of Python code that anyone can write, even you. You need to have a look at how the model must be addressed in format, then you find how the model loader code you are using creates the structured text and just insert your own modifications.

    It is easier to add a second prompt window where you keep persistent information and just change it yourself. If you want the model to change that stuff, you need to look into building an agent.

    I hacked around like this for awhile too, but evolved into using the notepad tab of Oobabooga Textgen WebUI and a Mixtral 8×7B model with a 32k context window. That model can deal with almost any detail you add in the context.

    The thing is, the model may not feel satisfied with mundane and redundant details. Most of the time, believe it or not, those changes that you perceive as errors or inconsistencies are not actually errors. The model is fully aware that it is making those changes. There is usually an instruction about creativity, inspiration, or initiative that will cause the model to shift details like this.

    My best recommendation is to openly discus the error in dialog with the model. They usually will talk about the issue if you call one out. Talking with AI is very different than with humans. Everything they say has meaning and functions beyond what is initially apparent. There are a lot of behaviors that involve certain patterns and keywords. You can even alter these behaviors by banning certain tokens/keywords. A good place to start is banning paragraph starting words for filler material. “So_” would be a good starting token to ban, as with AI, no sentence that starts with that token is worth reading. Other important words are twist, chuck, and cross. These are more flexible in their troublesome meaning and can manifest in multiple words like chuckles or across but still function the same inside the model.

    If you get to this level of familiarity, the persistence of a storied interaction is more of a negotiation with the AI.

    Another point of understanding is that the model does not know the difference between roleplaying characters it owns and you own or who is who. You or the model loader code is creating the name of the next character that the model generates for. Everyone in any story can be the model if it is asked to create the prompt.

    So if I say, “Jake is super creative” or imply it somewhere in the prompt, and the model later thinks ‘Jake is rather bored and needs to be creative’ it is going to change something that satisfies that character profile even if it has never generated the output for character Jake.

    Hope that helps some





  • Actually, space civ or anywhere else for that matter will serve as an excellent research lab experiment to solve Earth’s problems.

    I’m not in favor of the tech bro++ oligarchy at all, and I believe this is going to get a good bit worse before it gets better for a specific reason of what will happen after the first M-type asteroid in NEO is successfully mined.

    One must look at the situation on Earth from an uninvolved 3rd party perspective. Everything humans do is just a form of complex social hierarchy like any other animals. The primary form if display is the barbaric primitivism of collecting the fundamental means of survival; wealth. There is little incentive to display in other more advanced forms like reputation (academia/film industry), or merit (Olympics/military), within the broader population. One can behave terribly and ameliorate a massive share of the real cost using the environmental container to distribute the tax. In space, that is simply not possible. Sustainability is only possible within the elemental cycles. Existence becomes the driving factor. The economy of social hierarchy instead shifts to more advanced forms such as merit and reputation. The most fundamental resource and struggle becomes the heat budget in most instances. This fundamental shift is very important to future history as it creates the technology and engineering mindset that the environmental container is not a valid unlimited resource. Once the technology exists at smaller scales in space, it can be implemented at greater scale on Earth. The financial burden to iterate this tech and refine it to the point where it can be practical on Earth with little cost increase is simply not viable at all, not even for government programs. The big difference is M-type asteroids. Few talk about this, but elemental resource scarcity on any round planet is due to gravitational differentiation. The moment humans access a large M-type astroid (the core of a differentiated planetesimal that has broken up), all wealth accessed in the Holocene is basically irrelevant. The moment that happens, within a generation there will be space colonies. Everything else happening in space is basically taking this into context. Japan in leading the way on prospecting and mining exploration at the moment. They are the most relevant group to watch at the moment.




  • I am surprised it took you this long.

    The next step in this evolutionary thinking is simple. Buying hardware specs is a fool’s folly. I don’t compare hardware. Ads and marketing are totally nonsense and not worth even a slight glance. The ONLY thing that matters is what open source projects exist and what hardware do they support well. This is how I shop. Open Source or F.O.


  • My life is on a trajectory to homelessness with disability and a system that refuses to help me. This is me, in the future, being traumatized, abused, and dying in a gutter somewhere while being criminalized because a political refugee from the other side of the world had to have a driver’s license but had the cognitive capacity of a third grader. I was just commuting to work on a bicycle, a racer, upper middle class guy, working in a chain of high end bike shops. I’m you on an extremely unlucky day. You’re only one bad day away from this exact same issue.




  • I’m well aware. Child Services is a criminal organisation that should be loathed by everyone. Every agent there is incentivised through commission to exploit the parties involved. They are worse than the police in atrocities and terrorism.

    Forcing someone to use an OS, platform, or app is placing something like Google or Amazon into a position as your judge/cop entering your home. It is more like forcing you to house them and their thousands of stalker business partners to collect data to manipulate and exploit you. It may sound very tin foil hat at first. I understand that people do not keep up with digital progress and change. Think about how often the internet is your primary source of information. There are only 2 web crawlers Google’s and Microsoft’s. There are no others that are relevant or useful any more. All search engines query one of these two databases either directly or through their API. This is the major massive information bottleneck of concern. If you follow so far, here is the kicker, your search results are not deterministic. Two people searching for the exact same thing on two different devices at the same time, will get different results. The information you see is biased and cherry picked. This is why the data has been collected. That data is a fundamental part of your person. It is bought and sold to manipulate you in the present age. This is a coup against democracy. Back in the first 3 years of primary school you should have learned the 3 pillars of democracy: Legislative, Judicial, and the free Press for a well informed public. There are 6 entities in control of all news media and all are owned by billionaires with anti democratic agendas. The internet is the last refuge of real democracy of any kind. This is the fundamental reason it matters and why free software matters. This is actually the front line of the fight to have any form of free information and democratic right of autonomy. The moment this last refuge is snuffed out, the entire house of cards will fall and the neo dark ages will truly begin. This mirrors the history of feudalism 1:1. Anyone asking you to trust them on this level is looking to enslave you. That is the endgame of this issue. The goal is not to make you a slave in name. The goal is to alter the meaning of the word citizen to cause the term to be functionally interchangeable.