There are a couple of prpeertube creators that make short form content
I think it’s worth considering a model where one might be expected to provide hosting for their own video. Certainly not necessary now but probably will be if/when video on fedi takes off
This is super exciting. I think one of the things a lot of people are missing here is the potential for wikis to augment existing fediverse communities. Reddit’s killer feature has always been the massive treasure trove of information for hobbyists and niche interests. There is huge potential in the fediverse to take advantage of that sort of natural collaborative knowledge building process.
It’s normal that there will be forks and alternatives
This is not the sentiment you have previously expressed in direct response to these forks and alternatives. Thinking specifically about your activity in the sublinks announcement posts.
I am not sure I’d be using any mass communication platform that is primarily developed and/or funded by any government.
One could argue you’re using one now.
Biden is the fascist from the other party.
Biden is in no way, shape, or form a fascist. Particularly in the context of a Trump ascendancy.
Looks like we’ve been making this stuff since 2006 and at decent enough volumes since then.
About 10 km of REBCO was delivered by SuperPower that year in the world’s first manufacturing demonstration to construct a 30 m long power transmission cable that was installed in the power grid
for users to migrate it could be dead on arrival
Sublinks isn’t meant to appeal to users, it’s meant to appeal to admins.
A cohesive culture has definitely formed distinct from the rest of the fediverse. I think microblogging as a paradigm kind of lends itself to this but Lemmy certainly has a distinct culture as well.
While true, it’s important to remember that 1.5 was the goal for 2050 (as a 30 year average). That seems fairly unlikely at this point
I think this is an incredibly outdated take. Python is just about the best general-purpose interpreted language out there right now.
I would say yes, although there is the slim possibility that these few years are an outlier. No serious person should count on it, however, because the consequences of being wrong in spite of what we’re seeing are downright apocalyptic.
To address the article a little more directly: it’s notable that the article begins with Sam Altman’s take on the subject. His feelings are based on two fundamentally flawed premises:
2 is ridiculous just on the face of it, but I think folks may have a harder time understanding why 1 is problematic. It is true that OpenAIs business model essentializes the idea that these models can’t ever be run locally, but the incentive to use their cloud services are quickly diminishing as smaller, local models catch up. This cycle will likely continue until local models are good enough to serve the needs of the vast majority of people, especially as specialized hardware makes it’s way into more and more consumer devices.
The costs are significant and growing but we should put some things into perspective to really tackle the problem efficiently. As an individual, heavy usage of these tools (something like 1000 images generated) is still roughly the same level of emissions as driving across town and generating text is pretty much negligible in all scenarios.
Where we really need to be concerned is video generation (which could easily blow current energy usage out of the water) and water usage in these massive data centers. However, most of the current research on the subject does a pretty poor job of separating water usage for “AI” and general usage. This is why the next step is enforcing transparency so we can get a picture of how things are shaping up as this technology develops.
All that said, there are some pretty low hanging fruit when it comes to improving efficiency. A lot of these models are essentially first-passes on a project and efficiency will improve simply as they start to target edge and local models. Similarly, these water cooling systems are predicated on some fairly wasteful ideas, namely that cool fresh water is abundant and does not warrant preservation. Simply factoring in that this is clearly no longer the case will go a long way towards reducing that usage.
I believe that’s 900 active servers, not users.
Nope. That’s 418k total. 38k active
They’re on Mastodon and Misskey for the most part.
I thought they fixed the a.gup.pe groups recently?
Regarding Sup: dansup has mentioned that he’s put the project on hold until the new EU guidelines around interoperability (targeting whatsapp) are available.