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Framework (2nd Gen) Event is live on February 25th in c/framework
[–] canadaduane 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's just a guess, but zen & yoga are often related in Western culture because of the way Buddhism and Hinduism were introduced together in the West.

Who here does NOT have intrusive thoughts? in c/[email protected]
[–] canadaduane 3 points 2 weeks ago

I don't think I have intrusive thoughts. I'm happy, generally pretty creative (hobbies, coding, etc.). Sometimes politics and world affairs get me down, but I don't feel like they are "intrusive", more like affecting my mood. I like how /u/[email protected] put it--I kind of let my mind do whatever it does, and I try to be an observer of what unfolds. I think meditation practice has helped with this practice (Vipassana or Insight meditation specifically).

How do you, or do you vet if a software will paywall features or "enshittify"? in c/[email protected]
[–] canadaduane 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Look for escape hatches. I run a self-hosted Cloudron server. The software I host on my home server is FOSS via Cloudron, but Cloudron itself is a service that keeps each of the FOSS apps up to date with security upgrades and data migrations when necessary. It's a huge boon to running a self-hosted server.

But when it comes down to it, they could potentially close up somehow (new leadership, get bought out, shut down etc.) They've left an escape hatch though--you can bundle and build your own apps, with a CloudronManifest.json etc. This would allow me to continue to run and update software if I absolutely needed to, without their support.

What determines whether people are likely to purposely (but mistakenly) put two words together (without a space)? in c/[email protected]
[–] canadaduane 3 points 2 weeks ago

theinternet.com

Framework (2nd Gen) Event is live on February 25th in c/framework
[–] canadaduane 1 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Image hints (based on image names):

  • wave emoji
  • color wheel
  • yoga
  • lightning emoji
  • lan party
  • game pad
  • cheetos

My guess:

Oh hi! We've been working on something with customizable colors and an AMD Ryzen CPU, something fast with official Thunderbolt support, and something worthy of gaming. Find out live on Feb 25th at 10:30am PST at the Framework (2nd Gen) Event.

DeepSeek Proves It: Open Source is the Secret to Dominating Tech Markets (and Wall Street has it wrong). in c/[email protected]
[–] canadaduane 32 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

It's tricky. There is code involved, and the code is open source. There is a neural net involved, and it is released as open weights. The part that is not available is the "input" that went into the training. This seems to be a common way in which models are released as both "open source" and "open weights", but you wouldn't necessarily be able to replicate the outcome with $5M or whatever it takes to train the foundation model, since you'd have to guess about what they used as their input training corpus.

Why do some laws exist if everyone is expected to just break them? in c/[email protected]
Chinese mercenary in the Russian army begins to regret his life choices. in c/[email protected]
[–] canadaduane 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I recall seeing this video a few months ago--possibly last winter.

Former X Employee: "Elon Musk's and X's Role in 2024 Election Interference" in c/[email protected]
[–] canadaduane 1 points 1 month ago

I see. Yeah, I agree with you there.

Former X Employee: "Elon Musk's and X's Role in 2024 Election Interference" in c/[email protected]
[–] canadaduane 5 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I think you're right circa a few years ago. However, as someone working in AI, I don't think it is true any longer. I'm not saying the substack article is legit, btw, just that the fulcrum has shifted--fewer people can now do much more, aided by algorithms and boosted by AI system prompts. Especially if it's a group internal to a company that has database access etc.

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A DIY e-ink module for the Framework 16 (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 month ago by canadaduane to c/framework
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I saw this on the reddit community and just had to post! If there's a giant "this computer is mine" reason to get a Framework computer, this might be proof of it!

Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries? in c/[email protected]
[–] canadaduane 2 points 1 month ago

I do work with LLMs, and I respect your opinion. I suspect if we could meet and chat for an hour, we'd understand each other better.

But despite the bad, I also see a great deal of good that can come from LLMs, and AI in general. I appreciated what Sal Khan (Khan Academy) had to say about the big picture view:

There's folks who take a more pessimistic view of AI, they say this is scary, there's all these dystopian scenarios, we maybe want to slow down, we want to pause. On the other side, there are the more optimistic folks that say, well, we've gone through inflection points before, we've gone through the Industrial Revolution. It was scary, but it all kind of worked out.

And what I'd argue right now is I don't think this is like a flip of a coin or this is something where we'll just have to, like, wait and see which way it turns out. I think everyone here and beyond, we are active participants in this decision. I'm pretty convinced that the first line of reasoning is actually almost a self-fulfilling prophecy, that if we act with fear and if we say, "Hey, we've just got to stop doing this stuff," what's really going to happen is the rule followers might pause, might slow down, but the rule breakers--as Alexander [Wang] mentioned--the totalitarian governments, the criminal organizations, they're only going to accelerate. And that leads to what I am pretty convinced is the dystopian state, which is the good actors have worse AIs than the bad actors.

https://www.ted.com/talks/sal_khan_how_ai_could_save_not_destroy_education?subtitle=en

Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries? in c/[email protected]
[–] canadaduane 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

My daughter (15f) is an artist and I work at an AI company as a software engineer. We've had a lot of interesting debates. Most recently, she defined Art this way:

"Art is protest against automation."

We thought of some examples:

  • when cave artists made paintings in caves, perhaps they were in a sense protesting the automatic forces of nature that would have washed or eroded away their paintings if they had not sought out caves. By painting something that could outlast themselves, perhaps they wished to express, "I am here!"
  • when manufacturing and economic factors made kitsch art possible (cheap figurines, mass reprints, etc.), although more people had access to "art" there was also a sense of loss and blandness, like maybe now that we can afford art, this isn't art, actually?
  • when computers can produce images that look beautiful in some way or another, maybe this pushes the artist within each of us to find new ground where economic reproducibility can't reach, and where we can continue the story of protest where originality can stake a claim on the ever-unfolding nature of what it means to be human.

I defined Economics this way:

"Economics is the automation of what nature does not provide."

An example:

  • long ago, nature automated the creation of apples. People picked free apples, and there was no credit card machine. But humans wanted more apples, and more varieties of apples, and tastier varieties that nature wouldn't make soon enough. So humans created jobs--someone to make apple varieties faster than nature, and someone to plant more apple trees than nature, and someone to pick all of the apples that nature was happy to let rot on the ground as part of its slow orchard re-planting process.

Jobs are created in one of two ways: either by destroying the ability to automatically create things (destroying looms, maybe), or by making people want new things (e.g. the creation of jobs around farming Eve Online Interstellar Kredits). Whenever an artist creates something new that has value, an investor will want to automate its creation.

Where Art and Economics fight is over automation: Art wants to find territory that cannot be automated. Economics wants to discover ways to efficiently automate anything desirable. As long as humans live in groups, I suppose this cycle does not have an end.

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Cory Doctorow's Framework Laptop (www.greymatter.show)
submitted 2 months ago by canadaduane to c/framework
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Cory Doctorow is a champion of right-to-repair, digital freedom, and consumer rights. You may have heard of a term he coined a couple of years ago--"enshittification" to describe the pattern where SaaS companies degrade the quality of their service once you're locked in.

Anyway, he was on this Greymatter podcast recently--It's cool to hear that he has a Framework 13" laptop and has repaired it and upgraded it multiple times!

https://www.greymatter.show/episodes/s1e109-cory-doctorow-the-intersection-of-storytelling-and-technology

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Proper Alt-Tab is coming! (self.pop_os)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by canadaduane to c/[email protected]
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This has been killing me in Cosmic as I daily drive the alpha--the Alt-Tab functionality up until now has not cycled through most recently focused apps--rather, it has used a static list in the launcher that seems to be based on app launch order.

Not any longer! Two PRs will soon land from wash2, which continues the work of wizznokes (who started on this feature nearly 6 months ago), making recency-based alt-tab work!!

You'd think it's an easy task, but there are, afaiu several subtle things involved, including the need to create a protocol for cosmic-comp for active workspace combined with active app, so cosmic-launcher would be aware of and able to switch among workspaces, depending on circumstances of the most recently focused app.

I just pulled the branches behind these PRs and compiled and tested. What a beautiful sight to behold! Thank you all who were involved!

While I'm not involved directly with development, if I were to make a guess, I'd think these will reach the staging servers and be released this coming week if you're following popdev master (sudo apt-manage add popdev:master).

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Who are we and how do we describe ourselves to visitors of this community? (self.framework)
submitted 2 months ago by canadaduane to c/framework
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Hey so it looks like the original creators and mods of this community deleted their accounts, which explains the mystery of their not having said anything for some time :)

The admin of lemmy.ca has made me moderator for now. I hope in the future we'll see others step in to the role as well, as they are willing and able.

I've updated the logo to a higher res (official) image, and added a short community sidebar explainer as follows:

An unofficial community of enthusiasts and fans of the Framework hardware company, known for its modular laptops and other products.

Does that represent us? Any thoughts or additions to consider?

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How do I get in touch with a specific community mod? (self.lemmy_ca_support)
 

I've been posting at https://lemmy.ca/c/framework on and off over the past couple of months and the community is growing. However, I don't know the mods, they haven't said anything, and I can't contact them (when I visit their pages, the pages are blank?)

Since it's a new community, I have some faith in strangers of good will, but I'd prefer to establish some kind of rapport or something with the mods in case I've completely misunderstood their intent in creating the community, and to establish some basic ideas around moderation etc.

How does this communication aspect on Lemmy work? Thanks.

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Is it easier to teach your kids about computers with a Framework laptop? (self.framework)
submitted 2 months ago by canadaduane to c/framework
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I've been surprised at how hands-on disassembly makes my daughter understand computers better. The fact that she can pull out the memory or SDD, or point to the giant battery, or ask what's under the fan seems to have made her much more curious and interested in learning about computers.

Has anyone else had a teaching moment through being able to open up their laptop easily?

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What did your Framework laptop "unlock" for you? (self.framework)
submitted 3 months ago by canadaduane to c/framework
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I'm curious if the swappable ports, upgradable and repairable hardware, or some other aspect of the laptop design unlocked something specific for you?

For example: I was surprised to find out that gaming was easier with my mouse when I had the option to move the old USB-A port to the left-hand side, so the mouse cord loops around the back of the laptop and doesn't get in the way. I know, I could get a cordless mouse, but I guess I like classic hardware :D

Another example: There was a bug in the Linux kernel a year or two ago where high DPI screens would go dark intermittently when you had only 1 memory stick (SO-DIMM) in single-channel mode. I think they eventually fixed it, but to speed things up and get a working system for myself right away, I was able to order a 2nd SO-DIMM module and upgrade to 64GB of RAM in dual-channel mode. Gratefully, the problem was solved.

If you have a Framework, have you had similar or perhaps weirder unlocks?

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What's our Lemmy + Framework niche? (self.framework)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by canadaduane to c/framework
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I'm curious what you think our niche is here. There're obviously some much larger communities that focus on Framework hardware. But who are we, and why are we here?

For me, I'm trying to break my Reddit addiction and want to contribute my knowledge to the commons, rather than one corporation's pocketbook.

When I first bought my Framework, I started https://linuxtouchpad.org/ to organize and learn about how to improve Linux support for its touchpad. I feel like I helped a little bit, but not as much as I would have liked.

Intros? Why are you here?

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When and how does Framework refresh its marketplace stock? (frame.work)
submitted 3 months ago by canadaduane to c/framework
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I've been waiting for a few months for the marketplace to get an International English Linux keyboard in stock, as well as the 61Wh battery (both for 13") to upgrade.

Does anyone know what their intent is there? Do you just wait for a bunch of people to batch up with the "Notify Me" list, or do they intend to just keep a few of everything in stock and it's been a bad luck streak for me?

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What's your favorite OS on Framework? (self.framework)
submitted 4 months ago by canadaduane to c/framework
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If you're running Windows, what version and why? If Linux, what distro?

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Google crouches low, waiting for the right moment to pounce (lemmy.ca)
 
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Why are cosmic apps so slow to load? (self.pop_os)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by canadaduane to c/[email protected]
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My laptop is running modern hardware with NVME drive and has 64GB of RAM. Running Pop!_OS 22.04 with Gnome/Wayland.

When I launch the cosmic-store or cosmic-edit (for example) via command line or launcher, each takes about 25 seconds for its app window to load. Loading the Pop Shop in the same fashion takes less than 1 second.

I saw a few lines indicating files couldn't be opened, and thought at first maybe my ulimit was set incorrectly, but there is plenty of headroom on my user (soft limit: 4096, hard limit: 1048576).

I do see a handful of logs that look questionable:

May 04 07:50:59 rosie systemd[2109]: app-gnome-com.system76.CosmicEdit-17126.scope: Couldn't move process 17126 to requested cgroup '/user.slice/user-1000.slice/[email protected]/app.slice/app-gnome-com.system76.CosmicEdit-17126.scope': No such process
May 04 07:50:59 rosie systemd[2109]: app-gnome-com.system76.CosmicEdit-17126.scope: Failed to add PIDs to scope's control group: No such process
May 04 07:50:59 rosie systemd[2109]: app-gnome-com.system76.CosmicEdit-17126.scope: Failed with result 'resources'.
░░ Subject: Unit failed
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: http://www.ubuntu.com/support
░░ 
░░ The unit UNIT has entered the 'failed' state with result 'resources'.
May 04 07:50:59 rosie systemd[2109]: Failed to start Application launched by gnome-shell.

What could be causing the cosmic apps to load so slowly?

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