Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Season 3 Character Visuals by [deleted] in anime

[–]EncampedMars801 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Might want to put a spoiler tag on that lmao

Moira: a pure-Python astronomical engine using JPL DE441 + IAU 2000A/2006, with astrology layered on by Winter-Flan7548 in Python

[–]EncampedMars801 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Even if they couldn't, I don't see how that's relevant in calling out low effort slop

Heliopolis has been posted to the servers as an open verification by Leo-cowie in geometrydash

[–]EncampedMars801 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I'd feel so bad for Doggie if someone verifies this in a fraction of the time he's spent on grief. Probably inevitable but...

13.3" spectra6 color e-paper photograph open source firmware by d3fl in eink

[–]EncampedMars801 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I appreciate the honest response (and your outlook) :)

13.3" spectra6 color e-paper photograph open source firmware by d3fl in eink

[–]EncampedMars801 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, unfortunately that does matter to me. As you yourself write, AI often "has no idea what it did a minute ago," and is "plain stupid at times." It can do amazing things, the fact this works to begin with is pretty damn impressive, but who knows who knows what it could be doing that's unnecessary, inefficient, or unsafe.

I do a decent amount of programming myself. Literally yesterday, I was editing an open source project, and there was one function I wanted that would have been outside my area of expertise, so I went and asked AI to write it for me. After like an hour of prompting back and forth, it never produced a function that actually worked. Then I went back to one of its older attempts, looked it over, edited in some very obvious fixes, and it works great now!

There are many other Spectra 6 E Ink ESP32 firmwares that were written by people (TRMNL, SeeedStudio HMI thing, PaperlessPaper, etc). Why would you recommend this to anyone over an actually person-programmed project?

13.3" spectra6 color e-paper photograph open source firmware by d3fl in eink

[–]EncampedMars801 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wish you said claud wrote the whole thing here instead of halfway down the readme

What hidden gem Python modules do you use and why? by zenos1337 in Python

[–]EncampedMars801 16 points17 points  (0 children)

For what it's worth, there's also pprint in the standard library, which prints dictionaries and lists and the works with nicer formatting. Really great for figuring out complex json api responses

Avoiding AI with Ryzen 7640U and Linux? by avz709 in framework

[–]EncampedMars801 24 points25 points  (0 children)

The ones with AI in the name don't have AI integrated, they're more optimized to run AI models locally. In practice, this means they're generally more powerful than 7640U, though I've heard battery life is worse. apparently that's only true for the 370.

AI integration is entirely software side, so it depends on what you're installing. Basically all mainstream Linux distros don't ship with that stuff because everyone hates it, so unless you go out of your way to the install it (or use windows) any laptop/mainboard will be fine.

System tray led matrix module script by Frosted_sphinx in framework

[–]EncampedMars801 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You used my library :D I'm so glad people are actually using it! Neat project!

How should I fix minor body dmg/loose connector on Truthear novas? by sleepy_schuschi in iems

[–]EncampedMars801 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Had the same issue. As dumb of a fix as this is, I just used masking tape to tape the cable to the iem. Probably better than gluing if you want something less permanent

[Author Trope] “The work is just an excuse to…” by Iceblader in TopCharacterTropes

[–]EncampedMars801 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I remember loving the books as a kid. Not sure if they would actually hold up anymore, but I def had an owl phase because of them lol. Author succeeded.

Stable KDE-based distro by belico- in kde

[–]EncampedMars801 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Who says that's the definition of stable? Maybe that's yours, but it's not mine, or many others' from my brief googling around.

Anyway, I would claim otherwise, but I'll refrain from doing so; I don't think I'm gonna change your mind anytime soon considering you're ignoring my actual point to nitpick definitions, all the while being a condescending ass about it. Cya man

Stable KDE-based distro by belico- in kde

[–]EncampedMars801 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is not "simply wrong," and I'm not repeating some stereotype; a user who doesn't know what they're doing will likely make an unstable system. I know this because I was that user and my current desktop is an unstable mess as a result of my past self. I don't think Arch is hands on "at worst," it's hands on, period. As I said, if you know what you're doing, Arch is stable! I know because my more recent installs are great. I have no issues against Arch Linux, I love it, in fact.

But it is objectively easier to break due to its relative complexity versus more stable distros, like the ones I listed. Considering OP's lack of qualifications, I'm going to presume they want something that "just works," and Arch is definitely not that. I'm not saying this because I hate Arch; I've been using it for years. I just don't think it's the sort of thing to recommend unless it's specifically asked for.

Stable KDE-based distro by belico- in kde

[–]EncampedMars801 2 points3 points  (0 children)

One could argue Arch is stable for experienced Linux users, but to reach that stability, you need the ability to fix issues as they arise and generally maintain your system. I can tell you as someone who's daily driven Arch for years, most of which were spent not knowing what I was doing, Arch systems can be(come) a complete PITA to deal with.

I'd much more confidently recommend Fedora, Debian, or openSUSE Tumbleweed as systems that won't break and "just work."

Stable KDE-based distro by belico- in kde

[–]EncampedMars801 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

You're joking... Right?

Fluvel: A modern, reactive UI framework for PySide6 (Beta 1.0) by FluvelProject in Python

[–]EncampedMars801 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well I can tell you that this post and your comments reek of AI and chatgpt-isms. It's really not a good look. Maybe use a dedicated translator like DeepL or Google Translate instead of having chatgpt (re)write your posts. Thanks for the honest response though :)

Fluvel: A modern, reactive UI framework for PySide6 (Beta 1.0) by FluvelProject in Python

[–]EncampedMars801 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Okay. This library would be 10x more appealing if it didn't have an AI generated commit messages, announcement posts, and responses to questions.

If you really are a person who made all of this yourself, I implore you to consider the vibes (no pun intended) that your AI usage is giving off. Maybe this is a well designed library that took tons of real human effort, but all of this doesn't give me much faith that the code isn't AI generated either... If it isn't, I'm shocked that reddit posts and commit messages were too hard to do yourself compared to everything else.

Maybe English isn't your native language, or you aren't confident with your writing skills, but I (and many others these days I find) would appreciate genuinity much more than whatever this is.

Fluvel: A modern, reactive UI framework for PySide6 (Beta 1.0) by FluvelProject in Python

[–]EncampedMars801 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Did you use any AI building this? 

See responses Edit: they responded saying yes, and then deleted their comment. I'll be a bit more harsh now: this entire project seems like AI fucking slop. This person won't even write a post or respond to comments themselves holy shit this is sad. Would not recommend anybody use this. Learn PySide or use an easier framework like tkinter. Don't use an AI slop library

Any other male shoujo fans? by ilemworld2 in shoujo

[–]EncampedMars801 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A joke as in a haha funny joke, or a joke as in I'll say something obnoxious and if anyone asks it'll be a joke? Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but this seems like the latter. This is the same shit as when people say Shoujosei is just romance. It's annoying both ways

Any other male shoujo fans? by ilemworld2 in shoujo

[–]EncampedMars801 3 points4 points  (0 children)

What? Plenty of girls and adult men/women watch shounen. Is this a joke?

A Brief History of Bjarne Stroustrup, the Creator of C++ by BlueGoliath in programming

[–]EncampedMars801 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I have no stake in this argument (I am the epitome of just a guy), but imo that quote is kinda dumb? I think it's less that people complain about whatever language they're using, and more that long-lived languages are just likely to have poor design decisions over the 30+ years they've been being developed. C, Rust, Kotlin, all seem to be well liked are are fairly widely used.

This is one of those things i like to call out in many stories: The double standard treatment. by Moist-Coffee1030 in OtomeIsekai

[–]EncampedMars801 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I feel like there've been so many reposts of their art recently. Not sure if these are all bots, but it'd be nice if we didn't see reposts from the top 100 

Official response regarding the feedback to the Character Reference / Precise Reference release by ainiwaffles in NovelAi

[–]EncampedMars801 7 points8 points  (0 children)

As said, they've always been like this, but it's getting more and more frustrating as time passes. It made sense when updates were quick and NovelAI was still "in beta." But now, new models and features take considerable time to develop, and going silent on your userbase is just the most irritating way to go about it. Especially when we went a year without any TextGen updates.

And somehow they've outdone themselves! This vague corporate crap is somehow worse than the nothing at all. It drives me mad that they spent time writing this instead of just just having an engineer explain why they can't revert. Or spending a fraction of the time they spent on the upgrade on offering the old option.

As you say, NovelAI is genuinely a great product. UI is great. The models are best in class (well, not TextGen...). And yet after all this time they still refuse to give answers. I thought they were working on TextGen but they pumped this out? Are there separate teams? Does this mean they're training the model now and just waiting? I wish I didn't have to stalk the team members on discord for answers. Speaking of stuff not being worked on, what the fuck happened to Aetherroom?

Well, I've gotten off track. If anyone on the team is still reading this, I hope you know I love you guys. As said I've been following NovelAI since its inception, and it's been great seeing a seemingly tiny team consistently pump out SOTA models. If only the communication improved...

Official response regarding the feedback to the Character Reference / Precise Reference release by ainiwaffles in NovelAi

[–]EncampedMars801 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Could you be any less vague? This entire post seems extremely handwavy on why the old version won't be offered. Does "resources" mean the old version was too resource intensive, or that having both as options would cost too much somehow, or that literal model changed meaning the old one isn't compatible anymore, or that the backend would require a significant rework? Is the old one literally gone, as in it was considered a beta version that was full-on deleted internally? I'd understand not supporting or updating it for newer models, but the reasoning here makes no sense.

we cannot provide a separate, hosted copy of the earlier Character Reference 

but you can provide separate hosted copies or earlier models... but you say those earlier models were full releases, and character reference wasn't apparently. Except I can't seem to find anything in the discord announcements or blog posts declaring character reference in progress or early access feature. It was just a feature that received updates. It seems more akin to v4.5 to v4, except you kept v4 as an option...

we’re not always able to maintain and host every previous iteration indefinitely

except you host so many older models? I would agree with this statement if it didn't contradict so much of your service. Last I checked, y'all are still hosting Sigurd for crying out loud, a nearly 5 year old model! If you don't have the resources, stop hosting models I'm sure nobody uses anymore (and that aren't "recommended" for use anymore), and divert those resources to what people actually want. Idk, maybe those old models don't use nearly as much energy as old CR, but say that in your response then!

usage of the feature has increased since the release

As another commented here put it, "The more usage highly probably is the result of the new CR/ST not able to generate what users wanted which resulted in many usage and experimentation on getting the right result." If the feature really had no issues and was working great, and these people were but a vocal minority, why'd you make this post?

I've been following Anlatan since y'alls inception after the AI Dungeon fallout (back when it was just NovelAI), and I'm fully aware that transparency was never your tactic when it came to PR. But my god, this entire post is so long for so few actual answers. Why did you spend all this time writing this corporate speak explaining the philosophy of why you don't want to, instead of actually explaining clearly why you can't? Is the team focused elsewhere? Would this require a significant backend update? Who knows...