Vincent Cloutier @vincent@librem.one

1/ A rare disagree w/ the great Matt Levine. Crypto is not illegal like meth is. Crypto is under the same regime like TradFi, according to the SEC itself.

It would be deeply odd if the Chair of the SEC had never bought a single share of stock nor invested in a mutual fund.

@video_manager @dlakelan @marklemley

Stable Diffusion (as used by StabilityAI) has been trained on billions of images, each of which typically requires over a million bits ( 3×8×512×512 > 10⁶ ) to "store" in a way where you can recreate the image.

So if Stable Diffusion were copying the images, it would need at least a quadrillion bits for reasonable quality. (10⁹×10⁶=10¹⁵)

Instead, Stable Diffusion is conditioning less than one billion parameters, so the whole model needs less than 64 billion bits. (6.4×10¹⁰)

That's a ratio of less than 0.000064 model bits stored per input bit. Is it likely that it is storing 0.0064% of every image? No. It is conditioning the model to distinguish between "art" and "noise" and to be able to make input noise look more like the concepts of art that it has been trained on. One can imagine all possible 512×512 images lying in a 786432-dimensional space with the "art" images clustered together in a hard-to-imagine shape. The 890 million parameters of the model are about this shape and how parts of it are associated with certain keywords, not about recreating any particular image.

Futurama's most lasting contribution to our culture? I think maybe "Technically correct — the best kind of correct!"

Important lesson for social movements:
You don't need to use the brick, but you must have one

#Valve #Proton 8.0-1 Published With More #Windows Games Now Running On #Linux #Steam Play #SteamDeck

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Proton-8.0-1

Every once in a while a top-notch observation disguised as a meme comes around, and I think this is one.

I think we tend to overestimate the importance of software design as the main factor in explaining why social media feels “good” to us while underestimating the importance of good people posting good things. This comes to mind as folks wonder if Bluesky or Substack Notes or whatever new platform might be more “user friendly” than Mastodon and then therefore definitely “better.”

@vincent Thanks for https://bird.makeup/ the service is much faster than some others. I like it very much. Threw a few bucks in the hat 🤠

the drm driver works as well and I (re-)discovered one not so terrible use case for touchbar display:
move the kde’s panel to the touchbar, see the mockup in the picture. It’s broken in interesting ways since kde handles it as second display. I got the panel only with tricks to use the full height, applications are not opened on the main display.
It would require integration as auxiliary display.

Airbnb

Waterbnb

Firebnb

Earthbnb

Long ago, the four bed-and-breakfasts lived in harmony

Everything changed when the Firebnb attacked

Well, that's a first.

Achievement unlocked: I have been rickrolled in an academic paper.

Source: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.06035.pdf