I assume that tool is using a collection of existing accounts to cast the votes? If so, can you just identify which accounts those are and report them to whatever server they are hosted on? I didn’t read the whole thread so maybe I’m missing some context.

I’ve seen you leave a lot of positive comments across multiple projects. I really appreciate the kind words and support.

I also made a matrix group chat recently with the other Lemmy/PieFed/Mbin client devs. I think you’re in a lot of the Matrix groups. I’ll add you if you’re interested.

So many people tell me I should do XYZ, yet not a single person has even attempted to open a pull request. Like if you’re so passionate about FOSS, open a pull request or fork my project if you really disagree with me.

The Mac app prompts you to update on launch when it sees a new release on GitHub. Except for versions 1.8.1 and 1.8.2 which I broke the update mechanism that checks GitHub releases.

I’m starting with the devices/distribution platforms I’m familiar with. I’m an iPhone user and I know my way around the App Store. I also do Google Play releases for my day job. I have to learn how to setup the other distribution methods. F-Droid will likely be next since a significant number of people have asked for it.

I know iOS + Lemmy is a weird combo, but that’s who I am. I love FOSS software and I also love Apple’s design language. So I’m starting from there, but I would like to remove any single point of failure (e.g. if Apple removed my app for some reason).

Not defending this, but it’s annoying because Google and all search engines results are being poisoned by AI written slop. It seems like LLMs may provide a better search experience, but it’s also the thing ruining the search experience.

I don’t really know what I’m talking about, but I imagine if AI slop is ruining search, it will also start to ruin itself when the current slop is used to train future LLMs. Basically I think AI will short circuit itself long term.

Now, will it short circuit itself enough for Microsoft to stop shoving it down our throats, probably not.

Luckily we’ve invited 10 new gadgets for you to make sure we meet our E-waste goals

Well obvious umbrella. It’s bad luck to open you in the house, and we don’t keep the fax machines outside.

The Mac App is currently distributed outside of the App Store via installer downloaded from GitHub. The build is singed by Apple, so you don’t get an unknown developer alert, but I could easily distribute an unsigned build. So I think that already checks the outside the App Store freedom box?

The iOS app however is distributed within the App Store. Is there a better option? PWA?

For Android, similar to the App Store, a lot of Lemmy people dislike the Play Store. From a very non scientific poll I conducted, I estimated there is a 3:2 ratio of F-Droid to Play Store Lemmy users.

So alternative methods of distribution are very important, and I intend to offer those. But you also can’t rule out App Store and Play Store. It would be nice to eventually offer 2 options for every platform, but alas I’m just one person with limited time.

I’ll look into it, but I can’t make any promises

I’ll be adding support to add your own server very soon. This will be in the update that adds PieFed support. Still doing a bunch of texting but maybe in two weeks.

Starting with the best: 8,2,3,4,6,7,5,1

I know they both have semi autonomous systems that don’t rely on lidar. The navigate on autopilot presentation comma gave years ago seemed very Tesla. Comma’s self driving capabilities seem to lag a couple years behind Tesla.

I like George Hotz and I know the Lemmy community prefers open source tech, so I wanted to bring some awareness to an alternative you can add to your current car. But I know very little about self driving tech. Maybe I’m wrong in calling them similar.

Everyone here should check out comma.ai’s open pilot. It is similar to Teslas self driving system, but it’s open source. Perfect Elon replacement. And since they tap into the sensors on your existing car, I imagine they could leverage lidar if more cars had those sensors.

They sell hardware that is designed to run open pilot. Last I checked it was $1k, which feels pretty reasonable compared to what Elon is charging.

To be fair, Elon probably wasn’t taking ketamine back when he made that decision. He made that decision all by himself :)

Like I said in my other comment, maybe I’m just really missing the obvious, but that wheel looks to be part of the food cart. You gotta remember phones have been doing computational photography as part of the image processing for years. Weird things can happen without any AI involvement

Maybe I’m really missing the obvious here, but I’m a little worried we will overcorrect at some point and start accusing everything of being AI. Especially as image models get better.

Hank Green gives a great example of this where a rocket landing that looks odd was misclassified by many as AI despite it being real

EDIT: I think the best alternative reason I can present for the weird part of the image is that it’s a screenshot of street maps. There are two images stitched together where the cart and cart meet. The cart is moving slow so it doesn’t make it to the second image, and the white car moves relative to the first car slightly in the second image, making the bumper weird. It does feel like I’m grasping here. It’s probably AI.

Maybe I’m wrong and my AI detection is bad, but the quality of the rest of the text in that image compared to the license plate makes me think this was just a shitty clone stamp cover up job to hide the and of the plate number.

Edit: upon further looking the power lines do seem weird. But I still think the text alone doesn’t give it away. But I haven’t kept up with image models this past year. I guess the text behaves differently now

Totally agree nuclear is a great tool but totally being used for the wrong purpose here. Use those power plants to solve our existing energy crisis before you crate an even bigger energy crisis.

it said good, not safe. It will still kill you but in a good way

I feel like I woke up in the stupidest timeline where climate change is about to kill us, we decide stupidly to 10x our power needs by shoving LLMs down everyone’s throats, and the only solution to stay private is to 10x our personal LLM usage by generating tons of noise about us just to stay private. So now we’re 100x ing everyone’s power usage and we’re going to die even sooner.

I think your idea is interesting – I was also thinking that same thing awhile back – but how tf did we get here.

I actually have production access for Google Play Store as of a few days ago. Just need to do screenshots and make the store listing look nice. Maybe in the next week or so.

I would like to explore F-Droid soon, but that will take me a bit longer.

Sorry for the delay. I’m full speed ahead on PieFed support right now, so that’s taking up most of my time.