Now who’s making fun of the green bubbles?

I don’t. I also don’t use Lemmy a lot, and I feel like my digital addiction has been fixed by a small margin.

Decent list, but is it just me, or does all of it sound like common knowledge?

I’ve used Spleeter CLI quite often, but I’ve also heard that there are better, open-source models out there that outperform the one that is used in Spleeter, unfortunately, neither is the pre-trained model, nor the project repo available - just an open-access paper.

This page also missed out on essential apps like Tesseract OCR which is a must-have.

Libgen and it’s alternative hostings are a god-send for people like me who can’t afford a single dime to buy books.

This smells like the Reddit drama. Are we going to see a mass exodus to Godot now?

ToxMod assesses the “tone, timbre, emotion, and context” of a phrase or conversation to determine whether a player is behaving in a harmful way.

Given how neural networks are considered black boxes, is there any specific counter-measures against false-positives? And what about the running costs of the model? Is it sustainable for the game company?

Not a doctor or a medical practitioner, but I’m not in favour of sports-drink from Prime, Gatorade and G-Fuel, owing to their unhealthy amount of sugar and caffeine, and would prefer the ORS electrolyte.

Tender coconut is pretty good, but you can also try overnight-soaked basil seed with raisins. Add sugar as per your serving, but raisins will provide you with sweetness anyway.

Another good recommendation is pomegranate juice or banana smoothie. You can also not go wrong with custard-apple milk shake, but it might be a little tiring to de-seed them.

I wish people simultaneously added their content to Peertube. My trust for big tech is at an all-time low.

I really wonder if it matters especially since the open source version may be coming out

I’d like to believe that Amazon folks might be drooling at this idea, but not for too long. In all honesty, BSL isn’t a bad license per se. If anything, it is better than a license that hides source code. To be exact, it’s a source-available license, just not open-source. Their earlier license was MPL, which is generally regarded as a better permissive open-source license. I’m more of a “prefers GNU, but can settle” type, so I don’t see any issue with it.

If you’re not an absolutist, you should not worry about this drama. You only have to choose which of the either team provides better service, and the direction the project takes in. The original maintainers are part of the company, and so in a way, I don’t see the value this fork adds - perhaps, it is a preventive measure for the worst case, just like Apple did with XNU. They get paid to write code, but the people putting their effort in a fork do not. Amazon might be forced to pay donations to full-time maintainers and contributors. Either way, it’s a win-win situation. People still use Elasticsearch, MongoDB and Redis, so this too, shall pass.

Not trying to defend Hashicorp, but you also have to understand that this is more and less our fault for using big-tech platforms.

Devs want convenient solution for the cloud, and we use tools from big-tech, at the cost of getting vendor-locked and also watching them exploit other open-source project.

Hashicorp, just like MongoDB and Elasticsearch were sick of Amazon raking in profits from these sources. These companies wouldn’t have gone to such lengths.

This is great actually. It will solve the issue for having to use multiple platforms. I don’t want to use GitHub, but I am forced to. Assuming that people understand the importance of this and start switching to federated Git hosts, just the way they ditched Reddit for several alternatives, it would destroy the GitHub monopoly.

The difference in income is by about 9-10 time. Salary for a NASA scientist can go in the range of ₹1 to 2 crores (converted from dollar to rupees). For a ISRO scientist however, they may earn in ₹10-15 lakhs.

I’ve made a comment explaining why the mission was so cost-effective, you can read it here. But yes, salary is not even one of the main reasons.

For people who are not able to understand lakhs and crores, it’s a part of the numbering system used in India. For the international numbering system equivalent, you can read this comment.

Except that the cost wasn’t lowered because of the labour. It has everything to do with how well-optimised the rocket launch was. And by well-optimised, I’m talking about extremely optimised launch.

The launch location was the most important factor here - SDSC (Satish Dhawan Space Centre), Sriharikota. This particular region allows a rocket to be launched in the eastern direction, taking advantage of the Earth’s rotation.

Sriharikota is also located closer to the equator, making it easier to break out into the space thanks to the extra centripetal force. Neither does the USA, China or Russia have that advantage. African nations in the future may have a lot of advantage, especially countries in the eastern coast like Egypt, Somalia and Ethiopia.

Another reason for the low cost was that the organisation had lots of experience sending launch vehicles to the outer space.

Some parts had to be outsourced from international companies, which may also add to making this mission not being cost-effective. By just saying that the wage of scientist was x times less, you’re invalidating the efforts of ISRO scientists in low-cost material research.

TL:DR; BOSS Linux’s failure makes me less hopeful about this being a success.

Unfortunately, this may not be a success if it follows the path of its predecessor. As an Indian, I’ve seen how BOSS Linux developed by CDAC turned out to be. This was supposed to replace Microsoft products starting with Linux, and then LibreOffice. This distro was a Ubuntu fork, and was always dated when I used it around the mid-2010s.

Ironically, for a dated system, it was never stable. And honestly, I never saw any benefit to using it - because it is a confused distro. It claimed to solve diverse problems, but it didn’t.

Can it compete with home workstation distros? No. With enterprise distros? No. How about bleeding-edge distros? No. How about educational distros? No. How about cybersecurity? Yet again, a big no. Why? Because it does everything so poorly.

Worst of all, CDAC doesn’t even share the source code, which is a complete violation of GPL-like license for Linux, GNOME project and other apps and services involved.

The Indian education system itself encourages Microsoft products, so this isn’t really a win. Windows and Office are taught to students from the first till the eight grade. They hardly play around console-like interface. I live in the most populous country and yet when most tech-literate people find me using Linux, they call me a “hacker”. Others simply refuse to get out of their Windows comfort zone.

This needs to be fixed at a grassroot level. Educate citizens about technology, about open-source, and make them feel comfortable around the same.

I would like to reclaim the word pariah, erase it’s existence and swap it with pariyah (pronounced purr-E-yeah), the plural form of pari (purr-E), meaning angels.

Pariah comes from the word Paraiyar (drummers). Paraiyar are a lower caste group from Tamil Nadu, a southern state in India, whose job revolved around drumming and witchcraft.

As if weaponization of this word from a caste to a slur wasn’t enough, the colonialist repurposed it, and made it international.

I can’t even imagine being a Paraiyar folks, and having to hear this word everyday.

If it helps, remove the word pariah from your vocabulary.

One way to possibly circumvent this is through an auto TLDR tool, but I’m not sure if this breaks another digital law.