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Retard was a legitimate word, then it became a slur so we invented “special needs” which is now also a slur, so we have “intellectual disability” (which isn’t even appropriate as you can be retarded without having an intellectual disability) which will inevitably be used as a slur at some point.

I think most people are just getting tired by getting tone policed more and more.

No “Sowwy”. To the gulag with you. >:(

So, first of all, I barely ever had to work with d-bus directly - I used it a few times and it was fine to use.

Without any well-defined standards, a protocol is essentially useless and/or lawless

When I look for “D-Bus Specification”, I get this: https://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-specification.html. This LOOKS like a proper documentation of the standard to me.

the general lax nature of how endpoints are intended to be defined … is a significant factor for why many applications are the way they are

I feel like this is the same complaint people have about other things, like PHP for example. They see shitty PHP code (like wordpress) and are like: “Oh my god PHP is such a shitty language because this application is written like shit”. But I don’t blame a language, a framework or a protocol for the failures of the users. I don’t feel like an application that close to the system core has to be absolutely “dummy proof”. At some point, we should just expect that people know what they’re doing, and if they don’t, we should blame them, not the underlying technology.

Honestly 80% of the article is ranting about developer not writing proper documentation or following specs which is not the fault of D-Bus. The only point that I agree with is the lack of security features, but that has never really been a thing back then. Half of the shit that was developed was completely insecure. Not saying that’s a good thing btw. But that can be fixed.

Terraform and Puppet. Not very simple to get into, but extremely powerful and reliable.

How do you notify yourself about the status of a container?

I usually notice if a container or application is down because that usually results in something in my house not working. Sounds stupid, but I’m not hosting a hyper available cluster at home.

Is there a “quick” way to know if a container has healthcheck as a feature.

Check the documentation

Does healthcheck feature simply depend on the developer of each app, or the person building the container?

If the developer adds a healthcheck feature, you should use that. If there is none, you can always build one yourself. If it’s a web app, a simple HTTP request does the trick, just validate the returned HTML - if the status code is 200 and the output contains a certain string, it seems to be up. If it’s not a web app, like a database, a simple SELECT 1 on the database could tell you if it’s reachable or not.

Is it better to simply monitor the http(s) request to each service? (I believe this in my case would make Caddy a single point of failure for this kind of monitor).

If you only run a bunch of web services that you use on demand, monitoring the HTTP requests to each service is more than enough. Caddy being a single point of failure is not a problem because your caddy being dead still results in the service being unusable. And you will immediately know if caddy died or the service behind it because the error message looks different. If the upstream is dead, caddy returns a 502, if caddy is dead, you’ll get a “Connection timed out”

if anybody could access a technology that helps them by magically destroying lives in another country far away, would you say the same thing?

Might be cruel to say it, but that’s called “progress”. The world needs to continue to evolve - latching to old jobs seems silly. We got rid off of blacksmiths because we don’t have the need anymore. Europe once had a huge horse stable industry spanning the entirety of central and western europe. We don’t have that anymore either, because we now have cars. We also don’t have any telegraph operators or switchboard operators (necessary for long distance communication back then), elevator operators or laundry washwomen - these jobs have all been made obsolete by technical advancements.

“It would be silly to ignore it as it makes things easier for me” seems quite short-sighted to me.

I think quite the opposite - it’s the long-sighted better option. Progress is never good for those negatively affected in the short term, but we can’t keep jobs around that aren’t really necessary anymore just for the sake of those people having a job.

And in this particular case, there’s not even any loss involved. They used their voice to train an AI, it was explicity part of the contract and they got paid for it. I honestly do not see the problem.

Don’t tell me they HAD to use genAI instead of paying those voice actors for reshoot to begin with.

The didn’t have to, but it certainly makes it easier. And I find it silly to not use a technology that makes something easier if you have it available. That’s like a farmer plowing his field by hand instead of using a tractor.

But the base of this model is to be capable of understanding how any voice works in order to copy how a specific voice work.

First of all, we had Text-To-Speech way before any kind of generative AI. In germany, we had speech synthesized announcements on railway stations for like 15 years at least. Like this here: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AuIkJ_UGltI. We also had vocaloids for decades now. So it’s wrong to assume we had no idea how voices work before AI.

Second, I get your stance on “I’m not using AI because somewhere up the chain it was developed by morally ambiguous ways”, but I don’t think that makes anything better. You should rate the current use-case, not something that happened earlier in the production chain. AI in itself is not bad. If used properly, it’s an incredibly helpful tool. There’s other and much better hills to die on imo.

From https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/arc-raiders-use-of-ai-highlights-the-tension-and-confusion-over-where-machine-learning-ends-and-generative-ai-begins/

Watkins, speaking to PCGamesN, elaborated that the text-to-speech always starts with a voice actor: “It’s part of their contract that we use it [AI] for this purpose, and that allows us to do things like our ping system, where it’s capable of saying every single item name, every single location name, and compass directions. That’s how we can get that without needing to have someone come in every time we create a new item for the game.”

So no, they are not “stealing” voices. Their contracts explicity states that they are training the model. So they are getting paid, which in conclusion rules out “stealing”.

Also, from your video:

But to my understanding

Rarely ever good if a sentence starts with “To my understanding”

the AI tools Embark uses to then synthesize the rest of the performance come from models that are trained on millions of other voice actors that have been stolen from in the way that all generative AI models steal from artists.

No, that’s the whole point of models that are trained on a single voice - you do NOT use other voice actors because that would completely muddy the voice. The models are trained on a singular voice to mimic that person perfectly. Using other voices is like asking someone to cook a potato soup for you and then you toss in tomato and paprika.

AI is a tool, and a good one if it’s used properly. And this is definitely a good use case.

If you really want to make a point against AI, stop using windows as they are trying to push AI bullshit into everything.

Comparing people living in a war scenario to trans people might be the most unhinged thing I’ve heard today tbh.

If you’re trying to imply that I’m hating trans people, nah - I generally support individuals doing what they want as long as they won’t harm someone. I just think the people on there are amongst the most aggressive and awful people I’ve met on lemmy/piefed so far that will try to ruin your life over minor disagreements, which is why I’m mostly ignoring the people from that instance.

I can assure you, you will never need them.

I got a USB stick with ventoy installed, got a gparted and an arch linux iso on that thing, I do use those regularly.

I think by “pulling support” he means that they will no longer support the instance if there are bugs or problems occurring. If you’re technically savvy enough, you can probably get by without their support.

They absolutely are imo. I think I had way more unpleasant experiences with those freaks than I had with hexbear and .ml combined.

There is an austrian pastry called “Punschkrapfen”. That is a great analogy for blahaj. Pink on the outside, brown on the inside.

Any major instance should’ve defederated from this shithole a long time ago, together with hexbear and blahaj. Those instances are more of a toxic cesspool than the average league of legends lobby.

Catch me if you can, cunts.

Even the oldest, sickest pet will still make an effort to keep themselves alive however they can: eating, drinking water, moving out of the way of danger, etc.

That’s wrong. Especially old cats are very prone to just not eat when they’re old and sick.

That user agent would make them easily identifiable and therefore blockable. It’s more likely that they are trying to hide as a legitimate user.

I would expect AI scrapers to fake a windows user-agent tbh.

This is what too much windows does to your brain kids.