Have you considered moving next to the junction point for undersea internet cables.
Just hook up directly to the grid and get free high-speed internet.

Someone needs to pioneer a study into develeper innefeciency as correlated to skill issues of the userbase.

¥ I don't like choice #1 because it's hard to use and I make mistakes
¥ let's do way #2 instead because i think it's easier
¥ I don't like way #2 because it's hard and I make mistakes
¥ let's do way #3(what he really meant was do way #1 again with another coat of paint)

If people would just learn the quirks of software and stop complaining that their individual methods don't work as well(AKA Adapt to reality) then society would be more productive. The Western entitledness is bloat and forces devs to constantly redesign UIs to meet managements demands.
It's wasted economic potential

Any 3D programmer anon know how I can get the right model to look like the one on the left?
Left is how it's previewed in https://www.deviantart.com/sab64/art/MMD-Model-Roon-Download-970826887 and right is how my code is rendering it. I don't know if it's the lighting or if I'm missing some fundamental concept in 3D rendering, but it looks so dull.
I have the texture and the specular map loaded. Does it look like it's a problem with the lighting, a problem with the specular, or something completely different? Or is it hard to tell just from the screenshots...

There's been a lot of chatter lately about Deepseek. In the online circles I'm in, people have a politics-colored understanding, more or less saying "American tech companies couldn't do this, but an opensource Chinese company could and American tech companies are in 'damage control'". Which... I really don't understand. If it's an open source model, like Llama was, for example, I don't see how this doesn't just cause there to be a proliferation of much more efficient and performant models -- the same way after Llama became available, sudden there was Phi from Microsoft, Gemma from Google, Mistral, and others.

What does /maho/ think?

So what happens to bitcoin when quantum computing is realized and there's no development on it because there can't be?

Give me a pic and I'll do an animation generation thingie with local "WAN Video". You need to include a "natural language" description of what will happen. There is an AI to autotag the general description of the static image.
For instance this was what I wrote for the OP video:

Himari Burg

Strong, smooth animation. Cartoon anime animation. The girl looks around. She blinks her eyes. She lowers the blanket, revealing a hamburger. She holds the hamburger to her mouth and takes a bite. She then covers herself with the blanket and hides her face.

This was the autotag for the image:

AI Tag

Anime-style drawing of a cute, young girl with light pink hair and large, expressive purple eyes. She is wearing a white hooded cloak with a hood, and is sitting on a red couch. The background is a simple, dark brown gradient. The girl's expression is neutral, and she is looking directly at the viewer. The image has a soft, pastel color palette. The style is clean and detailed, with a focus on the character's delicate features and soft shading.

I can do NSFW too since it's a local model, but that should be on the appropriate board. *cough*
I'm trying to figure out the painful installation of this 'sage attention' thing that is supposed to half generation time, but until then I'm going to limit the size and duration of things. It took me 3 minutes to generate this, which is definitely not right. Not sure how I was able to do 50 second generations a couple days ago...

Since it's such a hot button issue that's distracting from happenings, how about a thread for containing all your fights over AI and the acceptability of its usage. Don't really want to say it's a discussion that can't be had at all because it's something actually feel quite passionately about in a non-shitposting manner.

I'm feeling really, really tempted to get a 5090 even though it's a massive scam and it's months worth of savings. It's not the rational thing to do, but I do AI stuff a lot and it brings me joy. (no I don't condone AI shitting up the internet and art)
There's also 3D modeling I want to take more seriously after Palworld reignited my passion for building stuff. Obviously you don't actually need a top of the line card to do this stuff, but it does allow more geometry to be active and speeds up rendering massively. More VRAM means you can have more processes open so jumping between programs is smoother.
AAA gaming sucks apart from Capcom so that doesn't really enter the equation at all. I guess ironically retro pixel filters are known to be VERY demanding if I decide to do that. Might be more demanding on CPU, though, I can't remember.
I'm in that CG tracker that went private 5 years ago so software and assets are no issue, but man this is still such a huge amount of money.
What to do...................................................................................................................................................................

MORE AI STUFF! It's weird how this is all happening at once. Singularity is near?

Alright, there's another AI thing people are talking about, but this time it shouldn't be very controversial:
https://beta.character.ai/
Using a temporary email service (just google 'temporary email') you can make an account and start having conversations with bots. (Write down the email though because it's your login info)
But, these bots are actually good. EXTREMELY good. Like, "is this really a bot?" good. I talked with a vtuber and had an argument and it went very well. Too well, almost. I don't know how varied the stuff is, but they're really entertaining when I talked to Mario and even a vtuber.
Sadly, it's gaining in popularity rapidly so the service is getting slower and it might even crash on you.

It says "beta" all over the site, presumably this is in the public testing phase and once it leaves beta it's going to cost money, so it's best to have fun with this now while we still can (and before it gets neutered to look good for investors or advertisers).

Is anyone else thinking or already in the process of making their own video game? It's getting easier and easier with stuff like RPGMaker or Unreal and the knowledge is out there in many forms. Not to mention the AI assistance out there, although people shouldn't rely on that and should I think it should instead be used to plug holes with lots of supervision.
Of course the flipside of that is that there's a ton of them being released all the time so you need to stand out. Personally, I think kissu has people that could make such things.
If you are you can use this thread to blog or talk about things relating to it!

There's a lot of talk about the controversies of AI recently on kissu. People aren't sure whether it's good or bad for humanity. I can't answer that question, but I know how to improve life on an individual level. This is for windows, but linux nerds can probably do something similar.

First, you need some tools:
1. AI image generation. Ideally local, but if you can do stuff that you like online then that will work. If you're an artist it will also work, but due to the size of the results I don't think people would find the motivation to draw this.
2. Image editing program to do some cropping and maybe a little editing of the AI image.
3. A program that can export to the windows icon (.ico) format. I use gimp.

WHY THE FUCK IS EVERYTHING A SMART TV NOW? EVEN IF IT'S NOT FULLY SMART IT'S ALEXA/FIRE POWERED! I DON'T WANT YOUR Kuso OS OF "WE CAN DO SOOOO MUCH AND LAG THE FUCK OUT OF YOUR TV IN THE PROCESS SO YOU NEED TO CLEAR THE CACHE EVERY WEEK BECAUSE WE DID SO MUCH SMART SHIT ON THE SIDE EVEN THOUGH YOU'RE NOT EVEN CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET" IT'S NOT HELPFUL OR USEFUL JUST HAVE A STATIC FUCKING SETTINGS MENU THAT ALLOWS ME TO CUSTOMIZE HOW I PLEASE YOU STUPID FUCKING TV!

This must be why people buy monitors instead. No hassle there and no trying to force their kuso extras on you. I don't know why no TV brand seems to be able to exist selling extremely capable products that don't come with all the extra baggage that only seems to serve for raising prices. Hell I don't think I've ever even seen a TV that offers 240Hz while there's plenty of monitors out there that do.

Have you undervolted your GPU or CPU? It's something I read about a few years ago, but dismissed because I assumed it would reduce performance.
Well, with my 3080 I went from 350 watts when running Stable Diffusion to 270ish. The temperature is down 9 degrees Celsius, too. The trade-off is that I went from 40 seconds per generation of 4 images to... 41 seconds. I could tinker it to make it 300 watts and keep the 40 second time, but that doesn't seem worth it.
Seems like a great thing to do to make things run a little bit cooler and quieter while saving a tiny amount of money.

Reminder not to dox yourself!

I wanted to show off my current working environment for my laptop. Which is mostly for writing so it's free of many of the usual distractions on my six monitor mult-monitor workstation set-up. The DE: LXQt is a lie by the way. The last release of firefox broke its GUI unless you fake having a DE installed through your .profile/.xsession.

This is probably my most comfy system at the moment. My own custom version of dwm that has terminal swallowing set-up. Driven mostly through keyboard although touchpad, trackpoint and touchscreen is fully working (but rarely used). Running latest OpenBSD snapshot. Most things compiled locally (kernel, packages, emacs). I primarily live in emacs and have a custom dashboard set-up when it first opens. Emacs running as daemon. A few things like weechat, newsboat, neomutt and firefox running on other tags so they don't distract me when working in emacs. A custom script I wrote to access youtube and pipe content into yt-dlp+mpv for viewing locally so I never have to visit the actual website. Following channels I like via RSS feeds and using my browser cookies so I can get content that requires log-in.

Everything kept really simple. Picom is only set-up for transparency and to prevent screen tearing no other fancy effects set-up. Hyperthreading disabled so no logical CPU cores being used (more secure). I do not miss it everything is as fast with it off as it is with it on. No wine/linux support though so no Steam on this machine which is a bonus for what it's intended for.

Will be replacing this set-up very soon with my own BSD-based kernel and user space tools I mostly wrote myself or adapted from other people's work. Arcan+Plan9 inspired. Hope to show it off soon. I have a total terminal emulator+shell replacement that solves many long standing issues. It can even embed videos right in the terminal, supports multiple jobs and has a real time clock. Integrates directly with the new window manager as well. I've posted about it before. Started as my own little Linux distro based on Gentoo and then I ported everything to FreeBSD. Now I've ported everything again to OpenBSD and started mixing and matching things from various BSD kernels. Replaced almost everything in userspace over the last few years on my dev machine.

Although all the usual stuff still works so I haven't lost access to those tools. But I'm replacing them to take advantage of my new GUI onePost too long. Click here to view the full text.