mkiol
mkiol boosted:
2025-05-12

If you are blessed with AMD card and wanna play with machine learning tools well... then you are screwed because #ROCm is a pure crap at leas on Linux. AMD really rocks with everything else on Linux desktop but not with ml.

I was looking for #flux toolset that could run with llama.cpp and I found one: github.com/leejet/stable-diffu

It can run #flux and #stablediffusion with #Vulkan as a backend. Really impressive.

mkiol boosted:
Jason Turnerlefticus@mas.to
2025-02-25

I'm fascinated by how often AI autocomplete is both right and wrong.

It will often autocomplete the thing I intended, and it makes me say "oh good, I already implemented that function"

But then the IDE tells me there's no function by that name, and I realize the AI completed what I *wanted* not what I *had*.

I'm used to expecting the IDE to only autocomplete what actually exists.

mkiolmkiol
2024-12-30

I just watched and really enjoyed talk "io_uring, eBPF, XDP and AF_XDP".

media.ccc.de/v/38c3-iouring-eb

The presenter showed some techniques to 10x speed up network processing in Linux.

Very informative :)

mkiolmkiol
2024-12-29

4.7.0 is now available on !

Release highlights:
- Vulkan GPU acceleration (much faster STT with Intel, AMD or NVIDIA graphics cards)
- Rules for text transformations after STT or before TTS
- Echo mode (after STT text will be immediately read out)
- Many new languages ​​supported in Translator

Video presenting all the changes: youtu.be/cEht4Fts6Bo

Full changelog: github.com/mkiol/dsnote/releas

mkiol boosted:
daniel:// stenberg://bagder
2024-12-15

Remember: IDN is crazy. And just not just a little.

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/12/14

mkiol boosted:
2024-12-01

Today's inspirational message:

Cartoon by @alexkrokus

Four panels.

1. A person wakes up. They are tied up, and next to another person who is also tied up.

"w-w-what?! Where am I?"

2. There's a line of people tied to a railway track, just beyond a set of points. A man with a monocle and a top hat has his hand on the lever to operate the points, and there's a tram coming. On the other track, a pile of money bags.

"You're in the trolley problem."

3. Close-up on the man with his hand on the lever. There are money bags behind him, and he's about to decide whether to send the speeding tram crashing into the money bags on the track or the line of tied-up people on the other track. This isn't going to be a difficult decision.

Person who just woke up: "I thought I would be the one operating the lever."

4. The person tied up next to him: "No, that's someone else."
mkiol boosted:
Mike Sheldonmike@hendike.co.uk
2024-11-17

I've just released version 0.3 of Pied (https://pied.mikeasoft.com), my tool for making advanced text-to-speech voices work easily on Linux.

This release adds support for models with multiple sub-voices, providing access to hundreds of new voices. It also adds different qualities of model, fixes previews whilst downloading and fixes audio output detection when using sox.

#TextToSpeech #TTS #ScreenReader #Linux #Flutter

A screenshot of pied, showing a list of voices that can be downloaded and used for speech synthesis.
mkiol boosted:
2024-11-17

Today we have a really fun one, the developer of ZLUDA, the project bringing CUDA support to non-Nvidia GPUS, you know the one that AMD paid for and took down. #Nvidia #CUDA #AI

Video: youtube.com/watch?v=ze25Sie2gV

Audio: open.spotify.com/episode/764Qs

mkiolmkiol
2024-11-03

@revanmj ooo, to nawet działa lepiej niż się spodziewałem! To taka twoja sekretarka pytająca "a w jakiej sprawie?"

mkiolmkiol
2024-11-03

@revanmj "zsyłam na bota" - Dobrze mieć bota po swojej stronie :) Jedne z nielicznych zastosowań IA które akceptuję...

mkiol boosted:
2024-09-29

💾 Software-Tipp: Speech Note

Unfassbar gute Diktier-, Vorlese- und Übersetzungs-Software für Linux und Sailfish OS. Im Hintergrund läuft das, was die KI-Entwicklung heute kann - aber lokal, ohne Cloud, Lizenzen, Datenabfluss oder dergleichen. Man kann zwischen leistungsstarken, ressourcenhungrigen und kleineren Modellen wählen. Installation für Technik-Dummies wie mich, als Flatpak. Entdeckt in der aktuellen c't von @heiseonline.

1000 thanks, @mkiol. 🙏

github.com/mkiol/dsnote

#FOSS

mkiolmkiol
2024-09-29

@Lambo @heiseonline You're welcome. I'm glad it's useful :)

mkiolmkiol
2024-09-24

@darkhog this is definitely possible. I'm way too lazy to create a new app, but perhaps I could add something to Speech Note to support this use case. I will think about it :)

mkiolmkiol
2024-09-22

@darkhog do you have in mind a way to control the computer with your voice? For example, you say “open notepad” or “shutdown the system”?

mkiol boosted:
LWN.net is now @LWN@lwn.netLWN@fosstodon.org
2024-09-13

[$] Transcribing audio with AI using Speech Note

One of the joys of writing about technology is the opportunity to cover interesting talks on open‑source and free‑software topics. One of the pains is creating transcri [...]

lwn.net/Articles/987315/ #LWN

mkiol boosted:
2024-09-10

🇪🇺⚖️ Today is a good day for European citizens, tax justice, and fair competition.

In its final judgment, @Curia has confirmed our 2016 decision that Ireland granted illegal aid to Apple, requiring the release of up to 13 billion euros in unpaid taxes.

The court has also upheld our decision against Google for abusing its dominant position by favouring its own comparison shopping service and the resulting €2.4 billion fine.

ℹ️ europa.eu/!Dy3ndR

#EU

Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice-President of the European Commission in charge of Europe fit for the Digital Age, and Commissioner for Competition, gives a press conference following the Court of Justice rulings on the Apple tax State aid and Google Shopping antitrust cases.
mkiol boosted:
(moving) APODAPoD@botsin.space
2024-08-24

South Pacific Shadowset

Image Credit & Copyright: Jin Wang

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240824.ht #APOD

mkiol boosted:
daniel:// stenberg://bagder
2024-08-17

In my honest opinion it is actually more like this:

xkcd 2347 modified to show a stable lower layer powered by libcurl
mkiolmkiol
2024-08-17

If you experienced a crash when starting 4.6.0, I just released an update with a fix.

New version 4.6.1 is now available on !

Update also includes:
- new Translator models (Danish, Croatian, Slovenian, Indonesian, Romanian)
- fixes for handling special keyboard keys as keyboard shortcuts (XFree86)
- updated Swedish translation

flathub.org/apps/net.mkiol.Spe

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