I think pretty much any mosfet / h-bridge / motor control board with pwm should do.
If you have those 4-wire fans with a pwm input that accepts 3V3 logic, you might even be able to attach them directly to the ESP:

• https://github.com/KlausMu/esp32-fan-controller#wiring-diagram-for-fan-and-bme280

But that’s not all fans, I had some mixed results with that.

Concerning the IQ: App development and regular programming aren’t that hard. It needs some time and dedication, and willingness to learn how all these things work and tie together, but I think everyone with an average IQ could do it. It’s specific domains where you need a high IQ, like writing advanced signal processing algorithms. Or write very efficient algorithms or do detailed security audits. But App development is just moderately complex, you can get away with basic math… So I’d say it’s doable. Still needs quite some time and effort though. At least several weeks to months. And the Kotlin book I have has like 800 pages filled with information, and that just takes some time to work through. None of it is magic, though. You do one chapter at a time.

Vibe coding is overrated IMO. There are applications and clients out there for whom it’s fine if you just do a piss-poor job and throw something together, and it somehow works enough. For a lot of things it’s not advanced enough, yet.

Oh wow. 🥹 My idea: Follow the instructions in the green box.

I think the main issue isn’t that work is needed, but the abysmal working conditions and the harm to people and exploitation involved due to the nature of it. There has been some bigger media attention a while back:

• https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/
• https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-66514287

“Ghost work” like labeling faces or streets is very much alright compared to that.

Yeah. I wouldn’t be here, complaining, if there was. Honestly I don’t have a lot of confidence in US politics right now. They’re bothered with different things right now. And the USA aren’t even known to regulate big companies. So… My prediction isn’t great. Maybe the rest of the world can do at least something. But that’s going to be difficult. But we need to continue with this (in my opinion). Even if it’s hard and odds are against us. I still we have some obligation to push for a good future.

To be fair, web application firewalls and log analyzers are a thing. No one really needs specifically Cloudflare to do it, and the downsides that come with it. It’s just that it is very convenient.

Hmmh. I mean that’s more a question for the scientists to come up with effective technology. I heard we have some robust watermarking solutions. And with some content types it’s hard to remove and it’ll leave telltale signs if you try to remove it or slap something over it. I’m not an expert though. Nothing is 100%. And I’ve read some questions by people who tried to upload AI voice audiobooks to Spotify. And seems they have some half-way effective system in place. You need some verification from Elevenlabs so no one can steal David Attenborough’s or Scarled Johansson’s voice. And seems that actually works and is almost impossible to circumvent. Even for the people with sufficient criminal energy.

Ultimately I think it’s two seperate things, coming up with the law, and coming up with effective tech to do it. But things like the Scarlett Johansson voice tells me it’s possible to almost entirely eradicate things from the big platforms, if we force them to do it.

And we have some other examples like the face-swaps and Emma Watson or other famous people nudes, which really have toned down due to cracking down on it. They’re still there, but we’ve reduced it substancially.

I don’t think there is a way to achieve 100%. Almost everything can be circumvented somehow if you have enough resources to do it. And we can’t turn back time, so the AI models from today are out there, It’s just not a realistic possibility to reverse their existence. I mean sure we can wish for it. But I think in practice, we need to find ways to deal with what it is… It’s a valid thing to discuss. But if you’re like me and advocate for law to address it… That’s almost always going to be limited to being reactive, to react to the current situation, and ignore things that aren’t realistic.

Yeah, My reasoning is more, like 80% of the AI companies and services are from the USA. If they passed a law, that’d have you covered for the biggest chunk of it. Plus Europe has similar ideas and the Chinese have already done it. Sure, theoretically we could have companies someplace else, but that’s few and far between. You’d catch most of it and that’s a good start.

And my other thought process is: People use AI specifically to do things in a low-effort way. Because they don’t want to put in a lot of work. They’re unlikely to be willing to jump through several hoops. That’s why they used AI in the first place. We can catch the majority of them just by adding a small hurdle. And that’s again a large chunk of the AI use cases we can catch. And it all adds up.

But yes, there are a few people with different motives. They’ll use AI but not because it’s a low effort way to do something, but they have enough energy to buy a graphics card for $1,000, go through the tedious process of removing watermarking (which isn’t easy if done right)… And I don’t have a good solution for those.

Well, for a starter you could activate a filter and it’d all vanish from your browser. Pupils couldn’t cheat any more in homework assignments, since the watermarking would immediately flag the homework as generated by AI. And you’d have a clear indication in Apple music or even a button to suppress it. Also some of the fabricated or doctored images would have a label next to them, distinguishing them from real photos, for example in news articles or blog posts that’d be helpful.

Of course with enough time and effort, some people will be able to circumvent it. But it’ll alleviate some of the pain. And make it way harder for them to pull this off. And cover most of it, since most of it is low effort.

I think that’s a good example for “Perfect is the enemy of good.” You want to go 100%. I offered a solution that’d get us at least somewhere. But compromising to stay at 0% would be the worst option. I’d still do it, because it’s so easy to do. And then see if we can do more.

We really should address that. I think we need laws and regulation to force AI content to be marked as such. That’d immediately solve 99% of this issue. I believe China already passed some law about AI content labeling very recently. We should take inspiration from that.

Really interesting that AI isn’t good enough yet to fulfill whatever low standards the advertisement industry has, nor do the people accept it.

Ah. My instance reports the last activity from lemm.ee from 45mins ago… So that’d be June 30th, 00:14 Estonian time. And the main page forwards to join-lemmy.org now. Looks like the shutdown to me.

Well… it’s 10 before midnight here. I’m pretty sure a bit east from me it’s the 30th already. Not so much in the west. But I don’t know where lemm.ee was located.

It’s 30th of June. Lemm.ee is shutting down now.

https://piefed.social/post/816659

Well, that’s a double edged sword. Really helpful for people without a brain. Maybe harmful to people with a brain.

I’m not sure if that’s going to help you, but I don’t think there is a very effective solution for balding. Obviously you can use paint or filler spray or a wig. My friends who turned bold early on in their 20s either wore a baseball cap or some form of hat. Or they shaved off their hair, and it turned out no hair or just a few millimeters suited them well. But that depends. I believe later on in life you might be able to make peace with it and own it. But probably not in the early twenties. I don’t have much experience with medication or other products. Be a bit careful with what they claim and if they actually do anything.

I’m not a doctor, that’s just what I’ve seen with the people around me. And I’m not sure what wearing a hat all the time does to the scalp.

Edit: But maybe you want to visit a doctor and get their advice. If you have other issues as well, these symptoms might be connected.

Is SELinux really that important for the average desktop user? I mean we have a lot of concepts like different system user accounts which run services, namespaces…

And I feel we’d need more sandboxing and a permission system for desktop apps so they have to ask before reading your Documents directory and access the webcam. That’d do way more than SELinux as is… And we kind of have none of that to begin with. (…except software installed as Flatpaks, to some degree.)

I think there is an entire meme genre about Apple AI notification summaries and the sometimes hilarious results.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/12/24289939/apple-intelligence-ai-notification-summaries-awkward-funny-bad

This will be about the same.

Is it just me, or does the article just throw some words at me like LIME, SHAP, and ELI5 but doesn’t really explain what they do and how they contribute? I mean there are quite some interesting things in there. But concerning the tech, I didn’t learn much. How does for example a colorful map of the activations/features tell me what it did and how it got there?