The lonely tech post thread.

[Sasaferrato]

Stopped working for me about a month ago.

Still works for me. (Chrome).

 

[souljacker]

Still works for me. (Chrome).

Weird. I've got ublock now instead which is blocking fine now.

 

[Sweet FA]

Can I back up an old MacBook (c.2010) via Time Machine onto an external drive then connect that drive to my current MacBook and transfer specific files over (music/films/photos)?

Been having a clear out and coaxed it to life & realised it's got lots of photos I'd like. It runs so glacially slowly that I can't transfer the files though.

 

[Chz]

I've no idea how Time Machine works, but surely you could just dump the files to an external disk using a regular copy?

 

[Sasaferrato]

Can anyone tell me why a Microsoft App suddenly refuses to load?

I have IPTV Smarters Expert. When I tried to fire it up, it didn't.

I restarted the PC, no joy. I uninstalled and reinstalled the app, no joy.

Can anyone help please?

 

[Sasaferrato]

OK, I downloaded another IPTV client, however, I can't drag it from screen one to screen two, any suggestions?

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Store apps can be a pain the arse, but not much experience as Plex does all my needs. Sorry.

I wonder if we need a new thread as it's also being talked about on the fire stick one and you might get people see it who don't read this one?

 

[two sheds]

Looks interesting:

Nvidia just dropped a bombshell: Its new AI model is open, massive, and ready to rival GPT-4

Nvidia has released NVLM 1.0, a powerful open-source AI model that rivals GPT-4 and Google’s systems, marking a major breakthrough in multimodal language models for vision and text tasks.

venturebeat.com

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Looks interesting:

Nvidia just dropped a bombshell: Its new AI model is open, massive, and ready to rival GPT-4

Nvidia has released NVLM 1.0, a powerful open-source AI model that rivals GPT-4 and Google’s systems, marking a major breakthrough in multimodal language models for vision and text tasks.

venturebeat.com

Isn't Open Source a bit of a red herring with AI? As in the value isn't really the model, but the model trained on data? And it's training isn't and can't really be Open Source. At least that was the takeaway I took from 2.5 Admins podcast I listened to when they were discussing it?

I might be being dense but if it's just the model they're offering then how does it rival OpenAI. Without the training it's not useful to you or I and to train it your going to need a shit load of Nvidia GPUs...

 

[two sheds]

Well we could train it on urban75 to get the definitive answer as to whether the plane takes off, the correct order for beans and cheese, and many more imponderables

 

[Sasaferrato]

Update:

This morning I uninstalled (again) my IPTV client and reinstalled it.

It is now working.