TehPers
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- Comment on Elon Musk’s X can’t invent its own copyright law, judge says 2 days ago:
This is a guess since I’m not a lawyer, but since users license their content to Twitter when posting it, Bright Data might have to prove fair use. I don’t think that question has been answered yet in relation to AI model training, but search engines have been doing this for decades for what it’s worth, so I don’t know.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X can’t invent its own copyright law, judge says 2 days ago:
Do they give up the copyright, or license it to the website? They still created the content, and I don’t have a Twitter account, but after briefly reading the ToS, it says they license it to Twitter (which is pretty standard from the other services I use that I’ve read the ToS for).
- Comment on [Gamers Nexus] HW News - Intel is a Cluster, NVIDIA Blackwell Boosts Production, Sony "Still Learning" 5 days ago:
I think Steve makes a great case against Asus in the ROG vs ROC debate. In fact, it raises the question of who is stealing from who here. Clearly Asus took the ROG name from roc. They had to have started with the ROG acronym and went backwards because, let’s be real, who would have thought “Republic of Gamers” was a good name if they weren’t forced into using that acronym from the beginning? The ROC branding is clearly a reference to the same bird, just taken more literally.
The Win11 ads has me looking at good Linux distros now. I didn’t buy a (discounted) $200 license so i can look at ads.
- Comment on Advice - Getting started with LLMs 6 days ago:
I managed to get ollama running through Docker easily. It’s by far the least painful of the options I tried, and I just make requests to the API it exposes. You can also give it GPU resources through Docker if you want to, and there’s a CLI tool for a quick chat interface if you want to play with that. I can get LLAMA 3 (8B) running on my 3070 without issues.
Training a LLM is very difficult and expensive. I don’t think it’s a good place for anyone to start. Many of the popular models (LLAMA, GPT, etc) are astronomically expensive to train and require and ungodly number of resources.
- Comment on PubKit Officially Launches Closed Beta 3 weeks ago:
This seems super useful! Personally speaking, I’d also love to see more effort done in general to simplify consuming and producing the JSON-LD (and ActivityStreams vocab) used by these federated services as well, as it’s been something I’ve been trying to tackle myself for a while now (turns out it’s really hard to do in a statically typed, non-dynamic language, from my experience).
- Comment on Someone got Gab's AI chatbot to show its instructions 4 weeks ago:
You don’t need a LLM to see if the output was the exact, non-cyphered system prompt (you can do a simple text similarity check). For cyphers, you may be able to use the prompt/history embeddings to see how similar it is to a set of known kinds of attacks, but it probably won’t be even close to perfect.
- Comment on Someone got Gab's AI chatbot to show its instructions 4 weeks ago:
It had me at the start. About halfway through, I realized it was written by someone who needs to seek mental help.
I hadn’t heard of Gab AI before, and now I know never to use it.
- Comment on Breakthrough promises secure and private quantum computing at home 4 weeks ago:
Hasn’t nuclear fusion been out for a while? I thought the sun did that for us.
I also doubt quantum computing would make its way into the consumer market in any practical form for a long time. To begin with, there needs to be a demand for it, and as far as I can tell, there’s not really any application the average consumer uses that can benefit from quantum computing. A fission power plant, on the other hand…
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 actors reveal the darker side of success fuelled by AI voice cloning 4 weeks ago:
From the quotes in the article, I have to agree with drawing that line. On the one hand, making a non-profit mod using AI-generated voices has no opportunity cost to the actors since they wouldn’t have been hired for that anyway. On the other hand, and this is why I am leaning against training AI voices off people at all without permission, it can cause actual harm to the actor to hear themselves saying things they would otherwise be offended by and wouldn’t ever say in reality. In other words, the AI voices can directly harm people (and already have, according to the article at least).
- Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers 4 weeks ago:
You can blame both corporations
I don’t remember saying otherwise. I just found it odd that everyone was talking about Discord (at the time of posting), and there was very little discussion around Nintendo’s involvement in encouraging (and participating in) such toxic behavior.
without allowing any sort of measure.
This is what I find unacceptable in Discord’s case. Options should have been given to the devs/server admins.
- Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers 4 weeks ago:
Is the expectation that Discord will risk spending potentially millions in court with Nintendo to protect a single community? From their perspective, it’s easy to see why they’d just bend over.
Discord’s response was extreme, and that is inexcusable. I’m not trying to defend them here. The core problem here though is Nintendo harassing these developers to try to stop these projects. They could have easily been kicked out by any other platform, or sent a C&D if they tried to self-host one.
- Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers 4 weeks ago:
I agree there are probably better options out there, but scrolling through the comments, I had seen a lot of discussion about Discord and not nearly as much on Nintendo. I was hoping to stir up more discussion on Nintendo’s involvement.
Discord’s reaction may be unreasonable, but it isn’t ridiculous to see them bend over for Nintendo when they’re faced with hosting a smaller community (relatively speaking) or becoming a target of Nintendo’s lawyers. Had they been on another platform (self-hosted or not), Nintendo would have likely persued them all the same. Also, as far as I’m aware, the developers themselves believe that they are within the law. The issue comes from Nintendo disregarding the law and harassing them anyway.
- Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers 4 weeks ago:
Everyone here is saying not to use Discord, but what are they expecting the server admins to do after moving off Discord when Nintendo’s lawyers send them a letter? Like sure, hate Discord, but the problem here clearly lies with Nintendo.
- Comment on "No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and over again." 5 weeks ago:
Be careful relying on LLMs for “searching”. I’m speaking from experience here - getting actually accurate results from the current generation of LLMs, even with RAG, is difficult. You might get accurate results most of the time (even 80% or more), but it can be difficult to identify the inaccurate results due to the confidence models present their output with when hallucinating.
Also, if your LLM isn’t doing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), then it isn’t actually a search and won’t find results more recent than the data it was trained off of.
- Comment on "No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and over again." 5 weeks ago:
people like me don’t want him to work with a guy with a history of oppressing our rights
Maybe I’m misunderstanding, but what search do you use that relies on a more ethical index? I don’t use SearXNG, but as far as I can tell, even something like that relies on other indices, like Google, Bing, and Brave (which sesms to be configurable). Are you suggesting you use a different index that comes from a more ethical company, or do you just not like Vlad’s response?
- Comment on "No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and over again." 5 weeks ago:
To add, from what I understand at least, Kagi does build its own index for accessing smaller sites. To some extent, results are also served by a custom index, meaning some percentage of results do not come from and instead come directly from Kagi. It doesn’t seem like a significant percentage of results come from that index, but it supposedly is still >0%.
Personally I mostly use Kagi for the ability to put Reddit on the bottom of the results, MDN to the top, and otherwise prioritize sites in ways that I want but which I know are purely based on my own opinions. It works well for my usecase, and I don’t have to scroll through a bunch of sponsored links before finding my search results. Also, the recent integration with Wolfram|Alpha has been convenient with a couple of searches, like one where I needed the prime factors of some numbers.
- Comment on Spotify plans to raise prices this year and introduce new plans - GSMArena.com news 5 weeks ago:
You can also get the APK from their GH. Great app, doesn’t solve the family support problem though, and I’m not sure that it works on Apple devices.
- Comment on Bethesda Celebrates 30th Anniversary of The Elder Scrolls, Provides Small Development Update on The Elder Scrolls VI 1 month ago:
I couldn’t finish Starfield, but had fun up until the point they added the fantasy mechanic to it. For a game I got for free, it was worth every cent. I might have been upset if I got it full price though.
- Comment on House likely to pass a bill that could ban TikTok, sending it to the Senate 1 month ago:
I suspect the main reason so many establishment politicians are terrified of it is because of how it suggest content.
I’m not convinced the politicians even have a clue what the app is, let alone how it serves content. To me, it seems like they really just want to keep data out of the hands of the CCP. The bill itself doesn’t state that TikTok is banned - only that ByteDance needs to divest it to keep operating it in the US.