Zworf
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- Comment on Firefox Browser Blocks Anti-Censorship Add-Ons at Russia’s Request 5 months ago:
This is why sideloading addons is so important. They’ve recently removed the bypass-paywalls-clean addon too.
On the desktop version you can easily sideload addons but on the mobile version they forbid this :(
- Comment on Raspberry Pi is now a public company 5 months ago:
The question is always: What do you want to use it for?
When raspberry started the landscape was very difficult. Small computer boards were expensive, now there’s the N100 if you need a tiny cheap computer. Microcontrollers were really dumb and unconnected, now there’s the ESP32 which has WiFi and Bluetooth and decent performance. Right in the middle of this wide spectrum is the raspberry pi and its clones.
This is a very different situation than in the introduction era where PCs were heavy and expensive and microcontrollers were dumb. There was a much wider niche for the raspberry then.
- Comment on Mozilla Firefox new alt-text generator powered by "fully private on-device AI model" 5 months ago:
Yes I was just writing that, I would love to see more integrations that can talk against ollama.
- Comment on Mozilla Firefox new alt-text generator powered by "fully private on-device AI model" 5 months ago:
One thing I’d love to see in Firefox is a way to offload the translation engine to my local ollama server. This way I can get much better translations but still have everything private.
- Comment on Mozilla Firefox new alt-text generator powered by "fully private on-device AI model" 5 months ago:
If you had a visual disability you would certainly think otherwise.
- Comment on Adobe roofies all of their customers (Louis Rossmann's reaction) 5 months ago:
Or maybe Affinity Designer? I bought that a few years ago for Mac and it was really good.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
I don’t think it will.
Microsoft’s endgame is being the lord and master of AI. AI thrives on knowing more data about the user. What good is an assistant if it doesn’t know your habits, your wishes and desires, your schedule and your attitude towards each person in your life?
This is not really a feature primarily aimed at helping the user directly, but to have the AI build up a repository of knowledge about you. Which is hopefully used locally only. For now this seems to be the case, but knowing Microsoft, once they have established themselves as the leading product they will start monetising it in every way possible.
- Comment on The level of engagement on Reddit these days 5 months ago:
Yep this is one of the reasons I kept deleting my account even before the whole spez drama.
- Comment on Token2 is an open-source Swiss FIDO2 security key that brings innovative features at a cheaper price 5 months ago:
Too bad they don’t do OpenPGP like Yubikeys do. I still need that even more (much more!) than Fido2.
- Comment on Major ChatGPT-4o update allows audio-video talks with an “emotional” AI chatbot 6 months ago:
I didn’t think it was super creepy but I thought the voice was so overly enthusiastic and overacted and soooo sugary. bleh.
This won’t work for me unless that can be customised and toned down a lot.
- Comment on Major ChatGPT-4o update allows audio-video talks with an “emotional” AI chatbot 6 months ago:
The audio from the AI also seemed to cut out a lot during the demo. So it does appear like no shenanigans to me.
- Comment on Advice - Getting started with LLMs 6 months ago:
It depends on your prompt/context size too. The more you have the more memory you need. Try to check the memory usage of your GPU with GPU-Z with different models and scenarios.
- Comment on Advice - Getting started with LLMs 6 months ago:
Hmmm weird. I have a 4090 / Ryzen 5800X3D and 64GB and it runs really well. Admittedly it’s the 8B model because the intermediate sizes aren’t out yet and 70B simply won’t fly on a single GPU.
But it really screams. Much faster than I can read.
PS: Ollama is just llama.cpp under the hood.
- Comment on Advice - Getting started with LLMs 6 months ago:
Training your own will be very difficult. You will need to gather so much data to get a model that has basic language understanding.
What I would do (and am doing) is just taking something like llama3 or mistral and adding your own content using RAG techniques.
- Comment on Why do mobile games suck nowadays? 6 months ago:
And the longer the time between episodes, the smaller the chance it would generate new sales because existing users lost interest.
True, but with that particular game what didn’t help either was that there were many years between episodes, it was pretty awful. It’s one thing I really hate about episodic gaming. But Valve already proved it to be a failure, only Telltale And Dontnod still do it (and they do it consistently right, to be fair).
The rest of the gaming industry has gone on to “Early access” which is even more awful. Rather than buying the first part of the story for a lower fee, you now pay top dollar for a game which isn’t even finished and never might be because once you pay them there is no real incentive to actually finish it :)
- Comment on Why do mobile games suck nowadays? 6 months ago:
For me they have always sucked. The only one I liked a bit was “1112” (also known as Fade), BUT the developer actually cancelled the last episode because they didn’t feel like making it anymore 🤬 So yeah it also sucked big time.
- Comment on Almost all Chinese keyboards have severe security flaws that can be (mis)used for mass surveillance, report reveals 6 months ago:
Yeah she clarified that literally, it’s not linked in the article.
twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/…/1677480809450835969
I can’t find the source of her saying it was about the IME thing but I recall reading that from a person close to her. She had just raised it before all this happened.
And yes she’s a great person, she was often criticised for being a CCP stooge but that was BS. She was as outspoken as one can be being in China (and unfortunately, clearly a bit more than that).
- Comment on Almost all Chinese keyboards have severe security flaws that can be (mis)used for mass surveillance, report reveals 6 months ago:
This is something that the amazing Naomi Wu brought up for years before, and was ordered to stop publishing by the local government 😢
I really miss her content.
- Comment on What do you personally use AI for? 6 months ago:
The LLMs for text are also based on “theft”. They’re just much better at hiding it because they have a multitude more source material. Still, it does sometimes happen that they quote a source article verbatim.
- Comment on What do you personally use AI for? 6 months ago:
A lot of translation and summarisation. ChatGPT is extremely good in absorbing a whole mix of comments in different languages and summarising them in English (or whatever other language).
For programming I don’t use it so much anymore because it hallucinates too much, calling APIs that don’t even exist. And when I lower the temperature the output is too sparse.
I’m also trying to build an assistant that can also communicate proactively (I intend to auto-prompt it when things happen and then evaluate if it should cause a message to me). But I need to get a local LLM going for that because running that through the ChatGPT API will be too costly.
- Comment on Steam Deck is the ❝Biggest Threat❞ to Xbox [Fan The Deck] 6 months ago:
Nah. Playstation is the biggest threat to the Xbox.
- Comment on It's finally up! Please sign it if you're in the UK :) Petition: Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state. 7 months ago:
Yeah I agree, it’s a better solution. But something that meets the requirement too.
After all if they stop selling the game, why bother with activation? Just patch that shit out.
- Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers 7 months ago:
That’s true. They actually stopped supporting Nginx recently which really bothered me too because I want to keep using self-signed certs (my server is only reachable internally and I do not want to expose it to the internet). And the new server they use (I forgot which) didn’t really have that option.
And yes it is totally feasible to use upstream! Not a problem at all.
I would recommend to use the dockers though, as the whole debian thing becomes a bit of a mess with different python requirements for some of the bridges. I tried that in a long forgotten past and there is a reason I’m trying to forget that 🤭
Like you I know the ansible playbook has its limits (for example one other thing I run into is that I want to run several instances of the same bridge to bridge eg. 2 whatsapp accounts!) but I do think docker is the way to go. I’m interested to hear how you’re faring though as it’s a long time ago since I tried that.
- Comment on The race to decarbonise the world’s economy risks repeating the mistakes of the colonial era by building industries on forced and child labour, rights advocate warns 7 months ago:
True, nobody should ever have billions. There’s simply no need for that much money, you can’t ever use it up.
- Comment on The race to decarbonise the world’s economy risks repeating the mistakes of the colonial era by building industries on forced and child labour, rights advocate warns 7 months ago:
most personal trips can be done safely and easily using an E-bike (much smaller batteries that can be produced en mass with existing supply chains) and cars should be reduced in usage outside of particularly rural areas where they truly are a necessity (which is a tiny portion of the overall population).
E-bikes are often not an option for many reasons. Needing to bring cargo, bad weather, danger from other traffic. If they were actually such an amazing option everyone would be using them because they are hella cheaper than cars.
- Comment on Apple users "don’t know what is going on": New study shows that Apple's default apps collect data even when supposedly disabled, and this is hard to switch off 7 months ago:
Maybe this research and language is intended to suggest that there is a point past which “confusingly and unintuitively designed” strongly resembles “intentionally deceiving”? We’re probably not going to get internal emails saying “make it complicated so that we can collect users’ data”.
This is Apple that pride themselves on UX. If they do it a certain way there is a reason, which is not always with the user’s interests in mind.
- Comment on Apple users "don’t know what is going on": New study shows that Apple's default apps collect data even when supposedly disabled, and this is hard to switch off 7 months ago:
Depends on whether you consider dark-patterns to be “lying”
www.apple.com/privacy/ “Apple, that’s privacy”. That and then doing dark patterns, I consider that lying, yes.
- Comment on Apple users "don’t know what is going on": New study shows that Apple's default apps collect data even when supposedly disabled, and this is hard to switch off 7 months ago:
Much better for sure.
Also a lot less functionality of course.
- Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers 7 months ago:
Yeah for sure. I run the server + a bunch of bridges (whatsapp, signal, telegram) on an old atom NUC with 8GB RAM and it only actually uses 2 GB.
Here’s the documentation for the playbook: github.com/…/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy
I can really recommend it.
- Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers 7 months ago:
Actually the ansible playbook creates a bundle of docker containers so you get the best of both :)