Wilder7977

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by Wilder7977 1y ago
Kagi user here, but one could argue that there is no such thing as un-backdoored service when the US government can knock at Google's door (kagi uses GCP) and ask the data, with little to no accountability or due process. So I agree wi
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by Wilder7977 1y ago
Because writing is, in many senses, exposing yourself, and at the very least you want the recognition for it (even if only in the form of a visit to the website, and maybe the interactions that can follow)? Maybe you want at least the prest
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by Wilder7977 1y ago
Once again I see someone mistaking an LLM regurgitating (in a right, wrong, misleading way, who knows) your content for people "accessing" your content. If the LLM sits between me and my reader and acts as a filter (because the in
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by Wilder7977 1y ago
> like web browsers, acting on user instruction. No, they are not like browsers. The browser access my content in a transparent way. An LLM reuses the information and acts as an opaque intermediary which - maybe - will at most add a refe
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by Wilder7977 1y ago
Are there journals who discuss about personal life and perspectives? Or a big publication about clever homelab configuration? Or the millions of other topics people discuss and publish? Publishing a website is a perfectly fine way to put y
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by Wilder7977 1y ago
That's a very narrow perspective. Will the tool deskill me? Will the tool lower my work quality? Will the tool make a bigger share of my work reviewing vs thinking and creating? Will the tool make the work overall less interesting (whi
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by Wilder7977 1y ago
LLMs are not "someone", LLMs are something, and they don't "read content", they by definition acquire and reuse that content (for example, by summarizing it), as part of their product. So here the consent is indeed
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by Wilder7977 1y ago
You can repeat it, but we fundamentally disagree, it's not a matter of understanding. Fundamentally it's not true that the moment I publish something on the internet, I lose control of who can consume my intellectual property. Lic
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by Wilder7977 1y ago
Because attribution, social recognition and prestige are among the many reasons why people put the information out there, and there is nothing wrong with any of them. This is why I care if my ideas are presented to others by an LLM (that ma
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by Wilder7977 1y ago
Consent is also expressed through technical conventions. I, the website owner, express my intention through - for example - robots.txt. if you write a bot that specifically ignores it, you are violating consent. Likewise, I may prevent cert
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by Wilder7977 1y ago
You are mixing industry and company. LLMs are overtaking Google search (I.e., internet search which is a monopoly), but it doesn't have to be chatGPT (I.e. openAI). In any case, it's irrelevant they are not eternal (especially if
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by Wilder7977 1y ago
For someone who believes in free market, how is it acceptable to have consolidated monopolies? The market is free when there is competition. If there is no competition there is no freedom. Of course I know that for many "free market de
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by Wilder7977 1y ago
Achieving a low amount of trips done by car is already something that doesn't happen magically, and is the result of policy decisions (e.g., invest in public transport). Then there are speed limits, road designs etc.
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by Wilder7977 1y ago
I wouldn't worry too much about that. The "behavioral" patterns are just one of the tells. Ultimately the content of the conversation is the main factor, but suspicious content + those patterns when talking means high suspici
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by Wilder7977 1y ago
We are a remote company, so that's probably not possible. Good point though in general.
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by Wilder7977 1y ago
We unironically discussed the use of similar "prompt injections" in interviews, because this has been a big issue, and from a sibling comment, it looks like we are not the exception. The funny thing is that some candidates had sop
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by Wilder7977 1y ago
I am currently interviewing candidates and so far about 50% of them used live GenAI to answer questions. I think so far it has been trivial to notice who was doing that. It takes very little to figure out if people know what they are talkin
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by Wilder7977 1y ago
I think there are quite a few more fundamental issues with coding interviews than the fact they are massively influenced by stress. I think the heavy skew towards DSA-type problems is something that tests skills that many people simply don&
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by Wilder7977 1y ago
I find this take overly optimistic. First, it's bases on the assumption that the training will stop, and that energy will be available for other, more useful, purposes. This is not guarantees. Besides this, it completely disregards the
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by Wilder7977 1y ago
Lets not forget also the ecological impact and energy consumption.
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by Wilder7977 1y ago
That's a good point, but applies to email accounts or other "addresses" (e.g., chat IDs). Here I am referring almost exclusively to accounts for services and random websites. In fact, I still have ownership of the cringe emai
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The challenge of deleting old online accounts(loudwhisper.me)
3 points by Wilder7977 1y ago|3 comments
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by Wilder7977 1y ago
In the last days I spent a disproportionate amount deleting old accounts I found in my password manager, and mostly because so many companies - despite the GDPR - have rudimentary, manually when not completely nonexistent processes to delet
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by Wilder7977 1y ago
Lichess, the gazillion of self-hosting software. There are many examples of free software that are exclusively (or let's say predominantly) used in noncommercial environments. In any case, I agree with the commenter, and I think that
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by Wilder7977 1y ago
A good strategy for this is to enroll it at day 0 for the most sensitive systems (e.g., password manager, email accounts). This way you are able to use it as a backup in the sense of giving the option to reset or access (e.g., via backup co
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by Wilder7977 1y ago
I wish that was an option, in most cases the phone becomes the hardware token, and that can be lost too. Or broken, or out of power or without internet connection. I even have a personal anecdote. My wife "lost" her phone in Icela
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by Wilder7977 1y ago
Allow me to propose a different rationalization: "yes I know X might damage some people/society, but it was not me who decided, and I get lots of money to do it, which someone else would do if not me." I don't think peop
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Using Clouds for too long might have made you incompetent(loudwhisper.me)
3 points by Wilder7977 1y ago|0 comments
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by Wilder7977 1y ago
Small typo, but it's "Miliardo" (one "l").
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by Wilder7977 1y ago
Something like https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis ? It's not that different from CF, but you control it fully.

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