franga2000

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by franga2000 4mo ago
Trusted computing is the biggest threat to privacy and liberty of them all!
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by franga2000 4mo ago
Cool, then they can train their proprietary models on their proprietary data only. Even if the other models were trained on the same data, which is unlikely, since they had less time and money to scrape it and fewer lawyers to be able to do
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by franga2000 4mo ago
So much LLM marketing/hype speak in the readme, so many moving parts, failure points, wasted CPU cycles, added latency, not to mention the externalities of the tokens that were burned on this...all to do what even the cheapest audio pr
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by franga2000 4mo ago
TL;DR: people complaining why there aren't bluesky instances are misunderstanding atproto. There are no "instances" like in Mastodon, atproto is different, it uses many "hostings". Except those hostings are just ins
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by franga2000 4mo ago
You're missing the point. If someone doesn't want to use AI features, they can just NOT. USE. THEM. That's it. Just don't press the AI button. Is it that hard? Would you say Mozilla is deleting all your data because ther
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by franga2000 4mo ago
The user is not free to use whatever codec they want. Many niche codecs can't be put into the usual containers, so if you only accept QuickTime/MP4 and AVI, sometimes even just by limiting the file extension, those codecs can&#x27
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by franga2000 4mo ago
Keep in mind that while Firefox offered 20 extensions on mobile, Chrome offered zero and continues to lack any support for extensions whatsoever. Nobody ditched Firefox for Chrome because of the extensions thing. The move to WebExtensions w
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by franga2000 4mo ago
You're complaning that the browser that "puts you back in control" ... put you back in control of which AI features you want to enable/disable? How horrible! What? They didn't make these 10 distinct features one sin
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by franga2000 4mo ago
Any DNS-based solution needs something like DNSSEC to work. I believe DNSSEC didn't exist yet when HTTPS was being developed and even if it did, it wasn't anywhere near ubiquitous enough. Is it even these days?
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by franga2000 4mo ago
Not back when SSL and the PKI ecosystem was developed.
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by franga2000 4mo ago
This assumes surveillance prevents crime, or even that crime is worth preventing if surveillance is the cost. In terms of everyday threats to my life, billionaires are a bigger one than criminals.
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by franga2000 5mo ago
It's complexity you already have. You need some sort of HA for your app server and some sort of resilient storage for your database server. Using sqlite just means the storage is used by the app server directly, nothing more.
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by franga2000 5mo ago
1. Proxmox live migration or HA, Ceph storage 2. K8S DaemonSet, PVC backed by probably Ceph 3. Just..don't care? Do maintenance outside of working hours, fix issues quickly and explain things nicely to your customers. Not everything is
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by franga2000 5mo ago
Yes? Well, every "app", as I quite explicity wrote. Look up the docker compose file or helm chart for basically any app. I'm running dozens of apps, each with their own postgres, redis and nginx containers alongside the main
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by franga2000 5mo ago
If an app needs a database, it gets a database server container, instead of getting a user and database on a shared database server as things used to be done. Every little django app has its own postgres container. Every wordpress site gets
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by franga2000 5mo ago
And I don't understand the obsession with server-based databases for single apps. Especially in containerised setups, every "app" gets its own database anyways, and if the app is further broken down into services, they usuall
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by franga2000 5mo ago
This design still screams Claude to me, but a newer version than what you're thinking of. At some point they added a markdown file that tells it to use obviously AI designs like lots of blue/purple and gradients. Since then, this
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by franga2000 5mo ago
Ok so what do you propose? Split the CAN bus into multiple, put security-critical parts on its own isolated network that you can't write to... Well now you've made the situation even worse for the owner than it currently is. Almos
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by franga2000 5mo ago
We don't live in the same world as they do. Saying AI out loud makes line go up, not down. Investors are still eating this shit up, for now at least...
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by franga2000 5mo ago
How about being banned from online banking, government services and all social networking / communication platforms? Because that's the road we're already heading down. What makes you think they will give us this magical hype
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by franga2000 5mo ago
Yes, definitely, but the parent post was quite explicitly saying it was either LLM generated or the person's style was influenced by consuming LLM content. Sure, call the style bad or even similar to LLMs, but there's no reason to
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by franga2000 5mo ago
LLMs don't "own" this writing style. By definition they can't - they were trained on human writing after all! People wrote like this before and that's fine. You might not like the style, but saying it's because
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by franga2000 5mo ago
That's true now, but Valve has been like this since the start, way before skins and microtransactions.
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by franga2000 6mo ago
I'm not saying the Electron UX is better than a native app. I'm saying Electron apps using NodeJS libs have better UX to Electron apps using Web APIs. At best there's no difference for the user, but at worst, they get permiss
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by franga2000 6mo ago
I really don't see how Electron is connected here. When you're an Electron app, you really don't have to care about which web APIs Chrome implements, you can just use the native NodeJS equivalents, which will usually give you
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by franga2000 6mo ago
Same code but with enterprise features stripped out. So much for that "we're going closed source for security"... If you don't find the open source model sustainable and you've really tried, sure, go closed source,
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by franga2000 6mo ago
Hostile pages did that. Today, nearly every page has a dozen tracking scripts, starts off with a cookie popup, probably pops up a "please log in" or "please give me money" after you scroll half way down, still has ads th
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by franga2000 6mo ago
Not off to a great start... The "look how many steps it takes to convert shareware users" is insanely overblown. 1-4. Google, find, read... this is the same for web apps. 2. Click download and wait a few seconds. Not enough tim
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by franga2000 6mo ago
There are two outcomes. Either the implementation is freedom and privacy respecting and very easy to bypass (effectively just a setting the OS passes on to a website) or it comes with strong technical and cryptographic guarantees which dest
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by franga2000 6mo ago
What exactly is patronizing here? Or is it just calling them the most vulnerable?

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