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by gigel82 3y ago
Adding to the anecdotes, I'm using Firefox as my main browser on Windows and macOS and have been for years. Very very rarely do I find websites that don't work and need to switch back to the built-in browser (Edge or Safari). I ho
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That video screams CGI... that's why I said we need public and verifiable proof.
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by gigel82 3y ago
> Insane amounts of progress on robust hardware: Tesla Optimus He lost me at this one. Tesla will need a lot more public verifiable proof of progress to look past the "guy in a spandex suit" thing...
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by gigel82 3y ago
On Private Internet Access VPN: * Proxy Score: 45/100 - Likely a Proxy * VPN Score: 10/55 - Could be a VPN (But Unlikely)
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by gigel82 3y ago
I think Midjourney really shot themselves in the foot with the Discord-only approach.
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by gigel82 3y ago
I use Barrier[1] and even with full software integration it sometimes gets things wrong (especially if you have a game or something else doing mouse capture); I'd be surprised if this can be solved entirely in hardware, but it sure loo
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by gigel82 3y ago
Display a price-tag on content. You can watch 2 ad breaks, or you can pay $0.05 to watch the video (or whatever it is Google is making off of them). Make it super easy to pay (for example with a prepaid wallet you can refill).
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by gigel82 3y ago
Reminds me of an incremental game ( https://www.reddit.com/r/incremental_games/ ) - BTW, don't start playing one of those or you'll ruin your holidays... :)
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by gigel82 3y ago
Damn... so song artists are out in <5 years !?
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by gigel82 3y ago
I move between machines a lot and prefer an online tool; I'm self-hosting Trilium Notes https://github.com/zadam/trilium ; this looks a bit cleaner but without syncing (or server-side storage) it misses a bunch of
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by gigel82 3y ago
What other amazing things did Elon "jump start"? Did he also invent the internet, the wheel, fire? "In December 2015, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Reid Hoffman, Jessica Livingston, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Amazon Web Services (A
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by gigel82 3y ago
> buy physical products from them That's the gist of the problem... buying has lost all meaning (it used to be that you own something you buy, we just rent things now). Apple still fully controls what you can and cannot do with &quo
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by gigel82 3y ago
Actually, a one-time-only "fix" would be a huge wasted opportunity. This needs to be addressed globally for all bad actors / scalpers, including consumer device manufacturers like Apple, and other assholes like Deere tractors
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by gigel82 3y ago
How about instead American regulators grow some balls and start 'targeting' American tech too? I don't want to live in (techno)feudalism: https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/
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by gigel82 3y ago
Yes. That significantly raises the barrier, and reduces the risk of accidental enrollment. And once that's burned into the UEFI, I'd like it plastered all over; maybe as part of the boot logo "This device belongs to Expedia&q
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by gigel82 3y ago
Physical possession is a good enough high bar. But remotely enabling this feature with just a serial number sounds incredibly invasive, and a very serious breach of trust. Even if Apple are "the good guys" (now), we know they can
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by gigel82 3y ago
I had no idea this feature exists; do PCs have this "feature" too? Are we now saying a central authority can simply brick or forcefully install software on any mac at any time given only the serial number? What the actual fuck!? I
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by gigel82 3y ago
Nice, an even fancier random number generator...
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by gigel82 3y ago
I have a friend that works on Azure Quantum Elements and they said the Copilot integration is pretty impressive. I imagine that's a very specific niche though so likely not interesting if you're not into material science or comput
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by gigel82 3y ago
We'd all like fair, subjective reporting from this region but with one side's track record of killing journalists, not only Al Jazeera's[1] but also Associated Press[2], Reuters[3], and many others[4] I guess we'll have
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by gigel82 3y ago
No support in llama.cpp yet :( https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/issues/3146
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by gigel82 3y ago
Considering Google was caught faking stuff during the recent Gemini introduction, I'll take this with a big grain of salt, doubly so considering they don't have a way for people to try it out.
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by gigel82 3y ago
If they get in trouble for repairing a goddamn train, what chance do we have to keep the right to repair our phones? I hate living in (techno)feudalism, I thought we moved past that...
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by gigel82 3y ago
I suspect a lot of folks never worked with Enterprise / Gov customers and don't understand the restrictions and compliance requirements (like data residence, access control, FedRAMP, TISAX, reliability SLAs, etc. which you get wit
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by gigel82 3y ago
No you didn't. The whole point of using Azure OpenAI over plain OpenAI is the fact that your data doesn't get donated to OpenAI for training (this solves "compliance" for enterprise customers that need it), which you&#x2
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by gigel82 3y ago
I'm glad the project isn't dead-dead but still not a good sign it didn't get any love for 2+ years.
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Why would they even include a "Code" link if it's just an empty GitHub repo with a README?
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by gigel82 3y ago
I have a 3080Ti with 12Gb VRAM and would like to try fine tuning the same Mistral 7B model (which I found incredibly potent). Any tips on how to get started?
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For some reason I thought fine tuning is not possible without specialized hardware (A100 / H100). Where can I learn more about hardware requirements for fine tuning on consumer GPUs?
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by gigel82 3y ago
Tangentially related, I found many built-in Windows applications and services use certificate pinning and will either fail outright or modify behavior (easily identified by the number and size of packets with and without MITM). It made me v

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