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by gigel82 2y ago
This is dubious, I'm surprised MS hasn't locked down those APIs yet. I'm curious, would this be the legal equivalent of "cracked" software in terms of piracy?
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by gigel82 2y ago
I dislike associating a great fictional universe (Stargate series) with this disgusting affair...
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by gigel82 2y ago
They do handle image recognition (at least some aspects of it) on their servers, unless you specifically went and disabled the right setting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42533685
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by gigel82 2y ago
No they don't, the whole reason for Homomorphic encryption is sending stuff out of your device. You don't need any encryption to process locally.
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by gigel82 2y ago
"not asking them before you phone home with data" is a basic faux pas for privacy advocates? LOL; that's a fundamental breach of trust of the highest degree, not basic by any means.
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by gigel82 2y ago
That's irrelevant if the information they do send is sufficient to deduce "Eiffel tower" or "dog" out of it: that's too much information to send.
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by gigel82 2y ago
It's likely hardware; things like POPCNT which we encountered in the wild when some folks were trying to run our software on ancient (15+ years old) CPUs that technically still supported Windows 10; so we changed our support story to W
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by gigel82 2y ago
It was tongue-in-cheek but not kidding. Somalia is on a list of only 16 countries in the world without an income tax, all the others have a single industry generating most of the income for the population (tourism or oil).
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by gigel82 2y ago
It works for Somalia, I'm sure we can all strive to get to that level one day.
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by gigel82 2y ago
What we need is more diversity in the space. Something between the Jetson and this thing, at under $1000 that can run in a LAN to do LLM, STT, TTS, etc. would be an awesome (if niche) device to enable truly local / private AI scenarios
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by gigel82 2y ago
> If you have any modicum of site reliability experience, this seems like an unsatisfiable set of constraints. It seems literally impossible, yet here they are claiming that they have done it. His first instinct was right. It seems impos
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by gigel82 2y ago
Is it a product though? What can you do with it after you buy it besides paying Microsoft monthly for the rest of its lifetime to actually do something with it? I'm pretty sure this is just part of a service.
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by gigel82 2y ago
I guess it's partly because this dropped during the new year's period when most tech folks are not near their screens. And also partially because of the "Apple brigade" making sure this doesn't go too far. Really sa
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by gigel82 2y ago
I'm more upset about them buying and burying the Stargate franchise (which was just prepping for a new show / reboot).
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by gigel82 2y ago
Of course, but those would be features in the product code deployed on users' devices (one time investment), not a service that has ongoing costs of operation associated with each call. They wouldn't just give this out for free (e
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by gigel82 2y ago
Yes, of course, the concern is the data being exfiltrated to begin with. Like someone else in this thread mentioned, if they upload a single pixel from my image without my consent, that is too much data being uploaded without my consent.
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by gigel82 2y ago
That's not the point of the outrage though (at least not for me). They enabled by default a feature that analyzes my pictures (which I never upload to iCloud) and sends information about them to their (and others') servers. That i
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by gigel82 2y ago
Very likely yes. Why else would they add a feature that incurs costs for them as an update, at no cost to the users (and not even make a fuss about it)? It is obvious they are monetizing this feature somehow. Could be as innocuous as them t
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by gigel82 2y ago
Got it, so if Windows Defender (that is enabled by default on all Windows PCs) pushes an update that scans all your files on all connected drives and uploads hashes to the mothership, enables this by default and proceeds to execute the scan
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by gigel82 2y ago
Would you feel the same if Microsoft turned on Recall on all Windows PCs everywhere with an update? They worked very hard on security these past few months, so it should be all good, right?
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by gigel82 2y ago
That is incorrect. If everything was local they wouldn't need HE and OHTTP and everything else. I would be ok with this being a local feature, where I can download the signature database to my device and run the search locally (as you
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by gigel82 2y ago
The NSA, the CCP, etc. depending on jurisdiction. (joking, but not really)
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by gigel82 2y ago
The "network" mention was in reply to your comment about "participating in a network" which was never the case for one's personal photos (unless explicitly shared on a social network I guess). I did read the article
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by gigel82 2y ago
I don't want my photos to take part in any network; never asked for it, never expected it to happen. I never used iCloud or other commercial cloud providers. This is just forceful data extraction by Apple, absolutely egregious behavior
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by gigel82 2y ago
This may be a "good" privacy story but a way better one is to just not send any of your data anywhere, especially without prior consent.
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by gigel82 2y ago
> From my own perspective, computing privacy is simple: if something happens entirely on my computer, then it's private, whereas if my computer sends data to the manufacturer of the computer, then it's not private, or at least
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by gigel82 2y ago
Yes, that's exactly what I was checking out. You need fast enough hardware to run the speech to text, text to speech and (most importantly) LLM locally: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvbVePuP7NY (he has dual 3090 GPU
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by gigel82 2y ago
What I couldn't find is inference benchmarks for consumer hardware. Just pick a reasonable workload with llama.cpp or ollama and show us some numbers. I'm particularly interested in building a Home Assistant machine that can run t
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by gigel82 2y ago
What is a good GPU to put in a home server that can run the TTS / STT and the local LLM required to make this shine? A 3090 is too expensive and power hungry. Maybe a 3060 12Gb? Is there anything in the "workstation" lineup t
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by gigel82 2y ago
If doing greenfield work, planning sounds nice, but if you're integrating with crusty / legacy systems that are poorly documented (if at all) planning is a waste of time; you'll end up saying "Library X will do Y" a

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