hammyhavoc

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by hammyhavoc 1y ago
"reason" is doing some heavy-lifting in the context of LLMs.
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by hammyhavoc 1y ago
Fantasy.
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by hammyhavoc 1y ago
They'll never be fit for purpose. They're a technological dead-end for anything like what people are usually throwing them at, IMO.
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by hammyhavoc 1y ago
The big platforms always use a variety of solutions. Always some kind of database of hashes of known CSAM available via an API. Always human beings on a trust and safety team. Takes considerable time, money, and emotional toll. Not just any
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by hammyhavoc 1y ago
Can you quantify this "better"?
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by hammyhavoc 1y ago
Not to mention the great "This Week in Matrix" RSS feed they do that I've been enjoying for years. https://matrix.org/category/this-week-in-matrix/ Incredibly supportive of anything within the Matri
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by hammyhavoc 1y ago
Element X is (e)xcellent. Just wanted to share that. Been using Matrix via Synapse since ~2019 and all the Matrix odds and ends require the least maintenance out of anything in the stack. Any uptime issues I've experienced have been my
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by hammyhavoc 1y ago
You're thinking of Element: https://element.io/case-studies/nato Now do Nextcloud and many other projects. It's FOSS. There are volunteer contributors. https://matrix.org/blog/2025/0
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by hammyhavoc 1y ago
Exactly.
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by hammyhavoc 1y ago
"Pull requests welcome" is all I can say to anyone who puts energy into long rants about the "state" of a FOSS project. If you think volunteer dev is so easy then get stuck in and be the change you want to see.
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by hammyhavoc 1y ago
https://engineering.fb.com/2024/03/06/security/whatsapp-mess...
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by hammyhavoc 1y ago
Never have issues with the likes of Meta when self-hosting bridges for Matrix. Beeper's centralisation is likely the issue.
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by hammyhavoc 1y ago
People have always remarked about my gait, so this is definitely a "no shit" kind of thing lmao.
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by hammyhavoc 1y ago
I don't think it matters whether he's right or wrong when he's not good at making tech-adjacent predictions, period. He's only still put on a pedestal because he's a billionaire, but is mostly irrelevant to any conv
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by hammyhavoc 1y ago
It's interesting to see someone bring up ThinkPads! I have been saying for a few years now that I want the "classic ThinkPad of phones" with readily available parts, sensible design choices (drainage holes on ThinkPads were a
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by hammyhavoc 1y ago
You're describing the process working—DNA gave investigators a lead, which they followed up with legally obtained, direct evidence tying DeAngelo to the crime. That’s not guilt by association; that’s good policing. Framing that as some
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by hammyhavoc 1y ago
"Translation? Musk believes that the most successful AIs will be the ones that maximize things that matter to conscious beings; things that feel good, are rewarding, or extend life. In Musk’s view, that means aligning AI systems with l
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by hammyhavoc 1y ago
You say that, but marketing seems to be acceptable though.
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by hammyhavoc 1y ago
DNA isn’t guilt by association. Cops still need real evidence—this isn’t CSI fan fiction.
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by hammyhavoc 1y ago
What makes you believe this is coming? What evidence points to this inevitability?
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EU-sponsored report says GenAI's 'fair use' defense does not compute(theregister.com)
6 points by hammyhavoc 1y ago|2 comments
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by hammyhavoc 1y ago
I'm definitely open to the idea of foldables or even flip phones (perhaps even enthused!). I'm gutted that the Japanese "Galapagos syndrome" keitei are becoming extinct with fewer and fewer releases each year. The ones t
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by hammyhavoc 1y ago
Inappropriately choosing LLMs as a solution then forcing it onto employees, customers and anyone it directly or indirectly effects is not a curve—it is its own circle. LLMs probably have some kind of value, but the immediate default of &quo
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by hammyhavoc 1y ago
With a battery that can be swapped rapidly without tools. Bonus points for pogo pins like a Samsung XCover phone. Smaller size means smaller battery, but that's mitigated by the above. I want utilitarian. I don't want a phablet. I
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by hammyhavoc 1y ago
Ah yes, Mark Cuban—the same guy who said in 2017 that people shouldn't go and learn computer science as AI will be writing all the code within a few years and that people should instead go and get a liberal arts degree—on the basis tha
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by hammyhavoc 1y ago
Monkeys and typewriters. Some of what paranoid schizophrenics have come up to me and said in the street or on public transport has come true too—even what my own stepfather struggled with in terms of delusions—doesn't make it meaningfu
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by hammyhavoc 1y ago
I want both via a single button-press, or defaults per-monitor. What I want on an ultrawide isn't what I want on a portrait 16:9 side monitor.
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by hammyhavoc 1y ago
If you ever document it, I'd love to read about your workflow. me@hammyhavoc.com
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by hammyhavoc 1y ago
Something not making my eyeballs bleed is part-and-parcel to me actually wanting to use it. I value function over form, but Thunderbird has never been a looker. Plenty of UX friction too. It's just convoluted and messy.
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by hammyhavoc 1y ago
Is there any extension for Thunderbird that can handle "External Accounts" per-address signatures and sending identities already configured on a Gmail account? I always go "I'll check out Thunderbird again" then &qu

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