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by jchw 1y ago
Tangentially: LLMs are really impressive at translation. I guess it shouldn't come as that much of a surprise given where a lot of the most pivotal research came from, but still, the leading edge LLMs are extremely good for situations
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by jchw 1y ago
> We have been seeing our clients' sites being absolutely hammered by AI bots trying to blend in. Some of the bots use invalid user agents - they _look_ valid on the surface, but under the slightest scrutiny, it becomes obvious th
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by jchw 1y ago
phpBB supports browsers that don't support or accept cookies: if you don't have a cookie, the URL for all links and forms will have the session ID in it. Which would be great, but it seems like these bots are not picking those up
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by jchw 1y ago
> This… makes no sense to me. Almost by definition, an AI vendor will have a datacenter full of compute capacity. It feels like this solution has the problem backwards, effectively only limiting access to those without resources or try
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by jchw 1y ago
Unless they have very unusual terms on their funding, it isn't really entirely in their control in the long term. Hopefully they find a way to make their investors whole that doesn't suck for everyone else, but if not, well, I at
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by jchw 1y ago
Well this is good I suppose, but what I find rather alarming is how bad Notion used to (recently, maybe not after this?) behave when there was a connectivity or server issue. I figured with OTs and CRDTs, collaborative editing of rich text
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by jchw 1y ago
That's not quite what happened. They did, however, attempt to kill some executives, and apparently due to a health issue, so it definitely has some echoes of the Luigi case.
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by jchw 1y ago
There are around 350 million U.S. citizens, that are increasingly mentally unwell, feel disenfranchised, and every year, have a little bit less to lose. Flight tracking data is public. What's shocking isn't that the Luigi case hap
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by jchw 1y ago
I foresee a future with many more Luigi's.
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by jchw 1y ago
I think it depends on the spec. Some of the working groups still have mailing lists, some of them have GitHub issues. To be completely honest, though, I'm not sure what people expect to get out of it. I dug into this a while ago for a
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by jchw 1y ago
While Google Fi users don't seem to be subject to T-Mobile's data collection, you might still want to go into Google Fi's "Privacy & security" section and opt out of "Allow CPNI sharing".
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by jchw 1y ago
While I do agree, I've definitely seen some container images that do actually intentionally export SSH for debugging, and run an init system. Personally, that goes against my sensibilities, but it's not a strictly invalid way to u
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by jchw 1y ago
Hmm. On one hand, I don't deploy or use Docker itself. To me, "Docker" is more of a concept than a tool. Due to the way networking works in actual Docker, I don't like using it in either dev machines or production, eve
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by jchw 1y ago
The summary of what they did on the page is largely accurate. I mean, the repository on GitHub that cooks the official Docker Debian images is indeed primarily maintained by a Debian maintainer who is a member of many different Debian teams
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by jchw 1y ago
I'm not saying this isn't an issue, but I do wonder how many of these containers that contain the backdoor can feasibly trigger it. Wouldn't you need to run OpenSSH in the container? It's not unheard of, but it's at
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by jchw 1y ago
A bit ago I tried throwing a couple of random simple Japanese comics (think 4koma but I don't think either of the ones I threw in were actually 4 panels) from Pixiv into Gemma 3b on AI studio. - It transcribed all of the text, includin
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by jchw 1y ago
> Also take a good hard look at the token output speeds before investing. If you’re expecting quality, context windows, and output speeds similar to the hosted providers you’re probably going to be disappointed. There are a lot of tradeo
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by jchw 1y ago
That's true. Going for pure compute value, it does seem you can do even better. Last I looked at Strix Halo products all else I could find seemed like laptop announcements, and laptops are obviously going to generally be even more expe
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by jchw 1y ago
It seems like the Framework Desktop has become one of the best choices for local AI on the whole market. At a bit over $2,000 you can get a machine that can have, if I understand correctly, around 120 GiB of accessible VRAM, and the seeming
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by jchw 1y ago
I live in the United States and it baffles me just as much, trust me. Fine, maybe I didn't have the biggest expectations for the general public, but I really expected the Internet to react much more viscerally to what is happening. I
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by jchw 1y ago
Look. I get that we can debate about what's truly novel. I never even actually claimed that humans regularly do things that are actually all that novel. That wasn't the point. The point is that LLMs struggle with novelty because t
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by jchw 1y ago
Hmm. That really does seem pretty clever, and if it works the way it sounds like it does, obviously does resolve most of the concerns around how this would work and avoid obvious pitfalls. I still stand by the more obvious concern (paranoid
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by jchw 1y ago
I really am interested in how this works. How can the client software verify that the SGX attestation actually is from the same machine as the VPN connection? I guess there's probably an answer here, but I don't know enough about
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by jchw 1y ago
Intel SGX/remote attestation for verifying that servers are running the code they say they are running is very interesting, I believe Signal talked about doing something similar for contact discovery, but at a base level it requires a
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by jchw 1y ago
Well that's the tricky part: what is novel? There are varying answers. I think we're all pretty unoriginal most of the time, but at the very least we're a bit better than LLMs at mashing together and synthesizing things bas
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by jchw 1y ago
I honestly think that reflects more on the state of education than it does human intelligence. My primary assertion is that LLMs struggle to generalize concepts and ideas, hence why they need petabytes of text just to often fail basic riddl
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by jchw 1y ago
I think the real takeaway is that LLMs are very good at tasks that closely resemble examples it has in its training. A lot of things written (code, movies/TV shows, etc.) are actually pretty repetitive and so you don't really need
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by jchw 1y ago
From this PR: > A master password is still required and not controlled by the SSO From the Bitwarden documentation[1]: > Locking your vault will maintain vault data on the device, so unlocking your vault can be done offline. You will
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by jchw 1y ago
We can fix the extra-legal censorship problem. Hell, it might've already happened in the U.S. possibly, because of Donald Trump's "Fair Banking" executive order; I know it couldn't have been the intent, but as writt
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by jchw 1y ago
I was actually under the impression that it is allowed depending on the length of the conductor, but it seems you are right. The NEC Table 15(B)(16) shows the maximum allowed ampacity of 14 AWG cables is 20 amperes, BUT... there is a footno

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