mhitza

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by mhitza 5d ago
I like to think of good in terms of direct positive effect, and bad in terms of direct negative externalities. Second order effects become too fuzzy. Do the people working for AI labs believe that it has a better direct beneficial effect, o
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by mhitza 5d ago
Why do you think so many big tech companies are registering subsidiaries in Ireland? (Aside form the "Double Irish" mechanism that used to be in vogue more than a decade ago). Plenty of hands seem to be well greased over there giv
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by mhitza 8d ago
I can't report on percentage improvement, but after a long time localsend recently pushed out a version that claims to be much better (to be read as faster) for the transfer of large/many files. For a long time the issue was block
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by mhitza 9d ago
You are pointing the fingers at the wrong people. Cloud providers pushed this idea onto executives via their marketing and conferencing channels. Not disimilar to how AI naratives are pushed on executives these last two years.
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by mhitza 10d ago
You can get rigid output format from "classic" LLMs https://docs.vllm.ai/en/latest/features/structured_outputs/ though model support is limited. Would like to have something like in the origina
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Android NAT-T keepalive offload bypasses VPN lockdown(supuk.ch)
211 points by mhitza 15d ago|57 comments
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by mhitza 17d ago
Yes that is the one. I'm surprised by the low rating on IMDb. Well produced movie, with an interesting real-life inspired premise, a bit of thriller.
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by mhitza 17d ago
The "Kompromat" angle should not be ignored in this day and age. "In cases of kompromat during the early 21st century, Russian operatives have been suspected or accused of placing child pornography on the personal computers o
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by mhitza 18d ago
Read this https://europe.mistral.ai/ if you can bare to go through the slop, has it's share of regulatory capture strategy. Here's the HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47743700
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by mhitza 19d ago
I've seen people in real life still pushing for crypto. Believe it or not they already got burned a couple of times, but somehow they think that with the next crypto they'll be at the top of the pyramid chain and able to cash out.
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by mhitza 21d ago
That website is no longer worth pointing out. The person running it cannot be contacted by others so the offerings and details are frozen in time.
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by mhitza 22d ago
Fairphone makes their fair share of blunders. Software updates are a big issue, especially around the times that critical vulnerabilities need to be patched. With the hardware I'm not impressed, and on their own forum I've seen pl
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by mhitza 23d ago
As someone reading much of what Molly White publishes, there is no short supply of people in crypto that give of the same aura and are f̵i̵n̵a̵n̵c̵i̵n̵g̵ donating to someone that will push their crypto regulation agenda https://h
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by mhitza 23d ago
You might want to try to follow on that, maybe they do have a separate if in their codebase if you're logging in for the appeal. Otherwise the DSA approach, with whatever that may entail process wise.
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by mhitza 23d ago
I hope this page can provide some guidance in the appeal process https://transparency.google/intl/en-GB_in/tools-programs/rep... If not directly through what is offered there, under the DSA (eu citizens and r
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by mhitza 24d ago
When working a regular 9-5 I very much preferred office presence for the social aspect, especially when work is slower and no pressure. But when I actually need to concentrate and deliver high quality work, it needs to be in a quiet place.
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by mhitza 24d ago
That is where their responsibility ends in terms of the EU AI Act. And that is fine and how it should be, no secret watermarks.
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by mhitza 24d ago
I had the option, and had it disable everywhere, manually. The only one I didn't use, at all, is Anthropics service because of iffy Dario aura and their terms of service. Where is training in user data enforced and not possible to opt
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by mhitza 24d ago
You must have not been keeping up with the times :) Their big play this year was to write a "whitepaper" on the future state of EU economy, which is something that they'd like to hand of to EU leaders and part of that proposa
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by mhitza 25d ago
Brave's adblocker does a good job. As far as I know Firefox started using some of the Rust written components of that engine. Interestingly on fingerprinting test websites, Brave also did significantly better than Firefox + PrivacyBadg
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by mhitza 26d ago
GDPR would be enough if money was the aim. Enforcement is pretty thin with that as well, not as if there weren't enough companies out there that can and need to be fined.
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by mhitza 26d ago
Ha! That's pure nonsense propaganda. Show me where it is 10x easier to take disability than establish a company. Then show me how EU destroyed Germany's nuclear energy, while doing well in other countries. If you can't you ar
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by mhitza 28d ago
For me htmx is a utility library to spruce up a couple of interfaces here and there that benefit from a bit of reactivity. Anything more complex I really don't feel that it's the right tool. Or that there is any great tool to buil
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by mhitza 29d ago
If it's technically.implemented uniformely without thought of user access patterns, then yes it's a bad idea causing friction and frustration. If I drag&drop a file in an app or it's icon, or by right click. The permissio
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by mhitza 1mo ago
Premature optimization argument fits right in. Now that memory is up to 10x more expensive it is worth considering optimizing programs with large memory footprint.
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by mhitza 1mo ago
Use of the term of direct democracy feels dilution in that case. It is a significant step in that direction, though for me (and wikipedia) direct democracy is without the middleman. Switzerland still has parties, elected government and so f
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by mhitza 1mo ago
I think this regulation that comes into effect February of next year concerns all kinds of batteries, not only those of smartphones https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL... . I thi
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by mhitza 1mo ago
If you are refering in terms of the code of practice part of the EU AI Act > I've read that watermarking should in theory be impossible to detect except by the entity that watermarked it This is a carveout exception, for watermarkin
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by mhitza 1mo ago
They had large increase in volume, and trying to move to Azure at the same time. I don't envy them for either work they need to do. But also don't feel pithy because it's Microslop, at the end of the day.
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by mhitza 1mo ago
What do you use instead of llama.cpp? With vllm for example most models don't seem to be supported out of the box.

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