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WalnutLum ,

I didn't realize you could run something like this on your phone

WalnutLum ,

Ahhhh that makes a lot more sense, thanks!

WalnutLum ,

The project was using a way to bypass requiring a backing account to proxy the requests, but the API update broke that

The instances that chose (and choose) to go the extra mile by creating and maintaining proxy account(s) are the ones still working

If the instance gets too popular the twitter goons quickly figure out what the proxy account is and ban it, though. So it's a constant game of cat and mouse.

WalnutLum ,

This is a good move for international open source projects, with multiple lawsuits in multiple countries around the globe currently ongoing, the intellectual property nature of code made using AI isn't really secure enough to open yourself up to the liability.

I've done the same internally at our company.
You're free to use whatever tool you want but if the tool you use spits out copyrighted code, and the law eventually has decided that model users instead of model trainers are liable for model output, then that's on you buddy.

WalnutLum ,

Doing gods work here

WalnutLum ,

Starship was still Elon's brainchild and it is years behind, and threatens the viability of the entire Artemis program. Their finances are also terribly linked to the success of Starlink, which is also shaky at best.

I would not say SpaceX is "on track."

WalnutLum ,

The irony here is palpable

WalnutLum ,

I feel like this is going to be where I disconnect in a major way from our childrens' generation.

They're likely going to find it completely normal to have an LLM as a friend and I don't think I'll ever be able to bring myself around to that.

WalnutLum ,

It's usually not a case of the phone listening but, more creepily, that your behavior before and after talking to your wife about new shoes signaled that you want to buy new shoes.

Ad algorithms are surprisingly perceptive about signals that aren't obvious.

WalnutLum ,

It doesn't have to be your searches, it could have just been the fact that your phone recognized you were on a road trip and that people in your ad cohort tend to want to buy shoes while on road trips.

I've worked in algorithmic ad space before and I can say that I've never seen evidence of phones listening on conversations but I have seen plenty of evidence from years ago where all your other data is used to form a terrifyingly accurate profile.

We used to do dead reckoning and gps speed gait profiling and we would only need about a weeks worth of GPS data to know height, weight, sex, where you live, where you work, where your kids go to school etc.

We would take that data and cross reference that with data broker info to form a profile, put you in an ad cohort bin, and serve you up as a platform for ad matching services to match to ad campaigns, which get even further targeted.

Millions of dollars spent hyper targeting you but 99 times out of 100 the inaccurate campaign is paying more so they get the adspace but the one time the actual low paying hyper focused campaign gets through it's always scary how accurate it is.

tl;dr: Ad companies don't need to listen to your conversation to know what you want to buy, ads are usually inaccurate because the inaccurate campaign paid more

WalnutLum ,

What do you do for file syncing, if you don't mind me asking

Tesla’s in its flop era (www.theverge.com)

When Tesla releases its first quarter earnings this afternoon, the company’s CEO Elon Musk will field the usual questions about new products, new factories, and progress toward its futuristic vision of self-driving cars and robot workers. But Musk will also face increasingly urgent questions about its current state of affairs...

WalnutLum ,

The problem is starship, Musk's mars-shot brain child, seems to be increasingly behind schedule for the Artemis missions.

Not to mention using starship is apparently forcing any moon landings to launch between 8-12 rockets to get one SpaceX lander on the moon?

Overall it seems like SpaceX is getting fucked by Musk's involvement as well.

WalnutLum ,

AI technically already won this debate because autonomous war drones are somewhat ubiquitous.

I doubt jets are going to have the usefulness in war that they used to.

Much more economical to have 1000 cheap drones with bombs overwhelm defenses than put your bets on one "special boi" to try and slip through with constantly defeated stealth capabilities.

WalnutLum ,

And how do you do this in gnu shepherd?

You don't!

WalnutLum ,

Not anymore, Japan has one of the highest birthrates in Asia now.

WalnutLum ,

https://fortune.com/asia/2024/03/12/asia-worlds-lowest-birth-rates-baby-bonus-not-working-singapore-south-korea-hong-kong-japan/

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/9164f086-5313-4f55-9391-32ff307504e8.png

It's less "Japan's got higher" than "Japan's fell the slowest compared to other Asian countries"

WalnutLum ,

You're right, I was thinking east Asia when I said "Asia" and should have been clearer, and it's more that Japan's has fallen the slowest

WalnutLum ,

Yea I mentioned in another comment I should have clarified "east Asia" in the original comment. The rest of the southern and western asian continent have much higher birthrates.

WalnutLum ,

Guix integrates with shepherd wonderfully because they're both Guile-based

I think service descriptions being functional scheme code makes more sense in a way than systemd's runtime.

WalnutLum ,

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/07145685-317f-4dac-ac4b-cd417b6c20f3.jpeg

Welcome to the fold!

If you get a chance check out guix as well.

Looking for a privacy focused travel assistant on mobile

Heya, as the title suggests. I have tried the KDE Initary (on mobile), but the user experience didn't quite flop-my-mop. It is however the better one in terms of privacy as far as I have found. Are there any other ones that you folks know of and would recommend? Looking for an app that specifically can hold boarding passes....

WalnutLum ,

If you need something to store pkpass files:
fWallet
https://f-droid.org/packages/business.braid.f_wallet/

WalnutLum ,

Well, then there's also this:

Green Pass PDF Wallet
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.michaeltroger.gruenerpass/

Extremely simple functionality but it does exactly what's on the tin

WalnutLum ,

I'm sure another DMCA for AI prompts is on the way

WalnutLum ,

Yea it's the same for us, the complaints from people when they see a kid in public on a tablet are weird to me cause I know as kids we always had stuff like toys we brought into restaurants (or we went to restaurants with like coloring maps and stuff).

Parents have been desperately trying to find things to occupy kids while they're in public so they don't disturb the people around them for years and now that smart phones/ipads are universal it seems like there's finally something that will just keep the kids quiet for awhile without a lot of effort.

I think it's important to pay attention how much you/your kids are spending on "screen time" but it feels really disingenuous to say stuff like the current generation is cooked because of ipads.

WalnutLum ,

The suduke

Self Hosted IFTTT RSS Replacement

A couple of years ago, IFTTT did a thing where they asked people to sign up to premium and they could pay whatever they like and could keep the service forever. I didn't use many of the services, but thought it made sense to try and preserve something so useful for in case I did need it. In the meantime, I would allow it to...

WalnutLum ,

The best self hosted alt I've seen is huginn:
https://github.com/huginn/huginn

It's not as easy to use as ifttt and much less already built for you but it does the same things.

WalnutLum ,

The dev cycle has gotten slower over time but it's not dead

WalnutLum ,

Former sublime text user here.
Eating popcorn and chuckling at "lifetime license"

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